Genuinely supernatural entity or the (Spring-heeled) Jackass of the Victorian era? Can we get to the bottom of this terrifying mystery of a violent, seemingly paranormal prankster roaming the streets of Victorian London? Uncanny Cold Cases | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Are you coming to @hayfestival.bsky.social this year? I am getting excited about a special event we’re doing on Sunday 24th May - HAUNTED HAY 👻 It’s a night exploring local Hay ghost stories & the power of literature to scare us. Find tickets here: hayfestival.com/p-25271-danny-robins.aspx

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Thank you for joining me for this week’s #UncannyColdCases episode #UncannyCommunity! Here are some illustrations of Spring-heeled Jack, the bizarre entity we discuss in Case 7…is this how you imagined him? If you haven’t yet shared your theory - who, or what was Spring-heeled Jack? Let me know! 😱

10 MINS TO GO until this week’s #UncannyColdCases YouTube Premiere! ARE YOU READY to investigate Case 7: Spring-heeled Jack together?! Watch here: youtube.com/@BBCUncannyPodcast 📺😱

30 MINS TO GO until the YouTube Premiere of #UncannyColdCases Case 7: Spring-heeled Jack drops 😱😬 Stick all your theories on who - or what - you think this potentially paranormal prankster could be in the Live Chat as we watch! Tune in here: youtube.com/@BBCUncannyPodcast

ONE HOUR TO GO until the YouTube Premiere of this week’s brand new episode of #UncannyColdCases… Case 7: Spring-heeled Jack 🫣😱 ARE YOU READY to investigate this strange, springy and seemingly supernatural case???!! Watch here at 7:30pm: youtube.com/@BBCUncannyPodcast

In Victorian London, reports flood in of attacks by a creature who slashes victims with his sharp claws and jumps over impossibly tall obstacles 😱😱😱 Violent prankster? Supernatural entity? Or something else entirely?! Uncanny Cold Cases | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube at 7:30pm tonight

Yes! An infamous case and I’m gonna enjoy listening to this!

#UncannyColdCases, Case 7: Spring-heeled Jack is OUT NOW on BBC Sounds and wherever you find your podcasts!! 😱😱 Join us to investigate this truly weird case that has remained unsolved for almost 200 years! Listen here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This is the imprint of a waffle on my laptop cover. My son put a waffle on my laptop cover. 😩

Interesting article in last week’s copy of The Week Junior! Bet @ciaranokeeffe.bsky.social would agree!

Took the family to see the #YamatoDrummers, a Japanese Taiko drumming group, last week - high energy drumtastic fun. Their run at the Peacock Theatre ends on the 30th May! 🥁

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Next Saturday Evelyn, Ciarán and I will be at the @hayfestival.bsky.social!!! Here are some spooky reading suggestions 👻 I’ll also be bringing a special spooky event to the festival…Haunted Hay! An evening investigating the most haunted corners of the town 😱 Grab tickets here: tinyurl.com/wvd35973

Really enjoyed this weeks #uncanny with @dannyrobins.bsky.social . The Ghosts of HMS Asp made and appearance on my own podcast Time between Times a little while ago . Have a listen here open.spotify.com/episode/5FHy...

Here’s an outtake from this week’s #UncannyColdCases [email protected]'s take on how a supernatural touch on his leg would make him feel! Listen to Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube here: youtube.com/@BBCUncannyPodcast 👻

Creeped-out crew abandon their stations as seemingly paranormal activity takes over HMS Asp and before the captain can find an explanation, he wakes to a terrifying sensation… Warning: may cause spontaneous cries of “shiver-me-timbers”🥶😱 Uncanny Cold Cases | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube

Pete, who commented on YouTube, has a #TeamSceptic theory on our latest #UncannyColdCases episode for you, @ciaranokeeffe.bsky.social! Could the sailors have had ergot poisoning? If you haven’t caught the episode yet, listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube here: youtube.com/@BBCUncannyPodcast 🌊👻

Can the activity aboard HMS Asp be paranormal or is fear itself causing sailors to faint?! Hit the high seas with us this week as we dive to the depths of this historic case! What can we make sense of? And what secrets still remain? ⚓️🌊 Uncanny Cold Cases | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube

