Season 4 Episode 1: Alone With Everybody (RERUN)

At the northern edge of the Brecon Beacons in Cymru, in the shadow of the Pen y Fan peak, sits a large stone house. Named Heol Fanog, or Road to the Peaks, for one couple who moved there in 1989 the house was everything they had ever dreamed of.

Little did they know that, in truth, it would soon become the place of their worst nightmares.

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Season 8 Episode 11: A Hole in My Head Where the Rain Comes in

In April 1991, music executive Christopher Case told his friend that he'd been cursed by a woman he met while on a night out.  The woman apparently told him that he'd be dead within a week.

Then Chris stopped answering his calls. 

Written by James Conor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. 

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Season 08 Episode 10: Not All Who Wander

There is a story told over centuries, by local Congolese and explorers alike – a story that calls into question what we truly know about our world, and what may lurk still in the parts of the map that have yet to be fully filled in…

It's name is mokele-mbembe.

Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. 

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Season 8 Episode 09: The River Always Beckons

In October 1929, Bessie and Glen Hyde set out to become the fastest people ever to traverse the Grand Canyon by boat.

For a landscape so saturated in mystery, the story of the Hydes might be one of its greatest... 

Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. 

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Season 08 Episode 8: Neuroactive Ghostliness

In July 1692 strange things are afoot in Massachusetts, America.

In Salem village, 11 women and one man are languishing in jail as they await trial, accused of witchcraft.  Meanwhile, 20 miles away in the county of Gloucester, something perhaps even stranger is about to occur...

Written by James Conor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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Season 08 Episode 7: The Rocky Mountain

In December 1975, on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, pilot Norman Peter Gibbs took off for a recreational flight around the island.

He was never heard from again in circumstances so strange that people have been trying to unravel the mystery ever since… 

Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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Season 08 Episode 6: Time is Gone, the Song is Over

Will the idea of travelling purposefully through time always be nothing more than an imaginative device through which to convey longing, nostalgia and regret? Or might it actually be possible?

Perhaps the answer lies in one of the UK's great cities, Liverpool and its enigmatic Bold Street...

Written by James Conor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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Season 08 Episode 5: Islands of Fear (Pt.2 of 2)

Part two of Season 08 Episode 5: Islands of Fear

Back to where it all began...

It's August 1995 in Canóvanas, Puerto Rico and according to one local resident, something very strange is about to go down....

Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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Season 08 Episode 5: Islands of Fear (Pt.1 of 2)

Back in the early 1990s, a series of strange reports began emanating from Latin and Central America regarding a spate of farm animal massacres. 

And there was only one word on the lips of concerned citizens... Chupacabra.   

Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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Season 08 Episode 4: Oh Darling, Make it Go

In the late 1980s and early 90s, 14 women vanished within a 100km radius of Ireland's capital, Dublin. 

Former crime correspondent Geraldine Niland dubbed it the Vanishing Triangle... 

Written by James Conor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith

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CCTV of Last confirmed sighting of Annie McCarrick March 26th 1993

Season 8 Episode 3: My God, it’s Full of Stars

On November 18th 2020 a small group of biologists spotted something strange while flying over a remote part of southeastern Utah; a bizarre reflective monolith that had gone unnoticed for years... 

Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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Season 08 Episode 2: Desire Production

If you think the novels of Philip K. Dick are strange, you should hear what happened to him in real life.

It all began, one uncanny day in 1974...

Written by James Conor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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Season 08 Episode 1: May Their Passage Cleanse the World

The sandworm from Frank Herbert's Dune is a monstrous gigantic creature with a thirst for blood. But did you know it was possibly based on another terrifying creature that is said to stalk the darkest corners of Mongolia's Gobi desert...

Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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Unexplained Season 08 Trailer

Unexplained returns for Season 08 on Friday, September 6th.

Sometimes eerie, sometimes strange, always Unexplained...

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S05 Episode 10: In the Shadow of the Mountain (RERUN)

The otherworld of Welsh mythology, known as Annwn, is said to be populated with a vast array of creatures including fairies and mottled ridged serpents.  It is also said that there is one place more than any other where the bridge between our world and theirs is at its thinnest.

That place, is the Berwyn Mountains...

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S05 Episode 4: How the End Always Is (RERUN)

1990 in Gulf Breeze, Florida, in the early hours of Saturday, July 14th, a young man is pulled over for a routine traffic stop. Little could anyone have predicted it would begin the unravelling of one of the most bizarre cases of desertion in the United States Military’s entire history.

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S04 Episode 19: A View from a Hill (RERUN)

For any regular listener of this show, as you may have gathered, Unexplained is rather fond of a good old haunted house story.  

The story of the Cooneen ghost house of Ireland is just one such tale,  often regarded as one of the most compelling supposed true-life hauntings of all time... 

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S04 Episode 6: The Silence of the Sea (RERUN)

On December 4th 1872, the crew of the cargo ship Dei Gratia, came across a ghost ship set adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, 400 miles to the east of the Azores. The fate of the vessel, Mary Celeste, and that of its crew has since become known as perhaps the greatest maritime mystery of all time.

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S01 Episode 2: Resurrected Dreams (RERUN)

It could be said that all stories are ultimately about one thing – death. None more so than the stories we tell each other concerning what awaits us after life. It is a theme that can be found in stories told across every community and culture, from as far back as we can remember.

But what might our dreams have to do with it?

Featuring the unsettling story of The Pollock Twins.

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Season 04 Episode 18: The Dark Ascending (RERUN)

Unexplained Season 7 has now finished but we’ll be back on Friday September 6th to begin Season 8.

In the meantime, I’m going to be replaying some of my favourite episodes from the archives.

This week we’re heading back to Sussex in the south of England to explore the dark mysteries of Chanctonbury Ring and its bucolic surrounds. 

Long thought to be a hotbed of strange and peculiar activity, In the 1970s, one local resident set out to dig a little deeper into the mystery only to find a little more than he bargained for...

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