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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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A chilling tale of the supernatural for Halloween.
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. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello, hello, we are halfway through October, halfway to Halloween, and you can almost |
| 0:16.1 | smell it right, the pumpkins, the spooky face paint, the slight widthiff of fear as you enjoy a good creepy story. |
| 0:23.4 | And my God, we have had some with our Halloween count. |
| 0:26.3 | And I hope you've been enjoying it as each day moves us closer to that special Halloween gift |
| 0:32.3 | that we will be giving you a brand new uncanny series. |
| 0:35.6 | But right now it is time for a case update. Let us look at some of the |
| 0:39.8 | brilliant questions and theories that you've been sending in to try and explain the cases we've |
| 0:45.0 | had in the countdown so far. So first up, the Black Dog of Ibrox. That weird tale from Alan about |
| 0:51.5 | the ghostly dog said to Rome Ibrox, the stadium of Glasgow Rangers |
| 0:56.4 | football team. It felt like folklore brought to life, as Alan said that he had seen it running |
| 1:02.6 | up and down the director's box. No one else reacted like it wasn't there. Years later, he learned |
| 1:09.2 | that someone else had also seen a black dog on another occasion |
| 1:12.8 | and that there were quite a few stories about it. |
| 1:15.2 | And one of those stories comes from Mel, who emailed to say, |
| 1:19.9 | my partner Nick's granddad was at a ranger's match at Ibrox. |
| 1:24.1 | This is right back in the 1920s when he was a teenager. |
| 1:26.9 | And as the ground was emptying out, |
| 1:29.7 | he saw a black dog running up and down the stand opposite. He turned to his mates and said, |
| 1:36.7 | who let the dog out? And they responded with, what dog? Wow. Aaron from Glasgow also wrote |
| 1:44.0 | him to say, back in 1902 and 1971, there were two |
| 1:48.1 | disasters at Ibrox in which many fans passed away. So I am wondering if people took their dogs to |
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