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Unexplained is a bi-weekly podcast about strange and mysterious real life events that continue to evade explanation. A show about the space between what we think of as real and what is not. Where the unknown and paranormal meets some of the most radical ideas in science today. When something is inexplicable, that mystery in itself can become the story. In many ways, it is often the lure of the mystery that keeps us coming back for more.. Maybe, ultimately, some things are just better left unexplained… More info at www.unexplainedpodcast.com and on twitter @unexplainedpod
Season 9 Episode 30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (Pt.1 of 2) Richard MacLean Smith In the waning years of the twentieth century, a group of researchers decided to finally tackle the great enigma.
Namely, does life... do we… ever really end?
This is the extraordinary story ofd the Scole Experiment Group.
Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith
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Season 09 Episode 29: The Howling Woods Richard MacLean Smith Dog-headed men, haunted the fringes of the entire ancient world. With time, these stories have steadily dissolved into folklore, and the world moved on from such tall tales.
However, there does remain one corner of the modern world in which the dogman has not yet been explained into extinction...
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Season 9 Episode 28: Laughter Cracking Through the Walls Richard MacLean Smith A mysterious cipher manuscript. Correspondence from an enigmatic figure in Germany. And countless claims from some of the most erudite personalities of the day, that the magic actually worked...
This is the strange story of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
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Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 3 of 3) Richard MacLean Smith In the third and final part of Unexplained Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery, Ted Binion is dead. What seems like a fairly uncontroversial drug overdose soon becomes something a little murkier... But just how did Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish have to do with it?
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Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 2 of 3) Richard MacLean Smith In Part 2 of Unexplained Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery, we dig deeper into the controversial and complicated nature of Ted Binion's life.
Meanwhile, while out at the famous Piero's restaurant, Ted and Sandy meet a man named Rick Tabish. Some might say, it was all down hill from there...
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Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 1 of 3) Richard MacLean Smith One night in September 1998, three men dug up a vault load of silver from a vacant lot in Pahrump, Nevada. The only problem was, the silver wasn't theirs to take. And so begins one of the wildest stories ever to come out of Vegas, of love, betrayal and maybe, murder...
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Season 09 Episode 26: In Through the Out Door Richard MacLean Smith In April 2006, a 27-year-old med student walks into a bar but seemingly never comes out. It sounds like the beginning of a joke but has been nothing but a nightmare for the family of Brian Shaffer.
Shaffer's disappearance, part locked-room mystery, part cautionary tale, remains one of the strangest vanishings of recent times.
Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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Season 02 Episode 03: The Last Flight (RERUN) Richard MacLean Smith It's been calculated that likelihood of the human race being the only sophisticated life form in the milky way is a one in sixty billion chance. The milky way is one of 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe.
The following story is considered by many UFOlogists to be among the most compelling pieces of evidences of an alien visitation to our planet. Just what happened in the skies off the coast of Melbourne Australia in 1978 has never been fully accounted for. It is a mystery that remains to this day Unexplained.
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Season 09 Episode 25: Desert Rain (Pt. 2 of 2) Richard MacLean Smith The second part of Season 09 Episode 25: Desert Rain
As search teams struggle to find any sign of Daniel, a private investigator uncovers a promising lead. But will it lead to any more answers or just more questions...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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Season 09 Episode 25: Desert Rain (Pt. 1 of 2) Richard MacLean Smith In June 2021, just outside of Phoenix, Arizona, 24-year-old geologist Daniel Robinson, drove off into the desert and was never seen again.
What exactly happened to him remains one of the most tragic and beguiling mysteries of recent times.
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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When Teresita Basa was found murdered in her Chicago apartment in 1977, police had more or less given up on ever catching her killer.
That was until one of Teresita's colleagues claimed the dead woman was speaking to her in her sleep...
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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On a warm summer afternoon in 1980, hundreds of children gathered on the grounds of a quiet village school fair in the English countryside. There was music and laughter.
Then, without warning, one by one, the children began to collapse...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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In 2006, Vicki and Rob Graves got an absolute steal when they purchased a property in the idyllic countryside of Indiana, for almost three times below the original asking price.
The only problem was, that property was Fox Hollow Farm...
Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith.
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On December 5th 1945, five US Navy aircraft along with all crew disappeared on a routine training exercise in an area known today as the Bermuda Triangle.
What exactly happened to them is thought by some to be one of the strangest aviation mysteries of all time.
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.
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On the night of February 28th, 1959, 23-year-old Gerry Irwin was discovered unconscious deep in thick brush near a lonely stretch of Route 14 in Utah — miles from the nearest town.
He claimed to have no idea how he got there.
Some believe Gerry was abducted by aliens, others that perhaps something far darker was at play...
Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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In April 1935, a tiger shark was exhibited in a salt water pool in Sydney, Australia.
Then it regurgitated something unexpected. What followed was one of the most bizarre and chilling mysteries in Australian history...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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Tucked deep in the woods of Wisconsin, Summerwind Mansion became home to the Hinshaw family—but something in the house wasn't right. What they experienced inside those walls would follow them long after they left, though no one can quite agree on what was really there...
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.
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On September 11th 2001, the day the world changed forever, Sneha Anne Philip - along with 2977 others - was never seen again.
But in the shadow of the Twin Towers, her final hours dissolve into fragments: a last sighting, a missing night, a timeline that didn't quite fit.
As a nation mourned, Sneha's loved ones were left wrestling with a seemingly impossible question. Was she lost to history, or did she vanish just before it began?
Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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In the early 1900's Kentucky's Jefferson County was struggling to contain an outbreak of TB. In the end, a vast new facility was built to try and get control of it, and treat all those who had ocntracted it. Many did not survive.
The hospital was called the Waverley Hills Sanatorium.
Today, some believe it is the most haunted hospital in the United States.
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust
Things take an even darker turn when police uncover details of strange weekend retreats taking place in the hills to the west of the city, organised by debonair American dentist Wentworth Prentice.
Everything seems to link back to a seedy bar in the Badlands known as No. 28.
But will any of it lead to Pamela's killer?
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 with whispers, superstition, and unease.
What followed would become one of the most haunting mysteries in the history of Beijing...
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 appeared to have fled their home in a state of utter panic, telling no one why or where they had gone. The truth was even stranger than anyone could possibly have imagined.
Written by Richard MacLean Smith and James Connor Patterson
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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 believe.
Today the site is one of many that has become part of a burgeoning Dark Tourism scene...
Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Diane Hope
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The third and final part of Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red
Digging into the local history, investigators uncover strange tales of witchcraft that have plagued the area for generations, including the chilling case of Ann Tenant. But surely it couldn't possibly have had anything to do with Charles' murder, could it?
Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.
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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 London Met's greatest living police officer, Detective Inspector Robert Fabian, is drafted in to help.
Despite presiding over every criminal case imaginable in all his twenty years of service, he hasn't seen anything yet...
Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.
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To some, folk beliefs are little more than the harmless superstitions of a bygone age.
For others, such beliefs and practices are something to be deeply feared as nothing less than the work of the Devil…
Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.
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In 1925, experienced mountaineer and man of science Prof. John Norman Collie gave a lecture to a climbing club in the Scottish Highlands.
Concluding his talk, Collie told his stunned audience that he believed there was something very strange stalking the highest peak of the local Cairngorm’s mountain range. Something that had so frightened him, he would never go back there again...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 never shown before.
Over time a strange rumour began to spread, that the young man hadn't achieved his talent all on his own...
Written by James Conor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith.
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The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited
After years appearing to endure a series of increasingly bizarre and terrifying occurrences in their home, the Smurl family finally decide to call in some real help.
Enter Lorraine and Ed Warren, perhaps the world's most famous paranormal investigators...
Written by Neil McRobert and produced Richard MacLean Smith.
