Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited (Pt.1 of 2)

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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Season 09 Episode 08: A Black Star Over His Shoulder

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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Season 06 Episode 11: Slide Away (RERUN)

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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Season 02 Episode 4: When the Snow Melts (RERUN)

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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Season 09 Episode 07: The Stove Goblin

In September 1934, amidst wide political unrest, something was stirring in the home of the 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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Season 09 Episode 06: Full Fathom Five

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. 

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith

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Season 9 Episode 05: Did You Ever See a Dream

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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Season 09 Episode 04: To Each Man His Castle (Pt. 2)

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 project 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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Season 09 Episode 04: To Each Man His Castle (Pt. 1)

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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Season 09 Episode 03: Get Out

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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Season 09 Episode 02: Too Cold Always

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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Season 09 Episode 01: Beneath the Moon's Pale Beams

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 05: Episode 09: Tenebrous (RERUN)

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 04 Episode 13: Lost in Stormy Visions (RERUN)

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST

This week's rerun 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 civilisation. 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 03 Episode 04: From Here to Eternity (RERUN)

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)

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 02 Episode 02: Time Out of Joint (RERUN)

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 01 Episode 06: Demons in Suburbia (RERUN)

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 fragile sense of normality...

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Season 08 Episode 42: Reality Bites

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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Season 08 Episode 41: The Visitor

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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