MONDAY MAILTIME: Something Lay Between The Dying & The Lights That Shouldn't Have Heard Her
Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding
adam.foster@createproductions.com
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🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
This week on Paranormal Activity: Monday Mailtime, Producer Dom opens two encounters that share one unsettling thread: whatever was there… was already aware.
Eleni was a student nurse in a hospital outside Thessaloniki. Sent to check on two elderly patients in a section of the ward no one spoke about, she noticed an indentation between their beds, as though a third body had settled there. Then one patient turned, reached into the gap… and her fingers stopped mid-air. By morning, she had passed. When Eleni returned days later, there were three beds where there had been two. No one questioned it.
Then, Leanne stepped outside her North Yorkshire home one summer evening and noticed a light hovering at the edge of her property. Then a second. Then a third. When she spoke aloud without thinking, one of them snapped sideways. They had heard her. Local folklore says the same thing: never speak to the watch lights. Because once they know you can see them… they look back.
Producer Dom reacts, unpacks, and digs into the folklore behind both. From Greek psychopomps and guided death, to ancient accounts of lights that react to human awareness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Monday Mail Time on the Paranormal Activity podcast with me, producer |
| 0:04.7 | Dom, where we dive into your experiences and your stories. So, without further ado, let's dive into |
| 0:10.8 | that mailbag for our first story of today's episode. And this comes from Alaini. Hi, Paranormal |
| 0:17.4 | Activity Team. I'm Alaini, and this is something that happened to me when I was working abroad as a student nurse in northern Greece. |
| 0:23.6 | I was placed in an older hospital just outside Thessaloniki. It wasn't derelict, but there was a weight to it. |
| 0:29.6 | The kind of place where routines felt older than the people carrying them out. |
| 0:32.6 | Some of the permanent staff had worked there for decades, and they moved through certain parts of the building with a quiet kind of respect. |
| 0:39.8 | Or maybe it was caution. |
| 0:42.1 | I was assigned to a long-term care ward. |
| 0:44.5 | Most of the patients were elderly, many of them unresponsive or drifting in and out of awareness. |
| 0:48.7 | It was a calm ward on the surface, but it was one section never officially marked that everyone treated differently. |
| 0:56.1 | No one ever told me not to go there, they didn't have to. You could feel it. Conversations always |
| 1:00.3 | soften near that part of the ward. Not silence exactly, just a kind of carefulness, as if speaking |
| 1:05.4 | too loudly might draw attention to something that preferred not to be acknowledged. One of the older |
| 1:09.8 | nurse is a woman named Sophia, once caught me looking toward that section and said to me quietly, We do what we must, but we don't stay longer than necessary. She wouldn't say anything more. At the time, I thought it was just superstition. Hospitals were full of it. People create stories to cope with death to make sense of the things they can't control, but in Greece, |
| 1:27.6 | those stories run deep. My grandmother used to speak about the fates, who measured out her |
| 1:32.2 | life and cut its thread when the time comes. And about the psychopoms, the unseen pretences |
| 1:37.3 | that come not to harm but to guide the soul when it's ready to leave. She always said they |
| 1:41.2 | don't arrive loudly, they don't announce themselves, I simply appear and wait. |
| 1:45.3 | I hadn't thought about any of that in years, not until that evening. |
| 1:49.1 | It was near the end of my shift and I was asked to check on two patients in that quieter section, |
| 1:52.9 | routine observations, nothing unusual. |
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