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Unexplained is a haunting and unsettling bi-weekly podcast about strange and mysterious real life events that continue to evade explanation. A story-based show mixing spoken-word narrative, history and ideas - often to terrifying effect - that explores the space between what we think of as real and what is not; where sometimes belief can be as concrete as ‘reality,’ whatever that is…
More info at www.unexplainedpodcast.com and on twitter @unexplainedpod and facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast
- 419 - Season 09 Episode 11: The Grey Zone
In 1925, experienced mountaineer and man of science Prof. John Norman Collie gave a lecture to a climbing club in the Scottish Highlands.
Concluding his talk, Collie told his stunned audience that he believed there was something very strange stalking the highest peak of the local Cairngorm's mountain range. Something that had so frightened him, he would never go back there again...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 06 Feb 2026 - 418 - Season 09 Episode 10: Me and the Devil Blues
Sometime in the mid 1930s, a young budding bluesman appeared on the scene, suddenly possessed of a talent for playing the guitar, which he’d never shown before.
Over time a strange rumour began to spread, that the young man hadn't achieved his talent all on his own...
Written by James Conor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 30 Jan 2026 - 417 - Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited (Pt.2 of 2)
The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited
After years appearing to endure a series of increasingly bizarre and terrifying paranormal occurrences in their home, the Smurl family finally decide to call in some real help.
Enter Lorraine and Ed Warren, perhaps the world's most famous paranormal investigators...
Written by Neil McRobert and produced Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 23 Jan 2026 - 416 - 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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Fri, 16 Jan 2026 - 415 - 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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Fri, 09 Jan 2026 - 414 - 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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Fri, 02 Jan 2026 - 413 - 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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Fri, 26 Dec 2025 - 412 - 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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Fri, 19 Dec 2025 - 411 - 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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Fri, 12 Dec 2025 - 410 - Season 09 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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Fri, 05 Dec 2025 - 409 - 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 mission 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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Fri, 28 Nov 2025 - 408 - 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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Fri, 21 Nov 2025 - 407 - 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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Fri, 14 Nov 2025 - 406 - 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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Fri, 07 Nov 2025 - 405 - 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.
Written by Richard MacLean Smith and James Connor Patterson
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Fri, 31 Oct 2025 - 404 - 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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Fri, 24 Oct 2025 - 403 - UNEXPLAINED SEASON 09 TRAILER
Unexplained returns for Season 09 on Friday October 31st at 17:00 GMT...
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Wed, 22 Oct 2025 - 402 - 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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Fri, 17 Oct 2025 - 401 - Season 03 Episode 04: From Here to Eternity (RERUN)
SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST
This week's rerun 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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Fri, 10 Oct 2025 - 400 - Season 04 Episode 20: The Homecoming (RERUN)
SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST
This week's rerun takes us back 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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Fri, 03 Oct 2025 - 399 - 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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Fri, 26 Sep 2025 - 398 - Season 03 Episode 11: Into the Abyss (RERUN)
SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST
This week's rerun takes us to a windswept island off the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada, where in the summer of 1795, three young men made a discovery that would haunt generations to come.
What began as idle curiosity about a depression in the earth would ignite an obsession that has endured for over two centuries.
Since that fateful day, Oak Island has drawn treasure hunters, engineers, and dreamers from around the world, each convinced they can succeed where countless others have failed. But the island seems to guard its secrets jealously, and those who seek to uncover them find themselves confronting something far more complex and mysterious than they ever imagined…
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Fri, 19 Sep 2025 - 397 - 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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Fri, 12 Sep 2025 - 396 - 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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Fri, 05 Sep 2025 - 395 - 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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Fri, 29 Aug 2025 - 394 - Season 08 Episode 40: It's Inside the House
Something a little different this week...
In a first for Unexplained, we hear a first hand account of strange and terrifying events said by one family to have taken place in their home in Christchurch, England, back in 1997...
Thank you to Theresa and Shaun for sharing their story and to Diane Hope for finding it and recording Theresa's interview.
Written and produced Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 22 Aug 2025 - 393 - Season 08 Episode 39: A Trembling Distant Voice
In the summer of 1963, three miners were trapped by a cave-in for days on end with no food or light. Some say it was a miracle that any of them survived at all. Others, that the true miracle was what they apparently experienced while they were down there...
