Halloween Countdown. Case 20: My Late Housemate

Uncanny

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🗓️ 20 October 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Give us two minutes a day and we’ll give you a spooky scare. 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.

We’ll hear stories of haunted houses, hotels and hospitals; of terrifying encounters with spectral soldiers, creepy children and hounds from hell: every one sent in by listeners to the podcast.

Countdown with Danny, and then get ready for some very special Halloween surprises..!

Written and presented by Danny Robins Assistant producer and researcher: Lara Monahan Researcher: Nancy Bottomley Editing and sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme music by Lanterns on the Lake Production manager: Tam Reynolds 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.
0:04.6	Today's story comes from Amy.
0:09.2	She says in 1991, I shared a house with my partner and our friend Rob.
0:14.4	Rob was noisy.
0:15.4	He would descend the wooden stairs in the hallway with such speed and jump the last three steps
0:19.5	before rushing out.
0:20.9	If I sat and assert the spot in our lounge, I could sometimes see his reflection in our large
0:25.2	fish tank as he whizzed out the front door.
0:28.0	Then, one day, I was arriving back from a weekend away and my partner told me Shakily that Rob had died.
0:37.0	He was a beautiful man with his life stretching ahead of him. I really grieved him, I still do.
0:41.4	In the coming months after Rob's death I encountered several experiences.
0:45.2	I would hear the sudden footsteps of what appeared to be Rob pounding down the
0:49.2	stairs rushing to the front door opening and slamming it as he did.
0:53.4	Initially, unbelieving, I wouldn't dare to open the front room door,
0:57.4	but one day I did, shouting out Rob's name.
1:00.6	Nothing there. Another time, as I sat in the lounge, I heard the rush of footsteps down the stairs, the front door open, and then I saw Rob's reflection in the fish tank as he rushed past. On all these occasions I was
1:14.8	alone in the middle of the day, wide awake. I often wondered whether it's his way of
1:19.8	letting me know that he was okay.
1:26.0	Thank you so much for sharing that, Amy. If you've got thoughts and theories on the case,
1:28.0	email me uncanny at BBC.kow.
1:30.0	UK, or if you've had a similar experience, I would love to hear it.
1:32.0	I will be back tomorrow for another story. Oh
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