A Sunday afternoon in December and London’s Southbank Centre draws its usual eclectic crowd: tourists, young families, culture lovers. But as I move through the people, a pattern starts to emerge. The cavernous space is dotted with people wearing the same black T-shirts printed with bold white lettering. Many read “Team Sceptic”, even more say “Team Believer”. Some, curiously, bear the phrase “Bloody Hell, Ken! ”
If you’re into the paranormal – ghosts, UFOs, demons, witchcraft, Bigfoot, etc – you’ll recognise them as slogans from Uncanny, a hit BBC podcast that first aired in late 2021 and has since snowballed into a many-pronged behemoth of ghoulish entertainment, replete with a show, a live tour and a bestselling book. (Ken, by the way, was the protagonist of the first ever episode, recounting…
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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 7 February 2025