A haunted life: how Danny Robins became Britain’s high priest of the paranormal

Danny Robins has become Britain ’s most famous collector of paranormal experiences.

His 2021 podcast The Battersea Poltergeist was a huge hit, and his latest, The Witch Farm , is a creepy investigation into a haunted remote farmhouse in Wales .

This week sees the launch of his book Into the Uncanny , which investigates four new cases.

Robins had always been fascinated with ghosts.

He grew up in Newcastle , where his mother was a teacher and his father a university lecturer.

For his mother, especially, who had been raised a Catholic , it was a conscious rejection.

Robins is the sceptic who wants to believe; I'm the same, although I don’t really believe in ghosts.

Robins is careful to choose which stories to include and what information to cross-reference.

He is wary of exacerbating conspiracy-theory and anti-science culture.

Uncanny is the latest episode of his podcast, The Haunted Haunted Haunted .