Unexplained
SEASON 07 WILL BEGIN FRIDAY JULY 28TH 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
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 word "tenebrous" means dark, shadowy...
Unexplained returns for Season 09 on Friday October 31st at 17:00 GMT...
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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.
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...
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 winter's night would later claim she wi...
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 drawn treasure hunters, engineers, an...
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 unsettling visions began to erode one man&...
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
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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 would mark the town forever...
Writ...
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 Smith.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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