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?

The family had also visited the Pyramids and been inside one and there was a suggestion they had brought something back with them, if I remember rightly.

Current owners of the farm in question, Heol Fanog, have never had any unusual happenings.

No camera phones were around in the 1990s - pink or otherwise. The first text was sent in 1992!

I was a student at this time and I didn't know anyone with a mobile phone. Students were pretty skint in those days! I got my first mobile when I got my first job in 1997 and there was no camera on it - just Tetris and Snake

That’s how it was for me too. I didn’t actually get a mobile phone until 2001 and then it was a Nokia - text, calls and snake. I knew someone with a pager in 1999 and that was a bit of a novelty. I had an email account but my main method of communicating with friends/family was still a landline and writing letters.

Student life was very different then. I only knew two people with cars at uni, accommodation was quite often shared rooms and no en-suite. Compared to what my nephew has at uni now, it was all very basic!

Yup! The halls I was in were really basic and cold (Scottish uni). Shared bathroom? No, it was one bathroom at the end of a looooong corridor and I hated making the trek there if I woke needing a wee in the middle of the night. My friend's DS started at uni last year and she was talking about him having a bathmat. Bathmat? said I. 'Oh he has an en-suite', she replied

I remember laughing at the flash foreign students with their mobile phones in about 1996 then in 1998 I bought my first one (just as I was coming up to graduation) - for "emergencies". LOL. It was a chunky Motorola, then bought a tiny basic Nokia a year or so later. I remember receiving my first text message, must have been late 1998. Ooh words! Clamshell phones were not around until the noughties.

The first video I took on a phone was about 2005 after DD1 was born.

As a student I lived in some creepy places but I worried more about dodgy men hanging about/following me home, dodgy gas fires and how to dry my clothes v being absolutely freezing and having lots of damp clothes hanging about for days on end than supernatural matters.

Clamshells were a bit earlier - I had a Motorola Star Tac in 2000 but they had been around a while.

I worried more about dodgy men hanging about/following me home, dodgy gas fires and how to dry my clothes v being absolutely freezing and having lots of damp clothes hanging about for days on end.

God yes, my second year house had ancient gas fires and a dodgy water geyser that managed to heat about 3 inches of water in a bath. The landlord (he was actually a nice man) would let himself in randomly to check on things and on a few occasions I flung open my door to find him like a rabbit in the headlights in the passageway.

Just catching up on Ep 3. Got to the bit about Toddy sitting up in bed and speaking gibberish, just as a bloody bird crashed with an almighty bang into our sitting room window! Nearly fell off the sofa in fright 😂

The song they play where the lady sings ' I know what I sawwww' makes me laugh. It sounds like an old song from the 1800s or something, but no idea.
It's just the way it's sung

It's an original song (as far as I know) by Lanterns on the Lake. I think it's brilliant and a bit spooky.

I thought the bit about infrasound and the experiment was interesting in Ep 3.
I enjoyed eps 1 and 2, but 3 I felt was pushing the realms into far fetched, particularly with Toddy's apparent possession.

That said, the couple who lived there in the 2000s were interesting and did lend some credibility to the students.

@cheezncrackers thanks for the summary.
I have listened to some Youtube videos. It appears the (friendly) old lady ghost was Marion Holborn, who had lived in the house a decade before. A local historian helped discover this via some photos, from which Liz recognised her face. Marion herself had been visited by some strange happenings - radiators being pulled off walls.

What was the 7 foot shadowy figure with a bird's head (mask?) - an ancient Celtic spirit summoned to scare enemies, or something to do with the necklace from the Egypt trip (Horus)? Last seen on a nearby hilltop staring at the farm.

Previous owner had one occurrence, where a spinning wheel set off going in her bedroom. She got up and wedged it with some paper. She said to Liz 'there are things that happen that you can choose to see or you can choose not to see. I chose not to see.'

More interesting stuff about the horse picture. He couldn't paint the back leg right - the horse died of an infection in that leg. It looked exactly like the leg in the painting. Horse buried in the field as he had painted it.

Discrepancies about the Egyptian amulet - did they find it on holiday or did it just appear at Liz's mums (Bill smashes it with a hammer after it gives him a massive static charge)?

House as a passing through space for spirits (neutral, just lost)

57 minutes in - the last visit of Eddie Burks and Maurice Grosse.

After March 1996, nothing. 25 years of peaceful life. Lands managed for wildlife and has won awards for stewardship. Rare butterflies in residence.

- in this film from a year ago the house seems abandoned.

So do people still live here or not?

There are other Youtube videos on the farmhouse, but much too scary for me!

This shows how people so easily misremember things that can be proven false.
The first mobile phone with camera capabilities was released in Japan in 1999.
The first in the U.K. was in 2002.
You definitely wouldn’t have been able to video record on a phone in the 90s.

I did have a video camera in 1993 which cost me £600 which was a lot of money then, but it was a big bulky thing and I certainly don’t think it would have been likely for university students to have them to hand.

Digital cameras generally didn’t really start to take off until the early 2000s - I got my first one in 2003. And it was a while after that before camera phones became the norm and the early ones had tiny crappy little screens and certainly no video capability. .

Just listened to the latest episode of the podcast. They are going over the three cases from the TV show in detail with questions and theories from viewers. Really interesting, as they had even more reports of Bold Street time slips.

Which episode is that please? Is it the one from 31st Oct? I want to hear more about the Bond street time slips!

Yes it was released today, a case update.

Fair enough, fair enough calm down 👋🏻 I get it! I was wrong about the phone. I thought I had a flip phone at uni! Clearly not. Misty memories. It’s been a long time ago 🤦🏻‍♀️

The time travel was very much overlooked this series ! I'd have liked more about that

New ghosting 👻 cases next week. Danny told us at end of Podcast.
I’m going to Uncanny Live, I’m that sad.

This is another good BBC paranormal investigation series, I found it more creepy than Uncanny.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0g31550

I'm sorry, that programme was not a patch on Uncanny. I think most programmes on the paranormal only go to show how good Uncanny is.

Well other people may enjoy it, it’s just a suggestion not a command, honestly this place sometimes.