Unexplained

By Richard MacLean Smith

Society & Culture History

What's Unexplained about?

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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He is the personification of the unknown; a messenger of the medium, at once new but strangely, archaically, familiar. His name is The Slender Man, and one way or another, he is coming for us all. Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, ...

Unexplained episodes:

02.03.2023 Season 06 Episode 28: The Nous Fear (Pt.1 of 3) He is the personification of the unknown; a messenger of the medium, at once new but strangely, archaically, familiar. His name is The Slender Man, and one way or another, he is coming for us all. Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, ...
01.27.2023 Season 6 Episode 27 Extra: Concrete Under Water One aspect of our Mothman episode that some listeners wanted to know a little more about was how exactly the collapse of the Silver Bridge fitted into everything. Well, let me tell you... Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com ...
01.20.2023 Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See (Pt.3 of 3) The third and final part of Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See New York-based writer John Keel joins the hunt for the Mothman as something ominous looms on the horizon... Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for ...
01.13.2023 Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See (Pt.2 of 3) Part two of Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See The apparent sighting of a strange winged creature on the outskirts of Point Pleasant in West Virginia sparks a flurry of similar sightings over the next few days. One ...
01.06.2023 Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See (Pt.1 of 3) Back in November 1966, four young adults were out late one night, driving through a vast stretch of wetlands on the outskirts of their quiet West Virginian hometown, when they were apparently terrorized by a strange, winged humanoid creature. Their ...
12.17.2022 Season 06 Episode 26 Extra: The Invisible Fog It is often said by medical professionals that medicine is not an exact science. Despite the incredible wealth of knowledge we have, as many of us perhaps know better than ever before thanks to the current Covid-19 Pandemic, trying to ...
12.09.2022 Season 06 Episode 26: Under the Rocks and Stones (Pt.2 of 2) The second and final part of Season 06 Episode 26: Under the Rocks and Stones. After the opening of the dolmen in L'Islet, a shadow seems to draw across the Island of Guernsey. But the horrors have only just begun... ...
12.02.2022 Season 06 Episode 26: Under the Rocks and Stones (Pt.1 of 2) That people have lived on the land we know today as Guernsey, at least as far back as 4000 BCE, is evidenced by the many incredible relics there that date back to that time. Most prominently the many dolmen that ...
11.25.2022 Season 06 Episode 25 Extra: The Way Back Machine In the wake of numerous historical cases of abuse recently coming to light across the world, from within religious institutions or care homes, among other supposedly 'good' organisations, it can be easy to get sucked into outlandish theories when the ...
11.18.2022 Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way (Pt.3 of 3) The third and final part of Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way Noreen and John Gosch are contacted by former state senator John Decamp who thinks he may have discovered a link between an alleged child sex-abuse ...
11.11.2022 Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way (Pt.2 of 3) Part Two of Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way In August 1984, two years after the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, yet another young Des Moines Register and Tribune newspaper deliverer goes missing... Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast ...
11.04.2022 Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way (Pt.1 of 3) For those who like to reminisce about a time when the world was a safer place; when doors could be left unlocked and children could be left outside to play on their own without the slightest care or worry. For ...
10.31.2022 Lost in Panama is Available Now In 2014, Dutch friends Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers disappeared while hiking a jungle trail in Panama. Two months later, investigators found their remains, as well as a backpack with a digital camera filled with photos that hinted at a ...
10.28.2022 Season 6 Episode 24 Extra: Digging the Foundations On Unexplained we've covered many a haunted house story, however, few have been as terrifying as the subject of this week's extra... Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...
10.21.2022 Season 06 Episode 24: This Woman's Work When asked once what inspired her novel, The Woman in Black, Susan Hill replied that her chief ingredient was atmosphere, which I think sums it up perfectly. Some have suggested she might also have found inspiration from a little-known haunting, ...
10.14.2022 Season 06 Episode 23 Extra: Out There Alone Roughly 20 years after the death of the McLeod brothers, news broke from out of Canada's Northwest Territories of yet another beguiling mystery striking fear into the hearts of anyone in the area at the time... The Mad Trapper of ...
10.07.2022 Season 6 Episode 23: How the Wind Does Scream In 1905, two brothers, Willie and Frank McLeod, ventured out to a vast stretch of Canadian wilderness known to some as the Nahanni Valley. When they failed to come back, a search party was sent out to find them. They ...
09.30.2022 Season 06 Episode 22 Extra: Closing the Webb In July 2021, Professor Derek Abbott made the stunning announcement that (thanks to his tireless work and that of genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick) he'd finally cracked the mystery of the so-called 'Somerton Man'. In this week's Extra I speak to Prof. ...
09.23.2022 Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names (Pt. 3 of 3) Part Three of Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names The discovery of the enigmatic words Tamám Shud curled up in a small fob pocket of the unknown man's trousers, is finally the clue that Detective Leane and his team ...
09.16.2022 Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names (Part 2 of 3) Part Two of Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names With news of the unidentified body found on Somerton Beach beginning to spread throughout the world, the Adelaide police have their hands full as they chase one lead after another, ...
09.14.2022 GOOD CULT IS AVAILABLE NOW! Good Cult is an investigative podcast about the dark corners of the New Age self-help movements and the American counterculture. In season one, host River Donaghey will explore his family's group therapy cult to unpack the strange history of the ...
09.09.2022 Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names (Part 1 of 3) On December 1st, 1948, the body of an unknown man was found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia. Despite recent claimes that the identity of the individual, who would come to be known as the Somerton Man, has now ...
09.04.2022 Season 6 Episode 21 Extra: The Invisible World In 1685 George Sinclair, the brother of Maister Thomas Sinclair, the man who revealed Major Thomas Weir's confession to the authorities, published a book titled Satan's Invisible World Discovered, which contained a number of stories that neatly outlined the leading ...
08.26.2022 Season 6 Episode 21: The Mask that Eats the Face In 1670, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Major Thomas Weir, a Covenanter and man of puritanical faith was a much-respected member of the city's Presbyterian community. Until, one day, the mask slipped. Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. ...
