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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
UncannyPost Mortem: Case 4: Emily's Room
Danny Robins hosts the visualised podcast for real-life supernatural encounters. Emily’s Room is the story of Angela, who moves with her young family into a…
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Post Mortem: Case 3: Shadow Man
Danny Robins hosts the visualised podcast for real-life supernatural encounters. Shadow Man is the story of Julian, and his multiple encounters over many years…
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Post Mortem: Case 2: The Charity Shop Poltergeist
Danny Robins hosts the visualised podcast for real-life supernatural encounters. The Charity Shop Poltergeist is the story of Sybil, the manager of a charity…
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Post Mortem: Case 1: The Haunting of Hollymount Farm
Danny Robins hosts the visualised podcast for real-life supernatural encounters. Danny Robins delves deeper into the haunting of Hollymount Farm in this…
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Post Mortem: Trailer
Danny Robins hosts the visualised podcast for real-life supernatural encounters. Alongside celebrity guests, witnesses and experts, Danny brings you exclusive…
UncannyUncanny Christmas: Christmas Special: Uncanny Live with Reece Shearsmith
Horror aficionado and creator of Inside Number 9 Reece Shearsmith joins Danny to discuss some brand-new listener cases, recorded live at the Royal Festival…
UncannyUncanny Christmas: Christmas Special: Return to Luibeilt
Christmas 1973, and two young climbers experienced the most terrifying night of their lives in a bothy in the Scottish mountains. The events that took place…
UncannyHalloween: Trilogy of Terror: Halloween Special: Meadow Cottage, Part 2
For the last of our chilling Halloween episodes, we return to Meadow Cottage for the gripping second half of this brand new investigation into a terrifying…
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Halloween: Trilogy of Terror: Halloween Special: Meadow Cottage, Part 1
A brand new case for Halloween. Helen, her husband and baby son move into a 200 year-old house in the Lake District. At first all is fine, but one October…
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Halloween: Trilogy of Terror: Halloween Special with Stewart Lee
A special Halloween episode full of new cases to investigate. Danny is joined by Evelyn Hollow and guest expert, celebrated writer and comedian Stewart Lee, a…
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Series 4: Case 10: Arthur’s House
When Danny gets a call from his old friend Sarah describing a terrifying experience she had at her cousin Kerrie’s house, it leads him to Montecito…
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Series 4: Case 9: The Labor Day UFO
On 1st September 1969, multiple witnesses see lights in the sky above Massachusetts. Some of those witnesses, all of them children at the time, subsequently…
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Series 4: Case 8: What Lies Beyond
A double bill of two haunting and intriguing new cases. An emergency responder in rural Maine receives an impossible 911 call, and a Kansas funeral home where…
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Series 4: Case 7: The Burnt Man
Myke is visited by a nightmarish apparition as a child. The experience is so troubling that he is haunted afterwards by vivid memories of what he saw that…
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Series 4: Case 6: Case Update
In this special case update, Danny unpacks your questions and theories about the series so far, from voodoo spirits and mangy bears to rude microwaves. And we…
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Series 4: Case 5: The Mystery of Willow Creek
Alaskan huntsman Fred and his cousin and uncle are trapped in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, seemingly surrounded by terrifying creatures, resembling the…
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Series 4: Case 4: The Hairy Man
Tribal elder Fred and his cousin and uncle are travelling through the Alaskan wilderness when they are surrounded in their cabin by terrifying creatures…
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Series 4: Case 3: The Platte County Poltergeist
Lisa and her young family build their dream home in rural Missouri. Before they’ve even unpacked, strange events begin. Lights switch themselves on each night…
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Series 4: Case 2: Dad's Phone
Wendy’s father Harry was a British Spitfire pilot during World War II who moved to Texas to work in espionage. When he becomes ill with cancer, he promises…
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Series 4: Case 1: The Flood
Marcus loves visiting his eccentric Aunt Jean, the black sheep of a very religious family. She runs a witch shop in New Orleans, selling spells, candles and…
UncannySeries 4: Trailer: Uncanny USA
Danny will be criss-crossing America, from New York to New Orleans, to interview witnesses about experiences that seem to defy logical explanation, with help…
UncannySeries 3: Case Updates
Danny Robins looks back at Season 3 and answers your questions and theories, and we hear some incredible new evidence and witness testimony. Written and…
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Christmas Special 2023: The Haunting of Daisy May Cooper
Daisy May Cooper believes her house is haunted. Three years ago, the award-winning actress and writer moved to a new-build house in the Cotswolds, but within…
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Series 3: Case 6: Good Evening
1989, and Anne moves to a new house in a new town with her husband and baby. Life seems unremarkable, until one day she’s prodded in the back and hears a…
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Series 3: Case 5: Double Trouble
An Uncanny double bill, featuring two cases that will chill and perplex. The first features a bizarre, impossible experience on a family day out in Newcastle…
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Series 3: Case 4: Elton’s Phone
Christmas 1982, and 6-year-old Elton loves playing with his younger sister's present, a toy telephone. But joy turns to fear when it starts ringing by itself…
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Series 3: Case 3: The Ghost Who Hated Parties
1986, and three art students move into digs in Waterford, Ireland. But they discover the house seemingly disapproves of visitors, reacting to talk of student…
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Series 3: TV Case Updates: Miss Howard, The Bearpark Poltergeist and The Oxford Exorcism
Danny explores your theories and questions about the Uncanny TV specials - Miss Howard, The Bearpark Poltergeist and The Oxford Exorcism - and we hear…
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Series 3: Classic Case: The Todmorden UFO
Actor and writer Laurence Rickard, who plays caveman Robin in the BBC sitcom Ghosts, picks his favourite classic Uncanny episode. Retired policeman Alan…
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Series 3: Classic Case: Don't Sleep in this House
Writer and actress Daisy May Cooper picks her favourite classic Uncanny episode. Christmas 1974, and two young climbers stumble across an abandoned house in…
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Series 3: Classic Case: Harry Called
Actor and writer Reece Shearsmith chooses his favourite classic episode of Uncanny. When a spirit called Harry makes contact via a Ouija board, student Will…
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Series 3: Case 2: Uncle Jack
Tim moves from London to a 16th century coaching house in Cornwall, to find it already occupied by a long-dead previous owner - Uncle Jack. Tim and his partner…
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Series 3: Case 1: The Blue Man
16-year-old Sarah moves to a new house in North Wales, and every night wakes to see a man standing at the end of her bed, accompanied by a terrible feeling of…
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Series 3: Trailer
Danny answers your questions and theories about Season 2, and reveals some startling new evidence. And we have some big news about Season 3... Written and…
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Series 2: Case 12: The Ghost That Followed Us Home
Strange and terrifying events occur at a family wedding in rural France… and back in England, things escalate even further. Has a paranormal entity followed…
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Series 2: Case 11: Uncanny Live at Hay
Danny Robins is joined by writer and broadcaster David Baddiel and paranormal expert Evelyn Hollow for this special episode, recorded live at the Hay Festival…
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Series 2: Case 10: Harry Called
When a spirit called Harry makes contact via a Ouija board, student Will thinks his friends are playing a joke. But then Harry starts calling him… Written and…
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Series 2: Case 9: The Beast of Langeais
Two 17-year-olds from Northern Ireland win the chance to go on a study trip along the River Loire in France. But what happens to them there will haunt them…
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Series 2: Case 8: The Guest Book
Kitty moves into her new partner’s house, a former Victorian cobblers shop in the North West of England... but someone else is already living there with him…
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Series 2: Case 7: The Rendlesham UFO
The Rendlesham Incident is the most famous and controversial case in British UFO history, a story riddled with claims and counterclaims. Danny Robins talks to…
