‘The Uncanny Return’ is the fifth chapter of the inaugural run of Danny Robins’s audio and television investigation into uncanny events. Broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 20 November 2021, it revisits the Alanbrooke Hall haunting introduced three weeks earlier in ‘The Evil in Room 611’. Robins returns to the demolished Queen’s University Belfast residence to test fresh testimony against the original account supplied by the professor whose student bedroom became the centre of poltergeist activity in the 1970s. A second former resident, tracked down via the production team’s call-out for witnesses, steps forward to corroborate the sulphurous smells, bodily marks and midnight terror that both men insist originated from the same top-floor room. Academic Caroline Watt and parapsychologist Ciarán O’Keeffe reprise their on-air ‘Team Sceptic’ and ‘Team Believer’ roles, with Watt arguing for suggestion and faulty memory while O’Keeffe cites cross-corroborating details and older Ulster folk tales of ‘hungry ground’. The episode ends with Robins inviting listeners to decide whether two strangers’ separated-by-decades stories add up to proof of a persistent haunting or a shared psychological script handed down in student lore. Lanterns on the Lake’s spectral theme, ‘Don’t Have Nightmares’, plays out over the final credits.
Production Details
BBC Radio 4 / 1 Season / 1 Episode / 2021
Writer(s): 노민선
Main Cast
Yu Jun-sang as
Kim Se-jeong as
Ahn Suk-hwan as
Lee Hong-nae as
Ok Ja-yeon as
Yeom Hye-ran as
