Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

Two listeners. Two hauntings that weren't asking to be heard, they were asking to be let in.

Callum lives alone in an 1890s Aberdeen tenement when the knocking starts: always three slow knocks, always on the internal hallway wall with nothing behind it. It only knocks when he's in the hall and it seems to want him to answer. One night he knocks back. It replies instantly, right under his hand. Then the knocking begins to move through the flat, until it's behind his headboard in a room it had never touched.

Then Renata and her husband buy an 1890s house in Galveston, and the elderly seller leaves them with four words: "Don't move the mirror." The figures never come from the mirror, they step through every other doorway in the house. Until the night her baby son screams at the glass, and for a second she sees a reflected hallway with extra doors that aren't in her house.

Producer Dom unpacks the darker folklore: the Scottish "knocker at the wa'" that must be invited across, the "following" that leaves the wall and goes where you go, and the Gulf Coast "passway" pinned shut beneath a mirror that doesn't reflect a room, it holds one.

What happens when answering back is the one thing you were never meant to do?

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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.

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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?

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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?

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Stay safe, and stay curious.

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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?

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