Unexplained

Season 6 Episode 14: The Ash on the Floor

13 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In May 1967, Stefan Michalak was spotted walking along Trans-Canada Highway 1, just west of Falcon Lake in Manitoba, Canada.  Bleary-eyed and hol...

Season 6 Episode 13 Extra: A Field in England

07 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Remorse, guilt, and the ghosts of the English Civil War. Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for ...

Season 6 Episode 13: A Place of Forgetting

29 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 1898 a story written by Mildred Darby was published in London’s Belgravia magazine titled, “A House of Horrors.” Darby later clai...

Season 06 Episode 12 Extra: Mindhunters

22 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we look at the history of criminal profiling and how the practice first came about. But more importantly, just how effective is ...

Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town (Pt.3 of 3)

15 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode contains deeply disturbing scenes of violence, murder and sexual violence toward children. Parental discretion is advised. Third and fin...

Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town (Pt.2 of 3)

08 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode contains deeply disturbing scenes of violence, murder and sexual violence toward children. Parental discretion is advised. Part Two of S...

Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town (Pt.1 of 3)

01 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode contains deeply disturbing scenes of violence, murder and sexual violence toward children. Parental discretion is advised. In June 1912,...

Season 6 Episode 11 Extra: Habeas Corpus

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Perhaps the strangest and most mysterious story to come out of the 'Bennington Triangle' was that which took place in the early 1800s, which ultimatel...

Season 6 Episode 11: Slide Away

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Between 1945-1950, four people vanished without trace in an area of Vermont dubbed the Bennington Triangle due to the array of strange and weird occur...

Season 6 Episode 10 Extra: Gold in Them Hills

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Some look for gold in rock seams and mineral deposits. Others prefer their search for riches served with a healthy side order of deep and mystical con...

Season 6 Episode 10: The Longest Road

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Back in 1892, 29-year-old Julia Thomas headed out into the heart of Arizona's Superstition Mountains in search of an apparently lost gold mine, after ...

Season 6 Episode 9 Extra: High and Mighty

11 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Just like Miguel Jose Viana and Manual Pereira da Cruz, 32-year-old Granger Taylor, from Vancouver Island, Canada, also had extensive knowledge of ele...

Season 6 Episode 9: Hoping for a Spark

04 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Brazil, in August 1966, two years into a military dictatorship, there was every reason to assume the bodies of two men, found dead on a hill outsid...

Season 6 Episode 8 Extra: Alone in a Darkened Room

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It may seem far-fetched to believe that a vampire had been living at the site of London's Highgate Cemetery since the 18th century. But did you know t...

Season 6 Episode 8: The Rising

22 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the late 1960s, a large number of acts of vandalism perpetrated in English churchyards were thought to be linked to a resurgent interest in black m...

Season 6 Episode 7 Extra: Square Root

14 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Author Elliot O’Donnell wrote widely about all manner of apparent hauntings in Britain and the United States, but there was one story – or...

Season 6 Episode 7: That Cold Black Cloud

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

(Please note: the following episode is adapted from the live episode I presented at the London Podcast Festival in 2016 and later released on this str...

Season 6 Episode 6 Extra: So Many Monsters

24 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Almost every culture it seems has a story of wild mythical creatures living out in the woods and mountains.  Sometimes they break out from the my...

Season 06 Episode 6: Tales From the Cryptid

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In July, 1924, a group of prospectors returned from a trip working their claim in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, with an incredible t...

Season 06 Episode 5 Extra: The Circular Ruins

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

More on Kaspar Hauser with some thoughts on the myth of the 'noble savage', the Allegory of the Cave, and the problem with 'Original Sin'... Go to twi...

Season 06 Episode 5: The Boy Who (Pt. 2 of 2)

03 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 06 Episode 5: The Boy Who. As Kaspar Hauser’s mind begins to expand, so too does his sense of self and the world around him. ...

Season 06 Episode 5: The Boy Who (Pt. 1 of 2)

26 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One afternoon in May 1828, a mysterious boy stumbled into a quiet square in the picturesque city of Nürnberg, in what was then the German Confede...

Season 06 Episode 4 Extra: Strange Games and Funky Things

20 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The strange story of British teenager Matthew Manning who achieved worldwide fame in the 1970s after he was determined to possess incredible psychic p...

Season 6 Episode 4: The Widening Gyre (Pt. 3 of 3)

12 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The third and final part of Season 6 Episode 4: The Widening Gyre As the bizarre events at 284 Green Street show no sign of abating, things reach a fe...

Season 6 Episode 4: The Widening Gyre (Pt.2 of 3)

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 6 Episode 4: The Widening Gyre  As Guy Lyon Playfair joins the fray at 284 Green Street, the bizarre activity plaguing the Hod...

