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Uncanny
From ghostly phantoms to UFOs, Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters. So, are you Team Believer or Team Sceptic?
Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard
A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4
Episodes
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 29: Give Me My Clothes Back
Written and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director &…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 28: The Tabby & the Timeslip
Written and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director &…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 27: The Secret on the Sideboard
Written and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director &…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case Update 3 & Case 26: Terrier of Terror
It's time for another case update! Uncanny Community, you have sent a bumper bag of comments and theories on the cases so far, and in this update Danny Robins…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 25: Shadows in Cliffords Tower
Written and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director &…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 24: My Elastic Legs
Written and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director &…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 23: A Message From Nan
Written and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director &…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 22: The Back of Me
Written and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director &…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 21: The Rigi Dragon
Written and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director &…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 20: Strangers on a Train
Written and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director &…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case Update & Case 19: The Black Mass
It's time for another case update, as Danny Robins opens the inbox to share your thoughts, comments and theories on the cases so far. And there have been lots…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 18: A Hand on My Shoulder
Written and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director &…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 17: The Ship's Ghost
Written and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director &…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 16: Night Nurse
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 15: The Ghost Who Saved My Sister
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 14: The Cyclist, and the UFO
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 13: Say My Name
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Countdown Catch Up and Case 12: Beckoned Towards the Light
It's finally here - the first catch up of the 2026 Halloween Countdown. We've had phantom farmers, ghostly babysitters, and even a possibly paranormal Keanu…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 11: A Ring of Feathers
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 10: The Falling Lady
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 9: Dad's Front Teeth
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 8: A Glitch in the Matrix
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 7: The White Walker
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 6: Anne's Hand
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 5: Vanishing Vikings
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 4: The Room We Don't Sleep In
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 3: The Blue Haze
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 2: A Phantom Farmer
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
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Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 1: Emily and Ollie
Every day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts…
UncannySummer Specials 2026: Little Biter
Rebecca has lived in the same Victorian house in the seaside town of Ramsgate for her whole life. For over 30 years, members of her family have repeatedly…
UncannySummer Specials 2026: Cold Cases Live: The Enfield Poltergeist
Thrown objects, apparent levitation, and a dead man who seems to speak through a 12-year-old girl. It can only be The Enfield Poltergeist. It's a story that…
UncannySummer Specials 2026: Live from Hay Festival 2026
Peter has been experiencing strange phenomena at work - footsteps out of nowhere, motion sensors being triggered, and mugs that have been smashed in a locked…
UncannyCold Cases: Case Update
Danny, Ciaran and Evelyn look back on the Cold Cases they covered, and catch up on stories, theories and questions sent in by the Uncanny Community. Could The…
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Cold Cases: Case 12: Borley Rectory, Part 2
Danny and the team return to Borley Rectory, where legendary ghost hunter Harry Price is also about to reopen his case files, bringing 48 researchers to…
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Cold Cases: Case 11: Borley Rectory, Part 1
Danny and the team turn their attention to Borley Rectory, which has often been called the most haunted house in England. It’s a sprawling, spectacular story…
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Cold Cases: Case 10: The Great Amherst Mystery
Danny and the team travel back to Canada in the 1870s to investigate the Great Amherst Mystery - one of the most famous and perplexing paranormal cases to come…
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Cold Cases: Case 9: The South Shields Poltergeist, Part 2
