Halloween Special: Meadow Cottage

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A brand new case for Halloween. Helen, her husband and baby son move into a 200 year-old house in the Lake District. At first all is fine, but one October morning they open their front door to find a pile of small stones on their doorstep.

The odd incident sets into motion a series of terrifying events that lasts for the next 18 years…

Written and presented by Danny Robins 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.
0:08.6	You always ask people at the beginning of your programs,
0:12.0	do you believe in ghosts? yeah I do because of what
0:15.8	happened to you in the house yeah because of what happened in that house what would you
0:19.6	say to somebody who says you're wrong that this is impossible.
0:22.6	I would say that they have not lived in Meadow Cottage.
0:27.6	Happy Halloween, we have a new case to try to solve a brand new uncanny investigation that will take us to the remote
0:35.4	beautiful wild of the Lake District in Northern England. Once the stomping ground
0:39.9	of romantic poets, now the scene of a potential haunting that spans years, filled with truly
0:46.7	odd frightening phenomena that will make all of your usual Halloween tales sound like bedtime stories.
0:55.1	He was crying, he was frightened, and he said,
0:57.8	can you tell the lady to get off my bed?
1:00.0	I don't like her sitting on my bed.
1:02.4	I'm Danny Robbins and this is uncanny.
1:06.0	I have this thought it knocks some walls inside my mind.
1:16.8	I know what I saw.
1:19.8	So I know what I'm
1:25.0	what I'm so The uncanny Halloween Halloween special, Meadow Cottage.
1:37.0	Hello, greetings from the Shedd.
1:47.0	Thank you for all of your emails and messages on our last episode with our guest expert, Stuart Lee. Many of you really struck, I know, by the very
1:55.9	personal stories that Stuart told for a hardened sceptic. He had some deeply odd experiences.
2:01.8	Remember he told us about his potential time slip
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