Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

We think we know what a coma is. The lights go off. Nobody's home. A blank, a gap, a nothing, until the machines bring you back.

This week, Yvette Fielding and her paranormal partner in crime Karl Beattie go somewhere they've never taken you before: not a ruined castle or a cold, empty asylum, but inside the sealed-off human mind.

Because the people who've been there and come back tell a very different story. They didn't find darkness. They found whole lives — marriages, children, towns they knew street by street. And then they woke up and had to grieve everything they'd lost. So this week we chase the strangest haunting of all: the one that happens inside your own head, in a life that feels realer than this one.

Yvette and Karl meet five people who went into the dark and came back changed, and ask the question that unsettles believer and sceptic alike: if you can love a family for years, and grieve them for years more, where exactly did that family live?

You'll hear five journeys the doctors can't quite explain

Dr. Alok Kanojia's patient — a car-crash survivor who lived a whole marriage and raised two daughters in seven silent days, then woke to mourn a family he knew never existed
Clélia Verdier, Lyon — nineteen years old, three weeks under, seven years lived; she woke and told her parents they were grandparents to children who were never born
Keenan Acton, UK — a father who came round asking after twins that didn't exist, and remembered a watch counting down eight days, the exact length of his coma
The Reddit case — an anonymous stranger who still glimpses his son at the corner of his eye, perpetually five years old, forever trying to say something he can't quite hear
Caroline Leavitt, USA — a novelist who came back mapping an entire town she'd lived in, and insists, present tense, that she's still dreaming it

Then the big question: where did they actually go? The bed never moved.

Parallel lives - the family you grieve is the family you lost, in a layer of reality running alongside our own
Soul travel - the deepest, longest out-of-body experience a living person can have, and return from
The threshold - Keenan's field of huts, where you're taken, sorted, and told your time is coming
The sceptic's cold water - sedatives, stress, and a brain spinning stories to fill the silence
Plus this week's Fact or Fiction, and Yvette and Karl's own verdict on where these travellers really went

Keep the lights on. You may need them.

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Two listeners. Two brushes with a threshold. One at a deathbed, one in a fold of time itself.

In the last three days of her life, Priya's nani begins talking to people who aren't there: not frightened, but delighted. She greets her mother, her sister, and names an infant brother who died in India seventy years ago, a child the family had to phone across the world to confirm ever existed. On the final afternoon she looks at Priya, lucid, and says: "They're all here now. Look how many came." And the corner of the room feels crowded, a fullness Priya, her mother, and her aunt each feel on their skin and only admit to one another afterwards.

Then Darnell, a Chicago electrician, describes a moment that repeats. Twice, twenty years apart, a wave hits him and he knows in specific, testable detail, exactly what the next two seconds hold. The second time, something is different: the moment feels like it's watching him back, holding still, waiting to see what he'll do. And his late mother's two-word warning from the first time surfaces just in time: "Don't chase it."

Producer Dom unpacks the folklore: the deathbed "gathering" that comes to collect its own, the "roll call" that names the dead the living couldn't have invented, and the fold in time that becomes a door once it knows you've noticed it.

What happens when the threshold doesn't just open for the dying… but notices the living standing at the door?

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This week, Yvette Fielding takes Paranormal Activity out of the studio and behind the towering red-brick walls of Shrewsbury Prison, one of Britain's most haunted buildings.

Live and on location, Yvette moves through the wings, holding cells and the chilling executioner's room, gathering the raw, unfiltered experiences of the brave souls who've come to hunt for ghosts alongside her.

From first-timers taking their very first steps into the dark, to seasoned investigators who've seen figures, felt the temperature plummet and heard voices where no one stood, everyone has a story.

There's the little girl who couldn't find her mum
The Ouija board that spelled out a middle name only one living person could know
Hair lifted by unseen hands on A Wing
Taps, footsteps and figures caught on camera in the cells.

And of course, no visit to Shrewsbury is complete without George Riley: the last man ever hanged within these walls.

Call out his name, and he might just throw you a penny.

Lock the doors, keep your phone recording, and mind the shadows.

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Two listeners. Two encounters with missing time and the old folklore that explains where it went.

Driving home sober from a wedding on a quiet Welsh A-road, Bethan rounds a bend she knows well and the world goes silent: engine, tyres, radio, all muted at once. The colour drains out. The air turns thick and grey. A tall, still figure watches from a farm gate. Then she's suddenly five miles further on, with no memory of the miles between, and a journey that should've taken thirty-five minutes has taken over an hour. For a week after, she dreams of the figure, closer each night.

Then Wesley, a thirty-year aviation mechanic in Taos, is driving his fourteen-year-old daughter home from a camping trip when a steady amber light starts pacing the truck. He stops. It stops. Then it drops, hangs above the sagebrush, and shoots off at an angle and speed his brain still won't accept, in total silence. He remembers a few minutes. His daughter is certain it was an hour.

Producer Dom unpacks the darker folklore: the Welsh tradition of being taken "into the grey," the watcher bound to the threshold who marks those who pass, and the New Mexico "star that comes down", that pulls the more open witness deeper into its time than the guarded one.

What happens when two people share an encounter… but not the same amount of time inside it?

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Three stars in a near-perfect line. Three pyramids in Egypt. Three more in Mexico.

An ocean and thousands of years apart, pressed into the earth in the very same pattern. Two ancient peoples who could never have spoken, somehow building the same map of the same sky.

A theory that turns the world's greatest monuments into a message. A dating problem that reaches back twelve thousand years. And a whispered answer that refuses to die: someone came down and showed them how.

A constellation supposedly carved into two continents that never met.
A clap at the foot of a Mexican pyramid that answers back like a bird.
Star-shafts aiming a dead king's soul at Orion — and a "map" you have to flip upside down to believe.
A missing piece of human DNA, a lost civilisation, and the question no one can answer: who laid the very first brick?

Yvette and friend of the show Glen Hunt go through it all on this week's episode of Paranormal Activity investigating 'Orion's Belt & The Pyramids'

The cases, the science, the theories, and why we still can't build a road that outlasts the Romans, let alone a pyramid that's stood for four and a half thousand years...

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