The Uncanny

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The warmth and light promised by a house on a winter night aren't always comforting.

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 pretending to be her.

written by Mark Twain (1904)

There are places only minutes away from the lights of the city that can feel completely isolated.

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 miles. With gratitude to Kris Straub of Local 58.

If we knew all the legends about our area, we might feel differently about home.

written by Gabriel Costantino Mountain roads at night sometimes feel like they don't follow the same rules as the rest of the world.

In any metropolitan area, there are any number of abandoned buildings just full of secrets and surprises.

One of the things people can experience if they move away for school might be confusion and unease at returning to what used to be their home.

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 almost twice that speed.

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 terms with the injustice in the world and their own role within that injustice. This was recorded for a separate project before The Uncanny was a thing but I felt that it fit the tone and themes of the show. Music: Phill Niblock - Works for Hurdy Gur...

If you're expecting a quiet night at home by yourself, someone else coming around can be an extremely unwelcome surprise.