Series 5: Case 7: The Magnet

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Solicitor Kate upends her rural life in Yorkshire to move into her new partner’s house in London, but before long her new metropolitan existence is blighted by disturbing, seemingly inexplicable phenomena.

Seeking escape, she goes on holiday - but the strange occurrences just seem to follow her. Is it the house, or Kate herself, who is haunted?

Written and presented by Danny Robins Experts: Callum Cooper and Kate Cherrell 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.
0:07.0	My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia.
0:11.1	You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat.
0:14.0	Ho!
0:14.3	Ho! Ho! No, no, no.
0:17.5	I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems.
0:20.4	Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay? It's Christmas kitchen disco season, surely.
0:26.4	Give me hip-hip-hop Christmas bangers every day. Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland.
0:30.9	Get all kinds of Christmassy. Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds.
0:38.5	What makes a haunting?
0:41.2	Are these strange events that we investigate to do with places or people?
0:46.1	However frightening and experiences, it's reassuring to think that if you leave the place where it happened, you can escape it.
0:53.2	But what if that's not possible? What if you are the cause?
0:58.4	And these events will follow you wherever you go. I was a bit like a magnet. It's a period of my life
1:05.0	where it was apparent that stuff was being drawn to me. Sometimes you can run, but you can't hide,
1:12.8	no matter how much you might want to.
1:14.7	I can see this dark thing, and it's sort of crooked over,
1:19.1	and you can actually see its ribcage.
1:23.0	I'm Danny Robbins, and this is uncanny.
1:38.3	I have this thought it knocks on walls inside my mind. I know what I saw.
1:43.3	I know what I saw K-7, The Magnet.
2:08.1	We talk about the story of the town mouse and the country mouse.
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