Unexplained
@unexplained.bsky.social
Haunting story-based podcast about strange and mysterious 'real-life' events. iTunes Best of 2016. 75+ Million streams. Book available at http://amzn.to/2Nc55ay
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...
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What follows is a chilling descent into fear and faith...
pod.link/1078112813
November 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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...
pod.link/1078112813
What follows is a chilling descent into fear and faith...
pod.link/1078112813
And behind door #1? It's the brand new season of course...
On Halloween 2001, a bright Penn State student returned home after a night out with friends.
What happened soon after has haunted her friends, detectives, and an entire community ever since.
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On Halloween 2001, a bright Penn State student returned home after a night out with friends.
What happened soon after has haunted her friends, detectives, and an entire community ever since.
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
October 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
And behind door #1? It's the brand new season of course...
On Halloween 2001, a bright Penn State student returned home after a night out with friends.
What happened soon after has haunted her friends, detectives, and an entire community ever since.
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
On Halloween 2001, a bright Penn State student returned home after a night out with friends.
What happened soon after has haunted her friends, detectives, and an entire community ever since.
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Behind door #3 of our countdown to... Actually. You really don't want to open this door.
Captured by the crew of the USCSS Maginot sometime corresponding to the earth year, 2120.
I give you the Trypanohyncha Ocellus:
Captured by the crew of the USCSS Maginot sometime corresponding to the earth year, 2120.
I give you the Trypanohyncha Ocellus:
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Behind door #3 of our countdown to... Actually. You really don't want to open this door.
Captured by the crew of the USCSS Maginot sometime corresponding to the earth year, 2120.
I give you the Trypanohyncha Ocellus:
Captured by the crew of the USCSS Maginot sometime corresponding to the earth year, 2120.
I give you the Trypanohyncha Ocellus:
Behind door #7 in our countdown to Season 09...
Bamberg, Germany, witnessed some of the most brutal efforts to route out 'witches' in the 17th Century.
Here is a list of "devices routinely employed in extracting confessions."
(From Russell Hope Robbins' Encyclopedia of WITCHCRAFT and DEMONOLOGY)
Bamberg, Germany, witnessed some of the most brutal efforts to route out 'witches' in the 17th Century.
Here is a list of "devices routinely employed in extracting confessions."
(From Russell Hope Robbins' Encyclopedia of WITCHCRAFT and DEMONOLOGY)
October 26, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Behind door #7 in our countdown to Season 09...
Bamberg, Germany, witnessed some of the most brutal efforts to route out 'witches' in the 17th Century.
Here is a list of "devices routinely employed in extracting confessions."
(From Russell Hope Robbins' Encyclopedia of WITCHCRAFT and DEMONOLOGY)
Bamberg, Germany, witnessed some of the most brutal efforts to route out 'witches' in the 17th Century.
Here is a list of "devices routinely employed in extracting confessions."
(From Russell Hope Robbins' Encyclopedia of WITCHCRAFT and DEMONOLOGY)
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 is about to unfold.
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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 is about to unfold.
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Lurking inside door #8 in our countdown to Season 09, and soon to be popping up in your darkest nightmares, it's the Night Creeper...
From the 1973 painting 'Untitled' by the inimitable Zdzisław Beksiński.
From the 1973 painting 'Untitled' by the inimitable Zdzisław Beksiński.
October 24, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Lurking inside door #8 in our countdown to Season 09, and soon to be popping up in your darkest nightmares, it's the Night Creeper...
From the 1973 painting 'Untitled' by the inimitable Zdzisław Beksiński.
From the 1973 painting 'Untitled' by the inimitable Zdzisław Beksiński.
Opening door number 11 on our countdown to Unexplained Season 09...
Stuck for Halloween costume ideas? Why not try one of these fetching little numbers?
Stuck for Halloween costume ideas? Why not try one of these fetching little numbers?
October 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Opening door number 11 on our countdown to Unexplained Season 09...
Stuck for Halloween costume ideas? Why not try one of these fetching little numbers?
Stuck for Halloween costume ideas? Why not try one of these fetching little numbers?
Behind door number 12 on our countdown to Season 09, we find the vodník, just lying in wait for the next unsuspecting poor soul that happens to swim too close…
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Behind door number 12 on our countdown to Season 09, we find the vodník, just lying in wait for the next unsuspecting poor soul that happens to swim too close…
This week’s rerun takes us to what for some were the unknown shores of a mysterious New World.
It is the late 16th century on a remote island off the coast of what would one day become North Carolina, soon to be home to one of history’s most enduring mysteries...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
It is the late 16th century on a remote island off the coast of what would one day become North Carolina, soon to be home to one of history’s most enduring mysteries...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
October 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This week’s rerun takes us to what for some were the unknown shores of a mysterious New World.
It is the late 16th century on a remote island off the coast of what would one day become North Carolina, soon to be home to one of history’s most enduring mysteries...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
It is the late 16th century on a remote island off the coast of what would one day become North Carolina, soon to be home to one of history’s most enduring mysteries...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
This week's rerun 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.
But at what price?...
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But at what price?...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This week's rerun 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.
But at what price?...
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But at what price?...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
This week's rerun takes us back to the forests of Arizona in November 1975, where a crew of loggers were finishing another hard day's work in the wilderness.
But when the crew returned home that night, one of them was missing...
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But when the crew returned home that night, one of them was missing...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
October 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This week's rerun takes us back to the forests of Arizona in November 1975, where a crew of loggers were finishing another hard day's work in the wilderness.