Halloween Special 2021: The Fountain Road Files

31 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It was back in May 2020 that the body of Ben Williams was found in his flat on Fountain Road in Tooting, London. When police found him, those who saw ...

Season 6 Episode 4: The Widening Gyre (Pt.1 of 3)

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On the night of August 31st, 1977, the Hodgson family of 284 Green Street in Enfield, London, fled from their home in terror after a series of strange...

EPISODE POSTPONED UNTIL FRIDAY OCTOBER 29TH

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A huge apology to all my listeners but sadly due to my daughter being quite ill over the last few weeks, I've been forced to postpone this week's epis...

Season 06 Episode 3 Extra: Return to Sunder

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the morning of August 11th, 1676, Benedictine Nun, Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione was found on the floor of her bedroom, lying disheveled...

Season 06 Episode 3: Under the Influence

08 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the evening of February 16th 1981, in Brookfield, Connecticut, 19-year-old Arne Johnson, wanted in connection with a stabbing incident, was arreste...

Season 06 Episode 2 Extra: Wood for the Trees

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1952, George Adamski inadvertently created the alien contactee movement.  In this week's Extra, we take a brief look at the lives of Georgia L...

Season 06 Episode 2: Valleys of the Uncanny (Pt 2. of 2)

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of Season 06 Episode 2: Valleys of the Uncanny  A few months after the mysterious death of Zigmund Adamski, PC Alan Godfrey sets out on ...

Season 06 Episode 2: Valleys of the Uncanny (Pt 1. of 2)

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Once in a while something so extraordinary occurs that can leave its mark so deeply on a place that it appears destined to shape our impression of it ...

S06 Episode 1 Extra: The Chasm Below

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week's episode looks at the strange and mysterious Houska Castle, a place that has long fascinated people on account of its peculiar location and...

Season 06 Episode 1: Lying in Wait

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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

Unexplained Season 6 Trailer

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Unexplained returns with Season 06 on Friday, September 3rd...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

S05 Episode 18 Extra: Übermensch

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Whatever you believe about the use of Hurkos’ supposed talents, it is hard to deny the extra layer of fascination his involvement brings to a po...

S05 Episode 18: Learning to See (Pt. 2 of 2)

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of S05 Episode 18: Learning to See  After accepting a call from the Strangler Taskforce, Peter Hurkos arrives in Providence, Rhode Islan...

S05 Episode 18: Learning to See (Pt. 1 of 2)

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1964 the eleventh in a series of brutal murders occurred in and around the city of Boston, Massachusetts, that police had come to believe were all ...

S05 Episode 17 Extra: Dark Dreams and Fairytales

12 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many are fascinated by Heinrich Himmler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party's (NSDAP) association with the occult.  It is an associa...

S05 Episode 17: The Wondering

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

By all accounts, Robert Taylor wasn’t a man prone to exaggeration. Certainly, encounters of the strange were the furthest thing from his mind wh...

S05 Episode 16 Extra: Through a Glass Darkly

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The issue of relying on the memory of individuals to recall events in criminal matters, particularly eye-witnesses to a crime, is one that continues t...

S05 Episode 16: Built On Shifting Sands (Pt.2 of 2)

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of S05 Episode 16: Built On Shifting Sands The discovery of George Jayne's phone number among the belongings of Pat Blough, Ann Miller, and R...

S05 Episode 16: Built On Shifting Sands (Pt.1 of 2)

16 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In July 1966, a Park Ranger for the Indiana Dunes State Park came across a blanket of sandy belongings that had been left behind on the beach by three...

S05 Episode 15 Extra: Feeding Off the Scraps

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1975 in Ukraine, a quarry worker found a strange, black spherical object buried in a seam of clay eight meters below the surface. Some believe it w...

S05 Episode 15: It Came From Above

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In January 1986, a strange object was witnessed crashing into a mountain in a far eastern region of the then Soviet Union. Described by some as Russia...

S05 Episode 14 Extra: Thou Shalt Get Kings

23 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

WARNING: Please be advised this episode contains disturbing and graphic scenes of torture. Parental discretion is advised. In Scotland, England, and W...

S05 Episode 14: The Devil’s Kiss

16 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1595, just outside the town of Tyldesley in Lancashire, in the northwest of England, two children started exhibiting worrying signs they had become...

S05 Episode 13 Extra: An Impossible Murder

09 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One real-world locked-room mystery that has enthralled and mystified some of the world’s best crime writers from PD James to Raymond Chandler, o...

S05 Episode 13: A Room with No View

02 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The locked-room mystery in literature is widely thought to have originated with Edgar Allan Poe’s shocking and disturbing The Murder in Rue Morg...

S05 Episode 12 Extra: La Mano Nera

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It is thought that neighbours of the Evangelista family were reluctant to help the investigation into their murder, due to fear of reprisal from the c...

