{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/51ca2ce5-3216-485c-8a23-8a30515988e9/6a7a08c3523b3dfcd864d279?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"YVETTE & KARL INVESTIGATE: The Weirdest Haunted Locations Around The World","description":"<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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?</p><p><br></p><p>You'll hear five hauntings the guidebooks leave out</p><ul><li><strong>Frodsham Street, Chester</strong> — a working public loo home to \"Tom,\" named by the local press as one of the city's most disturbing ghosts</li><li><strong>Mount Pleasant, Liverpool</strong> — a multi-storey car park, and a whole street locals swear has always felt wrong, banshee and all</li><li><strong>Cuero, Texas</strong> — a fully operational McDonald's built over a former garage, where the fridge runs itself and the toilets flush in empty rooms</li><li><strong>RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach</strong> — a bone-dry Art Deco pool where people still hear splashing and find small, wet footprints</li><li><strong>Akihabara, Tokyo</strong> — the Horror Vending Machine Corner, where the dread comes from the machines themselves</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Then the big question: why here? Why the toilet, the car park, the burger joint?</p><ul><li>The believer's answer — the dead stay where they died, whatever we build on top</li><li>The \"it's the land, not the walls\" theory</li><li>The sceptic's cold water — bad lighting, hard surfaces, and a brain built to sense a watcher in an empty room</li><li>Plus this week's Fact or Fiction, and Yvette and Karl's own verdict on what really lingers in the ordinary</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Lock the doors. Both sides.</p><p><br></p><p>📧 <a href=\"mailto:paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com</a> | 📱 @paranormalactivitypod</p><p>🎧 Early episodes + exclusive bonus content: paranormalpod.co.uk</p><p><br></p><p>A Create Podcast</p>","author_name":"Create"}