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🗓️ 19 October 2025
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What's behind the door of Danny's Halloween Advent Calendar today?
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. |
| 0:08.1 | Are you ready for another dose of the Halloween Advent calendar? |
| 0:12.3 | We have a story from a listener called Emily, who says, |
| 0:15.5 | When my father was a teenager, one of his friends mentioned an abandoned church in Bedfordshire called Clop Hill |
| 0:21.6 | is supposedly haunted. My father and his friends drove there one night and parked so they had a good |
| 0:26.2 | view of the church. Then they noticed a set of car headlights coming up the road. The car, a mini, |
| 0:32.8 | drove slowly past, but because it was dark, they didn't see the driver. It then turned and seemed to be coming towards them again. When the car reached them and drove slowly passed, but because it was dark, they didn't see the driver. It then turned and seemed to be |
| 0:38.2 | coming towards them again. When the car reached them and drove slowly past, they shone their torches |
| 0:43.0 | into it. My dad realized the reason they couldn't see the driver was because there was no driver |
| 0:49.6 | in it. They left pretty quickly after that. Cut to 10 years ago, me and my friend were driving along a |
| 0:56.6 | country road and because it was late at night we had our full beams on. We saw a small car |
| 1:02.3 | driving towards us. There was a dip between us and we had a clear view of the car driving into |
| 1:06.8 | the dip but it never came out. We quickly parked to see if it had veered off into a ditch, |
| 1:11.4 | but there were no tire marks, no gap in the hedge. |
| 1:14.2 | I was extremely confused, |
| 1:16.3 | but then I realised our road was the same road my dad had been on 30 years earlier. |
| 1:22.6 | The road to Klop Hill Church. |
| 1:27.1 | Wowsers, if humans can return as ghosts |
| 1:29.1 | can an inanimate object like a car, do that too. |
| 1:32.6 | Email me your thoughts, uncanny, at BBC.co.uk. |
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