Halloween Countdown. Case 28: A Hare Raising Encounter

Uncanny

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🗓️ 28 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.
0:06.7	Welcome back to the uncanny Halloween Advent calendar.
0:09.4	Today's tiny nugget of terror comes from Danny L who says,
0:13.0	Hi Danny, my story happens back in the late 90s in Stroud in Gloucestershire.
0:18.0	Every Sunday, myself and my best friend Alex would get up super early and cycle to the local car boot sales to catch the early bargains.
0:26.2	Our route would take us along a cycle path that ran from Nailsworth to Strao.
0:30.4	On this day we are riding side by side chatting excitedly about what we hope to find
0:35.7	When from out of a bush on our left
0:38.6	To have the hair
0:40.1	But this hair was the size of a 12 year old child.
0:46.0	It was huge. It sat in the center of the cycle path facing forward.
0:50.0	And as Alex and I skinnered to a halt, it slowly turned its head to look straight at us,
0:55.0	and I could sense something malevolent in its eyes.
0:59.0	Then, in an instant, it jumped into a bush on the right hand side.
1:02.7	We ran over to where it had gone and looked into the field that ran beside the path.
1:07.4	But we couldn't see any sign of it.
1:09.5	Is it just vanished?
1:13.0	Deeply, deeply weird. What the hell was that? Have we gone down a rabbit hole or a hair hole on its one?
1:18.0	Or is it some kind of undiscovered cryptid?
1:21.0	A big hair day.
1:22.0	Email me your thoughts. uncanny at BBC.co.
1:25.0	UK.
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