MONDAY MAILTIME: Desk Inspections & the Waiting Chair
Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding
adam.foster@createproductions.com
4.6 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
This week on Monday Mailtime, Producer Dom unpacks two listener stories that bring new meaning to “things that go bump in the night”, especially when they’re not supposed to move at all.
First, Lewis from Manchester shares his unnerving experience during a quiet night of maintenance work at his old school, where classroom drawers began sliding open on their own… as if a certain strict former teacher was still checking for tidiness from beyond the grave.
Then, Tom recalls a chilling stay at his gran’s countryside cottage, where an old armchair by the window, once his late grandfather’s favorite spot, seemed to shift, breathe, and tap its way back into the living world. Was it just memory lingering… or something more?
These stories explore the ghosts we remember—and the ones that remember us.
Tune in if you're brave enough to listen in the dark.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Monday Mail Time with me, Producer Dom, on the Paranormal Activity podcast where we dive into your experiences and your stories. |
| 0:08.9 | So, without further ado, let's dive into the mailbag for our first story of today's episode. |
| 0:14.5 | This comes from Lewis. |
| 0:16.8 | Hiya, my name's Lewis and I'm from Manchester. |
| 0:19.7 | I'd never really believed in ghosts, |
| 0:21.2 | but something happened when I was doing some evening maintenance work on my old secondary school |
| 0:24.9 | that I really can't explain. It was early spring and the building was empty except for me and |
| 0:29.6 | the site manager. I volunteered to help repaint one of the older classrooms before it got refurbished. |
| 0:35.4 | The place had that stale, dusty smell that old schools get, and every sound echoed. |
| 0:39.3 | I was halfway through painting one of the walls when I heard a drawer slide open behind me. |
| 0:43.3 | Not slam, not creak, just that slow, unmistakable scrape of wood or metal. |
| 0:48.3 | I turned around, expecting maybe a draught had caught one, but the room was still. |
| 0:53.3 | The drawers in those desks were heavy, |
| 0:55.2 | stiff from decades of use. You had to tag hard to open them. One of the drawers, right in the |
| 1:00.2 | middle row, was now wide open. I laughed nervously, went over and pushed it shut. The moment it clicked, |
| 1:06.9 | another drawer, two rows over, slid open. I stood there staring, paintbrush in hand, when |
| 1:12.8 | the site manager came in. He could see I look pale and asked what was wrong. I told him, |
| 1:17.9 | expecting him just to shrug it off, instead he frowned and said, which desk? I pointed and he just |
| 1:23.5 | sighed, like it wasn't the first time. He told me that the room used to be a typing classroom back in the 1950s, and one of the |
| 1:29.9 | teachers, Miss Darby, was known for being particular about her students keeping their desk |
| 1:33.9 | tidy. |
| 1:34.9 | Apparently, after she passed away, teachers who used to joke that Miss Darby would check |
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