I’ve made a number of comics related to or directly influenced by the podcast @unexplained.bsky.social over the last 3 years. Paranormal comics are so fun to write and Richard’s work on Unexplained has been a huge inspiration. Read them all for free on my website: www.amoryabbott.com/illustration

Deep in Alaska, in the ghost town of Portlock, villagers once whispered of something stalking the fog – a presence said to have left shredded camps and vanished men in its wake. Decades later, the forest is silent, but the stories remain... pod.link/1078112813

When a young woman in a small New Zealand town begins to act strangely, her family becomes convinced that something evil has taken hold of her. What follows is a chilling descent into fear and faith... pod.link/1078112813

Weird review and poor take imo @theguardian.com The Predator was always much more than a senseless killing machine - unlike the xenomorph for example. Film might be awful for all I know but this seems like a totally valid and intriguing extension. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

And behind door #1? It's the brand new season of course... On Halloween 2001, a bright Penn State student returned home after a night out with friends. What happened soon after has haunted her friends, detectives, and an entire community ever since. tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

Behind door #2, getting close now... The author of the Necronomicon is said to have been devoured by invisible monsters in broad daylight. Watching the Necronomicon film alone at night when I was far too young, is perhaps the closest I've come to that terror. youtube.com/watch?v=rGxIJF3qwIs

Behind door #3 of our countdown to... Actually. You really don't want to open this door. Captured by the crew of the USCSS Maginot sometime corresponding to the earth year, 2120. I give you the Trypanohyncha Ocellus:

Behind door #4 of our countdown to Season 09: Step into the dark recesses of @gazelletwin.bsky.social's, and perhaps all our psyche's... This was the dream... youtube.com/watch?v=d4XSWxh56zc

Behind door #5 of our countdown to Season 09: Come heeere chiiickeeeennn!!!! Who needs gratuitous gore-fests, banned under public obscenity orders, when you've got the Wheelers... If you know, you know. If you don't, then you do now... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MLVfQOknYM

Behind door #6 of our countdown to S09, quite possibly one of the most exquisite music videos ever made. The most beautiful depiction of dread and darkness you're ever likely to see. It's Unkle's Eye For An Eye video, created by Shynola youtube.com/watch?v=yH4VFu7BQSg

Behind door #7 in our countdown to Season 09... Bamberg, Germany, witnessed some of the most brutal efforts to route out 'witches' in the 17th Century. Here is a list of "devices routinely employed in extracting confessions." (From Russell Hope Robbins' Encyclopedia of WITCHCRAFT and DEMONOLOGY)

Our final journey into the archive takes us to the remote Bavarian countryside in 1922, to a lonely farmstead and the family who lived there, where something unspeakable is about to unfold. tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

Lurking inside door #8 in our countdown to Season 09, and soon to be popping up in your darkest nightmares, it's the Night Creeper... From the 1973 painting 'Untitled' by the inimitable Zdzisław Beksiński.

And behind door #9 in our countdown to Season 09... It's Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell Trilogy Gratuitous gore✅ Vibes over plot✅ The synth-funk-melodramatic genius of Fabio Frizzi✅ Seized under Section 2 of the Obscene Publications Act✅ What more could you want? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE-8...

Behind door number 10 on our countdown to the new season, a few words from our new host... www.tiktok.com/@unexplained...

Opening door number 11 on our countdown to Unexplained Season 09... Stuck for Halloween costume ideas? Why not try one of these fetching little numbers?

Behind door number 12 on our countdown to Season 09, we find the vodník, just lying in wait for the next unsuspecting poor soul that happens to swim too close…

With Season 9 of Unexplained (and Halloween) arriving in 12 days, here's a spooky countdown to help fill the time. In at number 13. Something gentle to ease us in. It's Arthur's Jekyll and Hyde song... www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcFU...

This week’s rerun takes us to what for some were the unknown shores of a mysterious New World. It is the late 16th century on a remote island off the coast of what would one day become North Carolina, soon to be home to one of history’s most enduring mysteries... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

This week's rerun takes us to Egypt's Valley of the Kings in 1922, where years of painstaking excavation were about to yield one of archaeology's greatest discoveries. But at what price?... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

@talkscaredpod.bsky.social Happy Birthday and publication day! 🥳

I feel very spoilt to have Neil (@talkingscaredpod.bsky.social) on the Unexplained team - every episode he's contributed is a doozy. This is his debut novella, and it sounds fantastic. But don't take my word for it, take Stephen King's... Out today - go buy it!

