Danny Robins

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404 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 22 Jun

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Yeah, no, this is interesting.

I mean, I think the first ever ghost story is about sort of 3,500 years ago, this ancient stone tablet.

But the first use of a haunted house seems to be this story.

Yes, as you say, by Pliny the Younger, and he tells the story of a philosopher called Athena Doris.

who is living in a house that appears to be haunted and he hears rattling chains.

So it's that classic ghost story trope now, really, isn't it?

Something that we associate with ghosts instantly.

You hear those and it's a kind of Pavlov's dogs kind of moment.

You know you're being haunted.

And what he does is he digs up and he finds a body wrapped in chains.

Somebody who'd been buried there, murdered, I think, and buried, wrapped up in chains in his cellar.

And he buries.

this body properly, gives it a kind of proper burial.

And then the haunting stops.

And this essentially invents every haunted house story that comes after this moment, I think.

You know, now we kind of replicate this idea of wanting to make sense of it.

You know, you were talking about being a historian, wanting to kind of make sense of these narratives.

here it is absolutely in embryonic form.

You know, the idea of something strange is happening.

You go and find the source of it.

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