Unexplained

Part Two of Season 07 Episode 05: Jumpin' Jacks

The search for the mysterious Spring Heeled Jack continues...

This episode was written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith

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Most countries and cultures have their own version of a bogeyman and the UK is no exception – many of them given the epithet of ‘Jack’. 

The one they called Spring Heeled Jack, which emerged at the dawn of the Victorian era is by far the strangest... 

This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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A tangled web of myth and history, an alluring mixture of fact and fiction shadowed by an ever-present aura of death and pagan spiritual energy. 

I give you, Stonehenge...

Written by Ella MacLeod and Richard MacLean Smith

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Part Two of Season 07 Episode 03: Under Black Water 

A strange discovery made on a fishing trawler just off the east coast of South Africa in 1938 has some wondering, could the Loch Ness Monster be real after all?

This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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In August 1930, the first media report of a strange creature, reportedly seen in the waters of Loch Ness in Scotland, was published by a local Inverness newspaper.

It would not be the last...

This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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Whether it was the rumour that a UFO followed the flight path of a plane from New York to London in June, or it was the sighting of the strange “green ball” over Madagascar in August.

1954 certainly seemed to be a hotbed of apparent UFO-related incidents. No more so than over the continent of Europe...

This episode was written by Ella McLeod and Richard MacLean Smith

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Part 2 of Season 7 Episode 1: The Fall Without End

After the US government offers a formal apology and explanation of sorts to Frank Olson's family, Frank's son Eric is unconvinced. 

Digging a little further into the case, he uncovers some horrifying truths...

This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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On the evening of November 28th 1953, in New York, Frank Olson was found on the pavement outside the Statler Hotel having fallen out of a window on the 13th floor. 

Olson died shortly after hitting the pavement.

His death was first said to be caused by suicide. But then Olson, had worked for the CIA and on MK Ultra. Nothing was quite what it seemed...

This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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With Unexplained Season 7 due to start next Friday, July 28th, we have time for one more episode from the vaults. 

This week we return to Broadhaven in Wales, where a series of bizarre events occurred over the course of a few months in 1977. 

And it all began in the playground of a local primary school...

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For me, the Spanish film Veronica, directed by Paco Plaza and released in 2017, is, without doubt, one of the best horror films depicting demonic possession of recent times. 

Incredibly, the true story it's based on is even more terrifying...

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In 1987, construction began on a small stretch of road that would later become known as the Stocksbridge Bypass, now considered one of the most haunted roads in the UK.

This is why...

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In the summer of 1958 in Mölndo, Sweden, EVP pioneer Friedrich Jürgenson was attempting to record the sound of birdsong in his garden. What he captured instead would change his life forever...

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With Unexplained currently on a break between seasons, we’re taking a look back at some of our favourite episodes. 

In the summer of 2014, Maria and Derek Broaddus were overjoyed when they completed on their dream home; a $1.4 million dollar mansion in the affluent suburb of Westfield in New Jersey.  

But then the letters started to arrive…

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Continuing with our look back at some of our favourite episodes while we take a break between seasons, this week we’re going back to March 2019. 

In 1969 National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre traveled deep into the Amazon in search of the fabled Mayoruna tribe who were said to have no contact with the outside world. 

What happened next left him wondering for the rest of his life whether it had truly occurred or not... 

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Revisiting some of our favourite episodes...

Since the dawn of communication, we have shared stories about imaginary beings; entities such as demons, angels, monsters, and fairies. 

But what if they weren't stories at all? What if these entities were real, existing right next to us, right now, walking invisibly among us? 

What if all we needed to see them was some kind of gateway, and what price would we pay for opening it?

Featuring the tragic story of occultist Netta Fornario.

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Experiments to prove the existence of psychokinesis have been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability and are generally regarded as pseudoscience.

One story that emerged out of Sweden in 1919 is certainly strange enough to make you think again...

This episode was written by Richard MacLean Smith and Diane Hope

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In early 1846, in a village in northwestern France, a teenage girl begins displaying apparent psychokinetic powers in the wake of an intense period of stormy weather.   Featuring the incredible story of Angélique Cottin.  

This episode is written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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There have been surprisingly many supposedly true-life tales of werewolves over the years though perhaps none are more infamous, more wicked or more disturbing than that which appeared in a pamphlet in London in June 1590...

