Ghost busters

Daisy May and Charlie Cooper are back - and this time they are exploring the paranormal and staying overnight in some spooky places

- WORDS: JEN PHARO

Filming hit BBC sitcom This Country brought Daisy May Cooper and her brother Charlie closer than ever. But when filming ended in 2020, the pair drifted apart. Now their love of the paranormal has brought them back together in Daisy May And Charlie Cooper's Nightwatch, a new six-part BBC series that sees them spend sleepless nights in haunted locations across the UK.

Ever since they rented Casper and Ghostbusters on video as children, the pair have been preoccupied with the paranormal, with Daisy having several experiences of her own - including in her current Cotswolds home.

"I've spoken quite a few times about when I've come across the unexplained or had actual encounters with ghosts - like the legs of the little boy running in my bedroom a few years ago," said Daisy, 39. "But recently, our nanny was staying the night in our house and she got jabbed in the back and then my dad was staying over and he had a bath in the en-suite and got jabbed in the neck.

"Then my mum was in there two days ago and she heard a man's voice in the bathroom, saying 'Honey', which is the name of my mum's dead dog, which is just really weird. I also heard knocking in the morning again at home recently. Weirdly, it always happens in the morning, never at nighttime when you'd think it'd be scary. It's just so wild."