We think we know where ghosts live. The crumbling castle. The abandoned asylum. This week, Yvette Fielding and her paranormal partner in crime Karl Beattie throw out the guidebook entirely.

Because the strangest hauntings aren't in stately homes with a costumed guide and a gift shop. They're in the places you pass through without a second thought, lit by strip-lights and smelling faintly of disinfectant. So this week we're chasing the ghosts nobody expects, in the five most ordinary places on Earth.

Yvette and Karl visit a public toilet, a car park, a McDonald's, a drained swimming pool and a Tokyo back-alley, and ask the question that unsettles believer and sceptic alike: why does the mundane so often become the most haunted?

You'll hear five hauntings the guidebooks leave out

• Frodsham Street, Chester — a working public loo home to "Tom," named by the local press as one of the city's most disturbing ghosts
• Mount Pleasant, Liverpool — a multi-storey car park, and a whole street locals swear has always felt wrong, banshee and all
• Cuero, Texas — a fully operational McDonald's built over a former garage, where the fridge runs itself and the toilets flush in empty rooms
• RMS Queen Mary, Long Beach — a bone-dry Art Deco pool where people still hear splashing and find small, wet footprints
• Akihabara, Tokyo — the Horror Vending Machine Corner, where the dread comes from the machines themselves

Then the big question: why here? Why the toilet, the car park, the burger joint?

• The believer's answer — the dead stay where they died, whatever we build on top
• The "it's the land, not the walls" theory
• The sceptic's cold water — bad lighting, hard surfaces, and a brain built to sense a watcher in an empty room
• Plus this week's Fact or Fiction, and Yvette and Karl's own verdict on what really lingers in the ordinary

Lock the doors. Both sides.

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