Unexplained

Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust (Pt. 1 of 2)

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Season 09 Episode 14: Cats in the Cradle

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ap...

Season 9 Episode 13: The Weight of Empty Space

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.3 of 3)

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The third and final part of Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red  Digging into the local history, investigators uncover strange ta...

Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.2 of 3)

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 Lon...

Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.1 of 3)

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

To some, folk beliefs are little more than the harmless superstitions of a bygone age.   For others, such beliefs and practices are somethin...

Season 09 Episode 11: The Grey Zone

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In 1925, experienced mountaineer and man of science Prof. John Norman Collie gave a lecture to a climbing club in the Scottish Highlands.  Conclu...

Season 09 Episode 10: Me and the Devil Blues

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 nev...

Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited (Pt.2 of 2)

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited  After years appearing to endure a series of increasingly bizarre and terrifying...

Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited (Pt.1 of 2)

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Season 09 Episode 08: A Black Star Over His Shoulder

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

It's almost inconceivable that, with the advancement of technology and the normalisation of surveillance, someone could suddenly appear in a well-popu...

Season 06 Episode 11: Slide Away (RERUN)

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Season 02 Episode 4: When the Snow Melts (RERUN)

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Season 09 Episode 07: The Stove Goblin

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In September 1934, amidst wide political unrest, something was stirring in the home of the Palazon family in Zaragoza, Spain.  What started as a ...

Season 09 Episode 06: Full Fathom Five

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 pa...

Season 9 Episode 5: Did You Ever See a Dream

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Season 09 Episode 4: To Each Man His Castle (Pt. 2)

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Season 09 Episode 4: To Each Man His Castle (Pt. 1)

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 fin...

Season 09 Episode 03: Get Out

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Deep in Alaska, in the ghost town of Portlock, villagers once whispered of something colossal stalking the fog—an unseen presence that is said t...

Season 09 Episode 02: Too Cold Always

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

Season 09 Episode 01: Beneath the Moon's Pale Beams

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On Halloween night, 2001, a bright Penn State student named Cindy Song vanished into the cold air of rural Pennsylvania after a night out with friends...

Season 05: Episode 09: Tenebrous (RERUN)

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST Our final journey into the archive takes us to the remote Bavarian countryside in 1922, to a lonely farmstead and ...

UNEXPLAINED SEASON 09 TRAILER

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Unexplained returns for Season 09 on Friday October 31st at 17:00 GMT...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Season 04 Episode 13: Lost in Stormy Visions (RERUN)

17 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST This week's rerun takes us to what to some were the unknown shores of a mysterious New World, but for others was s...

Season 03 Episode 04: From Here to Eternity (RERUN)

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST This week's rerun takes us to Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922, where years of painstaking excavation were abou...

Season 04 Episode 20: The Homecoming (RERUN)

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST This week's rerun takes us back to the forests of Arizona in November 1975, where a crew of loggers were finishing...

Season 02 Episode 02: Time Out of Joint (RERUN)

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST What happens when ordinary people insist the familiar world around them has suddenly become something else entirel...

Season 03 Episode 11: Into the Abyss (RERUN)

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST This week's rerun takes us to a windswept island off the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada, where in the summer of 17...

Season 01 Episode 06: Demons in Suburbia (RERUN)

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST This week's rerun is perhaps the most disturbing story I’ve covered on Unexplained. Back in the 1970s, in th...

Season 08 Episode 42: Reality Bites

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Final episode of Unexplained Season 08. In the heat of a Bulgarian summer, a young German tourist stumbled into an airport medical clinic, bruised, pa...

Season 08 Episode 41: The Visitor

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The small American town of Van Meter in Iowa is the kind of town that some might derisively describe as one that epitomises the fly-over states - a pl...

Season 08 Episode 40: It's Inside the House

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Something a little different this week... In a first for Unexplained, we hear a first hand account of strange and terrifying events said by one family...

Season 08 Episode 39: A Trembling Distant Voice

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the summer of 1963, three miners were trapped by a cave-in for days on end with no food or light. Some say it was a miracle that any of them surviv...

Season 08 Episode 38: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

08 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They called it the most inescapable prison in the United States — a cold, isolated fortress surrounded by frigid waters and razor currents. Alca...

