• We have updated the guidelines regarding posting political content: please see the stickied thread on Website Issues.
They do strike me as Edwardian.

They are definitely not Victorian. What became 65 and 67 are not shown on the 1914 map.
1697531440394.png


What's even more confusing about this alleged renumbering of the houses is that the current 95 High Street (see below) is opposite 66 High Street.

9566.jpg


95 High Street https://maps.app.goo.gl/p6CaQASjzei7xm8G9
Very much a late 70s early 80s house by the look of it.

66 High Street https://maps.app.goo.gl/xtZdY6WWN8kjYVFG9

What are we looking at? 15/16 new buildings popping up between 1914 and the late 1960s when the houses on the south side of High Street were renumbered. I've walked High Street in Street View and I'm struggling to see that many newer buildings to warrant a renumbering. In fact No1 High Street I would say is a much older building.

no1.jpg


I was wondering if what actually happened was that High Street itself was extended to the East and the original road name changed, thus necessitating the re-numbering. The stretch of road that No1 is located on is unnamed on the 1914 map.

I don't know why this is bothering me so much; It just isn't sitting right in my brain.

I'm just going to have to let it go if I can. LOL
 
They are definitely not Victorian. What became 65 and 67 are not shown on the 1914 map.
View attachment 70552

What's even more confusing about this alleged renumbering of the houses is that the current 95 High Street (see below) is opposite 66 High Street.

View attachment 70553

95 High Street https://maps.app.goo.gl/p6CaQASjzei7xm8G9
Very much a late 70s early 80s house by the look of it.

66 High Street https://maps.app.goo.gl/xtZdY6WWN8kjYVFG9

What are we looking at? 15/16 new buildings popping up between 1914 and the late 1960s when the houses on the south side of High Street were renumbered. I've walked High Street in Street View and I'm struggling to see that many newer buildings to warrant a renumbering. In fact No1 High Street I would say is a much older building.

View attachment 70554

I was wondering if what actually happened was that High Street itself was extended to the East and the original road name changed, thus necessitating the re-numbering. The stretch of road that No1 is located on is unnamed on the 1914 map.

I don't know why this is bothering me so much; It just isn't sitting right in my brain.

I'm just going to have to let it go if I can. LOL
What a lovely street ...I wonder if you caught someone lost in a Time Slip ;)
 
They are definitely not Victorian. What became 65 and 67 are not shown on the 1914 map.
View attachment 70552

What's even more confusing about this alleged renumbering of the houses is that the current 95 High Street (see below) is opposite 66 High Street.

View attachment 70553

95 High Street https://maps.app.goo.gl/p6CaQASjzei7xm8G9
Very much a late 70s early 80s house by the look of it.

66 High Street https://maps.app.goo.gl/xtZdY6WWN8kjYVFG9

What are we looking at? 15/16 new buildings popping up between 1914 and the late 1960s when the houses on the south side of High Street were renumbered. I've walked High Street in Street View and I'm struggling to see that many newer buildings to warrant a renumbering. In fact No1 High Street I would say is a much older building.

View attachment 70554

I was wondering if what actually happened was that High Street itself was extended to the East and the original road name changed, thus necessitating the re-numbering. The stretch of road that No1 is located on is unnamed on the 1914 map.

I don't know why this is bothering me so much; It just isn't sitting right in my brain.

I'm just going to have to let it go if I can. LOL
My local council has a planning section on their website where you can look up planning applications old and new. I wonder if the council for this area has anything like that. I’m always looking at ours for when things were built, changed or extended.
 
I'd do it myself but I'm on a low ebb at present
I thought about you at the weekend Paul as I went to Kings Lynn with my son to visit his son and family. I have a feeling you don't actually live there but I looked out for you just in case you were also visiting which would have been a good coincidence to report on! Sorry you are still feeling low and hope things will look up for you very soon. hugs
 
I found his excitement and lack of skepticism very annoying. Childlike and all scripted/planned for the dramatic effect of course.
Maybe and agree in some ways but still enjoyed as the Miss Howard thing at the end of it he joined the links BUT just hope half or all of it is not bullshit like Most Haunted.
Also nice to see Chris French on the show as I enjoyed seeing him on the old Gooding Morning's with Richard and Judy when they would have a Paranormal section and find Chris French is the twin of Nick Pope of UFO's who would also be on This Morning.
 
The Uncanny Fans Facebook page has a post from the witness Cate.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/uncannyfan/permalink/1664750887334869/

Nb the formatting is as she posted it.

