Strange Tales of the Unexplained

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Strange Tales of the Unexplained is a full-cast horror audio drama following the Blackwood Institute for Paranormal Investigations. Original supernatural fiction, cinematic sound design and the atmosphere of classic radio drama bring each dangerous case to life. Conrad Blackwood knows the occult. Eddie Szabo can uncover disturbing memories by touching objects. Roxanne “Roxie” Boudreau keeps the team focused on the people who need saving. Together, they investigate hauntings, predatory creatures, dangerous rituals and paranormal encounters that the authorities refuse to believe. The supernatural is real. So is The Brotherhood, a secret organization working against Blackwood. As the investigators confront ghosts, vampires, curses and occult conspiracies, every discovery carries a cost—and closing a case does not undo the damage. Each Blackwood episode follows one complete investigation through three connected chapters, while the team's relationships and its conflict with The Brotherhood continue across cases. Start with The Rookery | Blackwood Case 01. Presented and narrated by Flynn Davidson. New episodes every Friday at 10 AM Mountain Time. Produced by The Unexplained Company. These stories are fiction and use AI-generated writing and voices. For mature listeners: supernatural horror, strong language and adult humour. Earlier episodes retain the show's original anthology format. Listen and explore the show: https://www.unexplained.co/listen Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.

  1. 1d ago

    Fourteen Days until the Apocalypse | Blackwood Case 03

    Three luminous visitors tell Donavan Hale the world will end in fourteen days. By night twelve, his wife is calling the Blackwood Institute. Donavan says the visitors have chosen him to prevent a catastrophe. Claire hears unfamiliar voices behind his workshop door. Tools rise from the bench, and an unplugged receiver begins to speak. Conrad Blackwood, Eddie Szabo and Roxie Boudreau follow the warning from the Hale family's garden to an old observatory. With the deadline approaching, they have to discover what the visitors actually want—and what happens if Donavan follows their instructions. Fourteen Days until the Apocalypse is the third Blackwood Institute investigation from Strange Tales of the Unexplained: a complete full-cast supernatural horror story within a continuing series. From The Unexplained Company. Explore our website: https://www.unexplained.co Get the app: https://www.unexplained.app Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, and anywhere you listen to podcasts. Original fictional audio drama with AI-assisted character voices, narration, sound effects, transition score and artwork. Opening theme supplied by the producer. Content notes: strong language, supernatural threat, coercion, frightening voices, injury and family distress. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support. This episode includes AI-generated content.

    Fourteen Days until the Apocalypse | Blackwood Case 03

  2. Oct 23

    The Last Service | Blackwood Case 02

    Nessa Pike calls from inside a coffin. Someone has fastened the catches, and the first soil is striking the lid. Earlier that day, a bereavement retreat brought Conrad, Eddie and Roxie to a family home, an abandoned chapel and the grounds of Merefield House. A brass bell offers the grieving one last conversation with the dead. What it takes in return becomes a race to understand the ritual before another guest disappears into it. Three weeks after The Rookery, the Blackwood Institute follows a new trail through the Brotherhood's experiments. A full-cast occult horror drama with a complete case and a continuing conspiracy. From The Unexplained Company. Explore our website: https://www.unexplained.co Get the app: https://www.unexplained.app Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform for the next Blackwood investigation. Original fictional audio drama with AI-assisted character voices, narration, sound effects, transition score and cover art. Opening theme supplied by the producer. Content notes: burial alive and claustrophobia, bereavement and manipulation, possession and coercion, fire and physical restraint. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support. This episode includes AI-generated content.

    The Last Service | Blackwood Case 02

  3. Oct 22

    The Rookery | Blackwood Case 01

    A missing electrician leads Conrad Blackwood, Eddie Szabo and Roxie Boudreau to a shuttered guesthouse before dawn. Inside, two more people are trapped with something that should not exist. As the team searches for a way out, the evidence points to someone who intended the house to stay occupied. The first Blackwood Institute case: a full-cast supernatural horror drama with a complete investigation and the first traces of the Brotherhood. From The Unexplained Company. Explore our website: https://www.unexplained.co Get the app: https://www.unexplained.app Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform for the next Blackwood investigation. Original fictional audio drama with AI-assisted character voices, narration, sound effects, transition score and cover art. Opening theme supplied by the producer. Content notes: vampire violence and threat, abduction and confinement, injury, fire. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support. This episode includes AI-generated content.

