A haunted farmhouse, tested like evidence.
The Witch Farm follows the Heol Fanog case, where Liz and Bill Rich’s move to a remote Brecon Beacons farmhouse became a long-running paranormal ordeal. It mixes witness testimony, dramatic reconstruction, sceptical challenge, local folklore, and case-update episodes that keep testing each theory against the next strange detail.
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The Witch Farm is a BBC paranormal investigation built around Heol Fanog, a remote farmhouse beneath the Brecon Beacons. The case begins with a family looking for a fresh start. Then the house changes shape. Liz and Bill Rich’s experiences are presented through testimony, reconstruction, commentary, and return visits that keep the fear close to the ground. The series does not treat every strange event as proof. It keeps asking what else might explain it. Thunderous footsteps are weighed against dream-state possibilities. Phantom door-banging, frightening smells, apparitions, alleged possession, animal deaths, and a huge electricity bill become recurring pieces of evidence rather than isolated scares. That structure gives the show its grip. A scene lands, then the investigation circles back and tests it. Liz Rich’s discomfort outside the gate is one of the show’s strongest signals, because the story keeps returning to how fear sounds in a witness’s voice. Bill Rich and the family remain central to the emotional stakes. Ciaran brings sceptical pressure, while Evelyn’s comments help place the phenomena inside familiar haunting patterns. Case-update episodes make the series feel unusually alive. Listener questions push the show toward local resentment, poisoning theories, animal disease, and the obvious but complicated question of why the family did not simply leave. The Welsh landscape matters too. Local Brecon historian Mike Williams connects the surrounding hills to older stories, ancient routes, witchcraft, and Gwyn Ap Neath. Later material moves into ritual, magic circles, and Welsh spiritual practice without losing the investigative frame. The show is best for listeners who want a haunting with witnesses, folklore, and arguments, not just atmosphere. It has plenty of dread, but its real appeal is the methodical return to the same unsettling evidence from another angle.
Made for: For listeners drawn to paranormal cold cases, haunted-house testimony, Welsh folklore, and sceptical back-and-forth. It works especially well for people who like supernatural stories that keep one foot in investigation.
What sets it apart: The series balances a genuinely frightening farmhouse case with case updates, listener theories, sceptical analysis, and local Welsh history. It feels less like a campfire story than a strange file being reopened in public.
It's 1989, rural Wales, a lonely old farmhouse in the shadow of the imposing Brecon Beacons mountains. Young, pregnant Liz Rich and her artist husband Bill rent an isolated farmhouse in the Welsh countryside, with Bill's teenage son Laurence. They're hoping for a fresh start, but the house holds dark secrets, and the family's new life becomes a terrifying ordeal that will change them forever. Their dream home has become a haunted nightmare - but what is real and what is in their minds? Written and presented by Danny Robins, creator of The Battersea Poltergeist, Uncanny and West End hit 2:22...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A haunting investigation that tests supernatural claims while tracing how fear reshapes a family and its understanding of home.
The Witch Farm turns one family's account of a haunting into a layered investigation of fear, memory and belief. Danny Robins follows Liz, Bill and Laurence through alleged apparitions, possession and disturbing animal deaths, while keeping the family's changing relationships in…
Marion Holborn's armchair turns "seeing is believing" into your least comfortable question.
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A haunted-house story that keeps testing belief without losing its footing.
This chapter pushes The Witch Farm into a more active stretch of the story, picking up the fallout from the previous chapter and moving deeper into the house's odd geography. The mediums, Echo the horse, and the dowsing keep it balanced between folklore and evidence.
A chapter that turns the story toward murder, local history, and steadily building dread.
The Witch Farm pivots from haunted-house shocks into a darker murder thread tied to local history, and the material feels strongest when it slows down and lets the evidence, Bethan Morgan's find, and Bill's guilt do the work.
A haunted-house chapter where family fear and Marion Holborn's presence carry the weight.
Episode 4 deepens the haunting around Marion Holborn, and the most unsettling point is Liz's certainty that the woman she saw was Marion, who died aged 95 in 1980.
A possession story that stays grounded in fear, family, and doubt.
The Old Woman keeps The Witch Farm focused on a plain but uneasy question: what counts as evidence when a house starts to feel wrong? The remembered exorcism, Liz's sighting of an old woman, and Lawrence's sudden change all read as possible clues, while Bill's belief that his…
A Welsh farmhouse haunting told with patience and restraint, and just enough chill to keep the door open.
Danny Robbins treats the Brecon Beacons farmhouse like a case file, not a cheap scare machine. He starts with the Rich family moving into Heol Fanog in 1989, then lets the unease build through the first footsteps and the phantom door banging until the house feels stubbornly…
Listener theories shift the focus from shocks to possible explanations.
The episode becomes a listener-theory roundtable, moving away from the early shocks and into the question of what might actually be going on. It passes through resentment from local Welsh neighbours, the idea that the haunting may have been planted, and more skeptical takes like…
Queer confessions with dangerous momentum.
Adult fantasy with sharp power dynamics.
Commanding audio erotica that still makes time for decorating.
This bonus episode of Witch Farmers, recorded live in Cardiff, promises to share new information about an ancient evil after a two-month hiatus.
This episode investigates a haunted house case through an interview with Liz Rich, exploring fear and paranormal experiences at Ilvanog.
This episode provides a case update on a supernatural investigation, addressing why people don't leave haunted houses and introducing a new witness in the Hale Vanogh case.
This podcast series investigates a paranormal cold case about a family who moved into a remote Welsh farmhouse in 1989 that turned out to be haunted.
A BBC podcast explores the Welsh legend of Gwyn Ap Neath and the wild hunt associated with Van Neve hill, connecting ancient folklore to the landscape.
This episode explores potential US military strategies against Iran, featuring insights from Pentagon war-gaming, while also incorporating mystical elements with a witch in a Welsh forest.
Local historian Bethan Morgan reveals surprising findings about the history of Bill and Liz's house while investigating whether it's haunted.
In 1989, a young couple named Liz and Bill Rich moved their family into a remote Welsh farmhouse nestled beneath the Brecon Beacons.
The host of 'The Witch Farm' presents the first case update episode, addressing listener theories about the Hale-Van Og haunting in Wales and introducing solicitor Glyn Maddox, who attempted to challenge electricity board Swaylec over bills four times the expected amount before concluding he could not litigate against spirits.
The episode starts in a Brecon hotel room and feels overloaded with clues from the first minute.
The episode opens on the fallout from episode four.
Liz's old-woman sighting sits at the centre of the episode.
The haunting tightens.