Danny Robins
@dannyrobins.bsky.social
#Uncanny fans! 👻🛸😱!!!
Series 5 of the Podcast OUT NOW
Plus, you can order a PERSONALISED SIGNED COPY of my new kid's book by the 4th DEC 👻
Series 5 of the Podcast OUT NOW
Plus, you can order a PERSONALISED SIGNED COPY of my new kid's book by the 4th DEC 👻
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Come with me back to my hometown of Newcastle for a truly chilling poltergeist case. It's 1997, and a house of disaffected goths are about to experience something that really will make their hair stand on end😱👻😱
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
Just popped in to sign some books at my local Waterstones in Walthamstow! @waterstones.bsky.social
Grab them while you can if you are in the area! 👻
#DoYouBelieveinGhosts #ChildrensBook #KidsBook #Waterstones #Walthamstow #E17
Grab them while you can if you are in the area! 👻
#DoYouBelieveinGhosts #ChildrensBook #KidsBook #Waterstones #Walthamstow #E17
November 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just popped in to sign some books at my local Waterstones in Walthamstow! @waterstones.bsky.social
Grab them while you can if you are in the area! 👻
#DoYouBelieveinGhosts #ChildrensBook #KidsBook #Waterstones #Walthamstow #E17
Grab them while you can if you are in the area! 👻
#DoYouBelieveinGhosts #ChildrensBook #KidsBook #Waterstones #Walthamstow #E17
While investigating this week’s #Uncanny episode, Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist, I visited the location of our witness Matt’s experiences: Brighton Grove in Fenham, Newcastle😱😱😱
If you haven’t listened yet, hear Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻👻👻
If you haven’t listened yet, hear Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻👻👻
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
While investigating this week’s #Uncanny episode, Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist, I visited the location of our witness Matt’s experiences: Brighton Grove in Fenham, Newcastle😱😱😱
If you haven’t listened yet, hear Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻👻👻
If you haven’t listened yet, hear Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻👻👻
Here’s a clip of folklore podcaster Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social representing #TeamSceptic in this week’s episode of #Uncanny, Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist!
Find out what Alasdair solved and what left him stumped - listen to Case 5 on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts!
Find out what Alasdair solved and what left him stumped - listen to Case 5 on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts!
November 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Here’s a clip of folklore podcaster Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social representing #TeamSceptic in this week’s episode of #Uncanny, Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist!
Find out what Alasdair solved and what left him stumped - listen to Case 5 on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts!
Find out what Alasdair solved and what left him stumped - listen to Case 5 on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts!
There are some bloody creative people in the #UncannyCommunity.
This is from Vicky Thomas - she was inspired to create a woollen me after coming to see the #Uncanny Fear of the Dark show in Newcastle!
Apparently he is her office mascot now - love it! ☺️👻
This is from Vicky Thomas - she was inspired to create a woollen me after coming to see the #Uncanny Fear of the Dark show in Newcastle!
Apparently he is her office mascot now - love it! ☺️👻
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
There are some bloody creative people in the #UncannyCommunity.
This is from Vicky Thomas - she was inspired to create a woollen me after coming to see the #Uncanny Fear of the Dark show in Newcastle!
Apparently he is her office mascot now - love it! ☺️👻
This is from Vicky Thomas - she was inspired to create a woollen me after coming to see the #Uncanny Fear of the Dark show in Newcastle!
Apparently he is her office mascot now - love it! ☺️👻
With this week’s ep of #Uncanny, Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist being about goths it seemed only right to share photos of me getting gothed up for my old BBC Radio 1 show - scarily this is 20 years ago!
If you haven’t listened to Case 5 yet, find it on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts!👻
If you haven’t listened to Case 5 yet, find it on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts!👻
November 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
With this week’s ep of #Uncanny, Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist being about goths it seemed only right to share photos of me getting gothed up for my old BBC Radio 1 show - scarily this is 20 years ago!
