Here is a ghost story for Christmas - it is a brief history of the appearance of ghosts and poltergeists and other spirits on television. Not fictional ghosts - but real ones, or the reports of their appearances, that you find in various news and documentary programmes.

Adam Curtis connects the rise of supernatural-based shows in the UK to reality television today, focusing on a forerunner to the Blair Witch Project (1999): Ghostwatch was transmitted on Halloween 1992. It was quite obvious from both the introduction and ...

As Kurt Markus points his Super 8 camera out the car window, surveying these heartland ghost towns, he laments the disappearance of traditional small-town life. When the tour passes through Littlefield, Tex., hometown of the country-music star ...

The new Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol movie offers something even the biggest Tom Cruise hater may find worth the price of admission: The lovely Paula Patton in an all-out brawl against Lea Seydoux. More than just some titillating ...

I'm haunted by The Ghost Protocol, the latest in the Tom Cruise/Ethan Hunt ... Cruise's Ethan Hunt and the other trick "pulled off" by the villain, the dastardly Kurt Hendricks – a middle-aged, hyper-Darwinian who believes in "improving ...

According to locals and ghost hunters, the charm does not stop there. Built as a home in 1736, it has continuously been run as an inn since 1754. It is called the Curtis House Inn because five proprietors of the place were named Curtis, and none were related.

Fascinating Adam Curtis Blog, this, tracing the history of TV investigations on poltergeist activity, starting in the late 50s/early 60s, when ghosts haunted suitably gothic old piles, to the 70s, when they began to take up residence in drab, suburban ...

informs Hunt the president has invoked “ghost protocol” — shutting down the agency and disavowing it. Then more tragedy, and soon Hunt, Dunn and Carter, joined by Agent Brandt (Jeremy Renner) are on the run, trying to stop bad guy Kurt ...