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Uncanny host Danny Robins has explained how he avoids being duped by hoaxes.

\nThe BBC star launched Uncanny as a paranormal podcast back in 2021 and he has since expanded the show onto TV and as a live theatre event which all feature stories of witnesses who claim to have experienced strange phenomena ranging from hauntings and UFOs to bigfoot sightings and doppelgangers – and Danny has now revealed how the team behind Uncanny do their best to make sure they aren’t fooled.

\nDuring an interview with Darkusmagazine.com, Danny was asked: “How do you differentiate between what seems genuine and what might be fabricated?” and he replied: “That\u2019s a question I get a lot. We live in a time of fake news, AI, and bots, which makes it harder to trust anything.

\n“But when it comes to Uncanny, we do our due diligence. We investigate the background of each person and verify their story as much as possible -checking with other witnesses, confirming details.

\n“Ultimately, we are dealing with personal, subjective experiences, which makes it impossible to verify everything. But when someone appears on Uncanny, it’s because I trust them. It’s my stamp of approval. Hopefully, if people trust me, they trust the witnesses, too.”

\nHe went on to add of the people who appear on the show: “People are incredibly brave in sharing such personal, often terrifying experiences.

\n“I feel a huge responsibility to handle those stories with care. Luckily, we\u2019ve cultivated a respectful, supportive community – both skeptics and believers.

\n“I love that they engage with the stories, debate them, and share their own theories.”

\nThe Uncanny brand was recently expanded to include a new podcast series called Uncanny, Cold Cases – which features the team revisiting stories from the past and during a recent episode Uncanny expert Ciaran O’Keeffe came up with an explanation to potentially solve a 65-year-old UFO mystery.

\nThe panel looked at the mysterious White Mountains UFO case in which Barney and Betty Hill claimed to have seen an unidentified flying object and been abducted by aliens during a drive through New Hampshire on September 19, 1961.

\nResident sceptic Ciaran claimed the sighting could have been a case of “poisoning” linked to bags of fertiliser which were being transported in the couple’s car.

\nHe explained: “I think there are other environmental type explanations that we need to consider. And that’s the possibility that we’re dealing with some form of poisoning …

\n“Betty had in the car nitrates in the form of fertiliser … I wish we had Betty in front of us to ask why she had fertiliser in the car …

\n“We know that you can have nitrate poisoning and potentially what we’ve got is cross-contamination if they’ve got nitrates in the form of fertiliser but they’ve also got picnic food, cooking equipment.

\n“If you’ve got that, you know it’s not the sort of thing that over all of their long drive it was inducing hallucinations in of itself but it could be a really strong component.”

\nDanny then pointed out Barney claimed to have seen figures moving about inside the mysterious craft and could even describe their facial expressions but Ciaran remained adamant the sighting was more likely to be a shared hallucination than a real brush with alien life forms.

\nHe said: “Why couldn’t it be a hallucination? We’ve got countless cases and countless examples of people having hallucinations where they are able to provide detail.”

\nCiaran also insisted details can often by added after events because memories can often change and shift as the years go by.

\nHe added: “We’re looking at the case after the fact so at the point where it’s reported there will be some of this detail but we’re getting a lot more forensic detail after the fact because there has been time to think about it and time for that memory to evolve.”
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