Uncanny

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Strange cases, uneasy answers.

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Uncanny treats paranormal testimony like a case file left open on the table. Witness stories, expert challenges, and uneasy details sit together without forcing the listener into belief or dismissal.

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Uncanny is a case-led paranormal series built around real people describing encounters that have stayed with them. The show's power comes from its scale. It can start with something small, like a tap, a whisper, a model, or a sound in another room, then make that detail feel suddenly impossible. Each case is treated as evidence, memory, fear, and story all at once. That tension matters. A witness may sound certain, but the show keeps testing the shape of that certainty against psychology, physics, coincidence, fraud, and folklore. The result is suspense without a hard sell. The Cold Cases episodes revisit famous hauntings, bringing older stories into contact with modern investigative thinking. Other episodes follow newer accounts from live audiences, listener messages, and case updates, where fresh witnesses or local links can change the temperature of a story fast. The show is especially good at domestic dread. Houses become strange machines. Attics, bedrooms, landings, and old streets seem to hold secrets. At the same time, it does not forget the people at the centre of the fear, including children and families trying to make sense of what is happening around them. Sceptical explanations are taken seriously. So are the moments when those explanations begin to wobble. The believer-versus-sceptic frame gives the series momentum, but the best episodes live in the gap between the two sides. It is not just about ghosts. UFOs, poltergeist claims, strange encounters, haunted streets, and unexplained physical events all sit within its range. Uncanny suits listeners who want fear with inquiry attached. It is spooky, conversational, and often unsettling, but it is also careful about the emotional weight of testimony. The show leaves the door open. That is where the chill gets in.

Made for: For listeners who like paranormal stories treated with atmosphere, witness detail, and real sceptical pressure. It fits fans of eerie testimony, cold-case structure, and mysteries that resist a neat ending.

What sets it apart: Uncanny stands apart by letting believer and sceptic readings collide inside the same case, often with new witnesses and follow-up theories reshaping the story. It makes the ordinary household detail feel as important as the headline haunting.

In their own words

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 BarnardA Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

As heard by us

Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Uncanny turns eerie testimony into an ongoing inquiry about memory, evidence and the stories communities build around unexplained events.

Uncanny builds paranormal investigation around testimony, then keeps the explanation open. Danny Robbins reconstructs reported hauntings and apparitions before bringing competing interpretations into the conversation, from pareidolia and distorted memory to the possibility of an…

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A haunted street turns your inner skeptic into the least comfortable person in the room.

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  • witness stories tested against explanations that sometimes leave even the skeptic rattled
  • Danny Robbins chasing new evidence when one haunting appears to spill into neighboring houses
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Cold Cases: Case 2: Return to East DriveApr 14, 2026

A Pontefract haunting that turns ordinary household detail into daylight dread.

Uncanny Cold Cases goes back to Pontefract for the Black Monk case, and the episode is at its best when it lets small domestic details turn sour.

Cold Cases: Case 1: The Black Monk of PontefractApr 7, 2026

A notorious haunting becomes a tense, well argued clash of fear and explanation.

Uncanny Cold Cases starts with one of the most notorious poltergeist hauntings in British history, set in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, and keeps its tension grounded in the long trail of reported activity: flying objects, moving furniture, and a family convinced something is…

Series 5: Case 10: The Priest HoleDec 30, 2025

A final case that keeps belief and doubt in the same room.

The final Uncanny case opens in an ancient house and stays with one witness whose account feels heavy with years of guarded memory. James reads as someone who has built walls around the experience, and that gives the interview its charge.

Series 5: Case 9: Christmas Casebook with Diane MorganDec 23, 2025

A seasonal ghost-story special that balances unease with wit.

Uncanny's Christmas special pulls together several of the strangest and most unsettling stories Danny Robbins has heard recently, with Diane Morgan along for the ride and clearly game for it.

Series 5: Case 8: Revenants and RevelationsDec 16, 2025

A case-update episode that turns domestic oddities into a widening pattern of folklore and dread.

Revenants and Revelations gives the series a fresh charge. Danny Robbins moves through the haunted street in Bath, the Brighton Grove house, Road Ghosts, and the other cases so far, while new witnesses and theories keep the investigation in motion.

Series 5: Case 4: Road GhostsNov 18, 2025

A road-ghost case that gets stranger the harder anyone tries to explain it.

