Unexplained
Unexplained is a haunting and unsettling bi-weekly podcast about strange and mysterious real life events that continue to evade explanation. A story-based show mixing spoken-word narrative, history and ideas - often to terrifying effect - that explores the space between what we think of as real and what is not; where sometimes belief can be as concrete as 'reality,' whatever that is.
Episodes
S09E35: A Land of Darkness Pt.1 of 2 (The Guarulhos Poltergeist)
Back in the 1970s, in a quiet house on the edge of São Paulo, a young family became besieged by a series of inexplicable events, each more terrifying than the next. What followed would last more than a decade, and would leave even trained investigators and committed people of science struggling to explain it. Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Emma Dibdin. Watch/follow a
S09E34: Nine Lives (The Satanic Cat of Killakee )
In 1968, Margaret O'Brien moved into a crumbling hunting lodge outside Dublin, hoping to fill it with artists. Instead she found herself at the mercy of terrifying forces beyond her control, and at the centre of it all, one strange, unnerving black cat, that some believed was not of this world... Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebo
S09E33: The Day You Came to Me (The Grand Canyon Plane Crash Mystery)
In 1956, two airliners collided over the Grand Canyon, killing all 128 people on board. Two weeks later, two students set off into the Canyon, journeying through a landscape steeped in ancient Native American history and haunted by stories of those who never left... Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexp
S09E32: The Long and Lonely Road (The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction Mystery)
While out on a lonely stretch of Route 3, driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Betty and Barney Hill claim to have encountered something not of this world. They would spend the rest of their lives trying to unravel what that something was exactly. Written by Emma Dibdin and Richard MacLean Smith Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplained
S09E31: Let's Get Wild (The Beast of Gévaudan)
For three terrifying years in 18th Century France, something stalked the people of the Gévaudan region. It's said to have killed over a hundred mostly women and children. But what on earth was this thing? Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/pr
S09E30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (The Scole Experiment), 2/2
The second and final part of Unexplained S09E30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (The Scole Experiment). In October of 1993, the living members of the Scole Experiment Group had supposedly made contact with one spirit, but that was just the beginning. And what incredible sights they had to show them... Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplained
S09E30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (The Scole Experiment), 1/2
In the waning years of the twentieth century, a group of researchers decided to finally tackle the great enigma. Namely, does life... do we… ever really end? This is the extraordinary story of the Scole Experiment Group. Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/u
S09E29: The Howling Woods (The Michigan Dogman)
Dog-headed men haunted the fringes of the entire ancient world. With time, these stories have steadily dissolved into folklore, and the world moved on from such tall tales. However, there does remain one corner of the modern world in which the dogman has not yet been explained into extinction... Written by Neil McRobert and Produced by Richard MacLean Smith Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplained
S09E28: Laughter Cracking Through the Walls (The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn)
A mysterious cipher manuscript. Correspondence from an enigmatic figure in Germany. And countless claims from some of the most erudite personalities of the day, that the magic actually worked... This is the strange story of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app
S09E27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 3 of 3)
In the third and final part of Unexplained Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery, Ted Binion is dead. What seems like a fairly uncontroversial drug overdose soon becomes something a little murkier... But just how much did Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish have to do with it? Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.c
S09E27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 2 of 3)
In Part 2 of Unexplained Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery, we dig deeper into the controversial and complicated nature of Ted Binion's life. Meanwhile, on a night out at the famous Piero's restaurant, Ted and Sandy meet a man named Rick Tabish. Some might say, it was all down hill from there... Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpo
S09E27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 1 of 3)
One night in September 1998, three men dug up a vault load of silver from a vacant lot in Pahrump, Nevada. The only problem was, the silver wasn't theirs to take. And so begins one of the wildest stories ever to come out of Vegas, of love, betrayal and maybe, murder... Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplain
S09E26: In Through the Out Door (The Brian Shaffer Mystery)
