Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

Two listeners. Two encounters with something older than any ghost. A bargain, and a journey that never ended.On the family land near Ballycastle stands a lone hawthorn over a spring, and Fiona's family has kept the same rule for generations: never cut it, and every May tie a strip of cloth to its branch and leave milk at its roots. Nobody remembers why. Then her cousin brings a chainsaw to it and the engine dies five times, a wind rises around that one tree on a still morning while the grass twenty feet away stays motionless. He backs away. Within a year his cattle sicken, his roof tears off in a storm that spares everyone else, and he breaks two bones on that same field. Her father, from his sickbed: "He broke the bargain, and now it's collecting."Then Wesley, a long-haul trucker, picks up a young woman freezing on a dark Oregon highway in the mid-eighties. The heater's roaring, he gives her his jacket and she never gets warm. She points out a house, walks up the path toward the porch light, and vanishes halfway, in full view. The woman who answers the door says her daughter died on that road twenty years ago. Then: "You can keep the jacket, son, she'll have it now." His jacket was gone.Producer Dom unpacks the folklore: the lone fairy thorn you must never raise a blade to, the ancient bargain a bloodline keeps without knowing to whom, and the phantom hitchhiker forever repeating the journey home her death cut short.What happens when the debt isn't a haunting… but something you were always meant to keep paying?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yvette Fielding is back with five of your strangest, most spine-chilling stories, and this month they range from the comical to the genuinely unnerving.Two orbs caught on a home camera as a glowing light drifts toward the window — what did our listener really capture?A ghost hunt at a Lancaster hall where a spinning glass flies off the table and shatters, a ball of white light glides down a staircase, and a haunted new home may be hiding a Dalek-obsessed spirit — a Victorian chimney sweep, or a beloved late father?A lady in a bright yellow rain jacket, soaked and carrying a lit lantern, who walks in from the dark asking for someone by name… while three dogs that bark at everything stay completely silent.A 15-year-old on the Welsh border whose family cottage turns nasty after a box of old clothes — and a traditional tall Welsh hat — is disturbed in the attic.And a driver who pulls over to tell us about the ethereal choir music and trumpets she heard singing from inside her bedroom fan.Plus a Fact or Fiction from Lancaster: was Crookhey Hall, the atmospheric ruin where our listener went ghost hunting, really built as a Victorian lunatic asylum?Got a story, photo or voice note? Email paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com or find us @paranormalactivitypod.Early episodes + bonus content? Join us on SupercastStay safe, and stay curious.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two listeners. Two encounters that bent the rules. One of time, one of a single life.On a dark road above Aberystwyth in 1994, Gareth pulls over to watch a silent amber light hang motionless over the valley. Then it slides sideways in two seconds across a distance that would take a car ten minutes and stops dead, the way nothing with real weight can. The next thing he knows, forty minutes are gone from the dashboard clock, he's cold through, and there's a taste like metal in his mouth. For a week after, he wakes at exactly three in the morning, certain something in the room has just been looking at him.Then Marisol, a practical Louisiana nurse, describes the eight months her three-year-old spoke calmly of "the other mama". A grown-up life by the big water, a white dress, helping the sick people, getting sick in the chest. Then the girl points to a woman in an unseen family photo and says, "that's me, before." It was Marisol's great-aunt Alma: a nurse who moved to the Gulf coast and died of pneumonia in 1946. A woman her daughter had never heard named.Producer Dom unpacks the folklore: the Welsh belief in time knocked out of true by the fair folk, thresholds where attention swings both ways, and the returning soul that comes home along the bloodline to be recognised.What happens when the thing you witnessed doesn't haunt you… it just proves the rules aren't what you thought?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is what you're missing.Every Saturday over on the Supercast, Yvette sits down and tells you a proper ghost story.No investigation, no crew, just her and a tale to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and this week, we're letting you in on one.In the winter of 1913, a rumour tore through the tenement streets of Chicago.Behind the walls of Hull House, something was being kept hidden away: a child born with cloven hooves, two sharp horns, black ink-drop eyes, and a whip-like tail. They called it the Devil Baby, and within a week hundreds were pressing against the railings on Halsted Street, staring up at that second-floor window.But the rumour was only the beginning. The house already held its dead: a pale woman waiting at the glass, footsteps pacing the halls at night, blankets folded by unseen hands. And after the crowds came, something woke hungry. A thin, mewling cry rising from between the floorboards at three in the morning, lasting exactly thirteen minutes. A small, low shape dragging itself toward a locked door. A wet trail leading up the stairs to that same cold window.Yvette tells it the way they've always told it in Chicago for over a century: lights low, after dark.This is exactly what you get every single Saturday on the Supercast: a brand new ghost story every week, plus main episodes a full day early.So if you ever find yourself looking up at that window on a cold Chicago night... walk on. Don't stop. Don't stare. Because whatever is standing behind that glass might just stare back.Goodnight. Sleep well. Or at least, try to.