Unexplained

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

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June 5, 2026 30 mins

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 produced by 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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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.

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April 17, 2026 31 mins

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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April 10, 2026 31 mins

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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February 6, 2026 31 mins

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...

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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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