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Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited (Pt.1 of 2) Richard MacLean Smith 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 what if those other, most unwelcome housemates proved to be more frightening than anything you could possibly imagine?
Written by Neil McRobert and produced Richard MacLean Smith.
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It's almost inconceivable that, with the advancement of technology and the normalisation of surveillance, someone could suddenly appear in a well-populated town with no trace of who they are or where they came from.
And yet, that’s exactly what happened in 2009, during one strange summer in a picturesque seaside town in the west of Ireland…
Written by James Conor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith
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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 we return to Bennington, Vermont, where between 1945–1950, four people vanished without trace in an area dubbed the Bennington Triangle, so called, because of the many strange and weird occurrences said to have taken place there.
In 1946, 18-year-old Paula Jean Weldon became the second of those four people to disappear, in a case one investigator described as the most baffling he ever came across.
Written by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 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 stories ever featured on the show.
Some call it the Dyatlov Pass Incident.
You might know it as Unexplained Season 2 Episode 4, When The Snow Melts...
Written by Richard MacLean Smith
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In September 1934, amidst wide political unrest, something was stirring in the home of Palazon family in Zaragoza, Spain.
What started as a strange burst of maniacal laughter, soon transformed into the terrifying haunting known the world over as ‘El Duende de Zaragoza’ … ‘The Goblin of Zaragoza’.
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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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 passengers and crew set sail on a routine journey from Samoa to the Tokelau islands.
And none of them were ever seen again.
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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 watched as a silver American Airlines plane fell from the sky and crashed right in front of him. Then he had the dream again. And again.
Soon he began to wonder, what if it wasn't just a dream?
Written by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 strange solitary mission to build a vast megalithic dreamscape carved from oolite limestone.
Then the rumours begin; whispers of huge stones being moved about as if freed from gravity itself, and of a strange black box equipped with otherworldly powers...
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 finally reached the end of a long and mysterious pilgrimage.
In time, he would carve that ground into a place so strange and improbable that—if the whispers are to be believed—could only have been built with the aid of otherworldly powers...
Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith.
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Deep in Alaska, in the ghost town of Portlock, villagers once whispered of something colossal stalking the fog—an unseen presence that is said to have left shredded camps and vanished men in its wake. Decades later, the forest is silent, but the stories have never gone away...
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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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 follows is a chilling descent into fear and faith...
Written by Richard MacLean Smith and James Connor Patterson
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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.
Only a few scattered clues would ever surface, each stranger than the last.
What happened that night has haunted her friends, detectives, and an entire community for over two decades. In this episode of Unexplained, we go back to that night - and to the darkness that followed.
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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 the family who lived there, where something unspeakable was about to unfold. It was a place where shadows seemed to linger a little too long, and where the boundary between safety and terror proved to be as fragile as a footprint in fresh snow.
The word "tenebrous" means dark, shadowy, and obscure - and no word better captures what descended upon this isolated family in those final, terrifying days.
What happened at their remote farm would become one of Germany's most notorious unsolved mysteries, a case so disturbing that it continues to defy explanation a century later…
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SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST
This week's episode takes us to what to some were the unknown shores of a mysterious New World, but for others was simply home.
It is the late 16th century - an age of exploration and discovery, when maps still bore the warning "here be dragons" and for ambitious Europeans the Atlantic Ocean stretched like an endless void between the known and the unknowable.
On a remote island off the coast of what would one day become North Carolina, brave souls sought to carve out a new life in a land that seemed to exist beyond the reach of civilization. They carried with them hopes of prosperity and permanence, unaware that they were about to become part of one of history's most enduring enigmas…
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SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST
This week's episode takes us to Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922, where years of painstaking excavation were about to yield one of archaeology's greatest discoveries. For centuries, the ancient burial grounds had surrendered their secrets reluctantly, but one tomb had remained hidden, lying in the darkness beneath the desert sands...
When that first crack of light pierced the burial chamber, it revealed wonders beyond imagination - golden treasures that had lain untouched for over three thousand years. But some believed that disturbing the eternal rest of the pharaohs came with a price, and that certain doors were never meant to be opened…
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Season 04 Episode 20: The Homecoming (RERUN) Richard MacLean Smith SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST
This week's episode takes us to the forests of Arizona in November 1975, where a crew of loggers were finishing another hard day's work in the wilderness. It was meant to be routine - just another evening drive back to town through the darkening woods, a journey they'd made countless times before.
But when the crew returned that night, one of them was missing. Travis Walton had vanished without a trace, leaving those left behind to relay a story so bizarre that it would divide not just his community, but the entire country…
Travis, they said, had been abducted by an alien spaceship.
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SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST
What happens when ordinary people insist the familiar world around them has suddenly become something else entirely? When witnesses claim the present has slipped away, leaving them stranded in moments that shouldn't exist?
In the 1950s, two separate incidents in Britain left ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell. A woman walking home alone on a winter's night would later claim she witnessed scenes that belonged to another age.
While, three young cadets on a routine exercise would insist they stumbled into a world that seemed frozen between life and death...
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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 the quiet North English town of Ossett , an ordinary family found themselves drawn into a world that was anything but.
What began as a struggle with doubt, faith, and the weight of daily life soon took on a darker shape, as strange behaviors and unsettling visions began to erode one man’s ragile sense of normality...
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Final episode of Unexplained Season 08.
In the heat of a Bulgarian summer, a young German tourist stumbled into an airport medical clinic, bruised, panicked, and convinced he was being hunted.
What happened next remains one of Europe's most unsettling modern-day mysteries...
Written by Emma Dibdin and Richard MacLean Smith
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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 place of little importance or standing.
They imagine nothing of interest ever happens. But not only would that do an immense disservice to its people - they would be very wrong.
In 1903 something paid a visit to Van Meter, and its brief presence would mark the town forever...
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 to have taken place in their home in Christchurch, England, back in 1997...
Thank you to Theresa and Shaun for sharing their story and to Diane Hope for finding it and recording Theresa's interview.
Written and produced Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 survived at all. Others, that the true miracle was what they apparently experienced while they were down there...
Written by James Connor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith.
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They called it the most inescapable prison in the United States — a cold, isolated fortress surrounded by frigid waters and razor currents. Alcatraz.
But in 1962, that reputation was obliterated in one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time. Or was it...
Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 bizarre tale of vanishing evidence, strange lights, and one of the most overlooked close encounters in UFO history.
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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In 1855, strange hoof-like prints appeared overnight in the snow across Devon in southwest England—stretching for over 100 miles, crossing rooftops, rivers, and walls as if no obstacle mattered.
Locals said only one being could leave such a trail.
It was the Devil himself...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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In 1953, two U.S. Air Force personnel vanished without a trace while intercepting a mysterious radar target over Lake Superior.
Decades later, the skies remain silent, and the truth behind First Lieutenant Felix Moncla Jnr and Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson's final flight is as cloudy as ever.
Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 the medic stepped onto deck, he realized immediately that this emergency was very much out of the ordinary...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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, Valentina begins the long arduous trek to safety - while the spectre of death haunts her every move....
But what an earth could possibly have wreaked such havoc?
Written by Emma Dibdin, Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith.
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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. Seemingly too traumatised to even speak, when she finally found her voice she uttered only five words.
"They're dead. They're all dead..."
Written by Emma Dibdin, Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith.
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In the shadows of Greater Manchester’s canals and waterways, some believe something ancient and malevolent might be lurking. This week on Unexplained, we plunge into eerie folklore, mysterious drownings, and chilling whispers of a phantom predator said to haunt the waters - claiming victims no one can explain.
Written by James Connor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 weekend in Springfield, Missouri, spiraled into one of the most chilling and perplexing missing persons cases in American history.
Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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, we’re heading back into the vault for this week’s episode, going all the way back to the beginning of season 02.
