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Uncanny

Series 5: Case 6: Impossible Encounters

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Danny brings you the creme de le creepy creme of audience stories from the Uncanny live tour.

Written and presented by Danny Robins Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe 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

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:07.0

They call themselves Evil Corps, a cybercrime gang accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars.

0:13.8

And at the center of it all, one of the FBI's most wanted.

0:17.6

They ran their operations out of the back of an Italian restaurant in Moscow.

0:22.0

How does a man hunted by the world's top law enforcers still manage to grow an empire?

0:26.6

These guys were going to town on small businesses across America.

0:30.9

They anger, the frustration, the fear.

0:33.5

Cyberhack, Evil Corps. Listen first on BBC Sounds.

0:40.3

Hello, greetings from my shed. It is a wind-swept night out there. I'm sitting, going through all of the emails and messages that have been coming in about all of our recent cases. So many of you, I know, have been incredibly struck by Matt's testimony in last week's episode,

0:55.0

the Goff Poltergeist.

0:57.0

You heard me name the street that the house was on in that case, Brighton Grove, in the Fenham area of Newcastle.

1:04.0

We knew the street had quite a history and I asked if anybody else who had lived there had experienced anything paranormal.

1:12.4

And we have had a lot.

1:17.4

Several emails have come in from people who lived in various houses on that street over the years.

1:18.5

We're speaking to them.

1:20.1

We're cross-checking everything at the moment.

1:25.4

But we have some pretty explosive revelations about Brighton Grove to come soon, I think.

1:26.3

Watch this space.

1:29.0

Many of you also messaging to ask for pictures of me goffed up back when I was younger. Well, look, there is evidence. Check out

1:35.0

my social media feed if you would like to see me looking like a young Robert Smith from the

1:39.1

Cure. Keep all of your messages coming in. In two weeks' time, we will be doing a major case update episode.

1:45.0

We're going to be looking at all of our investigations so far.

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