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Near Elkhorn, Wisconsin, in the autumn of 1991, local journalist Linda Godfrey recorded a series of peculiar sightings of a terrifying humanoid dog-like creature, apparently witnessed skulking around the fringes of nearby Bray Road. 

What seemed a ludicrous proposition at first, soon took on a surprising amount of credibility...

This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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Toward the end of the Second World War, it became apparent that billions of US dollars worth of priceless art, gold, and a veritable treasure trove of other artifacts, looted by advocates of the Third Reich had been hidden away throughout Germany.

Some believe a significant amount of it, is still out there... 

This episode was written by Ella McLeod and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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Günther Stoll was a fairly typical individual. He enjoyed his job as a food engineer, he loved his wife and he enjoyed the occasional drink at his local pub.   You might say he was an ordinary man. His death, however, was anything but...  

This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. 

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Pt. 2 of Season 06 Episode 31: Every Story is a Ghost Story

As the apparent haunting of Jackie Hernandez and her family intensifies, Barry is left with no doubt that they have become the unwitting victims of a deeply malignant entity... 

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When it comes to the sheer terror of the supernatural, for me, there are few more disturbing notions than the poltergeist; malignant spirits of wrathful agency seemingly dead set on singling you out for often inexplicable—and therefore, deeply frightening—reasons.

So it always fills me with a particular sense of caution and no little excitement when I learn of new alleged poltergeist events, particularly those of a seemingly malicious nature.

Such as that which occurred in San Pedro back in 1989...

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Part Two of Season 6 Episode 30: The Extinguishable Fire (Pt.2 of 2)

Inspired by Joan's apparent visions, and as the voices foretold, the Dauphin's army finally gain the upper hand in their efforts to reclaim the nation of France. 

So what then of Joan's other prophecy, the one foretelling of her imminent demise?

This episode was written by Ella McLeod and Richard MacLean Smith

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Back in the early 15th century, as the English King, Henry VI, tried to assert his supremacy in the Kingdom of France, an unlikely teenage hero came to the aid of her nation.

A king-maker, seemingly blessed with the gift of prophecy whom many in France also believed had been sent by God themself to save them... 

This episode was written by Ella McLeod and Richard MacLean Smith

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In 1978, having been satisfied that remote viewing could enable people to look into the past, Stephan A. Schwartz had an epiphany.

If experienced remote viewers could look back in time, could they also look into the future?

And so, he decided to try and find out...

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In 1979, Stephan Schwartz and a team of remote viewers arrived in the city of Alexandria in Egypt, claiming they had pinpointed the location of numerous ancient buildings that had long since been lost to time. 

Tasked by the local authorities with proving their unorthodox methods worked, they set out to convince them... 

This episode of Unexplained was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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As the internet becomes our public forum for sharing and discussing ideas, more often than not it is through this portal that we develop much of our sense of the world. As such, as demonstrated by the attempted murder of Peyton Lautner in 2012, what achieves validity online can quickly achieve solidity offline.

The so-called Slender Man stabbing was not the first incident of its kind. And it certainly wasn't the last.

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Pt. 3 of Season 06 Episode 28: The Nous Fear 

Where once the Internet was thought to offer something akin to a beneficial noosphere - many have instead been left fearing it has merely opened a door to chaos, disrupting established orders and threatening all the ‘progress’ that such order has contributed to.

But is this fear warranted?

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Pt. 2 of Season 06 Episode 28: The Nous Fear 

The digital space is a world where fact and fiction become progressively blurred.

As our lives become increasingly influenced by what we experience there, those online fictions don’t stay online.

They bleed into the real, physical world, with real physical world consequences...

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He is the personification of the unknown; a messenger of the medium, at once new but strangely, archaically, familiar. 

His name is The Slender Man, and one way or another, he is coming for us all.

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One aspect of our Mothman episode that some listeners wanted to know a little more about was how exactly the collapse of the Silver Bridge fitted into everything.

Well, let me tell you...

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The third and final part of Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See 

New York-based writer John Keel joins the hunt for the Mothman as something ominous looms on the horizon...

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Part two of Season 6 Episode 27: All That We See

The apparent sighting of a strange winged creature on the outskirts of Point Pleasant in West Virginia sparks a flurry of similar sightings over the next few days. 

