MONDAY MAILTIME: Spare Frames, Cold Steps & Watching Walls
Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding
adam.foster@createproductions.com
4.6 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
This week on Monday Mailtime, Producer Dom explores two haunting listener experiences where the paranormal doesn’t shout… it waits.
First, Eleanor shares a deeply unsettling encounter during a late-night game of bowling in Leeds, where the machinery didn’t just glitch, it anticipated.
From self-resetting pins to a ball that rolled back on its own, the lane seemed to observe, to correct, and to quietly decide when the game was over.
Then, Maria recalls a walk home through Edinburgh that turned chillingly unfamiliar.
A sudden drop in temperature, unseen footsteps pacing behind her, and a thick silence that felt like a trap.
She wasn’t followed by a person, but by something embedded in the land itself.
A place of punishment, perhaps.
Forgotten by history, but not by it.
These are stories where rules are bent, thresholds are crossed, and the spaces we trust.
Streets, bowling alleys, familiar routines then become strangers to us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Monday Mail Time with me Producer Dom on the Paranormal Activity podcast will be diving to your experiences in your stories. |
| 0:08.0 | So without further ado, let's dive into the mailbag for our first story of today's episode, and this comes from Eleanor. |
| 0:16.0 | Hiya, I'm Eleanor, and Parmy worries that even saying this story out loud gives it more weight, |
| 0:23.1 | but I'm going to tell you anyway. |
| 0:24.9 | Here it goes. |
| 0:26.3 | This happened around 10 years ago in Leeds. |
| 0:28.8 | Late one evening when a group of us went bowling after a meal. |
| 0:31.5 | It was near closing time and the place had thinned out until it felt strangely hollow. |
| 0:35.4 | Lowell machine's still running, but hardly any people left. |
| 0:38.4 | We were put on the last lane at the far end, slightly separated from the others. |
| 0:42.2 | From the moment we started playing, that lane felt different. |
| 0:46.2 | Not cold, not dark, just quiet in a way that didn't match the rest of the building. |
| 0:51.2 | Sound seemed flatter, like they weren't echoing properly. |
| 0:53.9 | The first odd thing happened when I took my second turn. I rolled the ball, Sounds seemed flatter, like they weren't echoing properly. The first |
| 0:54.3 | odd thing happened when I took my second turn. I rolled the ball, a decent throw, nothing special, |
| 0:59.3 | and before it even reached the end, the pins reset themselves. No noise in the machinery, |
| 1:04.2 | no error message. Just upright again, pristine and waiting. We laughed, machines glitch, |
| 1:09.4 | fine. But then it happened again on the next |
| 1:11.4 | throw, and then again on mine. On the third time I felt this strange hesitation before letting |
| 1:16.1 | go of the ball, like a pressure in my chest. I released it anyway and halfway down the lane |
| 1:20.6 | the pin snapped upright once more, sharper and fast than before. Almost impatient. That's when |
| 1:26.1 | the ball did something that still turns my stomach when I think about it. It slowed, stopped completely and then began |
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