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?

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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.

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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.

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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 [email protected] and remember, things aren't always as they seem…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Bones thrown at her in Bamburgh Castle.

Wet herself with fright.

Woke up crying at Pendle Hill with no memory of what happened.

This week, Karl Beattie raids your questions from Facebook, emails, and live events and Yvette answers everything.

The scariest places, the preparation rituals, the evidence that made headlines, the demons she does (and doesn't) believe in, and why she'd still go back anywhere.

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This week on Paranormal Activity: Monday Mailtime, Producer Dom opens two of the most quietly disturbing listener submissions we've ever received.

No violence.

No apparitions.

Just two encounters that got under the skin and didn't leave.

Neev went hiking alone on the slopes of Benbulbin in County Sligo. She stayed too late. The light dropped. And then — from somewhere beneath the ground itself — something began to keen. Not a scream. Not the wind. Something older than both. A sound so full of grief it wrapped around her as she walked, moved with her as she ran, and never once felt like a threat. That was the worst part. It didn't want to frighten her. It wanted her to feel it.

Then, Hannah visited a house in North Yorkshire that locals only ever pass around in whispers. From the moment she stepped inside, there was a rhythm running through the walls. The guide's first warning: don't follow it. But when she tapped her fingers once — just once — the rhythm stopped dead. And came back at her pace. That night, at home in bed, her fingers moved against the mattress without thinking. And something, somewhere, tapped back.

What happens when the paranormal doesn't haunt a place… but reaches out from it? And what do you do when you realise you've already answered?

Producer Dom reacts, unpacks, and explores the folklore and darker theory behind both — from Banshee tradition and threshold landscapes, to the unsettling possibility that some presences don't just linger… they learn.

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When most people hear the word "exorcism," they picture Hollywood horror.

But the reality is far quieter and perhaps far more unsettling.

This week, Yvette is joined by Reverend Dr Jason Bray, Dean of Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff and a practising deliverance minister for the Church of England, who has personally carried out exorcisms.

From the cold spot around his newborn's cot to the figure he sensed on the other side of a door, Jason's journey into this world began at home.

He reveals what really happens when the Church is called in, why deliverance ministers always work in pairs, the difference between "place memories" and active presences, and where he draws the line between the spiritual and the psychological.

This one will change how you think about the Church and what it quietly deals with every day.

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