A bridge above the A229 in Kent sets up a road-ghost case that never settles into one neat explanation. It begins with figures seen by drivers at the edge of the road, then lands on the stranger image: an impossible figure in the middle of a bonnet, seen by two people who should…

Series 5: Case 2: Old JimNov 4, 2025

A morgue worker's ghost story that leaves a house in Ripon feeling deeply wrong.

The episode follows Louise, a biomedical scientist who works in a morgue, through an experience in a house in Ripon, North Yorkshire that still does not sit easily with her.

Series 5: Case 1: The Haunted Street (Halloween Special)Oct 31, 2025

A Halloween haunting that turns one Bath street into a genuinely uneasy case.

Uncanny begins its new run with a Halloween walk through Bath, following Danny Robbins above the Georgian streets and widening a single 2009 haunting into a question about the whole road.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 3: The Blue Haze

    Oct 3, 2026·2m
  2. 2

    Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 2: A Phantom Farmer

    Oct 2, 2026·2m
  3. 3

    Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 1: Emily and Ollie

    Oct 1, 2026·2m
  4. 4

    Summer Specials 2026: Summer Special 3. Little Biter

    Jul 21, 2026·37m
  5. 5

    Summer Specials 2026: Summer Special 2. Cold Cases Live – The Enfield Poltergeist

    Jul 14, 2026·45m
  6. 6

    Summer Specials 2026: Summer Special 1: Live from Hay Festival 2026

    Jul 7, 2026·34m
  7. 7

    Cold Cases: Episode 13: Case Update

    Jun 30, 2026·41m
  8. 8

    Cold Cases: Case 12: Borley Rectory Part 2

    Jun 23, 2026·30m
  9. 9

    Cold Cases: Case 11: Borley Rectory

    Jun 16, 2026·29m
  10. 10

    Cold Cases: Case 10: The Great Amherst Mystery

    Jun 9, 2026·28m
  11. 11

    Cold Cases: Case 9: The South Shields Poltergeist Part Two

    Jun 2, 2026·28m
  12. 12

    Cold Cases: Case 8: The South Shields Poltergeist Part 1

    May 26, 2026·28m
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    Cold Cases: Case 7: Spring-heeled Jack

    May 19, 2026·28m
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    Cold Cases: Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp

    May 12, 2026·28m
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    Cold Cases: Case 5: The Sandown Clown

    May 5, 2026·28m
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    Cold Cases: Case 4: The Cock Lane Poltergeist

    Apr 28, 2026·32m
  17. 17

    Cold Cases: Case 3: The White Mountain UFO

    Apr 21, 2026·28m
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    Cold Cases: Case 2: Return to East Drive

    Hidden gem

    Danny Robbins takes Uncanny Cold Cases back to Pontefract.

    Apr 14, 2026·28m·1 clip
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    Cold Cases: Case 1: The Black Monk of Pontefract

    Hidden gem

    Danny Robbins kicks off Uncanny Cold Cases with one of the most notorious poltergeist hauntings in British history.

    Apr 7, 2026·28m·1 clip
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    Cold Cases: Trailer

    This trailer introduces a BBC podcast where a host, a skeptic, and a believer investigate classic paranormal cold cases using modern techniques.

    Mar 31, 2026·4m
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    Series 5: Case 10: The Priest Hole

    The episode closes the run with one last case: an ancient house, a witness who is still clearly uncomfortable, and the uneasy possibility of a poltergeist hanging over the room.

    Dec 30, 2025·29m·1 clip
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    Series 5: Case 9: Christmas Casebook with Diane Morgan

    Christmas turns chilly fast.

    Dec 23, 2025·58m·4 clips
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    Series 5: Case 8: Revenants and Revelations

    Host Danny Robbins presents updates across five ongoing Uncanny cases, with the most significant development concerning the Goff poltergeist on Brighton Grove in Newcastle: Jules, a retired teacher, describes visiting the haunted house in the early 1980s and finding a human skull from Westgate Road Cemetery on the TV, and her daughter Ellen — an archaeology student — locates 1987 newspaper articles confirming two students were jailed 18 months for drilling thigh bones from that same cemetery into Tibetan thigh trumpets said to summon hungry spirits.

    Dec 16, 2025·39m·2 clips
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    Series 5: Case 7: The Magnet

    This episode of Uncanny, hosted by Danny Robbins, presents a mysterious and dark supernatural case involving a disturbing visual of a crooked figure with a visible ribcage.

    Dec 9, 2025·29m
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    Series 5: Case 6: Impossible Encounters

    This episode features three intriguing new paranormal stories collected from audience members during the host's live tour around the UK.