S05 Episode 12: Prophet and Loss (Pt.2 of 2)

19 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of S05 Episode 12: Prophet and Loss Police cast their net ever wider in their effort to find a culprit for the brutal murder of the Evangelis...

S05 Episode 12: Prophet and Loss (Pt.1 of 2)

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On July 3rd, 1929, a horrific discovery was made at 3587 St Aubin Street, home to Santina and Benny Evangelist and their family. What ensued, was one ...

S05 Episode 11 Extra: There Was a Ship

05 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Some have speculated that Flight MH370 fell prey to Malaysia and Indonesia's own version of the Bermuda Triangle. The theory stems from a proposed con...

S05 Episode 11: Destination Unknown (Pt.2 of 2)

26 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The search continues... Part Two of S05 Episode 11: Destination Unknown  Featuring the story of Malaysia Airways Flight MH370 Go to twitter @unex...

S05 Episode 11: Destination Unknown (Pt.1 of 2)

19 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A plane is missing... Featuring the story of Malaysia Airways Flight MH370 Go to twitter@unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplaine...

S05 Episode 10 Extra: Under cover of the Night

12 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A closer look at the mysterious RAF Rudloe Manor... Go to twitter@unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more i...

S05 Episode 10: In the Shadow of the Mountain

05 Feb 2021

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 9 Extra: When Night Falls

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

At almost exactly the same time that the horrifying events were coming to light on Hinterkaifeck farm, another strange and tragic story was unfolding ...

S05 Episode 9: Tenebrous (Pt. 2 of 2)

22 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

(Part Two of S05 Episode 9: Tenebrous)There was once a place, deep in the rural hinterland of Bavaria in southern Germany, that sat quiet and still, a...

S05 Episode 9: Tenebrous (Pt. 1 of 2)

15 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There was once a place, deep in the rural hinterland of Bavaria in southern Germany, that sat quiet and still, alone in the fields, surrounded by thic...

S05 Episode 8 Extra: Setting the Tone

08 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Starting in November 2016, employees of the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba began complaining of being plagued by a strange and ominous sound. Many were fo...

S05 Episode 8: Sound of the Overground

01 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For a county that is home to the Westbury White Horse, the ancient feature once etched into the side of an iron-age-hill fort, and the ever mystical p...

S05 Episode 7 Extra: One Night by the Lake

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Some have noted that the suave Count of St. Germaine, with his possible connection to Transylvania, shared similarities with Count Dracula. However, i...

S05 Episode 7: A Man of Wealth and Taste

11 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In 2008, Aubrey de Gray, one of the world’s best-known bio-gerontologists made the stunning claim that the first person who will live to a thou...

S05 Episode 6 Extra: Unbound

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The idea of an object harbouring ghosts or some residue of those who have come into contact with it in the past is a common one found in most cultures...

S05 Episode 6: A Place to Seep

27 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the autumn of 1998, Al and Lila Cobb bought an antique bed as a present for their teenage son. Soon after the bed was brought home however, it appe...

S05 Episode 5 Extra: Coming Down Fast

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Leading on from S05E05, this week's Extra takes a closer look at how a group of otherwise ordinary people were inspired to commit murder on behalf of ...

S05 Episode 5: When Love Breaks Down (Pt. 2 of 2)

13 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Part two of S05 Episode 5: When Love Breaks DownIn 1965, Sharon, an aspiring actor had a terrifying experience one night while staying alone in the fo...

S05 Episode 5: When Love Breaks Down (Pt. 1 of 2)

06 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In 1965, Sharon, an aspiring actor had a terrifying experience one night while staying alone in the former home of Hollywood producer Paul Bern.With h...

S05 Episode 4 Extra: The Great Unravelling

30 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been speculated that before heading off to the hills to hide away, the Gulf Breeze Six had hoped to meet up with Milton William Cooper, otherwi...

S05 Episode 4: How the End Always Is

23 Oct 2020

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...

S05 Episode 3 Extra: Ghosts in the Machine

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Following on from the last episode, some psychologists have speculated that Cindy James' troubled life may have been due to her suffering a form of di...

S05 Episode 3: Endgame (Pt.3 of 3)

09 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In June 1989, the body of forty-four-year-old Cindy James, who had been missing for two weeks, was found lying in the tall grass behind a derelict pro...

S05 Episode 3: Endgame (Pt.2 of 3)

02 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In June 1989, the body of forty-four-year-old Cindy James, who had been missing for two weeks, was found lying in the tall grass behind a derelict pro...

S05 Episode 3: Endgame (Pt.1 of 3)

25 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In June 1989, the body of forty-four-year-old Cindy James, who had been missing for two weeks, was found lying in the tall grass behind a derelict pro...

