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00:00Some people want to climb Everest. We just want to see a ghost.
00:07We just want to see a ghost.
00:09What?
00:11I think it might have been a crisp packet.
00:14Look at Donnie.
00:17Mum and Dad letting us watch what we wanted really fired our imaginations as kids.
00:21Yes.
00:23Oh my God, it's wild.
00:25Our lives have been so crazy over the years that we don't get to see each other that often.
00:31But this is an opportunity for us to reconnect.
00:35This is great.
00:36Wow.
00:37So me and you are going to stay in some of this country's most haunted places.
00:41I forgot a pillow.
00:42Are you joking?
00:43Please.
00:44No.
00:45Is that normal?
00:47And we're going to find some ghosts?
00:49Together.
00:50That's like a life ambition.
00:52We'll keep going until we get something.
00:55What was that?
00:56I'm not going out there.
00:57Don't scream.
01:02So I know we're in Scotland.
01:19Yeah.
01:20But where are we in Scotland?
01:22We're in the Cairngorms, which is not only one of the most beautiful places in Britain,
01:26but probably one of the most beautiful places in the entire world.
01:29Do you know, I've never been to Scotland before.
01:32You've never been to Scotland?
01:33Never been to Scotland.
01:35I've never seen you in a pair of hikers.
01:37That's because I don't walk.
01:38But you look great.
01:39I love it.
01:40Really?
01:41Yeah.
01:42I like that.
01:43Come on.
01:44Come on.
01:45Come on.
01:46Come on.
01:47Come on.
01:48Oh, can you hear that?
01:49The biggest bird of prey in the UK.
01:51Do you know they can actually swoop down and take baby lambs and stuff?
01:56Are you joking?
01:57No.
01:58That's what they eat.
01:59Come on.
02:00How many birds can't do these birds?
02:01Good.
02:02How many birds can go down and don't run their spiders and stuff?
02:04Look, this is very spiritual, isn't it?
02:05Oh, it is totally.
02:06I don't think I've ever witnessed anything like this in my life.
02:10Well, what an honour to be here.
02:13Why do you do it for the first time?
02:16So, where are we actually staying tonight?
02:27Well, we're staying at a place called Ben Older Cottage,
02:30which is a bovie.
02:31What's a bovie?
02:33So, a bovie is like a stone sort of small building
02:35where people can stay for free, hikers, or...
02:38It's often remote.
02:40And it is probably one of the most haunted,
02:43if not the most haunted bovie,
02:45in the entire world.
02:47The biggest sort of activity you get there
02:49is poltergeist activity.
02:52And there's a story about a guy
02:53who lived there for a whole winter,
02:55and during one night,
02:57it was so hellish what he experienced.
03:00He just up sticks in the middle of a snowstorm
03:02and left, never returned.
03:04God, this is really creepy, isn't it?
03:07It is.
03:09What?
03:11I saw someone move between trees up there.
03:13Or something.
03:16This is like American werewolf in Scotland.
03:20It is a bit.
03:22Come on, we've got to pick up the pace a little bit.
03:24We need to get there before nightfall.
03:25You know, this doesn't feel very haunted at all.
03:35Well, you might not say the same when the sun goes down.
03:39It's like a lunar landscape.
03:42Like Mars.
03:43The thing is, I don't do any exercise or...
03:47You forget somewhere like this exists.
03:50And the irony is,
03:51I'll watch people on YouTube
03:53doing, like, wild camping.
03:56Yeah.
03:56And now I'm doing it
03:58with my own two legs.
04:01I truly don't think there's a better place in the world
04:03when the weather's like this as well.
04:05Come on.
04:09That's it.
04:10And up, and up.
04:12I can't.
04:13Up, up.
04:15God, I'm getting really emotional.
04:20I really love you, you know.
04:22I've not told you that.
04:24Really?
04:25For a long time,
04:26and I've got to get upset,
04:28but I really love you.
04:30And I've really missed you.
04:32Oh, I've missed you too.
04:34That's the sweetest thing ever.
04:37Well, it's just nice to be doing stuff again.
04:38And there's nobody funnier
04:40in this entire world than you.
04:41Oh, there is.
04:42Nobody can make me laugh
04:44the way you make me laugh.
04:46That's so sweet.
04:48But likewise.
04:56What are you doing?
04:58It's a map.
04:59It's not a kite.
05:00Oh, hang on.
05:01There we are.
05:02There.
