S05 Episode 7 Extra: One Night by the Lake

Some have noted that the suave Count of St. Germaine, with his possible connection to Transylvania, shared similarities with Count Dracula. 

However, it wouldn’t be until one, turbulent night in the summer of 1816, that the notion of a vampire as a smooth and sophisticated operator, as opposed to the foul-smelling wretch it had previously been thought of, would first be conceived.

It was a night that has since gone down in horror history as the night that spawned not one, but two of the genres most affecting and enduring creations...

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S05 Episode 7: A Man of Wealth and Taste

In 2008, Aubrey de Gray, one of the world’s best-known bio-gerontologists made the stunning claim that the first person who will live to a thousand years old is already alive today.

There are some however who would say, that this person isn’t just alive right now, but they have already lived to be over 1000 years old...

Featuring the incredible story of the Count of St. Germaine. 

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S05 Episode 6 Extra: Unbound

The idea of an object harbouring ghosts or some residue of those who have come into contact with it in the past is a common one found in most cultures throughout the world.

Though objects of any age can be considered haunted, it certainly helps to inspire the imagination if they are a little more on the ancient side, as a number of staff working at the British Museum in London have testified...

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S05 Episode 6: A Place to Seep

In the autumn of 1998, Al and Lila Cobb bought an antique bed as a present for their teenage son. Soon after the bed was brought home however, it appeared that wasn't all they had brought home...

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S05 Episode 5 Extra: Coming Down Fast

Leading on from S05E05, this week's Extra takes a closer look at how a group of otherwise ordinary people were inspired to commit murder on behalf of Charles Manson.

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S05 Episode 5: When Love Breaks Down (Pt. 2 of 2)

Part two of S05 Episode 5: When Love Breaks Down

In 1965, Sharon, an aspiring actor had a terrifying experience one night while staying alone in the former home of Hollywood producer Paul Bern.

With her journey to stardom just beginning, elsewhere in California, another young women's life was heading on a very different trajectory.

Unbeknownst to each other, however, both women were destined to collide in the most devastating of circumstances.

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S05 Episode 5: When Love Breaks Down (Pt. 1 of 2)

In 1965, Sharon, an aspiring actor had a terrifying experience one night while staying alone in the former home of Hollywood producer Paul Bern. 

With her journey to stardom just beginning, elsewhere in California, another young women's life was heading on a very different trajectory. 

Unbeknownst to each other, however, both women were destined to collide in the most devastating of circumstances. 

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S05 Episode 4 Extra: The Great Unravelling

It’s been speculated that before heading off to the hills to hide away, the Gulf Breeze Six had hoped to meet up with Milton William Cooper, otherwise known as the godfather of modern conspiracy theory. 

In 2001 Cooper was shot dead by police after drunkenly initiating a shoot out on his property, or as many of his followers might tell you, at least, that’s what they want you to believe...

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S05 Episode 4: How the End Always Is

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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S05 Episode 03 Extra: Ghosts in the Machine

Following on from the last episode, some psychologists have speculated that Cindy James' troubled life may have been due to her suffering a form of dissociative identity disorder. In this week's Extra episode we take a closer look at the extraordinary possibilities of such a condition.

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S05 Episode 03: Endgame (Pt.3 of 3)

In June 1989, the body of forty-four-year-old Cindy James, who had been missing for two weeks, was found lying in the tall grass behind a derelict property in the suburbs of Richmond, Vancouver. Cindy's hands and feet had been tied behind her back and she appeared to have been drugged.

A coroner confirmed that Cindy died shortly after she went missing. That her body had been found only a short walk from a major road suggested however that it had been placed there quite recently, meaning this was almost certainly a murder.

But then again, nothing about Cindy’s bizarre and tragic story had ever been certain...

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S05 Episode 03: Endgame (Pt.2 of 3)

In June 1989, the body of forty-four-year-old Cindy James, who had been missing for two weeks, was found lying in the tall grass behind a derelict property in the suburbs of Richmond, Vancouver. Cindy's hands and feet had been tied behind her back and she appeared to have been drugged.

A coroner confirmed that Cindy died shortly after she went missing. That her body had been found only a short walk from a major road suggested however that it had been placed there quite recently, meaning this was almost certainly a murder.  

But then again, nothing about Cindy’s bizarre and tragic story had ever been certain...  

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S05 Episode 03: Endgame (Pt.1 of 3)

In June 1989, the body of forty-four-year-old Cindy James, who had been missing for two weeks, was found lying in the tall grass behind a derelict property in the suburbs of Richmond, Vancouver. Cindy's hands and feet had been tied behind her back and she appeared to have been drugged.

A coroner confirmed that Cindy died shortly after she went missing. That her body had been found only a short walk from a major road suggested however that it had been placed there quite recently, meaning this was almost certainly a murder.  

But then again, nothing about Cindy’s bizarre and tragic story had ever been certain... 

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S05 E02 Extra: Breaking Bonds

A closer look at the radical and tragic life of Clara Immerwahr, chemist and first wife of Fritz Haber.

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S05 Episode 02: The Unceasing Cloud

Back in 1802,  brilliant Prussian naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt was introduced to guano, a natural fertiliser comprised of bat and bird excrement that had long been considered an extraordinarily effective fertiliser, used even by the ancient Incas. 

Humboldt’s subsequent promotion of guano to agriculturalists in Europe set in motion a chain of events that would not only change the world as we knew it, but change it in ways that we may struggle to ever recover from... 

Featuring the mysterious Phantom Gasser of Botetourt County.

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S05 Episode 01 Extra: A Useful Fiction?

The importance of truth is frequently stressed without recognising that much of our day to day lives are governed by fictions, some more useful than others. 

But where, if at all, should we try to draw the line?

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S05 Episode 01: You, in There

Early 2012 in Gary, Indiana, Latoya Ammons and her young family arrived at their doctor's looking tired and distraught. 

When she was asked what the matter was, however, few could have predicted what she was about to say next. 

'It's the demons in our house,' she said. 'They're attacking the children...'

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Unexplained New Season Trailer

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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SEASON 5 POSTPONEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

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.

S04 Episode 21 Extra: Echoes in a Shallow Bay

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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