It's dark, the fairy lights are twinkling, and there's just enough time for a story from the Redways before Christmas - I hope Alison's eerie encounters in the shadow of St Mary's add a suitable shiver to your festive preparations! #UncannyCommunity cityofsecrets.blog/2025/12/23/h...

I'm delighted to hear @stephlay.bsky.social, writer at City of Secrets (cityofsecrets.blog/a-haunting-h...), is joining @weirdinthewade.bsky.social and I to share some stories with you! Please pick up a ticket and join us for some chilling and enchanting winter tales on 29th December.

So excited to be part of this - what an honour! If you're free next Monday evening, do join us for some stories, it would be lovely to have you there :)

Creepy Christmas starts here! I'm so delighted to be part of this episode bringing together listener stories and tales from such brilliant creators - it was an honour to share Amara's story of her years living with an eerie dark presence. Huge thanks to Rob for having me :D #UncannyCommunity

This is super exciting - I’m so happy to be part of this festive special, and honoured to be there with so many very cool people :D

Anyone fancy a cuppa? Tonight’s story from the dark side of Milton Keynes comes from a cosy café - and one sudden, unsettling moment in its storeroom... cityofsecrets.blog/2025/11/23/w... #UncannyCommunity

@rebeccaradford.bsky.social It was so wonderful to meet you today - Nat has the best community, and I’m delighted to be part of it :D

Ooh, Tuesdays for new #uncanny - right, that's going in the calendar. I reckon that next one's going to be rather good :) Thank-you for an awesome listen-along, everyone - I really enjoyed that!

"There's a lot of death on this street" I'm picturing Evelyn striding down the road intoning this at midnight... #uncanny

Disturbances starting with renovations really does seem to be a thing... the scariest story I've collected so far began that way... cityofsecrets.blog/2025/05/09/t... #uncanny

I was lucky enough to be in the audience when this bit was recorded - it was so cool! #uncanny

Tatiana still sounds genuinely rattled retelling this, bless her. Hope she's ok. #uncanny

Altitude sickness is the new infrasound :) #uncanny

It takes some guts to go knocking on your neighbours' doors and asking that - Virginia is awesome. #uncanny

That's SNL Plumbing getting inundated with calls in the morning... #uncanny

Everything starting "insidiously" - love it... #uncanny

Halloween, strong coffee and NEW #uncanny - how very perfect. And this theme tune will always make me shiver :D #UncannyCommunity

Well, that was fun! A properly creepy new story for Halloween - you’re in for a treat tomorrow, #UncannyCommunity! Hey, is anyone planning a listen-along?

:D Still delighted that this happened - so cool!

This is fascinating - reports of spooky happenings across different English Heritage properties www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🌿🪦🌿"Folklore claimed that churchyard yews would stretch a root to the mouth of each corpse, making a hidden green-man of every buried body. Their essence would be drawn in with the sap. The tree would remember them." 📖Deeper Older Darker #FairyTaleTuesday #thicktrunktuesday #FairyTaleFlash

Loved doing this interview - if you’ve not heard it yet, do have a listen :D

We're going to the woods for tonight's story from the dark corners of MK... Amara and her husband have lived with 'the walker' in their home for over 20 years... and he's still with them today. cityofsecrets.blog/2025/10/11/h... #UncannyCommunity

🎃 October’s off to a spooky start on the podcast and two episodes are already out! 👻 @stephlay.bsky.social joins me to explore haunted Milton Keynes 🦕 Ep 117: Monster Month begins with "what is a cryptid?" And another episode drops tomorrow when @icysedgwick.bsky.social and I discuss Ghostlore

New Milton Keynes case! A family haunted across years and houses… footsteps in the night, ghostly apparitions, voices whispering in the dark, scratches on a child’s face. And the name they gave their ghost? It was real. #UncannyCommunity cityofsecrets.blog/2025/10/02/w...

It's here! Listen to me and Rob talking about the dark side of Milton Keynes and the ghost stories I'm finding here. I also read a very creepy story about a mysterious encounter at a local pub: was it a warning, a curse or something even darker? I'd love to know what you think! #UncannyCommunity

Happy Halloween-on-the-horizon! What a massive privilege and delight to be kicking off spooky season with Rob tomorrow - I might stay up till midnight just to see it drop ;) #UncannyCommunity

So exciting!! My chat with Rob will be coming out very soon - and just look at everything else he’s got planned for October! #UncannyCommunity

:D Very exciting to see this go live - thank you to David for featuring my project @spookyisles.bsky.social ! The stories are certainly coming in now - ghost by ghost, the grid is filling up... www.spookyisles.com/ghosts-in-mi... #UncannyCommunity

White rabbits, white rabbits - the first of the month, and that's particularly exciting because it means my article in @hauntedmagazine.bsky.social is going out to the world! It was such an honour to write this, can't wait for people to read it. #UncannyCommunity cityofsecrets.blog/2025/09/01/c...

