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Uncanny

Series 3: Case 4: Elton’s Phone

Uncanny

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Christmas 1982, and 6-year-old Elton loves playing with his younger sister's present, a toy telephone. But joy turns to fear when it starts ringing by itself.

Can an object really be haunted? Or is something unseen playing with the telephone?

Written and presented by Danny Robins Editing and sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Script edtor: Dale Shaw Theme music by Lanterns on the Lake Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:08.2

How do you feel talking about this now?

0:10.6

Um, it's a bit emotional actually being taken back to that place.

0:17.0

This is Amanda, she's a successful businesswoman based in Lincolnshire.

0:21.0

It's one thing talking about it with your family and another

0:25.9

thing telling a stranger it brings it back. Her story is going to transport us all

0:32.1

back to the place where she grew up, Manchester, in the early 1980s,

0:37.0

and at its heart is something that we've not talked about that much on uncanny before.

0:42.0

The idea of a haunted object, an object that sits on the

0:47.6

table next to Amanda right now. How does it make you feel having it here?

0:53.0

Well, it has concerned me a little bit, and when I showed it to Elton, he said,

1:00.0

well, it gives me the EBAG with that.

1:02.0

We are all about to get the EBGBs, I'm afraid, because this is a story that has stuck with me

1:09.5

since I first received Amanda's email, a creepy enigmatic mystery that together we must try to solve.

1:17.2

I'm Danny Robbins and this is uncanny.

1:21.1

I have this thought it knocks some walls and said my mind.

1:31.0

I know what I saw Case 4, Elton's phone.

1:54.0

Hello, thank you for all of your emails on Case 3, Suki's story, lots and lots of great theories coming in.

2:04.5

We will update on it soon, but right now let's dive straight into another brand new case.

2:11.2

Our story starts when Amanda and her family moved to the Manchester suburb of

2:16.9

Moston into a seemingly unremarkable house. Number 19. I would have said it's quite a typical terraced house, not

2:27.1

indifferent to the terraced houses you see in Coronation Street. So Amanda is

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