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FT’s very own couch potato, STU NEVILLE, casts an eye over the small screen’s current fortean offerings

TELEVISION FT’s very own couch potato, STU NEVILLE, casts an eye over the small screen’s current fortean offerings Paranormal Caught On Camera Blaze As has been noted before in these pages, one of the inevitable results of so many people carrying phones capable of capturing unconvincing fortean footage is a proliferation of programmes that aggregate such clips and present them with varying degrees of criticality. Paranormal Caught On Camera exemplifies this approach, hitting every motif we’ve come to expect: “From poltergeist activity to lights in the sky, these first-hand accounts just might turn sceptics into believers!”; or, in some cases, the reverse, but this isn’t really considered. The individual episodes are resolutely cookie-cutter in format: starting with the nowclassic portentous intro: “Does THIS shocking footage really show A DEMONIC ATTACK?”…

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