This is Cate (Yes with a C) from the first TV show. I can't answer questions yet on the show itself too much, but I am intrigued to read the comments in the group, and I urge you to do as much research as possible. Here, I'm going to address a few things for you... Lisa, Jane, and I have all been doing research since we met after our interviews, and we are finding it hard to keep up with all the strange connections. I am not a member of Kenickie, nor am I a secret actor, and no, I didn't make it up after seeing the blog post. I was involved in music promotion in Camden in the late 80s and 90s, but Britpop wasn't my scene, although happening at the same time. I was into indie and rock, goth, that kind of stuff, and later went into electro, bringing bands from the US and EU to places like KOKO, Slimelight, The Falcon, Glastonbury, and the Dublin Castle, later doing VIP aftershows for A-listers in Soho and Kensington. I am now in promotion. I jumped through firey hoops to prove my identity and the events at 65 to Danny and team before they even considered me for the show, including a psych test and more or less lie detector interviews, with repeated talks with Danny and his producers for hours, studying my identity docs, looking into house records, family photos, and all kinds of things with a team of a dozen experts over many months. I never spoke to Lisa or Jane until after the show was recorded, only one interaction with their mum. Uncanny makes it impossible to just rock up and say you saw a ghost. For the record, the editing of my interview was changed on the show to facilitate Ciaran's mould story, when in fact I saw Miss Howard when I was very small, years before my dad did building works. That part of the interview in the show refers to other more sinister events that happened after the wall was knocked down, that Danny so far has not mentioned. My interview was 5 hours long, if that indicates how much activity we talked about, spread over 15 years. My mum also saw ghosts in the house, as did my aunt and grandmother, who both saw the second ghost, and my grandmother heard Miss Howard speak to me, but they have passed away. Miss Howard spoke to me quite often, even writing in my book, but was made out to be a silent wraith in the show, which is not accurate. Yes, I do have the book. She wrote, "SEE ME". My father experienced the poltergeist activity that came with the building works, and in fact there are many stories, but he's old and doesn't want to be known or on the show. Same with my sister. Lisa and Jane's parents, siblings, and uncle, same thing, didn't want to be on, but had seen things. The BBC can only tell stories when people have agreed. The lady who lives there now doesn't want to be on it and we all pleaded with her to no avail. As to me overhearing the name Miss Howard, that is not likely because my parents were not friends with people in the village, and worked in London and Cambridge. I knew her as Miss Howard when I was 2. I later went to school in Cambridge. I had little connection with the village except we lived there. The idea of my painfully shy mum gossiping is out of the question. She had two friends all her life, both outside of Melbourn. All we ever knew from the previous tenants (Lisa and Jane's family) was that two brothers built the houses for themselves and were something to do with the bakers shop next door. I guessed my man in the corridor was the man who built the house, but only by my juvenile powers of deduction. I had never seen his picture until Danny showed me. In the show, we found out that the Howards were bakers, and not shown, Mavis concluded the shop next door was their shop for selling their wares. The sweetheart of Miss Howard was not killed in the war, but lived to be an old man and died in Royston, but he married someone else. People forget the world before the internet. Internet came along when I was 26 years old and I had my first computer aged 28. I was not much for the computer, being an events person out and about all the time. My parents were musicians previously, and we spent every weekend in London at my gran's. There were no exhibitions or history centres in Melbourn as I was growing up, and in fact Melbourn Hub is built on a site that was a bunch of ruined outhouses all the time I lived there as a child, and to be honest, I avoided anything to do with Melbourn like the plague after I left as a teenager because the whole subject terrified me. I moved to London when I was around 18. I didn't go back to the village until Danny took me. It was a bunch of barns and fields in the 70s and 80s, with a few church events for the church-goers, which we were not. I may have been to a few jumble sales and maypole dances. Other than that, we lived quietly, and knew very few people in the village. As to the house when I went back, it was terrifying to me. We were told the owners were out when we were filming. But I'll leave you to decide if the house is not watching from the left window second pane along upstairs around 27 minutes in...

All the best! Team Believer! For the avoidance of doubt, here's a selfie with Danny at the Melbourn library when we met Mavis.
 
I like him even his even his close touchy vibe entuisastic self...remonds me of Franke and Bennys....bring in the tips.
 
Cate's lengthy and heartfelt post (above at #911) re : "Miss Howard" gives so much welcome background to the process involved in making the episode, and I assume to the work put in by Danny and his research team when making "Uncanny" on tv, radio or podcasts. It makes a lot of sense that they go to a great deal of trouble to make sure they aren't being taken in by some fantasist or attention-seeker. They have a responsibility to their audience - and their own reputations to maintain.

Thanks to Cate for giving us this insight - and for having the fortitude to go ahead with putting her experiences out there. It has helped to answer a lot of the questions I often ask when listening to/watching "Uncanny".
 
Last edited:
One thing I find a bit odd is how Ciarán O'Keeffe comes over as very down-to-Earth and pragmatic, so how did he put up with all the Most Haunted BS for series after series?
OK, I know he was instrumental in the exposure of Derek Acorah as a fake, but he remained with Yvette and co for many more years after that and never once called them out for play-acting. Was he just in it for the money?
 
Last edited:
One thing I find a bit odd is how Ciarán O'Keeffe comes over as very down-to-Earth and pragmatic, so how did he put up with all the Most Haunted BS for series after series?
OK, I know he was instrumental in the exposure of Derek Acorah as a fake, but he remained with Yvette and co for many more years after that and never once called them out for play-acting. Was he just in it for the money?
Perhaps he is ok with the theatrical aspect of tv productions. Reality tv was common and drama was a given.

