Halloween Countdown. Case 5: The Bunk Bed Ghost

Uncanny

BBC

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4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 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.
0:06.9	It is the uncanny Halloween Advent calendar
0:09.2	behind today's door is a story from Paul.
0:12.1	He says,
0:12.6	Dear Danny, until 1989, my family lived in York.
0:16.4	There were only two bedrooms, so my brothers and I shared a room with bunk beds.
0:20.4	My bed was the lowest.
0:21.9	As my brothers were older, I'd be sent to bed earlier,
0:25.0	and on this particular night, something woke me up.
0:28.0	I looked at the foot of my bed and saw a figure.
0:32.0	The face was very old and wrinkly. It appeared solid and lifelike and was wearing a brightly coloured strippy jumper. The figure appeared to be laughing but was absolute silence.
0:43.0	Scared, I disappeared under my covers for the rest of the night and didn't even take notice of whether my brothers were in bed yet.
0:50.0	I never forgot that night though, and sometime in my 20s I was talking to my brother for the first time about what I saw
0:57.6	He then told me that he had woken up and looked across to see a strange figure leaning over my bed whilst I slept.
1:05.0	I've often thought about knocking on the door at that house to ask if any of the current
1:09.6	residents have experienced anything similar.
1:19.0	Thank you Paul. What do we make it is sleep paralysis perhaps but how do we explain Paul's brother also seeing that figure? Email me of thoughts uncanny at BBC.co. UK. I will be back with a brand new case tomorrow. Oh

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