About this episode

Yvette Fielding and Karl Beattie explore the most unexpected haunted locations around the world.

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…

People in this episode

Host: Yvette Fielding

Guest: Karl Beattie

Topics covered

• haunted locations
• ghosts
• paranormal investigation
• ordinary places
• unusual hauntings

Keywords

• haunted places
• ghost stories
• paranormal
• public toilet
• McDonald's
• swimming pool
• Tokyo

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Frodsham Street, Chester, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, Cuero, Texas, RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach, Akihabara, Tokyo

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