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We think we know what a coma is. The lights go off. Nobody's home. A blank, a gap, a nothing, until the machines bring you back.This week, Yvette Fielding and her paranormal partner in crime Karl Beattie go somewhere they've never taken you before: not a ruined castle or a cold, empty asylum, but inside the sealed-off human mind.Because the people who've been there and come back tell a very different story. They didn't find darkness. They found whole lives — marriages, children, towns they knew street by street. And then they woke up and had to grieve everything they'd lost. So this week we chase the strangest haunting of all: the one that happens inside your own head, in a life that feels realer than this one.Yvette and Karl meet five people who went into the dark and came back changed, and ask the question that unsettles believer and sceptic alike: if you can love a family for years, and grieve them for years more, where exactly did that family live?You'll hear five journeys the doctors can't quite explainDr. Alok Kanojia's patient — a car-crash survivor who lived a whole marriage and raised two daughters in seven silent days, then woke to mourn a family he knew never existedClélia Verdier, Lyon — nineteen years old, three weeks under, seven years lived; she woke and told her parents they were grandparents to children who were never bornKeenan Acton, UK — a father who came round asking after twins that didn't exist, and remembered a watch counting down eight days, the exact length of his comaThe Reddit case — an anonymous stranger who still glimpses his son at the corner of his eye, perpetually five years old, forever trying to say something he can't quite hearCaroline Leavitt, USA — a novelist who came back mapping an entire town she'd lived in, and insists, present tense, that she's still dreaming itThen the big question: where did they actually go? The bed never moved.Parallel lives - the family you grieve is the family you lost, in a layer of reality running alongside our ownSoul travel - the deepest, longest out-of-body experience a living person can have, and return fromThe threshold - Keenan's field of huts, where you're taken, sorted, and told your time is comingThe sceptic's cold water - sedatives, stress, and a brain spinning stories to fill the silencePlus this week's Fact or Fiction, and Yvette and Karl's own verdict on where these travellers really wentKeep the lights on. You may need them.

Two listeners. Two brushes with a threshold. One at a deathbed, one in a fold of time itself.In the last three days of her life, Priya's nani begins talking to people who aren't there: not frightened, but delighted. She greets her mother, her sister, and names an infant brother who died in India seventy years ago, a child the family had to phone across the world to confirm ever existed. On the final afternoon she looks at Priya, lucid, and says: "They're all here now. Look how many came." And the corner of the room feels crowded, a fullness Priya, her mother, and her aunt each feel on their skin and only admit to one another afterwards.Then Darnell, a Chicago electrician, describes a moment that repeats. Twice, twenty years apart, a wave hits him and he knows in specific, testable detail, exactly what the next two seconds hold. The second time, something is different: the moment feels like it's watching him back, holding still, waiting to see what he'll do. And his late mother's two-word warning from the first time surfaces just in time: "Don't chase it."Producer Dom unpacks the folklore: the deathbed "gathering" that comes to collect its own, the "roll call" that names the dead the living couldn't have invented, and the fold in time that becomes a door once it knows you've noticed it.What happens when the threshold doesn't just open for the dying… but notices the living standing at the door?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Yvette Fielding takes Paranormal Activity out of the studio and behind the towering red-brick walls of Shrewsbury Prison, one of Britain's most haunted buildings.Live and on location, Yvette moves through the wings, holding cells and the chilling executioner's room, gathering the raw, unfiltered experiences of the brave souls who've come to hunt for ghosts alongside her.From first-timers taking their very first steps into the dark, to seasoned investigators who've seen figures, felt the temperature plummet and heard voices where no one stood, everyone has a story.There's the little girl who couldn't find her mumThe Ouija board that spelled out a middle name only one living person could knowHair lifted by unseen hands on A WingTaps, footsteps and figures caught on camera in the cells.And of course, no visit to Shrewsbury is complete without George Riley: the last man ever hanged within these walls.Call out his name, and he might just throw you a penny.Lock the doors, keep your phone recording, and mind the shadows.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two listeners. Two encounters with missing time and the old folklore that explains where it went.Driving home sober from a wedding on a quiet Welsh A-road, Bethan rounds a bend she knows well and the world goes silent: engine, tyres, radio, all muted at once. The colour drains out. The air turns thick and grey. A tall, still figure watches from a farm gate. Then she's suddenly five miles further on, with no memory of the miles between, and a journey that should've taken thirty-five minutes has taken over an hour. For a week after, she dreams of the figure, closer each night.Then Wesley, a thirty-year aviation mechanic in Taos, is driving his fourteen-year-old daughter home from a camping trip when a steady amber light starts pacing the truck. He stops. It stops. Then it drops, hangs above the sagebrush, and shoots off at an angle and speed his brain still won't accept, in total silence. He remembers a few minutes. His daughter is certain it was an hour.Producer Dom unpacks the darker folklore: the Welsh tradition of being taken "into the grey," the watcher bound to the threshold who marks those who pass, and the New Mexico "star that comes down", that pulls the more open witness deeper into its time than the guarded one.What happens when two people share an encounter… but not the same amount of time inside it?