To be absolutely terrified after watching latest episode of Uncanny

I love watching Uncanny, and Danny Robins is great, but I don't believe a word of it.

Or rather, I do think that some of the people genuinely believe they have seen or heard something supernatural. But, I don't believe that they have actually seen a ghost.

The latest episode, there was so much happening that I thought yeah, this story is completely made up.

Still great entertainment TV, though.

I love Uncanny, but the sceptic is starting to irritate me with his really illogical suggestions that are even more far-fetched than someone seeing an actual ghost.

@CerealPosterHere that's the one I started with at 11pm last night. It was the background music that got me 🙈

Listened to it today whilst cooking and I was fine.

I love Uncanny and I love Danny Robins and all he does, but I'm afraid I don't think these are genuine witnesses. Their interviews seem stilted: similar to real life crime reconstructions where the words are "spoken by actors".

I love the podcast, makes you wonder about ghosts etc but not too terrifying. I was watching this one on Friday with my 18 yr old and he asked me to turn it off he was so freaked out about it. I listened to part of the post mortem episode just now while driving home over dark roads and I was afraid to look in the rear mirror in case something was there.

That one was definitely a copypasta - an internet ghost story like slenderman. It upset me for ages until I realised it was creative writing. Bravo to the author, had me making my partner at the time get up and come to the loo with me after dark!

I do think the Uncanny stories are taken in good faith...it's not all just acting. But the motives of the victims/storytellers cannot be scrutinised. Unfortunately there is no award for judging fake or real.

Totally agree with @BananaSpanner
The stories are interesting, if melodramatic, and the majority of them are absolutely explainable when in context with some horrible circumstances, deaths, difficult family, poor mental health, environment…

That’s it.

Yes that was a good one was it room 611?

Wasn’t it an uncanny podcast episode which covered the Ireland/dublin student accommodation block. That one was very scary as well.

Watching it now. Dh 8s chuntering it’s all in Julian’s head and then mass hysteria. Witch farm was scary.

Years ago there was a frightening thread on here where a MNer said she and her friends saw a giant shadow man with a top hat in her street late one night. It ran towards them and they raced to her house, up the path, through the door and slammed it shut, locked it. Then the shadow appeared at the glass panel above the door and it bent down to look through the glass at them in the hall!

I've only ever had 2 woo experiences. Both were unfortunately, with these 'shadow men'.
One of the times I was just a kid. Absolutely fucking terrifying. So I believe him whole heartedly. That's how I've described them too ('darker than the dark'). It's like looking at a solid shape with no features. And hatefilled. It wasn't focused on I don't think, but you can feel how much they mean you harm.

I didn't know some of the stuff about the Irish folklore around things. Though I knew the first incident for me was related in some way to that sort of thing because of how things came about.

I felt so sorry for that poor man.
Made me cry for the poor fellow at the end. I hope he had a happy life going forwards.Things that pick on kids are just awful.

I wish I could tell you its all not real but, I'd be lying. And people who say otherwise should count themselves lucky they haven't ever come into contact with these things. Hope I never do again.

I thought about emailing in this week with my own experiences but, it's a difficult thing to talk about. And of course you don't want people associating it with you y'know :/ I mean, I don't care if they think I'm mental or not but you don't want people thinking you're some sort of laying attention seeker or some shit. Kudos for him for having the balls to come forwards tbh.

Yes, I think that's the problem with the programme for me.

@AlisonWhatIsTheMatter Yes. The man with the mask on inspecting the damp!

Said the damp spores could cause hallucinations. But they while have lots of other nasty side affects too/first

I loved it… I think he was seeing something that was a physical manifestation of his grief.

I don’t believe in ghost - I used to think I lived in a haunted house when little, I now think it was bad energy from my (frankly horrible) mother.

I haven’t listened to the follow up podcast to this episode yet but I watched the tv show. I liked Julian and found him to be genuine but I think he was struggling with overwhelming grief/mental health when he was going through this much of it I would imagine was a manifestation of that. For all the talk of all of the other people that had witnessed it, they only actually interviewed a couple who were kids at the time and probably very much influenced by the troubles of their friend.

As you can tell I’m team sceptic. I love how respectful Ciaran and Evelyn are of each other and don’t just squabble for the sake of it. However, I think in their (understandable) determination to be kind and respectful to the interviewee they don’t often say the most obvious thing which is that it’s all in their head.

The Witch Farm

Battersea Poltergeist

I watched a few episodes of Uncanny, have yet to watch the shadow man episode (unsure if I will now 😅) but I do like that they have the person (can’t remember his name) giving a rational/scientific view to the ghostly sightings.

Wasn’t it the Miss Howard episode where he stated that the house renovations could have caused an hallucinogenic reason for the sightings?! Something to do with a certain something within the walls which could cause this when they were being knocked down? Sorry to be vague but I can’t quite remember what!

It still did leave me with chills though.

I used to see a shadow man in the first house I had after moving out of my parents but I think I’ll save this episode for daylight.

Otherworld is worth a listen. And Danny's pre-uncanny podcasts.

Ooh any recs please?

Any recommendations for when I want to become an insomniac again? 😁

Uncanny is the least scary paranormal podcast I've ever listened to. It just doesn't do it for me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

There are far scarier shadow people stories

YANBU. I am very, very skeptical about this kind of thing but the shadow man was terrifying! Imagine meeting him on a dark corner of the stairs!

I started listening to the Uncanny podcasts last night, had to turn it off as I was so bloomin scared.

Definitely need to listen to them in the day time.