    Dec 2, 2025·29m
  26. 26

    Series 5: Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist

    The host revisits their hometown of Newcastle to explore a personal and scary story about a poltergeist that affected a group of goths in the 1990s.

    Nov 25, 2025·30m
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    Series 5: Case 4: Road Ghosts

    BBC Radio 4's Uncanny investigates the phenomenon of road ghosts — paranormal apparitions witnessed by drivers — through two first-person accounts from Jo, a retired British Transport Police officer, and Andrew, a retail worker from Yorkshire.

    Nov 18, 2025·34m·3 clips
  28. 28

    Series 5: Case 3: The Devil's Den UFO

    This episode of Uncanny investigates a terrifying UFO sighting from 1977 that left witnesses haunted by fear.

    Nov 11, 2025·28m
  29. 29

    Series 5: Case 2: Old Jim

    Hidden gem

    Meet Louise.

    Nov 4, 2025·28m·2 clips
  30. 30

    Series 5: Case 1: The Haunted Street (Halloween Special)

    BBC Radio 4's Uncanny returns for a fifth series with an hour-long Halloween special hosted by Danny Robbins, investigating a potential haunting affecting multiple houses on a single Georgian street in Bath.

    Oct 31, 2025·1h 8m·5 clips
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    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 31: A Shock on the Back Seat

    Oct 31, 2025·2m
  32. 32

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 30: The Old Man of Blorenge

    Oct 30, 2025·2m
  33. 33

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 29: Granny in the Sky

    Oct 29, 2025·1m
  34. 34

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 28: Evan’s Friend

    Oct 28, 2025·2m
  35. 35

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 27: The Pom Pom Hedgehog

    Oct 27, 2025·2m
  36. 36

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 26: The Eleven O’clock Lady

    Oct 26, 2025·2m
  37. 37

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 25: The Goat-Faced Man

    Oct 25, 2025·2m
  38. 38

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 24: Fire Foretold

    Oct 24, 2025·2m
  39. 39

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 23: The Shop Assistant’s Partner

    Oct 23, 2025·1m
  40. 40

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 22: The Black Triangle

    Oct 22, 2025·14m
  41. 41

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 21: Janey Died Here

    Oct 21, 2025·2m
  42. 42

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 20: A Succubus in Taiwan

    Oct 20, 2025·2m
  43. 43

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 19: The Phantom Mini of Clophill

    Oct 19, 2025·2m
  44. 44

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 18: She Opened the Door

    Oct 18, 2025·2m
  45. 45

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 17: The Half Cat

    Oct 17, 2025·2m
  46. 46

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 16: Uncle Abby

    Oct 16, 2025·2m
  47. 47

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 15: The Kitchen Bitch

    Oct 15, 2025·11m
  48. 48

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 14: The Glowing Man

    Oct 14, 2025·1m
  49. 49

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 13: Descent Into Darkness

    Oct 13, 2025·2m
  50. 50

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 12: No Children Allowed

    Oct 12, 2025·2m
  51. 51

    Halloween Countdown 2025: Case 11: The Sinister Cyclist

    Oct 11, 2025·2m
  52. 52

    Case 10: A Ghost in My Bed

    Oct 10, 2025·2m
  53. 53

    Case 9: Is Walter There?

    Oct 9, 2025·2m
  54. 54

    Case 8: The Black Dog of Ibrox

    Oct 8, 2025·8m
  55. 55

    Case 7: The Ghosts of Bosworth

    Oct 7, 2025·2m
  56. 56

    Case 6: The Blanket Seal

    Oct 6, 2025·2m
  57. 57

    Case 5: Rio the Poodle

    Oct 5, 2025·2m
  58. 58

    Case 4: The Shadow Man of South Dublin

    Oct 4, 2025·2m
  59. 59

    Case 3: Another Alice

    Oct 3, 2025·2m
  60. 60

    Case 2: The Secret Song

    Oct 2, 2025·2m
  61. 61

    Case 1: Mrs Murphy Says Hello

    Oct 1, 2025·6m
  62. 62

    Summer Specials: Uncanny Live from Hay Festival 2025

    Danny Robins investigates real-life paranormal encounters, exploring ghostly phantoms and UFOs with believers and skeptics.

    Jun 20, 2025·53m
  63. 63

    Summer Specials: The Torrelaguna House, Part 2

    Danny Robins investigates a terrifying apparition of a dog witnessed by multiple people in a Spanish home.

