Unexplained
Episodes
E01 Halloween Special: Choose Your Own Adventure (EPISODE 01)
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
EPISODE 01 of Unexplained Halloween Special: Choose Your Own AdventureWARNING: This experience contains scenes of an intense and bloody nature that so...
S04 Episode 17 Extra: Reid Me My Rights
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Despite it first being formerly recognised by psychologist Hugo Münsterberg in 1906, only today are we really getting to grips with understanding the...
S04 Episode 17: Appearing is Being (Pt.2 of 2)
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Part Two of S04 Episode 17: Appearing is BeingIn January 1974, in a quiet port town in Iceland, one teenager’s mysterious and tragic disappearance p...
S04 Episode 17: Appearing is Being (Pt. 1 of 2)
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In January 1974, in a quiet port town in Iceland, one teenager’s mysterious and tragic disappearance proves just the beginning in a devastating chai...
S04 Episode 16 Extra: Sanity and Other Irrationalities
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The notion that it is possible to exist in one state of awareness and perpetrate terrible acts without even realising it, represents a very singular t...
S04 E16: Folie Adieu
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2008, twin sisters and Swedish nationals Sabina and Ursula Eriksson took a ferry from Ireland to Liverpool in England and boarded a bus to Lond...
S04 Episode 15 Extra: Final Cut
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Whatever we might think about the actions of Burke & Hare, their crimes were as much a result of market forces as anything else.Today's black market o...
S04 E15: Where The Bodies Lie
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It was on one bright summer's day in 1836 that a group of boys out hunting rabbits on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, made a very bizarre and macabre disc...
S04 Episode 14 Extra: 2+2=5
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In last week's episode, Negative Space, we looked at the chilling tale of the Perron family haunting, which, like many people I first came across thro...
S04 Episode 14: Negative Space
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many listeners of Unexplained might be familiar with the 2013 film The Conjuring directed by James Wan. Some however, might not know the true story be...
S04 Episode 13 Extra: Fade to White
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the winter of 1930, a fur trapper is alleged to have discovered an abandoned village on the shores of Lake Anjikuni, in what is commonly known toda...
S04 Episode 13: Lost in Stormy Visions (Pt.3 of 3)
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Part Three of S04 Episode 13: Lost in Stormy VisionsIn the late 16th century, a series of English dreamers attempted to establish the first English co...
S04 Episode 13: Lost in Stormy Visions (Pt.2 of 3)
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Part Two of S04 Episode 13: Lost in Stormy VisionsIn the late 16th century, a series of English dreamers attempted to establish the first English colo...
S04 Episode 13: Lost in Stormy Visions (Pt.1 of 3)
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 16th century, a series of English dreamers attempted to establish the first English colony in the New World. Their efforts, in equal parts...
S04 Episode 12 Extra: Escaping the Cave
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1954, Robbers Cave State Park in Oklahoma became the location of one of the most audacious and controversial social psychology experiments of all t...
S04 Episode 12: Wilderness Be Still
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2009, a white pick-up truck was found abandoned deep in the Sans Bois mountains in Oklahoma. The discovery would spark the beginning of one...
S04 Episode 11 Extra: The Sky Inside
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode, New Dawn Fades, we traced the origins of what is commonly referred to as the Roswell incident. In this week's extra we look...
S04 Episode 11: New Dawn Fades (Pt.2 of 2)
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Second and final part of S04 E11: New Dawn FadesFor many the term 'Area-51' is synonymous with UFOs and theories on just what it is the US government ...
S04 Episode 11: New Dawn Fades (Pt.1 of 2)
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For many the term 'Area-51' is synonymous with UFOs and theories on just what it is the US government really knows about supposed visitors from other ...
S04 Episode 10 Extra: PEAR Review
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The idea of our potential to possess psychokinetic powers has been around for millennia and has become a frequently used trope in the genre of science...
S04 Episode 10: The Creeping
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1878 in a small cottage in the town of Amherst, Nova Scotia a series of peculiar events took place. What is known today as the The Great Amherst My...
S04 Episode 9 Extra: Forewarning Signs
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the Aberfan disaster of 1966, psychiatrist Dr. John Barker set up the Premonitions Bureau. This extraordinary idea sort to collate appa...
S04 Episode 9: Darkness in Sight
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As Aristotle pointed out as far back as the 4th century BCE, in his treatise “On Prophesying in Dreams,” perhaps it is merely because so many beli...
S04 Episode 8 Extra: Mostly Dead is Slightly Alive
24 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today it is generally agreed that absolute death for humans comes only when the brain has irreversibly ceased to function.However, a remarkable paper ...
S04 Episode 8: Death's Pale Flag (Pt.2 of 2)
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Part Two of S04 Episode 08: Death's Pale FlagIn 1980, a stranger walked into a village marketplace in Haiti claiming to be a local landowner named Cla...
