Cold Cases: Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp
Uncanny
BBC
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
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 crew, far away from the safety of shore. As fear spreads among the men whispers of a haunting take hold.
Is this the strain of isolation playing tricks on the mind? Do the crew have cabin fever - or could someone, or something, be moving below decks?
Danny Robins investigates, with Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaràn O'Keeffe.
Presented by Danny Robins Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O’Keeffe Story sections by Victoria Lloyd Research by Nancy Bottomley and John West Filming and editing by Robb Leech Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King Theme music by Katherine Priddy Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd
A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | The 8th of August, 1963, a gang of thieves hold up a British Royal Mail train on its way from Glasgow to London. |
| 0:16.0 | More than two million pounds was stolen, and Ronnie Biggs was the most famous face of the great train robbery. |
| 0:22.8 | Daniel Mays reveals the true story of Ronnie Biggs. |
| 0:26.4 | A train robbery, a prison escape and 36 years on the run. |
| 0:30.6 | Gangster presents the story of Ronnie Biggs. |
| 0:34.0 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:39.0 | Greetings, fellow ghost hunters. |
| 0:41.2 | It is time for another paranormal cold case. |
| 0:44.9 | As we dive back into the supernatural archives. |
| 0:48.1 | And this time, we have a haunting where our witnesses are the Royal Navy. |
| 0:53.1 | Because this ghost story takes place not in a house but on a boat. |
| 0:57.0 | We are about to encounter some extremely terrified sayings, |
| 1:00.9 | but is it genuinely paranormal, |
| 1:02.9 | or can we sceptically blow it out the water? |
| 1:05.3 | Batten down the hatches as we prepare for shivers at sea, |
| 1:09.9 | because I'm Danny Robbins, and this is uncanny cold cases. |
| 1:14.8 | What has past comes again in the cold where we lay, secret still remain. |
| 1:32.3 | Secret still remain. Hello, how have you been. Are you ready for another intriguing paranormal cold case? |
| 1:53.5 | To help me, as always, I'm joined by our pair of paranormal pundits. For team skeptic, academic and |
| 1:59.9 | psychologist, Dr. Kieran O'Keefe, |
| 2:01.9 | and for team believer, writer and parapsychologist Evelyn Hollow. |
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