The Uncanny
Episodes
A quick update and announcement
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In case you don't have time to listen: the titles and descriptions were all screwed up but they should be fixed now. If they aren't, email me at utopo...
Impostor (2022)
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1895, a woman in Ireland was murdered by her husband. At his trial, he claimed that the person he had killed wasn't his wife, but someone pre...
Visitor
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The warmth and light promised by a house on a winter night aren't always comforting.
The War Prayer
02 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Written by Mark Twain (1904)
Commute
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are places only minutes away from the lights of the city that can feel completely isolated.
Emergency alert
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It changes depending on where in its elliptical rotation it is, but the average distance the moon is from Earth is 382,500 kilometers, or 238,855 mile...
Bolter
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If we knew all the legends about our area, we would feel differently about home.
Traffic jam
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
written by Gabriel Costantino Mountain roads at night sometimes feel like they don't follow the same rules as the rest of the world.
Urban exploration
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In any metropolitan area, there are any number of abandoned buildings just full of secrets and surprises.
Pull
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
One of the things kids experience if they move away for school can be confusion and unease at returning to what used to be their home.
Night drive
02 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The average running speed of a human in good shape is between 10 and 15 miles per hour. People have been documented sprinting short distances at almos...
Face
06 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you're expecting a quiet night at home by yourself, someone else coming around can be an extremely unwelcome surprise.
Face (2021)
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you're expecting a quiet night at home by yourself, someone else coming around can be an extremely unwelcome surprise.
The Fever by Wallace Shawn
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wallace Shawn's 1990 play The Fever is about capital and class struggle and commodity fetishism and liberalism and guilt, and about someone coming to ...