One local reporter and a writer from New York endeavour to get to the bottom of just what is going on...

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Back in November 1966, four young adults were out late one night, driving through a vast stretch of wetlands on the outskirts of their quiet West Virginian hometown, when they were apparently terrorized by a strange, winged humanoid creature. 

Their story would mark the beginning of one of the United States' most enduring cryptid mythologies. Welcome to Mothman.  

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It is often said by medical professionals that medicine is not an exact science.

Despite the incredible wealth of knowledge we have, as many of us perhaps know better than ever before thanks to the current Covid-19 Pandemic, trying to identify what may or may not be a symptom of a specific illness is never a simple task.  

Sometimes despite our best efforts, we don't always reach a satisfying answer...

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The second and final part of Season 06 Episode 26: Under the Rocks and Stones.

After the opening of the dolmen in L'Islet, a shadow seems to draw across the Island of Guernsey.  But the horrors have only just begun...

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That people have lived on the land we know today as Guernsey, at least as far back as 4000 BCE, is evidenced by the many incredible relics there that date back to that time.

Most prominently the many dolmen that can be found all over the island. 

Some say they are valuable artifacts to be studied and learnt from. Others say they should be left well alone...

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In the wake of numerous historical cases of abuse recently coming to light across the world, from within religious institutions or care homes, among other supposedly 'good' organisations, it can be easy to get sucked into outlandish theories when the reality is not always a million miles away.

On the suspicious death of Lambeth Council manager, Bulic Forsythe and the recent uncovering of hundreds of cases of child abuse perpetrated by Lambeth Council care home staff. 

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The third and final part of Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way 

Noreen and John Gosch are contacted by former state senator John Decamp who thinks he may have discovered a link between an alleged child sex-abuse ring in Nebraska and the 1982 disappearance of their son. But will it bring them the answers they crave? 

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Part Two of Season 06 Episode 25: Once There Was a Way 

In August 1984, two years after the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, yet another young Des Moines Register and Tribune newspaper deliverer goes missing... 

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For those who like to reminisce about a time when the world was a safer place; when doors could be left unlocked and children could be left outside to play on their own without the slightest care or worry. 

For many, Sunday September 5th, 1982 was the day when that all changed...

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In 2014, Dutch friends Lisanne Froon and Kris Kremers disappeared while hiking a jungle trail in Panama. Two months later, investigators found their remains, as well as a backpack with a digital camera filled with photos that hinted at a darker story. What happened to Kris and Lisanne? In this investigative series, journalists Mariana Atencio and Jeremy Kryt retrace the last steps of the doomed women. Their search for the truth immerses them in eight years’ worth of conflicting evidence, testimonies, and rumors, as on-the-ground witnesses in Panama come forward for the first time. This explosive new evidence sets off a real-time race to reopen the case, and finally get justice for Kris and Lisanne.

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On Unexplained we've covered many a haunted house story, however, few have been as terrifying as the subject of this week's extra...

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When asked once what inspired her novel, The Woman in Black, Susan Hill replied that her chief ingredient was atmosphere, which I think sums it up perfectly.

Some have suggested she might also have found inspiration from a little-known haunting, said to have taken place in Cheltenham back in the late 1880s.

This is that story. 

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Roughly 20 years after the death of the McLeod brothers, news broke from out of Canada's Northwest Territories of yet another beguiling mystery striking fear into the hearts of anyone in the area at the time...

The Mad Trapper of Rat River.

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In 1905, two brothers, Willie and Frank McLeod, ventured out to a vast stretch of Canadian wilderness known to some as the Nahanni Valley. 

When they failed to come back, a search party was sent out to find them. They shouldn't have been surprised by what they found...  

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In July 2021, Professor Derek Abbott made the stunning announcement that (thanks to his tireless work and that of genealogist Colleen Fitzpatrick) he'd finally cracked the mystery of the so-called 'Somerton Man'. 

In this week's Extra I speak to Prof. Abbott to find out more...

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Part Three of Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names

The discovery of the enigmatic words Tamám Shud curled up in a small fob pocket of the unknown man's trousers, is finally the clue that Detective Leane and his team have been hoping for. 

The truth of the man's identity is in sight...

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Part Two of Season 06 Episode 22: To Morn Names

With news of the unidentified body found on Somerton Beach beginning to spread throughout the world, the Adelaide police have their hands full as they chase one lead after another, but will any of it bring a resolution?

