Unexplained

Season 07 Episode 20: The Haunting of Hannath Hall (Pt.2 of 2)

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The second and final part of Season 07 Episode 20: The Haunting of Hannath Hall The team from the Cambridge University Society of Psychical Research a...

Season 07 Episode 20: The Haunting of Hannath Hall (Pt.1 of 2)

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It always fills me with a particular sense of caution, and no little excitement when I learn of new alleged poltergeist events, particularly ones that...

Season 07 Episode 19: Homes Under the Hammer Horror

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 1999, a house went on the market in the tiny village of Upper Mayfield near the Derbyshire Peak District. It was bought by Tim Chilton for what he ...

Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee (Pt.4 of 4)

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The fourth and final part of Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee (Pt.4 of 4) Fearing for his life, John Dee flees with his family to Europe alo...

Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee (Pt.3 of 4)

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Part Three of Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee  Late one afternoon in March 1582, John Dee is introduced to one Edward Talbot, a self-procl...

Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee (Pt.2 of 4)

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee  With the death of Queen Mary 1st, John Dee does what he can to ingratiate himself with the ne...

Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee (Pt.1 of 4)

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Dee. Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and some say, the most influential occult magician in British history...  This episode was written by...

S03 E10: Here is Always Somewhere Else (RERUN)

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Unexplained will return next week. In place of this week's episode, this is one from the vaults... When 3 year old Shanti Devi becomes convinced she h...

Season 07 Episode 17: What Lies in the Long Grass (Pt.2 of 2)

08 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Season 07 Episode 17: What Lies in the Long Grass.  As news begins to spread about the bizarre events at Ruwa school, the children find a...

Season 07 Episode 17: What Lies In the Long Grass (Pt.1 of 2)

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One evening in September 1994, strange lights are seen in the skies over Zimbabwe.  Two days later, 60 pupils of a rural primary school make the asto...

Season 07 Episode 16: Take Me Dancing Tonight

23 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the late 1960s, there were few better places to enjoy a night out in Glasgow than the Barrowland Ballroom.  At weekends, as many as 2000 would cra...

Season 07 Episode 15: In His Eyes a Flaming Glow (Pt. 2 of 2)

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Season 07 Episode 15: In His Eyes a Flaming Glow As Gregori Rasputin's influence over the Tsar and Tsarina grows ever stronger, so too doe...

Season 07 Episode 15: In His Eyes a Flaming Glow (Pt. 1 of 2)

09 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the early 1900s, a strange enigmatic mystic ingratiated himself with the Russian royal family. It was the beginning of a new life for him – and f...

Season 07 Episode 14: If These Walls Could Scream (Pt.3 of 3)

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The third and final part of Season 07 Episode 14: If These Walls Could Scream. Elisa Lam has been missing for over two weeks when guests staying at th...

Season 07 Episode 14: If These Walls Could Scream (Pt.2 of 3)

26 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Season 07 Episode 14: If These Walls Could Scream. Detectives Tennelle and Stearns begin their investigation into Elisa Lam's disappearanc...

Season 07 Episode 14: If These Walls Could Scream (Pt.1 of 3)

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The world of horror is littered with unnerving locations, with the hotel perhaps the most unsettling of them all. Hotels constitute a vast clash of ps...

Season 07 Episode 13: Squaring the Circle

12 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Early one chilly morning in March of 1977, Mary Gillespie checked her postbox and found a strange, threatening letter inside - addressed to her.  And...

Season 04 Episode 18: The Dark Ascending (Rerun)

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Unexplained rerun: Chanctonbury Ring, an ancient and unusual landmark located in Sussex, England, and the surrounding countryside has long been consid...

Season 06 Episode 1: Lying in Wait (Rerun)

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Unexplained Rerun In July 2009, at the height of war in Afghanistan, US and British forces struggle to get to grips with fighting a mostly invisible e...

