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Uncanny

Series 5: Case 1: The Haunted Street (Halloween Special)

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

A special hour-long live investigation recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre for Halloween. Virginia moves to a quiet street in the city of Bath with her young family. A series of strange events cause her to doubt her own sanity, until an exchange with a neighbour reveals that she's not the only one experiencing scary occurrences...

Written and presented by Danny Robins Editing and sound design: Charlie Brandon-King Music: Evelyn Sykes Theme music by Lanterns on the Lake 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

Hello and happy Halloween for centuries.

0:12.0

This day has marked the start of the darker half of the year.

0:17.0

A night when our ancestors believed the dead might really walk again. And here I am walking

0:24.8

down the street in the city of Bath, in the west of England. It is a calm night. I'm up on a hill

0:31.0

with a view over this historic city. It's lights twinkling down below. But I am here to investigate a potential haunting that took place on this very street back in 2009 and just might still be going on today.

0:47.9

I happen to see my neighbour in passing and I said, oh, I have something bit weird going on in the house.

0:54.7

And she goes, have you got the ghost?

0:57.7

Welcome to a brand new series of Uncanny.

1:02.1

Ten episodes, some of the most bizarre and chilling cases you will find.

1:07.3

But we begin with a very special hour-long Halloween episode.

1:13.1

Our question is what happened when you realise it is not just your house that might be haunted,

1:18.4

but maybe it is the whole street.

1:21.5

He said, you've stirred this up, you've reawakened something,

1:25.4

and that night I didn't sleep.

1:27.3

I was just terrified about what was going to happen next. you've reawakened something. And that night I didn't sleep.

1:31.0

I was just terrified about what was going to happen next.

1:34.5

What the hell is going on?

1:39.5

On this street in Bath, we are very much entering the darker half of the year.

1:43.0

I'm Danny Robbins, and this is uncanny. I have this thought it knocks on walls inside my mind.

1:54.0

I know what I saw.

2:01.6

I know what I saw. Case one, the haunted street. Case 1. The Haunted Street.

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