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three stars in a near-perfect line. Three pyramids in Egypt. Three more in Mexico.An ocean and thousands of years apart, pressed into the earth in the very same pattern. Two ancient peoples who could never have spoken, somehow building the same map of the same sky.A theory that turns the world's greatest monuments into a message. A dating problem that reaches back twelve thousand years. And a whispered answer that refuses to die: someone came down and showed them how.A constellation supposedly carved into two continents that never met.A clap at the foot of a Mexican pyramid that answers back like a bird.Star-shafts aiming a dead king's soul at Orion — and a "map" you have to flip upside down to believe.A missing piece of human DNA, a lost civilisation, and the question no one can answer: who laid the very first brick?Yvette and friend of the show Glen Hunt go through it all on this week's episode of Paranormal Activity investigating 'Orion's Belt & The Pyramids'The cases, the science, the theories, and why we still can't build a road that outlasts the Romans, let alone a pyramid that's stood for four and a half thousand years...A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two listeners. Two hauntings that weren't asking to be heard, they were asking to be let in.Callum lives alone in an 1890s Aberdeen tenement when the knocking starts: always three slow knocks, always on the internal hallway wall with nothing behind it. It only knocks when he's in the hall and it seems to want him to answer. One night he knocks back. It replies instantly, right under his hand. Then the knocking begins to move through the flat, until it's behind his headboard in a room it had never touched.Then Renata and her husband buy an 1890s house in Galveston, and the elderly seller leaves them with four words: "Don't move the mirror." The figures never come from the mirror, they step through every other doorway in the house. Until the night her baby son screams at the glass, and for a second she sees a reflected hallway with extra doors that aren't in her house.Producer Dom unpacks the darker folklore: the Scottish "knocker at the wa'" that must be invited across, the "following" that leaves the wall and goes where you go, and the Gulf Coast "passway" pinned shut beneath a mirror that doesn't reflect a room, it holds one.What happens when answering back is the one thing you were never meant to do?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

August 1914, the retreat from Mons. Exhausted British soldiers, outnumbered and about to be annihilated, look up to see shining figures in the sky between them and the German guns. Somehow, impossibly, the army escapes. And the first great ghost story of the modern age is born.This week, Yvette Fielding investigates five hauntings from five wars, across five corners of the world. The angels of Mons and the phantom archers of Agincourt. The marching dead of Ypres, still going up the line a century on. The blood-soaked Sunken Lane at Antietam. The phantom hammering of the Burma Death Railway, where a man died for every sleeper laid. And the thirsting soldier of the Chaco, still stepping out of the scrub to beg travellers for water he'll never drink.From guardian angels and phantom bowmen, to hungry ghosts and spirit houses, to the darkest theory of all: that a battlefield can become a doorway, held open by suffering, and that not everything marching through it ever wore a uniform.Why does war, in every land and every age, leave the same restless dead behind?Was it the souls of the fallen, trapped by the manner of their dying?The land itself, remembering?Or something older, drawn in by the killing?Listen, and decide for yourself.

Two listeners. Two hauntings that don't want to scare you — they want you to join them.Sarah is hoovering the top floor of a converted woollen mill when she hears a loom running in an empty room. She switches off to listen and it stops dead. Then it starts again, louder, right behind her, and the temperature drops so fast she can see her breath. Her supervisor goes quiet: a young woman died at one of the looms in the 1880s.Then Marcus and his brother renovate an 1850s clapboard house in Portland, Maine, with a music box that plays at dusk and a woman humming inches behind him on a locked-up afternoon. But it's his brother's night that lingers, a weight sitting down on the end of the air mattress, dipping it like a person, then rising when he turned on the light. A seamstress had lived and died there in the 1870s.Producer Dom unpacks the darker folklore: the "un-ended" bound to the work they never finished, laying the loom for a second pair of hands and the New England "lodger" who keeps her habits, her song, and above all her bed, waiting for the room to empty again.What happens when the ghost doesn't want you gone… it wants you in its place?