Most countries and cultures have their own version of a bogeyman and the UK is no exception – many of them given the epithet of ‘Jack’. 

The one they called Spring Heeled Jack, which emerged at the dawn of the Victorian era is by far the strangest... 

This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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A tangled web of myth and history, an alluring mixture of fact and fiction shadowed by an ever-present aura of death and pagan spiritual energy. 

I give you, Stonehenge...

Written by Ella MacLeod and Richard MacLean Smith

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Part Two of Season 07 Episode 03: Under Black Water 

A strange discovery made on a fishing trawler just off the east coast of South Africa in 1938 has some wondering, could the Loch Ness Monster be real after all?

This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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In August 1930, the first media report of a strange creature, reportedly seen in the waters of Loch Ness in Scotland, was published by a local Inverness newspaper.

It would not be the last...

This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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Whether it was the rumour that a UFO followed the flight path of a plane from New York to London in June, or it was the sighting of the strange “green ball” over Madagascar in August.

1954 certainly seemed to be a hotbed of apparent UFO-related incidents. No more so than over the continent of Europe...

This episode was written by Ella McLeod and Richard MacLean Smith

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Part 2 of Season 7 Episode 1: The Fall Without End

After the US government offers a formal apology and explanation of sorts to Frank Olson's family, Frank's son Eric is unconvinced. 

Digging a little further into the case, he uncovers some horrifying truths...

This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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On the evening of November 28th 1953, in New York, Frank Olson was found on the pavement outside the Statler Hotel having fallen out of a window on the 13th floor. 

Olson died shortly after hitting the pavement.

His death was first said to be caused by suicide. But then Olson, had worked for the CIA and on MK Ultra. Nothing was quite what it seemed...

This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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With Unexplained Season 7 due to start next Friday, July 28th, we have time for one more episode from the vaults. 

This week we return to Broadhaven in Wales, where a series of bizarre events occurred over the course of a few months in 1977. 

And it all began in the playground of a local primary school...

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For me, the Spanish film Veronica, directed by Paco Plaza and released in 2017, is, without doubt, one of the best horror films depicting demonic possession of recent times. 

Incredibly, the true story it's based on is even more terrifying...

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In 1987, construction began on a small stretch of road that would later become known as the Stocksbridge Bypass, now considered one of the most haunted roads in the UK.

This is why...

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