England’s Black Country, a region just west of Birmingham is considered one of the birth places of the British industrial revolution. It’s centered around a 30 ft-wide and unusually shallow coal seam – a product of once living trees, compressed and buried for millions of years, returning to the surface like an irrepressible secret.
There are some who say the trees can talk. If they could, what secrets might they hold?
This is Unexplained Season 2 Episode 01: Whispers in the Trees, in full for the first time.
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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 dipping back into the vaults until we continue, rather aptly with the next episode of Season 08 on Friday 13th of June…
This week, we’re heading back to Season 01 Episode 10.
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 there is one place in particular that continues to fascinate like no other in the UK.
With its combination of mystery, intrigue and atmospheric location you couldn’t concoct a better setting, the place: Boleskine House.
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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 Shipyard in Philadelphia, if the rumours are to be believed, the US Navy took it to a whole other dimension...
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 the forest, hunting for acorns close to where the boys were last seen, make a grisly discovery.
Will the devastated parents finally get answers about what happened to their sons?
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 search of adventure.
They were never seen alive again.
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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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: Kathleen, dead, at the bottom of a staircase and blood everywhere.
But quite what exactly had happened to her, would turn out to be one of the most confounding, and potentially bizarre mysteries of recent times.
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 she began to dance, and dance, and dance. Something was terribly wrong and then, it began to spread...
Written by Emma Dibdin and Richard MacLean Smith
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Over the decades, stories have trickled in from all across the globe. Places both far, and unnervingly near… of truly horrifying things, with far too many legs for comfort.
The simple question is, are you afraid of spiders?
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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While battling for his life during the height of the pandemic, Damian Harris slips into a vivid dream of a forgotten Arizona ghost town—where an eerie portal seems to call to him from within a long-abandoned guesthouse.
The history of Vulture City is a haunting tale of gold and greed, and perhaps a little bit more...
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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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 unseen world.
But some say, if you’re not careful, there are places on the mountain where you can fall into this unseen world too...
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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When caught up in a cult, the line between what’s acceptable and what constitutes abnormal behaviour starts to blur. For one South Korean man in 2011, this lack of clarity appeared to lead to one of the most baffling acts of self-mutilation in recent history...
This episode was written by James Connor Pattinson and Richard MacLean Smith
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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 set out to find it again, only this time he never came back.
Some believe he made the whole thing up. Others that he had unwittingly stumbled on a secret government location that led right into the heart of Area 51...
This episode was written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 as German airman who was shot down over England.
It all seems so fanciful until two years later, when an extraordinary discovery is made, only a few miles from where Carl was murdered...
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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 him.
The story he will come to tell, is beyond anything she or anybody else could possibly have imagined...
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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 in 2002, Stevenson had logged over 2,500 cases of apparent reincarnation with varying degrees of credibility.
One case involved a young boy from Middlesbrough, England, called Carl Edon.
It would prove to be one of the most compelling cases that Dr Stevenson ever came across...
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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 China that defies explanation.
Join us as we unravel this mysterious tale—one marked by inexplicable detainment, shadowy figures, and an alleged experience that challenges the limits of reality.
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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In 1657 Shepton Mallet, a young boy’ claims to suffer from a mysterious affliction after a strange encounter with an elderly stranger.
Join us as we delve into this dark, unsettling tale of supernatural terror and unexplained happenings that continue to haunt history...
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 they say, was the eerily preserved body of a woman, later dubbed the Tisul Princess—a discovery swiftly seized by Soviet authorities and buried in secrecy.
Decades later, another astonishing find—the Ice Maiden of the Altai Mountains—raised even more questions about ancient civilizations, lost histories, and the blurred line between legend and reality...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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From eerie legends to real-life horrors, castles have long concealed secrets behind their ancient walls—secrets that refuse to stay buried. In this episode, we uncover the possible sinister past of Glamis Castle, where devils, ghosts, and a monstrous family secret blur the line between myth and terrifying reality.
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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On Christmas Eve, 1945, a fire destroyed the home of Jennie and George Sodder and their ten children in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five children were believed to have died. But when firefighters searched the rubble, there was no trace of them—no remains, no answers. How could they have vanished so completely? Join us as we uncover the strange clues and lingering questions surrounding this unforgettable case.
Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 the sky and unexplained attacks on farm animals. What supposedly took place on the McGann Farm in Fernvale, Queensland in 1927 are considered by some to be the strangest in all Australian ufology.
Written by James Connor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 harmless childhood companion—or the source of an inexplicable darkness?
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 quiet housing estate in South East London…
Considering there have been settlers based around the area comprising present day London for over 5000 years, it's hardly surprising that under all that concrete we find remnants of those that have come before us.
But what comes of those whose remnants have been disturbed?
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With Unexplained on a short break we are dipping into the archives again.
This week’s story is a true ghost of Christmas past, reaching out to us from almost 124 years to the day.
It was late one night on December 26th 1900, when a telegram was received by the Northern Lighthouse Board.
It was sent by a member of a rescue crew, dispatched to the Flannen isles, the site of the UKs most remote lighthouse, located way out in the Atlantic, beyond any sign of civilisation.
They were sent to investigate why the light was no longer shining,
The telegram read:
A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans. The keepers, have disappeared from the Island...
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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 construction.
Today the tunnel - once the longest rail tunnel in the United States - is no longer in use. But the stories, and perhaps a little more, still linger...
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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. And just what a real-life vampire might actually look like...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 and brutal in history.
His name was Vlad Dracul III...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 Peaks, for one couple who moved there in 1989 the house was everything they had ever dreamed of.
Little did they know that, in truth, it would soon become the place of their worst nightmares.
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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 told him that he'd be dead within a week.
Then Chris stopped answering his calls.
Written by James Conor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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, and what may lurk still in the parts of the map that have yet to be fully filled in…
It's name is mokele-mbembe.
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 mystery, the story of the Hydes might be one of its greatest...
This episode was written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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, accused of witchcraft. Meanwhile, 20 miles away in the county of Gloucester, something perhaps even stranger is about to occur...
Written by James Conor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 from again in circumstances so strange … that people have been trying to unravel the mystery of what exactly happened ever since.
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Will the idea of travelling purposefully through time always be nothing more than an imaginative device through which to convey longing, nostalgia and regret? Or might it actually be possible?
Perhaps the answer lies in one of the UK's great cities, Liverpool and it's enigmatic Bold Street...
Written by James Conor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 resident, something very strange is about to go down....
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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 there was only one word on the lips of concerned citizens... Chupacabra.
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In the late 1980s and early 90s, 14 women vanished within a 100km radius of Ireland's capital, Dublin.
Former crime correspondent Geraldine Niland dubbed it the Vanishing Triangle...
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On November 18th 2020 a small group of biologists spotted something strange while flying over a remote part of southeastern Utah; a bizarre reflective monolith that had gone unnoticed for years...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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...
Written by James Conor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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The sandworm from Frank Herbert's Dune, is a monstrous gigantic creature with a thirst for animal blood. But did you know it was possibly based on another terrifying creature that is said to stalk the darkest corners of Mongolia's Gobi desert...
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Unexplained returns for Season 08 on Friday, September 6th.
Sometimes eerie, sometimes strange, always Unexplained...
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The otherworld of Welsh mythology, known as Annwn, is said to be populated with a vast array of creatures including fairies and mottled ridged serpents. It is also said that there is one place more than any other where the bridge between our world and theirs is at its thinnest.
That place, is the Berwyn Mountains...
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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 have predicted it would begin the unravelling of one of the most bizarre cases of desertion in the United States Military’s entire history.
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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 Cooneen ghost house of Ireland is just one such tale, often regarded as one of the most compelling supposed true-life hauntings of all time...
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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 Azores. The fate of the vessel, Mary Celeste, and that of its crew has since become known as perhaps the greatest maritime mystery of all time.
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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 after life. It is a theme that can be found in stories told across every community and culture, from as far back as we can remember.