08.19.2022 Season 06 Episode 20 Extra: The Secret With the death of Francisco Marto in 1919, followed by that of his sister Jacinta the following year, Lucia dos Santos was left as the only living member of the enigmatic trio who knew the apparent secrets given to them ...
08.12.2022 Season 6 Episode 20: Children of the Pastures (Pt. 2 of 2) Part two of Season 6 Episode 20: Children of the Pastures Lucia is faced with a true test of her faith as the Mayor attempts to put an end to her and her cousin's extraordinary claims. Meanwhile, excitement grows for ...
08.05.2022 Season 6 Episode 20: Children of the Pastures (Pt. 1 of 2) In the spring of 1916, three young children from the village of Aljustrel in western Portugal claimed to see the Virgin Mary while out tending sheep in a nearby pasture. The incident marked the beginning of what is now known ...
07.29.2022 Season 6 Episode 19 Extra: After the Fire In March 1974, Terry Matthews and his mother, Gerri Betz, came across a strange metallic sphere in the woods close to their home in Jacksonville, Florida. Then, things got a little strange... Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for ...
07.22.2022 Season 6 Episode 19: Fire in the Belly In 1951, 67-year-old Mary Reeser moved down from Columbia, Pennsylvania to Florida to be closer to her son and grandchildren. Five weeks later, Mary was dead; killed in the most horrifying and bizarre circumstances that continue to confound to this ...
07.16.2022 Season 6 Episode 18 Extra: Reading the Signs It is said that St Francis of Assisi was the first person to receive the stigmata, back in 1224. Since then only thirty or so people have seriously claimed to have suffered from it, with perhaps the most famous of ...
07.08.2022 Season 6 Episode 18: Tears, Idol Tears In the late 1940s, Italian sculptor Amilcare Santini was commissioned to make a statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to use as a model for mass production. Little did he know, that it would become just about the most ...
07.01.2022 Season 6 Episode 17 Extra: Red Rain Perhaps one of the strangest cases of an unidentified body occurred in Kenora, Canada, in 1974 when an unknown man walked into the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Main Street with disastrous consequences... Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or ...
06.24.2022 Season 6 Episode 17: A Story of Ice and Fire In late November 1970, in a valley just outside of Bergen in western Norway, a 12-year-old girl stumbles upon the burned remains of a body. The discovery will spark one of the most enigmatic true-crime mysteries of modern times. Go ...
06.17.2022 Season 6 Episode 16 Extra: Remote Control In last week's episode, we learned about Baba Vanga, whose apparent psychic abilities are said to have been analysed by a number of parapsychologists. As for mainstream scientists, you might think they prefer to stay away from such things. In ...
06.10.2022 Season 6 Episode 16: Visions from Darkness Blinded in a freak storm, Baba Vanga from Strumica in present-day North Macedonia is believed by some to have been the most gifted psychic of the modern age. Her life story is almost as extraordinary as her supposed gifts. Go ...
06.03.2022 Season 6 Episode 15 Extra: Cloudbusting Of all the strange aviation related disappearances, perhaps the spookiest of all are those in which the aircraft return, but the crew do not... Stories like that of US Navy scouting blimp L-8, which in 1942 became the locus of ...
05.27.2022 Season 6 Episode 15: Out of the Wreckage Second Officer Donald Repo was one of the 101 people killed when Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed in the everglades just west of Miami in December 1972. But then, according to numerous apparent witnesses, he came back… Go to ...
05.23.2022 VIGILANTE IS AVAILABLE NOW! Tim Miller is a famous search-and-rescuer in Dickinson, Texas, who's helped track down more than 300 missing persons. After 38 years of searching, he’s now convinced that he’s finally solved his own daughter’s murder. In the first season of VIGILANTE, ...
05.20.2022 Season 6 Episode 14 Extra: Under the Lake Early in the evening of November 23 1953, USAF pilot First Lieutenant Felix Moncla and radar operator Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson were scrambled in an F-89 Scorpion to intercept a UFO flying over Lake Superior. They and their plane were ...
05.13.2022 Season 6 Episode 14: The Ash on the Floor In May 1967, Stefan Michalak was spotted walking along Trans-Canada Highway 1, just west of Falcon Lake in Manitoba, Canada. Bleary-eyed and holding a briefcase in one hand, while clutching at his stomach with the other, the story of what ...
05.07.2022 Season 6 Episode 13 Extra: A Field in England Remorse, guilt, and the ghosts of the English Civil War. Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
04.29.2022 Season 6 Episode 13: A Place of Forgetting In 1898 a story written by Mildred Darby was published in London’s Belgravia magazine titled, “A House of Horrors.” Darby later claimed it was in fact a true reflection of the many strange goings-on that occurred during her time living ...
04.22.2022 Season 06 Episode 12 Extra: Mindhunters In this episode, we look at the history of criminal profiling and how the practice first came about. But more importantly, just how effective is it anyway? The answers might surprise you. Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for ...
04.15.2022 Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town (Pt.3 of 3) This episode contains deeply disturbing scenes of violence, murder and sexual violence toward children. Parental discretion is advised. Third and final part of Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town With many giving up hope of ...
04.08.2022 Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town (Pt.2 of 3) This episode contains deeply disturbing scenes of violence, murder and sexual violence toward children. Parental discretion is advised. Part Two of Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town In the wake of the horrific murders in ...
04.01.2022 Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town (Pt.1 of 3) This episode contains deeply disturbing scenes of violence, murder and sexual violence toward children. Parental discretion is advised. In June 1912, one quiet rural community in southwest Iowa, USA, became the scene of one of the most brutal and inexplicable ...
03.25.2022 Season 6 Episode 11 Extra: Habeas Corpus Perhaps the strangest and most mysterious story to come out of the 'Bennington Triangle' was that which took place in the early 1800s, which ultimately led to the first officially recorded case of a wrongful conviction for murder in the ...
03.18.2022 Season 6 Episode 11: Slide Away Between 1945-1950, four people vanished without trace in an area of Vermont dubbed the Bennington Triangle due to the array of strange and weird occurrences said to have taken place there. In 1946, 18-year-old Paula Jean Weldon became the second ...
03.11.2022 Season 6 Episode 10 Extra: Gold in Them Hills Some look for gold in rock seams and mineral deposits. Others prefer their search for riches served with a healthy side order of deep and mystical conspiracy... Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for ...
03.04.2022 Season 6 Episode 10: The Longest Road Back in 1892, 29-year-old Julia Thomas headed out into the heart of Arizona's Superstition Mountains in search of an apparently lost gold mine, after having its location disclosed to her by a dying man. Said to have been the richest ...