S04 Episode 8: Death's Pale Flag (Pt.1 of 2)
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1980, a stranger walked into a village marketplace in Haiti claiming to be a local landowner named Clairvius Narcisse. After interviewing the man a...
S04 Episode 7 Extra: Between the Absurd and Momentous
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A quick search online will throw up a host of individuals, who’s apparent psychic abilities have helped to crack police cases, but there is one who ...
S04 Episode 7: Called to the Forest (Pt.2 of 2)
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The second and final instalment of S04 Episode 7: Called to the ForestIn February 1978, five men from the Yuba-Sutter Area in Northern California, too...
S04 Episode 7: Called to the Forest (Pt. 1 of 2)
19 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In February 1978, five men from the Yuba-Sutter Area in Northern California, took a short trip to watch their favourite basketball team play in a loca...
S04 Episode 6 Extra: Thoughts Unsaid and then Forgotten
12 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last week's episode about the infamous ghost ship Mary Celeste put me in mind of a story about influential artist Bas Jan Ader. In 1975, Ader was lost...
S04 Episode 6: The Silence of the Sea
05 Apr 2019
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...
S04 Episode 5 Extra: Deadly Skins
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode, Pre-Sense, a young girl claimed to see people who had long since died. This story was used as the basis for the 2013 film, ...
S04 Episode 5: Pre-Sense
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In M. Night Shyamalan’s iconic 1999 film The Sixth Sense, a young boy named Cole Sear, claimed to be able to see dead people.Back in 1989, in a smal...
S04 Episode 4 Extra: Coexistentialism
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In last week's episode, Always Already, we journeyed deep into the Amazonian rainforest with the Mayoruna tribe and acclaimed photojournalist Loren Mc...
S04 Episode 4: Always Already (Pt.2 of 2)
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of S04 Episode 4: Always AlreadyIn 1969, National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre travelled deep into the Amazon in search of the Mayoru...
S04 Episode 4: Always Already (Pt.1 of 2)
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1969, National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre travelled deep into the Amazon in search of the Mayoruna tribe who were said to maintain no c...
S04 Episode 3 Extra: Listomania
22 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In last week's episode, we learned how one couple's dream move to the Boulevard in Westfield, NJ, was scuppered by a series of sinister letters writte...
S04 Episode 3: I See You
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On June 4th 2014 Derek and Maria Broaddus bought a $1.3 millon mansion in the affluent town of Westfield, NJ. Then a sinister letter arrived in the po...
S04 Episode 2 Extra: Dog Star
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In April 1961 Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the earth. What is less well known however is the story of those other animals who helped p...
S04 Episode 2: Coming to You Live
01 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
During one of the most turbulent and innovative decades in human history, four teenagers encounter something unexpected near the village of Saltwood i...
S04 Episode 1 Extra: Account Closed
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's extra episode we take a brief look back at the life of self-styled ghosthunter Eddie Burks and the case for which he is most remembered...
S04 Episode 1: Alone With Everybody (Pt 2 of 2)
18 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
S04 Episode 1: Alone With Everybody (Pt 2 of 2)At the northern edge of the Brecon Beacons in the shadow of the Pen y Fan peak, sits a large stone hous...
S04 Episode 1: Alone With Everybody (Pt 1 of 2)
11 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
S04 Episode 1: Alone With Everybody (Pt 1 of 2)At the northern edge of the Brecon Beacons in the shadow of the Pen y Fan peak, sits a large stone hous...
Halloween Special 2018 - Unexplained Audiobook Extract
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
2018's Unexplained Halloween Special is an extract from the new Unexplained Audiobook, settle in as as we follow a group of learned women and men on t...
S03 Episode 12 Extra: This New Puritan
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The elevation of the figure known as Jack the Ripper to perversely mythological proportions owes much to a new type of journalism that emerged around ...
S03 Episode 12: The Square (Pt.2 of 2)
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
WARNING: This episode contains scenes of an extremely graphic and violent nature which may distress some listeners (not suitable for children).Part 2 ...
S03 Episode 12: The Square (Pt.1 of 2)
25 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
WARNING: This episode contains scenes of an extremely graphic and violent nature which may distress some listeners (not suitable for children). On th...
S03 Episode 11 Extra: Hare Raising
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The beguiling Oak Island mystery brought to mind another much-publicised treasure hunt of an eminently more gentle variety, though it is a story no le...
S03 Episode 11: Into the Abyss (Pt.2 of 2)
11 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
S03 Episode 11: Into the Abyss (pt.2)In 1795, Donald MacInnes is a farmer working on Oak Island, a small land mass just off the coast of Nova Scotia. ...
