To some, folk beliefs are little more than the harmless superstitions of a bygone age.

For others, such beliefs and practices are something to be deeply feared as nothing less than the work of the Devil…

Written by Richard MacLean Smith, James Conor Patterson and Emma Dibdin.

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In 1925, experienced mountaineer and man of science Prof. John Norman Collie gave a lecture to a climbing club in the Scottish Highlands.

Concluding his talk, Collie told his stunned audience that he believed there was something very strange stalking the highest peak of the local Cairngorm's mountain range. Something that had so frightened him, he would never go back there again...

Written by Diane Hope and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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Sometime in the mid 1930s, a young budding bluesman appeared on the scene, suddenly possessed of a talent for playing the guitar, which he’d never shown before.

Over time a strange rumour began to spread, that the young man hadn't achieved his talent all on his own...

Written by James Conor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith.

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The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 09: The Uninvited

After years appearing to endure a series of increasingly bizarre and terrifying paranormal occurrences in their home, the Smurl family finally decide to call in some real help.

Enter Lorraine and Ed Warren, perhaps the world's most famous paranormal investigators...

Written by Neil McRobert and produced Richard MacLean Smith.

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What if you invested so much in a new home that you were forced to stay, even once you realised that you might not be the only inhabitants?

And what if those other, most unwelcome housemates proved to be more frightening than anything you could possibly imagine?

Written by Neil McRobert and produced Richard MacLean Smith.

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It's almost inconceivable that, with the advancement of technology and the normalisation of surveillance, someone could suddenly appear in a well-populated town with no trace of who they are or where they came from.

And yet, that’s exactly what happened in 2009, during one strange summer in a picturesque seaside town in the west of Ireland…

Written by James Conor Patterson and Richard MacLean Smith

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With unexplained on a short break for the holiday season we’ll be dipping back into the archive for one more week.

In this week’s episode we return to Bennington, Vermont, where between 1945–1950, four people vanished without trace in an area dubbed the Bennington Triangle, so called, because of the many strange and weird occurrences said to have taken place there.

In 1946, 18-year-old Paula Jean Weldon became the second of those four people to disappear, in a case one investigator described as the most baffling he ever came across.

Written by Richard MacLean Smith

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With unexplained on a short break for the holiday season we’ll be dipping back into the archive for the next two weeks.

On Friday January 23rd 1959, a story begins from out of the foothills of the Ural Mountains.

A story that is perhaps the most extraordinary of all the stories ever featured on the show.

Some call it the Dyatlov Pass Incident.

You might know it as Unexplained Season 2 Episode 4, When The Snow Melts...

Written by Richard MacLean Smith

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