Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

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.📧 paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com | 📱 @paranormalactivitypod🎧 Early episodes + exclusive bonus content: paranormalpod.co.ukA Create Podcast

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

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

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

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.📧 paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com | 📱 @paranormalactivitypod🎧 Early episodes + exclusive bonus content: paranormalpod.co.ukA Create Podcast

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

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.📧 paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com | 📱 @paranormalactivitypod🎧 Early episodes + exclusive bonus content: https://paranormalactivity.supercast.com/A Create Podcast

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

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