MURDERS THAT HAUNT: The Case of Amelia Dyer
Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding
adam.foster@createproductions.com
4.6 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This week on Paranormal Activity, Yvette Fielding continues the Murders That Haunt series with one of the most disturbing and chilling cases in British criminal history, Amelia Dyer.
Often described as one of the most prolific serial killers of the Victorian era, Amelia Dyer’s crimes shocked the nation and left a trail of suffering that still resonates today. But could her legacy extend beyond death?
In this episode, Yvette delves deep into Amelia Dyer’s story.
Her life, her crimes, and the grim reality of what unfolded behind closed doors.
From there, she explores the locations now said to be haunted by Dyer’s presence, including former residences in Reading, sightings along the banks of the River Thames, the cells of the Old Bailey, and Reading Gaol.
Reports of wandering spirits, unexplained sounds, oppressive atmospheres, and lingering feelings of dread have followed these places for decades.
Are these simply the echoes of history?
Or something far darker refusing to be forgotten?
Yvette also examines the paranormal theories behind these alleged hauntings and looks at what investigations, if any, have attempted to uncover the truth behind Amelia Dyer’s lingering shadow.
Was the evil tied to the woman herself…
Or did the places she passed through absorb something that never truly left?
This is Murders That Haunt, and this is the unsettling legacy of Amelia Dyer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to paranormal activity with me, Yvette Fielding. |
| 0:07.9 | And to another chapter in our ongoing murders that haunt series. In recent episodes, we've |
| 0:14.5 | explored figures whose crimes left more than historical footprints. They left emotional |
| 0:20.6 | and paranormal scars on the places that |
| 0:23.6 | they touched. This week, we turned to a case that many find uniquely disturbing. A woman whose |
| 0:31.0 | victims were not rivals, not enemies, not adults who could fight back, but infants. Her name was Amelia Dyer, known to the Victorian press |
| 0:42.0 | as the Ogress of Reading. She's believed to be one of the most prolific serial killers Britain has |
| 0:49.1 | ever known. Ever heard of her? Well, you're about to get to Noah quite well. |
| 0:57.9 | Long after her execution reports persist. |
| 1:00.8 | Crying is heard where no children live. |
| 1:03.1 | Figures are seen by rivers at night and a presence that never seems to remain in one place for long. |
| 1:07.0 | This is her story and the hauntings that may still follow her. |
| 1:17.8 | Welcome to another episode of paranormal activity. |
| 1:21.6 | Now, as you know, I like to start a little show with a little tickle of fact or fiction |
| 1:26.3 | and listen out for the answer at the end. |
| 1:28.7 | As this week's episode is all about the case of Amelia Dyer, I want to know whether it's fact or fiction that the baby cries that can be heard always come from nurseries or bedrooms. |
| 1:39.3 | Is that fact or fiction? Find out at the end of the show. |
| 1:47.4 | Victorian Inns. or fiction. Find out at the end of the show. Victorian England was a society obsessed with morality, appearances and control, yet beneath |
| 1:54.9 | that rigid surface, desperation thrived. For unmarried mothers, pregnancy meant disgrace. A woman discovered to be pregnant |
| 2:04.5 | outside marriage could lose her family, her livelihood, and her place in society, and many |
| 2:10.1 | were sent away. Others hid their condition at any cost. And out of that fear grew a shadow industry, baby farming. Women advertise |
| 2:22.1 | discreetly in newspapers, offering to take unwanted infants for a lump sum payment. Some genuinely |
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