In April 2006, a 27-year-old med student walks into a bar but seemingly never comes out. It sounds like the beginning of a joke but has been nothing but a nightmare for the family of Brian Shaffer. Shaffer's disappearance, part locked-room mystery, part cautionary tale, remains one of the strangest vanishings of recent times. Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. Watc
S02E03: The Last Flight (RERUN)
It's been calculated that likelihood of the human race being the only sophisticated life form in the milky way is a one in sixty billion chance. The milky way is one of 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. The following story is considered by many UFOlogists to be among the most compelling pieces of evidences of an alien visitation to our planet. Just what happened in the sk
S09E25: Desert Rain Pt.2 of 2 (The Disappearance of Daniel Robinson)
The second part of Season 09 Episode 25: Desert Rain As search teams struggle to find any sign of Daniel, a private investigator uncovers a promising lead. But will it lead to any more answers or just more questions... Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unex
S09E25: Desert Rain Pt. 1 of 2 (The Disappearance of Daniel Robinson)
In June 2021, just outside of Phoenix, Arizona, 24-year-old geologist Daniel Robinson, drove off into the desert and was never seen again. What exactly happened to him remains one of the most tragic and beguiling mysteries of recent times. Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, fa
S09E24: Audi Altarem Partem (The Teresita Basa Mystery)
When Teresita Basa was found murdered in her Chicago apartment in 1977, police had more or less given up on ever catching her killer. That was until one of Teresita's colleagues claimed the dead woman was speaking to her in her sleep... Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedp
S09E23: We All Fall Down (The Holinwell Incident)
On a warm summer afternoon in 1980, hundreds of children gathered on the grounds of a quiet village school fair in the English countryside. There was music and laughter. Then, without warning, one by one, the children began to collapse... Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, fac
S09E22: Dwell Among the Bones (The Fox Hollow Farm Murders)
In 2006, Vicki and Rob Graves got an absolute steal when they purchased a property in the idyllic countryside of Indiana, for almost three times below the original asking price. The only problem was, that property was Fox Hollow Farm... Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/u
S09E21: Triangled Veils (The Disappearance of Flight 19)
On December 5th 1945, five US Navy aircraft along with all crew disappeared on a routine training exercise in an area known today as the Bermuda Triangle. What exactly happened to them is thought by some to be one of the strangest aviation mysteries of all time. Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twit
S09E20: Over the Hills and Far Away (The Gerry Irwin Incident)
On the night of February 28th, 1959, 23-year-old Gerry Irwin was discovered unconscious deep in thick brush near a lonely stretch of Route 14 in Utah — miles from the nearest town. He claimed to have no idea how he got there. Some believe Gerry was abducted by aliens, others that perhaps something far darker was at play... Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. F
S09E19: Something in the Water (The Shark Arm Case)
In April 1935, a tiger shark was exhibited in a salt water pool in Sydney, Australia. Then it regurgitated something unexpected. What followed was one of the most bizarre and chilling mysteries in Australian history... Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplaine
S09E18: It Lingers There (The Haunting of Summerwind Mansion)
Tucked deep in the woods of Wisconsin, Summerwind Mansion became home to the Hinshaw family—but something in the house wasn't right. What they experienced inside those walls would follow them long after they left, though no one can quite agree on what was really there... Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, t
S09E17: Unsettled Dust (The Sneha Anne Philip Mystery)
On September 11th 2001, the day the world changed forever, Sneha Anne Philip - along with 2977 others - was never seen again. But in the shadow of the Twin Towers, her final hours dissolve into fragments: a last sighting, a missing night, a timeline that doesn't quite fit. As a nation mourned, Sneha's loved ones were left wrestling with a seemingly impossible question. Was she lost to history, or
S09E16: Primum Non Nocere (The Waverly Hills Sanatorium)
In the early 1900's Kentucky's Jefferson County was struggling to contain an outbreak of TB. In the end, a vast new facility was built to try and get control of it, and treat all those who had ocntracted it. Many did not survive. The hospital was called the Waverley Hills Sanatorium. Today, some believe it is the most haunted hospital in the United States. Written by Neil McRober
S09E15: Red Dust Pt.2 of 2 (The Strange Murder or Pamela Werner)
The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust Things take an even darker turn when police uncover details of strange weekend retreats taking place in the hills to the west of the city, organised by debonair American dentist Wentworth Prentice. Everything seems to link back to a seedy bar in the Badlands known as No. 28. But will any of it lead to Pamela's killer? Written by Dia
S09E15: Red Dust Pt.1 of 2 (The Strange Murder or Pamela Werner)
In the winter of 1937, in Beijing, a young woman vanished on her way home under the shadow of the Fox Tower — a crumbling relic long associated with whispers, superstition, and unease. What followed would become one of the most haunting mysteries in the history of Beijing... Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcas
