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 21: Triangled Veils
On December 5th 1945, five US Navy aircraft along with all crew disappeared on a routine training exercise in an area known today as the Bermuda Triangle. What exactly happened to them is thought by some to be one of the strangest aviation mysteries of all time. Written by Diane Hope and Richar…
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Season 09 Episode 20: Over the Hills and Far Away
On the night of February 28th, 1959, 23-year-old Gerry Irwin was discovered unconscious deep in thick brush near a lonely stretch of Route 14 in Utah — miles from the nearest town. He claimed to have no idea how he got there. Some believe Gerry was abducted by aliens, others that perhaps somethi…
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Season 09 Episode 19: Something in the Water
In April 1935, a tiger shark was exhibited in a salt water pool in Sydney, Australia. Then it regurgitated something unexpected. What followed was one of the most bizarre and chilling mysteries in Australian history... Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. Find us at youtu…
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Season 09 Episode 18: It Lingers There
Tucked deep in the woods of Wisconsin, Summerwind Mansion became home to the Hinshaw family—but something in the house wasn't right. What they experienced inside those walls would follow them long after they left, though no one can quite agree on what was really there... Written by Diane Hope and…
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Season 09 Episode 17: Unsettled Dust
On September 11th 2001, the day the world changed forever, Sneha Anne Philip - along with 2977 others - was never seen again. But in the shadow of the Twin Towers, her final hours dissolve into fragments: a last sighting, a missing night, a timeline that doesn't quite fit. As a nation mourned, Sn…
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Season 09 Episode 16: Primum Non Nocere
In the early 1900's Kentucky's Jefferson County was struggling to contain an outbreak of TB. In the end, a vast new facility was built to try and get control of it, and treat all those who had ocntracted it. Many did not survive. The hospital was called the Waverley Hills Sanatorium. Today, som…
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Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust (Pt.2 of 2)
The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust Things take an even darker turn when police uncover details of strange weekend retreats taking place in the hills to the west of the city, organised by debonair American dentist Wentworth Prentice. Everything seems to link back to a see…
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Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust (Pt. 1 of 2)
In the winter of 1937, in Beijing, a young woman vanished on her way home under the shadow of the Fox Tower — a crumbling relic long associated with whispers, superstition, and unease. What followed would become one of the most haunting mysteries in the history of Beijing... Written by Diane Hope…
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Season 09 Episode 14: Cats in the Cradle
In the winter of 2016, a bizarre story began to unfold about a farming family from a small town just east of Melbourne, Australia. The family appeared to have fled their home in a state of utter panic, telling no one why or where they had gone. The truth was even stranger than anyone could possibl…
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Season 09 Episode 13: The Weight of Empty Space
On November 17, 1981 an event occurred at the construction site of the soon to be Manila Film Centre in the Philippines that is almost too shocking to believe. Today the site is one of many that has become part of a burgeoning Dark Tourism scene... Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Diane Hope…
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