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Cold Cases

Case 10: The Great Amherst Mystery

9 June 2026

28 minutes

Available for over a year

Danny and the team travel back to Canada in the 1870s to investigate the Great Amherst Mystery - one of the most famous and perplexing paranormal cases to come to light during the Golden Age of Spiritualism.

18 year old Esther Cox is the centre of a series of inexplicable, possibly paranormal events - phantom knocking, ghostly messages, and a series of spontaneous fires that start inside the walls of her house.

But is she the victim of a possible paranormal entity, or the mastermind of a devious hoax?

Presented by Danny Robins

Experts: Evelyn Hollow and Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe

Story sections by Sarah Morgan

Research by Nancy Bottomley

Filming and editing by Robb Leech

Editing and sound design by Charlie Brandon-King

Theme music by Katherine Priddy

Theme co-produced by Jennifer Ann Keller

Incidental music by Evelyn Sykes

Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell

Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts

Produced by Simon Barnard and Victoria Lloyd

A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4