S09E14: Cats in the Cradle (The Tromp Family Case)
In the winter of 2016, a bizarre story began to unfold about a farming family from a small town just east of Melbourne, Australia. The family appeared to have fled their home in a state of utter panic, telling no one why or where they had gone. The truth was even stranger than anyone could possibly have imagined. Written by Richard MacLean Smith and James Connor Patterson Find us at yo
S09E13: The Weight of Empty Space (Haunted Manila)
On November 17, 1981 an event occurred at the construction site of the soon to be Manila Film Centre in the Philippines that is almost too shocking to believe. Today the site is one of many that has become part of a burgeoning Dark Tourism scene... Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Diane Hope Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod,
S0E912: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red Pt.3 of 3 (Charles Walton Murder)
The third and final part of Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red Digging into the local history, investigators uncover strange tales of witchcraft that have plagued the area for generations, including the chilling case of Ann Tenant. But surely, it couldn't possibly have had anything to do with Charles' murder, could it? Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patt
S09E12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red Pt.2 of 3 (The Charles Walton Murder)
Part two of Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red. With local police ill-equipped to deal with such a strange and brutal murder, the London Met's greatest living police officer, Detective Inspector Robert Fabian, is drafted in to help. Despite presiding over every criminal case imaginable in all his twenty years of service, he hasn't seen anything yet... Written by Richard MacL
S09E12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red Pt.1 of 3 (The Charles Walton Murder)
To some, folk beliefs are little more than the harmless superstitions of a bygone age. For others, such beliefs and practices are something to be deeply feared as nothing less than the work of the Devil… Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, faceboo
S09E11: The Grey Zone (Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui)
In 1925, experienced mountaineer and man of science Prof. John Norman Collie gave a lecture to a climbing club in the Scottish Highlands. Concluding his talk, Collie told his stunned audience that he believed there was something very strange stalking the highest peak of the local Cairngorm's mountain range. Something that had so frightened him, he would never go back there again... Written b
S09E10: Me and the Devil Blues (The Mystery of Robert Johnson)
Sometime in the mid 1930s, a young budding bluesman appeared on the scene, suddenly possessed of a talent for playing the guitar, which he’d never shown before. Over time a strange rumour began to spread, that the young man hadn't achieved his talent all on his own... Written by James Conor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpo
S09E09: The Uninvited Pt.2 of 2 (The Smurl Family Haunting)
The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited After years appearing to endure a series of increasingly bizarre and terrifying paranormal occurrences in their home, the Smurl family finally decide to call in some real help. Enter Lorraine and Ed Warren, perhaps the world's most famous paranormal investigators... Written by Neil McRobert and produced Richard MacL
S09E09: The Uninvited Pt.1 of 2 (The Smurl Family Haunting)
What if you invested so much in a new home that you were forced to stay, even once you realised that you might not be the only inhabitants? And what if those other, most unwelcome housemates proved to be more frightening than anything you could possibly imagine? Written by Neil McRobert and produced Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast
S09E08: A Black Star Over His Shoulder (The Peter Bergmann Case)
It's almost inconceivable that, with the advancement of technology and the normalisation of surveillance, someone could suddenly appear in a well-populated town with no trace of who they are or where they came from. And yet, that’s exactly what happened in 2009, during one strange summer in a picturesque seaside town in the west of Ireland… Written by James Conor Patterson and Richard
S06E11: Slide Away - RERUN (The Bennington Triangle)
With unexplained on a short break for the holiday season we’ll be dipping back into the archive for one more week. In this week’s episode we return to Bennington, Vermont, where between 1945–1950, four people vanished without trace in an area dubbed the Bennington Triangle, so called, because of the many strange and weird occurrences said to have taken place there. In 1946, 18-ye
S02E4: When the Snow Melts - RERUN (The Dyatlov Pass Incident)
With unexplained on a short break for the holiday season we’ll be dipping back into the archive for the next two weeks. On Friday January 23rd 1959, a story begins from out of the foothills of the Ural Mountains. A story that is perhaps the most extraordinary of all the stories ever featured on the show. Some call it the Dyatlov Pass Incident. You might know it
S09E07: The Stove Goblin (The Goblin of Zaragoza)
In September 1934, amidst wide political unrest, something was stirring in the home of the Palazon family in Zaragoza, Spain. What started as a strange burst of maniacal laughter, soon transformed into the terrifying haunting known the world over as ‘El Duende de Zaragoza’… ‘The Goblin of Zaragoza’. Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith Find us