Season 07 Episode 12: The Jungle Never Sleeps (Pt.2 of 2)

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Second part of Season 07 Episode 12: The Jungle Never Sleeps So much of this story is comparable to a walk into the jungle - perhaps the very same wal...

Season 07 Episode 12: The Jungle Never Sleeps (Pt.1 of 2)

15 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In March 2014, the parents of Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers waved their daughters off at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport as they embarked on a trip of a ...

Season 04 Episode 7: Called to the Forest (Rerun)

09 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

RERUN EPISODE (Huge apologies to all, due to illness I've not been able to produce a new epiosde this week, but here is one of my past favourites from...

Season 07 Episode 11: Through the Looking Glass

01 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On March 10th 1928, 9-year-old Walter Collins left home to go to the cinema but never came back.  For months police worked tirelessly to find out wha...

Season 07 Episode 10: Into the Badlands (Pt.3 of 3)

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part Three of Season 7 Episode 10: Into the Badlands  As Robert Bigelow's team set about investigating the anomalous activity on the ranch,  strange...

Season 07 Episode 10: Into the Badlands (Pt.2 of 3)

18 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 7 Episode 10: Into the Badlands  As the weirdness on Tery and Gwen Sherman's ranch becomes more troubling, a strange organization ...

Season 07 Episode 10: Into the Badlands (Pt.1 of 3)

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1994, Gwen and Terry Sherman travel deep into the Uintah basin in Utah to view a potential new home.  The Myers Ranch is everything they have been...

Season 07 Episode 09: The Sound of Hunger

03 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1878, a man named Kakisikutchin took his wife, six children, mother-in-law, and brother, out into the forest, to hunt food for the winter. But only...

Season 07 Episode 08: Walking on Snow (Pt.2 of 2)

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 07 Episode 08: Walking on Snow In February 1954 the Daily Mail's huge Yeti expedition team arrives in the Himalayas.  Will they be...

Season 07 Episode 08: Walking on Snow (Pt.1 of 2)

20 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For centuries people of Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, India, and China have recognized the existence of a strange ape-like creature said to stalk the vast Him...

Season 07 Episode 07: Mansion on the Hill

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

No one knows exactly who The White Witch of Rose Hall is supposed to be, or if she was ever anyone at all. But it doesn't make the story any less real...

Season 07 Episode 06: Look Me in the I (Pt.3 of 3)

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The third and final part of Season 07 Episode 06: Look Me in the I  By 1975 Anneliese has endured countless exorcisms but they fail to relieve her of...

Season 07 Episode 06: Look Me in the I (Pt.2 of 3)

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 07 Episode 06: Look Me in the I  As Anneliese's condition worsens, Father Alt and his colleagues are left in no doubt that she has...

Season 07 Episode 06: Look Me in the I (Pt.1 of 3)

23 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In September 1952, Anna and Josef Michel celebrated the birth of their first child together, Anneliese. 24 years later, she was dead; the result, some...

Season 07 Episode 05: Jumpin' Jacks (Pt.2 of 2)

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 07 Episode 05: Jumpin' Jacks The search for the mysterious Spring Heeled Jack continues... This episode was written by Diane Hope a...

Season 07 Episode 05: Jumpin' Jacks (Pt.1 of 2)

08 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Most countries and cultures have their own version of a bogeyman and the UK is no exception – many of them given the epithet of ‘Jack’.  The on...

Season 07 Episode 04: Children of the Stones

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A tangled web of myth and history, an alluring mixture of fact and fiction shadowed by an ever-present aura of death and pagan spiritual energy.  I g...

Season 07 Episode 03: Under Black Water (Pt.2 of 2)

25 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 07 Episode 03: Under Black Water  A strange discovery made on a fishing trawler just off the east coast of South Africa in 1938 ha...

Season 07 Episode 03: Under Black Water (Pt.1 of 2)

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In August 1930, the first media report of a strange creature, reportedly seen in the waters of Loch Ness in Scotland, was published by a local Inverne...

