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 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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Season 09 Episode 04: To Each Man His Castle (Pt. 1)
In the winter of 1923, Edward Leedskalnin, a small, sickly man, stepped out of the Florida sun and onto a patch of coral bedrock, as though he had finally reached the end of a long and mysterious pilgrimage. In time, he would carve that ground into a place so strange and improbable that—if the wh…
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Season 09 Episode 03: Get Out
Deep in Alaska, in the ghost town of Portlock, villagers once whispered of something colossal stalking the fog—an unseen presence that is said to have left shredded camps and vanished men in its wake. Decades later, the forest is silent, but the stories have never gone away... Written by Diane Hop…
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Season 09 Episode 02: Too Cold Always
When a young woman in a small New Zealand town begins to act strangely, her family becomes convinced that something evil has taken hold of her. What follows is a chilling descent into fear and faith... Written by Richard MacLean Smith and James Connor Patterson Find us at youtube.com/@unexplaine…
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