But what might our dreams have to do with it?
Featuring the unsettling story of The Pollock Twins.
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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 of my favourite episodes from the archives.
This week we’re heading back to Sussex in the south of England to explore the dark mysteries of chanctonbury ring and its bucolic surrounds.
Long thought to be a hotbed of strange and peculiar activity, In the 1970s, one local resident set out to dig a little deeper into the mystery only to find a little more than he bargained for...
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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. Elenore's cousin warned her not to pick it up; that it was the devil's money and would only bring her bad luck.
But Eleonore ignored the warning...
This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 out into the wider Puritan community. With over 100 people accused of being in league with the devil, it's time to begin the official trials.
The shit gets real, as they say...
This episode was written by Richard MacLean Smith and Ella Mcleod
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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 of witchcraft. All three have so far denied the accusation.
But all that is about to change...
This episode was written by Ella Mcleod and Richard MacLean Smith.
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In 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 however, it was known as something different.
Inspired by the Hebrew for peace, they called it Salem.
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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 supernatural, of ghosts and trolls, but most of all, elves...
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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 he uncovers is more wild than he could possibly have imagined...
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Part two of Season 07 Episode 23: The Box
Despite the disturbing nature of Kevin's eBay listing attracts, his 'dibbuk' box attracts the interest of hundreds of potential buyers. Before long, it's heading for Kirksville, Missouri, with disastrous consequences...
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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 Jewish artefact he'd purchased a few years before. He called it a dybbuk box.
He wanted to sell it because, according to him, it was haunted...
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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 interview over 800 suspects. Could one of them be him?
This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 strange and mystifying history...
This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 in the Judean desert while on a research trip. Then the wind started to blow...
This episode was written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 are ready to begin their investigation. Starting with a good old fashioned séance...
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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 invoke the work of Nigel Kneale involving learned men and women on the hunt for ghosts…
And so I present to you, the haunting of Hannath Hall...
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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 thought was a steal. It turned out to be far more than that...
This episode was written by Diane Hope.
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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 along with his trusty scryer Edward Kelly. Together they continue to commune with angels in pursuit of Dee's dream to unlock the secrets of the universe. All seems to be going well until Kelly makes an outrageous proposition...
This episode was written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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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-proclaimed medium and scryer, and, Dee hopes, the gateway to his wildest dreams.
His life will never be the same again.
This episode was written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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With the death of Queen Mary 1st, John Dee does what he can to ingratiate himself with the new Queen, Elizabeth 1st.
In the secrecy of his home, he embarks on an ambitious new experiment, to uncover nothing less than the secrets of the universe...
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John Dee.
Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and some say, the most influential occult magician in British history...
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Unexplained will return next week.
In place of this week's episode, this is one from the vaults...
When 3 year Shanti Devi becomes convinced she has lived another life before, her parents assume it’s just a childish game.
Today many consider her story to be nothing less than absolute proof of reincarnation…
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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 an unlikely champion for their version of events.
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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 astonishing claim, that a UFO landed in their playground.
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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 cram into the venue to dance away the night.
Among them, was one of the UK's most enigmatic and notorious murderers, whose true identity remains to this day, Unexplained.
This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and Richard MacLean Smith.
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Second part of Season 07 Episode 15: In His Eyes a Flaming Glow (Pt. 2 of 2).
As Gregori Rasputin's influence over the Tsar and Tsarina grows ever stronger, so too does the determination of his enemies to put a stop to it. By any means necessary.
But how do you kill the man who cannot die?
This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 for the royals.
Unknown to them then, it was also the beginning of the end...
The man's name... Grigori Rasputin.
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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 the Cecil building begin to notice that the water coming out of their tabs has gone putrid…
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Part two of Season 07 Episode 14: If These Walls Could Scream.
Detectives Tennelle and Stearns begin their investigation into Elisa Lam's disappearance. Clues are thin on the ground until the emergence of some bizarre CCTV footage recorded the day Elisa went missing, which completely upends the investigation...
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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 psychical intersections, moving through time and all held together in one singular place.
In 2013, one such place, became host to one of the most disturbing and tragic deaths of recent times.
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Early one chilly morning in March of 1977, Mary Gillespie checked her postbox and found a strange, threatening letter inside - addressed to her.
And so began one of the most bizarre incidences ever to befall the town of Circleville...
This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Unexplained rerun:
Chanctonbury Ring, an ancient and unusual landmark located in Sussex, England, and the surrounding countryside has long been considered by some to be a hotbed of strange and peculiar activity. In the 1970s, one local resident set out to dig a little deeper into the mystery only to find a little more than he bargained for...
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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 enemy, while simultaneously trying to win the hearts and minds of the people whose land they have invaded.
As part of Operation Khanjar, the US government's latest roll of the dice in their efforts to beat back the influence of the Taliban in Helmand Province, 4000 marines from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment have been deployed to the region. Among them are eight Marines, tasked with occupying a strange and isolated observation post, known simply as The Rock.
Their war is about to get far stranger than they could ever have imagined.
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The 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 walk that Lisanne and Kris embarked upon on.
All that can be done of course is to try and retrace the steps - their steps - and piece together what little clues there are.
This episode was written by Ella MacLeod and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 lifetime to Central America.
A month later they received the news that no parent wants to hear. The young women had gone missing and no one had a clue where they could be.
This epiosde was written by Ella MacLeod and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 4 instead.)
In February 1978, five young men from the Yuba-Sutter area in Northern California took a short trip to watch their favourite basketball team. But the men never returned home.
It's a tragic and beguiling mystery that to this day remains Unexplained.
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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 what happened to him but drew only blanks.
Then incredibly, five months later, he was found alive and well living on the streets of DeKalb, Illinois. Or was he?
This epiosde was written by Ema Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 horrors await them...
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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 led by the enigmatic Robert Bigelow offers to take it off their hands.
They are looking for clear evidence of paranormal activity, and they think the Sherman's ranch might be full of it...
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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 dreaming of: 480 acres of prime, cattle-rearing pastures and scrubland.
Unknown to Gwen and Terry, it is also full of strange and terrifying secrets...
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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 Kakisikutchin returned. His family had all died he said, and now he was being tormented by the wendigo.
This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 able to succeed where so many others have failed, and bring back conclusive proof of the Yeti's existence?
This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 Himalayan mountain ranges.
It has many names.
In English, its name is Yeti.
This epiosde was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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.
Or any less terrifying...
This epiosde was written by Ella McLeod and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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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 her strange and terrifying affliction.
As her condition worsens, she insists the end is in sight...
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Part Two of Season 7 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 been possessed by a force of immense evil.
It is time to begin an exorcism.
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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 have said, of the most terrifying and convincing case of demonic possession ever recorded.
Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.
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 and Richard MacLean Smith
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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 one they called Spring Heeled Jack, which emerged at the dawn of the Victorian era is by far the strangest...
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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 give you, Stonehenge...
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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 has some wondering, could the Loch Ness Monster be real after all?
This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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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 Inverness newspaper.
It would not be the last...
This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Go to twitter 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 “green ball” over Madagascar in August.
1954 certainly seemed to be a hotbed of apparent UFO-related incidents. No more so than over the continent of Europe...
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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 Olsen's family, Frank's son Eric is unconvinced.
Digging a little further into the case, he uncovers some horrifying truths...
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On the evening of November 28th 1953, in New York, Frank Olsen was found on the pavement outside the Statler Hotel having fallen out of a window on the 13th floor.
Olsen died shortly after hitting the pavement.
His death was first said to be caused by suicide. But then Olsen, had worked for the CIA and on MK Ultra. Nothing was quite what it seemed...
This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and edited by Richard MacLean Smith
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Olsen died shortly after hitting the pavement.
His death was first said to be caused by suicide. But then Olsen, had worked for the CIA and on MK Ultra. Nothing was quite what it seemed... Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.
