Unexplained

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<p>SEASON 07 WILL BEGIN FRIDAY JULY 28TH</p> <p>Unexplained is a haunting and unsettling bi-weekly podcast about strange and mysterious real life events that continue to evade explanation. A story-based show mixing spoken-word narrative, history and ideas - often to terrifying effect - that explores the space between what we think of as real and what is not; where sometimes belief can be as concrete as ‘reality,’ whatever that is…</p> <p>More info at www.unexplainedpodcast.com and on twitter @unexplainedpod and facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast</p>

  • 31 minutes 26 seconds
    Season 09 Episode 18: It Lingers There

    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.

    Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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    17 April 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 31 minutes 20 seconds
    Season 09 Episode 17: Unsettled Dust

    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 doesn'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.

    Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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    10 April 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 33 minutes 30 seconds
    Season 09 Episode 16: Primum Non Nocere

    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.

    Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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    3 April 2026, 4:00 pm
  • 31 minutes 50 seconds
    Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust (Pt.2 of 2)

    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.

    Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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    27 March 2026, 1:25 pm
  • 32 minutes 50 seconds
    Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust (Pt. 1 of 2)

    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.

    Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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    20 March 2026, 6:18 pm
  • 30 minutes 16 seconds
    Season 09 Episode 14: Cats in the Cradle

    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

    Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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    13 March 2026, 4:30 pm
  • 31 minutes 52 seconds
    Season 09 Episode 13: The Weight of Empty Space

    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

    Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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    6 March 2026, 11:38 am
  • 30 minutes 34 seconds
    Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.3 of 3)

    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.

    Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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    27 February 2026, 5:10 pm
  • 30 minutes 4 seconds
    Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.2 of 3)

    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.

    Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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    20 February 2026, 5:00 pm
  • 31 minutes 32 seconds
    Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red (Pt.1 of 3)

    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.

    Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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    13 February 2026, 5:34 pm
  • 31 minutes 30 seconds
    Season 09 Episode 11: The Grey Zone

    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.

    Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.

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    6 February 2026, 1:19 pm
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