S09E06: Full Fathom Five (MV Joyita Mystery)
Some say the MV Joyita was always cursed, others laughed it off. What is beyond dispute, is that on one hot day in October 1955 the ship and its 25 passengers and crew set sail on a routine journey from Samoa to the Tokelau islands. And none of them were ever seen again. Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, tw
S09E05: Did You Ever See a Dream (David Booth Premonition)
In the early hours of Tuesday 15th May 1979, 23-year-old David Booth awoke from a terrible dream, sweating profusely with tears in his eyes. In it, he watched as a silver American Airlines plane fell from the sky and crashed right in front of him. Then he had the dream again. And again. Soon he began to wonder, what if it wasn't just a dream? Written by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com
S09E04: To Each Man His Castle Pt. 2 of 2 (Edward Leedskalnin's Coral Castle)
The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 4: To Each Man His Castle We return to the Florida scrubland as Edward Leedskalnin embarks on his strange solitary mission to build a vast megalithic dreamscape carved from oolite limestone. Then the rumours begin; whispers of huge stones being moved about as if freed from gravity itself, and of a strange black box equipped with otherworldly pow
S09E04: To Each Man His Castle Pt.1 of 2 (Edward Leedskalnin's Coral Castle)
In the winter of 1923, Edward Leedskalnin, a small, sickly man, stepped out of the Florida sun and onto a patch of coral bedrock, as though he had finally reached the end of a long and mysterious pilgrimage. In time, he would carve that ground into a place so strange and improbable that—if the whispers are to be believed—could only have been built with the aid of otherworldly pow
S09E03: Get Out (The Ghost Town of Portlock)
Deep in Alaska, in the ghost town of Portlock, villagers once whispered of something colossal stalking the fog—an unseen presence that is said to have left shredded camps and vanished men in its wake. Decades later, the forest is silent, but the stories have never gone away... Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodca
S09E02: Too Cold Always (Killing of Janet Moses)
When a young woman in a small New Zealand town begins to act strangely, her family becomes convinced that something evil has taken hold of her. What follows is a chilling descent into fear and faith... Written by Richard MacLean Smith and James Connor Patterson Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.un
S09E01: Beneath the Moon's Pale Beams (The Disappearance of Cindy Song)
On Halloween night, 2001, a bright Penn State student named Cindy Song vanished into the cold air of rural Pennsylvania after a night out with friends. Only a few scattered clues would ever surface, each stranger than the last. What happened that night has haunted her friends, detectives, and an entire community for over two decades. In this episode of Unexplained, we go back to that night -
S05E09: Tenebrous (The Hinterkaifeck Murders) - RERUN
SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST Our final journey into the archive takes us to the remote Bavarian countryside in 1922, to a lonely farmstead and the family who lived there, where something unspeakable was about to unfold. It was a place where shadows seemed to linger a little too long, and where the boundary between safety and terror proved to be as fragile as a footprint in fresh snow. The w
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S04E13: Lost in Stormy Visions (Lost Colony of Roanoke) - RERUN
SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST This week's rerun takes us to what to some were the unknown shores of a mysterious New World, but for others was simply home. It is the late 16th century - an age of exploration and discovery, when maps still bore the warning "here be dragons" and for ambitious Europeans the Atlantic Ocean stretched like an endless void between the known and the unknowable
S03E04: From Here to Eternity (The Curse of Tutankhamun ) - RERUN
SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST This week's rerun takes us to Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922, where years of painstaking excavation were about to yield one of archaeology's greatest discoveries. For centuries, the ancient burial grounds had surrendered their secrets reluctantly, but one tomb had remained hidden, lying in the darkness beneath the desert sands... When that first crack of li
S04E20: The Homecoming (Travis Walton Abduction) - RERUN
SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST This week's rerun takes us back to the forests of Arizona in November 1975, where a crew of loggers were finishing another hard day's work in the wilderness. It was meant to be routine - just another evening drive back to town through the darkening woods, a journey they'd made countless times before. But when the crew returned that night, one of them was missing
S02E02: Time Out of Joint (Timeslips) - RERUN
SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST What happens when ordinary people insist the familiar world around them has suddenly become something else entirely? When witnesses claim the present has slipped away, leaving them stranded in moments that shouldn't exist? In the 1950s, two separate incidents in Britain left ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell. A woman walking home alone on a wint
S03E11: Into the Abyss (Oak Island Mystery) - RERUN
SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST This week's rerun takes us to a windswept island off the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada, where in the summer of 1795, three young men made a discovery that would haunt generations to come. What began as idle curiosity about a depression in the earth would ignite an obsession that has endured for over two centuries. Since that fateful day, Oak Island has dr
S01E06: Demons in Suburbia (Exorcism of Michael Taylor) - RERUN
SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST This week's rerun is perhaps the most disturbing story I’ve covered on Unexplained. Back in the 1970s, in the quiet North English town of Ossett, an ordinary family found themselves drawn into a world that was anything but. What began as a struggle with doubt, faith, and the weight of daily life soon took on a darker shape, as strange behaviors and unsettl
S08E42: Reality Bites (Disappearance of Lars Mittank)
Final episode of Unexplained Season 08. In the heat of a Bulgarian summer, a young German tourist stumbled into an airport medical clinic, bruised, panicked, and convinced he was being hunted. What happened next remains one of Europe's most unsettling modern-day mysteries... Written by Emma Dibdin and Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twi
S08E41: The Visitor (The Van Meter Visitor)
The small American town of Van Meter in Iowa is the kind of town that some might derisively describe as one that epitomises the fly-over states - a place of little importance or standing. They imagine nothing of interest ever happens. But not only would that do an immense disservice to its people - they would be very wrong. In 1903 something paid a visit to Van Meter, and its brief presence
S08E40: It's Inside the House (A Haunting in Christchurch)
Something a little different this week... In a first for Unexplained, we hear a first hand account of strange and terrifying events said by one family to have taken place in their home in Christchurch, England, back in 1997... Thank you to Theresa and Shaun for sharing their story and to Diane Hope for finding it and recording Theresa's interview. Written and produced Richard MacLean S
S08E39: A Trembling Distant Voice (Sheppton Mine Disaster Mystery)
In the summer of 1963, three miners were trapped by a cave-in for days on end with no food or light. Some say it was a miracle that any of them survived at all. Others, that the true miracle was what they apparently experienced while they were down there... Written by James Connor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @
S08E38: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Escape from Alcatraz)
They called it the most inescapable prison in the United States — a cold, isolated fortress surrounded by frigid waters and razor currents. Alcatraz. But in 1962, that reputation was obliterated in one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time. Or was it... Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcas
S08E37: Field of Dreams (The Kera UFO Incident)
In 1972, a group of schoolboys in Kera, Japan, claimed to have encountered a tiny silver UFO—and even captured it, twice. What followed was a bizarre tale of vanishing evidence, strange lights, and one of the most overlooked close encounters in UFO history. Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twit
S08E36: The Devil Came Walking (Devil's Footprints)
In 1855, strange hoof-like prints appeared overnight in the snow across Devon in southwest England—stretching for over 100 miles, crossing rooftops, rivers, and walls as if no obstacle mattered. Locals said only one being could leave such a trail. It was the Devil himself... Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexpl
S08E35: Screwball Scramble (The Kinross UFO Incident)
In 1953, two U.S. Air Force personnel vanished without a trace while intercepting a mysterious radar target over Lake Superior. Decades later, the skies remain silent, and the truth behind First Lieutenant Felix Moncla Jnr and Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson's final flight is as cloudy as ever. Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tik
S08E34: Ship of Death (1987 Viking Sally Murder)
Early on the morning of July 28th, 1987, a rescue helicopter was dispatched to the passenger ferry MS Viking Sally, out on the Baltic Sea. When the medic stepped onto deck, he realized immediately that this emergency was very much out of the ordinary... Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter
S08E33: After the Sun Comes Rain Pt.2 of 2 (Khamar-Daban Incident)
Second and final part of Season 08 Episode 33: After the Sun Comes Rain Left alone, the only surviving member of Lyudmila's hiking team, Valentina begins the long arduous trek to safety - while the spectre of death haunts her every move.... But what an earth could possibly have wreaked such havoc? Written by Emma Dibdin, Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexpl
S08E33: After the Sun Comes Rain Pt.2 of 2 (Khamar-Daban Incident)
In 1993, a group of rafters paddling through the Siberian wilderness of the Khamar Daban mountains came across a teenage girl, caked in mud and blood. Seemingly too traumatised to even speak, when she finally found her voice she uttered only five words. "They're dead. They're all dead..." Written by Emma Dibdin, Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod,
S08E32: What the Water Took From Us (The Manchester Pusher)
