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CurlyhairedAssassin · 2023-10-13T20:05:18+00:00

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?

Fuckitydoodah · 15/10/2023 20:19

I enjoy the podcast and I'm going to see the live show.

Just watching episode 1 and I'm enjoying it so far. I do think an hour could be too long, though.

Alltheyearround · 15/10/2023 20:26

What is simulation theory?

SabrinaThwaite · 15/10/2023 22:07

Alltheyearround · 15/10/2023 20:26

What is simulation theory?

That we’re all living in a computer simulation (as in The Matrix).

https://simulation-argument.com/simulation

ValancyRedfern · 15/10/2023 22:16

I haven't seen it but Danny was a friend of mine when we were teenagers in Newcastle so I'm always happy to see him doing well. I have to admit I think it all sounds like nonsense but I should really give it a go!

SabrinaThwaite · 15/10/2023 22:27

I also really like Danny Robin’s R4 sitcom about being English and living in Sweden.

Very different from the Uncanny type shows.

I do wish he’d get a proper haircut though.

Bbq1 · 15/10/2023 23:10

SabrinaThwaite · 15/10/2023 22:27

I also really like Danny Robin’s R4 sitcom about being English and living in Sweden.

Very different from the Uncanny type shows.

I do wish he’d get a proper haircut though.

He's very affable and likeable. Think his hair is just part of his quirky style.

Graciebobcat · 16/10/2023 11:18

I also thought Danny came across very well on TV- just how I imagined him from photos and hearing his voice on the radio - in fact more TV ish and polished than I imagined, but still with a quirky and interesting style.

Miss Howard was a good yarn. I felt really sorry for Kate, particularly her younger self, poor kid, whatever you think of the veracity or supernatural cause or otherwise.

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.

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.

Yes I thought the same. And some of it sounded like sleep paralysis or hypnagogic/hypnopompic stuff.

Lillylatte · 16/10/2023 14:39

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GonnaGetGoingReturns · 16/10/2023 19:37

Saw him interviewed on BBC Breakfast this morning so may give it a try.

SwedishEdith · 16/10/2023 19:41

SabrinaThwaite · 15/10/2023 22:27

I also really like Danny Robin’s R4 sitcom about being English and living in Sweden.

Very different from the Uncanny type shows.

I do wish he’d get a proper haircut though.

Oh, did he write that? Yes, liked that.

ButDaddyILoveHim · 16/10/2023 20:23

Just started reading Into The Uncanny, the book @wheresmymojo mentioned upthread. So far it's much scarier than either the podcast or the tv show. Genuinely unsettling!

IdaPolly · 16/10/2023 20:27

I enjoyed this, apart from the jump scare at the end. I love spooky stuff at this time of year and Christmas.

Theoldwrinkley · 16/10/2023 20:53

I listened when it was radio 4 on Saturday nights, 11.30. Listening in bed. Was too scared to even reach a hand out from under duvet to turn it off! Not conducive to a good nights sleep. But enjoyed it in a perverted sort of way...

Dahlia82 · 16/10/2023 22:09

It was a good story and the interviewees were fascinating in their conviction. But did anyone else think the discovery of the ‘Bold St time slip’ woman (Julie?) threw a big daft spanner into it? It’s a well known urban myth that mutates every time I hear it! This made me wonder if the whole Uncanny project is just a massive scripted spoof (like that Ghostwatch show in the 80s). After all, Danny is a playwright/comedy writer?

BMW6 · 17/10/2023 19:56

Dogwoes84 · 15/10/2023 16:30

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.

Or it could have been you copying and pasting the London Underground timeslip tale that I read a couple of days ago though precied somewhat........ you cut out loads about the ticket hall and different doorways. 🙄

Dogwoes84 · 17/10/2023 20:51

BMW6 · 17/10/2023 19:56

Or it could have been you copying and pasting the London Underground timeslip tale that I read a couple of days ago though precied somewhat........ you cut out loads about the ticket hall and different doorways. 🙄

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It could indeed - after I posted it here I retyped it on the timeslip thread as it seemed better placed there and I'd typed my first version in a rush. Compare the usernames, Sherlock 😅

SwedishEdith · 17/10/2023 23:34

I'm watching it now. Did the first woman say the clocks in the house were always going backwards? No-one has picked up on that yet but surely someone else would corroborate that story?

Lalgarh · 17/10/2023 23:45

I'm mesmerized by his hair

KimberleyClark · 18/10/2023 00:00

I enjoyed it but was disappointed they didn’t ask the current inhabitants of the house if they had seen anything unusual. I suppose it might have spoilt the effect of the show a bit if they said no.

Lalgarh · 18/10/2023 00:02

The house seemed to be opposite a parish church so near a graveyard, which must have played on their minds

Greeksummer · 18/10/2023 08:33

I haven’t watched the show but I’ve listened to the podcast and wondered more than once if it was scripted. Some of the stuff is interesting but the storytelling seems almost too polished, like the guests are actors who’ve memorised lines. I’m generally very open to all things spooky but it just doesn’t strike me as being terribly authentic.

Oh and I agree with others that the theme song is awful.

MainlyOnThePlain · 18/10/2023 08:58

KimberleyClark · 18/10/2023 00:00

I enjoyed it but was disappointed they didn’t ask the current inhabitants of the house if they had seen anything unusual. I suppose it might have spoilt the effect of the show a bit if they said no.

When it cut to Danny and the guest standing awkwardly outside the house, with the words, 'The current owners didn't want us to film inside' (or similar), you did get the feeling there'd been quite a firm conversation, involving the current owners standing on the doorstep shouting, 'No, further back... further back... Across the road, please.'

MothralovesGojira · 18/10/2023 09:46

I loved episode 1 and can't wait for the next two. My brother could only watch half and turned off because he was so scared - yes, really a man in his fifties hiding behind a cushion fgs!
I do like the way that each story is actually about finding a rational explanation for what is seen and felt but that last revelation was a shocker at the end of ep1.
I have just finished listening to Danny's book which was great and he talked about his own beliefs and there's an interesting bit about Kieran's relationship with Derek Acorah. There are some great investigations in the book too which actually made me go cold.
DB and I have loved all of Danny's podcasts and are going to Uncanny Live later this month.

Don't worry dear reader....I will be going around to DB's house this Friday to hold his hand and proffer an extra large cushion!

SabrinaThwaite · 18/10/2023 11:52

I watched it with DS who was alternating between giggling and proposing rational answers - definitely on Team Sceptic!

SwedishEdith · 18/10/2023 18:55

I wonder if they sound scripted because they're so used to telling the story. But also, telling it that often has refined it a lot and any inconvenient parts have been dropped from it? I'm deffo Team sceptic but like listening to the deconstruction. He was on BBC Breakfast and said he likes to show both sides for balance. Well, clearly he does need to for an entertainment programme. But for a proper investigation, the balance would be weighted way more to "You're 'avin' a laugh '. Will look forward to the next one 😃