Welcome dear listeners, to our series of ‘Talk Haunts’ – a chat that’s all scary ... just for you. So, grab a hot chocolate, maybe a tea, pull up a chair … because this is Haunted UK Podcast’s Talk Haunts (a Christmas Special) – with Danny Robins, award-winning writer and broadcaster, creator and presenter of BBC’s Uncanny – the podcast, stage and TV show, as well as playwright of 2:22 A Ghost Story which has stunned and captivated audiences in the West End and across the world.

Join Steve and Marie as they have a spooky Christmas chat with Danny about his musings on all things ghostly, his own experiences, inspirations, as well as balancing normal life with the paranormal! This is a real in-depth ‘Talk Haunt’ you won’t want to miss!

You can listen to Uncanny’s Christmas special on BBC Sounds from today and Danny’s brilliant book Into the Uncanny is, of course, available in all good bookshops.

Please check out the extended interview on Haunted UK Podcast Patreon where Danny reveals his true fears, aims to define what a ghost is – and describes Steve and Marie’s appearance … Uncanny style!

Presented by Steven Holloway and Marie Waller

Produced by Pink Flamingo Home Studios

Script editor: Marie Waller Proofreading

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Thank you so much for listening and supporting us this year! We think you are all amazing and we wish you all a very happy Christmas – and an awesome 2025!

Happy Spooky Christmas!

Our bedroom was small and narrow, and the door was about six feet from the end of our queen-sized bed. The noise was thunderous, three knocks, rapid and loud. Bang, bang, bang!

‘Did you hear that?’ I said, ‘Yep,’ Brian responded – his voice weird and bored. I had a moment of surprise and sat straight up in bed. Then it happened again. Bang, bang, bang! This time, I got up immediately and walked quickly to the door, figuring that one of the three kids, probably my seven-year-old daughter, was scared and needed me. I opened it and started to speak, then stopped when I saw no one was there. I stared into a large, well-lit open area that was completely empty. I could see the stairs ... also empty. My lizard brain hissed softly. ‘Run’ it said.

This is episode 57 of the Haunted UK Podcast, and in this episode, we venture across the Atlantic to hear about a truly disturbing haunting … a Haunting in Oregon.

Content warning: This episode does contain descriptions of murder, suicide, physical violence, depression, mental abuse, colourful language and dangerous controlling behaviour.

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All stories are treated with the utmost privacy and respect – if you wish to remain anonymous – that's no problem at all. Alternatively, you could drop us a voice note via Instagram, and with your permission, we will play your voice note on the show. It would be great for your voice to bring your very own story to life.

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This episode was:

Presented by: Steve Holloway

Written by: Marie Waller

Produced by: Pink Flamingo Home Studio. Follow the studio on Instagram Pink Flamingo Home Studio

Script edited and proofread by: Marie Waller. For more information about Marie’s editing and proofreading services, please contact Marie at mariewaller.proofreading@gmail.com or Marie Waller Proofreading Instagram

On the 15th of September 2024, I attended a ghost hunt at the location of this shows very first episode way back in June 2021. That location was of course, Dudley Castle. Since an early age, I’d had a healthy interest in castles, and knowing that one with such great historical significance was just a short drive away from not only where I grew up, but also where I live now, always seemed surreal.

But throughout my early years, I never really thought of Dudley Castle as a place where ghosts or the spirits of the dead, would haunt…but how wrong I was. Every now and then, an article would appear in a local newspaper, or a story would be heard on radio, retold by either the presenter or news reader, or if you were lucky, by the witness themselves.

Was I about to finally witness...something paranormal???