Season 08 Episode 37: Field of Dreams

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1972, a group of schoolboys in Kera, Japan, claimed to have encountered a tiny silver UFO—and even captured it, twice. What followed was a bi...

Season 08 Episode 36: The Devil Came Walking

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1855, strange hoof-like prints appeared overnight in the snow across Devon in southwest England—stretching for over 100 miles, crossing rooft...

Season 08 Episode 35: Screwball Scramble

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1953, two U.S. Air Force personnel vanished without a trace while intercepting a mysterious radar target over Lake Superior. Decades later, the ski...

Season 08 Episode 34: Ship of Death

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Early on the morning of July 28th, 1987, a rescue helicopter was dispatched to the passenger ferry MS Viking Sally, out on the Baltic Sea.  When ...

Season 08 Episode 33: After the Sun Comes Rain (Pt.2 of2)

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Second and final part of Season 08 Episode 33: After the Sun Comes Rain  Left alone, the only surviving member of Lyudmila's hiking team, Valenti...

Season 08 Episode 33: After the Sun Comes Rain (Pt.1 of 2)

27 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1993, a group of rafters paddling through the Siberian wilderness of the Khamar Daban mountains came across a teenage girl, caked in mud and blood....

Season 08 Episode 32: What the Water Took From Us

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the shadows of Greater Manchester’s canals and waterways, some believe something ancient and malevolent might be lurking. This week on Unexpl...

Season 08 Episode 31: Morning Has Broken

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Three women vanished without a trace from a quiet suburban home in the early hours of a summer morning in 1992. What began as a hopeful graduation wee...

Season 02 Episode 01: Whispers in the Trees (RERUN)

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Due to the recent arrival of another mini MacLean Smith, the next new episode will be with you next Friday on June 13th…  In the meantime,...

Season 01 Episode 10: The Spaces That Linger (RERUN)

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Due to the recent arrival of another mini MacLean Smith, there’ll be a slight pause on new episodes. For the next two weeks we’ll be dippi...

Season 08 Episode 30: A Philadelphia Story

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the race to develop cutting edge technology for the Second World War, many nations focused on how to evade radar detection.  Down in the Naval...

Season 08 Episode 29: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (Pt.2 of 2)

16 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Season 08 Episode 29: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain It's 11 years since the so-called Frog Boys were last seen alive.  Two men out in ...

Season 08 Episode 29: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (Pt.1 of 2)

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In March 2001, as the nation of South Korea enjoyed a national holiday, five boys from Dalseo in the city of Daegu, headed off into the forest in sear...

Season 08 Episode 28: Oh, Steel Thy Sweetheart Woman

02 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When emergency services arrived at the home of Kathleen and Michael Peterson in the early hours of December 9th 2001, they found a horrifying scene: K...

Season 08 Episode 27: Let's Dance

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One hot day in the summer of 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman left her home in a strange trance and headed straight for the town square. There...

Season 08 Episode 26: All Eyes on Me

18 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Over the decades, stories have trickled in from all across the globe. Places both far, and unnervingly near… of truly horrifying things, with f...

Season 08 Episode 25: Where There is Gold There is Blood

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While battling for his life during the height of the COVID pandemic, Damian Harris slips into a vivid dream of a forgotten Arizona ghost town—wh...

Season 08 Episode 24: Vanishing Point

04 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To many, Mt. Shasta in northern California, is a sacred place.   It's a place of visions and power, and for seeking communion with the unsee...

Season 08 Episode 23: My God, My God

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When caught up in a cult, the line between what’s acceptable and what constitutes abnormal behaviour starts to blur.  For one South Korean ...

Season 08 Episode 22: Somewhere in Dreamland

21 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When seasoned hiker Kenny Veach claimed to have found a cave in the Nevadan wilderness that made his body vibrate with fear, few believed him. So he s...

Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon (Pt.3 of 3)

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of Carl's tragic death, his family find themselves reminiscing about the strange claims he made as a boy - that he had once lived before a...

Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon (Pt.2 of 3)

07 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 of Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon  From the moment he is born, Carl Edon's mother senses there is something a little different about h...

Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon (Pt.1 of 3)

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, was founded in 1967 by psychiatrist Dr Ian Stevenson. By the time of his retirement ...

