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Documentary · BBC Radio 4

Uncanny

by BBC Radio 4

From ghostly phantoms to UFOs, Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters. So, are you Team Believer or Team Sceptic? Written and presented by Danny Robins Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

Chart trend

Position in the Documentary chart (US), last 90 days.

#14
all-time peak
423
days in the top 50 since Jan 2025

Latest episodes

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Summer Specials 2026: Little Biter

Rebecca has lived in the same Victorian house in the seaside town of Ramsgate for her whole life. For over 30 years, members of her family have repeatedly dreamed of a li

Jul 21
36 min

Summer Specials 2026: Cold Cases Live: The Enfield Poltergeist

Thrown objects, apparent levitation, and a dead man who seems to speak through a 12-year-old girl. It can only be The Enfield Poltergeist. It's a story that made national

Jul 14
44 min

Summer Specials 2026: Live from Hay Festival 2026

Peter has been experiencing strange phenomena at work - footsteps out of nowhere, motion sensors being triggered, and mugs that have been smashed in a locked room. Then h

Jul 7
33 min

Cold Cases: Case Update

Danny, Ciaran and Evelyn look back on the Cold Cases they covered, and catch up on stories, theories and questions sent in by the Uncanny Community. Could The Sandown Clo

Jun 30
41 min

Cold Cases: Case 12: Borley Rectory, Part 2

Danny and the team return to Borley Rectory, where legendary ghost hunter Harry Price is also about to reopen his case files, bringing 48 researchers to investigate the i

Jun 23
30 min

Cold Cases: Case 11: Borley Rectory, Part 1

Danny and the team turn their attention to Borley Rectory, which has often been called the most haunted house in England. It’s a sprawling, spectacular story that spans

Jun 16
29 min

Cold Cases: Case 10: The Great Amherst Mystery

Danny and the team travel back to Canada in the 1870s to investigate the Great Amherst Mystery - one of the most famous and perplexing paranormal cases to come to light d

Jun 9
28 min

Cold Cases: Case 9: The South Shields Poltergeist, Part 2

Creepy texts, a ghastly apparition, and a stuffed rabbit with a box cutter. Danny and the team dip back into the story of the South Shields poltergeist - the first big p

Jun 2
28 min

Cold Cases: Case 8: The South Shields Poltergeist, Part 1

This week Danny and the team investigate the first big paranormal case of the digital age - the South Shields poltergeist. It's a disturbing and well-documented possibl

May 26
28 min

Cold Cases: Case 7: Spring-heeled Jack

Danny Robins and the team unpack a terrifying mystery that has remained unsolved for almost 200 years - Spring-heeled Jack. The demonic character stalked the streets of

May 19
27 min

Cold Cases: Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp

It’s the mid-19th century, and HMS Asp is on a routine mission charting the British coastline for the Royal Navy. But strange sounds and a ghostly apparition unsettle the

May 12
28 min

Cold Cases: Case 5: The Sandown Clown

Spring 1973, the Isle of Wight, and two young children have an truly weird encounter. In marshland near Sandown Airport they meet a 7-foot creature with a yellow hat, t

May 5
28 min

Cold Cases: Case 4: The Cock Lane Poltergeist

What happens when a ghost accuses someone of murder? Danny Robins and team investigate a haunting that rocked Georgian London. Two dead wives, a man facing the gallows,

Apr 28
31 min

Cold Cases: Case 3: The White Mountain UFO

Danny Robins has a close encounter with the original alien abduction case. On a quiet night in 1961, Barney and Betty Hill are driving home through New Hampshire when t

Apr 21
28 min

Cold Cases: Case 2: Return to East Drive

Danny Robins' historical investigation into a poltergeist in 1960s Pontefract continues. Mr Nobody has been getting the blame for everything from floating candlesticks,

Apr 14
28 min

Cold Cases: Case 1: The Black Monk of Pontefract

Danny Robins investigates a potential poltergeist haunting in the very first episode of Uncanny Cold Cases, a new series investigating some of the spookiest paranormal ev

Apr 7
28 min

Cold Cases: Trailer

Danny Robins and paranormal experts, hardcore sceptic Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe and writer and parapsychologist Evelyn Hollow, will tackle the nation's most thrilling historical

Mar 31
3 min

Series 5: Case 10: The Priest Hole

A family renovating an old house stumble upon a priest hole, a hidden chamber where Catholic priests took refuge in Elizabethan times. But the strange discovery seems t

Dec 30 2025
28 min

Series 5: Case 9: Christmas Casebook with Diane Morgan

Danny Robins unpacks a Christmas hamper of horror with ghost fan Diane Morgan, star of Motherland, After Life and Philomena Cunk. Diane relates several of her own terrify

Dec 23 2025
57 min

Series 5: Case 8: Revenants and Revelations

Danny Robins takes a deep dive into all the cases so far this series, with new leads, new witnesses and listeners' questions and theories. Written and presented by Danny

Dec 16 2025
38 min

Chart positions

Where Uncanny ranks today in each Apple Podcasts chart (US, Sep 13, 2026).

#43 ▲ 5 Documentary US

What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

Honestly I don't even listen to these sorts of shows anymore because they are all so tepid. But somehow I wound up downloading an episode and, wow. I have a nighttime headphone job, and I honestly got spooked by these episodes. That is very, very hard to do. If you want top quality paranomal with an excellent host, look no more. Unexplained with Richard McClain Smith is also a top quality pod, but this one has interviews etc which makes it a little more engaging. Great host, great music.EDIT- the one minute episodes were awful. Mostly long ads.

mysterymach · Dec 2024

Danny has a gift for bringing out the best in his subjects. I sit somewhere between skeptic and believer, though I lean skeptic. I enjoy the experts’ input and love the format. There are too many ads, but I just skip them. No big deal. Gotta pay the bills.

CAMP06 · Oct 2024

The stories being told are very interesting however, like many reviews before mine, I think the inclusion of “skeptics” and “believers” is a distraction from the topic of each episode. It is as if the podcaster thought that in order to have a valid podcast he had to include a two extra (extraneous) voices which would either completely invalidate the experience of the person telling their story or make some kind of unverifiable claim which would live completely within their belief system. Honestly it mad me so irritated once I realized that every single episode would be this way. No one is expecting this show to “prove” or “disprove” the existence of the supernatural. Nobody wants to hear two completely contradictory opinions that have no bearing on what is being said by the first hand accounts because they never actually have any interaction with these opinions or the opportunity to rebut them. It becomes more like a case study of the absurd than anything meaningful that the listeners are probably hoping to find their own experiences or curiosity about these phenomena within. Pick a side Danny and ditch the peanut gallery please! I’m getting the sense that many of these podcasts were designed as if Neil deGrasse Tyson were the audience. Guess what? Skeptics are not your target audience and the people who tune in are open to believing or want to know more. Go listen to Euphomet or OtherWorld for a more respectful and interesting approach to what essentially is a kind of ethnographic exploration of the paranormal. It’s much more honest and much less about trying to unmake the reality that someone is telling us they experienced.

Hagstoz · Oct 2024

I LOVE this podcast so much. When the new seasons come out, my soul reaches a new level of happy. The interview style, the way Danny listens in and interviews? Amazing. Danny is one of the best journalists in the paranormal field and as an American listener, Danny proves time and time again that Brits do paranormal best. Period.

KGirl,K · Sep 2024

The Halloween countdown sounded interesting, but it’s just barely a minute of story sandwiched by ads that last at least as twice as long as the tepid story being retold. Money grab much? Disappointing and surprising that a show under the BBC banner would pull such a cheap trick. Unfollowed.

oodlyoo · Oct 2024

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