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Are you a team skeptic or a team believer? GAYLE FIDLER presents us with this Uncanny Series Two Episode Guide, taking a look at the mysterious and creepy business of Danny Robin!
Uncanny series two episode guide
Danny Robins’ hugely popular Uncanny Series Two is split into twelve episodes, each just under 30 minutes long.
Danny and his team of experts discuss the cases and also provide updates on previous episodes. Listeners are invited to write in to help solve cases and share their opinions on the phenomena.
Case 1: The boy in room three
In case 1 we meet Marie, now a youth worker in her early forties. Marie’s story begins in 1998. She found herself on the North Yorkshire Moors after leaving her home following a devastating tragedy.
Destitute and homeless, Marie applied for a job as a cook at Ampleforth Abbey, a working monastery. She hasn’t been in the post long before strange things start happening, including a child crying in the next room. Except the room was empty…
This case features ghostly monks, sinister buildings and mysterious crying children. Who or what did Marie encounter at Ampleforth Abbey?
Case 2: My family’s poltergeist
This case is a haunting account from James, who says he is forever changed by his experience. James is an artist in his early forties. In the early 2000s, James moved to a terraced house in Stratford Upon Avon with his parents and cousin.
After a few weeks, strange things started happening. Mysterious footsteps on the stairs, witnessed by the whole family.
Activity in the house began to escalate, with banging noises that could not be explained. A terrifying incident that James describes as what sounded like an animal on all fours. A creature climbing up the stairs. He describes it as the worst thing he had ever heard in his life.
Things got worse for the family and they became too scared to be left alone in the house. Cumulative with his mother giving him a chilling warning. Was there really a poltergeist plaguing James’ family?
Case 3: Leave the lights on
“All hell broke loose,” James says as Danny returns to the potential Poltergeist from Case 2. Things got so bad in the house that James thought he was going to die, and his mother begged him to call the police. But how could they report an invisible intruder?
The activity began to take a significant toll on the family and James was physically attacked by an unseen entity.
Danny delves deeper into the case, while experts and listeners try to solve what really happened at house number 67.
Case 4: Interior room 611
Danny returns to the infamous case of Room 611 in Belfast’s Alanbrooke Hall. This episode was recorded live at UncannyCon 2023. Danny speaks again with Ken, the first witness from series one, and fellow witness and former student director Gary Foster.
Danny asks Ken what he thinks about becoming a paranormal celebrity (Bloody Hell Ken!) as the pair talk about their experiences at Alanbrooke in front of a live audience.
Case 5: Uncanny Live at UncannyCon
This episode was recorded during the first-ever Uncanny fan convention in 2023. Danny talks to psychologist Dr. Ciarán O’Keeffe and actress and presenter Laura Whitmore, in front of a live audience of guests.
The panel discusses new cases, including an attack by the Mackenzie Poltergeist in Edinburgh. The panel also discusses a UFO case, leading Ciarán O’Keeffe to talk about his own UFO sighting as a child. Much to the surprise of Danny and the audience.
Case 6: An angel named Bernie
In this case, Danny meets Matthew, an ex-soldier from Ireland, who has more than once life-saving encounters with his late grandmother Bernie.
Now in his early thirties, Matthew describes his difficult relationship with Bernie and his grief over her death in 2005.
However, a year later, Matthew and his brother were involved in a terrible car accident. During this period, Matthew believes Bernie came back and saved his brother’s life.
But this was just the beginning of his grandmother’s return to save him…
Case 7: The Rendlesham UFO
In this episode we are taken back to Christmas 1980 and the location of Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk. Danny investigates the famous UFO case and talks to witness, retired Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt, now in his eighties.
Strange things happened that Christmas in Rendlesham Forest, with several military witnesses.
Aided by experts Ciarán O’Keeffe and writer and UFO researcher Nick Pope, Danny discusses the case. There’s a twist to this episode, however, as Ciarán discusses his own UFO sighting, and a strange coincidence with the Rendlesham case.
Case 8: The guestbook
Danny meets Kitty, a mental health nurse. In 2012, Kitty began a relationship with fellow nurse Malcolm. However, all is not well for Kitty when she spends the night at his Victorian terraced house in Maryport, Cumbria.
Strange things happen to Kitty in the house. She has a feeling that she and Malcolm aren’t the only ones there. When she confronts her new partner with a strange presence, he says, “Have you seen her?” The ghost?”
Who or what else did Malcolm share his house with?
Case 9: The Beast of Langeais
In 1983, two 17-year-old boys from Northern Ireland win a summer trip to France. Forty years later, Ian, a former chief police officer, and Dermot, a teacher, talk to Danny about something that happened to them that summer. An incident so terrifying that it still traumatizes them.
As they slipped under a drawbridge at a French castle in Langeais, in the Loire Valley, they witnessed what they described as a “bloody nightmare.”
Did two teenage boys have an encounter with the devil himself?
Case 10: Harry called
“My feelings just start flowing just saying this,” says Will, who is now in his 40s.
When Will was a student, his friends decided to make a Ouija board after a night at the pub. This had terrible consequences for Will.
Was Will stalked by a ghost named Harry?
Case 11: Uncanny Live in Hay
Recorded live at the 2023 Hay on-Wye festival in Wales, this episode features writer and comedian David Baddiel and parapsychologist Evelyn Hollow.
Two new cases are discussed.
The first witness is Tom, who has had disturbing dreams since childhood. It wasn’t until he saw a painting in a shop window that he began to wonder if his dreams might have come true. Is this a case of reincarnation?
Case two concerns Mark, an employee of the London underground. In 1987, Mark met a mysterious young girl on the last train from Russell Square. However, he wasn’t the only underground worker to meet her.
Case 12: The ghost that followed us home
In the final episode of series two, Danny meets Carly who lives near Gatwick Airport. Carly thinks she’s being chased right now.
Did the ghost of a young girl follow Carly and her family home from France? Why do neighbors and workmen also witness strange events in the parental home?
The witnesses are credible and the cases are disturbing. Danny Robins interviews them all in his calm, non-judgmental style. It is clear from listening to the testimonies that many of these witnesses are still traumatized by what they experienced.
Do you have any thoughts on the two cases from the Uncanny series? Or have you experienced something similar?
Series two of the Uncanny podcast is available from BBC Sounds. Don’t have nightmares.
You can read our Uncanny Series One podcast episode guide on Spooky Isles.
