Unexplained
Unexplained
Playlist by UnexplainedUnexplained 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 an…Follow the podcast:
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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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Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.3 of 3)
The third and final part of Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red Digging into the local history, investigators uncover strange tales of witchcraft that have plagued the area for generations, including the chilling case of Ann Tenant. But surely, it couldn't possibly have had anythi…
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Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.2 of 3)
Part two of Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red. With local police ill-equipped to deal with such a strange and brutal murder, the London Met's greatest living police officer, Detective Inspector Robert Fabian, is drafted in to help. Despite presiding over every criminal case ima…
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Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.1 of 3)
To some, folk beliefs are little more than the harmless superstitions of a bygone age. For others, such beliefs and practices are something to be deeply feared as nothing less than the work of the Devil… Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin. Find us at youtub…
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Season 09 Episode 11: The Grey Zone
In 1925, experienced mountaineer and man of science Prof. John Norman Collie gave a lecture to a climbing club in the Scottish Highlands. Concluding his talk, Collie told his stunned audience that he believed there was something very strange stalking the highest peak of the local Cairngorm's moun…
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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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