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
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.
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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 mour...
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 McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean S...
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...
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.
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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
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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
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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 Patterson and Emma Dibdin.
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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 MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson an...
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.
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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 by Diane Hope and produced by Richar...
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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