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 in Wales, where a series of bizarre events occurred over the course of a few months in 1977.
And it all began in the playground of a local primary school...
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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 possession of recent times.
Incredibly, the true story it's based on is even more terrifying...
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(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 most haunted roads in the UK.
This is why...
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In the summer of 1958 in Mölndo, Sweden, EVP pioneer Friedrich Jürgenson was attempting to record the sound of birdsong in his garden. What he captured instead would change his life forever...
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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, Maria and Derek Broaddus were overjoyed when they completed on their dream home; a $1.4 million dollar mansion in the affluent suburb of Westfield in New Jersey.
The couple couldn’t have been happier.
But then the letters started to arrive…
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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.
In 1969 National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre traveled deep into the Amazon in search of the fabled Mayoruna tribe who were said to have no contact with the outside world.
What happened next left him wondering for the rest of his life whether it had truly occurred or not...
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Revisiting some of our favourite episodes...
Since the dawn of communication, we have shared stories about imaginary beings; entities such as demons, angels, monsters, and fairies.
But what if they weren't stories at all? What if these entities were real, existing right next to us, right now, walking invisibly among us?
What if all we needed to see them was some kind of gateway, and what price would we pay for opening it?
Featuring the tragic story of occultist Netta Fornario.
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Experiments to prove the existence of psychokinesis have been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability and are generally regarded as pseudoscience.
One story that emerged out of Sweden in 1919 is certainly strange enough to make you think again...
This episode was written by Richard MacLean Smith and Diane Hope
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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 stormy weather.
Featuring the incredible story of Angélique Cottin.
This episode is written by Diane Hope.
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There have been surprisingly many supposedly true-tales of werewolves over the years though perhaps none are more infamous, more wicked or more disturbing than that which appeared in a pamphlet in London in June 1590... Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedp
Near Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in the autumn of 1991, local journalist Linda Godfrey recorded a series of peculiar sightings of a terrifying humanoid dog-like creature, apparently witnessed skulking around the fringes of nearby Bray Road.
What seemed a ludicrous proposition at first, soon took on a surprising amount of credibility...
This episode was written by Diane Hope
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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 other artifacts, looted by the advocates of the Third Reich had been hidden away throughout Germany.
Some believe a significant amount of it, is still out there...
This episode was written by Ella McLeod.
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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 local pub.
You might say he was a fairly ordinary man. His death, however, he was anything but...
This episode was written by Diane Hope
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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 bungalow, all is well until a few months later when it appears the thing, whatever it is, has followed them to their new home...
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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 with no doubt that they have become the unwitting victims of a deeply malignant entity...
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When it comes to the sheer terror of the supernatural, for me, there are few more disturbing notions than the poltergeist; malignant spirits of wrathful agency seemingly dead set on singling you out for often inexplicable—and therefore, deeply frightening—reasons.
So it always fills me with a particular sense of caution and no little excitement when I learn of new alleged poltergeist events, particularly those of a seemingly malicious nature.
Such as that which occurred in San Pedro back in 1989...
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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 army finally gain the upper hand in their efforts to reclaim the nation of France.
So what then of Joan's other prophecy, the one foretelling of her imminent demise?
This episode was written by Ella McLeod and Richard MacLean Smith
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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 to the aid of her nation.
A king-maker, blessed with the gift of prophecy whom many in France also believed had been sent by God themself to save them...
This episode was written by Ella McLeod and Richard MacLean Smith
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In 1978, having been satisfied that remote viewing could enable people to look into the past, Stephan A. Schwartz had an epiphany.
If experienced remote viewers could look back in time, could they also look into the future?
And so, he decided to try and find out...
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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 numerous ancient buildings that had long since been lost to time.
Tasked by the local authorities with proving their unorthodox methods worked, they set out to convince them...
This episode of Unexplained was written by Diane Hope.
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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 sense of the world. As such, as demonstrated by the attempted murder of Peyton Lautner in 2012, what achieves validity online can quickly achieve solidity offline.
The so-called Slender Man stabbing was not the first incident of its kind. And it certainly wasn't the last.
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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 instead been left fearing it has merely opened a door to chaos, disrupting established orders and threatening all the ‘progress’ that such order has contributed to.
But is this fear warranted?
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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 increasingly influenced by what we experience there, those online fictions don’t stay online.
They bleed into the real, physical world, with real physical world consequences...
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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, and one way or another, he is coming for us all.
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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 everything.
Well let me tell you...
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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 ominous looms on the horizon...
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The apparent sighting of a strange winged creature on the outskirts of Point Pleasant in West Virginia sparks a flurry of similar sightings over the next few days.
One local reporter and a writer from New York endeavour to get to the bottom of just what is going on...
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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 Virginian hometown, when they were apparently terrorized by a strange, winged humanoid creature.
Their story would mark the beginning of one of the United States' most enduring cryptid mythologies. Welcome to Mothman.
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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 perhaps know better than ever before thanks to the current Covid-19 Pandemic, trying to identify what may or may not be a symptom of a specific illness is never a simple task.
Sometimes despite our best efforts, we don't always reach a satisfying answer...
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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 across the Island of Guernsey. But the horrors have only just begun...
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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 date back to that time.
Most prominently the many Dolmen that can be found all over the island.
Some say they are valuable artifacts to be studied and learnt from. Others say they should be left well alone...
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In the wake of numerous historical cases of abuse recently coming to light across the world, from within religious institutions or care homes, among other supposedly 'good' organisations, it can be easy to get sucked into outlandish theories when the reality is not always a million miles away.
On the suspicious death of Lambeth Council manager, Bulic Forsythe and the recent uncovering of hundreds of cases of child abuse perpetrated by Lambeth Council care home staff.
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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 thinks he may have discovered a link between an alleged child sex-abuse ring in Nebraska and the 1982 disappearance of their son. But will it bring them the answers they crave?
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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 Moines Register and Tribune newspaper deliverer goes missing...
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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 play on their own without the slightest care or worry.
For many, Sunday September 5th, 1982 was the day when that all changed...
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On Unexplained we've covered many a haunted house story, however, few have been as terrifying as the subject of this week's extra...
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On Unexplained we've covered many a haunted house story, however, few have been as terrifying as the subject of this week's extra...
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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 perfectly.
Some have suggested she might also have found inspiration from a little-known haunting, said to have taken place in Cheltenham back in the late 1880s.
This is that story.
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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 perfectly.
Some have suggested she might also have found inspiration from a little-known haunting, said to have taken place in Cheltenham back in the late 1880s.
This is that story.
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Roughly 20 years after the death of the McLeod brothers, news broke from out of Canada's Northwest Territories again of yet another beguiling mystery striking fear into the hearts of any who had reason to find themselves in the area at the time...
Featuring the story of the Mad Trapper of Rat River.
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Roughly 20 years after the death of the McLeod brothers, news broke from out of Canada's Northwest Territories again of yet another beguiling mystery striking fear into the hearts of any who had reason to find themselves in the area at the time...
Featuring the story of the Mad Trapper of Rat River.
Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.
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 they failed to come back, a search party was sent out to find them. They shouldn't have been surprised by what they found...
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 they failed to come back, a search party was sent out to find them. They shouldn't have been surprised by what they found...
In July 2021, Professor Derek Abbott made the stunning announcement that (thanks to his tireless work and that of genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick), he had finally cracked the mystery of the so-called 'Somerton Man'.
In this week's Extra I speak to Prof. Abbott to find out more...
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In July 2021, Professor Derek Abbott made the stunning announcement that (thanks to his tireless work and that of genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick), he had finally cracked the mystery of the so-called 'Somerton Man'.
In this week's Extra I speak to Prof. Abbott to find out more...
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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's trousers, is finally the clue that Detective Leane and his team have been hoping for.
The truth of the man's identity is in sight...