S05 Episode 2 Extra: Breaking Bonds

18 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A closer look at the radical and tragic life of Clara Immerwahr, chemist and first wife of Fritz Haber.Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/une...

S05 Episode 2: The Unceasing Cloud

11 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Back in 1802, brilliant Prussian naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt was introduced to guano, a natural fertiliser comprised of bat and bird excrem...

S05 Episode 1 Extra: A Useful Fiction?

04 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The importance of truth is frequently stressed without recognising that much of our day to day lives are governed by fictions, some more useful than o...

S05 Episode 1: You, in There

28 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Early 2012 in Gary, Indiana, Latoya Ammons and her young family arrived at their doctor's looking tired and distraught. When she was asked what t...

SEASON 5 POSTPONEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Announcement: It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the postponement of Season 05 of Unexplained, which was due to launch tomorrow.Despite the...

S04 Episode 21 Extra: Echoes in a Shallow Bay

03 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

SEASON 4 SEND-OFFAll of us will die and even for those who believe we are somehow more than a bundle of cells and flickering synapses and that somethi...

S04 Episode 21: The Under Weight (Pt.2 of 2)

27 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of S04 Episode 21: The Under Weight In 1980, Harris County's Newport subdivision housing development in Texas, put its newest set of plots o...

S04 Episode 21: The Under Weight (Pt.1 of 2)

20 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 1980, Harris County's Newport subdivision housing development in Texas, put its newest set of plots on the market. The Williams and Haneys were jus...

S04 Episode 20 Extra: Outside the Darkroom

13 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Many say that if a genuine alien spacecraft really had appeared on earth, there would be incontrovertible photographic or video evidence to prove it. ...

S04 Episode 20: The Homecoming (Pt. 2 of 2)

06 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Part Two of S04 Episode 20: The Homecoming Travis Walton has been missing for five days after his six co-workers claim to have seen him being attacke...

S04 Episode 20: The Homecoming (Pt. 1 of 2)

29 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Part One of S04 Episode 20: The Homecoming In November 1975 seven forestry workers headed into Arizona's Apache-Sitgreaves national forest for a rout...

S04 Episode 19 Extra: Touching from a Distance

22 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the early hours of March 14th 1928, below deck of an ocean liner just off the coast of West Africa, former RAF pilot Colonel George Henderson repor...

S04 Episode 19: A View from a Hill

15 Nov 2019

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 Coon...

S04 Episode 18 Extra: Buried Under Brambles

08 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Whatever your thoughts on supposed occult groups conducting rituals in England's west Sussex countryside, for whatever reason, it's fair to say the re...

S04 Episode 18: The Dark Ascending

01 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Chanctonbury Ring, an ancient and unusual landmark located in Sussex, England, and the surrounding countryside has long been considered by some to be ...

E10 Halloween Special: Choose Your Own Adventure (EPISODE 10)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 10 of Unexplained Halloween Special: Choose Your Own AdventureWARNING: This experience contains scenes of an intense and bloody nature that s...

E09 Halloween Special: Choose Your Own Adventure (EPISODE 09)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 09 of Unexplained Halloween Special: Choose Your Own AdventureWARNING: This experience contains scenes of an intense and bloody nature that s...

E08 Halloween Special: Choose Your Own Adventure (EPISODE 08)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 08 of Unexplained Halloween Special: Choose Your Own AdventureWARNING: This experience contains scenes of an intense and bloody nature that s...

E07 Halloween Special: Choose Your Own Adventure (EPISODE 07)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 07 of Unexplained Halloween Special: Choose Your Own AdventureWARNING: This experience contains scenes of an intense and bloody nature that s...

E06 Halloween Special: Choose Your Own Adventure (EPISODE 06)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 06 of Unexplained Halloween Special: Choose Your Own AdventureWARNING: This experience contains scenes of an intense and bloody nature that s...

E05 Halloween Special: Choose Your Own Adventure (EPISODE 05)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 05 of Unexplained Halloween Special: Choose Your Own AdventureWARNING: This experience contains scenes of an intense and bloody nature that s...

E04 Halloween Special: Choose Your Own Adventure (EPISODE 04)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 04 of Unexplained Halloween Special: Choose Your Own AdventureWARNING: This experience contains scenes of an intense and bloody nature that s...

E03 Halloween Special: Choose Your Own Adventure (EPISODE 03)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 03 of Unexplained Halloween Special: Choose Your Own AdventureWARNING: This experience contains scenes of an intense and bloody nature that so...

E02 Halloween Special: Choose Your Own Adventure (EPISODE 02)

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

EPISODE 02 of Unexplained Halloween Special: Choose Your Own AdventureWARNING: This experience contains scenes of an intense and bloody nature that so...