Two listeners. Two encounters with something that revealed itself only when it chose to.

Noor photographs her dog one warm night. The next morning she spots it in the frame: a tall, impossibly narrow figure at the edge of the dark, head tilted toward the camera. Her dog never reacted. And every time she looks, the feeling isn't fear, it's that the figure waited for her to raise the phone, and wanted to be caught.

Then Cassia is on her desert rooftop at 1am when a section of sky goes dark — a vast shape with clean edges sliding over the stars. Then it pauses. Directly above her. And she feels herself catalogued by an intelligence too large for her mind to hold.

Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: the preta that can't reach your senses but can reach a lens, the Watchers whose attention opens a door that won't close, and the Polynesian dark that was here before the stars.

What happens when the thing watching you chooses the moment you finally see it back?

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Eight victims. Six of them children. One axe. A house that never stopped remembering.

In 1912, an entire family and two little girls were bludgeoned to death in their beds. The killer waited in the attic, covered every mirror, left a slab of bacon by the bodies, and vanished into the dawn. Never caught. Never solved.

Now: children's laughter from empty rooms. Footsteps circling a child's bed. Objects hurled by something that wants you gone. And small voices that answer when you ask their names.

By candlelight, in total darkness, Villisca reaches out and touches you.

Yvette explores the massacre, the suspects who walked free, and five paranormal theories. Plus this week's Fact or Fiction: did an investigator really stab himself inside the house?

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Two listeners. Two encounters with something that didn't haunt them, it processed them.

Dara finds a mark on her arm one ordinary afternoon: geometric, precise, painless. It wasn't there that morning. Over five days it sinks back into his skin, but on the third night something pulls deep inside him, and one word arrives like it was placed there: inventory.

Then Maren is making tea at 2am, days after burying her grandmother, when something appears in the corner. Too tall. Too narrow. Material. And one certainty hits her: it didn't come for her grandmother, it came because of her.

No comfort. No closure. Just the sense of being counted by something that never asked permission.

Producer Dom unpacks the dark folklore: marks that say this one belongs to us, the Aztec god who redirects fates in secret, and the things not drawn to death's victims… but to death itself.

What happens when a death doesn't end something… but opens a door?

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Yvette Fielding is back with five of your spookiest stories, and some unforgettable ones of her own.

A bathroom ghost that runs the taps. A black car that pixelates and vanishes into thin air. A medieval castle hiding under a housing estate. A spirit that made one listener vomit. And the night-shift nurse visited by a patient who dissolved into mist, leaving only his dressing gown belt behind.

Plus a Fact or Fiction from Liverpool: the engineer who supposedly gambled his soul to the Devil.

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Stay safe, and stay curious.

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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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