Paranormal investigator Danny Robins breaks down famous ghost scenes in film & TV | Break It Down

[@estrellacasias]

I love watching people who are passionate about something talk about it

[@spanglestein66]

Danny ….I love what you do ….I am you as a child …always loved and was terrified by ghost stories….and now I listen to them to fall asleep, not something I could ever have done as a child …..but even now , every so often….I will wake up ( normally to go to the loo ) But I wake with a creeped out sensation, I make sure the lights are on and tell myself “ don’t be silly “ ….and oh so quickly…return to bed at a pace whilst switching of the lights …well , at the speed of lights ….and whumpf back under the covers and in the bed ( not necessarily in that order) Danny robins …..you are brilliant..and I thank you 🙏🏻

[@jonathanwithecombe557]

Danny Robins is my hero! Everything he's done so far has been nothing short of amazing.

[@allie_hart]

I feel like we needed more time with this guy analyzing more movies. For me it was a skeptical click that paid off lol he's great so thank goodness there's a book (yes that's a joke I didn't know penqiun had a channel and I'm delighted 😊)

[@EM-lz9kg]

Van Helsing character is always a huge part in ark of anything. Scary if you look at all of the frightening stories, you have the van, Helsing character On virtually every single scary film, obviously from Dracula onwards is it kindly uncle character that understands the paranormal and the scary and it’s on your side or do anything to try and help resolve the fight

[@StellaMariaGiulia]

As a Battersea poltergeist and Uncanny fan it's good to see you, Danny! 👏

[@thescarletgraywitch8052]

"Mice with a sense of rhythm" 😂 That may beat every explanation Ciaran has put out to explain the encounters in Uncanny. 🤣🤣🤣

[@curiousworld7912]

The best movie with 'ghost hunters' involved, is the classic 1963, Robert Wise version of 'The Haunting'. It's fiction, but it's still one of the creepiest movies, ever.

[@emom358]

I love that movie.

[@curiousworld7912]

@@emom358 It is a really good movie, and the book it's based on is even better. :)

[@AbigayleFall-sp3wt]

The fact that Ghostbusters of all films was the MOST ACCURATE in his book 🫠

[@sandyfeet8175]

Ahhh this was great! Loved it at the time. Janet and her ghost voice - what the heck, I’d love to see you interview Janet. Another great movie “when the lights went out” about 30 East Drive. Family haunting are fascinating.

[@jaynelea5425]

If my memory serves me right I think he did interview Janet in his podcast series about the Enfield poltergeist. Check it out it's a brilliant listen 😊

[@sandyfeet8175]

@@jaynelea5425 I’ve listened to all the Uncanny podcasts and must have missed that, which is good - means there’s more to listen too. He did the Battersea Poltergeist series, which was amazing. But isn’t it a great format? Gripping stuff!

[@EM-lz9kg]

Huge fan of uncanny, I think it’s brilliant, the way that you have the sceptic a non-sceptic analysis looking very closely at two points of you and so wonderful to see you Covering famous hauntings in famous dramas and films huge fan of listening to uncanny on the radio podcast. All of them have been brilliant.

[@marjoriestirk703]

I have just read Into The uncanny. I really enjoyed it. Well worth a read.

[@amacaskill9875]

It's all unreal. Everything he mentions is fantastical. What a fantasist

[@deborahjohnston267]

For me, The Sixth Sense was possibly more plausible than any featured here - though no mention of it being based on reality. Perhaps this reinforces the case for our imagination being more powerful than reality👻 There are a few stories in Danny’s book I’d love to be turned into well made films.that don’t stray too far the wrong side of authenticity. Right now, the ice periodically falling from the freezer shelves as it defrosts is all the material I need to make me jumpy. 🙈😂

[@MartysWhiteSuit]

Seeing that poor Goldfish getting thrown across the room reminds me of a Candid Camera sketch where a man was picking out Goldfish from a bowl and eating them. It turned out to be slices of carrot.

[@EM-lz9kg]

The film The Exorcist with written by William P blatty he really covers the aspects that you must look at the psychological help before you go anywhere near exorcism “ quote “ church said it’s best to see a Dr instead of a exorcism “ date was 1500’s

[@EM-lz9kg]

Ghostbusters was huge fan of Ghostbusters, a kid loved. It had the game on my computer. Commodore, 64 huge fan.

[@teggyegg]

it slightly annoys me when recent films / games use infrared night vision on handheld video cameras, it's really quite rare now. The story should either be set about 20 years ago when it was common on consumer video cameras or the story needs to explain why they have it (story starts with a hipster in niche camera shop and they find a tape in the camera etc). Thermal cameras are probably more commonly laying about now than infrared, not for home video purposes but for technicians, tradesmen etc. Has a thermal camera been used in entertainment in that way yet? I think it could look great, crazy colours, something could be so cold there is a moving void on the screen, calibrating the camera could also be used for suspense. Ramble over.