I would think having someone totally misrepresenting their skills and cheating by getting info prior to a location would be seen as fraudulent to someone like OKeefe and not in the spirit of this version of reality tv.
 
That was a weird one this week. Although I think you would notice the difference between running over an animal and a human especially when she said she saw him on the bonnet. Didn’t sound like she braked straight away. But if it was a premonition then guy meant to run him down.

I revisited S1. Case 12: Fatal Collision only today. The woman experiencing an apparent collision just 24 hours before a real fatal incident occurred at the same spot was certainly very striking. Danny got one fact incorrect though. In Uncanny he described the real incident as involving the exact same model of vehicle, but Amanda, who referred to herself as "white van woman" drove a Transit, whereas the report of the genuine incident in The Argus refers to a Ford Escort.
The Transit c. 1990 to 2000, looks like this:

transit.png


Whereas a Ford Escort van looks like this:

Escort.png


Two rather different looking vehicles. Note the highly sloped bonnet on the Transit, which a body couldn't realistically be carried on.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/6752269.horror-of-van-tragedy/

Also, I just looked up Railway Approach, East Grinstead and see that there are trees either side of the road. In the bleak mid-winter of 2001, could a tree branch have fallen and hit Amanda's Transit van?

Railway.png
 
Last edited:
Good work there Bless and some good points made.

I listened to this one yesterday afternoon, but I can’t now remember (I was working at the same time) if the lady in question said that she actually saw a person clinging onto the vans bonnet, or for how long. But as you state that unless someone was holding onto the windscreen wipers no one could have stayed on the bonnet for longer that a second or two due to the shape.

Also listened to “the return of Elizabeth Dacre” which I found a bit creepy on a gloomy, wet and windy north Essex late afternoon.
 
I listened to this one yesterday afternoon, but I can’t now remember (I was working at the same time) if the lady in question said that she actually saw a person clinging onto the vans bonnet, or for how long. But as you state that unless someone was holding onto the windscreen wipers no one could have stayed on the bonnet for longer that a second or two due to the shape.
Except... we're not talking about an actual person, so we wouldn't necessarily expect them to behave according to the laws of physics - road ghost accounts include apparitions disappearing into the ground as if swallowed, disappearing instantly, passing through the vehicle, floating along beside the vehicle etc. etc.
 
Tonight's episode was good. But after the slight subterfuge last week about what they or didn't already know its hard to be fully confident there's nothing equally misleading in every episode. Though the only place i can imagine that might apply is in the "discovery" of the mining tunnel. Though that doesn't effect the meat of the story. Shame none of the other family members would come on camera.

The promise of an update on the Bold Street timeslip next week is intriguing...could they have found "Frank" too?
 
Tonight's "Bearpark" episode was another good one. As usual with "Uncanny", I found the actual testimony from the witness (Ian in this case) the most interesting and relevant part. I couldn't help but feel that Ian was very genuine. He seemed to be feeling every word of it. His eyes were glistening with what I would call 'tears for fears' quite a lot. I recognise that reaction.
 
I can't see any new episode yet. Just checked and the latest series 3 episode is Uncle Jack.
Bearpark was back in series 1.
 
Tonight's episode was good. But after the slight subterfuge last week about what they or didn't already know its hard to be fully confident there's nothing equally misleading in every episode. Though the only place i can imagine that might apply is in the "discovery" of the mining tunnel. Though that doesn't effect the meat of the story. Shame none of the other family members would come on camera.

The promise of an update on the Bold Street timeslip next week is intriguing...could they have found "Frank" too?
Haven't watched it yet but if he has indeed found Frank it will be arguably the biggest breakthrough in time-slip research to date. Fingers crossed.
 
Have just watched it. Another good episode. I thought that a lot could be explained away though. Especially with sleep paralysis and being half asleep. We know that sleep paralysis can be triggered; Is there something electromagnetic in or near the house that could be triggering it?

I did feel that Ian was very genuine though. He truly believes these things happened.

I did wonder if the noises he heard could have been mine workings collapsing below? Or is it exploding head syndrome? I hear my doorbell ring and toilet flush in the middle of the night quite regularly.
 
Because the cricket was over so early, I watched Danny's Bearpark TV episode this afternoon.
The fact that the witness was a teacher does add some credulity to the account, but I wouldn't rule out sleep paralysis and a possible folie à deux experience.
One thing that struck me as highly incongruous was the presence of room bells and a bell-box in a house built in the late 1930s.
The house me and my wife first rented when we were married had that very same feature, but it was a Victorian house converted into maisonettes. Amazingly the bells were still functional and we were amused to have a hangover from the "Upstairs Downstairs" epoch when servants would be summoned by ringing a bell.
The fact that the current owner of the house hadn't experienced anything remotely paranormal in the house over the last 16 years, convinces me that the apparitions were a family/individual experience and not linked to the house or location.
Very much looking forward to the update on the Bold Street timeslip next time.
 
Back
Top