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yvette Fielding is back with five of your strangest, most spine-chilling stories, and this month they range from the eerie to the downright inexplicable.A woman wakes to her mother screaming her name for help… but the house is dark, everyone's asleep, and her mum never calls her Lisa. Was it a mimic?A soldier whose lifetime of terror traces back to one night at age eight, when a six-foot pink rabbit stood outside his window radiating pure evil.A solid, flesh-and-blood old man staring out of a shuttered hotel window in Southampton, who vanished in the space of a single step.A US embassy attaché in Kenya who paid a witch doctor 25 cents for a fortune… and heard a prediction about a deformed child that only made sense five years later.And an events manager alone in a Wolverhampton venue, built on an old prison, chased up a dark staircase by footsteps that broke into a run.Plus a Fact or Fiction from Nairobi: does the ghost of King George VI walk the deck at Treetops, the lodge where a princess became a queen overnight?Got a story, photo or voice note? Email paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com or find us @paranormalactivitypod.Early episodes + bonus content at paranormalpod.co.uk.Stay safe, and stay curious.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two listeners. Two gentle hauntings. And the old folklore that reveals what they really were.Gemma's 1880s terrace near Whitby Abbey came with a presence they called the Captain: pipe tobacco by the window, wardrobe doors opening slow and deliberate like someone choosing what to wear, keys vanishing for a week. Then her partner wakes to a dark figure on the end of the bed, back turned. Not frightening, just sad.Then Danielle's family home in Savannah always "had company," as her grandmother put it. A porch rocking chair that moves on windless nights. An old hymn hummed right beside her in an empty hallway. And the week of the funeral, the chair started up again.Producer Dom unpacks the darker folklore: the drowned "unhoused" who don't know they've died, and the low-country "kept" spirit - a guardian named and passed down mother to daughter.What happens when the house wasn't what your grandmother left you… but the company inside it?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We think we know where ghosts live. The crumbling castle. The abandoned asylum. This week, Yvette Fielding and her paranormal partner in crime Karl Beattie throw out the guidebook entirely.Because the strangest hauntings aren't in stately homes with a costumed guide and a gift shop. They're in the places you pass through without a second thought, lit by strip-lights and smelling faintly of disinfectant. So this week we're chasing the ghosts nobody expects, in the five most ordinary places on Earth.Yvette and Karl visit a public toilet, a car park, a McDonald's, a drained swimming pool and a Tokyo back-alley, and ask the question that unsettles believer and sceptic alike: why does the mundane so often become the most haunted?You'll hear five hauntings the guidebooks leave outFrodsham Street, Chester — a working public loo home to "Tom," named by the local press as one of the city's most disturbing ghostsMount Pleasant, Liverpool — a multi-storey car park, and a whole street locals swear has always felt wrong, banshee and allCuero, Texas — a fully operational McDonald's built over a former garage, where the fridge runs itself and the toilets flush in empty roomsRMS Queen Mary, Long Beach — a bone-dry Art Deco pool where people still hear splashing and find small, wet footprintsAkihabara, Tokyo — the Horror Vending Machine Corner, where the dread comes from the machines themselvesThen the big question: why here? Why the toilet, the car park, the burger joint?The believer's answer — the dead stay where they died, whatever we build on topThe "it's the land, not the walls" theoryThe sceptic's cold water — bad lighting, hard surfaces, and a brain built to sense a watcher in an empty roomPlus this week's Fact or Fiction, and Yvette and Karl's own verdict on what really lingers in the ordinaryLock the doors. Both sides.

Two listeners. Two classic hauntings. And the old folklore that explains them.Sophie's 1840s Hexham cottage came with more than original features: pipe tobacco at teatime, washing folded half-heartedly like someone tried and gave up, and a weight on the end of the bed at half three. Then a village plumber asks, unprompted, whether they've had "any bother with the back bedroom."Then Aaron works night security in a converted Victorian school. A corridor colder than the rest, every night. Chairs dragging on carpet that can't make that sound. And one February night, a person-shaped figure crossing the third-floor camera — behind doors he had the only keys to.Producer Dom unpacks the folklore: the revenant that returns as habit, the hob that copies work without understanding it, the mara that sits and presses, and the walker who doesn't use doors.What happens when the house doesn't want to frighten you… just to say goodnight?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

August 1981, a small house in Lee, Massachusetts. A sixteen-year-old boy sits alone in the dark, in a room where something has already knocked a grown woman unconscious. Behind his head, inside the wall, something is clawing and growling.This week, Yvette Fielding is joined by Chris McKinnell. The grandson of Ed and Lorraine Warren, the couple behind Amityville, Annabelle and the entire Conjuring universe. But Chris isn't here to guard the legacy. He's here to question it.He tells the stories Hollywood left out: claw marks opening on a woman's face live on air, a great-grandfather in his rearview mirror, and the untold British chapter, when Ed and Lorraine toured three thousand miles of this country's most haunted sites. And he does what almost nobody in this field will, he says where his grandparents were wrong.A curse, a mind under strain, or consciousness surviving death? Listen, and decide for yourself.Chris tours the UK and Ireland this September and October with The Real Conjuring.His book, The Warren Legacy: What the Paranormal Reveals About Consciousness and Reality, is out now.