Written by James Connor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 15 Aug 2025 - 392 - Season 08 Episode 38: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
They called it the most inescapable prison in the United States — a cold, isolated fortress surrounded by frigid waters and razor currents. Alcatraz.
But in 1962, that reputation was obliterated in one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time. Or was it...
Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 08 Aug 2025 - 391 - Season 08 Episode 37: Field of Dreams
In 1972, a group of schoolboys in Kera, Japan, claimed to have encountered a tiny silver UFO—and even captured it, twice. What followed was a bizarre tale of vanishing evidence, strange lights, and one of the most overlooked close encounters in UFO history.
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 01 Aug 2025 - 390 - Season 08 Episode 36: The Devil Came Walking
In 1855, strange hoof-like prints appeared overnight in the snow across Devon in southwest England—stretching for over 100 miles, crossing rooftops, rivers, and walls as if no obstacle mattered.
Locals said only one being could leave such a trail.
It was the Devil himself...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 25 Jul 2025 - 389 - Season 08 Episode 35: Screwball Scramble
In 1953, two U.S. Air Force personnel vanished without a trace while intercepting a mysterious radar target over Lake Superior.
Decades later, the skies remain silent, and the truth behind First Lieutenant Felix Moncla Jnr and Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson's final flight is as cloudy as ever.
Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 18 Jul 2025 - 388 - Season 08 Episode 34: Ship of Death
Early on the morning of July 28th, 1987, a rescue helicopter was dispatched to the passenger ferry MS Viking Sally, out on the Baltic Sea.
When the medic stepped onto deck, he realized immediately that this emergency was very much out of the ordinary...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 11 Jul 2025 - 387 - Season 08 Episode 33: After the Sun Comes Rain (Pt.2 of2)
Second and final part of Season 08 Episode 33: After the Sun Comes Rain
Left alone, the only surviving member of Lyudmila's hiking team, Valentina begins the long arduous trek to safety - while the spectre of death haunts her every move....
But what an earth could possibly have wreaked such havoc?
Written by Emma Dibdin, Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith.
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Thu, 03 Jul 2025 - 386 - Season 08 Episode 33: After the Sun Comes Rain (Pt.1 of 2)
In 1993, a group of rafters paddling through the Siberian wilderness of the Khamar Daban mountains came across a teenage girl, caked in mud and blood. Seemingly too traumatised to even speak, when she finally found her voice she uttered only five words.
"They're dead. They're all dead..."
Written by Emma Dibdin, Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 27 Jun 2025 - 385 - Season 08 Episode 32: What the Water Took From Us
In the shadows of Greater Manchester’s canals and waterways, some believe something ancient and malevolent might be lurking. This week on Unexplained, we plunge into eerie folklore, mysterious drownings, and chilling whispers of a phantom predator said to haunt the waters - claiming victims no one can explain.
Written by James Connor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 20 Jun 2025 - 384 - Season 08 Episode 31: Morning Has Broken
Three women vanished without a trace from a quiet suburban home in the early hours of a summer morning in 1992.
What began as a hopeful graduation weekend in Springfield, Missouri, spiraled into one of the most chilling and perplexing missing persons cases in American history.
Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 13 Jun 2025 - 383 - Season 02 Episode 01: Whispers in the Trees (RERUN)
Due to the recent arrival of another mini MacLean Smith, the next new episode will be with you next Friday on June 13th…
In the meantime, we’re heading back into the vault for this week’s episode, going all the way back to the beginning of Season 02.
England’s Black Country, a region just west of Birmingham is considered one of the birth places of the British industrial revolution. It’s centered around a 30 ft-wide and unusually shallow coal seam – a product of once living trees, compressed and buried for millions of years, returning to the surface like an irrepressible secret.
There are some who say the trees can talk. If they could, what secrets might they hold?
This is Unexplained Season 2 Episode 01: Whispers in the Trees, in full for the first time.
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Fri, 06 Jun 2025 - 382 - Season 01 Episode 10: The Spaces That Linger (RERUN)
Due to the recent arrival of another mini MacLean Smith, there’ll be a slight pause on new episodes. For the next two weeks we’ll be dipping back into the vaults until we continue, rather aptly with the next episode of Season 08 on Friday 13th of June…
This week, we’re heading back to Season 01 Episode 10.