    Jun 13, 2025·29m
  64. 64

    Summer Specials: The Torrelaguna House, Part 1

    Danny Robins investigates a terrifying paranormal encounter in a Spanish house, blending personal testimony with skeptical inquiry.

    Jun 6, 2025·29m
  65. 65

    Summer Specials: Trailer

    Jun 3, 2025·1m
  66. 66

    Introducing Lady Swindlers Series 2

    May 15, 2025·28m
  67. 67

    Introducing The Battersea Poltergeist

    Feb 24, 2025·30m
  68. 68

    Post Mortem: Case 4: Emily's Room

    Danny Robins investigates a family's haunting by a ghostly little girl and an old man, with a historical parallel to a Victorian father who pushed his daughter down the stairs.

    Feb 21, 2025·42m
  69. 69

    Post Mortem: Case 3: Shadow Man

    Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters, exploring ghostly phantoms and UFOs with both believers and sceptics.

    Feb 14, 2025·39m
  70. 70

    Post Mortem: Case 2: The Charity Shop Poltergeist

    Danny Robins hosts a postmortem discussion of a TV episode about a charity shop poltergeist, featuring a celebrity guest and new evidence.

    Feb 7, 2025·40m
  71. 71

    Post Mortem: Case 1: The Haunting of Hollymount Farm

    Danny Robins hosts a postmortem discussion of a paranormal case with a celebrity guest, exploring beliefs and theories about the supernatural.

    Jan 31, 2025·39m
  72. 72

    Post Mortem: Trailer

    Jan 22, 2025·2m
  73. 73

    Uncanny Christmas: Christmas Special: Uncanny Live with Reece Shearsmith

    Danny Robins and guest Rhys Shearsmith investigate new paranormal cases in a live Christmas episode of Uncanny.

    Dec 20, 2024·57m
  74. 74

    Uncanny Christmas: Christmas Special: Return to Luibeilt

    Danny Robins investigates a terrifying night spent in an abandoned Scottish house called Louisbelt, promising to return with the experiencer.

    Dec 13, 2024·57m
  75. 75

    Halloween: Trilogy of Terror: Meadow Cottage, Part 2

    Danny Robins investigates a family's paranormal experiences in their Lake District cottage, including a ghostly encounter with a child.

    Nov 7, 2024·29m
  76. 76

    Halloween: Trilogy of Terror: Meadow Cottage, Part 1

    Danny Robins investigates a potential haunting in the Lake District, exploring real-life paranormal encounters.

    Oct 31, 2024·28m
  77. 77

    Halloween: Trilogy of Terror: Halloween Special with Stewart Lee

    Comedian Stewart Lee joins host Danny Robbins on Uncanny for a Halloween special to discuss ghostly cases, skepticism, and his lifelong fascination with the paranormal stemming from 1970s horror culture.

    Oct 24, 2024·38m
  78. 78

    Series 4: Case 10: Arthur’s House

    Jul 2, 2024·28m
  79. 79

    Series 4: Case 9: The Labor Day UFO

    Jun 25, 2024·29m
  80. 80

    Series 4: Case 8: What Lies Beyond

    Jun 18, 2024·29m
  81. 81

    Series 4: Case 7: The Burnt Man

    Jun 11, 2024·29m
  82. 82

    Series 4: Case 6: Case Update

    Jun 4, 2024·29m
  83. 83

    Series 4: Case 5: The Mystery of Willow Creek

    May 28, 2024·29m
  84. 84

    Series 4: Case 4: The Hairy Man

    May 21, 2024·29m
  85. 85

    Series 4: Case 3: The Platte County Poltergeist

    May 14, 2024·29m
  86. 86

    Series 4: Case 2: Dad's Phone

    May 7, 2024·29m
  87. 87

    Series 4: Case 1: The Flood

    Apr 30, 2024·29m
  88. 88

    Series 4: Trailer: Uncanny USA

    Apr 23, 2024·4m
  89. 89

    Series 3: Bonus: Case Updates

    Feb 14, 2024·39m
  90. 90

    Series 3: Christmas Special: The Haunting of Daisy May Cooper

    Dec 15, 2023·42m
  91. 91

    Series 3: Case 6: Good Evening

    Nov 29, 2023·29m
  92. 92

    Series 3: Case 5: Double Trouble

    Nov 22, 2023·29m
  93. 93

    Series 3: Case 4: Elton’s Phone

    Nov 15, 2023·29m
  94. 94

    Series 3: Case 3: The Ghost Who Hated Parties

    Nov 8, 2023·28m
  95. 95

    Series 3: TV Case Updates: Miss Howard, The Bearpark Poltergeist and The Oxford Exorcism

