Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding

Two listeners. Two encounters with something that didn't just appear, it recognised them.

Tariq is hours into a midnight desert drive when a tall, dark figure appears in the road. Then it moves: centre to edge in a single jump, no crossing the distance between. His foot brakes before his mind catches up, and one instinct screams: don't look at it directly.

Then Claire describes the four minutes she was clinically dead on her kitchen floor. No tunnel. No light. Just a vast, full darkness and a presence that knew her completely, that she'd always sensed at the edge of her vision. It wanted her to stay. She still feels it alongside her.

No bangs. No shadows. Just the sense of being known by something that was waiting long before you arrived.

Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: forms that flicker between dimensions, the recognition principle, the Tibetan Bardo, and the Aztec god for whom death isn't an introduction: it's a reunion.

What happens when the thing waiting for you isn't a stranger… but something that's known you your whole life?

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Author and paranormal investigator Max Storey joins Yvette to discuss The Unquiet Journals, his debut collection of seven paranormal short stories, each one rooted in real experience.

Max reveals the terrifying encounter that started it all, the local legend that inspired a sea hag story, and the Monday Mailtime listener tale that ended up in a published book.

Plus: haunted castles, unexplained singing in the ruins, and wedding photos at a haunted manor house.

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Two listeners. Two encounters that ended with the same terrifying certainty: something found exactly what it was looking for, and it was them.

Under a clear night sky, a pale light came straight for Wade. Slow. Deliberate. It stopped at head height and read him page by page. No fear, just a calm that wasn't his. Fourteen months on, one word still haunts him: claimed.

Then Nina looks down at a Welsh lay-by and sees her shadow move on its own. An arm raised while hers hang still, a head turning while she faces forward. Something wearing her outline that forgot to perform. Four years later, it still arrives half a second late.

Producer Dom digs into the dark folklore: the Gnostic archons that catalogue human souls, the djinn that mark their chosen, and the traditions where your shadow was never yours to begin with.

What happens when the paranormal doesn't haunt you: it claims you?

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Trump opened the UFO vault. 162 secret files. 80 years of unexplained encounters.

Astronauts seeing things near the Moon they couldn't identify.
Objects making impossible turns.
Alleged Nazi flying saucers.
And a former president casually confirming aliens are real.

Yvette and friend of show, Glen Hunt go through it all on this week's episode of Paranormal Activity.

The files, the fakes, the cover-ups, and what comes next...

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Two listeners. Two encounters that span entire lifetimes. And something that's been watching their families long before they were born.

Fran has seen it eleven times: a figure at a distance, always her height, always in her clothes, always moving toward an appointment she doesn't know about yet. Always between mid-afternoon and dusk. And the way her mother went quiet when she first described it as a child says Fran isn't the only one who's seen it.

Then Hugo watches a shape move across the night sky with a wrongness physics can't explain and knows, in his chest, that he's seen it before. Months later he finds his late grandmother's unsent letter from the 1960s. Same shape. Same wrongness. And the exact word he'd reached for: acknowledged.

No bangs. No shadows. Just the sense of being recognised by something that's known your bloodline for generations.

Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: the Scottish co-walker that wears your face like camouflage, the Norse fylgja that goes ahead so you follow, and the watchers said to track chosen families across centuries.

What happens when the thing following you isn't yours and was invited in long before you were born?

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