If you haven’t listened to Case 5 yet, find it on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts!👻
If you haven’t listened to Case 5 yet, find it on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts!👻
Thanks for all the orders coming in for personalised signed copies of
Do You Believe in Ghosts! 😀👻🙏
I'm looking forward to visiting Pickled Pepper Books in store, and writing the messages in your books so that we can mail them out in time for Christmas!
Order by 4th Dec via the link in comments!
Do You Believe in Ghosts! 😀👻🙏
I'm looking forward to visiting Pickled Pepper Books in store, and writing the messages in your books so that we can mail them out in time for Christmas!
Order by 4th Dec via the link in comments!
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thanks for all the orders coming in for personalised signed copies of
Do You Believe in Ghosts! 😀👻🙏
I'm looking forward to visiting Pickled Pepper Books in store, and writing the messages in your books so that we can mail them out in time for Christmas!
Order by 4th Dec via the link in comments!
Do You Believe in Ghosts! 😀👻🙏
I'm looking forward to visiting Pickled Pepper Books in store, and writing the messages in your books so that we can mail them out in time for Christmas!
Order by 4th Dec via the link in comments!
This is incredibly sad news. I got to work with Will once - he was clearly a very brilliant man who was behind a lot of fabulous TV programmes over the last few decades. Gone way too young.
deadline.com/2025/11/will...
deadline.com/2025/11/will...
Will Daws Dies: British Producer Behind James May & George Clarke Programs Was 57
Will Daws, the British producer known for producing programs for James May and George Clarke, has died aged 57.
deadline.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is incredibly sad news. I got to work with Will once - he was clearly a very brilliant man who was behind a lot of fabulous TV programmes over the last few decades. Gone way too young.
deadline.com/2025/11/will...
deadline.com/2025/11/will...
Here are some 90s photos of Matt, our witness in this week’s BRAND NEW episode of #Uncanny. 😱👻🪟
Have you heard his terrifying story yet? It’s a bloody chiller….
Listen to Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts! 👻👻👻
Have you heard his terrifying story yet? It’s a bloody chiller….
Listen to Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts! 👻👻👻
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Here are some 90s photos of Matt, our witness in this week’s BRAND NEW episode of #Uncanny. 😱👻🪟
Have you heard his terrifying story yet? It’s a bloody chiller….
Listen to Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts! 👻👻👻
Have you heard his terrifying story yet? It’s a bloody chiller….
Listen to Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts! 👻👻👻
The NEW #Uncanny ep Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist brings us to Newcastle’s goth scene🖤🤍 Listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻
Growing up in Newcastle as a wannabe goth myself this story feels even scarier. Here’s a 2006 vid of another of my brushes with goth culture!
bit.ly/4p2MT0c
Growing up in Newcastle as a wannabe goth myself this story feels even scarier. Here’s a 2006 vid of another of my brushes with goth culture!
bit.ly/4p2MT0c
Whitby Gothic Weekend 2006 - Culture Show
YouTube video by The Archive Channel
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The NEW #Uncanny ep Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist brings us to Newcastle’s goth scene🖤🤍 Listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻
Growing up in Newcastle as a wannabe goth myself this story feels even scarier. Here’s a 2006 vid of another of my brushes with goth culture!
bit.ly/4p2MT0c
Growing up in Newcastle as a wannabe goth myself this story feels even scarier. Here’s a 2006 vid of another of my brushes with goth culture!
bit.ly/4p2MT0c
Thanks to all of you who have been getting your signed copies of my book 'Do You Believe in Ghosts?' from independent booksellers Pickled Books - you can get a PERSONALISED DEDICATION in your signed copy if you order before DEC 4TH!
I will sign them all so they are sent out in time for Christmas! 🎄
I will sign them all so they are sent out in time for Christmas! 🎄
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Thanks to all of you who have been getting your signed copies of my book 'Do You Believe in Ghosts?' from independent booksellers Pickled Books - you can get a PERSONALISED DEDICATION in your signed copy if you order before DEC 4TH!
I will sign them all so they are sent out in time for Christmas! 🎄
I will sign them all so they are sent out in time for Christmas! 🎄
Here’s a clip of Matt, our witness from today’s BRAND NEW episode of #Uncanny Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist, OUT NOW😱👻🪟
Join me as I investigate this seriously spine-tingling case that takes place in my hometown - Newcastle!!
Listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻👻👻
Join me as I investigate this seriously spine-tingling case that takes place in my hometown - Newcastle!!
Listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻👻👻
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Here’s a clip of Matt, our witness from today’s BRAND NEW episode of #Uncanny Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist, OUT NOW😱👻🪟
Join me as I investigate this seriously spine-tingling case that takes place in my hometown - Newcastle!!
Listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻👻👻
Join me as I investigate this seriously spine-tingling case that takes place in my hometown - Newcastle!!
Listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻👻👻
Reposted by Danny Robins
Lunchtime dog walk listening sorted!*
*I prefer to confront the uncanny in broad daylight 😬👻
*I prefer to confront the uncanny in broad daylight 😬👻
Come with me back to my hometown of Newcastle for a truly chilling poltergeist case. It's 1997, and a house of disaffected goths are about to experience something that really will make their hair stand on end😱👻😱
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Lunchtime dog walk listening sorted!*
*I prefer to confront the uncanny in broad daylight 😬👻
*I prefer to confront the uncanny in broad daylight 😬👻
Reposted by Danny Robins
There’s something rather special and appealing about a Geordie poltergeist
Come with me back to my hometown of Newcastle for a truly chilling poltergeist case. It's 1997, and a house of disaffected goths are about to experience something that really will make their hair stand on end😱👻😱
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
There’s something rather special and appealing about a Geordie poltergeist
Come with me back to my hometown of Newcastle for a truly chilling poltergeist case. It's 1997, and a house of disaffected goths are about to experience something that really will make their hair stand on end😱👻😱
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Come with me back to my hometown of Newcastle for a truly chilling poltergeist case. It's 1997, and a house of disaffected goths are about to experience something that really will make their hair stand on end😱👻😱
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
Uncanny | Listen on BBC Sounds
There's been such an outpouring of interesting responses to last week’s #Uncanny episode, Case 4: Road Ghosts. Here are some I’ve loved reading👻🛣
Our next episode drops TOMORROW on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts - we'll be investigating Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist - it's a chiller!😱
Our next episode drops TOMORROW on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts - we'll be investigating Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist - it's a chiller!😱
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
There's been such an outpouring of interesting responses to last week’s #Uncanny episode, Case 4: Road Ghosts. Here are some I’ve loved reading👻🛣
Our next episode drops TOMORROW on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts - we'll be investigating Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist - it's a chiller!😱
Our next episode drops TOMORROW on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts - we'll be investigating Case 5: The Goth Poltergeist - it's a chiller!😱
Reposted by Danny Robins
Great night at Uncanny Live : Fear of the Dark with @dannyrobins.bsky.social in Bristol. It was an entertaining and polished show that left me curious and inspired.
#uncannycommunity #uncannylive #Uncanny #iknowwhatisaw #Paranormal #paranormalcommunity #ghoststories #Bristol #bristollife
#uncannycommunity #uncannylive #Uncanny #iknowwhatisaw #Paranormal #paranormalcommunity #ghoststories #Bristol #bristollife
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Great night at Uncanny Live : Fear of the Dark with @dannyrobins.bsky.social in Bristol. It was an entertaining and polished show that left me curious and inspired.
#uncannycommunity #uncannylive #Uncanny #iknowwhatisaw #Paranormal #paranormalcommunity #ghoststories #Bristol #bristollife
#uncannycommunity #uncannylive #Uncanny #iknowwhatisaw #Paranormal #paranormalcommunity #ghoststories #Bristol #bristollife
Order a personalised copy of my brand new kid's book -
'Do you believe in Ghosts?!'
by the 4th December, through Pickled Pepper Books 📚 👻 ✍🏼
www.pickledpepperbooks.co.uk/products/do-...
#personalisedgift #signedbook #signedcopy #uniquexmaspresent
#Uncanny #DannyRobins #bookideas
#kidsxmaspresent
'Do you believe in Ghosts?!'
by the 4th December, through Pickled Pepper Books 📚 👻 ✍🏼
www.pickledpepperbooks.co.uk/products/do-...