Two listeners. Two encounters with something that used the land itself as its surface.Hester is on a Shropshire ridge she's known twenty years when the far hillside lights up with a vast geometric pattern too precise for any human hand. Then it rotates like a mechanism. Then it contracts around a single point on the opposite ridge: exactly where she's standing. She wasn't being watched. She'd become a variable in something already running.Then Mateo feels heat through his boots on his land near Terlingua: narrow bands beneath the desert, running in straight lines. They glow amber and reconfigure, processing something. By morning the vegetation along them is dead. Five months on, it's still spreading. A metre a week, perfect right angles, heading northwest. His home is northwest.Producer Dom unpacks the darker theories: Vallée's control system, terrain used as hardware, the Dogon patterns encoded into the earth at creation, and the fire meridians that propagate once they hit their threshold.What happens when you're not the subject of the phenomenon… but an input it's still waiting on?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A dead man who wasn't dead. A clock a whole city remembers stopping sixteen years too early. A country thousands swear has moved.Memories so vivid you'd swear to them in court — shared by thousands of strangers who've never met, all wrong in exactly the same way.A logo detail everyone can picture that has never existed.A real death wearing the wrong man's name.Parallel universes, merged timelines, a glitch in the simulation.And the question that follows you to bed: how much of your own past would survive being checked?Yvette and friend of the show Glen Hunt go through it all on this week's episode of Paranormal Activity investigating 'The Mandela Effect'The cases, the science, the theories, and what it means for everything you think you remember...A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two listeners. Two encounters with something already waiting in the low ground.Tamsin walks a Neolithic hollow way in Dorset when the path drops deeper than the land should allow, and she sees it. A perfect black circle on the track. No depth. Clean edges. A pull that feels less like curiosity than invitation. She throws a branch and the half that crosses the line ceases to exist. The next morning: circle gone, branch whole.Then Joaquín looks down from a mesa rim he's known his whole life and sees darkness pooled in the dry arroyo. It moves with intent. Stops directly beneath him. Then starts climbing the wall toward the rim with the patience of something that's done it a thousand times.Producer Dom unpacks the darker theories: window areas worn thin by five thousand years of feet, lures that feel like your own idea, land that doesn't host the phenomenon but is it, and the fixation that never forgets where you stood.What happens when something cleans up so completely that you're the only evidence left?A Create PodcastThanks Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yvette Fielding is back with five of your spookiest stories, and this month's are some of the eeriest yet.A little girl who chatted with her dad's colleague through the hospital halls… only to learn he'd died on holiday weeks before.A sad man in white standing in a room that turned out to be the morgue.A 220-year-old Somerset cottage where orbs, footsteps and an 8kg blender flying off a shelf have baffled even seasoned investigators.A brother and sister, decades apart, who discover they share the same childhood demon.And a haunted house in Anfield where a shadow climbs the stairs and stops outside the bedroom door.Plus a Fact or Fiction from Somerset: the phantom stationmaster still whistling for trains that no longer run.Got a story, photo or voice note? Email paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com or find us @paranormalactivitypod. Early episodes + bonus content at paranormalpod.co.uk.Stay safe, and stay curious.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two listeners. Two encounters with something that briefly lifted the veil and then sealed it back up.On her porch outside Asheville, Reva feels something enter through her ribs and move slowly through her body like she's a corridor it happened to pass through. For forty-five seconds she knows things, that the world we see is a thin film stretched over something unbearably crowded. Then it leaves, taking the knowledge with it, and drains away all but one surviving fragment: there are more of them than there are of us.Then Luca is on a Malvern ridge he's walked since he was a teenager when the slope below him turns black. A flat, perfect, geometric disc cut into the hillside, radiating deep heat from somewhere far down. Then it contracts inward and seals shut with a smoothness that earth should not have. Not like it's gone. Like it's finished.Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: the Jain nigoda that fill every empty inch, the Kabbalist Pardes that broke three of the four who entered, the ultra-terrestrial intelligence beneath the surface, and the Roman mundus that opened so what's below could look up.What happens when reality lifts its filter for a moment… and then decides you weren't meant to keep what you saw?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

April 1973, a quiet suburb outside São Paulo. A twenty-one-year-old mother sits down for the first time all day, and finds the sofa beside her torn open. Nobody's there. Nobody's been there.This week, Yvette Fielding investigates the Guarulhos Poltergeist, Brazil's most thoroughly documented haunting. Slashed furniture, falling stones, spontaneous fires, cuts appearing on skin, and a red-furred beast glimpsed by an entire family. It baffled sceptical scientists, drew in the journalist who'd later crack the Enfield case, and ended up filed inside a real CIA psychic-warfare programme.Was it a curse, conjured by human malice and aimed at one young woman? A mind under unbearable strain? Or something we still have no name for? Listen, and decide for yourself.