Season 07 Episode 02: UFO 54

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Whether it was the rumour that a UFO followed the flight path of a plane from New York to London in June, or it was the sighting of the strange “gre...

Season 7 Episode 1: The Fall Without End (Pt.2 of 2)

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2 of Season 7 Episode 1: The Fall Without End After the US government offers a formal apology and explanation of sorts to Frank Olson's family, F...

Season 7 Episode 1: The Fall Without End (Pt.1 of 2)

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the evening of November 28th 1953, in New York, Frank Olson was found on the pavement outside the Statler Hotel having fallen out of a window on th...

Season 03 Episode 06: Shores of the Unknown (Rerun)

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With Unexplained Season 7 due to start next Friday, July 28th, we have time for one more episode from the vaults.  This week we return to Broadhaven ...

Season 03 Episode 07: Shadowplay (Rerun)

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

For me, the Spanish film Veronica, directed by Paco Plaza and released in 2017, is, without doubt, one of the best horror films depicting demonic poss...

Season 02 Episode 05: Roads to Knowhere (Rerun)

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

(Rerun) In 1987, construction began on a small stretch of road that would later become known as the Stocksbridge Bypass, now considered one of the mos...

Season 03 Episode 09: Come Talk to Me (Rerun)

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the summer of 1958 in Mölndo, Sweden, EVP pioneer Friedrich Jürgenson was attempting to record the sound of birdsong in his garden. What ...

Season 04 Episode 03: I See You (Rerun)

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With Unexplained currently on a break between seasons, we’re taking a look back at some of our favourite episodes.  In the summer of 2014, ...

Season 04 Episode 04: Always Already (Rerun)

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Continuing with our look back at some of our favourite episodes while we take a break between seasons, this week we’re going back to March 2019....

Season 01 Episode 01: Opening the Gate (Rerun)

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Revisiting some of our favourite episodes... Since the dawn of communication, we have shared stories about imaginary beings; entities such as demons, ...

Season 06 Episode 34 Extra: Your Electric Feel

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Experiments to prove the existence of psychokinesis have been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability and are generally regarded as p...

Season 06 Episode 34: She's Electric

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In early 1846, in a village in northwestern France, a teenage girl begins displaying apparent psychokinetic powers in the wake of an intense period of...

Season 06 Episode 33 Extra: Hungry Like the Wolf

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There have been surprisingly many supposedly true-life tales of werewolves over the years though perhaps none are more infamous, more wicked or more d...

Season 06 Episode 33: An American Werewolf in America

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Near Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in the autumn of 1991, local journalist Linda Godfrey recorded a series of peculiar sightings of a terrifying humanoid dog-li...

Season 06 Episode 32 Extra: After the Gold Rush

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Toward the end of the Second World War, it became apparent that billions of US dollars worth of priceless art, gold, and a veritable treasure trove of...

Season 06 Episode 32: A Death Less Ordinary

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Günther Stoll was a fairly typical individual. He enjoyed his job as a food engineer, he loved his wife and he enjoyed the occasional drink at his lo...

Season 06 Episode 31: Every Story is a Ghost Story (Pt.3 of 3)

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pt. 3 of Season 06 Episode 31: Every Story is a Ghost Story   With Jackie and her children finally forced to move out of their San Pedro bunga...

Season 06 Episode 31: Every Story is a Ghost Story (Pt.2 of 3)

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pt. 2 of Season 06 Episode 31: Every Story is a Ghost Story As the apparent haunting of Jackie Hernandez and her family intensifies, Barry is left wit...

Season 06 Episode 31: Every Story is a Ghost Story (Pt.1 of 3)

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to the sheer terror of the supernatural, for me, there are few more disturbing notions than the poltergeist; malignant spirits of wrathf...

Season 06 Episode 30: The Extinguishable Fire (Pt.2 of 2)

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 6 Episode 30: The Extinguishable Fire (Pt.2 of 2) Inspired by Joan's apparent visions, and as the voices foretold, the Dauphin's ar...