05:02That's it.
05:05Oh, my gosh.
05:07Ben Older, Bobby.
05:08We're here.
05:09Wow.
05:10That is creepy or what.
05:17Cup of tea?
05:19Yeah.
05:20We deserve it, I think.
05:21This is just magical, isn't it?
05:25It really is.
05:25And that's coming from me.
05:27Because you hate everything.
05:28I hate everything.
05:29I hate everything.
05:31Hey, I was on the hikers forum.
05:34And people who stayed here
05:35were messaging their experiences.
05:39Footsteps in adjacent rooms
05:41that were subsequently found to be empty.
05:43Oh.
05:44Footsteps coming right up to the front door
05:46without anyone ever entering the boffy itself.
05:50A sudden and intense cold
05:52as well as a feeling of a hostile and unseen presence.
05:56Oh, gosh.
05:57The slamming of doors, scratchings and groans,
06:00a ghoulish face at the window during a storm.
06:02That is terrifying,
06:03because it's not like you can go anywhere else.
06:05No, yeah, exactly.
06:08But anyone can stay here, OK?
06:11You think about people that go on long journeys like this,
06:14long hikes,
06:15are they getting away from something?
06:16Are they getting away from a bad past?
06:19That is a slightly unnerving thing.
06:23Do you know...
06:24Oh, oh, I just saw something move in the window.
06:27So, what, we could walk in there
06:29and there could be some, I don't know...
06:30There could be a murderer in there.
06:32Two Swedish hikers or...
06:33Yeah, but the thing is, also, it's like,
06:35people who do this type of thing,
06:37you know, we're all like-minded people, right?
06:39Are we?
06:40Who stay in boffies?
06:40Are we?
06:41Well, I have more in common with them than you do, probably.
06:44Yeah, exactly.
06:44You're going in...
06:45I was probably the first pair of Gucci sunglasses
06:46that had gone inside those walls.
06:52Do you know what?
06:53I do feel extremely spiritual here.
06:57Well, maybe that will help us experience something tonight.
07:01Come on, then.
07:02Well, let's get down there.
07:03Yeah.
07:04Come on.
07:05Let's do this.
07:07What an adventure.
07:09Feel that air.
07:10I know.
07:11I wonder if you can get drunk off pure Scottish air.
07:19Come on.
07:20Wait!
07:21No, it's getting a bit unsteady here.
07:23Can you just come back and help me a little bit?
07:25You're like the old woman in Titanic, getting on the ship.
07:31Hey!
07:32It's been 84 years!
07:35Come on.
07:36We've got to go down here.
07:37God, we haven't held hands, ever.
07:42Oh, my God!
07:44A bone!
07:46Is that human?
07:48I think I could be.
07:50Think fast!
07:50God, do you think this is the longest you've ever walked?
08:04Yeah.
08:04The furthest?
08:05Yeah.
08:06That is incredible.
08:07How old are you?
08:08I don't know.
08:09You have to check Wikipedia.
08:1130...
08:11It's either 38 or 39.
08:15So this is the furthest you've ever walked?
08:17Yes.
08:17And that shows you, you know, there's still time for everything.
08:21Oh, I can't wait to get this bag off.
08:24We've made it!
08:25We've made it.
08:28Huh?
08:37Ooh!
08:39Hello?
08:40Is anyone here?
08:43Ooh.
08:44Hello?
08:45Ooh.
08:47God.
08:47Oh, my gosh.
08:48It's certainly rustic.
08:50Have a look at this.
08:54Yeah.
08:55There are other rooms, though, right?
08:56Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:57Let's have a look.
09:01There's a pot noodle.
09:03What's that?
09:05Sleeping bag and mat and bag.
09:08Does that mean someone's staying here?
09:11Well, yeah.
09:12Oh.
09:14Distinctive smell, isn't it?
09:17Damp socks.
09:18Damp socks.
09:19Sweaty socks.
09:20Yeah.
09:21Do you get a sense that this place might be haunted?
09:24Yeah, by whoever that is.
09:26I don't know.
09:29Well, you're not comfortable staying here.
09:30What's this?
09:30Is this like a sort of guest book thing?
09:33Oh, read some out.
09:34Oh, God.
09:36Somebody's written here.
09:37Our friend woke up in the night complaining about an old man in a rocking chair.
09:42She was screaming and inconsolable.
09:46And then nothing else.
09:47I would not want to see that.
