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 mum
• The Ouija board that spelled out a middle name only one living person could know
• Hair lifted by unseen hands on A Wing
• Taps, 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.

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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?

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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...

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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?

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Stay safe, and stay curious.

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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?

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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 out

• Frodsham Street, Chester — a working public loo home to "Tom," named by the local press as one of the city's most disturbing ghosts
• Mount Pleasant, Liverpool — a multi-storey car park, and a whole street locals swear has always felt wrong, banshee and all
• Cuero, Texas — a fully operational McDonald's built over a former garage, where the fridge runs itself and the toilets flush in empty rooms
• RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach — a bone-dry Art Deco pool where people still hear splashing and find small, wet footprints
• Akihabara, Tokyo — the Horror Vending Machine Corner, where the dread comes from the machines themselves

Then 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 top
• The "it's the land, not the walls" theory
• The sceptic's cold water — bad lighting, hard surfaces, and a brain built to sense a watcher in an empty room
• Plus this week's Fact or Fiction, and Yvette and Karl's own verdict on what really lingers in the ordinary

Lock the doors. Both sides.

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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?

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