Unexplained

Cautionary Tales is one of my favourite podcasts, which I think you’ll love too if you haven’t already heard of it. So we're doing an episode swap for Halloween!

Cautionary Tales is a historical podcast about mistakes and disasters from the past, and what we can learn from them today, narrated by journalist and author Tim Harford.

In 1980s Britain, intricate patterns began appearing in farmers' fields—shapes pressed into the wheat by some unknown force—all under cover of darkness. What caused these crop circles? 

Could it be an alien language...

From the team that brought you THE BLACK PHONE and SINISTER movies comes MIDNIGHT RADIO: a new, fantastical horror podcast starring Ethan Hawke.
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The second and final part of S09E37: Anger is An Energy (The Tina Resch Story)

As William Role continues his investigation of Tina, a sudden diminishing of her apparent powers has him wondering if they have been lost for good.

But Tina's troubling story was far from over...

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In the 1980s, a young girl named Tina Resch became the focus of a baffling series of events that seemed to defy explanation.

As the strange occurrences mounted, famed parapsychologist William Roll set out to determine once and for all, was it coming from a genuine telekinetic power, or something else entirely? 

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In December 1980, Etta Smith contacted the police with a startling proposition: she knew the whereabouts of a missing woman, despite never having met her or knowing anything about her.

What followed was a strange and deeply unsettling case that would challenge the boundaries of the explainable...

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Part two of S09E35: A Land of Darkness (The Guarulhos Poltergeist)

A year after it all began, the family begin their fightback against whatever it is that seems to be terrorising them.

But things are only about to get worse. Much worse. 

Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Emma Dibdin.

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Back in the 1970s, in a quiet house on the edge of São Paulo, a young family became besieged by a series of inexplicable events, each more terrifying than the next.  

What followed would last more than a decade, and would leave even trained investigators and committed people of science struggling to explain it. 

Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Emma Dibdin.

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In 1968, Margaret O'Brien moved into a crumbling hunting lodge outside Dublin, hoping to fill it with artists. Instead she found herself at the mercy of terrifying forces beyond her control, and at the centre of it all, one strange, unnerving black cat, that some believed was not of this world...

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In 1956, two airliners collided over the Grand Canyon, killing all 128 people on board. Two weeks later, two students set off into the Canyon, journeying through a landscape steeped in ancient Native American history and haunted by stories of those who never left...

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith

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While out on a lonely stretch of Route 3, driving through the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Betty and Barney Hill claim to have encountered something not of this world. 

They would spend the rest of their lives trying to unravel what that something was exactly.  

Written by Emma Dibdin and Richard MacLean Smith

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For three terrifying years in 18th Century France, something stalked the people of the Gévaudan region. It's said to have killed over a hundred mostly women and children.

But what on earth was this thing?

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith

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The second and final part of Unexplained S09E30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (The Scole Experiment).

In October of 1993, the living members of the Scole Experiment Group had supposedly made contact with one spirit, but that was just the beginning.  And what incredible sights they had to show them...

Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith

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In the waning years of the twentieth century, a group of researchers decided to finally tackle the great enigma.

Namely, does life... do we… ever really end?

This is the extraordinary story of the Scole Experiment Group. 

Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith

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Dog-headed men haunted the fringes of the entire ancient world. With time, these stories have steadily dissolved into folklore, and the world moved on from such tall tales.

However, there does remain one corner of the modern world in which the dogman has not yet been explained into extinction...

Written by Neil McRobert and Produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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A mysterious cipher manuscript. Correspondence from an enigmatic figure in Germany. And countless claims from some of the most erudite personalities of the day, that the magic actually worked...

This is the strange story of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

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In the third and final part of Unexplained Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery, Ted Binion is dead. What seems like a fairly uncontroversial drug overdose soon becomes something a little murkier... But just how much did Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish have to do with it?

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In Part 2 of Unexplained Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery, we dig deeper into the controversial and complicated nature of Ted Binion's life. 

Meanwhile, on a night out at the famous Piero's restaurant, Ted and Sandy meet a man named Rick Tabish. Some might say, it was all down hill from there...

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One night in September 1998, three men dug up a vault load of silver from a vacant lot in Pahrump, Nevada.  The only problem was, the silver wasn't theirs to take.  And so begins one of the wildest stories ever to come out of Vegas, of love, betrayal and maybe, murder...

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In April 2006, a 27-year-old med student walks into a bar but seemingly never comes out. It sounds like the beginning of a joke but has been nothing but a nightmare for the family of Brian Shaffer.

Shaffer's disappearance, part locked-room mystery, part cautionary tale, remains one of the strangest vanishings of recent times. 

Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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It's been calculated that likelihood of the human race being the only sophisticated life form in the milky way is a one in sixty billion chance.  The milky way is one of 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe.

