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Unexplained

Richard MacLean Smith

True stories of things that cannot be explained.

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  1. 1. Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 1 of 3) · 3 Jul 2026
  2. 2. Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 2 of 3) · 10 Jul 2026
  3. 3. Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 3 of 3) · 17 Jul 2026
  • Season 09 Episode 30: Come, Hear What We Have to Say (Pt.1 of 2)

    7 Aug 2026 · 29 min

    In the waning years of the twentieth century, a group of researchers decided to finally tackle the great enigma. Namely, does life... do we… ever really end? This is the extraordinary story of the Scole Experiment Group. Written by Neil McRobert and Ric

  • Season 09 Episode 29: The Howling Woods

    31 Jul 2026 · 37 min

    Dog-headed men haunted the fringes of the entire ancient world. With time, these stories have steadily dissolved into folklore, and the world moved on from such tall tales. However, there does remain one corner of the modern world in which the dogman has not y

  • Season 09 Episode 28: Laughter Cracking Through the Walls

    24 Jul 2026 · 31 min

    A mysterious cipher manuscript. Correspondence from an enigmatic figure in Germany. And countless claims from some of the most erudite personalities of the day, that the magic actually worked... This is the strange story of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Daw

  • Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 3 of 3)

    17 Jul 2026 · 45 min

    In the third and final part of Unexplained Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery, Ted Binion is dead. What seems like a fairly uncontroversial drug overdose soon becomes something a little murkier... But just how much did Sandy Murphy an

  • Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 2 of 3)

    10 Jul 2026 · 33 min

    In Part 2 of Unexplained Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery, we dig deeper into the controversial and complicated nature of Ted Binion's life. Meanwhile, on a night out at the famous Piero's restaurant, Ted and Sandy meet a man named

  • Season 09 Episode 27: Death in Vegas, the Ted Binion Mystery (Pt. 1 of 3)

    3 Jul 2026 · 35 min

    One night in September 1998, three men dug up a vault load of silver from a vacant lot in Pahrump, Nevada. The only problem was, the silver wasn't theirs to take. And so begins one of the wildest stories ever to come out of Vegas, of love, betrayal and maybe,

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The anthology of dread

A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.

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