Hello and welcome back to Monday Mail Time on the Paranormal Activity podcast with me producer Dom,

where we're diving to your experiences and your stories.

So without further ado, let's dive into the mailbag for our first story of today's episode.

This comes from Mark.

Hi, I'm Mark and this happened to me two summers ago when I went to Scotland.

I'd gone hiking with a couple of friends near Invinnes, and along one of the trails we stumbled across the ruins of an old stone cottage. The walls were crumbling, no roof left, and just an empty shell in the middle of the heather. We started to sit for a bit and eat up at lunches there. The place was quiet, eerily so. No bird song, no wind, nothing. There was a kind of silence that makes you feel like you're being watched. As I leaned back against the wall, I suddenly felt this sharp dropping temperature, like stepping into a fridge. My breath misted in front of me, even though it was a warm July day. I thought maybe I was imagining it, until one of my friends shivered and said, did it just get freezing in here? Then came the sound. A creaking,

rhythmic noise like floorboard shifting under footsteps, but we were standing on solid earth and stone.

The sound circled around the inside of the ruin, slow and deliberate, as if someone invisible was pacing.

We froze, staring at each other, and then something scraped across the stones, three long drag like fingers training over the wall I swear I saw dust full even though no one

was near it that was it for us we grabbed our bags and bolted back to the path

when we finally stopped to catch our breath one of my friends swore she heard a

faint sighing sound like someone disappointed we left. Later we asked the

local about the ruin and they said people had once lived there only 1800s before the family

vanished during the highland clearances. Some say their spirits never left. All I know is,

I've hiked plenty since then and I'll never step inside another ruin at dusk again. Mark,

what am to you at that ruined cottage hits a lot of unusual markers.

You know, the temperature drops, silence, physical sensations, audible pacing, scraping stone,

and even the size you left.

These are the kind of case that have multiple overlapping theories in the paranormal world.

Now, while the stone tape theory usually goes to residual hauntings, there's a twist some

research suggests.

The ruins themselves may act as amplifiers while other than recordings.

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