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
Season 09 Episode 25: Desert Rain (Pt. 2 of 2)
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
Season 09 Episode 25: Desert Rain (Pt. 1 of 2)
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
Season 09 Episode 24: Audi Altarem Partem
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
Season 09 Episode 23: We All Fall Down
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
Season 09 Episode 22: Dwell Among the Bones
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
Season 09 Episode 21: Triangled Veils
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
Season 09 Episode 20: Over the Hills and Far Away
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
Season 09 Episode 19: Something in the Water
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
Season 09 Episode 18: It Lingers There
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
Season 09 Episode 17: Unsettled Dust
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
Season 09 Episode 16: Primum Non Nocere
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
Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust (Pt.2 of 2)
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
Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust (Pt. 1 of 2)
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
Season 09 Episode 14: Cats in the Cradle
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
Season 09 Episode 13: The Weight of Empty Space
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,
Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.3 of 3)
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
Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.2 of 3)
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
Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.1 of 3)
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
Season 09 Episode 11: The Grey Zone
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
Season 09 Episode 10: Me and the Devil Blues
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
Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited (Pt.2 of 2)
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
Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited (Pt.1 of 2)
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
Season 09 Episode 08: A Black Star Over His Shoulder
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
Season 06 Episode 11: Slide Away (RERUN)
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
Season 02 Episode 4: When the Snow Melts (RERUN)
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
Season 09 Episode 07: The Stove Goblin
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
Season 09 Episode 06: Full Fathom Five
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
Season 09 Episode 05: Did You Ever See a Dream
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
Season 09 Episode 04: To Each Man His Castle (Pt. 2)
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
Season 09 Episode 04: To Each Man His Castle (Pt. 1)
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
Season 09 Episode 03: Get Out
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
Season 09 Episode 02: Too Cold Always
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
Season 09 Episode 01: Beneath the Moon's Pale Beams
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 -
Season 05: Episode 09: Tenebrous (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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Season 04 Episode 13: Lost in Stormy Visions (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
Season 03 Episode 04: From Here to Eternity (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
Season 04 Episode 20: The Homecoming (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
Season 02 Episode 02: Time Out of Joint (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
Season 03 Episode 11: Into the Abyss (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
Season 01 Episode 06: Demons in Suburbia (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
Season 08 Episode 42: Reality Bites
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
Season 08 Episode 41: The 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
Season 08 Episode 40: It's Inside the House
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
Season 08 Episode 39: A Trembling Distant Voice
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 @
Season 08 Episode 38: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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
Season 08 Episode 37: Field of Dreams
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
Season 08 Episode 36: The Devil Came Walking
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
Season 08 Episode 35: Screwball Scramble
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
Season 08 Episode 34: Ship of Death
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
Season 08 Episode 33: After the Sun Comes Rain (Pt.2 of2)
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
Season 08 Episode 33: After the Sun Comes Rain (Pt.1 of 2)
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,
Season 08 Episode 32: What the Water Took From Us
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
Season 08 Episode 31: Morning Has Broken
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
Season 02 Episode 01: Whispers in the Trees (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
Season 01 Episode 10: The Spaces That Linger (RERUN)
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
Season 08 Episode 30: A Philadelphia Story
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
Season 08 Episode 29: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (Pt.2 of 2)
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
Season 08 Episode 29: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (Pt.1 of 2)
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
Season 08 Episode 28: Oh, Steel Thy Sweetheart Woman
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
Season 08 Episode 27: Let's Dance
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,
Season 08 Episode 26: All Eyes on Me