Season 06 Episode 30: The Inextinguishable Fire (Pt.1 of 2)

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Back in the early 15th century, as the English King, Henry VI, tried to assert his supremacy in the Kingdom of France, an unlikely teenage hero came t...

Season 06 Episode 29 Extra: Through a Mind, Darkly

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1978, having been satisfied that remote viewing could enable people to look into the past, Stephan A. Schwartz had an epiphany. If experienced remo...

Season 06 Episode 29: Mobius Stripped

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1979, Stephan Schwartz and a team of remote viewers arrived in the city of Alexandria in Egypt, claiming they had pinpointed the location of numero...

Season 06 Episode 28 Extra: The Tail of the Comet

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the internet becomes our public forum for sharing and discussing ideas, more often than not it is through this portal that we develop much of our s...

Season 06 Episode 28: The Nous Fear (Pt.3 of 3)

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pt. 3 of Season 06 Episode 28: The Nous Fear  Where once the Internet was thought to offer something akin to a beneficial noosphere - many have inste...

Season 06 Episode 28: The Nous Fear (Pt.2 of 3)

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pt. 2 of Season 06 Episode 28: The Nous Fear  The digital space is a world where fact and fiction become progressively blurred. As our lives become i...

Season 06 Episode 28: The Nous Fear (Pt.1 of 3)

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

He is the personification of the unknown; a messenger of the medium, at once new but strangely, archaically, familiar.  His name is The Slender Man, ...

Season 06 Episode 27 Extra: Concrete Under Water

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One aspect of our Mothman episode that some listeners wanted to know a little more about was how exactly the collapse of the Silver Bridge fitted into...

Season 06 Episode 27: All That We See (Pt.3 of 3)

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The third and final part of Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See  New York-based writer John Keel joins the hunt for the Mothman as something omi...

Season 06 Episode 27: All That We See (Pt.2 of 3)

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See The apparent sighting of a strange winged creature on the outskirts of Point Pleasant in West Virgini...

Season 06 Episode 27: All That We See (Pt.1 of 3)

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Back in November 1966, four young adults were out late one night, driving through a vast stretch of wetlands on the outskirts of their quiet West Virg...

Season 06 Episode 26 Extra: The Invisible Fog

17 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It is often said by medical professionals that medicine is not an exact science. Despite the incredible wealth of knowledge we have, as many of us per...

Season 06 Episode 26: Under the Rocks and Stones (Pt.2 of 2)

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The second and final part of Season 06 Episode 26: Under the Rocks and Stones. After the opening of the dolmen in L'Islet, a shadow seems to draw acro...

Season 06 Episode 26: Under the Rocks and Stones (Pt.1 of 2)

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

That people have lived on the land we know today as Guernsey, at least as far back as 4000 BCE, is evidenced by the many incredible relics there that ...

Season 06 Episode 25 Extra: The Way Back Machine

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the wake of numerous historical cases of abuse recently coming to light across the world, from within religious institutions or care homes, among o...

Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way (Pt.3 of 3)

18 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The third and final part of Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way  Noreen and John Gosch are contacted by former state senator John Decamp who t...

Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way (Pt.2 of 3)

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way  In August 1984, two years after the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, yet another young Des Moin...

Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way (Pt.1 of 3)

04 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For those who like to reminisce about a time when the world was a safer place; when doors could be left unlocked and children could be left outside to...

Season 06 Episode 24 Extra: Digging the Foundations

28 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On Unexplained we've covered many a haunted house story, however, few have been as terrifying as the subject of this week's extra... Go to twitter @un...

Season 06 Episode 24: This Woman's Work

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When asked once what inspired her novel, The Woman in Black, Susan Hill replied that her chief ingredient was atmosphere, which I think sums it up per...

Season 06 Episode 23 Extra: Out There Alone

14 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Roughly 20 years after the death of the McLeod brothers, news broke from out of Canada's Northwest Territories of yet another beguiling mystery striki...