Anyone without kids watching Bring Her Back: Dear god, what the hell is this monstrous witch doing?!?! Parents watching: No, yeah, I totally get that youtu.be/kBskrYZfhw8

This week's rerun takes us back to the forests of Arizona in November 1975, where a crew of loggers were finishing another hard day's work in the wilderness. But when the crew returned home that night, one of them was missing... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

Unexplained mysteries, eerie tales, and the unknown. Unexplained will keep you up at night. 👀🌑 findthatpod.com/unexplained-... @unexplained.bsky.social‬

In the 1950s, two separate incidents in Britain left ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell. One woman claimed to witness scenes from another age. While, three young cadets insisted they stumbled into a world that seemed frozen in time... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

This week's Rerun takes us back to a windswept island off the coast of Nova Scotia in Canada, where in the summer of 1795, three young men made a discovery that would haunt generations to come... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

Perhaps the most disturbing story I’ve covered on Unexplained. Back in the 1970s, in the quiet town of Ossett, an ordinary family is drawn into a world that is anything but when unsettling visions begin to erode one man’s fragile sense of normality... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

Our final episode of Season 08! In the heat of a Bulgarian summer, a young German tourist stumbled into an airport medical clinic, bruised, panicked, and convinced he was being hunted. What happened next remains one of Europe's most unsettling modern-day mysteries... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

There's nothing worse as a writer when you spend so much time slavishly trying to apply all the DOS & DON'TS! you've ever been taught or read about, only to read something massively successful that repeats the word house four times in the first six lines. (Goosebumps, Book 1...)

👻🕵️‍♂️ Unexplained’s best episodes are perfect for mystery lovers and skeptics alike! Check them out ➡️ findthatpod.com/best-episode... @unexplained.bsky.social‬

In 1903 something paid a visit to the quiet American town of Van Meter in Iowa, terrorising its citizens over the course of one very strange week. Its brief presence would mark the town forever... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

In 1903 something paid a visit to the quiet American town of Van Meter in Iowa, terrorising its citiznes over the course of one very strange week. Its brief presence would mark the town forever... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

Something a little different this week... In a first for Unexplained, we hear a first hand account of strange and terrifying events said by one family to have taken place in their home in Christchurch, England, back in 1997... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

In the summer of 1963, three miners were trapped by a cave-in for days on end with no food or light. Some say it was a miracle that any of them survived at all. Others, that the true miracle was what they apparently experienced while they were down there... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

I'm so excited to be part of CRIMEWAVE Come and join, if you dare! Yes, that's a True-Crime podcast festival, on a cruise through the Bermuda triangle... Nov 3-7 Use the Unexplained link to sign-up: crimewaveatsea.com/unexplained Tickets selling out fast! crimewaveatsea.com

They called it the most inescapable prison in the United States - a cold, isolated fortress surrounded by frigid waters and razor currents. Alcatraz. But in '62, that reputation was obliterated in one of the most audacious prison breaks of all time. Or was it... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au... @theguardian.com Big fan of Adam Curtis and Ari Aster but it's hard to square today's apparent malaise as being down to a lack of compelling stories. It feels more to do with the fact we actually just have far more vociferous and visibly competing stories 1/6

In 1972, a group of schoolboys in Kera, Japan, claimed to have encountered a tiny silver UFO—and even captured it, twice. What followed was a bizarre tale of vanishing evidence, strange lights, and one of the most overlooked close encounters in UFO history. tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

In 1855, strange hoof-like prints appeared overnight in the snow across Devon, England - stretching for over 100 miles over rooftops, rivers and walls as if no obstacle mattered. Locals said only one being could leave such a trail; the Devil himself... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

An endless cerulean sky, a gorgeous sunset, an idiot in shorts - why, it’s the birthplace of the Gothic of course… The Castle of Otranto!

In 1953, two U.S. Air Force personnel vanished while intercepting a mysterious radar target over Lake Superior. Decades later the truth behind First Lieutenant Felix Moncla Jnr. and Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson's final flight is as cloudy as ever... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

Early on the morning of July 28th, 1987, a rescue helicopter was dispatched to the passenger ferry MS Viking Sally, out on the Baltic Sea. When the medic stepped onto deck, he realized immediately that this emergency was very much out of the ordinary... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

Left alone, the only surviving member of Lyudmila's hiking team, Valentina begins the long arduous trek to safety - while the spectre of death haunts her every move.... But what an earth could possibly have wreaked such havoc? tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

This week's ep is a real doozy In 1993, rafters paddling through the Siberian wilderness came across a teenage girl caked in mud and blood. Too traumatised to speak, when she finally found her voice she said only five words, "They're dead. They're all dead..." tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

In the shadows of Manchester’s canals and waterways some believe something ancient and malevolent might be lurking. This week on Unexplained, we plunge into eerie folklore, mysterious drownings, and chilling whispers of a phantom predator said to haunt the waters... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

When I got my first job as a runner at a small production company, Danny Boyle came in once and feeling unusually brave I emailed him after he left. I said I wanted to be a director and asked if he had any advice for me. He emailed pretty much straight back and said he was editing something 1/4

I've voted for @unexplained.bsky.social in the #BritishPodcastAwards Listeners' Choice Award. www.britishpodcastaward s.com/voting #Unexplained #RichardMacLeanSmith

Three women vanish without trace from a quiet suburban home in the early hours of a summer morning in 1992. What began as a hopeful graduation weekend in Springfield, MO, spiraled into one of the most chilling and perplexing missing persons cases in US history. tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc

We're heading back into the vault for one more week. There are some who say the trees can talk. If they could, what secrets might they hold? This is Unexplained Season 2 Episode 01: Whispers in the Trees, in full for the first time... tinyurl.com/4y9w44fc