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Unexplained

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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… More info at www.unexplainedpodcast.com and on twitter @unexplainedpod and facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast

Latest episodes

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S05E02: The Unceasing Cloud - The Mad Gasser of Botetourt (RERUN)

UNEXPLAINED SEASON 10 BEGINS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27TH In 1802, Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt was introduced to guano, a substance made from accumulated bird an

Nov 13
37 min

S05E15: It Came From Above - The Height 611 UFO Incident (RERUN)

UNEXPLAINED SEASON 10 BEGINS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27TH In January 1986, a strange object was witnessed crashing into a mountain in a far eastern region of the then Soviet Un

Nov 8
28 min

Unexplained Halloween Special: Night Tales

On this week's Night Tales, have we got a story for you. Back in 1975 in a quiet English town, a naked man is found wondering around the neighbourhood covered in blood.

Oct 31
31 min

S01E04: Where Darkness Plays - The Pontefract Poltergeist (RERUN)

UNEXPLAINED SEASON 10 BEGINS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27TH Fear, it would seem, is a powerful primal emotion. So potent that it can even make us afraid of things that may not ev

Oct 30
24 min

Cautionary Tales - Aliens in Wilshire

Cautionary Tales is one of my favourite podcasts, which I think you’ll love too if you haven’t already heard of it. So we're doing an episode swap for Halloween! Cautio

Oct 27
39 min

Introducing Midnight Radio

From the team that brought you THE BLACK PHONE and SINISTER movies comes MIDNIGHT RADIO: a new, fantastical horror podcast starring Ethan Hawke. Available 10.22.26. New e

Oct 26
1 min

S09E37: Anger is An Energy Pt.2 of 2 (The Tina Resch Story)

The second and final part of S09E37: Anger is An Energy (The Tina Resch Story) As William Role continues his investigation of Tina, a sudden diminishing of her apparent

Oct 16
36 min

S09E37: Anger is An Energy Pt.1 of 2 (The Tina Resch Story)

In the 1980s, a young girl named Tina Resch became the focus of a baffling series of events that seemed to defy explanation. As the strange occurrences mounted, famed p

Oct 9
36 min

S09E36: Message Received (The Vision of Etta Smith)

In December 1980, Etta Smith contacted the police with a startling proposition: she knew the whereabouts of a missing woman, despite never having met her or knowing anyth

Oct 2
30 min

S09E35: A Land of Darkness Pt.2 of 2 (The Guarulhos Poltergeist)

Part two of S09E35: A Land of Darkness (The Guarulhos Poltergeist) A year after it all began, the family begin their fightback against whatever it is that seems to be t

Sep 25
32 min

S09E35: A Land of Darkness Pt.1 of 2 (The Guarulhos Poltergeist)

Back in the 1970s, in a quiet house on the edge of São Paulo, a young family became besieged by a series of inexplicable events, each more terrifying than the next.   W

Sep 18
27 min

S09E34: Nine Lives (The Satanic Cat of Killakee )

In 1968, Margaret O'Brien moved into a crumbling hunting lodge outside Dublin, hoping to fill it with artists. Instead she found herself at the mercy of terrifying forces

Sep 11
35 min

S09E33: The Day You Came to Me (The Grand Canyon Plane Crash Mystery)

In 1956, two airliners collided over the Grand Canyon, killing all 128 people on board. Two weeks later, two students set off into the Canyon, journeying through a landsc

Sep 4
30 min

S09E32: The Long and Lonely Road (The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction Mystery)

While out on a lonely stretch of Route 3, driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Betty and Barney Hill claim to have encountered something not of this worl

Aug 28
35 min

S09E31: Let's Get Wild (The Beast of Gévaudan)

For three terrifying years in 18th Century France, something stalked the people of the Gévaudan region. It's said to have killed over a hundred mostly women and children.

Aug 21
30 min

S09E30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (The Scole Experiment), 2/2

The second and final part of Unexplained S09E30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (The Scole Experiment). In October of 1993, the living members of the Scole Experiment G

Aug 14
34 min

S09E30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (The Scole Experiment), 1/2

In the waning years of the twentieth century, a group of researchers decided to finally tackle the great enigma. Namely, does life... do we… ever really end? This is

Aug 7
29 min

S09E29: The Howling Woods (The Michigan Dogman)

Dog-headed men haunted the fringes of the entire ancient world. With time, these stories have steadily dissolved into folklore, and the world moved on from such tall tale

Jul 31
37 min

S09E28: Laughter Cracking Through the Walls (The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn)

A mysterious cipher manuscript. Correspondence from an enigmatic figure in Germany. And countless claims from some of the most erudite personalities of the day, that the

Jul 24
31 min

S09E27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 3 of 3)

In the third and final part of Unexplained Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery, Ted Binion is dead. What seems like a fairly uncontroversial drug

Jul 17
45 min

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#65
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#90 ▲ 63 Society & Culture US

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I absolutely adore this program, RMS’s voice and cadence, the subjects, the research, but the adverts have become profoundly erratic and distracting. They are so loud and comprise a seeming much greater proportion of each episode than before. 🥲 now it feels like the show is more ads than the actual program

RandomBroomHandle · Dec 2024

The ads on the show used to blend well with the content, now they completely take you out of the experience. Don’t match the tone or mood of the content, and completely take you out of the podcast. I had to stop listening to this because it was no longer relaxing with the ping ponging between the soft, slow narration and the obnoxiously upbeat or loud ads. On to the next one I guess :/

MZQP327 · Dec 2024

I was really excited when I first found this because the subject matter of the episodes is right up my alley! However, I’ve tried listening to several of the most interesting sounding recent episodes and I haven’t made it through a single one. I just could not stomach the narrators’ monotonous drawl of identical cadence and inflection of EVERY. SINGLE. SENTENCE. Sometimes I had to remind myself that I was not listening to a robot… It’s enough to make literally the most fascinating subject matter (for me) dry and boring. I say this as someone who much prefers factual narrating to opinion based and overly emotional narrating, and still it’s too dull for even me.

AENorris · Nov 2024

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