But when the crew returned home that night, one of them was missing...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
But when the crew returned home that night, one of them was missing...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
In the 1950s, two separate incidents in Britain left ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell.
One woman claimed to witness scenes from another age.
While, three young cadets insisted they stumbled into a world that seemed frozen in time...
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One woman claimed to witness scenes from another age.
While, three young cadets insisted they stumbled into a world that seemed frozen in time...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
September 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
In the 1950s, two separate incidents in Britain left ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell.
One woman claimed to witness scenes from another age.
While, three young cadets insisted they stumbled into a world that seemed frozen in time...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
One woman claimed to witness scenes from another age.
While, three young cadets insisted they stumbled into a world that seemed frozen in time...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
This week's Rerun takes us back to a windswept island off the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada, where in the summer of 1795, three young men made a discovery that would haunt generations to come...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
September 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This week's Rerun takes us back to a windswept island off the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada, where in the summer of 1795, three young men made a discovery that would haunt generations to come...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Perhaps the most disturbing story I’ve covered on Unexplained.
Back in the 1970s, in the quiet town of Ossett, an ordinary family is drawn into a world that is anything but when unsettling visions begin to erode one man’s fragile sense of normality...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Back in the 1970s, in the quiet town of Ossett, an ordinary family is drawn into a world that is anything but when unsettling visions begin to erode one man’s fragile sense of normality...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
September 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Perhaps the most disturbing story I’ve covered on Unexplained.
Back in the 1970s, in the quiet town of Ossett, an ordinary family is drawn into a world that is anything but when unsettling visions begin to erode one man’s fragile sense of normality...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Back in the 1970s, in the quiet town of Ossett, an ordinary family is drawn into a world that is anything but when unsettling visions begin to erode one man’s fragile sense of normality...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Our final episode of 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...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
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...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
September 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Our final episode of 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...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
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...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
There's nothing worse as a writer when you spend so much time slavishly trying to apply all the DOS & DON'TS! you've ever been taught or read about, only to read something massively successful that repeats the word house four times in the first six lines.
(Goosebumps, Book 1...)
(Goosebumps, Book 1...)
September 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
There's nothing worse as a writer when you spend so much time slavishly trying to apply all the DOS & DON'TS! you've ever been taught or read about, only to read something massively successful that repeats the word house four times in the first six lines.
(Goosebumps, Book 1...)
(Goosebumps, Book 1...)
In 1903 something paid a visit to the quiet American town of Van Meter in Iowa, terrorising its citizens over the course of one very strange week.
Its brief presence would mark the town forever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Its brief presence would mark the town forever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
August 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
In 1903 something paid a visit to the quiet American town of Van Meter in Iowa, terrorising its citizens over the course of one very strange week.
Its brief presence would mark the town forever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Its brief presence would mark the town forever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
In 1903 something paid a visit to the quiet American town of Van Meter in Iowa, terrorising its citiznes over the course of one very strange week.
Its brief presence would mark the town forever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Its brief presence would mark the town forever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
August 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In 1903 something paid a visit to the quiet American town of Van Meter in Iowa, terrorising its citiznes over the course of one very strange week.
Its brief presence would mark the town forever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Its brief presence would mark the town forever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
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...
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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...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
August 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
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...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
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...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Others, that the true miracle was what they apparently experienced while they were down there...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
August 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Others, that the true miracle was what they apparently experienced while they were down there...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
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 '62, that reputation was obliterated in one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time. Or was it...
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But in '62, that reputation was obliterated in one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time. Or was it...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
August 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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 '62, that reputation was obliterated in one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time. Or was it...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
But in '62, that reputation was obliterated in one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time. Or was it...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
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.
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
What followed was a bizarre tale of vanishing evidence, strange lights, and one of the most overlooked close encounters in UFO history.
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
August 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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.
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
What followed was a bizarre tale of vanishing evidence, strange lights, and one of the most overlooked close encounters in UFO history.
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
In 1855, strange hoof-like prints appeared overnight in the snow across Devon, England - stretching for over 100 miles over rooftops, rivers and walls as if no obstacle mattered.
Locals said only one being could leave such a trail; the Devil himself...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Locals said only one being could leave such a trail; the Devil himself...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
July 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
In 1855, strange hoof-like prints appeared overnight in the snow across Devon, England - stretching for over 100 miles over rooftops, rivers and walls as if no obstacle mattered.
Locals said only one being could leave such a trail; the Devil himself...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Locals said only one being could leave such a trail; the Devil himself...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
An endless cerulean sky, a gorgeous sunset, an idiot in shorts - why, it’s the birthplace of the Gothic of course…
The Castle of Otranto!
The Castle of Otranto!
July 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
An endless cerulean sky, a gorgeous sunset, an idiot in shorts - why, it’s the birthplace of the Gothic of course…
The Castle of Otranto!
The Castle of Otranto!
In 1953, two U.S. Air Force personnel vanished while intercepting a mysterious radar target over Lake Superior.
Decades later the truth behind First Lieutenant Felix Moncla Jnr. and Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson's final flight is as cloudy as ever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Decades later the truth behind First Lieutenant Felix Moncla Jnr. and Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson's final flight is as cloudy as ever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
July 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
In 1953, two U.S. Air Force personnel vanished while intercepting a mysterious radar target over Lake Superior.
Decades later the truth behind First Lieutenant Felix Moncla Jnr. and Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson's final flight is as cloudy as ever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc
Decades later the truth behind First Lieutenant Felix Moncla Jnr. and Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson's final flight is as cloudy as ever...
tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc