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Unexplained
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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
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S09E37: Anger is An Energy Pt.2 of 2 (The Tina Resch Story)
The second and final part of S09E37: Anger is An Energy (The Tina Resch Story) As William Role continues his investigation of Tina, a sudden diminishing of her apparent powers has him wondering if they have been lost for good. But Tina's troubling story was far from over... Watch/follow at...
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S09E37: Anger is An Energy Pt.1 of 2 (The Tina Resch Story)
In the 1980s, a young girl named Tina Resch became the focus of a baffling series of events that seemed to defy explanation. As the strange occurrences mounted, famed parapsychologist William Roll set out to determine once and for all, was it coming from a genuine telekinetic power, or something...
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S09E36: Message Received (The Vision of Etta Smith)
In December 1980, Etta Smith contacted the police with a startling proposition: she knew the whereabouts of a missing woman, despite never having met her or knowing anything about her. What followed was a strange and deeply unsettling case that would challenge the boundaries of the explainable......
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S09E35: A Land of Darkness Pt.2 of 2 (The Guarulhos Poltergeist)
Part two of S09E35: A Land of Darkness (The Guarulhos Poltergeist) A year after it all began, the family begin their fightback against whatever it is that seems to be terrorising them. But things are only about to get worse. Much worse. Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Emma Dibdin.…
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S09E35: A Land of Darkness Pt.1 of 2 (The Guarulhos Poltergeist)
Back in the 1970s, in a quiet house on the edge of São Paulo, a young family became besieged by a series of inexplicable events, each more terrifying than the next. What followed would last more than a decade, and would leave even trained investigators and committed people of science struggling…
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S09E34: Nine Lives (The Satanic Cat of Killakee )
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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S09E33: The Day You Came to Me (The Grand Canyon Plane Crash Mystery)
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...
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S09E32: The Long and Lonely Road (The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction Mystery)
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…
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S09E31: Let's Get Wild (The Beast of Gévaudan)
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 Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod,...
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S09E30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (The Scole Experiment), 2/2
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...
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S09E30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (The Scole Experiment), 1/2
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 Watch/follow at...
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S09E29: The Howling Woods (The Michigan Dogman)
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......
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S09E28: Laughter Cracking Through the Walls (The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn)
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. Watch/follow at...
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S09E27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 3 of 3)
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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S09E27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 2 of 3)
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…
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S09E27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 1 of 3)
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... Watch/follow at...
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S09E26: In Through the Out Door (The Brian Shaffer Mystery)
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…
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S02E03: The Last Flight (RERUN)
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...
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S09E25: Desert Rain Pt.2 of 2 (The Disappearance of Daniel Robinson)
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. Find us at...
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S09E25: Desert Rain Pt. 1 of 2 (The Disappearance of Daniel Robinson)
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. Find us…
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S09E24: Audi Altarem Partem (The Teresita Basa Mystery)
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...
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S09E23: We All Fall Down (The Holinwell Incident)
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…
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S09E22: Dwell Among the Bones (The Fox Hollow Farm Murders)
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. Find us…
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S09E21: Triangled Veils (The Disappearance of Flight 19)
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...
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S09E20: Over the Hills and Far Away (The Gerry Irwin Incident)
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…
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S09E19: Something in the Water (The Shark Arm Case)
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. Find us at...
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S09E18: It Lingers There (The Haunting of Summerwind Mansion)
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...
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S09E17: Unsettled Dust (The Sneha Anne Philip Mystery)
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 mourned,...
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S09E16: Primum Non Nocere (The Waverly Hills Sanatorium)
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...
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S09E15: Red Dust Pt.2 of 2 (The Strange Murder or Pamela Werner)
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…
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S09E15: Red Dust Pt.1 of 2 (The Strange Murder or Pamela Werner)
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...
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S09E14: Cats in the Cradle (The Tromp Family Case)
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…
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S09E13: The Weight of Empty Space (Haunted Manila)
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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S0E912: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red Pt.3 of 3 (Charles Walton Murder)
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…
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S09E12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red Pt.2 of 3 (The Charles Walton Murder)
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...
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S09E12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red Pt.1 of 3 (The Charles Walton Murder)
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. Find us at...
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S09E11: The Grey Zone (Big Grey Man of Ben Macdui)
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...
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S09E10: Me and the Devil Blues (The Mystery of Robert Johnson)
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...
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S09E09: The Uninvited Pt.2 of 2 (The Smurl Family Haunting)
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...
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S09E09: The Uninvited Pt.1 of 2 (The Smurl Family Haunting)
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...
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S09E08: A Black Star Over His Shoulder (The Peter Bergmann Case)
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...
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S06E11: Slide Away - RERUN (The Bennington Triangle)
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...
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S02E4: When the Snow Melts - RERUN (The Dyatlov Pass Incident)
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…
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S09E07: The Stove Goblin (The Goblin of Zaragoza)
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...
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S09E06: Full Fathom Five (MV Joyita Mystery)
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...
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S09E05: Did You Ever See a Dream (David Booth Premonition)
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...
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S09E04: To Each Man His Castle Pt. 2 of 2 (Edward Leedskalnin's Coral Castle)
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...
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S09E04: To Each Man His Castle Pt.1 of 2 (Edward Leedskalnin's Coral Castle)
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...
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S09E03: Get Out (The Ghost Town of Portlock)
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…
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S09E02: Too Cold Always (Killing of Janet Moses)
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 Find us at...
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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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