Danny Robins
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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Yeah, no, it's a really interesting one.
I think it's sort of something that felt quite defining in my life, really, and helped to kind of crystallise a lot of my thinking on how I wanted to hear stories, how I wanted to put stories together, the nature of telling these real-life ghost stories, really.
And I think it was very inspired by...
my love of detective stories, my love of true crime podcasts.
And I fed that into the idea of processing this haunting like it was a crime, essentially, I guess.
And so studying in that kind of forensic detail, the story fell into my lap, really.
I'd been making another show called Haunted, which was a kind of prototype for Uncanny, I guess, and had sprung out of
the research for my play, 222, A Ghost Story, I just found I was accumulating these real-life ghost stories as part of my research, trying to make sense of how it felt to be haunted, I guess.
And it felt to me like these are stories that needed to be told.
And as part of that story-gathering process, I spoke to this guy, Alan Murdy, who's a very significant figure within the Society for Psychical Research, the world's oldest ghost-hunting body, and he was chairman of the Ghost Club, another really kind of legendary organization
body within this field.
And he just said to me, there's this story that I've been looking at.
There's a huge reservoir of documents, this kind of treasure trove of material from the original investigator sitting in this woman's house.
She was a teenager when this happened in the 1950s.
She felt she went through this poltergeist experience, which lasted 12 years.
And she's now in her 80s.
Would you be interested in talking to her?
And so I was like, you know, you can help me at any one of those things.
So, yeah, I talked to her and, you know, it was that sort of instant, very visceral feel, which I think I get with all of the kind of the best stories that...
People tell me, well, you feel that even after the decades that had elapsed, this person still felt frightened.
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