Uncanny

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From ghostly phantoms to UFOs, The Battersea Poltergeist's Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters.

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Uncanny Live with Mark Gatiss

12.30.2022

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 mutual passion for ghosts, and investigate some new real-life stories of the paranormal. Written ...

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12.30.2022 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 mutual passion for ghosts, and investigate some new real-life stories of the paranormal. Written ...
12.21.2022 Christmas Special 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 Christmas turned upside down. A young child and his mother share a council ...
10.18.2022 Introducing... The Witch Farm Danny Robins introduces his new podcast about the haunting of a remote Welsh farmhouse that has been called Britain's most haunted house.
09.27.2022 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 the supernatural inspirations for the show, and tells Danny about his own ...
06.20.2022 Summer Special Part 3: Uncanny Live 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 on Uncanny and The Battersea Poltergeist, for an exciting live episode, recorded at the Hay ...
06.13.2022 Summer Special Part 2: 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 summer of 1998 – Scott’s Dad, Brian. It turns out Scott ...
06.06.2022 Summer Special Part 1: 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 vacation in the rugged beauty of Newfoundland in Canada. But when Scott’s family stay ...
05.30.2022 Coming soon... Summer Special Danny Robins shares news of a summer special that will chill you to the bone.
01.25.2022 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 events at Alanbrooke Hall, plus there will be major revelations about some of the other ...
01.19.2022 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 poltergeist in her new house, she once again consider the existence of ...
01.12.2022 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, they begin to wonder if they are really welcome. Does she want ...
01.05.2022 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 eerie tale of the supernatural. He also takes a look back at the series so far, ...
12.29.2021 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 decides to return to Luibeilt to confront his fears and solve the mystery - but what ...
12.21.2021 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 in the wilds of the highlands. But Phil and Jimmy are about to ...
12.15.2021 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 that happened there in Victorian times. Can a house really record the tragic events that ...
12.08.2021 Case 8: The UFO in the Playground Danny Robins returns to his investigation into the Todmorden UFO case to assess new evidence that has come in from listeners - and also hears from two compelling new witnesses, one in Wales and one in Africa, who both experienced ...
12.01.2021 Case 7: The Angel in the Bathroom Danny Robins talks to Tom, an NHS mental health nurse working with troubled young people. Tom starts to work with Yousuf, a teenage boy from a devoutly Muslim background. His family believe he is possessed by a djinn – an ...
11.24.2021 Case 6: The Brooklyn Poltergeist Model and influencer Charli Howard tells her ghost story to Danny Robins. It’s 2017 and Charli is alone in New York, trying to carve out a modelling career. She accepts a room in a shared house with a local couple, ...
11.17.2021 Case 5: Return to Room 611 Danny Robins goes deeper on the first Uncanny case, the haunting of Belfast student tower block Alanbrooke Hall in the early 1980s, and talks to new witnesses to the strange events there. Can he come any closer to solving the ...
11.10.2021 Case 4: My Best Friend's Ghost Laura, a young woman with a wild streak, leaves home and finds a room in a flat-share where she meets Anna, who becomes her best friend. When Anna dies tragically from cancer, Laura is heartbroken, but then… Anna comes back. ...
11.03.2021 Case 3: The Todmorden UFO Retired policeman Alan Godfrey tells us the story of the case that has obsessed him for his whole life. When Alan tries to solve a weird and seemingly impossible murder in the small northern town of Todmorden, it leads to ...
10.27.2021 Case 2: The Hanging Room Teenager Millie moves with her family into her grandparents remote historic farmhouse in the English countryside. It is a house with a tragic past that seems to be returning to haunt the family in a way that feels dangerous and ...
10.20.2021 Case 1: The Evil in Room 611 Danny meets Ken, a highly respected geneticist. A man who doesn’t believe in ghosts, but cannot get over the fact that he believes he saw one 40 years ago as a student in Belfast. This is the story of a ...
10.12.2021 Introducing Uncanny The Battersea Poltergeist’s Danny Robins investigates chilling first-hand stories of paranormal encounters, from ghostly phantoms to sinister folklore and UFOs.

Uncanny

What's Uncanny about?

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Uncanny episodes:

Uncanny Live with Mark Gatiss

Christmas Special

Introducing... The Witch Farm

Uncanny Meets Ghosts

Summer Special Part 3: Uncanny Live

Summer Special Part 2: The Room Next Door

Summer Special Part 1: Canadian Horror Story

Coming soon... Summer Special

Case 15: Bloody Hell Ken

Case 14: The Haunting of Tanfield House

Case 13: The Return of Elizabeth Dacre

Case 12: Fatal Collision

Case 11: The Curse of Luibeilt

Case 10: Don't Sleep in this House

Case 9: I Will Kill You All

Case 8: The UFO in the Playground

Case 7: The Angel in the Bathroom

Case 6: The Brooklyn Poltergeist

Case 5: Return to Room 611

Case 4: My Best Friend's Ghost

Case 3: The Todmorden UFO

Case 2: The Hanging Room

Case 1: The Evil in Room 611

Introducing Uncanny