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BBC Radio 4 92 Episodes Jul 21, 2026

From ghostly phantoms to UFOs, Danny Robins investigates real-life stories of paranormal encounters. So, are you Team Believer or Team Sceptic? Written and presented by Danny Robins, with sound design by Charlie Brandon-King and music by Evelyn Sykes. A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4.

Episodes

Summer Specials 2026: Summer Special 3. Little Biter
Summer Specials 2026: Summer Special 3. Little Biter Jul 21, 2026 2208 Rebecca has lived in the same Victorian house in the seaside town of Ramsgate for her whole life. For over 30 years, members of her family have repeatedly dreamed of a little girl who bites them while they sleep. Sometimes they catch glimpses of her in the house, with a bucket and spade. After finding the skeleton of a dog buried on their garden, they start hearing a phantom dog running around the
Summer Specials 2026: Summer Special 2. Cold Cases Live – The Enfield Poltergeist
Summer Specials 2026: Summer Special 2. Cold Cases Live – The Enfield Poltergeist Jul 14, 2026 2688 Thrown objects, apparent levitation, and a dead man who seems to speak through a 12-year-old girl. It can only be The Enfield Poltergeist. It's a story that made national headlines in 1977, and has caused controversy ever since. Was the phenomena genuinely paranomal, or did a 12-year-old girl somehow pull off a hoax that fooled dozens of eyewitnesses - from journalists to the police. Danny Robins
Summer Specials 2026: Summer Special 1: Live from Hay Festival 2026
Summer Specials 2026: Summer Special 1: Live from Hay Festival 2026 Jul 7, 2026 2033 Peter has been experiencing strange phenomena at work - footsteps out of nowhere, motion sensors being triggered, and mugs that have been smashed in a locked room. Then his colleagues see a phantom entity in his office on a work video call. What's going on? Ciaran O'Keeffe and Evelyn Hollow help Danny Robins sort the paranormal from the merely odd in a special episode recorded at the Hay Festiv
Cold Cases: Episode 13: Case Update
Cold Cases: Episode 13: Case Update Jun 30, 2026 2480 Danny, Ciaran and Evelyn look back on the Cold Cases they covered, and catch up on stories, theories and questions sent in by the Uncanny Community. Could The Sandown Clown have been a visitor from the future? Did arsenic infused wallpaper cause the death of Scratching Fanny? And did one intrepid member of Team Believer really see Spring Heeled Jack - or something very like him - in Hyde Park in L
Cold Cases: Case 12: Borley Rectory Part 2
Cold Cases: Case 12: Borley Rectory Part 2 Jun 23, 2026 1806 Danny and the team return to Borley Rectory, where legendary ghost hunter Harry Price is also about to reopen his case files, bringing 48 researchers to investigate the increasingly violent phenomena that seem to torment everyone who spends time in the house. Kitchen implements fly through the air, rocks are thrown at the new tenants - and one of them receives horrible injuries to her face whi
Cold Cases: Case 11: Borley Rectory
Cold Cases: Case 11: Borley Rectory Jun 16, 2026 1759 Danny and the team turn their attention to Borley Rectory, which has often been called the most haunted house in England.It’s a sprawling, spectacular story that spans more than 60 years and features mysterious messages scrawled on the walls, unexplained noises, and at least one phantom nun. The house became a noted paranormal hotspot soon after it was built in 1862, and was made famous by legenda
Cold Cases: Case 10: The Great Amherst Mystery
Cold Cases: Case 10: The Great Amherst Mystery Jun 9, 2026 1707 Danny and the team travel back to Canada in the 1870s to investigate the Great Amherst Mystery - one of the most famous and perplexing paranormal cases to come to light during the Golden Age of Spiritualism. 18 year old Esther Cox is the centre of a series of inexplicable, possibly paranormal events - phantom knocking, ghostly messages, and a series of spontaneous fires that start inside the wal
Cold Cases: Case 9: The South Shields Poltergeist Part Two
Cold Cases: Case 9: The South Shields Poltergeist Part Two Jun 2, 2026 1701 Creepy texts, a ghastly apparition, and a stuffed rabbit with a box cutter.Danny and the team dip back into the story of the South Shields poltergeist - the first big paranormal case of the digital age. As the bizarre and terrifying events plaguing a young family in the coastal town of South Shields escalate, Danny and his experts must weigh the evidence. Could there be a rational explanation for
Cold Cases: Case 8: The South Shields Poltergeist Part 1
Cold Cases: Case 8: The South Shields Poltergeist Part 1 May 26, 2026 1704 This week Danny and the team investigate the first big paranormal case of the digital age - the South Shields poltergeist. It's a disturbing and well-documented possible poltergeist haunting, where a young family in the coastal town of South Shields are beset by a series of bizarre and sometimes terrifying events. Is someone trying to frighten them, or could they be in real danger from something
Cold Cases: Case 7: Spring-heeled Jack
Cold Cases: Case 7: Spring-heeled Jack May 19, 2026 1679 Danny Robins and the team unpack a terrifying mystery that has remained unsolved for almost 200 years - Spring-heeled Jack. The demonic character stalked the streets of Victorian England at night, reportedly slashing his victims with sharp claws, breathing blue-white fire, and evading the police by making impossible leaps over rooftops. But was he a real person, a supernatural entity, or the produ
Cold Cases: Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp
Cold Cases: Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp May 12, 2026 1705 It’s the mid-19th century, and HMS Asp is on a routine mission charting the British coastline for the Royal Navy. But strange sounds and a ghostly apparition unsettle the crew, far away from the safety of shore. As fear spreads among the men whispers of a haunting take hold. Is this the strain of isolation playing tricks on the mind? Do the crew have cabin fever - or could someone, or something, b
Cold Cases: Case 5: The Sandown Clown
Cold Cases: Case 5: The Sandown Clown May 5, 2026 1709 Spring 1973, the Isle of Wight, and two young children have an truly weird encounter. In marshland near Sandown Airport they meet a 7-foot creature with a yellow hat, three-fingered hands, and triangles for eyes. He calls himself ‘All Colours Sam’. Was Sam an otherworldly visitor, or merely the product of a child’s imagination? And is there any connection to an epidemic of UFO sightings over the I

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