In December 1980, Etta Smith contacted the police with a startling proposition: she knew the whereabouts of a missing woman, despite never having met her or knowing anything about her.

What followed was a strange and deeply unsettling case that would challenge the boundaries of the explainable...

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Part two of S09E35: A Land of Darkness (The Guarulhos Poltergeist)

A year after it all began, the family begin their fightback against whatever it is that seems to be terrorising them.

But things are only about to get worse. Much worse. 

Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Emma Dibdin.

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Back in the 1970s, in a quiet house on the edge of São Paulo, a young family became besieged by a series of inexplicable events, each more terrifying than the next.  

What followed would last more than a decade, and would leave even trained investigators and committed people of science struggling to explain it. 

Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Emma Dibdin.

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In 1968, Margaret O'Brien moved into a crumbling hunting lodge outside Dublin, hoping to fill it with artists. Instead she found herself at the mercy of terrifying forces beyond her control, and at the centre of it all, one strange, unnerving black cat, that some believed was not of this world...

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In 1956, two airliners collided over the Grand Canyon, killing all 128 people on board. Two weeks later, two students set off into the Canyon, journeying through a landscape steeped in ancient Native American history and haunted by stories of those who never left...

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith

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While out on a lonely stretch of Route 3, driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Betty and Barney Hill claim to have encountered something not of this world. 

They would spend the rest of their lives trying to unravel what that something was exactly.  

Written by Emma Dibdin and Richard MacLean Smith

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For three terrifying years in 18th Century France, something stalked the people of the Gévaudan region. It's said to have killed over a hundred mostly women and children.

But what on earth was this thing?

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith

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The second and final part of Unexplained S09E30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (The Scole Experiment).

In October of 1993, the living members of the Scole Experiment Group had supposedly made contact with one spirit, but that was just the beginning.  And what incredible sights they had to show them...

Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith

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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 of the Scole Experiment Group. 

Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith

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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...

Written by Neil McRobert and Produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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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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