Unexplained

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... Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod , tiktok.com/@unexplainedp...

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... Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod , tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast , X @unexplainedpod , facebook.com/unexpl...

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. Watc...

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 sk...

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. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unex...

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. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, fa...

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. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedp...

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. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, fac...

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. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/u...

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. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twit...

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. F...

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. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplaine...

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. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, t...

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...

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 McRober...

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 Dia...

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. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcas...

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 Find us at yo...

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 Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod,...

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 Patt...

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 MacL...

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. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, twitter @unexplainedpod, faceboo...

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 b...

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. Find us at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpo...

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 MacL...