Uncanny Aly

Episodes

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  The Hat Man: Sleep Paralysis, Shadow People & What We Saw. 15.10.2026 1h 8m

  Send us your encounters at [email protected] week on Uncanny Aly, we’re getting into sleep paralysis, shadow people, and the deeply unsettling figure so many people claim to have seen standing at the edge of their bed: the Hat Man.But before we get into that, I’m giving you a quick update on the Signore M research, what we've been looking into recently, and where that particular rabbit hole has taken us.From there, this episode gets a little more personal.We talk about our own experiences with sleep paralysis, waking up unable to move, seeing figures in the room, feeling like someone or something is watching you, and those moments where it becomes incredibly difficult to work out where dreaming ends and waking reality begins.Is it simply the brain doing something incredibly strange during REM sleep, or is there something else going on?This one is less of a history lesson and more of a late-night conversation about the things we’ve personally seen, felt, and still cannot completely explain.Sleep paralysis, shadow people, the Hat Man, and a few experiences we probably would have preferred to forget.Welcome back to Uncanny Aly.
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  We Grew Up in Appalachia… Here Are Our Ghost Stories 07.10.2026 1h 5m

  This week on Uncanny Aly, we’re doing things a little differently. No vampire investigations, no conspiracy boards, and considerably less research. Instead, we’re going home to Appalachia.My cousin Megan joins me from Tennessee as we talk about what it was actually like growing up in Appalachia, where ghost stories, superstition and “something weird happened in the woods” were just part of life.We share some of our own unexplained experiences, creepy family stories and the strange things we grew up being told never to do. We also get into Appalachian folklore along the way, including haints, death omens, folk healing, blood stopping, boogers, protective traditions and, of course, why you absolutely do not whistle in the woods.This episode is much less of a researched deep dive and much more like sitting up late swapping scary stories with your cousins.Some of these stories have explanations.Some of them… we still have absolutely no fucking idea.🎧 A quick audio note: We had some volume issues during recording this week. We’ve corrected as much as possible in editing, but you may notice a few fluctuations throughout the episode. Thanks for bearing with us.
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  The Signore M Files: Vampires, Secret Societies & the Rich B Mystery 30.09.2026 1h 28m

  An ancient vampire bloodline, mysterious secret societies, a Venetian jewellery shop, and a man known only as Signore M. How much of Rich B's viral TikTok story can actually be verified?This week on Uncanny Aly, we're opening the Signore M files.Armed with historical research, archival records, and a healthy dose of scepticism, we're investigating the claims behind one of TikTok's strangest ongoing mysteries.From Venice and Florence to a mysterious Croatian grave, we examine alleged vampire bloodlines, questionable historical connections, linguistic inconsistencies, and nine supposedly secret organisations. We also explore some intriguing parallels with Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles.With additional perspectives from Croatian creator Damyen Le Fay, we're separating documented history from speculation, folklore, and fiction.Is there something genuinely unexplained beneath the story, or are we witnessing an exceptionally elaborate modern mythology?We're not here to tell you what to believe. We're here to follow the evidence.Welcome to the investigation. Let's get weird.
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  Pilot Episode 24.09.2026 1h

  Vampires, folklore, the Mafia, getting mugged in Naples, and a mysterious man called Signore M. Obviously, we had to start here.In the pilot episode of Uncanny Aly, I’m joined by my friend Bianca for a very normal conversation about vampires that rapidly becomes anything but normal.We dig into vampire folklore across different cultures, supernatural vampires versus the creatures history actually believed in, and why so many societies developed stories about things that fed on the living. Then we head to Italy: Venice, Florence, Naples, the Mafia, one particularly unfortunate mugging, and a TikTok story involving a mysterious encounter with a man known only as Signore M.History gets weird. Folklore gets weirder. And occasionally, real life is the strangest part.Welcome to Uncanny Aly.Let’s get weird.