About this podcast
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
The newest 50 of 134 episodes
- Series 6: Case 1: The Cliffsend Haunting · 35 minLindsey and her family move to a new-build house on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. For years they live there happily, but then suddenly their quiet lives are rocked by a series of…
- Series 6: Uncanny Series 6 - Trailer · 6 minDanny Robins returns with a chilling new season of ghost stories, poltergeist encounters, haunted homes and eerie workplaces. Settle in for spine-tingling tales perfect for long…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Uncanny Halloween Special · 59 minThis Halloween, Danny Robins takes his paranormal partners-in-crime Ciaran O’Keeffe and Evelyn Hollow on an after dark excursion to allegedly one of the most haunted locations in…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 31: The Haunted Lock-in · 2 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 30: Great Aunt Gertie · 2 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 29: Give Me My Clothes Back · 2 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 28: The Tabby & the Timeslip · 1 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 27: The Secret on the Sideboard · 1 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case Update 3 & Case 26: Terrier of Terror · 19 minIt's time for another case update! Uncanny Community, you have sent a bumper bag of comments and theories on the cases so far, and in this update Danny Robins will share a…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 25: Shadows in Cliffords Tower · 2 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 24: My Elastic Legs · 2 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 23: A Message From Nan · 2 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 22: The Back of Me · 2 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 21: The Rigi Dragon · 2 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 20: Strangers on a Train · 2 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case Update & Case 19: The Black Mass · 12 minIt's time for another case update, as Danny Robins opens the inbox to share your thoughts, comments and theories on the cases so far. And there have been lots of them - from a…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 18: A Hand on My Shoulder · 1 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 17: The Ship's Ghost · 2 minWritten and presented by Danny Robins Research: Nancy Bottomley Assistant Producer: Lara Monahan Sound recording: Pete Moor Filming: Howard Mills Director & video editing…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 16: Night Nurse · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 15: The Ghost Who Saved My Sister · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 14: The Cyclist, and the UFO · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 13: Say My Name · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Countdown Catch Up and Case 12: Beckoned Towards the Light · 14 minIt's finally here - the first catch up of the 2026 Halloween Countdown. We've had phantom farmers, ghostly babysitters, and even a possibly paranormal Keanu Reeves - but what did…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 11: A Ring of Feathers · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 10: The Falling Lady · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 9: Dad's Front Teeth · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 8: A Glitch in the Matrix · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 7: The White Walker · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 6: Anne's Hand · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 5: Vanishing Vikings · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 4: The Room We Don't Sleep In · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 3: The Blue Haze · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 2: A Phantom Farmer · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Halloween Countdown 2026: Case 1: Emily and Ollie · 2 minEvery day in October, Danny Robins will share a short, real-life, possibly paranormal story sent in by you - the Uncanny community. Expect gruesome ghosts, haunted hotels and…
- Summer Specials 2026: Little Biter · 37 minRebecca has lived in the same Victorian house in the seaside town of Ramsgate for her whole life. For over 30 years, members of her family have repeatedly dreamed of a little…
- Summer Specials 2026: Cold Cases Live: The Enfield Poltergeist · 45 minThrown objects, apparent levitation, and a dead man who seems to speak through a 12-year-old girl. It can only be The Enfield Poltergeist. It's a story that made national…
- Summer Specials 2026: Live from Hay Festival 2026 · 34 minPeter has been experiencing strange phenomena at work - footsteps out of nowhere, motion sensors being triggered, and mugs that have been smashed in a locked room. Then his…
- Cold Cases: Case Update · 41 minDanny, Ciaran and Evelyn look back on the Cold Cases they covered, and catch up on stories, theories and questions sent in by the Uncanny Community. Could The Sandown Clown have…
- Cold Cases: Case 12: Borley Rectory, Part 2 · 30 minDanny 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…
- Cold Cases: Case 11: Borley Rectory, Part 1 · 29 minDanny 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…
- Cold Cases: Case 10: The Great Amherst Mystery · 28 minDanny 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…
- Cold Cases: Case 9: The South Shields Poltergeist, Part 2 · 28 minCreepy 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…
- Cold Cases: Case 8: The South Shields Poltergeist, Part 1 · 28 minThis 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…
- Cold Cases: Case 7: Spring-heeled Jack · 28 minDanny 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…
- Cold Cases: Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp · 28 minIt’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…
- Cold Cases: Case 5: The Sandown Clown · 28 minSpring 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…
- Cold Cases: Case 4: The Cock Lane Poltergeist · 32 minWhat 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…
- Cold Cases: Case 3: The White Mountain UFO · 28 minDanny 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…
- Cold Cases: Case 2: Return to East Drive · 28 minDanny Robins' historical investigation into a poltergeist in 1960s Pontefract continues. Mr Nobody has been getting the blame for everything from floating candlesticks, to teeth…
- Cold Cases: Case 1: The Black Monk of Pontefract · 28 minDanny Robins investigates a potential poltergeist haunting in the very first episode of Uncanny Cold Cases, a new series investigating some of the spookiest paranormal events…
