Hello and welcome back to Monday Mail Time on the Paranormal Activity podcast with me, producer Dom, where we dive into your experiences and your stories.

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

And this comes from Harrison.

My name's Harrison.

I'm not someone who scares easily, and I say that not to sound impressive impressive but because it matters for what I'm about to tell you.

I work night for six years. I've walked home in the dark more times than I can count.

I don't startle. I don't catastrophize.

Which is why what happened that Whalen Smithy has saved me the way it has really?

Whalen Smithy, I don't know, is a Neolithic long barrow

on the Ridgeway in Oxfordshire. It's over 5,000 years old, a communal burial chamber, the bones

of at least 14 people pressed into the earth beneath a long mound of chalk and soil.

It sits in a hollow ring by beech trees, which means even on bright days, the light inside

that circle is low and strange. The folklore attached to it is old and very specific.

The Smithier's name for Wayland, the Norse god of the forge, a figure associated with vengeance and the dead.

The local legend says that if you leave a horse outside overnight of a silver coin,

you'll find a horse shod and the coin gone by morning.

But there are older stories underneath that one, stories about what happens to people

who linger there after dark, about the dead that are buried inside the mound not being

at rest, about the mound itself being a mouth.

I visited on a Tuesday in October, late afternoon.

I've been walking the ridgeway and I arrived at the site about an hour for sunset.

The trees were still holding most of their leaves, deep and russed, and the light was the

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