Unexplained
Unexplained
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… Find us at y…Social links:
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Season 09 Episode 10: Me and the Devil Blues
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 Patte…
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Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited (Pt.2 of 2)
The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited After years appearing to endure a series of increasingly bizarre and terrifying paranormal occurrences in their home, the Smurl family finally decide to call in some real help. Enter Lorraine and Ed Warren, perhaps the world's mos…
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Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited (Pt.1 of 2)
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? And what if those other, most unwelcome housemates proved to be more frightening than anything you could possibly imagine? Written by Neil McRobert and prod…
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Season 09 Episode 08: A Black Star Over His Shoulder
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 pict…
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Season 06 Episode 11: Slide Away (RERUN)
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 t…
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Season 02 Episode 4: When the Snow Melts (RERUN)
With unexplained on a short break for the holiday season we’ll be dipping back into the archive for the next two weeks. On Friday January 23rd 1959, a story begins from out of the foothills of the Ural Mountains. A story that is perhaps the most extraordinary of all the stories ever featured o…
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Season 09 Episode 07: The Stove Goblin
In September 1934, amidst wide political unrest, something was stirring in the home of the Palazon family in Zaragoza, Spain. What started as a strange burst of maniacal laughter, soon transformed into the terrifying haunting known the world over as ‘El Duende de Zaragoza’… ‘The Goblin of Zaragoz…
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Season 09 Episode 06: Full Fathom Five
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. Written by Diane Hope an…
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Season 09 Episode 05: Did You Ever See a Dream
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 b…
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Season 09 Episode 04: To Each Man His Castle (Pt. 2)
The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 4: To Each Man His Castle 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 move…
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