09:49I'm not staying here.
09:50Well, do you want to have some really good news?
09:55We ain't actually staying in this bit tonight.
09:57Oh, my God.
09:58You booked a hotel?
09:59Next door.
09:59No.
10:00Oh.
10:01We're still sort of here, but it's just next door.
10:03It's like a bit that you can book online.
10:05And it's ours.
10:06We can lock the door.
10:07No one has to come in.
10:10I will never appreciate you more than I do right now.
10:16And you know I wouldn't be able to put up with this.
10:19I know.
10:21Let's just get out of here before he comes back.
10:25And the stink.
10:27What is that smell?
10:28Personally, I think it's about 40,000 people cooking pot noodles.
10:33One after the other, after the other, after the other, after the other.
10:36Soaked into the walls.
10:38Exactly.
10:39Since, like, 74.
10:40Yeah.
10:47We're in.
10:52Oh, let's have a look.
10:55I love the little fire there.
10:58I don't know how many bedrooms there are, but let's have a look.
11:02Oh, I see.
11:03Days.
11:04Sort of like a bunk situation.
11:06Oh, my gosh.
11:08No.
11:08Isn't this William Morris, the strawberry thief?
11:11Oh, my goodness.
11:12What a lovely pattern.
11:13The curtains.
11:14Do you know what this is reminding me of?
11:17What?
11:18A bit like, you know, those capsule hotels in Japan.
11:22Yeah.
11:23This is great.
11:24So, I've prepared dinner for us tonight, and I think you're going to be pleasantly surprised.
11:32Yes.
11:33Hmm.
11:33Yes, this is going to be absolutely brilliant.
11:43What are you doing in there?
11:51Reading.
11:52Breathing?
11:54Reading.
11:56What are you reading?
11:57A book about angels that have rescued people in survival situations.
12:04What are you doing?
12:06What are you doing?
12:07Cooking up an absolute storm in here.
12:15So, I thought, what does she like the most in the entire world?
12:20Fast food.
12:21This is the closest we'll be able to get to it.
12:24Right.
12:25Get in there.
12:25Get in there.
12:27Burgers are very almost done.
12:29Ah!
12:30Everything going all right in there?
12:35Obviously not.
12:36Oh, no.
12:38Oh, my God.
12:40I can't leave you to do anything.
12:42Wait.
12:42I just need to...
12:43Hang on.
12:44At least the smoke detector works.
12:46Right.
12:52Dinner is served.
12:54Um, so, this essentially is a happy meal,
12:58Muck Cooper style.
13:01So, dig in.
13:02Go on, have a look what's in there.
13:08I mean, I'm not going to eat that.
13:11I know.
13:11But you do need to eat more fruit.
13:13I know.
13:15Crisps like fries.
13:16Like fries.
13:17Yeah.
13:19Well, well, well, well, don't just discard the bag.
13:22Oh!
13:25My little ponies!
13:27Yeah.
13:29Not the first generation, though.
13:32Oh, my God.
13:33It can never be right.
13:35But this...
13:37I mean...
13:39Oh!
13:41Oh, my God.
13:42It's like a...
13:44What do you think?
13:45Happy?
13:47I think this is the best...
13:50It's going to make me upset.
13:55Really?
13:57No.
13:57No, I'm just hungry.
14:00Oh, this is a life, isn't it?
14:04Oh.
14:05I love how remote this place is.
14:08When you strip back life, right, what do you really need to be happy?
14:13People?
14:14Well, yeah.
14:15Not necessarily.
14:16I'm quite happy with my own company.
14:19Don't need a phone.
14:21Don't need your Louis Vuittons.
14:23Your Gucci glasses.
14:25I mean, what's the point in wearing Gucci?
14:30If no one knows you're wearing Gucci.
14:32You don't need fame to be happy.
14:34No.
14:36But I don't know...
14:37Are you sure about that?
14:40It's not that I want to be famous.
14:42I just don't want to deprive the world of me.
14:45LAUGHTER
14:46What can we do to entice some sort of poltergeist activity tonight?
15:02Have you got any ideas?
15:04Well, I was just thinking, what about...
15:07Cos I did pack Jenga in the bag.
15:09That is a red rag to a bull.
15:12Mm.
15:12A Jenga to a poltergeist.
15:14I mean, you can see why people say that this place is haunted, right?
15:19Yeah, definitely.
15:22I mean, I think every body in Scotland's, like, associated with a ghost story.
