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Unexplained History

Tom McKenzie

Unexplained History delivers unexplained events analysis and deep dives into the history of the unexplained.

Join host Tom McKenzie weekly as we uncover the secrets behind history’s greatest cold cases and cover-ups. If you’re fascinated by true crime, ancient mysteries, paranormal activity, and government conspiracies, this podcast is for you.

Each episode creates a gripping audio landscape exploring events that defy explanation — from baffling disappearances and cryptid sightings to the dark realities of the Cold War and the occult.

The Team

Narrative & Direction: Rob Davenport
Lead Researcher: Mike Sherwin
Sound Design & Score: Smoking Man Studios

New episodes drop every Tuesday. Listen in — and decide what you believe.

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S2 · E66
Thursday · 53 min
The Bomb Filled With Bats That Set Its Own Airfield on Fire
In 1942, a Pennsylvania dentist proposed attacking Japan with bats carrying tiny incendiaries. His idea reached the White House and became a real military research program, complete with refrigerated bats, experimental carriers and tests at American...
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S2 · E65
September 15 · 56 min
The Day 62 Children Said a UFO Landed at Their School
On September 16, 1994, dozens of children at Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, said they had seen something extraordinary beyond their playground. Silver objects. Small figures. Eyes they struggled to describe. Their teachers had been inside. Before...
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S2 · E64
September 10 · 59 min
Majestic 12: Who Forged the Government's Alien Files?
Majestic Twelve is the most durable alleged UFO cover-up in modern American history. Its papers describe a secret committee formed after a crash in nineteen forty-seven and briefed to President-elect Eisenhower. We follow the files from an anonymous...
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S2 · E63
September 8 · 1 hr
MH370: The Plane that Disappeared
MH370 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people aboard. Its final radio message sounded routine. Then its identifying radar signal disappeared, a second track led back across Malaysia, and a satellite continued recording exchanges long after...
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S2 · E62
September 3 · 1 hr 16 min
America's Bell Witch Legend: The REAL Story
John Bell died on a Tennessee farm in eighteen twenty after months of illness. According to America's most famous haunting story, his family found a mysterious vial beside his medicine, tested its contents on a cat, and heard an invisible voice...
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S2 · E61
September 1 · 1 hr 3 min
Ramesses Missing Head: The Strange History
In nineteen thirty, archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a colossal statue of Ramesses II at Hermopolis Magna. The king's head and torso were gone. Ninety-four years later, an Egyptian-American team found them buried upside down only metres...
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S2 · E60
August 27 · 1 hr 3 min
Black Triangles: Strange Reports From a Dark Sky
Unexplained History follows the evidence behind Black Triangles: Strange Reports From a Dark Sky. This episode separates witness accounts, documented history, official records, likely explanations, and the details still left unresolved. Black...
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S2 · E59
June 24 · 1 hr
America’s First UFO Panic: The Mystery Airships Before Roswell
Before Roswell, before flying saucers, and even before the Wright brothers, Americans were already looking up at the night sky and reporting strange craft, glowing lights, secret pilots, impossible machines, and visitors from Mars. In this episode of...
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S2 · E58
June 9 · 1 hr 14 min
The Dogon Sirius Mystery: Ancient Star Knowledge or Modern Myth?
For decades, one astonishing claim has haunted the world of ancient mysteries: the Dogon people of Mali supposedly knew about Sirius B — a tiny, dense companion star invisible to the naked eye — before modern astronomy could explain it. Was this...
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June 4 · 59 min
The Betz Sphere: The Metal Ball That Moved on Its Own
In 1974, a Florida family discovered a polished steel sphere in the burned grass near their Fort George Island home. It was heavy, seamless, strangely balanced, and according to the Betz family, it seemed to move on its own, respond to music, and...
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S2 · E56
June 2 · 58 min
The Ghost Army: The Fake Force That Fooled Nazi Intelligence
Before D-Day, the Allies built an army that was never meant to fight — only to be seen, heard, intercepted, and believed. Known as the Ghost Army, the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops used inflatable tanks, fake radio traffic, sound trucks, borrowed...
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S2 · E55
May 29 · 35 min
The Colorado Martian: The Alien Body Buried in Stone
In 1864, a French newspaper published a stunning report from the American frontier: oil prospectors had drilled into a gigantic meteorite and found a tiny humanoid body sealed inside a stone sarcophagus. Its face was knife-like. Its arms were too...
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S2 · E54
May 26 · 59 min
Operation Gladio: Europe’s Secret Armies
In 1990, Italy admitted the existence of Operation Gladio: a secret Cold War stay-behind network built to resist a Soviet invasion that never came. But when hidden weapons caches, intelligence links, and decades of political violence came into view,...
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S2 · E53
May 22 · 40 min
Saucers Over Washington: The 1952 UFO Flap That Panicked the Pentagon
In July 1952, radar operators at Washington National Airport saw something impossible: unidentified targets moving through the skies near the White House, the Capitol, and the Pentagon. Pilots reported strange lights. Air Force jets were scrambled....
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S2 · E52
May 19 · 40 min
The Chronovisor: Did the Vatican Hide a Machine That Could See the Past?
A Benedictine priest claimed he helped build the impossible: a machine that could photograph history itself. Father Pellegrino Ernetti said the Chronovisor revealed lost speeches, vanished plays, ancient Rome, and even the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ....
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S2 · E51
May 14 · 59 min
The Vela Incident: The Nuclear Flash No One Claimed
In 1979, an American Vela nuclear-detection satellite recorded a mysterious double flash over the remote southern ocean — the kind of signal it was built to recognize as an atmospheric nuclear test. But no country admitted responsibility. No public...
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S2 · E50
May 12 · 46 min
Project Looking Glass: The Time Machine That Saw a Future No One Could Stop
A secret machine. A future that refused to change. And a Cold War program with a name that sounded like it belonged to myth. In this episode of Unexplained History, we investigate the legend of Project Looking Glass — a rumored temporal-viewing...
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S2 · E49
May 7 · 1 hr 5 min
The Emerald Tablet of Atlantis: Alchemy’s Lost Recipe for Immortality
Was the Emerald Tablet a lost Atlantean secret — or one of history’s most powerful occult misunderstandings? In this episode of Unexplained History, we follow a strange trail from a modern internet alchemy manual called The Book of Aquarius to the...
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S2 · E48
May 5 · 1 hr 3 min
Giants of History: The Bones They Told Us Were Buried
Ancient stories say giants once walked the earth — from the Nephilim and Og of Bashan to Greek Titans, Gilgamesh, Native giant traditions, and mysterious “giant skeleton” reports from American mounds. But were these legends based on real beings,...
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S2 · E47
April 30 · 56 min
The Prophecy of the Popes: The Secret List That Predicted the End Times
A secret list of 112 popes. A mysterious manuscript that surfaced during a papal conclave in 1590. A final prophecy warning that Peter the Roman would rule during the destruction of Rome. For centuries, the so-called Prophecy of the Popes has...
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