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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's trousers, is finally the clue that Detective Leane and his team have been hoping for.
The truth of the man's identity is in sight...
Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.
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, the Adelaide police have their hands full as they chase one lead after another, but will any of it bring a resolution?
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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, the Adelaide police have their hands full as they chase one lead after another, but will any of it bring a resolution?
Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.
On December 1st, 1948, the body of an unknown man was found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia.
Despite recent claims that the identity of the individual, who would come to be known as the Somerton Man, has now been discovered, his story remains one of the most enduring mysteries of modern times.
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On December 1st, 1948, the body of an unknown man was found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia.
Despite recent claims that the identity of the individual, who would come to be known as the Somerton Man, has now been discovered, his story remains one of the most enduring mysteries of modern times.
Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.
In 1685 George Sinclair, the brother of Maister Thomas Sinclair, the man who revealed Major Thomas Weir's confession to the authorities, published a book titled Satan's Invisible World Discovered, which contained a number of stories that neatly outlined the leading superstitions of the day.
Among them, although never referred to as such, is one of the earliest ever recorded cases of an apparent poltergeist...
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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 community. Until, one day, the mask slipped.
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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 member of the enigmatic trio who knew the apparent secrets given to them by the Virgin Mary.
Lucia disclosed the first two in 1941. The third one however, she would not reveal, believing it was simply too distressing for the public to hear...
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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 her cousin's extraordinary claims.
Meanwhile, excitement grows for the miracle that the Virgin Mary has apparently promised to perform at her 6th and final appearance...
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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 in a nearby pasture.
The incident marked the beginning of what is now known as the Fatima Prophecies.
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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, Florida.
Then, things got a little strange...
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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 was dead; killed in the most horrifying and bizarre circumstances that continue to confound to this day.
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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 claimed to have suffered from it, with perhaps the most famous of them being Francesco Forgione, or as he would later be known, Padre Pio.
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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 production.
Little did he know, that it would become just about the most famous depiction of the Immaculate Heart ever created.
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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 Bank of Commerce on Main Street with disastrous consequences...
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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 discovery will spark one of the most enigmatic true-crime mysteries of modern times.
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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.
As for mainstream scientists, you might think they prefer to stay away from such things.
In fact, there is a long and fascinating history of well-respected academics, many of whom have made significant contributions in their field, putting such people to the test, with often startling results.
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Blinded in a freak storm, Baba Vanga from Strumica in present-day Macedonia is believed by some to have been the most gifted psychic of the modern age.
Here's life story is almost as extraordinary as her supposed gifts.
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Of all the strange aviation-related disappearances, perhaps the spookiest of all are those in which the aircraft return, but the crew do not...
Stories like that of US Navy scouting blimp L-8, which in 1942 became the locus of one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.
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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 1972.
But then, according to numerous apparent witnesses, he came back…
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Early in the evening of November 23 1953, USAF pilot First Lieutenant Felix Moncla and radar operator Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson were scrambled in an F-89 Scorpion to intercept a UFO flying over Lake Superior.
They and their plane were never seen again.
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In May 1967, Stefan Michalak was spotted walking along Trans-Canada Highway 1, just west of Falcon Lake in Manitoba, Canada.
Bleary-eyed and holding a briefcase in one hand, while clutching at his stomach with the other, the story of what he was doing there exactly, is one of the strangest in Canadian history.
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Remorse, guilt, and the ghosts of the English Civil War.
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In 1898 a story written by Mildred Darby was published in London’s Belgravia magazine titled, “A House of Horrors.” Darby later claimed it to be a true reflection of some of the many strange goings-on that occurred during her time living at Leap Castle in Ireland.
This episode is an adaptation of “A House of Horrors” by Mildred Darby.
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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 it anyway?
The answers might surprise you.
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This episode contains deeply disturbing scenes of violence, murder and sexual violence toward children. Parental discretion is advised.
Third and final part of Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town
With many giving up hope of ever finding the killer, Detective James Wilkerson is convinced he has the guilty man in his sights.
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This episode contains deeply disturbing scenes of violence, murder and sexual violence toward children. Parental discretion is advised.
Part Two of Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town
In the wake of the horrific murders in Villisca, investigators struggle to find a culprit. But is the killer already in their midst?
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This episode contains deeply disturbing scenes of violence, murder and sexual violence toward children. Parental discretion is advised.
In June 1912, one quiet rural community in southwest Iowa, USA, became the scene of one of the most brutal and inexplicable unsolved murders in American history. It remains no less shocking today than it was over 100 years ago.
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Perhaps the strangest and most mysterious story to come out of the 'Bennington Triangle' was that which took place in the early 1800s, which ultimately led to the first officially recorded case of a wrongful conviction for murder in the United States, but was it?
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Between 1945-1950, four people vanished without trace in an area of Vermont in the USA, dubbed the Bennington Triangle due to the array of strange and weird occurrences said to have taken place there.
In 1946, 18-year-old Paula Jean Weldon became the second of those four people to disappear in a case one investigator described as the most baffling he ever came across.
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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 conspiracy...
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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 having its location disclosed to her by a dying man. Said to have been the richest mine in the world at the time it has since become known as The Lost Dutchman's Mine.
Some say it still lies out there, just waiting to be discovered...
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Just like Miguel Jose Viana and Manual Pereira da Cruz, 32-year-old Granger Taylor, from Vancouver Island, Canada, also had extensive knowledge of electronics and a burning desire to visit another world.
And just like Miguel and Manuel, his too is a tragic tale clouded in mystery.
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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 outside the city of Niteroi, could well be victims of the country's cruel new reality.
Within minutes of surveying the apparent crime scene, however, it quickly became clear to police that something far more bizarre was going on.
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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 the so-called vampire plague said to have ravaged parts of eastern Europe in the 1730s was in one way or another, entirely real...
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In the late 1960s, a larger number of acts of vandalism perpetrated in English churchyards were thought to be linked to a resurgent interest in black magic.
In Highgate Cemetery in North London especially, the evidence was becoming increasingly difficult to deny.
Something dark and sinister, it seemed, was brewing...
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Author Elliot O’Donnell wrote widely about all manner of apparent hauntings in Britain and the United States, but there was one story – or rather location, for which he had a particular soft spot.
The place, a mid-terraced Georgian townhouse in London’s Berkeley Square is often referred to as quite simply the most haunted house in London...
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(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 stream, so may be familiar to some listeners).
In the English northwestern town of Runcorn in 1952, like most typical working families of the time left dealing with the economic aftershocks of the second world war, the Jones and Glynns of 1 Byron Street had little choice but to keep calm and carry on regardless.
But nothing could prepare them for the extraordinary events that were soon to engulf their lives...
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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 myth, to be apparently captured on film, recorded on audio, and seen in real-life.
And in 1850, one was even said to have been caught...
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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 tale to tell having apparently come face to face with some kind of terrifying ape-like creatures...
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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'...
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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.
Meanwhile, as rumours begin to swirl about his true identity and where he had really been all his life, things take a deeply sinister turn.
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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 Confederation.
Unable to utter more than a few words and seeming as though he had just arrived from another planet, when the apparent truth of the boy's provenance eventually came to light, it was even more extraordinary than anyone could possibly have imagined.
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The strange story of British teenager Matthew Manning who achieved worldwide fame in the 1970s after he was determined to possess incredible psychic powers.
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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 fever pitch in December 1977 with a series of even more seemingly incredible events, as Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair struggle to make sense of it all.
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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 Hodgson family begins to intensify. And soon, things begin to take a more sinister turn.
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On the night of August 31st, 1977, the Hodgson family of 284 Green Street in Enfield, London, fled from their house in terror after a series of strange and inexplicable events.
Today, the 'Enfield Poltergeist,' as it would come to be known, is considered to be the most documented, compelling, and terrifying supposed poltergeist haunting the UK has ever known...