The world of horror is littered with unnerving locations, places that both draw from and have in turn seeped into the public imagination.
For many there is one place in particular that continues to fascinate like no other in the UK.
With its combination of mystery, intrigue and atmospheric location you couldn’t concoct a better setting, the place: Boleskine House.
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Fri, 30 May 2025 - 381 - Season 08 Episode 30: A Philadelphia Story
In the race to develop cutting edge technology for the Second World War, many nations focused on how to evade radar detection.
Down in the Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, if the rumours are to be believed, the US Navy took it to a whole other dimension...
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 23 May 2025 - 380 - Season 08 Episode 29: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (Pt.2 of 2)
Part two of Season 08 Episode 29: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
It's 11 years since the so-called Frog Boys were last seen alive.
Two men out in the forest, hunting for acorns close to where the boys were last seen, make a grisly discovery.
Will the devastated parents finally get answers about what happened to their sons?
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 16 May 2025 - 379 - Season 08 Episode 29: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (Pt.1 of 2)
In March 2001, as the nation of South Korea enjoyed a national holiday, five boys from Dalseo in the city of Daegu, headed off into the forest in search of adventure.
They were never seen alive again.
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 09 May 2025 - 378 - Season 08 Episode 28: Oh, Steel Thy Sweetheart Woman
When emergency services arrived at the home of Kathleen and Michael Peterson in the early hours of December 9th 2001, they found a horrifying scene: Kathleen, dead, at the bottom of a staircase and blood everywhere.
But quite what exactly had happened to her, would turn out to be one of the most confounding, and potentially bizarre mysteries of recent times.
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 02 May 2025 - 377 - Season 08 Episode 27: Let's Dance
One hot day in the summer of 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman left her home in a strange trance and headed straight for the town square. There she began to dance, and dance, and dance. Something was terribly wrong and then, it began to spread...
Written by Emma Dibdin and Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 25 Apr 2025 - 376 - Season 08 Episode 26: All Eyes on Me
Over the decades, stories have trickled in from all across the globe. Places both far, and unnervingly near… of truly horrifying things, with far too many legs for comfort.
The simple question is, are you afraid of spiders?
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 18 Apr 2025 - 375 - Season 08 Episode 25: Where There is Gold There is Blood
While battling for his life during the height of the COVID pandemic, Damian Harris slips into a vivid dream of a forgotten Arizona ghost town—where an eerie portal seems to call to him from within a long-abandoned guesthouse.
The history of Vulture City is a haunting tale of gold and greed, and perhaps a little bit more...
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 11 Apr 2025 - 374 - Season 08 Episode 24: Vanishing Point
To many, Mt. Shasta in northern California, is a sacred place.
It's a place of visions and power, and for seeking communion with the unseen world.
But some say, if you’re not careful, there are places on the mountain where you can fall into this unseen world too...
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 04 Apr 2025 - 373 - Season 08 Episode 23: My God, My God
When caught up in a cult, the line between what’s acceptable and what constitutes abnormal behaviour starts to blur. For one South Korean man in 2011, this lack of clarity appeared to lead to one of the most baffling acts of self-mutilation in recent history...
This episode was written by James Connor Pattinson and Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 28 Mar 2025 - 372 - Season 08 Episode 22: Somewhere in Dreamland
When seasoned hiker Kenny Veach claimed to have found a cave in the Nevadan wilderness that made his body vibrate with fear, few believed him. So he set out to find it again, only this time he never came back.
Some believe he made the whole thing up. Others that he had unwittingly stumbled on a secret government location that led right into the heart of Area 51...
This episode was written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 21 Mar 2025 - 371 - Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon (Pt.3 of 3)
In the wake of Carl's tragic death, his family find themselves reminiscing about the strange claims he made as a boy - that he had once lived before as a German airman who was shot down over England.
It all seems so fanciful until two years later, when an extraordinary discovery is made, only a few miles from where Carl was murdered...
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Fri, 14 Mar 2025 - 370 - Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon (Pt.2 of 3)
Part 2 of Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon
From the moment he is born, Carl Edon's mother senses there is something a little different about him.