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
Season 08 Episode 25: Where There is Gold There is Blood
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
Season 08 Episode 24: Vanishing Point
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
Season 08 Episode 23: My God, My God
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
Season 08 Episode 22: Somewhere in Dreamland
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
Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon (Pt.3 of 3)
In the wake of Carl's tragic death, his family find themselves reminiscing about the strange claims he made as a boy - that he had once lived before as a German airman who was shot down over England. It all seems so fanciful until two years later, when an extraordinary discovery is made, only a few miles from where Carl was murdered... Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/
Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon (Pt.2 of 3)
Part 2 of Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon From the moment he is born, Carl Edon's mother senses there is something a little different about him. The story he will come to tell, is beyond anything she or anybody else could possibly have imagined... Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexpla
Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon (Pt.1 of 3)
The Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, was founded in 1967 by psychiatrist Dr Ian Stevenson. By the time of his retirement in 2002, Stevenson had logged over 2,500 cases of apparent reincarnation with varying degrees of credibility. One case involved a young boy from Middlesbrough, England, called Carl Edon. It would prove to be one of the most compelling cases tha
Season 8 Episode 20: I Wake Up Dreaming
In 1977, farmer Huang Yanqiu is said to have vanished from his village in China's Hebei province only to reappear after a baffling journey across China that defies explanation. Join us as we unravel this mysterious tale—one marked by inexplicable detainment, shadowy figures, and an alleged experience that challenges the limits of reality. Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
Season 08 Episode 19: Mallet Maleficarum
In 1657 Shepton Mallet, England, a young boy claims to suffer from a mysterious affliction after a strange encounter with an elderly stranger. Join us as we delve into this dark, unsettling tale of apparent supernatural terror and unexplained happenings that continue to haunt history... Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedp
Season 08 Episode 18: The Hardest Hue to Hold
In the early 2000s, a story emerged online about a mysterious sarcophagus unearthed by miners in a remote Siberian village back in 1969. Inside, so they say, was the eerily preserved body of a woman, later dubbed the Tisul Princess—a discovery swiftly seized by Soviet authorities and buried in secrecy. Decades later, another astonishing find—the Ice Maiden of the Altai Mountains&m
Season 08 Episode 17: Stone in the Blood
From eerie legends to real-life horrors, castles have long concealed secrets behind their ancient walls—secrets that refuse to stay buried. In this episode, we uncover the possible sinister past of Scotland's Glamis Castle, where devils, ghosts, and a monstrous family secret blur the line between myth and terrifying reality. Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find
Season 08 Episode 16: Nothing Beside Remains
On December 24th, 1945, a fire destroyed the home of Jennie and George Sodder and their ten children in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five children were believed to have died. But when firefighters searched the rubble, there was no trace of them—no remains, no answers. How could they have vanished so completely? Join us as we uncover the strange clues and lingering questions surrounding
Season 08 Episode 15: If We Can Sparkle
When UFO researcher Bill Chalker is contacted about a baffling case from long ago in the Australian Outback, he uncovers reports of strange lights in the sky and unexplained attacks on farm animals. What supposedly took place on the McGann Farm in Fernvale, Queensland in 1927 are considered by some to be the strangest in all Australian ufology. Written by James Connor Patterson and pro
Season 08 Episode 14: Still Life
Meet Robert the Doll, the mysterious gift to a young boy named Gene Otto that marked the beginning of a lifetime of strange occurrences. Was Robert a harmless childhood companion—or the source of an inexplicable darkness? Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com
Season 03 Episode 03: Under the Asphalt (Rerun)
With Season 8 due to return next Friday, it’s back to the archive one more time… This week we’re heading back to the 70s, to a quiet housing estate in South East London… Considering there have been settlers based around the area comprising present day London for over 5000 years, it's hardly surprising that under all that concrete we find remnants of those that have come b
Season 01 Episode 08: When the Light Fades (Rerun)
With Unexplained on a short break we're dipping into the archives again. This week’s story is a true ghost of Christmas past, reaching out to us from almost 124 years to the day. It was late one night on December 26th 1900, when a telegram was received by the Northern Lighthouse Board. It was sent by a member of a rescue crew, dispatched to the Flannen isles, the site of the UKs most remote
Season 08 Episode 13: The Tunnel Without End
Completed in 1875, the Hoosac Tunnel was known to those who built it as the bloody pit owing to the 195 people that were killed during its construction.Today people are warned not to venture into the tunnel, but not only because you might get hit by a train... Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twit
Season 08 Episode 12: The Dark Banquet (Pt.2 of 2)
Part two of Season 08 Episode 12: The Dark Banquet Continuing on from last week's episode, we take a look at what inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. And just what a real-life vampire might actually look like... Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodca
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