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Unexplained History delivers unexplained events analysis and deep dives into the history of the unexplained. Join host Tom McKenzie 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
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- Yesterday43 min
Travis Walton: The Five Missing Days That Became Fire in the Sky
A forestry truck drives away through the Arizona woods. Six men are inside. Their friend Travis Walton is still on the ground behind them. When they return, he is gone.This feature-length Unexplained History documentary follows the November 1975 encounter, the five-day search and the late-night telephone call that brought Walton home. We enter the unfamiliar rooms he described, follow the pressure on his family and coworkers, and trace the account through The Walton Experience, the film Fire in the Sky and his later interpretation of the beings he remembers. Brief original recordings bring Walton and witness Steve Pierce into the telling, alongside an early telephone report of the return.The final chapter returns to the records, the polygraph examinations and the changing witness statements. It weighs the proposed Gentry lookout-tower explanation and distinguishes established events from disputed accounts.Original source excerpts: Travis Walton on the Joe Rogan Experience (2021); National UFO Reporting Center telephone archive (1975); Steve Pierce interviewed on site by Ryan Gordon (2026). Selected research links:https://www.travis-walton.com/...https://www.travis-walton.com/...https://www.travis-walton.com/...https://www.travis-walton.com/...https://www.travis-walton.com/...https://www.travis-walton.com/...https://www.navajocountyaz.gov...https://www.debunker.com/histo...https://archive.org/details/Na...https://www.kjzz.org/text/the-...https://www.youtube.com/watch?...https://www.youtube.com/watch?...https://www.youtube.com/watch?...https://threedollarkit.weebly....https://www.apa.org/topics/cog...Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support.🎧 Unexplained History explores the myths, mysteries, and misunderstood moments that shaped our world. Hosted by Tom Mackenzie and Don Masterson. New episodes every week.Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — and uncover the stories history tried to forget.More at The Unexplained CompanyHistory, Mystery, True Crime, Conspiracy, Paranormal, CIA, Cold War, Ancient Aliens, Archaeology, Unsolved, Supernatural, Tom McKenzie, Audio Drama, Storytelling, Documentaries.This episode includes AI-generated content.
- 6 days ago47 min
The Beast: Aleister Crowley, Sex Magic and Death at the Abbey of Thelema | Part Two
A 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 days, Raoul Loveday will be dead. What happened inside Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema?The final chapter of our Halloween special follows Crowley's claimed revelation in Cairo, his public rites, his writings on sexual energy and will, and the community he established at Cefalu. Jane Wolfe, Leah Hirsig, Loveday and Betty May enter a story of spiritual ambition, drugs, illness and dependence. Surviving letters, Crowley's own accounts, the hostile press campaign and the later Hamnett libel proceedings reveal sharply different versions of life at the abbey.Our final segment asks what those records can support, what remains disputed, and why the human consequences matter after the legends are examined. A brief original Hilaritas Podcast interview excerpt features biographer Richard Kaczynski discussing how writers select the pieces of Crowley's life.Crowley's quotations are performed by a newly designed synthetic dramatic reader. These are attributed readings, not historical recordings of him. Other people's testimony has not been recreated.Selected sources and source audio:The Book of the Law: https://library.oto-usa.org/libri/liber0220.htmlLoveday to his parents, 11 February 1923: https://aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1923/1923-02-11-Loveday-to-Parents.htmLoveday to Betty May, 12 February 1923: https://aleistercrowleytimeline.com/Correspondence/1923/1923-02-12-Loveday-to-May.htmlRichard Kaczynski, Hilaritas Podcast episode 24: https://www.hilaritaspress.com/podcasts/richard-kaczynski-on-aleister-crowley-episode-24/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support.🎧 Unexplained History explores the myths, mysteries, and misunderstood moments that shaped our world. Hosted by Tom Mackenzie and Don Masterson. New episodes every week.Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — and uncover the stories history tried to forget.More at The Unexplained CompanyHistory, Mystery, True Crime, Conspiracy, Paranormal, CIA, Cold War, Ancient Aliens, Archaeology, Unsolved, Supernatural, Tom McKenzie, Audio Drama, Storytelling, Documentaries.This episode includes AI-generated content.
- 1 weeks ago48 min
The Beast: Aleister Crowley and Angels from the Abyss | Boleskine, Part One
A 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 Aleister Crowley before he became infamous, and what happened at Boleskine?Tom McKenzie and our narrator begin with Crowley's childhood, follow him through Cambridge and into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and examine the demanding operation he encountered in Mathers's translation of Abramelin. Mirrored rooms, a quarrel over occult authority and Crowley's own accounts of unexplained sounds lead into the house's enduring reputation. In the final segment, we return to the records to separate documented events from later legends.The fifth chapter of our six-part Halloween special opens a two-episode investigation of Crowley. Part Two follows his teaching to Sicily, the Abbey of Thelema and the death of Raoul Loveday.Crowley's quotations are performed by a newly designed synthetic dramatic reader. These are attributed readings of his writings, not historical recordings of him. The brief modern Boleskine source excerpt is from the Grimm Life Collective's 2023 site film.Selected sources and source audio:Crowley's 1929 autobiography: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.172571Mathers's 1898 Abramelin edition: https://sacred-texts.com/grim/abr/index.htmBoleskine House history: https://boleskinehouse.org/historyGrimm Life Collective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCIUHbN3KsABecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support.🎧 Unexplained History explores the myths, mysteries, and misunderstood moments that shaped our world. Hosted by Tom Mackenzie and Don Masterson. New episodes every week.Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — and uncover the stories history tried to forget.More at The Unexplained CompanyHistory, Mystery, True Crime, Conspiracy, Paranormal, CIA, Cold War, Ancient Aliens, Archaeology, Unsolved, Supernatural, Tom McKenzie, Audio Drama, Storytelling, Documentaries.This episode includes AI-generated content.
