MONDAY MAILTIME: The Mirror We Couldn't Move & It Wanted Me To Knock Back
Paranormal Activity with Yvette FieldingShow Notes
Two listeners. Two hauntings that weren't asking to be heard, they were asking to be let in.
Callum lives alone in an 1890s Aberdeen tenement when the knocking starts: always three slow knocks, always on the internal hallway wall with nothing behind it. It only knocks when he's in the hall and it seems to want him to answer. One night he knocks back. It replies instantly, right under his hand. Then the knocking begins to move through the flat, until it's behind his headboard in a room it had never touched.
Then Renata and her husband buy an 1890s house in Galveston, and the elderly seller leaves them with four words: "Don't move the mirror." The figures never come from the mirror, they step through every other doorway in the house. Until the night her baby son screams at the glass, and for a second she sees a reflected hallway with extra doors that aren't in her house.
Producer Dom unpacks the darker folklore: the Scottish "knocker at the wa'" that must be invited across, the "following" that leaves the wall and goes where you go, and the Gulf Coast "passway" pinned shut beneath a mirror that doesn't reflect a room, it holds one.
What happens when answering back is the one thing you were never meant to do?
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