Uncanny BBC2

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I don't believe in ghosts. But this is BBC2, not Channel 5 or the usual channels which run this type of crap. So I'm watching. Anyone else?

People lie all the time about all sorts of things. They lie to themselves too

I believe in almost everything but I can't help feeling the whole set up is a bit explotative of people who've suffered mental trauma/loss etc - at least, most of the people featured in the podcast seemed like that. The university room one however was pretty cool.

I enjoy this sort of thing but I am sceptical. I think it's likely all three of the women heard talk from old neighbour as children about a strange Miss Howard and then dreamed / imagined her presence as we know how children's brains can be very imaginative.

Here’s the account from the previous family that lived in the house:

https://www.francisfrith.com/uk/melbourn/a-ghost-in-melbourn-high-streeet_memory-46271

I watched it this morning and also listen to the podcast. A lot of it is silly but I find it fun listening/watching.
Also went to see the live show last night which was quite creepy in places, but also hammy and daft.
I enjoy listening to Ciaran, he must find it difficult not to call people outright liars!

I liked the way Geoff the Mould Expert initially felt Danny needed to be fully Hazmat-ed up to step inside the derelict house that he was inexplicably working on alone, but then after filming a few sentences in gas masks, he decided it was safe for everything to come off after all.

I do love Uncanny the podcast, and it's nice to be able to see Ciaran's range of mildly impatient '...yes, but...' expressions.

Thank you for sharing!

Ive had a couple of strange time slips?
One was very simple. Driving on country roads I got stuck behind a caravan. It was a really old fashioned job, with lacy curtains and dozens of stickers on the outside, so even though it slowed me down hugely, it was quite entertaining to read!
The caravan turned off after a couple of miles, so I was able to put my foot down and crack on.
About ten minutes later, up in the distance in front of me was the very same caravan 🤔
I know the area well, there are no short cuts, in fact, the lane the caravan turned onto comes to a bit of a dead end in the village. (There is a perilously narrow lane on the other side, but only the brave or foolhardy would try it).

Can't find any rational explanation for at at all.

I love Uncanny podcast, I’m going to a live show, looking forward to it.
Also seen 2.22 play that was brilliant too.
I love Danny, he’s so affable and enthusiastic.
Is it the red coat that makes him look like a toddler? I like his quirky dress sense and even his hair.
Also my DSis use to see people when she was little and told my Mam she lived before and drowned in a pond. Scared my Mam.
But I am definitely team sceptic 🤨
Bloody hell ken.

I knew what the two others looked like because I follow them on Twitter/X
I think the women is gorgeous love her 40/50 look.

Re. The podcast, does anyone else find the song/theme really really annoying? I have to fast forward it every time it makes me want to tear my hair out.

'I know what I saaaaaaaaaaaw' ughhhhhh

The full text of the post about the experience in the 1960s shows how the television episode was cut to create additional narrative interest. The other family already knew that the Howards lived not only on the same Street but probably in the same house that the Howard father had built. This puts quite a different complexion on the whole story and makes it much more likely that it was childhood projection based on what they had been told about the previous occupants as there was in fact no mystery about who lived there.

After they revealed that MIss Howard had in fact lived in the house, I thought they said she died in 1963? So if she died in 1963, why did her ghost wear the clothes of the 1920s (or whatever date it was in the photograph of her).

Did anyone notice that Evelyn was about to explain the story about time slips, then Ciaran interrupted her and started telling the exact same thing ? Or was I imagining it?

Yes, and when you look at that and where the house is, it's really obvious that there'd be no "mystery" about house numbers, and it's pretty unlikely that the name of Miss Howard would be random or unknown to anyone that lived there. I grew up in a town larger than that, and everyone knew the names of local families, especially the ones who ran businesses. Like, say, the local bakers.

I really enjoyed the show, I think it was well done, but as you say, it's a tale very well-spun for effect.

I'm very interested to see next week's episode about poltergeists , as I had an experience of this in my childhood home. One day we experienced objects flying off the mantelpiece , and pictures dropping from the walls in one room . One vase was hurled against the wall where it shattered .We cleared up the debris and replaced the unbroken objects. It happened the next day too. My brother remarked that it only happened when I had come into the room on both days . I felt upset as I couldn't possibly have done it . My parents removed all pictures and ornaments and it stopped. We didn't have ornaments in the rest of the house .
I read somewhere later that these occurrences are often centred around young girls? I was 12, but I can't imagine how or why I could have caused things to fly around . It was very disturbing and I've never forgotten it. It might be interesting to see what theories Uncanny has.

To add to my post , there was no wind weather occurrence or earth tremor or building work , we didn't have a road nearby. . We just couldn't explain it. I didn't bang the door shut as I entered the room. My mum suggested a poltergeist as a joke . When it happened the next day we began to wonder ? Incidentally I used to sleep in the pull out bed settee in that room , as it was a 2 up, 2 down little house and my little brother had the bedroom . I never experienced anything at night.

I agree it seemed odd that a woman who died in the 1960s would appear as a ghost dressed in Edwardian clothing, and wondered when the mother (Sarah Howard?) died; annoyingly I cancelled my ancestry account and can't check! The most fascinating part to me was the old man she saw as I love the idea of the person seeing the ghost in the 1970s being seen by the ghost himself in the early 1900s. I wonder if Ishmael Howard used to tell stories about seeing the apparition of a little girl in strange clothes sitting at the told of his staircase!

On the subject of timeslips, I had a weird experience in London once that I've never been able to rationalise fully. I was coming home from work one evening around 6pm and used to change lines at the same station every day, so it wasn't somewhere unfamiliar, and I was always part of a large crowd. However, that particular evening as I turned down the passage to the escalator I realised the crowds I'd been walking down the platform with were nowhere to be seen which seemed really odd. The escalator itself was made of wood, not metal, and the walls had strips of old adverts hanging off them. Everything felt very unreal, like a lucid dream. I didn't see another soul until the escalator came up in the ticket hall and I was again surrounded by rush hour commuters. Even stranger, I was on the wrong side of the ticket hall to my usual escalator. I took a few steps towards it, then turned to look where I had come from, thinking I must have turned onto a service escalator or something by mistake but I couldn't find any evidence of one 🫤

I guess it could have been a hallucination / waking dream at the end of a long day staring at computer screens but my inability to find the escalator (or even a staff door that might lead to one) afterwards really unsettled me. I even tried to find a second corridor from the platform the next time I went that way and never found any other way up.

It’s ludicrous, overblown, cherrypicked and almost every case can be explained away quite easily but I’m addicted and would watch it/listen to it every day of the week! I agree that the time slip story was more interesting than the ghost one. I’d love more on that.

Agree @AtomicBlondeRose !

Danny is very good at what he does even though most of the stories are easily explained.

I do love the UFO ones on the podcast too.

Yes I find it annoying too .😐

Argh was meant to quote the post saying how the podcast theme is annoying.

I've just finished reading his book on my Kindle...same vibe as Uncanny.

It said in there he used to do a podcast before^^ Uncanny / the Battersea Poltergeist which is how he ended up with the BP gig.

Anyone know what it was?

Will watch on iPlayer tonight

(I also think a lot of paranormal things are glitches in the matrix but I'm also a believer in either simulation theory or multiverses - or, indeed, both).

@wheresmymojo It's called Haunted. I listened to them all a while ago, very good!

Just caught up, I enjoyed it - although Danny's voice on the podcast sends me to sleep so I was struggling to stay awake for an hour