In the shadows of Greater Manchester’s canals and waterways, some believe something ancient and malevolent might be lurking. This week on Unexplained, we plunge into eerie folklore, mysterious drownings, and chilling whispers of a phantom predator said to haunt the waters - claiming victims no one can explain. Written by James Connor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. Find us a
S08E31: Morning Has Broken (The Springfield Three)
Three women vanished without a trace from a quiet suburban home in the early hours of a summer morning in 1992. What began as a hopeful graduation weekend in Springfield, Missouri, spiraled into one of the most chilling and perplexing missing persons cases in American history. Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplai
S02E01: Whispers in the Trees (Bella in the Wych Elm) - RERUN
Due to the recent arrival of another mini MacLean Smith, the next new episode will be with you next Friday on June 13th… In the meantime, we’re heading back into the vault for this week’s episode, going all the way back to the beginning of Season 02. England’s Black Country, a region just west of Birmingham is considered one of the birth places of the British i
S01E10: The Spaces That Linger (Aleister Crowley and the Abramelin Operation)
Due to the recent arrival of another mini MacLean Smith, there’ll be a slight pause on new episodes. For the next two weeks we’ll be dipping back into the vaults until we continue, rather aptly with the next episode of Season 08 on Friday 13th of June… This week, we’re heading back to Season 01 Episode 10. The world of horror is littered with unnerving lo
S08E30: A Philadelphia Story (The Philadelphia Experiment)
In the race to develop cutting edge technology for the Second World War, many nations focused on how to evade radar detection. Down in the Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, if the rumours are to be believed, the US Navy took it to a whole other dimension... Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twi
S08E29: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain Pt.2 of 2 (The Frog Boys Mystery)
Part two of Season 08 Episode 29: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain It's 11 years since the so-called Frog Boys were last seen alive. Two men out in the forest, hunting for acorns close to where the boys were last seen, make a grisly discovery. Will the devastated parents finally get answers about what happened to their sons? Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at
S08E29: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain Pt.1 of 2 (The Frog Boys Mystery)
In March 2001, as the nation of South Korea enjoyed a national holiday, five boys from Dalseo in the city of Daegu, headed off into the forest in search of adventure. They were never seen alive again. Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.une
S08E28: Oh, Steel Thy Sweetheart Woman (Kathleen Peterson Murder)
When emergency services arrived at the home of Kathleen and Michael Peterson in the early hours of December 9th 2001, they found a horrifying scene: Kathleen, dead, at the bottom of a staircase and blood everywhere. But quite what exactly had happened to her, would turn out to be one of the most confounding, and potentially bizarre mysteries of recent times. Written by Diane Hope and produce
S08E27: Let's Dance (Dancing Plague of 1518)
One hot day in the summer of 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman left her home in a strange trance and headed straight for the town square. There she began to dance, and dance, and dance. Something was terribly wrong and then, it began to spread... Written by Emma Dibdin and Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod,
S08E26: All Eyes on Me (Giant Spider Encounters)
Over the decades, stories have trickled in from all across the globe. Places both far, and unnervingly near… of truly horrifying things, with far too many legs for comfort. The simple question is, are you afraid of spiders? Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook
S08E25: Where There is Gold There is Blood (Vulture City)
While battling for his life during the height of the COVID pandemic, Damian Harris slips into a vivid dream of a forgotten Arizona ghost town—where an eerie portal seems to call to him from within a long-abandoned guesthouse. The history of Vulture City is a haunting tale of gold and greed, and perhaps a little bit more... Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith Find us at yout
S08E24: Vanishing Point (Mt. Shashta Mysteries)
To many, Mt. Shasta in northern California, is a sacred place. It's a place of visions and power, and for seeking communion with the unseen world. But some say, if you’re not careful, there are places on the mountain where you can fall into this unseen world too... Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplaine
S08E23: My God, My God (Mungyeong Crucifixion Case)
When caught up in a cult, the line between what’s acceptable and what constitutes abnormal behaviour starts to blur. For one South Korean man in 2011, this lack of clarity appeared to lead to one of the most baffling acts of self-mutilation in recent history... This episode was written by James Connor Pattinson and Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.co
S08E22: Somewhere in Dreamland (Disappearance of Kenny Veach)
When seasoned hiker Kenny Veach claimed to have found a cave in the Nevadan wilderness that made his body vibrate with fear, few believed him. So he set out to find it again, only this time he never came back. Some believe he made the whole thing up. Others that he had unwittingly stumbled on a secret government location that led right into the heart of Area 51... This episode was written by
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