[@sandyfeet8175]

Demons are “in” at the moment.

[@EM-lz9kg]

EXORCIST is the best horror film ever made because it’s directed by an Oscar-winning Director that won the Oscar for French connection. So when you have a combination for William P BLATTY the PHENOMENAL writing and Oscar-winning Director, you’ve got gOLD

[@paulchaplin73]

I Love, our Danny.

[@MrAB-xc9du]

Probably the horror is inside of every one, however once you get the facts firmly believe then no one scared you any more.

[@otteotte7698]

How does one become an "expert" on the paranormal, exactly?

[@seanwebb605]

I'm perfectly fine with being an expert on fantasy. As soon as they suggest there is a credible poltergeist expert that makes fantasy better I'm done.

[@PrincessJasmin1111]

He’s really cool! Started to write a horror play so asked for people’s ghost stories on Twitter. He got so many that he eventually turned them into podcasts, a book, and a tv show. Cross referencing paranormal experiences is now literally his whole job. He always says he’s neither a sceptic nor a believer - he’s just there to listen to the story. His podcasts are well worth checking out if you like that sort of thing!

[@ivaneames4354]

The dictionary definition of an expert is: "A person with a high level of knowledge or skill relating to a particular subject or activity." He has a wide knowledge of what is believed to be known about the subject, the lore. So yes, the title is completely appropriate.

[@me5969]

If he's looking into it then he is technically an expert I suppose. I personally don't believe in them but until they're proven or disproven then they both exist and don't exist. It's the football pre season now (England) so right now Liverpool, Man United, Everton, West Ham are all equally likely to win the league. Ofc it'll probably be City again now there's no Klopp but we don't know that until proven otherwise. There'll be people who are experts on the multiverse or someone like Tesla who was an expert in cosmic energy, in that the universe was held together by electricity not gravity. I mean technically you can even be definitively wrong and still be an expert. A flat earther is still an expert in flat earth theory or belief or whatever. They're wrong but they're an expert in what flat earthers believe

[@gchecosse]

Uncanny is absolutely brilliant. It's so often reassuringly feeble: I remember something weird happening when I was half asleep 40 years ago(quite a lot of episodes); I saw someone in the distance who vaguely resembled someone who'd died (a few episodes) etc...

[@chrisward1691]

I tend to disagree that Ghostbusters inspired the craze of professional ghost hunters, but maybe I was older than the demographic for that at the time. From my recollection of Ghost Busters (the original) it was a lot of messy monster-like ghosts, rather than the chill-down-your-spine spookiness of rocking chairs rocking with no-one in them or a wispy shadow passing across a door frame. I also consider poltergeists rather uninspiring compared to more ethereal and subtle entities. Maybe that's just me. The best ghost movie I saw was fictional - when I was 15 I watched a late night screening of The Innocents starring Deborah Kerr (based on The Turning Of The Screw). Implied supernatural horror in b&w Victorian glory beat so-called real hauntings like Enfield and Amityville hands down.

[@EM-lz9kg]

I don’t think any of them are accurate. I think that they go for the scare tactics to get people in to see the films. I think the accuracy is based on what to do with peoples own experiences that you covered in uncanny.

[@dunki-dunki-dawg]

I couldn't understand why people were even talking about this movie. It wasn't scary or shocking at all. Compare this tho the opening scene in The Entity and there is no comparison.

[@Highsandlows-k4y]

He actually more of a non believer and likes to debunk ghost stories.

[@wintyrqueen]

Should’ve done the Exorcism of Emily Rose

[@mariharrik5987]

Emily Rose wasn't possessed she was a mentally ill young woman whose church and her Christian parents made her belive she was possessed

[@Chrissie_Foster]

Who's he?

[@stephen11627]

There are no such thing as ghosts only demons! The film Ghostbusters should have been titled Demonbusters because every ghost featured in the film were demons. But Demonbusters isn't as catchy as Ghostbusters is it?

[@frontenac5083]

🤦🤦‍♂🤦‍♀🤦🤦‍♂🤦‍♀

[@Jeremiah59]

Demonic posession is real, however, even catholic exorcists find it is quite rare. What is common is ordinary temptation to evil. Evil in our world is growing unfortunately. Jesus is the truth, the way and the life.

[@tombradford7035]

Love the stories but he's nearly fifty and dresses like a teen emo lol🤣

[@EM-lz9kg]

EnJoyed the Enfield drama series I thought the conjuring 2exaggerated it a bit too much. I’m going a bit too far-fetched actually prefer the drama series

[@audreyjarvismedium9300]

Well Danny, you are doing a great job with your enthusiastic insights into the paranormal. However, your lack of knowledge disappoints me at times with your dismissal of facts. Cheesecloth; do you really think mediums could swallow metres of the material and regurgitate it. Maybe you need to investigate physical mediumship to see this for yourself. It is rare these days but physical mediums are out there that can produce this phenomena!