The story he will come to tell, is beyond anything she or anybody else could possibly have imagined...
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Fri, 07 Mar 2025 - 369 - Season 08 Episode 21: East of Edon (Pt.1 of 3)
The Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, was founded in 1967 by psychiatrist Dr Ian Stevenson. By the time of his retirement in 2002, Stevenson had logged over 2,500 cases of apparent reincarnation with varying degrees of credibility.
One case involved a young boy from Middlesbrough, England, called Carl Edon.
It would prove to be one of the most compelling cases that Dr Stevenson ever came across...
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Fri, 28 Feb 2025 - 368 - Season 8 Episode 20: I Wake Up Dreaming
In 1977, farmer Huang Yanqiu is said to have vanished from his village in China's Hebei province only to reappear after a baffling journey across China that defies explanation.
Join us as we unravel this mysterious tale—one marked by inexplicable detainment, shadowy figures, and an alleged experience that challenges the limits of reality.
Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 21 Feb 2025 - 367 - Season 08 Episode 19: Mallet Maleficarum
In 1657 Shepton Mallet, England, a young boy claims to suffer from a mysterious affliction after a strange encounter with an elderly stranger.
Join us as we delve into this dark, unsettling tale of apparent supernatural terror and unexplained happenings that continue to haunt history...
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 14 Feb 2025 - 366 - Season 08 Episode 18: The Hardest Hue to Hold
In the early 2000s, a story emerged online about a mysterious sarcophagus unearthed by miners in a remote Siberian village back in 1969. Inside, so they say, was the eerily preserved body of a woman, later dubbed the Tisul Princess—a discovery swiftly seized by Soviet authorities and buried in secrecy.
Decades later, another astonishing find—the Ice Maiden of the Altai Mountains—raised even more questions about ancient civilizations, lost histories, and the blurred line between legend and reality...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 07 Feb 2025 - 365 - Season 08 Episode 17: Stone in the Blood
From eerie legends to real-life horrors, castles have long concealed secrets behind their ancient walls—secrets that refuse to stay buried. In this episode, we uncover the possible sinister past of Scotland's Glamis Castle, where devils, ghosts, and a monstrous family secret blur the line between myth and terrifying reality.
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 31 Jan 2025 - 364 - Season 08 Episode 16: Nothing Beside Remains
On December 24th, 1945, a fire destroyed the home of Jennie and George Sodder and their ten children in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five children were believed to have died. But when firefighters searched the rubble, there was no trace of them—no remains, no answers. How could they have vanished so completely? Join us as we uncover the strange clues and lingering questions surrounding this unforgettable case.
Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 24 Jan 2025 - 363 - Season 08 Episode 15: If We Can Sparkle
When UFO researcher Bill Chalker is contacted about a baffling case from long ago in the Australian Outback, he uncovers reports of strange lights in the sky and unexplained attacks on farm animals. What supposedly took place on the McGann Farm in Fernvale, Queensland in 1927 are considered by some to be the strangest in all Australian ufology.
Written by James Connor Patterson and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 - 362 - Season 08 Episode 14: Still Life
Meet Robert the Doll, the mysterious gift to a young boy named Gene Otto that marked the beginning of a lifetime of strange occurrences. Was Robert a harmless childhood companion—or the source of an inexplicable darkness?
Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Sat, 11 Jan 2025 - 361 - Season 03 Episode 03: Under the Asphalt (Rerun)
With Season 8 due to return next Friday, it’s back to the archive one more time…
This week we’re heading back to the 70s, to a quiet housing estate in South East London…
Considering there have been settlers based around the area comprising present day London for over 5000 years, it's hardly surprising that under all that concrete we find remnants of those that have come before us.
But what comes of those whose remnants have been disturbed?
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Fri, 03 Jan 2025 - 360 - Season 01 Episode 08: When the Light Fades (Rerun)
With Unexplained on a short break we're dipping into the archives again.
This week’s story is a true ghost of Christmas past, reaching out to us from almost 124 years to the day.
It was late one night on December 26th
1900, when a telegram was received by the Northern Lighthouse Board.