- 1 weeks ago50 min
The Devils of Loudun Part Two: The Exorcisms That Would Not End | Halloween Special 4 of 6
Urbain 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 treating into his own body.The fourth chapter of our Halloween special follows Jeanne des Anges through exorcism, reported sacred marks, a miraculous garment and a journey into royal circles. The final segment weighs the testimony, its later publication and the suffering that public declarations of victory did not end.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support.🎧 Unexplained History explores the myths, mysteries, and misunderstood moments that shaped our world. Hosted by Tom Mackenzie and Don Masterson. New episodes every week.Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — and uncover the stories history tried to forget.More at The Unexplained CompanyHistory, Mystery, True Crime, Conspiracy, Paranormal, CIA, Cold War, Ancient Aliens, Archaeology, Unsolved, Supernatural, Tom McKenzie, Audio Drama, Storytelling, Documentaries.This episode includes AI-generated content.
- 1 weeks ago52 min
The Devils of Loudun Part One: Terror Behind Convent Walls | Halloween Special 3 of 6
In seventeenth-century Loudun, reports of possession inside an Ursuline convent became a public confrontation between exorcists, magistrates and an accused priest. Urbain Grandier had survived one prosecution. The next would place alleged demonic testimony before a royal commission.The third episode of our six-part Halloween special follows the accusations, the tests, the alleged pacts and the execution. Its final segment examines how the evidence was gathered and why the story continued after the condemned man was dead.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support.🎧 Unexplained History explores the myths, mysteries, and misunderstood moments that shaped our world. Hosted by Tom Mackenzie and Don Masterson. New episodes every week.Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — and uncover the stories history tried to forget.More at The Unexplained CompanyHistory, Mystery, True Crime, Conspiracy, Paranormal, CIA, Cold War, Ancient Aliens, Archaeology, Unsolved, Supernatural, Tom McKenzie, Audio Drama, Storytelling, Documentaries.This episode includes AI-generated content.
- 2 weeks ago49 min
John Dee Part Two: What the Angels Demanded | Halloween Special 2 of 6
John Dee leaves England seeking divine knowledge. In continental Europe, his work with Edward Kelley brings him before rulers, draws religious scrutiny, and eventually produces an instruction that threatens the boundaries of both men's marriages.The second chapter of our six-episode Halloween special follows the surviving accounts through patronage, conflict and the demand Dee called a hard and impure doctrine. Its final segment assesses the records, the reported gold, and the limits of what we can know about the women asked to obey.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support.🎧 Unexplained History explores the myths, mysteries, and misunderstood moments that shaped our world. Hosted by Tom Mackenzie and Don Masterson. New episodes every week.Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — and uncover the stories history tried to forget.More at The Unexplained CompanyHistory, Mystery, True Crime, Conspiracy, Paranormal, CIA, Cold War, Ancient Aliens, Archaeology, Unsolved, Supernatural, Tom McKenzie, Audio Drama, Storytelling, Documentaries.This episode includes AI-generated content.
- 2 weeks ago51 min
John Dee Part One: The Voices in the Stone | Halloween Special 1 of 6
A 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, and instructions he believes come from angels.The first of our six Halloween episodes follows Dee's early experiments, the ritual apparatus built around them, and the voices that begin reaching into ordinary life. This first half of his story ends as Dee commits his household to a journey away from England. The final segment examines what the surviving evidence can establish.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support.🎧 Unexplained History explores the myths, mysteries, and misunderstood moments that shaped our world. Hosted by Tom Mackenzie and Don Masterson. New episodes every week.Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — and uncover the stories history tried to forget.More at The Unexplained CompanyHistory, Mystery, True Crime, Conspiracy, Paranormal, CIA, Cold War, Ancient Aliens, Archaeology, Unsolved, Supernatural, Tom McKenzie, Audio Drama, Storytelling, Documentaries.This episode includes AI-generated content.
- 2 weeks ago54 min
The Fighter Pilot Who Died Chasing a Giant Object
On 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 to investigate. Captain Thomas Mantell continued climbing after the other pilots turned back. His aircraft crashed near Franklin, Kentucky.This episode reconstructs the tower statements, follows the pursuit and accident investigation, and examines the Air Force's changing explanations. Contemporary documents and Edward Ruppelt's later investigation reveal how a fatal flight became one of the earliest defining cases in American UFO history.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support.🎧 Unexplained History explores the myths, mysteries, and misunderstood moments that shaped our world. Hosted by Tom Mackenzie and Don Masterson. New episodes every week.Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — and uncover the stories history tried to forget.More at The Unexplained CompanyHistory, Mystery, True Crime, Conspiracy, Paranormal, CIA, Cold War, Ancient Aliens, Archaeology, Unsolved, Supernatural, Tom McKenzie, Audio Drama, Storytelling, Documentaries.This episode includes AI-generated content.
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Unexplained History delivers unexplained events analysis and deep dives into the history of the unexplained. Join host Tom McKenzie 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
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