Sometimes eerie, sometimes strange, sometimes terrifying, always Unexplained.
Join me, Richard MacLean Smith, for a new season of Unexplained.
Starts Friday August 28th 2020.
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Announcement: It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the postponement of Season 05 of Unexplained, which was due to launch tomorrow.
Despite the series being ready to go, the uncertainty caused by the outbreak of Covid-19 has unfortunately led to the pausing of my advertising agreement for the time being.
It has taken months of work to prepare for the launch and with Unexplained being my full-time job and livelihood I simply can’t afford to release the episodes without being able to monetise them.
It goes without saying that your support is hugely appreciated and I’m so sorry to disappoint all you incredible listeners in this way; I feel hugely disappointed at having to postpone.
What this does mean though is that you can rest assured that when things return to a relative state of normality, the full series of Unexplained will be ready to launch with a bang.
I will release more info as I have it, in the meantime stay safe and stay spooky,
Richard MacLean... Smith.
SEASON 4 SEND-OFF
All of us will die and even for those who believe we are somehow more than a bundle of cells and flickering synapses and that something else awaits us beyond this mortal realm – there are few who consider the preservation of the body or its final resting place to have any significant bearing on that.
So why does disturbing a grave site make us so uneasy? Perhaps because our relationship with death has never really been about the dead...
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Part Two of S04 Episode 21: The Under Weight
In 1980, Harris County's Newport subdivision housing development in Texas, put its newest set of plots on the market. The Williams and Haneys were just two sets of couples who moved into the area shortly afterwards.
It was a decision, they would soon come to regret...
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In 1980, Harris County's Newport subdivision housing development in Texas, put its newest set of plots on the market. The Williams and Haneys were just two sets of couples who moved into the area shortly afterwards.
It was a decision, they would soon come to regret...
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Many say that if a genuine alien spacecraft really had appeared on earth, there would be incontrovertible photographic or video evidence to prove it. And yet, there are countless videos and photos purporting to reveal exactly that. More often than not, however they are dismissed as cases of mistaken identity or simply fakes.
In reality, unless a craft were to land on a busy high street in full view of a live news feed and collectively witnessed by everyone you knew – any photo or video evidence can easily be dismissed. Perhaps that is, with the exception of one...
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A line drawing interpretation of the Calvine UFO photo
Part Two of S04 Episode 20: The Homecoming
Travis Walton has been missing for five days after his six co-workers claim to have seen him being attacked by a UFO in a forest in Arizona. But now, Travis has returned...
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Travis Walton c.1975
Part One of S04 Episode 20: The Homecoming
In November 1975 seven forestry workers headed into Arizona's Apache-Sitgreaves national forest for a routine day's work. Only six of them would return that night, with one hell of a story to tell...
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In the early hours of March 14th 1928, below deck of an ocean liner just off the coast of West Africa, former RAF pilot Colonel George Henderson reportedly experienced a 'crisis apparition' of his friend and fellow pilot, Captain Raymond Hinchcliffe saying he was lost and in great danger.
What Henderson is said not to have known at the time, is that Hinchcliffe, and his co-pilot, Elsie Mackay were 3000 thousands miles away, high in the clouds, and fated never to be seen again...
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Elsie Mackay
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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The Cooneen Ghost House | © Mark Gunn/Flickr
Whatever your thoughts on supposed occult groups conducting rituals in England's west Sussex countryside, for whatever reason, it’s fair to say the region has certainly had its fair share of weirdness.
In fact, only last year, yet another peculiar story emerged from out of the shadows of the Sussex Downs, as compelling as any other that had previously come to light...
Featuring the story of Anthea Ring.
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Anthea Ring as a baby shortly after being discovered by the Dodd Family
Chanctonbury Ring, an ancient and unusual landmark located in Sussex, England, and the surrounding countryside has long been considered by some 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... Go to @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast or www.unexplainedpodcast.com for more info. Thank you for listening.
Despite it first being formerly recognised by psychologist Hugo Münsterberg in 1906, only today are we really getting to grips with understanding the phenomenon of false confessions. In this episode we take a closer look at the worrying way in which false confessions continue to contribute to wrongful convictions.
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Part Two of S04 Episode 17: Appearing is Being
In January 1974, in a quiet port town in Iceland, one teenager’s mysterious and tragic disappearance proves just the beginning in a devastating chain of events that will forever haunt the nation.
In part two, as investigators push Erla to think harder about the night that Guðmundur Einarsson disappeared, her grip on reality begins to loosen...
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In January 1974, in a quiet port town in Iceland, one teenager’s mysterious and tragic disappearance proves just the beginning in a devastating chain of events that will forever haunt the nation.
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Guðmundur Einarsson and Geirfinnur Einarsson (no relation)
The notion that it is possible to exist in one state of awareness and perpetrate terrible acts without even realising it, represents a very singular type of horror. This week's Extra, with a little help from Euripides, takes a closer look at the idea.
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In May 2008, twin sisters and Swedish nationals Sabina and Ursula Eriksson took a ferry from Ireland to Liverpool in England and boarded a bus to London. The pair would never make it to London nor ever disclose where they were going or why they were in England at all.
By the end of their bizarre excursion, one would be left critically hurt in hospital and the other arrested for murder.
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Ursula and Sabina Eriksson captured on CCTV, 17 May 2008
Whatever we might think about the actions of Burke and Hare, their crimes were as much a result of market forces as anything else. Today's black market organ trade provides a very modern equivalent.
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It was on one bright summer's day in 1836 that a group of boys out hunting rabbits on Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, made a very bizarre and macabre discovery. Could it have been linked to one of the city's most infamous murder sprees from only a few years before?
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In last week's episode, Negative Space, we looked at the chilling tale of the Perron family haunting, which, like many people I first came across through the film The Conjuring. In this week's extra we look a little closer at key elements of the story that inspired the movie.
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The Arnolds Farm c.1840