It was sent by a member of a rescue crew, dispatched to the Flannen isles, the site of the UKs most remote lighthouse, located way out in the Atlantic, beyond any sign of civilisation.
They were sent to investigate why the light was no longer shining,
The telegram read:
A dreadful accident has happened at the Flannans. The keepers, have disappeared from the Island...
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Fri, 27 Dec 2024 - 359 - Season 08 Episode 13: The Tunnel Without End
Completed in 1875, the Hoosac Tunnel was known to those who built it as the bloody pit owing to the 195 people that were killed during its construction.
Today people are warned not to venture into the tunnel, but not only because you might get hit by a train...Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 20 Dec 2024 - 358 - Season 08 Episode 12: The Dark Banquet (Pt.2 of 2)
Part two of Season 08 Episode 12: The Dark Banquet
Continuing on from last week's episode, we take a look at what inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. And just what a real-life vampire might actually look like...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 13 Dec 2024 - 357 - Season 08 Episode 12: The Dark Banquet (Pt.1 of 2)
In the 15th century, in a citadel perched high above a cliff, there lived a bloodthirsty ruler, considered by some to have been among the most feared and brutal in history.
His name was Vlad Dracul III...
Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 06 Dec 2024 - 356 - 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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Fri, 29 Nov 2024 - 355 - Season 08 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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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 - 354 - 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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Fri, 15 Nov 2024 - 353 - Season 08 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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Fri, 08 Nov 2024 - 352 - 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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Fri, 01 Nov 2024 - 351 - 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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Fri, 25 Oct 2024 - 350 - 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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Fri, 18 Oct 2024 - 349 - 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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Fri, 11 Oct 2024 - 348 - 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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Fri, 04 Oct 2024 - 347 - S08 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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Fri, 27 Sep 2024 - 346 - Season 08 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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Fri, 20 Sep 2024 - 345 - 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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Fri, 13 Sep 2024 - 344 - 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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Fri, 06 Sep 2024 - 343 - Unexplained Season 08 Trailer
Unexplained returns for Season 08 on Friday, September 6th.
Sometimes eerie, sometimes strange, always Unexplained...
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Wed, 04 Sep 2024 - 342 - 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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Fri, 30 Aug 2024 - 341 - 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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Fri, 23 Aug 2024 - 340 - 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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Fri, 16 Aug 2024 - 339 - 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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Fri, 09 Aug 2024 - 338 - 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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Fri, 02 Aug 2024 - 337 - 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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Fri, 26 Jul 2024 - 336 - Season 07 Episode 26: The Devil's Money
One chilly morning in a small village in Romania, in February 1925, 11-year-old Eleonore Zugun found a coin on the way to her grandmother's house. Eleonore's cousin warned her not to pick it up; that it was the devil's money and would only bring her bad luck.
But Eleonore ignored the warning...
This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 19 Jul 2024 - 335 - Season 07 Episode 25: The City Upon a Hill (Pt.3 of 3)
The third and final part of Season 07 Episode 25: The City Upon a Hill
As accusations of witchcraft mount up soon the fear spreads beyond Salem and out into the wider Puritan community. With over 100 people accused of being in league with the devil, it's time to begin the official trials.
The shit gets real, as they say...
This episode was written by Richard MacLean Smith and Ella Mcleod
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Fri, 12 Jul 2024 - 334 - Season 07 Episode 25: The City Upon a Hill (Pt.2 of 3)
Part two of Season 07 Episode 25: The City Upon a Hill
It's March 1692 in Salem. Three women - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba - stand accused of witchcraft. All three have so far denied the accusation.
But all that is about to change...
This episode was written by Ella Mcleod and Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 05 Jul 2024 - 333 - Season 07 Episode 25: The City Upon a Hill (Pt.1 of 3)
June 1630, 700 puritans arrived from England at a place in New England, America, known to many local communities as Naumkeag.
To those new arrivals however, it was known as something different.
Inspired by the Hebrew for peace, they called it Salem.
This episode was written by Ella Mcleod and Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 28 Jun 2024 - 332 - Season 07 Episode 24: The Elves Are in the Building
The volcanic landscape of Iceland exerts a strong pull on the psyche. So it's no wonder the nation's folklore is so rich with stories of the supernatural, of ghosts and trolls, but most of all, elves...