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Series 2: Case 6: An Angel Called Bernie
Matthew, a soldier in the Irish Defence Forces, always had a difficult relationship with his grandmother, right up until her death. So can it really be her…
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Series 2: Case 5: Uncanny Live at UncannyCon
Danny is joined by actor and presenter Laura Whitmore and Uncanny expert Ciaran O'Keeffe to discuss some brand-new listener cases, recorded live at the…
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Series 2: Case 4: Inside Room 611
Danny returns once more to Alanbrooke Hall in Belfast, and the supernatural saga of Room 611. He’s joined by former Queens University students Ken and Gary…
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Series 2: Case 3: Leave the Lights On
As the poltergeist activity ramps up dramatically, the family resort to desperate measures. Can they survive living with a vengeful poltergeist? Written and…
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Series 2: Case 2: My Family's Poltergeist
James moves with his parents to a new house, but the family are swiftly plunged into a maelstrom of terrifying, violent poltergeist activity which will tear…
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Series 2: Case 1: The Boy in Room 3
Danny Robins returns with a brand new season of Uncanny. Homeless, 19-year-old Marie gets a job at a working monastery in the North of England. Night after…
UncannySeries 2: Trailer
Uncanny is back... and in Season 2 Danny will continue to explore listeners' chilling tales of the paranormal, encompassing everything from poltergeists to…
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Uncanny Live with Mark Gatiss
Danny meets actor, writer and Uncanny fan Mark Gatiss, for this very special live episode, recorded at the London Podcast Festival 2022. The pair discuss their…
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Christmas Special 2022: The Woman on the Bed
It’s the season for ghost stories, and Danny Robins is back with another real-life tale of the paranormal, in this special Uncanny episode that sees a family…
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Uncanny Meets Ghosts
Danny is joined by an actual Ghost - Laurence Rickard, who plays caveman Robin in the hit BBC sitcom Ghosts - for a special crossover episode. Laurence reveals…
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Summer Specials 2022: Uncanny Live at Hay Festival
The third part of this unholy trinity of Summer special episodes. Danny Robins is joined by paranormal experts Ciaran O’Keeffe and Evelyn Hollow, his co-stars…
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Summer Specials 2022: The Room Next Door
Danny returns once more to Newfoundland, Canada and the family holiday from hell, as we hear from a new witness to the terrifying events of that night in the…
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Summer Specials 2022: Canadian Horror Story
Uncanny is back, with a brand-new case, in this terrifying Summer Special episode. It’s 1998 and teenager Scott goes on his first trip abroad, a summer…
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Series 1: Case 15: Bloody Hell Ken
In this season finale, Danny returns one more time to Ken's terrifying haunting in Room 611, discovering new evidence and new witnesses to the terrifying…
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Series 1: Case 14: The Haunting of Tanfield House
A young woman breaks away from her Catholic background when she attends art school. Memories of a childhood exorcism haunt her, but when it appears there is a…
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Series 1: Case 13: The Return of Elizabeth Dacre
A young family moves into a historic seaside house converted from a once famous hotel, but when they start to see an apparition who resembles the former owner…
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Series 1: Case 12: Fatal Collision
Delivery driver Amanda is driving home in the early hours when she’s involved in a terrible, life-changing accident. Or is she? Danny investigates another…
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Series 1: Case 11: The Curse of Luibeilt
After young climber Phil’s terrifying night in the Scottish highlands, whatever lurks in the abandoned cottage appears to follow him home to Glasgow. He…
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Series 1: Case 10: Don't Sleep in This House
Christmas 1974, and two young climbers stumble across an abandoned house in the Scottish mountains. It’s a bothy - a safe shelter for hunters and climbers out…
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Series 1: Case 9: I Will Kill You All
Journalist Hannah Betts recounts the terrifying ghost story of her family home – a haunted house filled with paranormal activity seemingly linked to a murder…