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 intense sadness. She thinks it’s a dream, but then realises she’s not the only one to see him… Written and presented by Danny Robins Editing and sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme music by Lanterns on the Lake Script editor: Dale Shaw Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media product...
Sep 27, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 presented by Danny Robins Editing and sound design: 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
Sep 20, 2023•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 the family home? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Script editor: Simon Jacobs Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4
Jun 21, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 2023. 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
Jun 14, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 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
Jun 07, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 even 40 years later. Did they really have a brush with the devil? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Script assistant: Leo Dunlop Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4...
May 31, 2023•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Someone who doesn't want her there. Someone who isn't alive. Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Script editor: Simon Jacobs Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4...
May 24, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 one of the original witnesses and tries to piece together just what happened back in December 1980 at a US airbase in Suffolk. Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Script editor: Dale Shaw Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Ba...
May 17, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 spirit who saves him from dying in the years that follow? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Script assistant: Leo Dunlop Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4...
May 10, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 first-ever Uncanny Fan Convention, a day-long festival devoted to all things supernatural. 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...
May 03, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Foster to talk about the case. Recorded live at UncannyCon 2023. 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
Apr 28, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast As the poltergeist activity ramps up dramatically, the family resort to desperate measures. Can they survive living with a vengeful poltergeist? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Script assistant: Leo Dunlop Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4
Apr 19, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 the family apart. Could this be the scariest Uncanny episode yet? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Script assistant: Leo Dunlop Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4...
Apr 12, 2023•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 night, she hears the sound of a young boy crying in an adjacent room, but there's no-one there. What is the dark secret of Room 3? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Script assistant: Leo Dunlop Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard...
Apr 05, 2023•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Uncanny is back... and in Season 2 Danny will continue to explore listeners' chilling tales of the paranormal, encompassing everything from poltergeists to cryptids to UFOs
Mar 29, 2023•3 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 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...
Dec 30, 2022•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 house in a Scottish village, but as objects start to inexplicably move they get the feeling that they are not alone. Who is the mysterious presence haunting their dreams? The roots of the answer lie in something that happened years before and is utterly terrifying... ...
Dec 21, 2022•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 real-life paranormal experiences. You can also listen to Inside Ghosts, the companion podcast to the BBC hit show Ghosts, taking listeners behind-the-scenes on the brilliant new series. Each week Nathan Bryon, who plays Obi in the series, is joined by the Ghosts the...
Sep 27, 2022•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Festival 2022. They bring Uncanny’s thrills and chills to a live audience, with a selection of all-new true-life supernatural encounters and a deep-dive on some of the strange phenomena discussed in the series. Written and presented by Danny Robins ...
Jun 20, 2022•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 and his brother were not the only family members to be menaced by a seemingly malevolent supernatural force. What happened in the rest of that lonely seaside guest house is bizarre, frightening and shocking. Talking to Brian and Scott, Danny tries to piece together the pieces of the pu...
Jun 13, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 the night in a remote seaside lodging house, their trip of a lifetime becomes the holiday from hell as they find themselves seemingly face to face with a malevolent supernatural force. Nearly 25 years later, Danny meets Scott to see if he can solve the mystery t...
Jun 06, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 cases this series. Can these supernatural mysteries be solved? 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 Bafflega...
Jan 25, 2022•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 the Devil. But does the poltergeist really mean harm or is it just trying to get a message through? 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...
Jan 19, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 them out of her house? 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...
Jan 12, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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, presenting some amazing new evidence and witness accounts for previous cases. 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 ...
Jan 05, 2022•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 happens next will haunt Phil for the rest of his life. Danny digs further into this bizarre and scary case. Does it offer proof that ghosts exist? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Mus...
Dec 29, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 experience the most terrifying night of their lives, alone in the middle of nowhere. Is a violent spirit determined to drive them out into the freezing night? Years later, Phil tells Danny Robins his story and about how he researched the house, discovering others had had simila...
Dec 21, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 took place and replay them, as this house seems to every night? Are the ghosts real or the product of tensions within Hannah’s large family? When a chilling message is revealed to Hannah and her siblings, the haunting gets shockingly close to home. Writ...
Dec 15, 2021•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 UFO encounters as children. Do their experiences shed any light on the ongoing mystery of possible alien contact with humans? Is the truth out there? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by...
Dec 08, 2021•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 evil spirit, but Tom believes Yousuf is having a crisis of faith which has led him to the brink of suicide. When Yousuf does tries to take his own life, he is rescued in seemingly impossible circumstances. Ardent atheist and sceptic Tom is forced to explore the possibility that...
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