Two listeners. Two encounters with something vast and ancient. One that couldn't see them, and one that wouldn't leave.On a red-eye over the dark, Eshaan slips into the space between waking and sleep and the cabin vanishes. He's suspended in open black with something enormous moving slowly beneath him. It doesn't reach for him. It doesn't threaten him. It simply doesn't notice him, he's too small, too brief to register. And he realises he's been passing over it on every flight he's ever taken.Then Luca comes home to a small, dense object on his kitchen counter that he never put there, warm from within, like a heartbeat without rhythm. He throws it away. Buries it. Posts it to a false address. Every morning it's back in the same spot. Until the night he stops fighting it, and something in his chest settles into place, and he understands it was always his.Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: the Sumerian Abzu and the Hindu serpent on which all reality rests, the Aboriginal Dreaming that never ended, the Shinto objects bound to a person before birth, and the Andean huaca that always finds its keeper.What happens when the thing you can't get rid of… was a part of you all along?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The most studied, most surveilled, most argued-over patch of land on the planet is back, The Skinwalker Ranch, and this week we're doing something different with it.We've already done the deep dive: the Shermans, the bloodless cattle, the blue orbs, the shape-shifting wolf. So this is the 2026 update. What's been caught since? And crucially, what are the people with nothing to sell actually saying?Yvette and Karl give the History Channel's investigation its due before doing the thing they really came to do: stepping off the ranch entirely.You'll hear three sets of eyewitnesses the show never featuredThe paying tour guests reporting dead phones and sudden sickness at the exact same spotsThe "Beyond" experiencers whose encounters rhyme with the ranch from clear across the country.The Uintah Basin locals and visitors who insist the strangeness doesn't stay put... it travels. It follows.Then the big question: what do the witnesses themselves believe is happening?The Ute warning to stay awayThe owner's "precognitive, sentient intelligence"The sceptic's cold water — we lay out every honest answer and let you decide.Plus this week's Fact or Fiction, and Yvette and Karl's own verdict on what really lives in that basin.Lock the deadbolts. On both sides of the door.

Two listeners. Two encounters with something that revealed itself only when it chose to.Noor photographs her dog one warm night. The next morning she spots it in the frame: a tall, impossibly narrow figure at the edge of the dark, head tilted toward the camera. Her dog never reacted. And every time she looks, the feeling isn't fear, it's that the figure waited for her to raise the phone, and wanted to be caught.Then Cassia is on her desert rooftop at 1am when a section of sky goes dark — a vast shape with clean edges sliding over the stars. Then it pauses. Directly above her. And she feels herself catalogued by an intelligence too large for her mind to hold.Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: the preta that can't reach your senses but can reach a lens, the Watchers whose attention opens a door that won't close, and the Polynesian dark that was here before the stars.What happens when the thing watching you chooses the moment you finally see it back?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Eight victims. Six of them children. One axe. A house that never stopped remembering.In 1912, an entire family and two little girls were bludgeoned to death in their beds. The killer waited in the attic, covered every mirror, left a slab of bacon by the bodies, and vanished into the dawn. Never caught. Never solved.Now: children's laughter from empty rooms. Footsteps circling a child's bed. Objects hurled by something that wants you gone. And small voices that answer when you ask their names.By candlelight, in total darkness, Villisca reaches out and touches you.Yvette explores the massacre, the suspects who walked free, and five paranormal theories. Plus this week's Fact or Fiction: did an investigator really stab himself inside the house?New episodes weekly. Follow now and visit paranormalpod.co.uk for early access & bonus episodes.Remember to send your own unexplained experiences for Monday Mailtime & our Listener Specials, yours could be the tale we tell next.paranormalactivitypod@gmail.comA Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two listeners. Two encounters with something that didn't haunt them, it processed them.Dara finds a mark on her arm one ordinary afternoon: geometric, precise, painless. It wasn't there that morning. Over five days it sinks back into his skin, but on the third night something pulls deep inside him, and one word arrives like it was placed there: inventory.Then Maren is making tea at 2am, days after burying her grandmother, when something appears in the corner. Too tall. Too narrow. Material. And one certainty hits her: it didn't come for her grandmother, it came because of her.No comfort. No closure. Just the sense of being counted by something that never asked permission.Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: marks that say this one belongs to us, the Aztec god who redirects fates in secret, and the things not drawn to death's victims… but to death itself.What happens when a death doesn't end something… but opens a door?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yvette Fielding is back with five of your spookiest stories, and some unforgettable ones of her own.A bathroom ghost that runs the taps. A black car that pixelates and vanishes into thin air. A medieval castle hiding under a housing estate. A spirit that made one listener vomit. And the night-shift nurse visited by a patient who dissolved into mist, leaving only his dressing gown belt behind.Plus a Fact or Fiction from Liverpool: the engineer who supposedly gambled his soul to the Devil.Got a story, photo or voice note? Email paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com or find us @paranormalactivitypod.Early episodes + bonus content at paranormalpod.co.uk.Stay safe, and stay curious.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two listeners. Two encounters with something that didn't just appear, it recognised them.Tariq is hours into a midnight desert drive when a tall, dark figure appears in the road. Then it moves: centre to edge in a single jump, no crossing the distance between. His foot brakes before his mind catches up, and one instinct screams: don't look at it directly.Then Claire describes the four minutes she was clinically dead on her kitchen floor. No tunnel. No light. Just a vast, full darkness and a presence that knew her completely, that she'd always sensed at the edge of her vision. It wanted her to stay. She still feels it alongside her.No bangs. No shadows. Just the sense of being known by something that was waiting long before you arrived.Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: forms that flicker between dimensions, the recognition principle, the Tibetan Bardo, and the Aztec god for whom death isn't an introduction: it's a reunion.What happens when the thing waiting for you isn't a stranger… but something that's known you your whole life?