[@Queenofginger1717]

The exorcist

[@MiataBRG]

I listened to an episode of the Battersea Poltergeist, it was some bloke reciting an MR James ghost story. 🙄

[@AlisonBryen]

And what's wrong with that?

[@psyphi407]

An expert on things that don't exist....right.

[@5hif7yx86]

if hes a paranormal expert, im an expert on bigfoot and the tooth fairy

[@firelizard2]

Studying the history of paranormal accounts doesn't require a literal belief in those accounts. Stories of paranormal activity are a great insight into human minds and behaviour, and there are interesting commonalities and patterns to be observed.

[@psyphi407]

@firelizard2 You wouldn't refer to an expert in comic books as an expert in superpowers.

[@firelizard2]

@@psyphi407 certainly you could consider them an expert in lore if that were the aspect they studied.

[@5hif7yx86]

@@firelizard2 you got a fair point. Thanks

[@StandingTallChannel]

This would be so much more interesting and entertaining if they had a skeptic instead of a ghost hunter. Ghosts aren't real, so all of this is nonsense.

[@neoream3606]

I know nobody's going to look at this comment but there's no such thing as ghosts

[@frontenac5083]

You are correct!

[@balthazarasquith]

Enfield haunting is a well known hoax. It was very sad seeing it mentioned in the series uncanny

[@g4osia42ASH]

And your evidence is???

[@balthazarasquith]

@@g4osia42ASH go do your own research in to it, there's plenty of it about

[@mariharrik5987]

@@g4osia42ASH it has been debunked google it Enfield haunting debunked and you will find evidence dont be naive

[@AlisonBryen]

It's never been definitively disproven.

[@balthazarasquith]

@@AlisonBryen or definitely proven 😁. I just don't trust that Ed Warren dude, he was a major creep

[@5thgen691]

"Paranormal expert" what a joke 😂😂😂🤡

[@ivaneames4354]

The dictionary definition of an expert is: "A person with a high level of knowledge or skill relating to a particular subject or activity." He has a wide knowledge of what is believed to be known about the subject, the lore. So yes, the title is completely appropriate.

[@Kuijk_ENQ]

What a waste of time.

[@seanwebb605]

Penguin are you trying to lose credibility among readers?

[@Dayvit78]

They sell books. Fiction, nonfiction... what do you want?

[@seanwebb605]

@@Dayvit78 As I have posted and others have posted, it's perfectly fine to produce fiction including fantasy. You're bringing on a guy here that says you can have an expert on actual paranormal activity to bring greater credibility to fiction. There is no expert in poltergeists! You might as well say they brought on a Yeti expert and made their fiction more convincing.

[@ivaneames4354]

​@@seanwebb605The dictionary definition of an expert is: "A person with a high level of knowledge or skill relating to a particular subject or activity." He has a wide knowledge of what is believed to be known about the subject, the lore. So yes, the title is completely appropriate.

[@seanwebb605]

@@ivaneames4354 A dictionary is a language reference guide. It describes how words are being used and their intention. It can't square away the idea of an expert in a bullshit area lacking credibility. Try again.

[@talibangb9566]

Next up Unicorn cowboy rates Unicorn scenes in movies.

[@hampysocial9085]

Cold rooms.... Obvious signs of a haunting........come oooon ffs😂.

[@ConradSpoke]

Why is Penguin promoting a double-talking "expert" who claims to distinguish between "authentic" paranormal crap and "unrealistic" paranormal crap? Pathetic.

[@ivaneames4354]

The dictionary definition of an expert is: "A person with a high level of knowledge or skill relating to a particular subject or activity." He has a wide knowledge of what is believed to be known about the subject, the lore. So yes, the title is completely appropriate.

[@seanwebb605]

You can't have a paranormal expert when the entire idea is bullshit. By all mean engage in fantasy. Just don't pretend that there is a credible poltergeist expert. It is bunk.

[@Colchester-Fox]

Have you ever had anything totally unexplainable happen to you? Something that shouldn't be possible?

[@seanwebb605]

@@Colchester-Fox Do you mean to suggest that if someone doesn't understand something or doesn't have a good explanation then it is proof of magic, spirits, a consciousness that has escaped mortality? When does I don't know become evidence of something with no proof?

[@Colchester-Fox]

I'm only asking because something happened to my sister and I when we were in our teens that should have been physically impossible. Scared the wits out of us. When something defies physics, how do you go about describing it? It's definitely not "normal", so does that make it "para-normal"?

[@g4osia42ASH]

And your evidence for your claim is???.....personal opinion isn't evidence so provide something to back up your claim

[@seanwebb605]

@@g4osia42ASH Where did you get this shitty talking point? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I require no evidence to be dismissive of a huge claim that has never had any proof at all.