The following story is considered by many UFOlogists to be among the most compelling pieces of evidences of an alien visitation to our planet.  Just what happened in the skies off the coast of Melbourne Australia in 1978 has never been fully accounted for.  It is a mystery that remains to this day Unexplained.

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The second part of Season 09 Episode 25: Desert Rain 

As search teams struggle to find any sign of Daniel, a private investigator uncovers a promising lead. But will it lead to any more answers or just more questions...

Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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In June 2021, just outside of Phoenix, Arizona, 24-year-old geologist Daniel Robinson, drove off into the desert and was never seen again. 

What exactly happened to him remains one of the most tragic and beguiling mysteries of recent times. 

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.

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When Teresita Basa was found murdered in her Chicago apartment in 1977, police had more or less given up on ever catching her killer. 

That was until one of Teresita's colleagues claimed the dead woman was speaking to her in her sleep...

Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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On a warm summer afternoon in 1980, hundreds of children gathered on the grounds of a quiet village school fair in the English countryside. There was music and laughter.

Then, without warning, one by one, the children began to collapse...

Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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In 2006, Vicki and Rob Graves got an absolute steal when they purchased a property in the idyllic countryside of Indiana, for almost three times below the original asking price.

The only problem was, that property was Fox Hollow Farm...

Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith.

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On December 5th 1945, five US Navy aircraft along with all crew disappeared on a routine training exercise in an area known today as the Bermuda Triangle. 

What exactly happened to them is thought by some to be one of the strangest aviation mysteries of all time. 

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.

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On the night of February 28th, 1959, 23-year-old Gerry Irwin was discovered unconscious deep in thick brush near a lonely stretch of Route 14 in Utah — miles from the nearest town.

He claimed to have no idea how he got there. 

Some believe Gerry was abducted by aliens, others that perhaps something far darker was at play...

Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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In April 1935, a tiger shark was exhibited in a salt water pool in Sydney, Australia.

Then it regurgitated something unexpected. What followed was one of the most bizarre and chilling mysteries in Australian history...

Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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Tucked deep in the woods of Wisconsin, Summerwind Mansion became home to the Hinshaw family—but something in the house wasn't right.

What they experienced inside those walls would follow them long after they left, though no one can quite agree on what was really there...

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.

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On September 11th 2001, the day the world changed forever, Sneha Anne Philip - along with 2977 others - was never seen again.

But in the shadow of the Twin Towers, her final hours dissolve into fragments: a last sighting, a missing night, a timeline that doesn't quite fit.

As a nation mourned, Sneha's loved ones were left wrestling with a seemingly impossible question. Was she lost to history, or did she vanish just before it began?

Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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In the early 1900's Kentucky's Jefferson County was struggling to contain an outbreak of TB. In the end, a vast new facility was built to try and get control of it, and treat all those who had ocntracted it. Many did not survive.  

The hospital was called the Waverley Hills Sanatorium.

Today, some believe it is the most haunted hospital in the United States. 

Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 15: Red Dust

Things take an even darker turn when police uncover details of strange weekend retreats taking place in the hills to the west of the city, organised by debonair American dentist Wentworth Prentice. 

Everything seems to link back to a seedy bar in the Badlands known as No. 28.

But will any of it lead to Pamela's killer?

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.

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In the winter of 1937, in Beijing, a young woman vanished on her way home under the shadow of the Fox Tower — a crumbling relic long associated with whispers, superstition, and unease.

What followed would become one of the most haunting mysteries in the history of Beijing...

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith.

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In the winter of 2016, a bizarre story began to unfold about a farming family from a small town just east of Melbourne, Australia.  The family appeared to have fled their home in a state of utter panic, telling no one why or where they had gone. The truth was even stranger than anyone could possibly have imagined. 

Written by Richard MacLean Smith and James Connor Patterson

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On November 17, 1981 an event occurred at the construction site of the soon to be Manila Film Centre in the Philippines that is almost too shocking to believe. 

Today the site is one of many that has become part of a burgeoning Dark Tourism scene...

Written by Richard MacLean Smith and Diane Hope

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The third and final part of Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red 

Digging into the local history, investigators uncover strange tales of witchcraft that have plagued the area for generations, including the chilling case of Ann Tenant. But surely, it couldn't possibly have had anything to do with Charles' murder, could it? 

Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.

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Part two of Season 09 Episode 12: Eyes that Shine a Burning Red.

With local police ill-equipped to deal with such a strange and brutal murder, the London Met's greatest living police officer, Detective Inspector Robert Fabian, is drafted in to help. 

Despite presiding over every criminal case imaginable in all his twenty years of service, he hasn't seen anything yet...

Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.

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To some, folk beliefs are little more than the harmless superstitions of a bygone age.  

For others, such beliefs and practices are something to be deeply feared as nothing less than the work of the Devil…

Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.

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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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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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