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…

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Friday · 30 min
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 to explain it. Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Emma Dibdin. Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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September 11 · 35 min
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... Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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September 4 · 30 min
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 Richard MacLean Smith Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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August 28 · 35 min
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 Richard MacLean Smith Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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August 21 · 30 min
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, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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August 14 · 34 min
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 them... Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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August 7 · 29 min
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 youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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July 31 · 37 min
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... Written by Neil McRobert and Produced by Richard MacLean Smith Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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July 24 · 31 min
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 youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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July 17 · 45 min
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? Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com Thank you for listening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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July 10 · 33 min
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 all down hill from there... Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com Thank you for listening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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July 3 · 35 min
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 youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, bsky.app/profile/unexplained.bsky.social, www.unexplainedpodcast.com Thank you for listening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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June 26 · 30 min
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 strangest vanishings of recent times. 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.com Thank you for listening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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June 19 · 30 min
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 compelling pieces of evidences of an alien visitation to our planet. Just what happened in the skies off the coast of Melbourne Australia in 1978 has never been fully accounted for. 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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June 12 · 31 min
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 youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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June 5 · 30 min
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 at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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May 29 · 34 min
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 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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May 22 · 30 min
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 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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May 15 · 30 min
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 at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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May 8 · 32 min
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 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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