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Good Cult is an investigative podcast about the dark corners of the New Age self-help movements and the American counterculture. In season one, host River Donaghey will explore his family's group therapy cult to unpack the strange history of the Human Potential Movement, and try to understand how a violent self-help seminar in the 1980s evolved into a global phenomenon, which would capture his own family decades later.

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On December 1st, 1948, the body of an unknown man was found on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, South Australia. 

Despite recent claimes that the identity of the individual, who would come to be known as the Somerton Man, has now been discovered, his story remians one of the most enduring mysteries of modern times.

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In 1685 George Sinclair, the brother of Maister Thomas Sinclair, the man who revealed Major Thomas Weir's confession to the authorities, published a book titled Satan's Invisible World Discovered, which contained a number of stories that neatly outlined the leading superstitions of the day.

Among them, although never referred to as such, is one of the earliest ever recorded cases of an apparent poltergeist...

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In 1670, in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Major Thomas Weir, a Covenanter and man of puritanical faith was a much-respected member of the city's Presbyterian community. Until, one day, the mask slipped.  

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With the death of Francisco Marto in 1919, followed by that of his sister Jacinta the following year, Lucia dos Santos was left as the only living member of the enigmatic trio who knew the apparent secrets given to them by the Virgin Mary.

Lucia disclosed the first two in 1941. The third one however, she would not reveal, believing it was simply too distressing for the public to hear...  

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Part two of Season 6 Episode 20: Children of the Pastures

Lucia is faced with a true test of her faith as the Mayor attempts to put an end to her and her cousin's extraordinary claims. 

Meanwhile, excitement grows for the miracle that the Virgin Mary has apparently promised to perform at her 6th and final appearance...

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In the spring of 1916, three young children from the village of Aljustrel in western Portugal claimed to see the Virgin Mary while out tending sheep in a nearby pasture. 

The incident marked the beginning of what is now known as the Fatima Prophecies.

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In March 1974, Terry Matthews and his mother, Gerri Betz, came across a strange metallic sphere in the woods close to their home in Jacksonville, Florida.

Then, things got a little strange...

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In 1951, 67-year-old Mary Reeser moved down from Columbia, Pennsylvania to Florida to be closer to her son and grandchildren.

Five weeks later, Mary was dead; killed in the most horrifying and bizarre circumstances that continue to confound to this day.

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It is said that St Francis of Assisi was the first person to receive the stigmata, back in 1224. 

Since then only thirty or so people have seriously claimed to have suffered from it, with perhaps the most famous of them being Francesco Forgione, or as he would later be known, Padre Pio.

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In the late 1940s, Italian sculptor Amilcare Santini was commissioned to make a statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to use as a model for mass production. 

Little did he know, that it would become just about the most famous depiction of the Immaculate Heart ever created.

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Perhaps one of the strangest cases of an unidentified body occurred in Kenora, Canada, in 1974 when an unknown man walked into the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Main Street with disastrous consequences...

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In late November 1970, in a valley just outside of Bergen in western Norway, a 12-year-old girl stumbles upon the burned remains of a body.  The discovery will spark one of the most enigmatic true-crime mysteries of modern times.  

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In last week's episode, we learned about Baba Vanga, whose apparent psychic abilities are said to have been analysed by a number of parapsychologists.

As for mainstream scientists, you might think they prefer to stay away from such things.

In fact, there is a long and fascinating history of well-respected academics, many of whom have made significant contributions in their field, putting such people to the test, with often startling results.   

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Blinded in a freak storm, Baba Vanga from Strumica in present-day North Macedonia is believed by some to have been the most gifted psychic of the modern age. 

Her life story is almost as extraordinary as her supposed gifts. 

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Of all the strange aviation related disappearances, perhaps the spookiest of all are those in which the aircraft return, but the crew do not...

Stories like that of US Navy scouting blimp L-8, which in 1942 became the locus of one of the greatest aviation mysteries of all time.  

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Second Officer Donald Repo was one of the 101 people killed when Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 crashed in the everglades just west of Miami in December 1972.