15:26It's just a where they are situated in the landscape, you know,
15:30miles from anywhere.
15:31It's just you immediately feel a little bit unsettled around somewhere like this.
15:36But also, one of the famous ghost stories about this place
15:39is the ghost of the forester here who lived here in the early 1900s
15:43and he supposedly hung himself in this place and has ever since haunted it.
15:51But that actually, that story got debunked because that was made up by the people who own the land
15:57who didn't want people to stay here to keep them away.
16:00People like, you know, poachers and strange vagabonds off the land.
16:04So, that's quite interesting.
16:06It suddenly makes you think about ghosts very differently.
16:12Yeah.
16:13Maybe ghosts don't exist at all.
16:15Are you even listening?
16:17Your eyes are doing this.
16:19Sorry.
16:20I am.
16:21No, you're not listening.
16:22I am listening.
16:24It was just so boring.
16:26Go get the Jenga.
16:27Watch this.
16:31Watch this.
16:35Eat your apple.
16:36Do you want to go first?
16:53Yeah.
16:53Go on then.
16:56That's cheating your nails.
16:57You've got like a prod.
17:00Okay.
17:01It's pitch black outside.
17:07I know.
17:08Do you need the toilet yet?
17:09Yes, I do, yeah.
17:10I do.
17:12We'll go after this, shall we?
17:14I remember camping when I was a teenager and having to go for a wee outside.
17:20Hmm.
17:21I remember taking my pants down and just squatting over a load of nettles and basically stinging
17:29all my arse.
17:32That's horrible.
17:34I literally sat into the nettles.
17:36What?
17:37Was it night time?
17:38No.
17:39What?
17:41Oh, my...
17:42I just wasn't looking where I was squatting.
17:45It's a problem.
17:53Have you had anyone come back here?
17:56Next door?
17:57No.
17:57Nothing.
17:58You must still be out in the mountains.
18:00Yeah, but he's got to come back at some point.
18:02I don't know.
18:04Did bring the keyboard, but...
18:05Get the keyboard out.
18:09You bought the old keyboard?
18:10Yeah.
18:12Oh, I haven't seen this baby since, what, 2009?
18:18I love that.
18:27Give it here.
18:28You don't know what you're doing.
18:31Oh, hang on.
18:33Movement.
18:33Right, I've got to go.
18:35Oh, my God.
18:36Move.
18:37What?
18:38I've got to go to the toilet.
18:40Where's the shovel?
18:40Is that a torch?
18:58There's a technique.
18:59I think the ghosts can use the torch to kind of, like, communicate.
19:04Kind of just have to unscrew it as if it's nearly coming out.
19:09Oh, there we go.
19:11Right, here we go.
19:12If there's anybody here, can you turn it off, the torch?
19:27Is there an old forester here?
19:30Do you like people coming and staying at the Boffy?
19:41If no, turn off.
19:54Oh.
19:55That was horrible.
19:57There's a guy in a tent behind here, literally just camped on the side of this wall.
20:02So it must be full up in there now.
20:05Do you know what?
20:06Ask the spirits the question and they'll be able to answer it using the light of that torch.
20:13Is there any spirits here?
20:21That's weird.
20:22If this is just a faulty torch, just keep doing what you're doing.
20:33Right, blow out the candles.
20:35Yeah, shall we settle down?
20:37Yeah.
20:37How are you getting...
20:47What are you doing?
20:48I'm going to put my flowers on.
20:50Oh, you're cold.
20:53What?
20:54What's that bang?
20:55Is that you?
20:56No.
20:59That was a knock then.
21:00Why don't we ask?
21:02Yeah.
21:05Is there anybody here?
21:07What was that?
21:15What was that?
21:16I'm not going out there.
21:21Hello?
21:22Charlie, that was the janker.
21:25That was the janker.
21:26Was it?
21:27Yes.
21:28No, because the janker would have made a more scaring noise.
21:31That was a fud.
21:32My heart is absolutely going so fast.
21:42What do I do?
21:44Don't just scare me for the sake of scaring me.
21:46I'm not.
21:47I promise.
21:48Daisy, I promise you.
21:49Promise, promise, promise.
21:51It might be just that guy coming back from earlier.
21:54I think you've got to go and look out there.
22:00I think it's just a fire.
22:09Is the janker still there?
22:11Yeah, janker's still there, complete.
22:14I think it's just a fire.
