Television has long brought the real world into our living rooms, but occasionally it turns its eye to matters that aren't easily explained. As interest in the paranormal grows - look at the popularity of spooky podcasts and tv shows that claim to have captured all manner of ghostliness on camera - it's a good time to look back on how these phenomena were once reported on television. These genuine 'tales of the unexpected' contain many tropes familiar to fans of the genre. Malevolent spirits, white witches, alien beings - they're all here, ready to fascinate new generations. And of course there's the added bonus of hearing these stories directly from the people affected - their first-hand accounts making a compelling case for the supernatural. Why the Midlands though? Well, one of the UK's most popular places for UFO sightings is Stoke-on-Trent, so it appears the Midlands are very much on the minds of alien beings up there, somewhere...