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… More info at www.unexplainedpodcast.com and on twitter @unexplainedpod and facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast
Episodes
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...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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?
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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...
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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...
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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.
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 skies off the coast of Melbourne Aust...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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