Series 5: Case 10: The Priest Hole
Uncanny
BBC
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
A family renovating an old house stumble upon a priest hole, a hidden chamber where Catholic priests took refuge in Elizabethan times.
But the strange discovery seems to signal a change in the atmosphere of the house. Has uncovering the priest hole unleashed something else?
Written and presented by Danny Robins Experts: Ben Machell and Dan Snow 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
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.5 | Lady Killers returns, examining the cases of women who take the headlines, while at the same time taking lives. |
| 0:14.5 | What have you done? |
| 0:15.5 | Michael! |
| 0:16.2 | A body snatcher, a killer daughter, and a murderous lover, as well as an investigation led by a listener. |
| 0:23.7 | I've got a Victorian lady killer in my family. |
| 0:27.6 | Join me, Lucy Worsley, for the new series of Lady Killers, |
| 0:31.7 | where true crime meets history with a twist. |
| 0:34.7 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.5 | Music with a twist. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:48.6 | What a journey we have been on this series, but it is not over yet. As the bell tolls for this year's end, we have one final case for you, one last voyage into the unknown. It will take us to an ancient |
| 0:57.4 | house and what just might be a poltergeist. My son often asks me, are ghosts real? And I always say no. |
| 1:08.0 | Because the kind of ghosts that he's afraid of, I don't think they exist. |
| 1:12.6 | But from my experience of what happened to me, I would say that my ghosts exist. |
| 1:22.6 | So you are not being entirely truthful? |
| 1:25.6 | No, I'm not. I don't want him to ever experience the fear that I've felt |
| 1:31.8 | because it's just, it's too much. |
| 1:35.2 | It's too much. |
| 1:36.5 | I'm Danny Robbins, and this is uncanny. |
| 1:40.7 | I have this thought it knocks on walls inside my mind. |
| 1:51.0 | I know what I saw. |
| 1:59.0 | I know what I saw |
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