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Unexplained episodes:

Season 06 Episode 28: The Nous Fear (Pt.1 of 3)

Season 6 Episode 27 Extra: Concrete Under Water

Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See (Pt.3 of 3)

Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See (Pt.2 of 3)

Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See (Pt.1 of 3)

Season 06 Episode 26 Extra: The Invisible Fog

Season 06 Episode 26: Under the Rocks and Stones (Pt.2 of 2)

Season 06 Episode 26: Under the Rocks and Stones (Pt.1 of 2)

Season 06 Episode 25 Extra: The Way Back Machine

Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way (Pt.3 of 3)

Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way (Pt.2 of 3)

Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way (Pt.1 of 3)

Lost in Panama is Available Now

Season 6 Episode 24 Extra: Digging the Foundations

Season 06 Episode 24: This Woman's Work

Season 06 Episode 23 Extra: Out There Alone

Season 6 Episode 23: How the Wind Does Scream

Season 06 Episode 22 Extra: Closing the Webb

Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names (Pt. 3 of 3)

Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names (Part 2 of 3)

GOOD CULT IS AVAILABLE NOW!

Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names (Part 1 of 3)

Season 6 Episode 21 Extra: The Invisible World

Season 6 Episode 21: The Mask that Eats the Face

Season 06 Episode 20 Extra: The Secret

Season 6 Episode 20: Children of the Pastures (Pt. 2 of 2)

Season 6 Episode 20: Children of the Pastures (Pt. 1 of 2)

Season 6 Episode 19 Extra: After the Fire

Season 6 Episode 19: Fire in the Belly

Season 6 Episode 18 Extra: Reading the Signs

Season 6 Episode 18: Tears, Idol Tears

Season 6 Episode 17 Extra: Red Rain

Season 6 Episode 17: A Story of Ice and Fire

Season 6 Episode 16 Extra: Remote Control

Season 6 Episode 16: Visions from Darkness

Season 6 Episode 15 Extra: Cloudbusting

Season 6 Episode 15: Out of the Wreckage

VIGILANTE IS AVAILABLE NOW!

Season 6 Episode 14 Extra: Under the Lake

Season 6 Episode 14: The Ash on the Floor

Season 6 Episode 13 Extra: A Field in England

Season 6 Episode 13: A Place of Forgetting

Season 06 Episode 12 Extra: Mindhunters

Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town (Pt.3 of 3)

Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town (Pt.2 of 3)

Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town (Pt.1 of 3)

Season 6 Episode 11 Extra: Habeas Corpus

Season 6 Episode 11: Slide Away

Season 6 Episode 10 Extra: Gold in Them Hills

Season 6 Episode 10: The Longest Road

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