Season 8 Episode 20: I Wake Up Dreaming

21 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1977, farmer Huang Yanqiu is said to have vanished from his village in China's Hebei province only to reappear after a baffling journey across Chin...

Season 08 Episode 19: Mallet Maleficarum

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 1657 Shepton Mallet, England, a young boy claims to suffer from a mysterious affliction after a strange encounter with an elderly stranger.  &...

Season 08 Episode 18: The Hardest Hue to Hold

07 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 2000s, a story emerged online about a mysterious sarcophagus unearthed by miners in a remote Siberian village back in 1969. Inside, so th...

Season 08 Episode 17: Stone in the Blood

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

From eerie legends to real-life horrors, castles have long concealed secrets behind their ancient walls—secrets that refuse to stay buried. In t...

Season 08 Episode 16: Nothing Beside Remains

24 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On December 24th, 1945, a fire destroyed the home of Jennie and George Sodder and their ten children in Fayetteville, West Virginia.  Five childr...

Season 08 Episode 15: If We Can Sparkle

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When UFO researcher Bill Chalker is contacted about a baffling case from long ago in the Australian Outback, he uncovers reports of strange lights in ...

Season 08 Episode 14: Still Life

11 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Meet Robert the Doll, the mysterious gift to a young boy named Gene Otto that marked the beginning of a lifetime of strange occurrences. Was Robert a ...

Season 03 Episode 03: Under the Asphalt (Rerun)

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

With Season 8 due to return next Friday, it’s back to the archive one more time… This week we’re heading back to the 70s, to a quie...

Season 01 Episode 08: When the Light Fades (Rerun)

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With Unexplained on a short break we're dipping into the archives again. This week’s story is a true ghost of Christmas past, reaching out to us...

Season 08 Episode 13: The Tunnel Without End

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Completed in 1875, the Hoosac Tunnel was known to those who built it as the bloody pit owing to the 195 people that were killed during its constructio...

Season 08 Episode 12: The Dark Banquet (Pt.2 of 2)

13 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Season 08 Episode 12: The Dark Banquet  Continuing on from last week's episode, we take a look at what inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula...

Season 08 Episode 12: The Dark Banquet (Pt.1 of 2)

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the 15th century, in a citadel perched high above a cliff, there lived a bloodthirsty ruler, considered by some to have been among the most feared ...

Season 4 Episode 1: Alone With Everybody (RERUN)

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the northern edge of the Brecon Beacons in Cymru, in the shadow of the Pen y Fan peak, sits a large stone house. Named Heol Fanog, or Road to the P...

Season 08 Episode 11: A Hole in My Head Where the Rain Comes in

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In April 1991, music executive Christopher Case told his friend that he'd been cursed by a woman he met while on a night out.  The woman apparently t...

Season 08 Episode 10: Not All Who Wander

15 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is a story told over centuries, by local Congolese and explorers alike – a story that calls into question what we truly know about our world, ...

Season 08 Episode 09: The River Always Beckons

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In October 1929, Bessie and Glen Hyde set out to become the fastest people ever to traverse the Grand Canyon by boat. For a landscape so saturated in ...

Season 08 Episode 8: Neuroactive Ghostliness

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In July 1692 strange things are afoot in Massachusetts, America. In Salem village, 11 women and one man are languishing in jail as they await trial, a...

Season 08 Episode 7: The Rocky Mountain

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In December 1975, on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, pilot Norman Peter Gibbs took off for a recreational flight around the island. He was never heard f...

Season 08 Episode 6: Time is Gone, the Song is Over

18 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Will the idea of travelling purposefully through time always be nothing more than an imaginative device through which to convey longing, nostalgia and...

Season 08 Episode 5: Islands of Fear (Pt.2 of 2)

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Season 08 Episode 5: Islands of Fear Back to where it all began... It's August 1995 in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico and according to one local ...

Season 08 Episode 5: Islands of Fear (Pt.1 of 2)

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Back in the early 1990s, a series of strange reports began emanating from Latin and Central America regarding a spate of farm animal massacres.  And ...

S08 Episode 4: Oh Darling, Make it Go

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the late 1980s and early 90s, 14 women vanished within a 100km radius of Ireland's capital, Dublin.  Former crime correspondent Geraldine Niland d...

