About Unexplained

iTunes Best of 2016, over 70 million streams, #2 in US, UK and CAN Apple Podcasts chart.

Unexplained is a haunting story-based podcast in which host and creator Richard MacLean Smith explores a different unexplained mystery each week - often to terrifying effect.

With each episode, MacLean Smith leads the listener on an atmospheric journey through the strange and eerie, taking in everything from bizarre tales of supposed time-slips, vanishings and UFOs to chilling unexplained deaths and dabblings in the occult. 

Through each carefully crafted story, Unexplained ventures into the space between what we think of as real and what is not, examining the nature of reality, truth and the human condition; where sometimes belief can be as concrete as ‘reality,’ whatever that is…

But more than just a show about unnerving and spooky stories, Unexplained is a series that takes Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to heart, always asking the unsettling question: you might well think you know what is or isn’t true, but can you ever be entirely certain? 

Best of iTunes 2016 and one of the most popular paranormal podcasts in the world, Unexplained has been an international success reaching #2 in the US, UK and Canadian Apple Podcast charts with over 70 million streams to date.  (Unexplained the book, an Amazon #1 Best Seller, was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2018 and by Sourcebooks for the US and Canada in 2019).

New episodes are released every Friday, listen here:

RICHARD MACLEAN SMITH

Part Scottish, part English, Richard is a podcaster and writer developing a number of podcasts, TV, Film, and audio projects that may or may not ever live to see the light of day.

A lover of the Twilight Zone as a kid, not to mention Round the Twist, the X-Files and Eerie Indiana, he can trace his love of the strange and mysterious directly back to the night his mum let him stay up to watch the pilot episode of Twin Peaks.

Not that he only watches TV, although that is what he seems to have spent most of his childhood doing…

Press

"Is Unexplained the world's spookiest podcast?" - The Guardian

"A grisly treat..." - The Financial Times

Has Richard got an answer for the ‘Unexplained’? Steve Wright in the afternoon

13 spooky podcasts about history - Bustle

Best spooky podcasts - Refinery 29

13 creepy podcasts - Buzzfeed

Interview with Richard MacLean Smith - TV Over Mind

Music

All music on Unexplained is produced by Richard MacLean Smith. Listen on Soundcloud.