#personalisedgift #signedbook #signedcopy #uniquexmaspresent
#Uncanny #DannyRobins #bookideas
#kidsxmaspresent
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Order a personalised copy of my brand new kid's book -
'Do you believe in Ghosts?!'
by the 4th December, through Pickled Pepper Books 📚 👻 ✍🏼
www.pickledpepperbooks.co.uk/products/do-...
#personalisedgift #signedbook #signedcopy #uniquexmaspresent
#Uncanny #DannyRobins #bookideas
#kidsxmaspresent
'Do you believe in Ghosts?!'
by the 4th December, through Pickled Pepper Books 📚 👻 ✍🏼
www.pickledpepperbooks.co.uk/products/do-...
#personalisedgift #signedbook #signedcopy #uniquexmaspresent
#Uncanny #DannyRobins #bookideas
#kidsxmaspresent
Thank you for having us, #Bristol
Here are some #hauntedselfies from our #Uncanny live tour.
Thanks to the lovely #UncannyCommunity who've seen us in 2025, and the brilliant @ciaranokeeffe.bsky.social and Evelyn Hollow, plus our excellent tour team - Rhys, Jack, Ashley, Xander, Kit & Katy.
👻👻👻
Here are some #hauntedselfies from our #Uncanny live tour.
Thanks to the lovely #UncannyCommunity who've seen us in 2025, and the brilliant @ciaranokeeffe.bsky.social and Evelyn Hollow, plus our excellent tour team - Rhys, Jack, Ashley, Xander, Kit & Katy.
👻👻👻
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Thank you for having us, #Bristol
Here are some #hauntedselfies from our #Uncanny live tour.
Thanks to the lovely #UncannyCommunity who've seen us in 2025, and the brilliant @ciaranokeeffe.bsky.social and Evelyn Hollow, plus our excellent tour team - Rhys, Jack, Ashley, Xander, Kit & Katy.
👻👻👻
Here are some #hauntedselfies from our #Uncanny live tour.
Thanks to the lovely #UncannyCommunity who've seen us in 2025, and the brilliant @ciaranokeeffe.bsky.social and Evelyn Hollow, plus our excellent tour team - Rhys, Jack, Ashley, Xander, Kit & Katy.
👻👻👻
Looking for a unique Xmas gift? 🎁
YOU CAN NOW GIVE SOMEONE A PERSONALISED SIGNED COPY of
my new kid's book,
'Do you Believe in Ghosts?'
(OR BUY ONE FOR YOURSELF!)
Order them via Pickled Pepper independent bookshop by 4th Dec - in time for your little ghost hunter/auntie/teacher/secret Santa!👻
YOU CAN NOW GIVE SOMEONE A PERSONALISED SIGNED COPY of
my new kid's book,
'Do you Believe in Ghosts?'
(OR BUY ONE FOR YOURSELF!)
Order them via Pickled Pepper independent bookshop by 4th Dec - in time for your little ghost hunter/auntie/teacher/secret Santa!👻
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Looking for a unique Xmas gift? 🎁
YOU CAN NOW GIVE SOMEONE A PERSONALISED SIGNED COPY of
my new kid's book,
'Do you Believe in Ghosts?'
(OR BUY ONE FOR YOURSELF!)
Order them via Pickled Pepper independent bookshop by 4th Dec - in time for your little ghost hunter/auntie/teacher/secret Santa!👻
YOU CAN NOW GIVE SOMEONE A PERSONALISED SIGNED COPY of
my new kid's book,
'Do you Believe in Ghosts?'
(OR BUY ONE FOR YOURSELF!)
Order them via Pickled Pepper independent bookshop by 4th Dec - in time for your little ghost hunter/auntie/teacher/secret Santa!👻
Haunting #42 - another packed out night at #Bristol Old Vic 👻- I had the pleasure of bumping into my old friend Lenny Henry who was visiting the theatre.
Just 2 more shows then home!
Looking forward to getting home and seeing my family 🧑🧑🧒🧒 - before we head back on the road in January! 👻👻👻
#Uncanny
Just 2 more shows then home!