But then, according to numerous apparent witnesses, he came back…

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Tim Miller is a famous search-and-rescuer in Dickinson, Texas, who's helped track down more than 300 missing persons. After 38 years of searching, he’s now convinced that he’s finally solved his own daughter’s murder.  In the first season of VIGILANTE, Allie Conti (New York Times, Vice) explores the human cost of Tim’s singular obsession with the case—from the people he’s falsely accused in the past, to the current girlfriend he’s put in the crosshairs of a possible serial killer. As Allie prepares to interview the suspect in person, she grapples with whether she might be the latest victim of Tim’s vigilantism.

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Early in the evening of November 23 1953, USAF pilot First Lieutenant Felix Moncla and radar operator Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson were scrambled in an F-89 Scorpion to intercept a UFO flying over Lake Superior.

They and their plane were never seen again. 

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In May 1967, Stefan Michalak was spotted walking along Trans-Canada Highway 1, just west of Falcon Lake in Manitoba, Canada. 

Bleary-eyed and holding a briefcase in one hand, while clutching at his stomach with the other, the story of what he was doing there exactly, is one of the strangest in Canadian history. 

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Remorse, guilt, and the ghosts of the English Civil War.

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In 1898 a story written by Mildred Darby was published in London’s Belgravia magazine titled, “A House of Horrors.”

Darby later claimed it was in fact a true reflection of the many strange goings-on that occurred during her time living at Leap Castle in Ireland.

This episode is an adaptation of “A House of Horrors” by Mildred Darby.

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In this episode, we look at the history of criminal profiling and how the practice first came about. But more importantly, just how effective is it anyway?

The answers might surprise you. 

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This episode contains deeply disturbing scenes of violence, murder and sexual violence toward children. Parental discretion is advised.

Third and final part of Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town 

With many giving up hope of ever finding the killer, Detective James Wilkerson is convinced he has the guilty man in his sights. 

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Part Two of Season 6 Episode 12: A Darkness on the Edge of Town 

In the wake of the horrific murders in Villisca, investigators struggle to find a culprit. But is the killer already in their midst?

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In June 1912, one quiet rural community in southwest Iowa, USA, became the scene of one of the most brutal and inexplicable unsolved murders in American history. It remains no less shocking today than it was over 100 years ago. 

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Perhaps the strangest and most mysterious story to come out of the 'Bennington Triangle' was that which took place in the early 1800s, which ultimately led to the first officially recorded case of a wrongful conviction for murder in the United States, but was it?  

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Between 1945-1950, four people vanished without trace in an area of Vermont dubbed the Bennington Triangle due to the array of 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 disappear in a case one investigator described as the most baffling he ever came across.

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Some look for gold in rock seams and mineral deposits. Others prefer their search for riches served with a healthy side order of deep and mystical conspiracy... 

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Back in 1892, 29-year-old Julia Thomas headed out into the heart of Arizona's Superstition Mountains in search of an apparently lost gold mine, after having its location disclosed to her by a dying man. Said to have been the richest mine in the world at the time it has since become known as The Lost Ducthman's Mine.

Some say it still lies out there, just waiting to be discovered...

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History consists of heroes and villains (and, I suppose everything in between)... but it's usually the villains who are the most interesting: Their flaws, their quirks, the voids in their hearts that force them to do the unthinkable. These are the characters that fascinate us, that pull us in, that compel us to watch and don’t let us look away. And these are the characters that Scoundrel: History’s Forgotten Villains is all about. Scoundrel, is a new bi-weekly anthology podcast from Kast Media and the award winning creators of Myths & Legends, that tells the stories of the rapscallions through time who were just a little more adept at hiding their evil from historians than others. By joining them on their treacherous journeys, we not only learn about what makes them tick, but more importantly, the times that created them. Sidney Gottlieb, George Remus, Hetty Green, Thomas Blood, James McClintock. They’ve all done horrible things...on varying scales. If there’s anything we can salvage from their misdeeds and incalculable human suffering, it’s the opportunity to use them to elucidate the times they’ve lived… so that we can better understand ourselves. 

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Just like Miguel Jose Viana and Manual Pereira da Cruz, 32-year-old Granger Taylor, from Vancouver Island, Canada, also had extensive knowledge of electronics and a burning desire to visit another world.  

And just like Miguel and Manuel, his too is a tragic tale clouded in mystery.

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In Brazil, in August 1966, two years into a military dictatorship, there was every reason to assume the bodies of two men, found dead on a hill outside the city of Niteroi, could well be victims of the country's cruel new reality.