This episode was written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 21 Jun 2024 - 331 - Season 07 Episode 23: The Box (Pt.3 of 3)
Third and final part of Season 07 Episode 23: The Box
Jason continues his quest to get to the bottom of how the dibbuk box came into being. What he uncovers is more wild than he could possibly have imagined...
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Fri, 14 Jun 2024 - 330 - Season 07 Episode 23: The Box (Pt.2 of 3)
Part two of Season 07 Episode 23: The Box
Despite the disturbing nature of Kevin's eBay listing, his 'dibbuk' box attracts the interest of hundreds of potential buyers. Before long, it's heading for Kirksville, Missouri, with disturbing consequences...
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Fri, 07 Jun 2024 - 329 - Season 07 Episode 23: The Box (Pt.1 of 3)
In June 2003, something unusual popped up for sale on eBay.
The listing was posted by used furniture dealer Kevin Mannis and concerned a strange Jewish artefact he'd apparently purchased a few years before. He called it a 'dibbuk' box.
He said he wanted to sell it because, according to him, it was haunted...
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Fri, 31 May 2024 - 328 - Season 07 Episode 22: Jumping into Legend (Pt.2 of 2)
Second and final part of Season 07 Episode 22: Jumping into Legend
In the hunt for the true identity of the so-called Dan Cooper, the FBI and police interview over 800 suspects. Could one of them be him?
This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 24 May 2024 - 327 - Season 07 Episode 22: Jumping into Legend (Pt.1 of 2)
On November 24th 1971 at Portland International airport, a man turned up at the ticket desk requesting a one-way ticket to Seattle.
The rest is strange and mystifying history...
This episode was written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 17 May 2024 - 326 - Season 07 Episode 21: Wild is the Wind
It's long been thought that people can be driven to madness by the wind.
In 1969, Episcopalian bishop James Pike and his wife Diane became stranded in the Judean desert while on a research trip. Then the wind started to blow...
This episode was written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.
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Fri, 10 May 2024 - 325 - Season 07 Episode 20: The Haunting of Hannath Hall (Pt.2 of 2)
The second and final part of Season 07 Episode 20: The Haunting of Hannath Hall
The team from the Cambridge University Society of Psychical Research are ready to begin their investigation of Hannath Hall. Starting with a good old fashioned séance...
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Fri, 03 May 2024 - 324 - Season 07 Episode 20: The Haunting of Hannath Hall (Pt.1 of 2)
It always fills me with a particular sense of caution, and no little excitement when I learn of new alleged poltergeist events, particularly ones that invoke the work of Nigel Kneale involving learned men and women on the hunt for ghosts…
And so I present to you, the haunting of Hannath Hall...
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Fri, 26 Apr 2024 - 323 - Season 07 Episode 19: Homes Under the Hammer Horror
In 1999, a house went on the market in the tiny village of Upper Mayfield near the Derbyshire Peak District.
It was bought by Tim Chilton for what he thought was a steal. It turned out to be far more than that...
This episode was written by Diane Hope.
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Fri, 19 Apr 2024 - 322 - Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee (Pt.4 of 4)
The fourth and final part of Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee (Pt.4 of 4)
Fearing for his life, John Dee flees with his family to Europe along with his trusty scryer Edward Kelly. Together they continue to commune with angels in pursuit of Dee's dream to unlock the secrets of the universe. All seems to be going well until Kelly makes an outrageous proposition...
This episode was written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 12 Apr 2024 - 321 - Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee (Pt.3 of 4)
Part Three of Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee
Late one afternoon in March 1582, John Dee is introduced to one Edward Talbot, a self-proclaimed medium and scryer. And, Dee hopes, the gateway to his wildest dreams...
His life will never be the same again.
This episode was written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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Fri, 05 Apr 2024 - 320 - Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee (Pt.2 of 4)
Part Two of Season 07 Episode 18: A Dance with Mr. Dee
With the death of Queen Mary 1st, John Dee does what he can to ingratiate himself with the new Queen, Elizabeth 1st.
While the secrecy of his home, he embarks on an ambitious new experiment, to uncover nothing less than the secrets of the universe...
This episode was written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith
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