Looking forward to getting home and seeing my family 🧑🧑🧒🧒 - before we head back on the road in January! 👻👻👻
#Uncanny
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Here I am with Ian Simmons, writer for the Fortean Times magazine by Kit's Coty - the 6000 year old structure featured in this week’s episode of #Uncanny, Case 4: Road Ghosts👻🛣
Keep letting me know your theories and if you haven’t heard it yet listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻
Keep letting me know your theories and if you haven’t heard it yet listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Here I am with Ian Simmons, writer for the Fortean Times magazine by Kit's Coty - the 6000 year old structure featured in this week’s episode of #Uncanny, Case 4: Road Ghosts👻🛣
Keep letting me know your theories and if you haven’t heard it yet listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻
Keep letting me know your theories and if you haven’t heard it yet listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻
Have you listened to this week’s #Uncanny episode, Case 4: Road Ghosts yet?
In Case 4 we examine the potentially paranormal encounters people have whilst driving.
If life is a highway you might not want to ride it all night long after this…listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts🎧
In Case 4 we examine the potentially paranormal encounters people have whilst driving.
If life is a highway you might not want to ride it all night long after this…listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts🎧
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Have you listened to this week’s #Uncanny episode, Case 4: Road Ghosts yet?
In Case 4 we examine the potentially paranormal encounters people have whilst driving.
If life is a highway you might not want to ride it all night long after this…listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts🎧
In Case 4 we examine the potentially paranormal encounters people have whilst driving.
If life is a highway you might not want to ride it all night long after this…listen on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts🎧
Haunting #41 of the #Uncanny live tour was a spooky cracker!
It's cold outside but it's warm here in the #Bristol Old Vic - we are enjoying being at home here; 3 more shows to go!
We hope to see you IRL at the meet and greet, and looking forward to hearing your stories in the show too!
👻 👻 👻
It's cold outside but it's warm here in the #Bristol Old Vic - we are enjoying being at home here; 3 more shows to go!
We hope to see you IRL at the meet and greet, and looking forward to hearing your stories in the show too!
👻 👻 👻
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reposted by Danny Robins
If you like tales of road ghosts, and who doesn't like being scared while hurtling down a road at speed? - then get this episode in your earholes.
Just look at those faces.
Those are the faces of two men that have seen (or heard) things. Terrible things.
Just look at those faces.
Those are the faces of two men that have seen (or heard) things. Terrible things.
We've had a huge response to this week’s #Uncanny ep on Road Ghosts👻🚘
Listen as I investigate 2 new cases + the famous Bluebell Hill case with Ian Simmons, writer for the Fortean Times. Here we are near the supposedly haunted road in Kent!
Available on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻
Listen as I investigate 2 new cases + the famous Bluebell Hill case with Ian Simmons, writer for the Fortean Times. Here we are near the supposedly haunted road in Kent!
Available on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻
November 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
If you like tales of road ghosts, and who doesn't like being scared while hurtling down a road at speed? - then get this episode in your earholes.
Just look at those faces.
Those are the faces of two men that have seen (or heard) things. Terrible things.
Just look at those faces.
Those are the faces of two men that have seen (or heard) things. Terrible things.
Reposted by Danny Robins
Still the only podcast I religiously tune in for.
(And I'm still Team Sceptic, despite my compelling 'experiences')
(And I'm still Team Sceptic, despite my compelling 'experiences')
We've had a huge response to this week’s #Uncanny ep on Road Ghosts👻🚘
Listen as I investigate 2 new cases + the famous Bluebell Hill case with Ian Simmons, writer for the Fortean Times. Here we are near the supposedly haunted road in Kent!
Available on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻
Listen as I investigate 2 new cases + the famous Bluebell Hill case with Ian Simmons, writer for the Fortean Times. Here we are near the supposedly haunted road in Kent!
Available on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts👻
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Still the only podcast I religiously tune in for.
(And I'm still Team Sceptic, despite my compelling 'experiences')
(And I'm still Team Sceptic, despite my compelling 'experiences')