Halloween Countdown. Case 30: My Birthday Request

Uncanny

BBC

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🗓️ 30 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.

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.
0:04.8	Today's story is from Melanie.
0:09.8	She says, Dear Danny, for my 16th birthday, my family took me to Brighton for the day.
0:15.4	I was excited and wanted to go to the peer amusement arcade.
0:19.5	Whilst inside, my dad went missing for quite a while and no one knew where he was.
0:23.2	We went outside to find my dad walking back towards us with a big grin and the next thing we heard
0:28.9	was the Brighton Pier Radio Station playing a birthday request for me. I was embarrassed but quite liked it.
0:36.3	Sadly, my dad passed away when I was 19. I was devastated. And then on my 21st birthday my husband arranged for us to go to
0:46.4	London for the day we caught the train to London Victoria and just as I opened
0:50.4	the carriage door Tano announce, could Melanie Stevenson please come to the manager's
0:55.7	office? So we went there and I told them who I was and they looked blankly and said that there had
1:00.8	been no announcement for Melanie Stevenson or any other Tano
1:03.7	announcements for the last 45 minutes.
1:08.4	When we got home that evening I told my mom what had happened and she went white and had to sit down. And then she said, that was
1:15.9	your dad. He always said he would get another request played for your 21st birthday.
1:25.0	Thank you for sharing Melanie. Email me your thoughts on that too uncanny at BBC.co. UK.
1:29.0	We have one story left to come on Halloween itself tomorrow and also a new full-length uncanny
1:36.0	podcast episode dropping into your feed the second part of our uncanny Halloween
1:40.8	trilogy of terror check it out on BBC Sams tomorrow.

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