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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 episode until next Friday, October 29th.
It's nothing serious but eventually, something had to give, and finishing the episode in time has proved a small step too far...
Very sorry again but rest assured we will be back next week!
In the morning of August 11th, 1676, Benedictine Nun, Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione was found on the floor of her bedroom, lying disheveled and covered in ink, next to a strange indecipherable letter.
With no idea what it said, or how it had got there, Sister Maria knew only one thing for certain. It had been written by the devil...
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In the evening of February 1981, in Brookfield, Connecticut, 19-year-old Arne Johnson, wanted in connection with a stabbing incident, was arrested by police after being found aimlessly wandering along a main road.
When Arne finally began to speak, he claimed not to remember the incident because he hadn't been inside his mind at the time.
The Devil had.
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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 Lee and Dorothy Martin, at two early proponents of the movement.
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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 a routine night patrol around the town of Todmorden in North England. That night will change his life forever...
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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 forevermore.
For the town of Todmorden, in the North West of England, that something occurred just over forty years ago today. It’ll be sometime before it’s forgotten...
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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 supposedly dark origins...
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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 simultaneously trying to win the hearts and minds of the people whose land they have invaded.
As part of Operation Khanjar, the US government's latest roll of the dice in their efforts to beat back the influence of the Taliban in Helmand Province, 4000 marines from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment have been deployed to the region. Among them are eight marines, tasked with occupying a strange and isolated observation post, known simply as The Rock.
Their war is about to get far stranger than they could ever have imagined.
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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 police investigation.
With that in mind, there is one case in particular that makes for intriguing listening. Not least of all, because it also happened to involve one of America’s most curious and shocking crimes of the 20th century...
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Part Two of S05 Episode 18: Learning to See
After accepting a call from the Strangler Taskforce, Peter Hurkos arrives in Providence, Rhode Island to see what he can do...
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n 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 perpetrated by the same individual - referred to in the press as The Mad Strangler.
No closer to finding the culprit after 18 months of investigations, an incredible decision was made in an attempt to crack the case....
Featuring the extraordinary story of self-proclaimed psychic Peter Hurkos.
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Many are fascinated by Heinrich Himmler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party's (NSDAP) association with the occult. It is an association that in ways, along with the term 'Nazi,' has shrouded one of the fundamental truths about Himmler and the NSDAP.
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By all accounts, Robert Taylor wasn’t a man prone to exaggeration. Certainly, encounters of the strange were the furthest thing from his mind when he headed out to work on the outskirts of Livingstone, in Scotland, one chilly morning in November 1979.
Soon, it would be all people would want to talk about...
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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 to plague the criminal justice system.
Pioneering psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, who's spent the last fifty years looking into the subject, has arguably done more than anyone to help us understand why.
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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 Renee Blough, found at the Indiana Dunes State Park, takes the story of their disappearance on a wholly unexpected path...
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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 young women.
And so began one of the greatest mysteries the American Midwest would ever know.
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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 was nothing more than a gallo - a type of antiquated iron made of glass. Others however believed it was something a little more interesting...
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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's Roswell, analysis of the crash site is also said to have revealed intriguing similarities with one of the world's greatest mysteries involving the impact of something falling to earth from space...
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WARNING: Please be advised this episode contains disturbing and graphic scenes of torture. Parental discretion is advised.
In Scotland, England, and Wales, one powerful individual's fear of witchcraft almost single-handedly set off a series of witch panics throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, resulting in the torture and death of thousands of innocent people. And it all began one stormy night back in 1589...
Featuring the story of King James VI and the North Berwick Witch Trials
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In 1595, just outside the town of Tyldesley in Lancashire, in the northwest of England, two children started exhibiting worrying signs they had become possessed by demonic spirits. The strange and sinister case of the Lancashire Seven had begun...
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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, occurred only a few years before Artemus Oggeltree’s death, in Liverpool, England back in 1931.
It was as Chandler himself described, “the impossible murder because [the main suspect] couldn’t have done it and neither could anyone else...”
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The locked-room mystery in literature is widely thought to have originated with Edgar Allan Poe’s shocking and disturbing The Murder in Rue Morgue published in 1841.
In 1935, in a hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, a real-life locked-room mystery occurred, as compelling and strange as any fiction...
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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 culprit. Or more pertinently, fear of reprisal from La Mano Nera, or the Black Hand, who many suspected was ultimately responsible for the murders.
But who were The Black Hand and were they even real at all?
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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 Evangelista family, drawing increasingly dark and strange connections to the case, but will any of it lead to an answer?
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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 of the most bizarre murder mysteries in US history...
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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 connection with another equally haunting story, the disputed origin of which is almost as mysterious as the story itself... Featuring the chilling tale of the SS Ourang Medan.
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The search continues...
Part Two of S05 Episode 11: Destination Unknown
Featuring the story of Malaysia Airways Flight MH370
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A plane is missing...
Featuring the story of Malaysia Airways Flight MH370
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A closer look at the mysterious RAF Rudloe Manor...
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The otherworld of Welsh mythology, known as Annwn, is said to be populated with a vast array of creatures including fairies and mottled ridged serpents. It is also said that there is one place more than any other where the bridge between our world and theirs is at its thinnest.
That place is the Berwyn Mountains...
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At almost exactly the same time that the horrifying events were coming to light on Hinterkaifeck farm, another strange and tragic story was unfolding on a farm in Brittany, France.
Featuring the story of Pauline Picard
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(Part Two or S05 Episode 9: Tenebrous)
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 thick pine forest. A farmhouse made of stone, and painted white.
Its name, was Hinterkaifeck.
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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 thick pine forest. A farmhouse made of stone, and painted white.
Its name, was Hinterkaifeck.
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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 found to have suffered severe physical side-effects as a result. In a plot that could have been lifted straight from the must ludicrous spy novel, it really is a story that has to be heard to be believed...
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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 prehistoric monument of Stonehenge it can be hard to stand out in Wiltshire.
Back in 1965, however, the town of Warminster, gave it a good try.
Featuring the extraordinary tale of The Warminster Thing...
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Some have noted that the suave Count of St. Germaine, with his possible connection to Transylvania, shared similarities with Count Dracula.
However, it wouldn’t be until one, turbulent night in the summer of 1816, that the notion of a vampire as a smooth and sophisticated operator, as opposed to the foul-smelling wretch it had previously been thought of, would first be conceived.
It was a night that has since gone down in horror history as the night that spawned not one, but two of the genres most affecting and enduring creations...
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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 thousand years old is already alive today.
There are some however who would say, that this person isn’t just alive right now, but they have already lived to be over 1000 years old...
Featuring the incredible story of the Count of St. Germaine.
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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 throughout the world.
Though objects of any age can be considered haunted, it certainly helps to inspire the imagination if they are a little more on the ancient side, as a number of staff working at the British Museum in London have testified...
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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 appeared that wasn't all they had brought home...
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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 Charles Manson.
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Part two of S05 Episode 5: When Love Breaks Down
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 her journey to stardom just beginning, elsewhere in California, another young women's life was heading on a very different trajectory.
Unbeknownst to each other, however, both women were destined to collide in the most devastating of circumstances.
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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 her journey to stardom just beginning, elsewhere in California, another young women's life was heading on a very different trajectory.
Unbeknownst to each other, however, both women were destined to collide in the most devastating of circumstances.
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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, otherwise known as the godfather of modern conspiracy theory.
In 2001 Cooper was shot dead by police after drunkenly initiating a shoot out on his property, or as many of his followers might tell you, at least, that’s what they want you to believe...
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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 have predicted it would begin the unravelling of one of the most bizarre cases of desertion in the United States Military’s entire history.
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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 dissociative identity disorder. In this week's Extra episode we take a closer look at the extraordinary possibilities of such a condition.
