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Uncanny

Case 2: The Secret Song

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Every day in October, Danny Robins will release a brand new bite-size tale of terror - real-life ghost stories hand-picked from the Uncanny inbox.

Written and presented by Danny Robins Researcher: Nancy Bottomley Editing and sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme music by Lanterns on the Lake Head of Production: Kerry Luter Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, radio podcasts.

0:07.3

Right, you feeling ready? I'm feeling ready.

0:10.8

I'm Amal Rajin. Join me on my new podcast for in-depth conversations with pioneers and

0:16.0

innovators, talking about the trends and ideas that could help shape and change our future.

0:21.4

We are going to be digital citizens of this AI world, whether we like it or not.

0:26.2

From declining birth rates to disinformation online, can they solve the world's biggest challenges?

0:32.0

What I would love to do is go to the transfer and say radically cut the taxes of those with children.

0:37.3

Radical with me, Amal Rajan.

0:39.3

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:43.7

Hello, today's case comes from Derek and he says,

0:47.6

When my daughter was three, we had some trouble settling her at night.

0:51.9

About a month after she finally started sleeping, she began humming a

0:55.3

tune I'd never heard before. I asked her about it, and she just smiled and tapped the side of her

1:00.2

nose twice. A few days later, my wife and I were with her, and she started humming the same tune.

1:06.0

I smiled, but my wife seemed upset and asked why she was humming it. My daughter said, I can't tell you.

1:12.5

He said it's a secret and tapped her nose again.

1:16.6

Now, Danny, you might know the alarm bells that sets off,

1:19.4

but my wife put our daughter on her knee

1:21.8

and said she used to sing that tune too.

1:25.6

This got my daughter to open up.

1:27.4

It turns out she was dreaming about a man,

1:30.6

a kind older man who sat with her when she was scared at night. He would calm her, tell her stories,

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