Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

Two listeners. Two encounters with something that reached out. One through a child, one through the land itself.

Bronwen's five-year-old is given an old hand-stitched doll from a neighbour's late mother, names it Sally, and invents "the answering game." Soon Anya is describing a life no child could invent: a coal stove, a copper washtub, a baby brother who "went in the ground." Then Bronwen hears two voices from the room where her daughter plays alone.

Then Dale, a Colorado rancher, has kept a dozen dogs that all refuse to cross the same invisible line near an old rise on his land. When drought pushes him to dig there, the third scoop brings up small bones, laid with care. That night, he and his wife hear faint singing from the hollow for one night, then never again in thirty years.

Producer Dom unpacks the folklore: the handmade doll that becomes a lodging for a child's soul, and the burial ground that dogs read long before any spade confirms it.

What happens when the thing reaching out isn't a threat… just something that wants to be heard?

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375 files. 5 tranches. The Pentagon still can't explain any of them.

A fighter jet shot down an unknown object over the Great Lakes.
4 objects flew in formation over Iran with no visible propulsion.
The CIA tracked a disc with rotating lights over Zimbabwe and reported it to the White House.
A nuclear weapons plant went into lockdown over a silent, diamond-shaped craft.
And a triangle the size of a football pitch blacked out the stars over Afghanistan without making a sound.

Yvette and friend of the show, Glen Hunt are back to break down the biggest cases from the latest PURSUE releases on this week's Paranormal Activity.

The shootdowns, the swarms, the nuclear connection, and what the government still isn't telling us...

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Two listeners. Two encounters that live on in objects — a photograph, and a clock.

Sorting her late grandmother's photos, Georgia keeps finding the same woman: at the edge of a 1911 wedding, in a 1950s Christmas, at the back of her own 1982 christening. Same age. Same dark coat, always half-turned, never named. And her grandmother's lifelong saying suddenly lands: "Count everyone in."

Then Colton's granddaddy wound the family clock every Sunday, swearing a clock and a life were tied together. When he died in 2009, it stopped at 4:12. The minute he passed. And the night his grandmother died, Colton heard it chime once in the dark, from a movement a restorer later confirmed was rusted solid and incapable of sound.

Producer Dom unpacks the folklore: the "extra one" that follows a bloodline down the generations, and the death clock bound to a house that keeps the time not of a day, but of the family itself.

What happens when the thing that walks with your family doesn't haunt a house… but attends every photo and rings every passing?

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This week, Yvette Fielding takes Paranormal Activity to a bog-standard street in Wombwell, South Yorkshire, and through a little front door that opens into something extraordinary: the Old Bank House, a former Victorian bank now packed floor to ceiling with the strange, the sinister and the downright unsettling.

From the outside it's a flat above a shop. Inside, it's a Tardis: two floors of pure Victorian menace, where dark red walls crowd in on death masks, spirit photographs, a real lead-lined coffin and hundreds upon hundreds of dolls, all watching.

Yvette takes you through the house room by room, then sits down with owners Ria & Matt Readman to separate the stories she's inherited from the things she's seen with her own eyes.
The dolls named William and Billy, said to move on their own
A hatchet that tilted on the wall while the team stood talking
Guests scratched by unseen hands, describing a burning sensation that comes first
A crawl space so sinister that paramedics have reportedly been called
And then there's the teddy bear in the miners' room. The one that kept moving when no one was looking. This week, Karl was there. And Karl saw it happen.

Lock the door, mind the crawl space, and whatever you do, don't turn your back on the dolls.

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Two listeners. Two encounters with something older than any ghost. A bargain, and a journey that never ended.

On the family land near Ballycastle stands a lone hawthorn over a spring, and Fiona's family has kept the same rule for generations: never cut it, and every May tie a strip of cloth to its branch and leave milk at its roots. Nobody remembers why. Then her cousin brings a chainsaw to it and the engine dies five times, a wind rises around that one tree on a still morning while the grass twenty feet away stays motionless. He backs away. Within a year his cattle sicken, his roof tears off in a storm that spares everyone else, and he breaks two bones on that same field. Her father, from his sickbed: "He broke the bargain, and now it's collecting."

Then Wesley, a long-haul trucker, picks up a young woman freezing on a dark Oregon highway in the mid-eighties. The heater's roaring, he gives her his jacket and she never gets warm. She points out a house, walks up the path toward the porch light, and vanishes halfway, in full view. The woman who answers the door says her daughter died on that road twenty years ago. Then: "You can keep the jacket, son, she'll have it now." His jacket was gone.

Producer Dom unpacks the folklore: the lone fairy thorn you must never raise a blade to, the ancient bargain a bloodline keeps without knowing to whom, and the phantom hitchhiker forever repeating the journey home her death cut short.

What happens when the debt isn't a haunting… but something you were always meant to keep paying?

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