Season 06 Episode 23: How the Wind Does Scream

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1905, two brothers, Willie and Frank McLeod, ventured out to a vast stretch of Canadian wilderness known to some as the Nahanni Valley.  When ...

Season 06 Episode 22 Extra: Closing the Webb

30 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In July 2021, Professor Derek Abbott made the stunning announcement that (thanks to his tireless work and that of genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick) he'...

Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names (Pt. 3 of 3)

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part Three of Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names The discovery of the enigmatic words Tamám Shud curled up in a small fob pocket of the unknown man'...

Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names (Part 2 of 3)

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names With news of the unidentified body found on Somerton Beach beginning to spread throughout the world, t...

Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names (Part 1 of 3)

09 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On December 1st, 1948, the body of an unknown man was found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia.  Despite recent claimes that the identity...

Season 6 Episode 21 Extra: The Invisible World

04 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1685 George Sinclair, the brother of Maister Thomas Sinclair, the man who revealed Major Thomas Weir's confession to the authorities, published a b...

Season 6 Episode 21: The Mask that Eats the Face

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1670, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Major Thomas Weir, a Covenanter and man of puritanical faith was a much-respected member of the city's Presbyterian c...

Season 06 Episode 20 Extra: The Secret

19 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

With the death of Francisco Marto in 1919, followed by that of his sister Jacinta the following year, Lucia dos Santos was left as the only living mem...

Season 6 Episode 20: Children of the Pastures (Pt. 2 of 2)

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of Season 6 Episode 20: Children of the Pastures Lucia is faced with a true test of her faith as the Mayor attempts to put an end to her and ...

Season 6 Episode 20: Children of the Pastures (Pt. 1 of 2)

05 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the spring of 1916, three young children from the village of Aljustrel in western Portugal claimed to see the Virgin Mary while out tending sheep i...

Season 6 Episode 19 Extra: After the Fire

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In March 1974, Terry Matthews and his mother, Gerri Betz, came across a strange metallic sphere in the woods close to their home in Jacksonville, Flor...

Season 6 Episode 19: Fire in the Belly

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1951, 67-year-old Mary Reeser moved down from Columbia, Pennsylvania to Florida to be closer to her son and grandchildren.Five weeks later, Mary wa...

Season 6 Episode 18 Extra: Reading the Signs

16 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It is said that St Francis of Assisi was the first person to receive the stigmata, back in 1224.  Since then only thirty or so people have seriously ...

Season 6 Episode 18: Tears, Idol Tears

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the late 1940s, Italian sculptor Amilcare Santini was commissioned to make a statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to use as a model for mass prod...

Season 6 Episode 17 Extra: Red Rain

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Perhaps one of the strangest cases of an unidentified body occurred in Kenora, Canada, in 1974 when an unknown man walked into the Canadian Imperial B...

Season 6 Episode 17: A Story of Ice and Fire

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In late November 1970, in a valley just outside of Bergen in western Norway, a 12-year-old girl stumbles upon the burned remains of a body.  The disc...

Season 6 Episode 16 Extra: Remote Control

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In last week's episode, we learned about Baba Vanga, whose apparent psychic abilities are said to have been analysed by a number of parapsychologists....

Season 6 Episode 16: Visions from Darkness

10 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Blinded in a freak storm, Baba Vanga from Strumica in present-day North Macedonia is believed by some to have been the most gifted psychic of the mode...

Season 6 Episode 15 Extra: Cloudbusting

03 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Of all the strange aviation related disappearances, perhaps the spookiest of all are those in which the aircraft return, but the crew do not... Storie...

Season 6 Episode 15: Out of the Wreckage

27 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Second Officer Donald Repo was one of the 101 people killed when Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed in the everglades just west of Miami in December...

Season 6 Episode 14 Extra: Under the Lake

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Early in the evening of November 23 1953, USAF pilot First Lieutenant Felix Moncla and radar operator Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson were scrambled i...