Halloween Special 2021: The Fountain Road Files

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 p...

28 Jan 202219min

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 especi...

22 Jan 202240min

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. T...

14 Jan 202217min

(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...

7 Jan 202236min

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 audi...

24 Dec 202113min

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 wi...

17 Dec 202133min

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'... Go to twitter @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodc...

10 Dec 202115min

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 iden...

3 Dec 202138min