Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

We’re taught that science and the séance room are enemies. Cold reason on one side; candles, trances and table-tipping on the other. But that is not the whole story.
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 minds of the men who built the modern world. The ones who gave us the telephone, the radio, the light bulb and the very theory of evolution — and who spent their nights in darkened rooms, straining to hear a whisper from the other side.

Because some of the most brilliant, most sceptical minds our species has ever produced refused to believe that death was the end. Some lost sons and tried to call them back. Some built machines to telephone the dead. Some staked their entire reputations on the claim that the soul survives. So this week we ask the question that unsettles believer and sceptic alike: why did the cleverest people who ever lived look into the dark — and decide there was something there?

Yvette and Karl meet six titans of science who walked into the séance room, and never fully walked back out.

You’ll hear six journeys from the summit of science into the unknown
Sir Oliver Lodge - The radio pioneer who lost his son Raymond at Ypres, believed he spoke to him through a medium, and sealed a secret message to transmit back after his own death
Sir William Crookes - The President of the Royal Society who measured, walked with, and photographed a materialised ghost named Katie King, and went to his grave insisting she was real
Thomas Edison - The man who electrified the world and, in 1920, announced he was building a “spirit phone” to the dead, a machine that was never found
Alfred Russel Wallace - The co-founder of evolution itself, who defended the spirits to his dying day and believed a higher intelligence guided mankind
Nikola Tesla - The electrical genius who heard a rhythmic signal in his mountain laboratory and believed, for a moment, that the universe was listening back
Alexander Graham Bell - The father of the telephone, haunted by silence and loss, who made a disembodied voice travel invisibly through the air

Then the big question: why them? Why do the coldest, most rational minds keep walking into the darkened room?
Grief: Fathers, brothers and husbands who believed death was just one more problem to solve
The age of invisible forces: Electricity, radio waves, X-rays; if those were real and unseen, why not the soul?
Curiosity over certainty: The great mind that says not “that’s impossible” but “let’s test it and see”
The warning: A brilliant mind is not an infallible one, and a clever person can be the easiest of all to fool
Plus this week’s Fact or Fiction, and the Einstein line that stopped Yvette and Karl in their tracks: energy does not die. It goes somewhere.

Keep the lights on. And if the phone rings, and there’s nothing but static on the line, you might just want to listen a little harder.

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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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