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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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Listen to Uncanny, a Society & Culture podcast by BBC. Stream 95 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Cold Cases: Case 11: Borley Rectory

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,...

29:19Jun 16, 2026

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 char...

27:59May 19, 2026

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 g...

28:25May 12, 2026

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 c...

28:29May 5, 2026

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...

28:14Apr 21, 2026

Cold Cases: Case 2: Return to East Drive

Danny Robins' historical investigation into a poltergeist in 1960s Pontefract continues. Mr Nobody has been getting the blame for everything...

28:12Apr 14, 2026

Cold Cases: Trailer

Danny Robins and paranormal experts, hardcore sceptic Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe and writer and parapsychologist Evelyn Hollow, will tackle the nati...

3:41Mar 31, 2026

Series 5: Case 10: The Priest Hole

A family renovating an old house stumble upon a priest hole, a hidden chamber where Catholic priests took refuge in Elizabethan times. But t...

28:30Dec 30, 2025

Series 5: Case 8: Revenants and Revelations

Danny Robins takes a deep dive into all the cases so far this series, with new leads, new witnesses and listeners' questions and theories. W...

38:35Dec 16, 2025

Series 5: Case 7: The Magnet

Solicitor Kate upends her rural life in Yorkshire to move into her new partner’s house in London, but before long her new metropolitan exist...

28:32Dec 9, 2025

Series 5: Case 6: Impossible Encounters

Danny brings you the creme de la creepy creme of audience stories from the Uncanny live tour. Written and presented by Danny Robins Experts:...

28:31Dec 2, 2025

Series 5: Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist

1997, and a group of disaffected teenage goths move into a shared house in Newcastle, embracing the macabre and melancholic goth lifestyle....

29:30Nov 25, 2025

Series 5: Case 4: Road Ghosts

Hitch a ride with Danny Robins as he explores supernatural sightings on Britain's roads. Vivid, deeply strange and often terrifying, roadsid...

34:17Nov 18, 2025

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

1977. Terry and his friend Toby are serving at a United States Air Force base in Missouri. One weekend Toby suggests they go camping just ac...

28:19Nov 11, 2025