Halloween Countdown. Case 23: Two Black Dogs

Uncanny

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🗓️ 23 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.
0:07.3	Hello, hello.
0:08.0	Today's story comes from Jim.
0:09.6	He says, Dear Danny, one night in 1973, returning home after an evening with friends, something
0:16.8	very strange occurred. I had to pass the house of our neighbors, the Cunningham family.
0:21.6	I saw figures sitting at the front gate to their house, and as I saw figures sitting at the front gate to their house and as I approached I noticed
0:25.7	they were two large black Alsatian dogs, one on each side of the gate post sitting eerily
0:31.6	still. I didn't recognize them to be dogs
0:33.8	belonging to our area. As I passed they both stood quietly up and assumed
0:38.5	positions one on each side of me and continued to walk alongside me with their gaze to the front paying me no
0:44.0	attention whatsoever. They retain these positions until we reach the gate of my
0:48.1	house where they stop just short at the entrance.
0:50.1	Scared, I turned up our path, opened the door and looked back before closing it, to see they had
0:55.1	without a sound disappeared.
0:59.2	Glad to be home and covered in a cold sweat.
1:01.2	I awoke the following morning to the news that the elderly
1:04.5	Mrs Cunningham had passed away in the night.
1:10.9	What do we make of that? Is it just a coincidence those two dogs turned up or something more?
1:15.0	Email uncanny at BBC.co. UK and I've got to tell you about a very special uncanny podcast episode landing in your feed. It's the first of a free part
1:24.8	Halloween special, a trilogy of terror. This one features Stuart Lee as a guest
1:30.3	expert. Check it out in the uncanny podcast feed on BBC Sounds.

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