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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 property in the suburbs of Richmond, Vancouver. Cindy's hands and feet had been tied behind her back and she appeared to have been drugged.
A coroner confirmed that Cindy died shortly after she went missing. That her body had been found only a short walk from a major road suggested however that it had been placed there quite recently, meaning this was almost certainly a murder.
But then again, nothing about Cindy’s bizarre and tragic story had ever been certain...
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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 property in the suburbs of Richmond, Vancouver. Cindy's hands and feet had been tied behind her back and she appeared to have been drugged.
A coroner confirmed that Cindy died shortly after she went missing. That her body had been found only a short walk from a major road suggested however that it had been placed there quite recently, meaning this was almost certainly a murder.
But then again, nothing about Cindy’s bizarre and tragic story had ever been certain...
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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 property in the suburbs of Richmond, Vancouver. Cindy's hands and feet had been tied behind her back and she appeared to have been drugged.
A coroner confirmed that Cindy shortly after she went missing. That it had been found only a short walk from a major road suggested however that it had been placed there quite recently, meaning this was almost certainly a murder.
But then again, nothing about Cindy’s bizarre and tragic story had ever been certain...
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A closer look at the radical and tragic life of Clara Immerwahr, chemist and first wife of Fritz Haber.
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Back in 1802, brilliant Prussian naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt was introduced to guano, a natural fertiliser comprised of bat and bird excrement that had long been considered an extraordinarily effective fertiliser, used even by the ancient Incas.
Humboldt’s subsequent promotion of guano to agriculturalists in Europe set in motion a chain of events that would not only change the world as we knew it, but change it in ways that we may struggle to ever recover from...
Featuring the mysterious Phantom Gasser of Botetourt County...
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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 others.
But where, if at all, should we try to draw the line?
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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 the matter was, however, few could have predicted what she was about to say next.
'It's the demons in our house,' she said. 'They're attacking the children...'
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Sometimes eerie, sometimes strange, sometimes terrifying, always Unexplained.
Join me, Richard MacLean Smith, for a new season of Unexplained.
Starts Friday August 28th 2020.
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SEASON 4 SEND-OFF
All of us will die and even for those who believe we are somehow more than a bundle of cells and flickering synapses and that something else awaits us beyond this mortal realm – there are few who consider the preservation of the body or its final resting place to have any significant bearing on that.
So why does disturbing a grave site make us so uneasy? Perhaps because our relationship with death has never really been about the dead...
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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 on the market. The Williams and Haneys were just two sets of couples who moved into the area shortly afterwards.
It was a decision, they would soon come to regret...
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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 just two sets of couples who moved into the area shortly afterwards.
It was a decision, they would soon come to regret...
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Many say that if a genuine alien spacecraft really had appeared on earth, there would be incontrovertible photographic or video evidence to prove it. And yet, there are countless videos and photos purporting to reveal exactly that. More often than not, however they are dismissed as cases of mistaken identity or simply fakes.
In reality, unless a craft were to land on a busy high street in full view of a live news feed and collectively witnessed by everyone you knew – any photo or video evidence can easily be dismissed. Perhaps that is, with the exception of one...
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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 attacked by a UFO in a forest in Arizona. But now, Travis has returned...
Part One of S04 Episode 20: The Homecoming
In November 1975 seven forestry workers headed into Arizona's Apache-Sitgreaves national forest for a routine day's work. Only six of them would return that night, with one hell of a story to tell...
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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 reportedly experienced a 'crisis apparition' of his friend and fellow pilot, Captain Raymond Hinchcliffe saying he was lost and in great danger.
What Henderson is said not to have known at the time, is that Hinchcliffe, and his co-pilot, Elsie Mackay were 3000 thousands miles away, high in the clouds, and fated never to be seen again...
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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 Cooneen ghost house of Ireland is just one such tale, often regarded as one of the most compelling supposed true-life hauntings of all time...
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Whatever your thoughts on supposed occult groups conducting rituals in England's west Sussex countryside, for whatever reason, it fair to say the region has certainly had its fair share of weirdness. In fact, only last year, yet another peculiar story emerged from out of the shadows of the Sussex Downs, as compelling as any other that had previously come to light... Featuring the story of Anthea Ring. Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.
Chanctonbury Ring, an ancient and unusual landmark located in Sussex, England, and the surrounding countryside has long been considered by some to be a hotbed of strange and peculiar activity. In the 1970s, one local resident set out to dig a little deeper into the mystery only to find a little more than he bargained for... Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.
Despite it first being formerly recognised by psychologist Hugo Münsterberg in 1906, only today are we really getting to grips with understanding the phenomenon of false confessions. In this episode we take a closer look at the worrying way in which fake confessions continue to contribute to wrongful convictions.
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Part Two of S04 Episode 17: Appearing is Being
In January 1974, in a quiet port town in Iceland, one teenager’s mysterious and tragic disappearance proves just the beginning in a devastating chain of events that will forever haunt the nation.
In part two, as investigators push Erla to think harder about the night that Guðmundur Einarsson disappeared, her grip on reality begins to loosen...
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In January 1974, in a quiet port town in Iceland, one teenager’s mysterious and tragic disappearance proves just the beginning in a devastating chain of events that will forever haunt the nation.
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The idea that it is possible to exist in one state of awareness and perpetrate terrible acts without even realising it, represents a very singular type of horror. This week's Extra, with a little help from Euripides, takes a closer look at the idea.
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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 London. The pair would never make it to London nor ever disclose where they were going or why they were in England at all.
By the end of their bizarre excursion, one would be left critically hurt in hospital and the other arrested for murder.
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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 organ trade provides a very modern equivalent. Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplained or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.
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 discovery. Could it have been linked to one of the city's most infamous murder sprees from only a few years before?
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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 through the film The Conjuring. In this week's extra we look a little closer at key elements of the story that inspired the movie.
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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 behind the film. Before Hollywood, before the involvement of Lorraine and Ed Warren there was just a family, an old farmhouse and some very peculiar goings on...
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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 today as the territory of Nunavut in Northern Canada. What exactly happened to its former residents is a mystery that remains to this day, unexplained...
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Part Three of S04 Episode 13: Lost in Stormy Visions
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 brave and utterly callous would leave a trail of death and disaster in their wake. It is nothing less than the story of the founding of modern America and at its centre lies perhaps one if its greatest mysteries: The Lost Colony.
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Part Two of S04 Episode 13: Lost in Stormy Visions
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 brave and utterly callous would leave a trail of death and disaster in their wake. It is nothing less than the story of the founding of modern America and at its centre lies perhaps one if its greatest mysteries: The Lost Colony.
Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplained or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.
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 brave and utterly callous would leave a trail of death and disaster in their wake. It is nothing less than the story of the founding of modern America and at its centre lies perhaps one if its greatest mysteries: The Lost Colony.
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In 1954, Robbers Cave State Park in Oklahoma became the location of one of the most audacious and controversial social psychology experiments of all time. This is the unbelievable story.
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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 of the state's most peculiar and tragic unexplained mysteries.
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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 at how changing trends in culture and general thinking have influenced our interpretation of UFOs throughout the ages.
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Second and final part of S04 E11: New Dawn Fades
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 realms. And with one incident in particular, that sits at the very top of UFOlogy lore...
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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 realms. And with one incident in particular, that sits at the very top of UFOlogy lore...
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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 fiction. Incredibly, for 30 years one research lab based out of America's Princeton University investigated it for real. Featuring the story of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab, otherwise known as PEAR.
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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 Mystery is considered by some to be the most terrifying and convincing incidence of a poltergeist haunting in Canadian history.
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In the wake of the Aberfan disaster in 1966, psychiatrist Dr. John Barker set up the Premonitions Bureau. This extraordinary idea sort to collate apparent precognitive dreams in an effort to save lives from future disasters. Some believe it may have inadvertantly contributed to Barker’s own premature death only a few year’s later…
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