S03 Episode 11: Into the Abyss (Pt.1 of 2)
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1795, Donald MacInnes is a farmer working on Oak Island, a small land mass just off the coast of Nova Scotia. While walking through a clearing one ...
S03 Episode 10 Extra: This Message Will Self Construct
28 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
WARNING: CONTAINS GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS OF INJURY. In last week's episode we looked at the beguiling case of Shanti Devi, a young girl from Delhi who bel...
S03 Episode 10: Here is Always Somewhere Else
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When 3-year-old Shanti Devi becomes convinced she has lived a past life, her parents naturally assume it is just a childish game. Today her story is c...
S03 Episode 9 Extra: Forever, forever, ever?
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Humans have long speculated on the concept of an afterlife, however it is only fairly recently that we have attempted to study the possibility of it s...
S03 Episode 9: Come Talk to Me
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1958 in Mölnbo, Sweden, EVP pioneer Friedrich Jürgenson was attempting to record the sound of birdsong in his garden. What he captu...
S03 Episode 8 Extra: The Voices of Energy
31 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week's Unexplained Extra takes a closer look at the phenomena known as Instrumental Transcommunication - the process of supposed communication wi...
S03 Episode 8: REPEAT INPUT UNTIL END
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the autumn of 1984, in the village of Dodleston on the border of England and Cymru, something peculiar is occurring. When Ken Webster brings a comp...
S03 Special Episode: Richard MacLean Smith Q & A and Book Reviews
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With Unexplained the book due out on October 25th 2018, a number of people have asked me what books have inspired me and the show. Rather than list th...
Q & A announcement for Tuesday 17th July 2018
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Since the announcement of the unexplained book which is due out on October 25th, a few people have been asking me for a reading list of books that hav...
S03 Episode 7: Shadowplay
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The 2017 film Verónica, directed by Paco Plaza, tells the story of a teenage girl from a suburb in Madrid, who dies in terrifying circumstances after...
S03 Episode 6 Extra: Chupa Chupa
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode, Shores of the Unknown we explored the west Wales flap of 1977. Amazingly, it wasn't nearly the most peculiar supposed UFO in...
S03 Episode 6: Shores of the Unknown
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
1977, in the village of Broad Haven in Wales, a bizarre episode at the local primary school sets off an extraordinary series of events, unparalleled i...
S03 Episode 5 Extra: When Apples Fall
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the world of parapsychology, it has long be supposed that apparent poltergeist activity, if it were to exist at all, is not the malevolent workings...
S03 Episode 5: Banggerreng
12 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In January 1998 a curious set of events besieged the tenants of 90 Mcminns Drive in Humpty Doo, Northern Australia. It has been described as one of th...
S03 Episode 4 Extra: There's No Place Like Home
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As interest in all things ancient Egyptian grew in the wake of the rediscovery of Tutenkhamun's tomb in 1922, so too did the number of people claiming...
S03 Episode 4: From Eternity to Here
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's 1922 and two men are on the hunt for something so incredible, if they were to find it, it would likely be considered the greatest archeological f...
S03 Episode 3 Extra: The Brockley Spectre
22 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode Under the Asphalt, we came across some strange goings on taking place inside Frankham House - part of a south London housing ...
S03 Episode 3: Under the Asphalt
15 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Considering there have been settlers based around the area of London for over 5000 years, it's hardly surprising that under all that concrete we find ...
S03 Episode 2 Extra: The Ring
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps more than anything, what grips many people about the case of Johnny Frank Garrett 9as explored in S03 E02 is the revelation that shortly befor...
S03 Episode 2: Lex Talionis (Pt. 2 of 2)
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of S03 Episode 2: Lex Talionis (Warning: contains scenes of a distressing nature).A 2014 study concluded that over 4% of people sentenced to de...
Unexplained Book Trailer
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I’m extremely excited to share the news that over the last year I have been working on a book, featuring ten new real-life events from around the wo...
S03 Episode 2: Lex Talionis (Pt. 1 of 2)
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Part 1 of S03 Episode 2: Lex Talionis( Warning: contains scenes of a distressing nature)A 2014 study concluded that over 4% of people sentenced to dea...
S03 Episode 1 Extra: Cameron
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the last episode We Are the Witchcraft, we took an in-depth look into the extraordinary life and death of pioneering rocket scientist and magician...
S03 Episode 1: We Are The Witchcraft (Pt. 3 of 3)
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The final instalment of S03 Episode 1: We Are The Witchcraft (Contains adult themes).John Maynard Keynes described Isaac Newton as the last of the mag...
S03 Episode 1: We Are The Witchcraft (Pt. 2 of 3)
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Part 2 of We Are The Witchcraft (Contains adult themes).John Maynard Keynes described Isaac Newton as the last of the magicians; the last person of sc...
