Danny Robins

Paranormally positioned potted plant or sceptically solvable sideboard surprise? You decide! The #Uncanny Halloween Countdown is nearly over…and the #Uncanny Halloween Special is nearly here! Are you ready?? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

As we lead up to Halloween, the Hay Festival have released a recording of my festival-exclusive event, Haunted Hay! It was a spine-chilling evening of paranormal investigation into Hay-on-Wye. I also did live readings proving the power literature has to haunt us… Watch it here: tinyurl.com/6mnw7bmd

Listen to today’s #Uncanny Halloween Countdown episode, Case 26 in the BBC Sounds podcast feed to hear a Case Update on last week’s Countdown cases! And if you have listened - this is the article sent to me as a lead on Case 20: Strangers on a Train. What do you make of it? tinyurl.com/4336m2u4

Today's case puts the woo woo into woof woof! Have you ever seen anything like this? Listen to this case on BBC Sounds to hear a special extended Case Update - covering your questions & theories on our Countdown cases so far! Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube

Today’s mini #Uncanny case is a corker from York…could Louise really have seen a shadow man?? Let me know your best sceptical theories and come back here tomorrow for another tidbit of terror! Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

I’m running a Halloween Costume Competition for #Uncanny fans! Here are some of my costumes from over the years… To have a chance to WIN a mug and a button badge from dannyrobins.com/shop, snap a photo of your costume & fill out this form: tinyurl.com/mwcbmy4a I can’t wait to see your costumes 🎃

I’m loving that there are so many amateur productions of my play ‘2:22 - A Ghost Story’ going on around the UK. Here I am at @peoplestheatre.bsky.social in Newcastle for their dress rehearsal last week. 👻 Their last performances are today! Get a ticket here: tinyurl.com/94mu955u

Is this the weirdest #Uncanny case ever? It’s not long until the #Uncanny Halloween Special, a brand new, full-length episode…but right now, what do we make of Bally’s experience? Have you ever come across a stranger story? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube

The NEW Uncanny Casebook, a compilation of all of the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown cases from the last week, is OUT NOW on the Uncanny YouTube channel! Watch it here: youtu.be/ggBq7AGhb4o?...

I’m in New York City right now to see my play 2:22 - A Ghost Story at the @lorteltheatre.bsky.social! It’s on right now and for 13 weeks only. Just in time for #Halloween 🎃 The question is, New York…do you believe in ghosts??? Let me know! 👻

Today’s case is a really powerful one. Thank you to our witness Susan for sharing. Have you ever experienced something like this? Let us know - and come back here tomorrow for another real-life case of the potentially paranormal. Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube

Uncanny fan Polly fell asleep while listening to Uncanny and then woke up to this shadow figure by her window… …which turned out to be her jumpsuit hung up to dry! But on first glance - serious nightmare fuel! Did this photo get you like it got me?? 😱😂

Bloody hell, Helen! A serious boo for Case 22 in our #Uncanny Halloween Countdown 😱 Can we find a #TeamSceptic or #TeamBeliever explanation for what Helen saw? Or a reason to work late alone ever again?! 🫣 Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

In New York for my play 2:22. Spotted this, walking through Times Square. Possibly cryptid menacing Spider-Man?

Welcome back for another morsel of mystery as we get ever closer to Halloween…and the #Uncanny Halloween Special! What do you make of what Israh saw in Switzerland? Is this some kind of UFO, apparition or something else entirely? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube

Today’s mini #Uncanny case is really strange. Is this some kind of double doppelgänger situation? A time-slip? Or something we can sceptically explain? See you tomorrow for another spoonful of the spooky.  Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

O-M-Bloody-G. What did Suzanne see? And was it otherworldly??? Come back tomorrow for another mini #Uncanny case as we count down to the #Uncanny Halloween Special! Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Watch out! Today’s real-life potentially paranormal case feels both extremely moving - and very difficult to explain. Whether you’re #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic, tell me your theories. Can we get to the bottom of this case? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube

Pre-parkrun Uncanny today! What a way to start the weekend! Ghosts and the sea is my favourite combination and this gave me chills! 👻 🌊 @dannyrobins.bsky.social #uncanny

Shiver me timbers…is there a way to sceptically explain the potentially paranormal activity aboard HMS Agamemnon? Come back here tomorrow for another mini #Uncanny case as we count down to Halloween! Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

The second UNCANNY CASEBOOK - a compilation of all of the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown cases of the week - is out NOW on the Uncanny YouTube channel! Watch here: youtu.be/z9vnCGIePOk?...

