Pauline Dakin is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and a professor of journalism in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, her childhood was marked by many mysterious incidents and unexplained getaways - where her family suddenly had to flee at a moment's notice and she couldn't talk to anyone about what was going on. Pauline tells Jo Fidgen how she managed to uncover her family's extraordinary secret - including a hidden community called the 'weird world'.

This interview was first broadcast in December 2017

Presenter: Jo Fidgen

Producers: Becky Vincent, Thomas Harding-Assinder, Maryam Maruf

Picture: Pauline Dakin

Picture credit: Penguin