Synopsis : Are ghosts real? Acclaimed writer and podcaster Danny Robins ventures back into the shadows to continue his spine-tingling search for the truth. From global smash-hit podcasts The Battersea Poltergeist and The Witch Farm, to West End sell-out shocker 2:22 A Ghost Story, Danny Robins’ infectious fascination for the supernatural continues to thrill and chill audiences far and wide. Now his television series exploring alleged hauntings returns for a new series of brave and bizarre investigations. Helping him examine the evidence are resident sceptic Dr Ciarán O’Keeffe and parapsychologist and believer Evelyn Hollow. Together, they try to help those who have experienced the inexplicable decide whether it was all in the mind… or if things really do go bump in the night.

Episode Highlights

Episode 1 – 16 October 2025

In the first case of this series, Danny Robins is joined in the studio by Liam, who grew up on a remote farm near Bury. His happy childhood was marred by ghostly sightings of a little boy and an overbearing, oppressive presence, making him so terrified that, even as an adult, he refused to go upstairs in his house alone. For years, nobody around Liam would acknowledge the strange and frightening activity. When his parents finally opened up, Liam discovered that not only had they seen things too – but that this had been going on for generations before him.

Episode 2 – 23 October 2025

Danny is joined by Sybil, the manager of a charity shop in the home counties. From the day she opened, Sybil felt a strange presence, which only heightened when other workers also said they sensed someone in the shop with them. As time went on and more workers had the same experience, activity began to ramp up. Things started to move in front of multiple witnesses, and when building work was done on the shop, the presence finally revealed itself – to terrifying effect. After the discovery of a hidden room, clues as to who this presence could be come to light.

Episode 3 – 30 October 2025

Danny is joined by Julian for what could be one of the scariest and most unsettling cases he’s ever investigated. After Julian’s family moved into a new house in Crofton near Wakefield in the early 90s, tragedy struck his family on multiple occasions, and a malign presence taking the form of a towering, terrifying shadow man seemed to appear to him and many of his friends. Danny looks into the cultural history of shadow figures, from Inuit folk history to modern internet phenomena, and asks Ciaran and Evelyn to help him unpack Julian’s unsettling account. Could these folkloric tales actually be based on facts?

Episode 4 – 6 November 2025

In the final case of the series, Danny is joined in the studio by Angela and her daughter Emily. They tell him about events that happened to them in the early 2000s when Emily was a child. A seemingly supernatural presence that began as what Angela thought was an imaginary friend, soon grew into something far more terrifying. Both Emily and her sister became too scared to sleep in their rooms, supposedly beset by the malign presence of an old man who threatened Emily and her family. When Angela’s friends and babysitters began to experience things too, refusing to return to the house, Angela worried for the safety of her daughter. Events escalated to the point where the family felt they were physically in danger. 

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