Case 26: The Eleven O’clock Lady
Uncanny
BBC
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Halloween horrors from Danny Robins.
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
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome back to the uncanny Halloween Advent calendar. |
| 0:11.5 | Today's mini case comes from Trevor. |
| 0:13.6 | He says, many years ago, I worked as a night shift toolmaker. |
| 0:17.7 | I was working on one of the machines when I had the feeling that somebody was |
| 0:21.6 | watching me. I turned around and outside the window was an old lady. She was talking to me, |
| 0:27.6 | but I couldn't hear her, so I mouthed that she shouldn't be in the grounds of the factory and told |
| 0:31.5 | her to go round to the fire doors. I went to the doors and opened them, but she was nowhere to be |
| 0:36.3 | seen. I went outside and searched, and it was then I realised it was 11 o'clock at night, |
| 0:41.2 | and the security locked the gates at 10 so she would be trapped. |
| 0:44.7 | I went to the night shift foreman and told him, and he asked me to describe her, which I did. |
| 0:50.6 | He said, oh, that's the old lady from the end house opposite the factory. |
| 0:55.0 | I corrected him and said, no, there's a young family in the end house. |
| 0:58.0 | Not that house, he said. |
| 1:00.0 | There used to be another house on the end of that one, and it was destroyed during the war. |
| 1:07.0 | The old lady was killed in it, and you're just one of many people who have seen her. |
| 1:12.4 | I swear she was there as a plain as day, and there was no way anyone could have got out of those grounds. |
| 1:20.6 | Feeling all the chills there, Trevor, thank you so much. |
| 1:23.2 | How do we explain him seeing that woman with no prior knowledge others had seen her too? |
| 1:28.5 | Email me your thoughts, uncanny at BBC.co.uk. |
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