Unexplained Podcast | Home

&nbsp; Season 09 Episode 26: In Through the Out Door Richard MacLean Smith 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.&nbsp;Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, www.unexplainedpodcast.comThank you for listening. <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > &nbsp;

&nbsp; Season 02 Episode 03: The Last Flight (RERUN) 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Just what happened in the skies off the coast of Melbourne Australia in 1978 has never been fully accounted for.&nbsp; It is a mystery that remains to this day Unexplained.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening. <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > &nbsp;

&nbsp; Season 09 Episode 25: Desert Rain (Pt. 2 of 2) Richard MacLean Smith The second part of Season 09 Episode 25: Desert Rain&nbsp;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 youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening. <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > &nbsp;

&nbsp; Season 09 Episode 25: Desert Rain (Pt. 1 of 2) Richard MacLean Smith In June 2021, just outside of Phoenix, Arizona, 24-year-old geologist Daniel Robinson, drove off into the desert and was never seen again.&nbsp;What exactly happened to him remains one of the most tragic and beguiling mysteries of recent times.&nbsp;Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening. <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > &nbsp;

When Teresita Basa was found murdered in her Chicago apartment in 1977, police had more or less given up on ever catching her killer.&nbsp;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.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.&nbsp;What exactly happened to them is thought by some to be one of the strangest aviation mysteries of all time.&nbsp;Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.&nbsp;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.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 didn't quite fit.As a nation mourned, Sneha's loved ones were left wrestling with a seemingly impossible question. Was she lost to history, or did she vanish just before it began?Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.&nbsp;&nbsp;The hospital was called the Waverley Hills Sanatorium.Today, some believe it is the most haunted hospital in the United States.&nbsp;Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 15: Red DustThings 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.&nbsp;Everything seems to link back to a seedy bar in the Badlands known as No. 28.But will any of it lead to Pamela's killer?Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

In the winter of 2016, a bizarre story began to unfold about a farming family from a small town just east of Melbourne, Australia.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;Written by Richard MacLean Smith and James Connor PattersonFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.&nbsp;Today the site is one of many that has become part of a burgeoning Dark Tourism scene...Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Diane HopeFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

The third and final part of Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red&nbsp;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?&nbsp;Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.&nbsp;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 and Emma Dibdin.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

To some, folk beliefs are little more than the harmless superstitions of a bygone age.&nbsp;&nbsp;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 youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

In 1925, experienced mountaineer and man of science Prof. John Norman Collie gave a lecture to a climbing club in the Scottish Highlands.&nbsp;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 Richard MacLean Smith.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited&nbsp;After years appearing to endure a series of increasingly bizarre and terrifying occurrences in their home, the Smurl family finally decide to call in some real help.&nbsp;Enter Lorraine and Ed Warren, perhaps the world's most famous paranormal investigators...&nbsp;Written by Neil McRobert and produced Richard MacLean Smith.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

&nbsp; Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited (Pt.1 of 2) Richard MacLean Smith 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?&nbsp;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.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening. <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > &nbsp;

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 SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 second of those four people to disappear, in a case one investigator described as the most baffling he ever came across.Written by Richard MacLean SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

With unexplained on a short break for the holiday season we’ll be dipping back into the archive for the next two weeks.&nbsp;On Friday January 23rd 1959, a story begins from out of the foothills of the Ural Mountains.&nbsp;&nbsp;A story that is perhaps the most extraordinary of all the stories ever featured on the show.&nbsp;Some call it the Dyatlov Pass Incident.&nbsp;You might know it as Unexplained Season 2 Episode 4, When The Snow Melts...Written by Richard MacLean SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

In September 1934, amidst wide political unrest, something was stirring in the home of Palazon family in Zaragoza, Spain.&nbsp;What started as a strange burst of maniacal laughter, soon transformed into the terrifying haunting known the world over as ‘El Duende de Zaragoza’&nbsp; … ‘The Goblin of Zaragoza’.&nbsp;Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.&nbsp;Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 4: To Each Man His Castle&nbsp;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 about as if freed from gravity itself, and of a strange black box equipped with otherworldly powers...Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.&nbsp;In time, he would carve that ground into a place so strange and improbable that—if the whispers are to be believed—could only have been built with the aid of otherworldly powers...Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 Hope and Richard MacLean SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 PattersonFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

On Halloween night, 2001, a bright Penn State student named Cindy Song vanished into the cold air of rural Pennsylvania after a night out with friends.Only a few scattered clues would ever surface, each stranger than the last.What happened that night has haunted her friends, detectives, and an entire community for over two decades. In this episode of&nbsp;Unexplained, we go back to that night - and to the darkness that followed.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31STOur 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, and obscure - and no word better captures what descended upon this isolated family in those final, terrifying days.&nbsp;What happened at their remote farm would become one of Germany's most notorious unsolved mysteries, a case so disturbing that it continues to defy explanation a century later…Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31STThis week's episode takes us to what to some were the unknown shores of a mysterious New World, but for others was simply home.&nbsp;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 of what would one day become North Carolina, brave souls sought to carve out a new life in a land that seemed to exist beyond the reach of civilization. They carried with them hopes of prosperity and permanence, unaware that they were about to become part of one of history's most enduring enigmas…Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31STThis week's episode 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 revealed wonders beyond imagination - golden treasures that had lain untouched for over three thousand years. But some believed that disturbing the eternal rest of the pharaohs came with a price, and that certain doors were never meant to be opened…Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

&nbsp; Season 04 Episode 20: The Homecoming (RERUN) Richard MacLean Smith SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31STThis week's episode takes us 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 without a trace, leaving those left behind to relay a story so bizarre that it would divide not just his community, but the entire country…Travis, they said, had been abducted by an alien spaceship.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening. <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > &nbsp;

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31STWhat 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 witnessed scenes that belonged to another age.&nbsp;While, three young cadets on a routine exercise would insist they stumbled into a world that seemed frozen between life and death...Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31STThis 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’s ragile sense of normality...Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.&nbsp;

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.&nbsp;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...Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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...&nbsp;Thank you to Theresa and Shaun for sharing their story and to Diane Hope for finding it and recording Theresa's interview.&nbsp;Written and produced Richard MacLean Smith.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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.Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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 SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

Early on the morning of July 28th, 1987, a&nbsp; rescue helicopter was dispatched to the passenger ferry MS Viking Sally, out on the Baltic Sea.&nbsp;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 SmithFind us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.