Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

Author and paranormal investigator Max Storey joins Yvette to discuss The Unquiet Journals, his debut collection of seven paranormal short stories, each one rooted in real experience.Max reveals the terrifying encounter that started it all, the local legend that inspired a sea hag story, and the Monday Mailtime listener tale that ended up in a published book.Plus: haunted castles, unexplained singing in the ruins, and wedding photos at a haunted manor house.A Create Podcast

Two listeners. Two encounters that ended with the same terrifying certainty: something found exactly what it was looking for, and it was them.Under a clear night sky, a pale light came straight for Wade. Slow. Deliberate. It stopped at head height and read him page by page. No fear, just a calm that wasn't his. Fourteen months on, one word still haunts him: claimed.Then Nina looks down at a Welsh lay-by and sees her shadow move on its own. An arm raised while hers hang still, a head turning while she faces forward. Something wearing her outline that forgot to perform. Four years later, it still arrives half a second late.Producer Dom digs into the dark folklore: the Gnostic archons that catalogue human souls, the djinn that mark their chosen, and the traditions where your shadow was never yours to begin with.What happens when the paranormal doesn't haunt you: it claims you?A Create Podcast

Trump opened the UFO vault. 162 secret files. 80 years of unexplained encounters.Astronauts seeing things near the Moon they couldn't identify.Objects making impossible turns.Alleged Nazi flying saucers.And a former president casually confirming aliens are real.Yvette and friend of show, Glen Hunt go through it all on this week's episode of Paranormal Activity.The files, the fakes, the cover-ups, and what comes next...A Create Podcast

Two listeners. Two encounters that span entire lifetimes. And something that's been watching their families long before they were born.Fran has seen it eleven times: a figure at a distance, always her height, always in her clothes, always moving toward an appointment she doesn't know about yet. Always between mid-afternoon and dusk. And the way her mother went quiet when she first described it as a child says Fran isn't the only one who's seen it.Then Hugo watches a shape move across the night sky with a wrongness physics can't explain and knows, in his chest, that he's seen it before. Months later he finds his late grandmother's unsent letter from the 1960s. Same shape. Same wrongness. And the exact word he'd reached for: acknowledged.No bangs. No shadows. Just the sense of being recognised by something that's known your bloodline for generations.Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: the Scottish co-walker that wears your face like camouflage, the Norse fylgja that goes ahead so you follow, and the watchers said to track chosen families across centuries.What happens when the thing following you isn't yours and was invited in long before you were born?A Create Podcast

Five years. Five people. One cursed mountain. Zero answers.A hunting guide who knew every inch of the trail, gone.A college girl in a red coat who turned a corner and ceased to exist.A war veteran who vanished from a moving bus with his luggage still in the rack.An eight-year-old boy who walked away from a truck and into thin air. And a hiker whose body showed up seven months later — in a field that had already been searched.This is the Bennington Triangle. And nobody has ever explained it.Yvette Fielding & Karl Beattie break down all five cases: Middie Rivers, Paula Jean Welden, James E. Tedford, Paul Jepson, and Frieda Langer.With the full facts, the Abenaki curse, the paranormal theories, and the uncomfortable truth that none of the explanations actually work.Cursed stones. Interdimensional portals. A mountain the locals say swallows people whole.75+ years. Still unsolved. Still unexplained. Still terrifying.📧 Got your own story? paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com

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?A Create Podcast

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.Remember we have new episodes weekly. Follow now and visit paranormalpod.co.uk for early access.

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.📩 Send your paranormal experiences to: paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com📱 Instagram & TikTok: @paranormalactivitypodA Create Podcast

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 paranormalactivitypod@gmail.com and remember, things aren't always as they seem…A Create Podcast