Halloween Countdown. Case 21: Hide and Seek

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 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.

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.
0:04.7	It is the uncanny Halloween Advent calendar.
0:09.7	I have a story for you from Linda.
0:12.0	She says, hi Danny, back in the 1960s I was living on an
0:15.6	R. A. F. base. I was playing hide and seek with my sisters and brothers. My
0:19.7	sister started counting. We were on the edge of the airfield and it was a grassy hump in front of me
0:24.8	with a brick entrance going inside it, so I quickly ran inside to hide. I could hear my sister
0:30.0	starting to hunt for us outside. After my eyes got used to the dimness, I saw a lady standing in front of me.
0:38.0	She was dressed in a uniform, cap, and had a shoulder bag.
0:42.0	I remember thinking that she looked nice. She was staring at me. I didn't feel scared, but I decided to go and get my older sister to come and see her. So I ran outside. My sister came back with me, but the lady had gone.
0:53.0	If the lady had left, she would have been seen by my sister who was only yards away outside.
0:59.0	Back at home at tea time, we told my parents and my father told us that I'd run into one of the old air raid
1:05.1	shelters that were used in the war. We never went back to play there again because my dad said that area
1:10.5	of the airfield was now out of bounds. But 60 years later, I have never forgotten that lady.
1:15.8	Was it an image of someone from years ago, a kind of photograph from the past?
1:20.8	Thank you so much, Linda. Email me your thought. from the past.
1:27.0	Thank you so much Linda. Email me your thoughts and theories on this to uncanny at BBC.kow. UK plenty more stories to come. I know what I'm so.

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