We are interested in functions analytic in the unit disc D of the complex plane C with a wild behaviour near the boundary T of D. For instance, the main result implies the existence of a residual subset of H(D) whose every element f satisfies the property that, given any compact subset K of T, different from T, given any continuous functions ϕ on K, and any compact set L of D, there exists an increasing sequence (r n) n ⊂ [0, 1) converging to 1, such that f (r n (ζ − z) + z) converges to ϕ(ζ), uniformly for (ζ, z) ∈ K × L, as n goes to ∞. Among other things radial growth of such functions and connections with universal Taylor series are investigated. Functions in the disc algebra whose derivatives disjointly satisfy a somewhat similar universal property, are also exhibited. In some sense, the results are sharp.