Unexplained History
by Tom McKenzie
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About this podcast
Unexplained History delivers unexplained events analysis and deep dives into the history of the unexplained.
Join host Tom McKenzie weekly as we uncover the secrets behind history’s greatest cold cases and cover-ups. If you’re fascinated by true crime, ancient mysteries, paranormal activity, and government conspiracies, this podcast is for you.
Each episode creates a gripping audio landscape exploring events that defy explanation — from baffling disappearances and cryptid sightings to the dark realities of the Cold War and the occult.
The Team
• Narrative & Direction: Rob Davenport
• Lead Researcher: Mike Sherwin
• Sound Design & Score: Smoking Man Studios
New episodes drop every Tuesday. Listen in — and decide what you believe.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 92 episodes
- The Beast: Aleister Crowley, Sex Magic and Death at the Abbey of Thelema | Part Two · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 81A sick young man writes home from a house devoted to spiritual freedom. His wife adds a private plea on the back: they need food, a warm bed and a way to leave Sicily. Within…
- The Beast: Aleister Crowley and Angels from the Abyss | Boleskine, Part One · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 80A young man raised on the Bible buys a house beside Loch Ness, intending to meet an angel. He later claims the unfinished undertaking left something darker behind. Who was…
- The Devils of Loudun Part Two: The Exorcisms That Would Not End | Halloween Special 4 of 6 · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 79Urbain Grandier is dead, but the possessions at Loudun continue. The Jesuit Jean-Joseph Surin takes up the work and describes a struggle that seems to cross from the woman he is…
- The Devils of Loudun Part One: Terror Behind Convent Walls | Halloween Special 3 of 6 · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 78In seventeenth-century Loudun, reports of possession inside an Ursuline convent became a public confrontation between exorcists, magistrates and an accused priest. Urbain…
- John Dee Part Two: What the Angels Demanded | Halloween Special 2 of 6 · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 77John Dee leaves England seeking divine knowledge. In continental Europe, his work with Edward Kelley brings him before rulers, draws religious scrutiny, and eventually produces…
- John Dee Part One: The Voices in the Stone | Halloween Special 1 of 6 · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 76A little girl seems to pass between the books in an Elizabethan scholar's study. That is the vision Edward Kelley reports, and John Dee preserves it alongside prayers, questions…
- The Fighter Pilot Who Died Chasing a Giant Object · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 75On January 7, 1948, witnesses at Godman Field near Fort Knox watched a bright object they could not identify. A passing flight of Kentucky Air National Guard Mustangs was asked…
- The Green Fireballs That Flew Over America's Nuclear Labs · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 74In late nineteen forty-eight, pilots, security personnel, and scientists reported brilliant green fireballs over New Mexico. The reports reached officials responsible for some of…
- Biological Warfare: From Ancient Sieges to Russia's Secret Laboratories · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 73This special Unexplained History broadcast follows biological warfare from its disputed Bronze Age beginnings through medieval sieges, colonial smallpox, Japan's Unit 731…
- Roswell: The First Twenty-Four Hours Before the Legend Took Over · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 73On a July afternoon in nineteen forty-seven, the Army air field at Roswell announced possession of a flying disc. Within hours, officers at Fort Worth presented wreckage they…
- Zodiac Killer: Why the New Cipher Claim Does Not Name Him Yet · 50 min · Season 2 Episode 72A new claim says the Zodiac Killer's shortest name cipher points to a man once investigated in the murder of Elizabeth Short. The proposal joins two notorious unsolved cases, a…
- Operation Northwoods: The False-Flag Plans the Pentagon Actually Wrote · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 71In March nineteen sixty-two, the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff sent Defense Secretary Robert McNamara a memorandum about pretexts for military intervention in Cuba. Its…
- Jack the Ripper: The DNA Mystery · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 70A stained shawl has been presented as the object that finally reveals Jack the Ripper. A published forensic study found mitochondrial DNA profiles compatible with descendants of…
- Nefertiti: The Hidden Chambers Beyond Tutankhamun's Tomb · 56 min · Season 2 Episode 69In September twenty twenty-six, a team studying Tutankhamun's tomb reported new geophysical anomalies north of its known rooms. Their proposed plan revives a remarkable idea: the…
- Operation Sea-Spray: The Navy Ship That Sprayed a City With Bacteria · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 68In September nineteen fifty, the United States military carried out six simulated biological attacks on the San Francisco Bay Area. A Navy vessel released Serratia marcescens and…
- Havana Syndrome: Spies, Microwaves and the Danger · 60 min · Season 2 Episode 67In two thousand twenty-four, a Norwegian government scientist reportedly tested a secret microwave-emitting apparatus on himself. He was said to have developed neurological…
- The Bomb Filled With Bats That Set Its Own Airfield on Fire · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 66In 1942, a Pennsylvania dentist proposed attacking Japan with bats carrying tiny incendiaries. His idea reached the White House and became a real military research program…
- The Day 62 Children Said a UFO Landed at Their School · 57 min · Season 2 Episode 65On September 16, 1994, dozens of children at Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe, said they had seen something extraordinary beyond their playground. Silver objects. Small figures…
- Majestic 12: Who Forged the Government's Alien Files? · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 64Majestic Twelve is the most durable alleged UFO cover-up in modern American history. Its papers describe a secret committee formed after a crash in nineteen forty-seven and…
- MH370: The Plane that Disappeared · 1 h 0 min · Season 2 Episode 63MH370 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing with 239 people aboard. Its final radio message sounded routine. Then its identifying radar signal disappeared, a second track led back across…