    Oct 31, 2023·36m
  96. 96

    Classic Case: The Todmorden UFO

    Oct 25, 2023·30m
  97. 97

    Classic Case: Don't Sleep in this House

    Oct 18, 2023·30m
  98. 98

    Classic Case: Harry Called

    Oct 11, 2023·30m
  99. 99

    Series 3: Case 2: Uncle Jack

    Oct 4, 2023·29m
  100. 100

    Series 3: Case 1: The Blue Man

    Sep 27, 2023·29m
  101. 101

    Series 3: Trailer

    Sep 20, 2023·35m
  102. 102

    Series 2: Case 12: The Ghost That Followed Us Home

    Jun 21, 2023·29m
  103. 103

    Series 2: Case 11: Uncanny Live at Hay

    Jun 14, 2023·29m
  104. 104

    Series 2: Case 10: Harry Called

    Jun 7, 2023·29m
  105. 105

    Series 2: Case 9: The Beast of Langeais

    May 31, 2023·30m
  106. 106

    Series 2: Case 8: The Guest Book

    May 24, 2023·29m
  107. 107

    Series 2: Case 7: The Rendlesham UFO

    May 17, 2023·29m
  108. 108

    Series 2: Case 6: An Angel Called Bernie

    May 10, 2023·29m
  109. 109

    Series 2: Case 5: Uncanny Live at UncannyCon

    May 3, 2023·29m
  110. 110

    Series 2: Case 4: Inside Room 611

    Apr 28, 2023·29m
  111. 111

    Series 2: Case 3: Leave the Lights On

    Apr 19, 2023·29m
  112. 112

    Series 2: Case 2: My Family's Poltergeist

    Apr 12, 2023·28m
  113. 113

    Series 2: Case 1: The Boy in Room 3

    Apr 5, 2023·29m
  114. 114

    Series 2: Trailer

    Mar 29, 2023·3m
  115. 115

    Series 1: Uncanny Live with Mark Gatiss

    Dec 30, 2022·48m
  116. 116

    Series 1: Christmas Special

    Dec 21, 2022·30m
  117. 117

    Series 1: Uncanny Meets Ghosts

    Sep 27, 2022·32m
  118. 118

    Series 1: Summer Special, Part 3: Uncanny Live

    Jun 20, 2022·58m
  119. 119

    Series 1: Summer Special, Part 2: The Room Next Door

    Jun 13, 2022·29m
  120. 120

    Series 1: Summer Special, Part 1: Canadian Horror Story

    Jun 6, 2022·29m
  121. 121

    Series 1: Case 15: Bloody Hell Ken

    Jan 25, 2022·28m
  122. 122

    Series 1: Case 14: The Haunting of Tanfield House

    Jan 19, 2022·29m
  123. 123

    Series 1: Case 13: The Return of Elizabeth Dacre

    Jan 12, 2022·29m
  124. 124

    Series 1: Case 12: Fatal Collision

    Jan 5, 2022·29m
  125. 125

    Series 1: Case 11: The Curse of Luibeilt

    Dec 29, 2021·29m
  126. 126

    Series 1: Case 10: Don't Sleep in This House

    Dec 21, 2021·29m
  127. 127

    Series 1: Case 9: I Will Kill You All

    Dec 15, 2021·28m
  128. 128

    Series 1: Case 8: The UFO in the Playground

    Dec 8, 2021·28m
  129. 129

    Series 1: Case 7: The Angel in the Bathroom

    Dec 1, 2021·29m
  130. 130

    Series 1: Case 6: The Brooklyn Poltergeist

    Nov 24, 2021·29m
  131. 131

    Series 1: Case 5: Return to Room 611

    Nov 17, 2021·29m
  132. 132

    Series 1: Case 4: My Best Friend's Ghost

    Nov 10, 2021·29m
  133. 133

    Series 1: Case 3: The Todmorden UFO

    Nov 3, 2021·28m
  134. 134

    Series 1: Case 2: The Hanging Room

    Oct 27, 2021·29m
  135. 135

    Series 1: Case 1: The Evil in Room 611

    Oct 20, 2021·29m
  136. 136

    Series 1: Trailer

    Oct 12, 2021·4m