UNEXPLAINED PODCAST
iTunes Best of 2016, over 28 million downloads, #2 in US, UK and CAN Apple Podcasts chart.

Unexplained is a haunting and unsettling bi-weekly podcast about strange and mysterious real life events that continue to evade explanation.

A story-based show mixing spoken-word narrative, history and ideas - often to terrifying effect - that explores the space between what we think of as real and what is not; where sometimes belief can be as concrete as ‘reality,’ whatever that is…

We humans cling desperately to a sense of purpose. We have an almost pathological need to know and understand the why and wherefores. And nothing irks us more than a story with no end, a joke without a punchline, a jigsaw with a missing piece.

Perhaps we demand this meaning as a way of staving off our greatest fear - that maybe there isn't a why, or even worse, that the truth would just be too dull...

But sometimes, when something is inexplicable, that mystery in itself can become the story.  In many ways, it is often the lure of the mystery that keeps us coming back for more. And sometimes, it is when confronted with the unknown that our imaginations are at their most fertile.

Maybe, ultimately, some things are just better left unexpla

The Fountain Road Files

Introducing The Fountain Road Files, a new horror-fiction podcast from Unexplained creator Richard MacLean Smith.

In March 2020, 27-year-old Ben Williams began recording an audio diary of the growing coronavirus pandemic.

In May, he was found dead in mysterious circumstances after a series of strange goings-on in his London flat where he was spending lockdown alone, or so he thought...

More info at: www.thefountainroadfiles.com