Season 08 Episode 3: My God, it’s Full of Stars

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On November 18th 2020 a small group of biologists spotted something strange while flying over a remote part of southeastern Utah; a bizarre reflective...

Season 08 Episode 2: Desire Production

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If you think the novels of Philip K. Dick are strange, you should hear what happened to him in real life. It all began, one uncanny day in 1974... Wri...

Season 08 Episode 1: May Their Passage Cleanse the World

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The sandworm from Frank Herbert's Dune, is a monstrous gigantic creature with a thirst for blood. But did you know it was possibly based on another te...

Unexplained Season 08 Trailer

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Unexplained returns for Season 08 on Friday, September 6th. Sometimes eerie, sometimes strange, always Unexplained... Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook....

S05 Episode 10: In the Shadow of the Mountain (RERUN)

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The otherworld of Welsh mythology, known as Annwn, is said to be populated with a vast array of creatures including fairies and mottled ridged serpent...

S05 Episode 4: How the End Always Is (RERUN)

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

1990 in Gulf Breeze, Florida, in the early hours of Saturday, July 14th, a young man is pulled over for a routine traffic stop. Little could anyone ha...

S04 Episode 19: A View from a Hill (RERUN)

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For any regular listener of this show, as you may have gathered, Unexplained is rather fond of a good old haunted house story.   The story of the Coo...

S04 Episode 6: The Silence of the Sea (RERUN)

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On December 4th 1872, the crew of the cargo ship Dei Gratia, came across a ghost ship set adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, 400 miles to the east of the A...

S01 Episode 2: Resurrected Dreams (RERUN)

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It could be said that all stories are ultimately about one thing – death. None more so than the stories we tell each other concerning what awaits us...

Season 04 Episode 18: The Dark Ascending (RERUN)

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Unexplained Season 7 has now finished but we’ll be back on Friday September 6th to begin Season 8. In the meantime, I’m going to be replaying some...

Season 07 Episode 26: The Devil's Money

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One chilly morning in a small village in Romania, in February 1925, 11-year-old Eleonore Zugun found a coin on the way to her grandmother's house.  E...

Season 07 Episode 25: The City Upon a Hill (Pt.3 of 3)

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The third and final part of Season 07 Episode 25: The City Upon a Hill  As accusations of witchcraft mount up soon the fear spreads beyond Salem and ...

Season 07 Episode 25: The City Upon a Hill (Pt.2 of 3)

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Season 07 Episode 25: The City Upon a Hill  It's March 1692 in Salem. Three women - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba - stand accused ...

Season 07 Episode 25: The City Upon a Hill (Pt.1 of 3)

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

June 1630, 700 puritans arrived from England at a place in New England, America, known to many local communities as Naumkeag. To those new arrivals ho...

Season 07 Episode 24: The Elves Are in the Building

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The volcanic landscape of Iceland exerts a strong pull on the psyche. So it's no wonder the nation's folklore is so rich with stories of the supernatu...

Season 07 Episode 23: The Box (Pt.3 of 3)

14 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Third and final part of Season 07 Episode 23: The Box  Jason continues his quest to get to the bottom of how the dibbuk box came into being.  What h...

Season 07 Episode 23: The Box (Pt.2 of 3)

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Season 07 Episode 23: The Box  Despite the disturbing nature of Kevin's eBay listing, his 'dibbuk' box attracts the interest of hundreds ...

Season 07 Episode 23: The Box (Pt.1 of 3)

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In June 2003, something unusual popped up for sale on eBay. The listing was posted by used furniture dealer Kevin Mannis and concerned a strange Jewis...

Season 07 Episode 22: Jumping into Legend (Pt.2 of 2)

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Second and final part of Season 07 Episode 22: Jumping into Legend In the hunt for the true identity of the so-called Dan Cooper, the FBI and police i...

Season 07 Episode 22: Jumping into Legend (Pt.1 of 2)

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On November 24th 1971 at Portland International airport, a man turned up at the ticket desk requesting a one-way ticket to Seattle. The rest is strang...

Season 07 Episode 21: Wild is the Wind

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's long been thought that people can be driven to madness by the wind.  In 1969, Episcopalian bishop James Pike and his wife Diane became stranded ...