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author and paranormal investigator Max Storey joins Yvette to discuss The Unquiet Journals, his debut collection of seven paranormal short stories, each one rooted in real experience.Max reveals the terrifying encounter that started it all, the local legend that inspired a sea hag story, and the Monday Mailtime listener tale that ended up in a published book.Plus: haunted castles, unexplained singing in the ruins, and wedding photos at a haunted manor house.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two listeners. Two encounters that ended with the same terrifying certainty: something found exactly what it was looking for, and it was them.Under a clear night sky, a pale light came straight for Wade. Slow. Deliberate. It stopped at head height and read him page by page. No fear, just a calm that wasn't his. Fourteen months on, one word still haunts him: claimed.Then Nina looks down at a Welsh lay-by and sees her shadow move on its own. An arm raised while hers hang still, a head turning while she faces forward. Something wearing her outline that forgot to perform. Four years later, it still arrives half a second late.Producer Dom digs into the dark folklore: the Gnostic archons that catalogue human souls, the djinn that mark their chosen, and the traditions where your shadow was never yours to begin with.What happens when the paranormal doesn't haunt you: it claims you?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Trump opened the UFO vault. 162 secret files. 80 years of unexplained encounters.Astronauts seeing things near the Moon they couldn't identify.Objects making impossible turns.Alleged Nazi flying saucers.And a former president casually confirming aliens are real.Yvette and friend of show, Glen Hunt go through it all on this week's episode of Paranormal Activity.The files, the fakes, the cover-ups, and what comes next...A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Two listeners. Two encounters that span entire lifetimes. And something that's been watching their families long before they were born.Fran has seen it eleven times: a figure at a distance, always her height, always in her clothes, always moving toward an appointment she doesn't know about yet. Always between mid-afternoon and dusk. And the way her mother went quiet when she first described it as a child says Fran isn't the only one who's seen it.Then Hugo watches a shape move across the night sky with a wrongness physics can't explain and knows, in his chest, that he's seen it before. Months later he finds his late grandmother's unsent letter from the 1960s. Same shape. Same wrongness. And the exact word he'd reached for: acknowledged.No bangs. No shadows. Just the sense of being recognised by something that's known your bloodline for generations.Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: the Scottish co-walker that wears your face like camouflage, the Norse fylgja that goes ahead so you follow, and the watchers said to track chosen families across centuries.What happens when the thing following you isn't yours and was invited in long before you were born?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Five years. Five people. One cursed mountain. Zero answers.A hunting guide who knew every inch of the trail, gone.A college girl in a red coat who turned a corner and ceased to exist.A war veteran who vanished from a moving bus with his luggage still in the rack.An eight-year-old boy who walked away from a truck and into thin air. And a hiker whose body showed up seven months later — in a field that had already been searched.This is the Bennington Triangle. And nobody has ever explained it.Yvette Fielding & Karl Beattie break down all five cases: Middie Rivers, Paula Jean Welden, James E. Tedford, Paul Jepson, and Frieda Langer.With the full facts, the Abenaki curse, the paranormal theories, and the uncomfortable truth that none of the explanations actually work.Cursed stones. Interdimensional portals. A mountain the locals say swallows people whole.75+ years. Still unsolved. Still unexplained. Still terrifying.

Two listeners.Two encounters with the dead that refused to stay buried.And one terrifying thread connecting them both.Harrison doesn't scare easily, six years of night shifts, no startle reflex. So why did standing at the mouth of a 5,000-year-old burial mound leave him certain that something deep in the dark had turned to face him… and was waiting to see what he'd do?Then Miriam takes us inside Harvard's Peabody Museum at 2am. A man pulled from the earth outside Ur a century ago. Catalogued. Displayed. Waiting. And one night, something stepped to her shoulder and made it clear it had known her all along.No bangs. No shadows. Just the unbearable sense of being assessed by something with all the time in the world.Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore beneath it all: the Norse mound-dweller fed by a thousand years of fear, the Mesopotamian eṭemmu taking inventory of the living, and the chilling idea that for the trapped dead, time doesn't pass… it compresses.What happens when something that's waited a hundred years finally decides you're worth knowing?A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three wives. Three bathtubs. Three identical murders. And rooms that still won't let go.George Joseph Smith killed with terrifying precision: no weapon, no struggle, just water and a method so quiet it passed as accident. Twice. His case rewrote forensic history. But what he left behind in those rooms has never been fully explained.Violent splashes from empty baths in Blackpool. Walls that turn damp without cause in Herne Bay. A figure bent over a bathtub in Highgate gone the second you look directly.This isn't a ghost story. There's no voice. No footsteps. Just a moment that refuses to end.Yvette explores the hauntings, the murder method investigators physically reconstructed, and six paranormal theories: including why this case is considered the textbook example of trauma embedded in water itself.Remember we have new episodes weekly. Follow now and visit paranormalpod.co.uk for early access. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Monday Mailtime, Producer Dom dives into two listener stories that left him genuinely shaken.First, Oscar recounts a terrifying night wild camping alone on the North Yorkshire Moors, where he unknowingly pitched his tent beside what he later discovered was an ancient Bronze Age burial mound. In the dead of night, he wakes to the sound of a woman weeping just outside his tent… except the voice doesn't seem to come from anywhere around him. It comes from beneath him. And when he steps away from the mound, the sound stops instantly. By morning, Oscar discovers something even more disturbing pressed into the grass where he slept — a dark human-shaped impression, as though something had spent the night curled beside him.Then, Annie shares a deeply unsettling experience that began after the sudden death of her mother. What started as strange messages appearing in her journal soon escalated into detailed drawings she had no memory of creating — sketches of a woman with wide-set eyes and a mouth just slightly wrong. As her grief deepened, Annie became convinced that something had answered her mourning… and that whatever it was had been learning how to wear the shape of comfort itself.Producer Dom explores ancient British burial lore, the terrifying concept of “the bound dead,” psychic interlopers, automatic inscription, grief entities, and the chilling idea that some paranormal forces do not haunt places… they haunt vulnerability itself.Are these simply manifestations of trauma and isolation?Or are there things in this world that wait patiently for grief, loneliness and human contact?Listen now… and decide for yourself.

