Unexplained

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.

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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 MacLean Smith.

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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.

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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 MacLean Smith

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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-year-old Paula Jean Weldon became the...

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 as Unexplained Season 2 Episode 4, ...

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

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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

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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

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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 powers...

Written by Neil McRobert and...

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 powers...

Written by Neil McRobert and...

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

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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

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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 -...

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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 word "tenebrous" means dark, shadowy...

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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.

On a remote island off the coast ...

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 light pierced the burial chamber, it ...

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. Travis Walton had vanished withou...