If you listen to Uncanny...

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Which episode did you find scariest?
Mine was Harry Called. I literally felt petrified driving to Tesco at 11am listening to it in beautiful sunshine.

the theme song continues throughout!

Oh noooo

Controversially I like the theme music and find myself singing ‘I have these thoughts’ etc quite often.

Danny Robbins was a guest on RHLSTP (Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast) book club recently if anyone fancies checking that out - it’s a nice chat, especially as ‘have you ever seen a ghost?’ is a RHLSTP regular emergency question.

I like the theme tune too!
I quite enjoyed the telly version though the case was a bit uneventful. Next week some sort of poltergeist!

Harry Called is genuinely unnerving. I do think it was his mates extending the joke - but that, in itself, is unnerving!!!

It's good to have the 'experts' on. Although, the Team Believer experts do seem to have the most outlandish 'job' titles. I think the expert sceptics do a good job of highlighting rational/empirical explanations without just saying, 'don't be silly'. (obviously, I'm team sceptic).

Danny Robbins is so enthusiastic and earnest which does make me smile.

If anyone's into this topic, then i really REALLY recommend Kate Summerscale's book 'The Haunting of Alma Fielding'. It is amazing. It's a true story, and it is told with care. It gives a really good historical/social account of why poltergeists became so 'significant' at certain points in 20th Century. Don't want to spoiler it - but honestly, it was brilliant. Better than her other books.

I would second that recommendation.

I would third it - really great book, beautifully written and I thought it very moving.

Sorry I know I am reviving a very old thread here but I've just started to relisten to them... I'm interested to know how much people believe them or if they#re just good stories. I've just listened to the Elizabeth Dacre episode, and it's brilliant ghost story and I really enjoyed it but it's just a retelling of the Shining and other bits of ghost stories. Also most of the US ones felt the same - really far fetched.

That said there are some others that genuinely unnerved me - Room 611 is terrifying and there was one set in a Canadian holiday rental too which I thought was really frightening.

I really enjoyed listening to them, and I would say I'm somewhere in the middle of team believer / sceptic in general...

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House for sale in Tudor Close Rottingdean *which I think is where the Elizabeth DAcre series was set, and have to say it does look pretty spooky.

I think some are made up by the protagonist.
Harry Called, for example.

My favourite remains Bloody Hell Ken!

Still, they're great stories :)

I think a lot of them are drug induced, certainly the bothy one is!

I agree. I don't believe someone could hear someone else's heart beating either. Which is what he claims. That his friend could hear his heart beating.

I can hear my sibling’s but that’s only because they have a metal heart valve! 🤣

If annyone is waiting for the next series of Uncanny I’m listening to Haunted with Danny Robins from 2017 (I found it in Apple Podcasts). It’s like a beta-version of Uncanny, not as polished but fills the gap.

Can you please tell me where to find them on his website? I've had no luck searching.

@emilyinrutshire I am a real Uncanny fan, I listen to every podcast, watched the TV series and went to see the Uncanny stage show on tour. I am firmly Team Sceptic. I find the psychology of it really interesting and just enjoy the stories for what they are. I think some people are straight-up lying but that most people truly think they saw something and believe what they are saying..... I just don't think that what they saw is the spirit of a dead person.

I do feel for Dr Ciaran O'Keefe sometimes trying to come up with a rational explanation when part of him must want to say "you are mistaken, lying or you were on drugs." 🤣🤣🤣

For the @Arraminta asking about the image the woman found on her phone. I think this was proven to be her daughter when they reversed the negative or something like that.