Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

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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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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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 out
Frodsham Street, Chester — a working public loo home to "Tom," named by the local press as one of the city's most disturbing ghosts
Mount Pleasant, Liverpool — a multi-storey car park, and a whole street locals swear has always felt wrong, banshee and all
Cuero, Texas — a fully operational McDonald's built over a former garage, where the fridge runs itself and the toilets flush in empty rooms
RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach — a bone-dry Art Deco pool where people still hear splashing and find small, wet footprints
Akihabara, Tokyo — the Horror Vending Machine Corner, where the dread comes from the machines themselves

Then 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 top
The "it's the land, not the walls" theory
The sceptic's cold water — bad lighting, hard surfaces, and a brain built to sense a watcher in an empty room
Plus this week's Fact or Fiction, and Yvette and Karl's own verdict on what really lingers in the ordinary

Lock the doors. Both sides.

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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?

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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.

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