The @hayfestival.bsky.social is next week! Amongst other spine-chilling events, I’m bringing something VERY special to this year’s festival… 😱👻HAUNTED HAY👻😱 An evening investigating the most haunted corners of HAY ITSELF!!! Get tickets here: www.hayfestival.com/p-25271-danny-robins.aspx

10 MINS TO GO until #UncannyColdCases Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp ⚓️ drops on YouTube!! Do you have your Uncanny bingo cards at the ready, #UncannyCommunity?! Watch here: youtube.com/@BBCUncannyPodcast

30 MINS TO GO until the YouTube Premiere of #UncannyColdCases, Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp! 😱 Don’t forget to drop your best theories (and sailor-related puns) in the Live Chat as we watch! Watch here at 7:30pm: youtube.com/@BBCUncannyPodcast

ONE HOUR TO GO until the YouTube Premiere of #UncannyColdCases Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp 🌊👻 Our witness, Captain Alldridge, wrote this letter about his seemingly haunted ship…tune in at the link below to find out what spooked even this most sceptical seaman! ⚓️🫣 youtube.com/@BBCUncannyPodcast

Goths CAN swim according to Evelyn Hollow - when a haunted ship is in the water⚓️👻 This week on #UncannyColdCases, potentially paranormal activity aboard HMS Asp is escalating. What pushes the captain to his limit? Find out NOW! Uncanny Cold Cases | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube at 7:30pm

#UncannyColdCases Case 6: The Haunting of HMS Asp is OUT NOW on BBC Sounds and wherever you find your podcasts!! 🌊👻 ⚓️ Can we explain the unsettling phenomena plaguing a boat-full of sailors and a sceptical captain?!! Listen at the link below to find out… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Have you spotted this #UncannyColdCases trailer on the telly? 😱 What has been your favourite case we have explored so far in this brand new series?

After listening to last week’s episode of #UncannyColdCases, fans Martin and Jemma sent me this photo from their holiday last summer in Sandown on the Isle of Wight! Has anyone else spotted these creepy posters in Sandown?? 🫣

#Uncanny fan Sanna’s theory on this week’s #UncannyColdCases episode is that the Sandown Clown was a fossil-hunting diver! This is a diving suit designed by Leonardo da Vinci, which resembles our clown...what do make of this theory? Listen to Case 5 on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube! 📸 Francis Lenn

Here are the images of the Cottingley Fairies that @ciaranokeeffe.bsky.social talks about this week on #UncannyColdCases! Bearing this in mind, should we be wary of the testimony of children in paranormal cases? Or could children be more receptive to the paranormal? 📸 Dominic Winter Auctioneers

Last night was our 72nd - and final - Uncanny: Fear of the Dark show!😱😱😱 It felt surreal bringing this tour to an end with these shows in my local @sohotheatre.bsky.social, after taking it to #Uncanny fans all across the UK and Ireland. Empty seats due to gaps left for cameras filming the show!

In 1973, 2 children are drawn across a stretch of marshland towards a piercing, mechanical wail…what they find has become one of the strangest cases in paranormal history. 😱 Is All Colours Sam a man? A ghost? Or something else entirely… Uncanny Cold Cases | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube

Why is there a seven-foot-tall clown holding its breath underwater on the Isle of Wight?! Can the Sandown Clown genuinely be a paranormal creature roaming the Isle of Wight? Or is there a way to explain what our witnesses saw?🤡😱 Uncanny Cold Cases | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

These are the shiver-inducing ORIGINAL drawings of the subject of the latest #UncannyColdCases episode: the Sandown Clown! 🤡 W-T-the actual-F is going on here? Keep your theories coming! If you haven’t heard or seen the episode yet, listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube here: tinyurl.com/4fszzjd7

Just under 30 MINS until the YouTube Premiere for #UncannyColdCases, Case 5: The Sandown Clown 🤡😱🫣 and until we go on stage for the penultimate Uncanny: Fear of the Dark tour show! I can’t wait to read your theories when I come offstage!!! Tune in at 7:30pm here: youtube.com/@bbcuncannypodcast

