Dudley Castle

He has the support of one of the great families at the Tudor court, the Guilfords, and sort of is taken under their wing.

But, I mean, you went to Dudley Castle for this series, didn't you? And so there's this kind of insight there about how he's operating from an early stage.

Dudley Castle is an interesting place because it actually belonged to a distant cousin of his.

It had gone down a different line.

And then the cousin was running short of money and Dudley lent him money in no doubt terms that are very favourable to himself and then foreclosed on the mortgage basically.

He just ejected his cousin from the castle.

So there's a Dudley in Dudley Castle now.

And I guess that's, so he's ruthless and quite effective.

He has the support of one of the great families at the Tudor court, the Guilfords, and sort of is taken under their wing.

But, I mean, you went to Dudley Castle for this series, didn't you? And so there's this kind of insight there about how he's operating from an early stage.

Dudley castle is an interesting place because it actually belonged to a distant cousin of his it'd gone down a different line and then the cousin was running short of money and Dudley lent him money in on no doubt terms that are very favourable to himself and then foreclosed on the mortgage basically just got ejected his cousin from the castle so there's a Dudley in Dudley castle now And I guess that's, so he's ruthless and quite effective.

And I guess if you're a king, you want people, you've got a reasonably small pool of people that you can select from to do things for you.

And you want people that are going to get the job done.

It's Dr. Matthew Smith.

Hope University in Liverpool in England who for quite a long time Matthew and I used to sit on the sofa of most haunted lives in fact from the very first one in Dudley Castle we were there weren't we Matthew we were And had some jolly good times, and I tell you what, I can't see anything on this at all.

But it's coming in a minute.

So welcome to the show, Matthew.

For me, well, it was more prosaic in the fact that it was a phone call from Yvette.

I had a phone call just probably a couple of weeks before the original Most Haunted Live.

which I was at Dudley Castle on Halloween that year and had a phone call while I was at my office at work, which I thought was from a researcher just saying, well, we're doing this live investigation of a haunted castle on Halloween.

Would you like to come and be a so-called sceptic to kind of offset the balance so that somebody... putting forward other explanations for things that might be experienced.