It's time for our May listener special!This month you've sent in some truly spine-tingling encounters, and Yvette is here to get stuck into every one of them.Jane shares the beautiful moment her late mum came to visit her newborn baby in the night.Holly-Ann takes us inside her 200-year-old haunted home, where a white lady watches her work and a terrifying presence once warned her not to open her eyes.Naomi recounts a holiday in a Spanish villa on the Costa Almería where a ghostly figure with an orange glow appeared at the foot of the bed and a phantom baby's cry echoed through the barn.Helena reveals the heartbreaking sign her mum sent her at exactly 5:55am, and Jenny shares her Chinese grandmother's chilling warning about whistling at night.Plus, Yvette puts your knowledge to the test with a Fact or Fiction all about the real-life Crime of Níjar.Send us your stories at paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com and remember, things aren't always as they seem…A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Paranormal Activity: Monday Mailtime, Producer Dom opens two encounters that share one unsettling thread: whatever was there… was already aware.Eleni was a student nurse in a hospital outside Thessaloniki. Sent to check on two elderly patients in a section of the ward no one spoke about, she noticed an indentation between their beds, as though a third body had settled there. Then one patient turned, reached into the gap… and her fingers stopped mid-air. By morning, she had passed. When Eleni returned days later, there were three beds where there had been two. No one questioned it.Then, Leanne stepped outside her North Yorkshire home one summer evening and noticed a light hovering at the edge of her property. Then a second. Then a third. When she spoke aloud without thinking, one of them snapped sideways. They had heard her. Local folklore says the same thing: never speak to the watch lights. Because once they know you can see them… they look back.Producer Dom reacts, unpacks, and digs into the folklore behind both. From Greek psychopomps and guided death, to ancient accounts of lights that react to human awareness.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter Sellers was one of the most famous men on the planet.He was also one of the most genuinely, deeply paranormal figures of the 20th century, and almost nobody knows the full story.This week Yvette Fielding investigates the extraordinary and haunting truth behind the legend.A clairvoyant so powerful that Hollywood producers bribed him to influence Sellers' decisions.A near-death experience that left him convinced he'd made a personal deal with death itself. A Victorian ghost who allegedly guided his greatest performances from beyond the grave.And a desperate, decades-long search through séances and mediums to find his dead mother.This isn't a story about a celebrity with quirky superstitions.This is a story about a man who handed his entire life over to the paranormal and what it cost him.The séances were real. The obsession was real. And the tragedy was inevitable.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Paranormal Activity: Monday Mailtime, Producer Dom opens two listener encounters that don't just unsettle, they fundamentally challenge what we think we understand about places, presence, and memory.Calum hiked alone to a hill on the Isle of Skye as the light began to fade. He didn't know the locals call it Hill of the Voice. He does now. What started as a faint, drawn-out note became layers of inhuman singing — overlapping, circling, tightening around him like something adjusting itself. And then he felt it beneath his feet. Not a sound. Not a shape. Something occupied. Something listening back. A local later told him the singing isn't meant for people. And if you hear it clearly… you've already been noticed.Then, Amara travelled alone to Kennin-ji Temple in Kyoto to observe a morning service. She sat quietly. The chanting began. And then without knowing the words, without understanding the language, her mouth started moving. Perfectly in time. In a voice that wasn't hers. Deeper. Older. Worn-in, like it had been used across lifetimes. When it ended, she asked a monk what had happened. His answer has never left her: "Not everyone who arrives here is arriving for the first time."What happens when a place doesn't just hold energy… but uses whoever walks into it? And what does it mean when something ancient recognises you before you recognise it?Producer Dom reacts, unpacks, and explores the folklore and deeper theory behind both: from the fairy mounds of Scottish Gaelic tradition to the Zen Buddhist belief that practice never truly ends… it just waits for the right vessel to return.A Create Podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.