We are OVER HALFWAY through our #Uncanny Halloween Countdown! If you don’t want to miss a moment, here are all the ways you can enjoy it as we get ever closer to HALLOWEEN ITSELF...and a very exciting Uncanny Halloween Special recorded at the Tower of London!!! 😱🎃🏰

Back in my home town today. Hunting ghosts…

Welcome back to another day of the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown! Could there really be a ghostly nurse working the night shift in this hospital? And if not…what the heck did Fiona’s mum - and that patient - see? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Our petite portion of the paranormal for today comes from Josh. Could this have been an encounter with a guardian spirit? And if not - what is your sceptical theory? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Wow! Talented artist Laura has made an Uncanny-inspired tarot deck using my introductions for each #Uncanny Halloween Countdown case! 😱🤩 I love the detail on these. ZOOM IN…can you spot an #Uncanny Easter egg written on the coffee cup in the first drawing?? Check out the last photo for the answer…

Today’s brand new Uncanny mini case counting us down to the Uncanny Halloween Special brings us into that strange realm of UFOs 🛸 Are you #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic on this one? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Went to see the always brilliant Reece Shearsmith last week at London Palladium for the tour of his new book Things I Took From the Dark. It’s a gorgeous book about his love of spooky things, with illustrations by Reece himself!

If you’ve got a fear of the number 13…it might just be about to get worse! Because our thirteenth case in the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown is seriously unsettling. Holy flying lightbulbs! What is going on here?! Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

OUT NOW: a CASE UPDATE on the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown cases so far! In the audio version of today’s Countdown case, you can hear a Case Update where I dive into your theories on the mini cases we’ve had so far. Listen below on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts! tinyurl.com/f6mc2kth

The only way to start a Monday morning in October! More Uncanny 😊👻 @dannyrobins.bsky.social #uncanny

A new day, another new #Uncanny Halloween Countdown mini case! 🎃 Did today’s witness, Jackie, really glimpse the afterlife?? Let me know your thoughts, questions and theories! Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

CASE UPDATE COMING 🚨 I’ve recorded a CASE UPDATE on all the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown cases so far this October, featuring theories sent in by YOU, #UncannyCommunity! To hear it, listen to tomorrow’s Countdown case in the Uncanny podcast feed on BBC Sounds or wherever you get your podcasts. 👻

How the heck can we explain Nikki’s experience in today’s #Uncanny Halloween Countdown case? Has this, or anything similar, ever happened to you? Let me know if so 🪶 and come back tomorrow for another tiny tale of terror. Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Enjoying this year’s #Uncanny Halloween Countdown and can’t get ENOUGH??? All the cases from 2024 and 2025 are still available to binge-watch (or binge re-watch!) on my personal YouTube channel, @DannyRobinsTV, linked below. Happy watching! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

It is just 3 weeks until #Halloween and to count us down, here’s another spoonful of the spectral for you today. Can we sceptically explain what Ava saw in Cleethorpes that day? Or was it really a ghost…? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Starting TONIGHT we’re dropping an UNCANNY CASEBOOK into the Uncanny YouTube Channel every Friday in October - a compilation of the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown cases of that week. 🎃 So if you prefer to devour these bite-sized cases buffet-style - by watching the week’s cases in 1 go - watch here:

Happy Birthday to 14 year old Charlotte, who is an Uncanny fan on #TeamBeliever! And thank you to Charlotte and her family for immortalising me, Evelyn and Ciarán in birthday biscuit form. It is an honour! 🍪🥳 Isn’t the icing artwork quite something?

Our #Uncanny Halloween Countdown case for today feels both poignant and almost impossible to explain…what’s your theory? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

This officially gets the prize for best fan reaction to today’s #UncannyHalloweenCountdown case! 😂

Just been sent this absolutely gorgeous new book - full of lovely artwork, great photos and a treasure trove of info. Sort of thing I would have loved as a kid and still love now! With some chapters by #UncannyCommunity member - the esteemed @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social! @dkbooks.bsky.social

After a busy few days my uncanny catch-up is complete 😊 👻 Keanu, time traveller! I knew it! I'm always on the time slip theory as I want that to be true! But I've had sleep paralysis twice and it's very real, so very possible. @dannyrobins.bsky.social #uncanny

Oh one thing I’ve enjoyed is abit of #uncanny every day on bbcsounds with @dannyrobins.bsky.social , omg Danny your back with a Halloween countdown I love it !! 🎃 7 Halloween cases so far

We have a truly bizarre bitesize #Uncanny case for you today as we count down to #Halloween 🎃🫣 Could Sam really have had some kind of freaky brush with fame? Or is there some other way to explain this??? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Today #Uncanny listener Nikky shares her chilling real-life ghostly experience out on the roads of Yorkshire as we hit one full week of the #Uncanny Halloween Countdown 🎃 But are you #TeamBeliever or #TeamSceptic? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Another day, another mini #Uncanny case as we get ever closer to Halloween...can we sceptically explain what John saw that day as he opened up the museum? Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Today’s pint-sized paranormal portion feels tricky to explain, right? What do you think #Uncanny listener Helen saw? Let us know your theories! And come back here tomorrow for another tiny tale of terror! 🎃👻 Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Today’s mini #Uncanny case counting us down to Halloween is a seriously scary one. What the heck did Jez see in Seacombe?! 😱 Come back tomorrow for another spooktastic story! Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

A brand new Halloween Countdown case! Could Troy’s dad have predicted tragedy before it struck?! Or is there a sceptical explanation? Let us know your theories and come back here tomorrow for another real-life mini case! Uncanny Halloween Countdown | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube