Uncanny (BBC Programme / Podcast)

[Paul_Exeter]

A fan has created an interactive Google map of Uncanny locations.

Uncanny series 1-3 cases

Nice work but crikey only one case from Cornwall, Devon and Dorset? Strange because there is no shortage of ghosts and UFO cases from these counties

 

[SimonBurchell]

Nice work but crikey only one case from Cornwall, Devon and Dorset? Strange because there is no shortage of ghosts and UFO cases from these counties

You should feel privileged - there are none at all from East Anglia or the East Midlands - and only one from Wales, practically sat on the border up near Liverpool. Correction - I see one down near Ipswich, but most of East Anglia looks like a desert.

 

[Paul_Exeter]

You should feel privileged - there are none at all from East Anglia or the East Midlands - and only one from Wales, practically sat on the border up near Liverpool. Correction - I see one down near Ipswich, but most of East Anglia looks like a desert.

So is this largely a map of Radio 4 listeners as percentage of the population?

 

[SimonBurchell]

So is this largely a map of Radio 4 listeners as percentage of the population?

Perhaps a map of where BBC production staff reside.

 

[Paul_Exeter]

Perhaps a map of where BBC production staff reside.

... and with XX. miles of the nearest BBC studio?

 

[Giant R]

Yes, however its very common in older properties that predates building regulations about that sort of thing.
Some properties would have lofts sealed off when renovations made. How well this work was done is anyone’s gues, in our family home it’s was chipboards filling the gap either side of chimney.

its quite possible that in some cases, particularly where work has been done on the quiet for a rental property , the loft hatches would simply be sealed to prevent tenant acessing the space.

I lived in a row of eight 19th century cottages in the 1980s and they had an open loft space. The hatch was right by the dividing wall of next door too, so it was weird going in to my loft and next doors hatch being right next to me. Also seeing everyone else's things stored on the lofts too.

 

[Sgt Girth]

You should feel privileged - there are none at all from East Anglia or the East Midlands - and only one from Wales, practically sat on the border up near Liverpool. Correction - I see one down near Ipswich, but most of East Anglia looks like a desert.

But that’s what East Anglia is, isn’t it?

 

[escargot]

Here's a BBC Radio 4 discussion programme featuring Danny Robins. The subject is our shifting relationship with evidence.

Safe BBC link -
Free Thinking

Matthew Sweet and his guests discuss our shifting relationship with evidence from the law, to science, academic study and the paranormal.

He's joined by Uncanny TV presenter Danny Robins, the former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption and author of The Challenges of Democracy and the Rule of Law, Dr Sarah Dillon from the faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. Dr Jonathan Egid philosopher at SOAS in London and Dr Anthony Milligan a philosopher at Kings College London.

 

[Paul_Exeter]

So I believe this is the UFO case location:

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There are a couple of 'oxbow' islands in the River Dove (note the railway line that features in the narrative)

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.. and this area is accessed any a track from the main road (which I believe is called salt brook lane)

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Link here:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/5hSto2CkV4ApAEtt7

This Reddit case is remarkably similar to this Uncanny case in the Christmas 2024 episode from 34:00;


https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002696f


...and not that far away as the silent triangle flies:


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•1y ago

About 25 years ago. Out stargazing in a field with some friends near Much Marcle. Stunningly clear night with really bright stars. Lots of shooting stars and satellites.
We'd been there about an hour when a huge black triangular object glided silently over us, distinctly blocking the stars with its shape, clearly defined. Like a moving black window. The field we were in was fairly small, and it was visible for maybe a minute, from hedgeline to hedgeline. It was hard to judge how high it was.
We called it a night after that.
As we were walking home down a sunken lane between two hedges a Hercules plane flew really low over us in the same direction the triangle had taken.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/1b49hgs