Within minutes of surveying the apparent crime scene, however, it quickly became clear to police that something far more bizarre was going on. 

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It may seem far-fetched to believe that a vampire had been living at the site of London's Highgate Cemetery since the 18th century.

But did you know the so-called vampire plague said to have ravaged parts of eastern Europe in the 1730s was in one way or another, entirely real...

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In the late 1960s, a large number of acts of vandalism perpetrated in English churchyards were thought to be linked to a resurgent interest in black magic. 

In Highgate Cemetery in North London especially, the evidence was becoming increasingly difficult to deny. 

Something dark and sinister, it seemed, was brewing...

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Author Elliot O’Donnell wrote widely about all manner of apparent hauntings in Britain and the United States, but there was one story – or rather location, for which he had a particular soft spot.  

The place, a mid-terraced Georgian townhouse in London’s Berkeley Square is often referred to as quite simply the most haunted house in London...

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(Please note: the following episode is adapted from the live episode I presented at the London Podcast Festival in 2016 and later released on this stream, so may be familiar to some listeners).

In the English north western town of Runcorn in 1952, like most typical working families of the time left dealing with the economic aftershocks of the second world war, the Jones and Glynns of 1 Byron Street had little choice but to keep calm and carry on regardless. 

But nothing could prepare them for the extraordinary events that were soon to engulf their lives...

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Almost every culture it seems has a story of wild mythical creatures living out in the woods and mountains. 

Sometimes they break out from the myth, to be apparently captured on film, recorded on audio, and seen in real-life.

And in 1850, one was even said to have been caught...

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In July, 1924, a group of prospectors returned from a trip working their claim in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, with an incredible tale to tell having apparently come face to face with some kind of terrifying ape-like creatures...

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More on Kaspar Hauser with some thoughts on the myth of the 'noble savage', the Allegory of the Cave, and the problem with 'Original Sin'...

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Part Two of Season 06 Episode 5: The Boy Who.

As Kaspar Hauser’s mind begins to expand, so too does his sense of self and the world around him.

Meanwhile, as rumours begin to swirl about his true identity and where he had really been all his life, things take a deeply sinister turn.

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One afternoon in May 1828, a mysterious boy stumbled into a quiet square in the picturesque city of Nürnberg, in what was then the German Confederation.

Unable to utter more than a few words and seeming as though he had just arrived from another planet, when the apparent truth of the boy's provenance eventually came to light, it was even more extraordinary than anyone could possibly have imagined. 

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The strange story of British teenager Matthew Manning who achieved worldwide fame in the 1970s after he was determined to possess incredible psychic powers. 

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The third and final part of Season 6 Episode 4: The Widening Gyre

As the bizarre events at 284 Green Street show no sign of abating, things reach a fever pitch in December 1977 with a series of even more seemingly incredible events, as Maurice Grosse and Guy Lyon Playfair struggle to make sense of it all. 

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Part Two of Season 6 Episode 4: The Widening Gyre 

As Guy Lyon Playfair joins the fray at 284 Green Street, the bizarre activity plaguing the Hodgson family starts to intensify. And soon, things begin to take a more sinister turn.  

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It was back in May 2020 that the body of Ben Williams was found in his flat on Fountain Road in Tooting, London.

When police found him, those who saw the state of his body had no doubt he had been murdered. After a more thorough investigation, however, the cause of Ben’s death was judged unknown and labeled simply ‘death by misadventure'.

And then they discovered the tapes; an audio diary that Ben had been recording of the pandemic, in the months before he died.

These are those tapes, raw and unadorned. Make of them, what you will.

Happy Halloween and remember, wherever you are, it is always the witching hour, somewhere...

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On the night of August 31st, 1977, the Hodgson family of 284 Green Street in Enfield, London, fled from their home in terror after a series of strange and inexplicable events. 

Today, the 'Enfield Poltergeist,' as it would come to be known, is considered to be the most documented, compelling, and terrifying supposed poltergeist haunting the UK has ever known...

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A huge apology to all my listeners but sadly due to my daughter being quite ill over the last few weeks, I've been forced to postpone this week's episode until next Friday, October 29th. 

It's nothing serious but eventually, something had to give, and finishing the episode in time has proved a small step too far...

Very sorry again but rest assured we will be back next week!

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