22:17We've just got ourselves an estate, haven't we?
22:19Yeah.
22:21I just want to check outside, do a quick sweep, but no one's there.
22:29Well, anyway.
22:31Right, should we bed down?
22:33Come on, then.
22:33Come on, let's go.
23:03Good morning.
23:32Oh, is she?
23:33Here's Lady Muck. Would you like a coffee?
23:36Oh!
23:37Hot water is on.
23:42Look at that.
23:44I almost felt like I was levitating last night,
23:48how pure the air was.
23:50Yeah.
23:51And I wasn't cold.
23:52No, I slept so well.
23:54I slept so well.
23:55Because we had a long day's walking.
23:57Yeah, just being out there in nature.
24:00Nothing weird happened.
24:05There was a bang at one point.
24:07But you know what?
24:08I thought, if there is a spirit here,
24:11I'd happily share the space for the spirit.
24:14Yeah.
24:15Actually, you'd want to share a space for the spirit,
24:17because it's so lonely.
24:18This is a desolate landscape.
24:20Do you know what?
24:21It didn't feel like a partagust.
24:22It felt like the spirit of the land, in a way.
24:26All right, Pocahontas.
24:27Do you know what?
24:31It would be a crime not to dip my toe in that lock
24:35before I leave.
24:36Go on, then.
24:37Come on, then.
24:38Why not?
24:39I'm going to do it.
24:44Come on.
24:45Keep your energy up.
24:47You won't see it coming.
24:50And you won't feel it coming.
24:54Come on, lad.
24:55You won't know it coming.
24:57I'm so proud of you for doing this.
25:00You've got good Scots courage.
25:04Oh, my God, those trunks.
25:07You've had those since you were about 12.
25:10Oh, my God.
25:13Get in there.
25:15How cold is it?
25:17This is great.
25:22That's it.
25:24Breathe through it, lad.
25:25You're doing it.
25:27It's like a thousand knives.
25:30It's like being grated along a cheese grater.
25:34Ah!
25:35Very powerful.
25:37And brave.
25:38Brave like a lion.
25:40I feel alive!
25:42You're going very blue.
25:45Why'd you have to give me?
25:48Why'd you have to give me down?
25:54Do you think we're any closer to finding out
25:57if ghosts exist or not?
25:59I don't, actually.
26:01But I think that's good.
26:02Yeah.
26:03I don't want this journey to end,
26:05because you know what?
26:06We might not have got conclusive evidence about ghosts,
26:11but I found a lot out about you.
26:14Yeah.
26:16Do you know what?
26:17Honestly, I think I'm more sceptical now
26:20than I was at the beginning.
26:21Really?
26:22I really do.
26:23Because I believe more now than I did at the beginning.
26:25That's interesting.
26:26I think I believe more that places absorb energy.
26:32There's no doubt about that.
26:34Like this, look.
26:36I'm just soaking up all of us.
26:38Yeah.
26:39Yeah.
26:43I think this is my favourite place of everywhere that we've been.
26:46Yeah.
26:47I think we've learnt a lot about ourselves.
26:49And do you know what?
26:50Honestly, I'm really proud of you,
26:53because I didn't think I'd get you this far.
26:56I've learnt a lot about us, and I've learnt that I really miss you.
27:02You know?
27:03Oh, thanks.
27:04The good side of you.
27:05I like the side that makes me burgers and gives me a helping hand across a mossy rock.
27:13But this is my happy place.
27:14A place like this brings out my good side.
27:16And in turn, it brings out your good side.
27:18Well, then we should do this more often then.
27:20Yeah, I'm so up for it.
27:21Definitely.
27:22We should be doing this once a month.
27:24At least.
27:25Every weekend.
27:26Steady on.
27:27OK.
27:28All right.
27:29Can I just play this song?
27:30Put it there, sis.
27:44You know, I had fake tanned last night.
27:46Did you?
27:47You did that on your own as well.
27:49God, are you feeling all right?
27:51In the dark.
27:52With no mirror.
27:53Just a spray.
27:54What's your name?
27:55And what have you done with my sister?
27:57Yeah.
27:58She's still here in her Gucci glasses and her dry robe.
28:04I don't know if you can see the changes that have come over me in these last few days.
28:17I've been afraid that I might drift away.
28:22So I've been telling old stories, singing songs
28:27That make me think about where I came from
28:31And that's the reason why I seem so far away today
28:37Let me tell you that I love you
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