S03 Episode 1 pt.1 Extra: Crowley Recap
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Jack Parsons first heard the name Aleister Crowley he could scarcely have known how much it would change his life. But who was the man once dub...
S03 Episode 1: We Are The Witchcraft (Pt. 1 of 3)
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Maynard Keynes described Isaac Newton as the last of the magicians; the last person of science for whom the gnostic mysteries still held some swa...
Halloween Special 2017
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If on Halloween you come across a looped branch of briar-thorn sticking up from the ground, you might decide to creep through it three times in the de...
S02 Episode 5 Extra: Child Be Strange
18 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the last episode Roads to Knowhere, we found ourselves circling a small, concreted patch of England on the southern boundary of Yorkshire, known as...
S02 Episode 5: Roads to Knowhere
17 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The A616 is a road in England running from the town of Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire to Huddersfield in West Yorkshire.In 1987 building began on ...
S02 Episode 4 Extra: The Sound of Fear
17 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For the last episode, When the Snow Melts, we took an in-depth look into the unsettling mystery often referred to as the Dyatlov Pass Incident.The inc...
S02 Episode 4: When the Snow Melts pt.3
10 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
With five of the students' bodies now recovered from Kholat Syakhl mountain, rumours begin to circulate about just what exactly might have caused thei...
S02 Episode 4: When the Snow Melts pt.2
26 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It is February 25th 1959, and Igor Dyatlov and his team, due back in their hometown of Sverdlosk on February 13th have not been seen since January 28t...
S02 Episode 4: When the Snow Melts pt.1
12 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
On Friday January 23rd 1959, a story begins from out of the foothills of the Ural Mountains. A story that is perhaps the most extraordinary of all the...
S02 Episode 3 Extra: 6EQUJ5
29 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode, The Final Flight, we looked at the tragic story of Australian Training Corp pilot Fred Valentich and his mysterious disappea...
S02 Episode 3: The Last Flight
15 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It has been calculated that the likelihood of the human race being the only sophisticated life form in the milky way is a one in sixty billion chance....
S02 Episode 2 Extra: My Name is John
01 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode, Time Out of Joint, we looked at two incidences of a supposed time slip.In both stories we find ourselves questioning the val...
S02 Episode 2: Time Out of Joint
22 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It has long been accepted that time as we know it, or at the very least in the sense that we experience it, is not what it seems.There are two account...
S02 Episode 1 Extra: Operation Cone of Power
15 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode, Whispers in the Trees, we looked at the unsettling mystery of the skeleton found inside the hollowed-out trunk of an old wyc...
S02 Episode 1: Whispers in the Trees pt.2
08 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Part Two of Episode 1: Whispers in the Trees.Where we return to the midlands in the winter of 1943 as the Worcestershire police try to unravel the mys...
S02 Episode 1: Whispers in the Trees pt.1
25 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Traditionalists consider the real Black Country to only include the region just west of Birmingham where the 30ft coal seam comes to the surface - a p...
Unexplained Halloween Special 2016
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Exorcist, released on December 26th 1973, is for many the most iconic horror film of all time. From William Freidkin’s masterful direction, to B...
S01 Episode 10 Extra: Who Aiwass (Season 1 Sign-Off)
30 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode, The Spaces that Linger, we journeyed to the grounds of Boleskine House on the banks of Loch Ness in the highlands of Scotlan...
S01 Episode 10: The Spaces that Linger
16 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The world of horror is littered with unnerving locations, places that both draw from and have in turn seeped into the public imagination.For many ther...
Unexplained Bonus Episode: William, An Origin Story
02 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
With Unexplained on a short break until June 16th, here is something to fill the time...A short story about a strange boy called William.(Parental Gui...
S01 Episode 9: Dawn of the Head
19 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Throughout history we have attributed worth and sentiment to inanimate objects, things that when looked at out of context or without the language to u...
S01 Episode 8 Extra: Into the Myst
12 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode, When the Light Fades, we looked at the haunting tale of the Lightkeepers of Eilean Mór.The island was often referred to as ...
S01 Episode 8: When the Light Fades
05 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Of all the unexplained mysteries I have come across there is one that has for me left the most indelible impression. As far as mysteries go you couldn...
S01 Episode 7 Extra: Hands Off
28 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode, Ghosts in Time, we looked at the strange occurrences that took place in the 1920s at Borley Rectory in Essex, England.What i...
S01 Episode 7: Ghosts in Time
21 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For all the many elements that constitute the paranormal, there are few things quite as evocative as the notion of ghosts.There are of course the ghos...
S01 Episode 6 Extra: The Ultimate Price
14 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In last week’s episode, Demons in Suburbia, we looked at the tragic story of Michael Taylor and in the process touched on the notion of free-will.Th...