History Series / TruthSeekers

** [[spoiler:Astrid's occasional lapses regarding dates, and her habit of referring to things from the 90s as if they are still current, foreshadow that she is actually a ghost who died in 1997. For example, she says he favorite show is ''Series/{{Friends}}'' and that she saw ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' twice in the theatre (which came out in 1997) - but everyone assumes she just likes classic TV and goes to film festivals. There are also running points throughout the series where she seems unfamiliar with current events and technology (she doesn't know what "Wikipedia" is), but the others just assume she isn't tech-savvy.]]

* FunWithAcronyms: In episode 1, Gus mentions that his previous partner went and joined ISIS. Elton is shocked, before Gus explains that ISIS is actually another internet company [[note]] Infrared Specialist Internet Systems[[/note]]. Elton responds that he thought Gus meant "ISIS" ISIS, ''[[UpToEleven which turns out to be another company entirely]]''[[note]] Ipswich Server Interwoven Sciences and Instant Supply Information Services[[/note]].

Gus Roberts (Creator/NickFrost) is the number one engineer at Smyle, Britain's biggest mobile network operator and internet service provider. In his spare time he's also a keen investigator of the paranormal. Gus is initially disappointed when his boss partners him up with new recruit Elton John (no, not [[Music/EltonJohn that one]]), but the two rapidly form a friendship, working together both professionally and on the paranormal. However, Elton is less enthusiastic than Gus in this area. Seemingly unrelated is Astrid, a young woman who is chased through a house and later a hospital by several ghosts. She escapes the hospital and runs through the countryside. Also introduced are Gus and Elton's boss Dave (series co-creator and co-writer Creator/SimonPegg), Elton's agoraphobic sister Helen, a nervous {{cosplay}}er, and Gus' grumpy father-in-law Richard (Creator/MalcolmMcDowell).

* AbortedArc: You will think that the lady possessed by her dog in the first episode would feature later but she is quickly forgotten.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: [=JoJo74=] and Dave, Gus's boss, ''look'' and act human, but TheReveal in the season finale indicates that this may or may not be their true forms, although ''if'' they are human is unknown; the finale would seem to imply they're otherworldly beings that look human.

* BadBoss: [[spoiler: Toynbee]] sees his followers as resources to be exploited, and talks several of them into sacrificing themselves for his plan. He reveals at the end that he never really intended to bring anyone to Eternis with him.
* BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind: A humourously off-screen variant: [[spoiler: In the finale, Elton channels Astrid's spirit into the Ellexatron in order to wrest control of it away from its current occupant, Alaura.]] We can only hear them grunt, wince, and insult one another through the machine, but it is clear that they are experiencing their confrontation as a physical fight.
* BenevolentBoss: Dave, Gus's boss in Smile Internet looks like is this, since he treats Gus and the opther with respect, and sees Gus as his best worker, all this change in the last episode when is revealed he knew all along about Gus's Hobbies, and he actually was using the company to block the Big Bad's plan, exactly why it has not been revealed yet.

** [[spoiler: Astrid died in the house fire in 1997, but her mother (the burnt ghost) managed to send her back to the living world through the connection provided by Elton's conduit powers.]]. The situation is so complicated even the expert doesn't have a name for it.
** Subverted in 'The Watcher On The Water' as [[spoiler: Byron the caretaker is set up as this with only Elton encountering him and the owner's initially puzzled reaction when he is mentioned.]]

** [[spoiler: Astrid's occasional lapses regarding dates, and her habit of referring to things from the 90s as if they are still current, foreshadow that she is actually a ghost who died in 1997. For example, she says he favorite show is ''Series/{{Friends}}'' and that she saw ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' twice in the theatre (which came out in 1997) - but everyone assumes she just likes classic TV and goes to film festivals. There are also running points throughout the series where she seems unfamiliar with current events and technology (she doesn't know what "Wikipedia" is), but the others just assume she isn't tech-savvy.]]

* HellHotel: Double-subverted with the Portland Beacon, 'the only horror-themed hotel on Dorset's Jurassic coast'. Gus considers it to be banal and tacky, and wrote a derisive review of it in the ''White Sheet''. It turns out that one of the rooms ''is'' haunted, but the management had closed it to visitors because of what they believed to be faulty wiring.

* {{Nanomachines}}: That's how Dr Toynbee is able to control 200 people for his ritual, they are created by a combination of magic and technology.

* OurGhostsAreDifferent: The majority of ghosts in the show are living souls transplanted into other objects or creatures at the moment of death, a process which can be achieved voluntarily or involuntarily by occult or scientific means. Ghosts can return to the mortal world from 'the other side' of their own accord, but can seemingly only do so in the vicinity of [[spoiler: a conduit like Elton.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: Dave becomes increasingly paranoid each episode that the [[Main/ChinaTakesOverTheWorld Chinese]] or the [[Main/RussiaTakesOverTheWorld Russians]] are spying on him, and emailing him photos and videos of himself at work ''while he's working.''
* ScoobyDooHoax: "The Ghost of the Beast of Bodmin."

* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Richard starts off as this: he doesn't realize he can access the internet on his phone, and embarrasses himself attempting to record a video response to Helen's Youtube channel.

* TheShutIn: Helen has intense anxiety around crowds and public places, to the extent that she has entered the cosplay contest at Conventry Collectibles and Cosplay Convention 5 years running, but has been unable to leave the car to attend. [[spoiler: This is revealed to be a psychological reaction to being emotionally neglected due to her parents being absorbed with the negative press attention around her brother being 'The Hinckley Boy'.]]

