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Uncanny

Introducing The Battersea Poltergeist

Uncanny

BBC

Personal Journals, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Danny Robins introduces The Battersea Poltergeist. The true story of one of Britain's strangest hauntings, with Dafne Keen and Toby Jones.

Transcript

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0:00.0

On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.

0:04.7

Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

0:05.7

And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:08.4

In this series, we're going to have a planet off.

0:10.9

I feel like Jupiter wins.

0:12.9

And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.

0:16.0

We're talking about your bog standard.

0:17.9

Ice, not the fancy one.

0:20.2

Science with funny bits.

0:22.0

The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:24.2

Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

0:29.2

BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.

0:34.1

Hello, this is Danny Robbins here.

0:35.8

If you are a new subscriber to the Uncannyverse, then welcome.

0:39.8

There are many, many more terrifying true life stories for you to explore in our uncanny back

0:45.7

catalogs. So dive in, if you dare. Why not start at the very beginning with one of our

0:51.0

strangest ever cases, the evil in Room 611, our very first uncanny story.

0:57.0

I also want to introduce you to the podcast that started it all an eight-part paranormal cold case

1:03.7

investigation called the Battersea poltergeist. It is the once-forgotten story of an alleged

1:10.4

poltergeist haunting

1:11.2

in an ordinary South London house in the 1950s

1:14.4

focused around a teenage girl Shirley Hitchings.

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