Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

This week, Yvette Fielding takes Paranormal Activity to a bog-standard street in Wombwell, South Yorkshire, and through a little front door that opens into something extraordinary: the Old Bank House, a former Victorian bank now packed floor to ceiling with the strange, the sinister and the downright unsettling.

From the outside it's a flat above a shop. Inside, it's a Tardis: two floors of pure Victorian menace, where dark red walls crowd in on death masks, spirit photographs, a real lead-lined coffin and hundreds upon hundreds of dolls, all watching.

Yvette takes you through the house room by room, then sits down with owners Ria & Matt Readman to separate the stories she's inherited from the things she's seen with her own eyes.

• The dolls named William and Billy, said to move on their own
• A hatchet that tilted on the wall while the team stood talking
• Guests scratched by unseen hands, describing a burning sensation that comes first
• A crawl space so sinister that paramedics have reportedly been called

And then there's the teddy bear in the miners' room. The one that kept moving when no one was looking. This week, Karl was there. And Karl saw it happen.

Lock the door, mind the crawl space, and whatever you do, don't turn your back on the dolls.

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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?

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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 [email protected] or find us @paranormalactivitypod.

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Stay safe, and stay curious.

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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?

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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.

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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 explain

• Dr. 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 existed
• Clélia 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 born
• Keenan 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 coma
• The 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 hear
• Caroline Leavitt, USA — a novelist who came back mapping an entire town she'd lived in, and insists, present tense, that she's still dreaming it

Then 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 own
• Soul travel - the deepest, longest out-of-body experience a living person can have, and return from
• The threshold - Keenan's field of huts, where you're taken, sorted, and told your time is coming
• The sceptic's cold water - sedatives, stress, and a brain spinning stories to fill the silence
• Plus this week's Fact or Fiction, and Yvette and Karl's own verdict on where these travellers really went

Keep the lights on. You may need them.

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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?

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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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