* UnfortunateImplications: Gus rigs up some helmets with wifi-connected webcams for their first livestream exploration of a haunted location. An impressed Astrid points out that it's sort of a basic off-the-shelf version of the camera rigs used by the space marines in ''{{Film/Aliens}}'' (1984) to coordinate with their command APC...then notes that the aliens proceeded to pick them off one by one, to heighten the tension back at mission control as their camera feeds went dead.

* {{Adorkable}}: Astrid, and to a more general extent the other three members of their team because they're all scifi nerds.

** [[spoiler: Astrid's occasional lapses regarding dates, and her habit of referring to things from the 90s as if they are still current, foreshadow that she is actually a ghost who died in 1997. For example, she says he favorite show is ''Series/Friends'' and that she saw ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' twice in the theatre (which came out in 1997) - but everyone assumes she just likes classic TV and goes to film festivals. There are also running points throughout the series where she seems unfamiliar with current events and technology (she doesn't know what "Wikipedia" is), but the others just assume she isn't tech-savvy.]]

** [[spoiler: Astrid's occasional lapses regarding dates, and her habit of referring to things from the 90s as if they are still current, foreshadow that she is actually a ghost who died in 1997. For example, she says he favorite show is ''Friends'' and that she saw {{Anime/PrincessMononoke}} twice in the theatre (which came out in 1997) - but everyone assumes she just likes classic TV and goes to film festivals. There are also running points throughout the series where she seems unfamiliar with current events and technology (she doesn't know what "Wikipedia" is), but the others just assume she isn't tech-savvy.]]

* Adorkable: Astrid, and really much of the rest of the cast.

* UnfortunateImplications: Gus rigs up some helmets with wifi-connected webcams for their first livestream exploration of a haunted location. An impressed Astrid points out that it's sort of a basic off-the-shelf version of the camera rigs used by the space marines in ''{{Film/Aliens}}'' (1984) to coordinate with their command APC...then casually notes that the aliens picked them off one by one, to heighten the tension back at mission control as their camera feeds went dead.

* UnfortunateImplications: Gus rigs up some helmets with wifi-connected webcams for their first livestream exploration of a haunted location. An impressed Astrid points out that it's sort of a basic off-the-shelf version of the camera rigs used by the space marines in ''{{Film/Aliens}}'' (1984) to coordinate with their command APC...then points out that the aliens picked them off one by one, to heighten the tension back at mission control as their camera feeds went dead.

* UnfortunateImplications: Gus rigs up some helmets with wifi-connected webcams for their first livestream exploration of a haunted location. An impressed Astrid points out that it's sort of a basic off-the-shelf version of the camera rigs used by the space marines in ''Film/Aliens'' (1984) to coordinate with their command APC...then points out that the aliens picked them off one by one, to heighten the tension back at mission control as their camera feeds went dead.

* Adorkable: Astrid.

* ShoutOut: Creator/MalcolmMcDowell gets hypnotized by being shown a rapid montage of film clips in a theater, like in Film/AClockWorkOrange .

** [[spoiler: Astrid's occasional lapses regarding dates, and her habit of referring to things from the 90s as if they are still current, foreshadow that she is actually a ghost who died in 1997. There are also running points throughout the series where she seems unfamiliar with current events and technology (she doesn't know what "Wikipedia" is), but the others just assume she isn't tech-savvy.]]

** [[spoiler: Astrid died in the house fire in 1995, but her mother (the burnt ghost) managed to send her back to the living world through the connection provided by Elton's conduit powers.]]. The situation is so complicated even the expert doesn't have a name for it.

** [[spoiler: Astrid's occasional lapses regarding dates, and her habit of referring to things from the 90s as if they are still current, foreshadow that she is actually a ghost who died in 1995. There are also running points throughout the series where she seems unfamiliar with current events and technology (she doesn't know what "Wikipedia" is), but the others just assume she isn't tech-savvy.]]

* WritersCannotDoMath: [[spoiler: Astrid mentions that she saw {{Anime/PrincessMononoke}} twice in theaters - the others assume she meant she saw it at a film festival, but the implication is that she saw it when it premiered, because she's really a ghost who died in 1995. The problem is...that movie was released two years later, in 1997.]]

** [[spoiler: Astrid's occasional lapses regarding dates, and her habit of referring to things from the 90s as if they are still current, foreshadow that she is actually a ghost who died in 1995.]]

* GhostlyChill: Room 2 at the Portland Beacon is haunted, freezing and affected by electrical anomalies. The management interpret this as heating and wiring problems, and closed the room to visitors.
* HellHotel: Double-subverted with the Portland Beacon, 'the only horror-themed hotel on Dorset's Jurassic coast'. Gus considers it to be banal and tacky, and wrote a derisive review of it in the ''White Sheet''. It turns out that one of the rooms ''is'' haunted, but the management had closed it to visitors because of what they believed to be faulty wiring.

Gus Roberts (Creator/NickFrost) is the number one engineer at Smyle, Britain's biggest mobile network operator and internet service provider. In his spare time he's also a keen investigator of the paranormal. Gus is initially disappointed when his boss partners him up with new recruit Elton John (no, not that one), but the two rapidly form a friendship, working together both professionally and on the paranormal. However, Elton is less enthusiastic than Gus in this area. Seemingly unrelated is Astrid, a young woman who is chased through a house and later a hospital by several ghosts. She escapes the hospital and runs through the countryside. Also introduced are Gus and Elton's boss Dave (series co-creator and co-writer Creator/SimonPegg), Elton's agoraphobic sister Helen, a nervous {{cosplay}}er, and Gus' grumpy father-in-law Richard (Creator/MalcolmMcDowell).