New blog post from the City of Secrets! My witness Karen finds comfort in messages from beyond - and I wonder why I never had any of my own. cityofsecrets.blog/2025/08/23/a... #UncannyCommunity

Here’s a sneak preview of my article about this surprisingly haunted city! Haunted is out on the 1st of September, in the UK shops a day later and should be with our US and Australian distributors by the end of that week. Order now at hauntedmag.com wherever you are. #UncannyCommunity

I'm sharing a different kind of story tonight - my first interview for the project! It was a pleasure to talk to renowned poet and filmmaker Wade Radford about his teenage ghost hunting days, what MK means to him, and why EVPs are so very scary... cityofsecrets.blog/2025/08/10/g... #UncannyCommunity

New story time! 'Bless The Light' is included in this new anthology from @commapress.bsky.social and is all about rituals, protection and pride - and the things that wait for the darkness to fold in. Thanks again to @mattjwesolowski.bsky.social for a fab course! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...

Milton Keynes people! I've collected true spooky stories from across 25% of the city - but there's still a lot more to find! If you've got a story to share, I want to hear it... cityofsecrets.blog/tell-your-st... Everyone else - v grateful for shares to get the word out! #UncannyCommunity

Very exciting news: I'm going to be one of the 'experts' at this excellent @ifmkfest.bsky.social event! So, if you'd like a slightly more than one-in-four chance of chatting to me about MK's poltergeists, spooks and haunted shops, come along! ifmiltonkeynes.org/event/cabare... #UncannyCommunity

I didn't realise these photos I took the other week would become historic artefacts quite so soon... I'm glad that the site will be used for something now, but it is always sad to see an old landmark vanish. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm delighted to be reviewing these tiny slices of life - it's such an excellent format for capturing the most intense sort of flash story, and it's always a pleasure working with the @fiveminutelit.bsky.social team - if you've got a moment you'd like to share, get your submission in now :)

Ever wonder what's going on in your house when you're not there? My latest haunted Milton Keynes story might have you thinking about that more than usual - read Fiona's story here: cityofsecrets.blog/2025/07/05/w... #UncannyCommunity

That was excellent! "It's the quest for magic, the search for something more out there" - yeah, that! The ghost in the shower - that eerie gentleness - reminded me a lot this story I was told... cityofsecrets.blog/2025/06/07/a... #UncannyCommunity #UncannyListenAlong

Well, I don't care if I'm the only one doing it, I'm going to have my own little #UncannyListenalong at 9pm :P (The fact I've just got in from the pub has nothing at all to do with it!) (I probably won't live post it all though!) #UncannyCommunity @dannyrobins.bsky.social

:D I've just voted for Into The Fog with Peter Laws - podfollow.com/1758531943 in the British Podcast Awards Listeners' Choice Award. I'd love it if you did too: www.britishpodcastawards.com/voting. #UncannyCommunity #BritishPodcastAwards

Did my latest witness see the face of a demon in a burned-out lightbulb? Come with me to Bletchley, where a dark entity lingered until the bulb was smashed. #UncannyCommunity, you'll like this one :) cityofsecrets.blog/2025/06/15/a...

Tonight's eerie MK story comes from Two Mile Ash, and is part two of a tale about shadowy entities that appear in the most unlikely of places. Just to warn you, this one includes themes of domestic abuse and paranormal attachment. #UncannyCommunity cityofsecrets.blog/2025/06/13/t...

How has that been half an hour? That was SO MUCH fun - thanks all! I'm going to have to re-arrange plans to be around for next week's listenalong - there will be one, right? #UncannyCommunity #UncannyListenalong

That's an interesting thought - if there had been repeated experiences in the same bedroom over many years, perhaps people had been regularly feeding The Beast with their fear and dread and it becomes kind of cyclical... (Creeping myself out now) #UncannyCommunity #UncannyListenalong

I'd quite like to meet a demon llama. With horns. Oh, hang on, that's probably just a goat. #UncannyCommunity #UncannyListenalong

Oh, wonderful - Julio's on Zoom direct from The House. Putting in headphones in case there are any - erm - extra voices on the line... #UncannyCommunity #UncannyListenalong

Ah, just the theme music makes me shiver... And yay, WEREWOLF!! #UncannyCommunity #UncannyListenalong

Looking forward to this :D