Just about to do the sound check for our penultimate Uncanny: Fear of the Dark show at Soho Theatre in Walthamstow! Tonight’s show is #71 out of an amazing spine-tingling 72 shows that have taken us all over the UK, playing to 80,000 people! It will be emotional to wrap it up, #UncannyCommunity! 😱

In Spring 1973, on the Isle of Wight, two children encounter a 7-foot-tall creature with a bizarre, unsettling appearance. Otherworldly visitor? Ghost? Hallucination? Find out more NOW! Uncanny Cold Cases | Listen on BBC Sounds & watch on YouTube - YouTube premiere tonight at 7:30pm 😱😱😱

#UncannyColdCases Case 5: The Sandown Clown 🤡 is OUT NOW on BBC Sounds!!! Today we investigate a creature that is like nothing we have ever seen before on #Uncanny! But can it really defy explanation??? Listen here to find out: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vydd

We are there tomorrow and Weds night! FINAL shows of our tour!!! 👻

Off to a barbecue. 10-year-old son: “Is it going to be one of those adult barbecues where everyone’s just ‘chatting?” The word ‘chatting’ could not have been delivered with more disdain.

The Recommender: @dannyrobins.bsky.social The creator and presenter of #Uncanny, the hit paranormal podcast and TV show, shares his latest cultural favourites www.thenerve.news/p/the-recomm...

If you’re enjoying #UncannyColdCases so far, why not come and see us do a live episode recording at Crossed Wires Festival in Sheffield? We’re going to be investigating a historical paranormal case live on stage! Check it out at crossedwires.live 😄

Boo-dunnit? 👻 Accusations from beyond the grave provoked a murder trial in 1890s West Virginia - but what happens when a ghost accuses somebody of murder on the dark and dingy streets of 18th Century London? Uncanny Cold Cases | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Alex, an #Uncanny fan who makes electronic music under the name The Central Office of Information, made an ALBUM inspired by the Uncanny case ‘The Evil in Room 611’! 💿🤯 I’m blown away by the creativity of our #UncannyCommunity! Thanks for sharing Alex! Listen to the album here: tinyurl.com/3zv8j574

Less than ONE WEEK until the LAST Uncanny: Fear of the Dark shows! 😱😱😱 Explore SIX potentially paranormal cases with us for the LAST TIME on the 5-6 May in my local @sohotheatre.bsky.social, Walthamstow. Grab the last few tickets at tinyurl.com/3k9ybw8a See you very soon, #UncannyCommunity! 👻

Could we be dealing with a poo-tergeist? 💩 Which of Ciarán’s theories might explain the potentially paranormal phenomena in Case 4: The Cock Lane Poltergeist? And what defies explanation?! 🫣😱 Uncanny Cold Cases | Listen on BBC Sounds and watch on YouTube

Cock Lane is well-known for the ‘Scratching Fanny’ haunting discussed in #UncannyColdCases but this statue marks it as where the Great Fire of London was put out! If you can keep a straight face with all the innuendos, tell me your theories on Case 4, OUT NOW on BBC Sounds & YouTube! 📸 Donnchadh H

Less than 10 MINS TO GO until #UncannyColdCases, Case 4: The Cock Lane Poltergeist drops on YouTube! Are you ready, #UncannyCommunity??!!👻😱 Watch here: youtube.com/@BBCUncannyPodcast

Less than 30 MINS TO GO until the #UncannyColdCases YouTube Premiere for Case 4: The Cock Lane Poltergeist!!! 🚨⏰ Drop your theories on this case in the Live Chat as we watch! Can we make sense of this enduring case together??? Watch here at 7:30: youtube.com/@BBCUncannyPodcast

ONE HOUR TO GO until the YouTube Premiere of #UncannyColdCases, Case 4: The Cock Lane Poltergeist 👻 Tune in at 7:30pm here: youtube.com/@BBCUncannyPodcast We’ll be taking you to the rattling rafters of Cock Lane, London, in the 18th Century…where a poltergeist seems to be lurking. 📸 MattFromLondon