Case 3: Another Alice

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 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

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	Your time starts now.
0:07.2	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast.
0:09.4	Absolutely right.
0:11.5	So, you might like to know that the BBC makes loads of other podcasts.
0:15.6	Really?
0:16.4	Wow.
0:17.2	Many of them are very funny.
0:19.1	Which I think means...
0:20.3	A hatful of ha-hars. And energy. Even if we do very funny. Which I think means a hatful of ha haas.
0:21.7	And energy.
0:37.8	Even if we do say so ourselves. I agree 100% to that. Find them all on BBC Sounds. Just tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Tell us a joke. Come on, tell us a joke. Just search comedy on BBC Sounds. I'm really looking forward to getting stuck in. We have a deliciously odd tale of uncanniness today from Alice, who says,
0:43.4	Hi, Danny.
0:44.3	When I was 13, we moved to a rental house in Ranmore-Sheffield.
0:48.9	My sister shared the attic room with me.
0:51.0	So, she's lying on the double bed, chatting away to me as I'm stood in the
0:55.3	onsuit bathroom. From where she's sat, she can see my long brown hair, and I'm wearing an outfit
1:00.2	a teenager would wear. Notably, she can't see my face, as if I'm leaning over the sink to look
1:06.2	in the mirror. And I'm not responding, so she's finding my behaviour quite rude.
1:11.6	There's a door next to the on-sweet door which leads to the downstairs staircase.
1:16.6	There is a look of disbelief and horror on my sister's face as I, the real me, suddenly
1:23.6	come bounding up the stairs to see her.
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