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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Season 01 Episode 08: When the Light Fades (Rerun)

With Unexplained on a short break we are 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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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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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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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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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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