We think we know what a coma is. The lights go off. Nobody's home. A blank, a gap, a nothing, until the machines bring you back.

This week, Yvette Fielding and her paranormal partner in crime Karl Beattie go somewhere they've never taken you before: not a ruined castle or a cold, empty asylum, but inside the sealed-off human mind.

Because the people who've been there and come back tell a very different story. They didn't find darkness. They found whole lives — marriages, children, towns they knew street by street. And then they woke up and had to grieve everything they'd lost. So this week we chase the strangest haunting of all: the one that happens inside your own head, in a life that feels realer than this one.

Yvette and Karl meet five people who went into the dark and came back changed, and ask the question that unsettles believer and sceptic alike: if you can love a family for years, and grieve them for years more, where exactly did that family live?

You'll hear five journeys the doctors can't quite explain

• Dr. Alok Kanojia's patient — a car-crash survivor who lived a whole marriage and raised two daughters in seven silent days, then woke to mourn a family he knew never existed
• Clélia Verdier, Lyon — nineteen years old, three weeks under, seven years lived; she woke and told her parents they were grandparents to children who were never born
• Keenan Acton, UK — a father who came round asking after twins that didn't exist, and remembered a watch counting down eight days, the exact length of his coma
• The Reddit case — an anonymous stranger who still glimpses his son at the corner of his eye, perpetually five years old, forever trying to say something he can't quite hear
• Caroline Leavitt, USA — a novelist who came back mapping an entire town she'd lived in, and insists, present tense, that she's still dreaming it

Then the big question: where did they actually go? The bed never moved.

• Parallel lives - the family you grieve is the family you lost, in a layer of reality running alongside our own
• Soul travel - the deepest, longest out-of-body experience a living person can have, and return from
• The threshold - Keenan's field of huts, where you're taken, sorted, and told your time is coming
• The sceptic's cold water - sedatives, stress, and a brain spinning stories to fill the silence
• Plus this week's Fact or Fiction, and Yvette and Karl's own verdict on where these travellers really went

Keep the lights on. You may need them.

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