Uncanny

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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 investigate the increasingly violent phenomena that seem to torment everyone who spends time in the house.

    Kitchen implements fly through the air, rocks are thrown at the new tenants - and one of them receives horrible injuries to her face which leave her with cuts and a black eye. Borley seems to be earning its reputation as the most haunted house in England. But is Harry Price really a sceptic trying to debunk hoaxes and fakery, or a chancer looking to make a fortune?

    Presented by Danny Robins

    Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe
    Story sections by Simon Barnard & Dale Shaw
    Research by Nancy Bottomley
    Special thanks to Sean O'Connor, author of The Haunting of Borley Rectory
    Filming and editing by Robb Leech
    Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King
    Theme music by Katherine Priddy
    Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller
    Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes
    Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell
    Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts
    Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    31 min
  • 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 that spans more than 60 years and features mysterious messages scrawled on the walls, unexplained noises, and at least one phantom nun.

    The house became a noted paranormal hotspot soon after it was built in 1862, and was made famous by legendary ghost hunter Harry Price. But was he a meticulous paranormal researcher, or a showman who couldn't resist gilding the lily? And does the truth about Borley lie in the supernatural, or in the all-too-human stories of the families who lived there?

    Presented by Danny Robins

    Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe
    Story sections by Simon Barnard and Dale Shaw
    Research by Nancy Bottomley
    Special thanks to Sean O'Connor, author of The Haunting of Borley Rectory
    Filming and editing by Robb Leech
    Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King
    Theme music by Katherine Priddy
    Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller
    Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes
    Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell
    Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts
    Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    30 min
  • 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 to light during the Golden Age of Spiritualism.

    18 year old Esther Cox is the centre of a series of inexplicable, possibly paranormal events - phantom knocking, ghostly messages, and a series of spontaneous fires that start inside the walls of her house.

    But is she the victim of a possible paranormal entity, or the mastermind of a devious hoax?

    Presented by Danny Robins

    Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe
    Story sections by Sarah Morgan
    Research by Nancy Bottomley
    Filming and editing by Robb Leech
    Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King
    Theme music by Katherine Priddy
    Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller
    Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes
    Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell
    Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts
    Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd
    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    29 min
  • 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 first big paranormal case of the digital age.

    As the bizarre and terrifying events plaguing a young family in the coastal town of South Shields escalate, Danny and his experts must weigh the evidence. Could there be a rational explanation for what's happening - or is something far stranger at work?

    Presented by Danny Robins

    Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe
    Story sections by Victoria Lloyd
    Research by Nancy Bottomley
    Filming and editing by Robb Leech
    Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King
    Theme music by Katherine Priddy
    Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller
    Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes
    Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell
    Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts
    Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    29 min
  • 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 well-documented possible poltergeist haunting, where a young family in the coastal town of South Shields are beset by a series of bizarre and sometimes terrifying events.

    Is someone trying to frighten them, or could they be in real danger from something that's harder to explain?

    Presented by Danny Robins

    Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe
    Story sections by Victoria Lloyd
    Research by Nancy Bottomley
    Filming and editing by Robb Leech
    Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King
    Theme music by Katherine Priddy
    Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller
    Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes
    Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell
    Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts
    Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    29 min
  • 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 streets of Victorian England at night, reportedly slashing his victims with sharp claws, breathing blue-white fire, and evading the police by making impossible leaps over rooftops.

    But was he a real person, a supernatural entity, or the product of mass hysteria?

    Presented by Danny Robins

    Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe
    Story sections by Tom Neenan
    Research by Nancy Bottomley and John West
    Filming and editing by Robb Leech
    Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King
    Theme music by Katherine Priddy
    Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller
    Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes
    Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell
    Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts
    Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    28 min
  • 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 unsettle the crew, far away from the safety of shore. As fear spreads among the men whispers of a haunting take hold.

    Is this the strain of isolation playing tricks on the mind? Do the crew have cabin fever - or could someone, or something, be moving below decks?

    Danny Robins investigates, with Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaràn O'Keeffe.

    Presented by Danny Robins

    Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe
    Story sections by Victoria Lloyd
    Research by Nancy Bottomley and John West
    Filming and editing by Robb Leech
    Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King
    Theme music by Katherine Priddy
    Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller
    Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes
    Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell
    Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts
    Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    29 min
  • 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 yellow hat, three-fingered hands, and triangles for eyes.

    He calls himself ‘All Colours Sam’. Was Sam an otherworldly visitor, or merely the product of a child’s imagination? And is there any connection to an epidemic of UFO sightings over the Isle of Wight at the same time?

    The truth is out there - Danny, Ciaran and Evelyn investigate.

    Presented by Danny Robins

    Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe
    Story sections by Simon Barnard
    Research by Ryan Whalen and Nancy Bottomley
    Filming and editing by Robb Leech
    Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King
    Theme music by Katherine Priddy
    Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller
    Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes
    Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell
    Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts
    Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    29 min
  • 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 gallows, and a possible ghost that seems hellbent on justice. But is it genuinely paranormal? That’s what Danny, and resident experts Dr Ciaran O’Keefe and Evelyn Hollow intend to find out.

    Presented by Danny Robins

    Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe
    Story sections by Joel Morris and Will Maclean
    Research by Nancy Bottomley and John West
    Filming and editing by Robb Leech
    Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King
    Theme music by Katherine Priddy
    Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller
    Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes
    Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell
    Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts
    Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    32 min
  • 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 Hampshire when they see something in the sky that will change their lives forever. What they recount is a series of experiences so strange that even sceptics struggle to explain them - from missing time to vivid, seemingly impossible memories of an encounter with beings who may not be human.

    Dr Ciaran O’Keefe and Evelyn Hollow are on hand as ever to help make sense of what might really have happened. It’s the OG alien abduction story - but what do the team make of it, 60 years later?

    Presented by Danny Robins

    Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe
    Story sections by Joel Morris and Will Maclean
    Research by Nancy Bottomley and John West
    Filming and editing by Robb Leech
    Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King
    Theme music by Katherine Priddy
    Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller
    Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes
    Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell
    Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts
    Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd

    A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

    29 min

About Uncanny

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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

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