Creepy texts, a ghastly apparition, and a stuffed rabbit with a box cutter. Danny and the team dip back into the story of the South Shields poltergeist - the…
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Cold Cases: Case 8: The South Shields Poltergeist, Part 1
This week Danny and the team investigate the first big paranormal case of the digital age - the South Shields poltergeist. It's a disturbing and…
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Cold Cases: Case 7: Spring-heeled Jack
Danny Robins and the team unpack a terrifying mystery that has remained unsolved for almost 200 years - Spring-heeled Jack. The demonic character stalked the…
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Cold Cases: Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp
It’s the mid-19th century, and HMS Asp is on a routine mission charting the British coastline for the Royal Navy. But strange sounds and a ghostly apparition…
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Cold Cases: Case 5: The Sandown Clown
Spring 1973, the Isle of Wight, and two young children have an truly weird encounter. In marshland near Sandown Airport they meet a 7-foot creature with a…
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Cold Cases: Case 4: The Cock Lane Poltergeist
What happens when a ghost accuses someone of murder? Danny Robins and team investigate a haunting that rocked Georgian London. Two dead wives, a man facing the…
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Cold Cases: Case 3: The White Mountain UFO
Danny Robins has a close encounter with the original alien abduction case. On a quiet night in 1961, Barney and Betty Hill are driving home through New…
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Cold Cases: Case 2: Return to East Drive
Danny Robins' historical investigation into a poltergeist in 1960s Pontefract continues. Mr Nobody has been getting the blame for everything from floating…
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Cold Cases: Case 1: The Black Monk of Pontefract
Danny Robins investigates a potential poltergeist haunting in the very first episode of Uncanny Cold Cases, a new series investigating some of the spookiest…
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Cold Cases: Trailer
Danny Robins and paranormal experts, hardcore sceptic Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe and writer and parapsychologist Evelyn Hollow, will tackle the nation's most thrilling…
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Series 5: Case 10: The Priest Hole
A family renovating an old house stumble upon a priest hole, a hidden chamber where Catholic priests took refuge in Elizabethan times. But the strange…
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Series 5: Case 9: Christmas Casebook with Diane Morgan
Danny Robins unpacks a Christmas hamper of horror with ghost fan Diane Morgan, star of Motherland, After Life and Philomena Cunk. Diane relates several of her…
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Series 5: Case 8: Revenants and Revelations
Danny Robins takes a deep dive into all the cases so far this series, with new leads, new witnesses and listeners' questions and theories. Written and…
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Series 5: Case 7: The Magnet
Solicitor Kate upends her rural life in Yorkshire to move into her new partner’s house in London, but before long her new metropolitan existence is blighted by…
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Series 5: Case 6: Impossible Encounters
Danny brings you the creme de la creepy creme of audience stories from the Uncanny live tour. Written and presented by Danny Robins Experts: Evelyn Hollow and…
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Series 5: Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist
1997, and a group of disaffected teenage goths move into a shared house in Newcastle, embracing the macabre and melancholic goth lifestyle. But when you look…
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Series 5: Case 4: Road Ghosts
Hitch a ride with Danny Robins as he explores supernatural sightings on Britain's roads. Vivid, deeply strange and often terrifying, roadside apparitions and…
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Series 5: Case 3: The Devil's Den UFO
1977. Terry and his friend Toby are serving at a United States Air Force base in Missouri. One weekend Toby suggests they go camping just across the Arkansas…
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Series 5: Case 2: Old Jim
12-year-old Louise lives with her mum in a remote house on the Yorkshire moors. They’re plagued by terrifying and seemingly inexplicable phenomena, but…
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Series 5: Case 1: The Haunted Street (Halloween Special)
A special hour-long live investigation recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre for Halloween. Virginia moves to a quiet street in the city of Bath with her young…
UncannySummer Specials 2025: Uncanny Live from Hay Festival 2025
Danny Robins is joined by paranormal experts Ciaran O’Keeffe and Evelyn Hollow for a special episode, recorded live at the Hay Festival 2025, featuring brand…
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Summer Specials 2025: The Torrelaguna House, Part 2
After his terrifying night in the Torrelaguna house, Andy's companions admit he’s not the only one to have experienced odd occurrences. In Part 2 of the…
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Summer Specials 2025: The Torrelaguna House Part 1
Former soldier Andy heads to a tiny medieval town in central Spain to meet a group of friends for a fun biking holiday. But the old house in which they’re…
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Summer Specials 2025: Trailer
Uncanny is back with three spine chilling episodes to haunt your long summer evenings.