Unexplained

✨ Title: Unexplained

🌎 Location Based: Great Britain

🍿 Format️: Episodic

⌛ Time Duration️: Long Episodes (30 minutes - 1 hour)

🕰️ Release Schedule: Bi-weekly (every two weeks), releasing on Fridays. The show runs in seasons with breaks between them.

🧑 Host: Richard MacLean Smith

🎙️ Host Type: Male, Single Host

ℹ️ Host Background: Unknown / General host

🎩 Level of Formality: Formal

📢️ Commentary Style: All Case (no banter)

👐 Approach: Documentary Style, Paranormal / Unexplained, Storytelling Narrative, Theory Discussion

🔔 Tone: Calm, Dark, Suspenseful

👻 Supernatural Element: No

Unexplained is a haunting, story-driven podcast created by writer and musician Richard MacLean Smith. The show explores a different mysterious real-life event with each episode, taking in everything from bizarre tales of supposed time-slips, vanishings, and UFOs to chilling unexplained deaths and dabblings in the occult. It sits in an intriguing space between true crime and the paranormal, venturing into the territory between what we think of as real and what is not, examining the nature of reality, truth, and the human condition. Smith’s only criteria for each story are that it has a human element at its heart, that it functions as a true story and not just an isolated event, and that the mystery has never been sufficiently debunked. The result is a catalog of cases that are impossible to neatly categorize . . . and all the more compelling for it.

The tone of the show is quieter and more reflective than most in this genre. Instead of trying to shock the listener, Smith takes his time, laying out what’s known, what’s been suggested, and what still doesn’t make sense. It feels less like an investigation in progress and more like someone carefully turning over an old story to see what might have been missed. The Guardian called it “possibly the spookiest podcast in the world,” but what really sets it apart is its restraint; Smith never pushes harder than the evidence allows. If you like mysteries that don’t fit neatly into one category, Unexplained is a good one to listen to late at night when you don’t mind having a few questions left unanswered.