    The Rookery | Blackwood Case 01

  4. Oct 17

    When Ordinary Things Turn Hostile

    When the familiar turns predatory, even the safest places become evidence. In this episode of Strange Tales of the Unexplained, a sun-drenched backyard, a remote Alaska hotel, a corrupt translator, and a childhood game all reveal the same dark truth: ordinary routines can be weaponized by something patient, hidden, and wrong. At the center is My Family Has Been Sunbathing for 10 Hours Straight, a devastating story about a boy with xeroderma pigmentosum who wakes to find his family seated in the yard, facing the sun as if answering a command. From there, the unease deepens in an isolated hotel in Alaska, where Room Forty-Four should not exist and a cold presence waits in the bathtub. Elsewhere, a mistranslated greeting on House Ostrel becomes a political and personal catastrophe, and a restored record reveals how systems can erase a life with perfect paperwork. Then comes The Pretty Boy Game, where a tape, a closet, and a warped machine sound collide in a memory that refuses to stay buried. These are stories about trust breaking at the edges of home, language, technology, and ritual. By the end, you may never look at sunlight, key tags, or a simple mechanical noise the same way again. Sources: My Family Has Been Sunbathing for 10 Hours Straight - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1x60o0n/my_family_has_been_sunbathing_for_10_hours/ I was an overnight receptionist at a remote hotel in Alaska. Our guests weren’t normal. - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1x5epbf/i_was_an_overnight_receptionist_at_a_remote_hotel/ What She Was Worth - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1x5nchs/what_she_was_worth/ Didn't Bring Any. - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1wzzl5s/didnt_bring_any/ The Pretty Boy Game - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1wk3vkm/the_pretty_boy_game/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support. This episode includes AI-generated content.

    When Ordinary Things Turn Hostile

  5. Oct 15

    Pressed Doors, Red Buttons, and Other Impossible Traps

    When ordinary places start enforcing hidden rules, the result is not just fear — it is a trap. In this episode of Strange Tales of the Unexplained, a wedding chapel seals itself around the single guests, a backyard excavation reveals a rusted figure with a familiar face, an apartment building quietly erases a bedroom, a child’s invisible weight becomes physically crushing, and a red button aboard the battlecruiser Caliban seems to choose its own consequences. These stories move through domestic spaces, haunted geometry, and rule-bound dread with escalating precision: a chapel in Pruitt County, a buried shape beneath fresh soil, a residential survey that asks which room you use the least, a pediatric clinic where pressure settles over a body with no medical explanation, and a quarantined ship where button events bend space, time, and reality itself. Each tale turns an everyday decision into a point of no return, where the smallest choice can claim far more than expected. If you’re drawn to paranormal horror, eerie true-story style encounters, cursed spaces, and impossible machinery, this episode is built for you. By the end, the warning is unmistakable: some doors should stay closed, some questions should never be answered, and some buttons exist for a reason. Sources: If you were also at a wedding this weekend, please reach out to me - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1x4ej91/if_you_were_also_at_a_wedding_this_weekend_please/ Contractors keep refusing to dig in my backyard without explanation - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1x4i2ll/contractors_keep_refusing_to_dig_in_my_backyard/ My apartment building asked which room I use the least. I shouldn't have answered. - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1x2mf4t/my_apartment_building_asked_which_room_i_use_the/ Does anyone else notice that the air has gotten heavier? - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1x2036u/does_anyone_else_notice_that_the_air_has_gotten/ Why You Should NEVER Press The Big red Button - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1wmmv3z/why_you_should_never_press_the_big_red_button/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support. This episode includes AI-generated content.

    Pressed Doors, Red Buttons, and Other Impossible Traps

  6. Oct 13

    The Boy Who Came to the Birthday Party

    A birthday party can be lonely enough when nobody shows up. But in this episode of Strange Tales of the Unexplained, an empty backyard, a child’s drawing, and a blond boy named Noah turn a simple act of kindness into something far stranger than grief. From a haunting birthday-party visitation to a private psychiatric facility still using a 1930s handbook, these stories move through forgotten records, institutional cruelty, and the uneasy sense that some places keep their own rules long after the world has moved on. Then the strange widens: a human child’s compassion becomes a hazard aboard a station full of alien complaints, and a deep-sea research team finds something in the black water that should not exist. Every story circles the same dark question—what happens when you answer the knock, follow the evidence, or reach for the thing that needs help? A crayon drawing, a brass key, a maintenance hatch in the dark, a white shape in the deep ocean—this is an episode about mercy, memory, and the cost of looking closer. Some guests arrive through the front door. Others never needed one at all. Sources: Only One Kid Showed Up to My Son’s Birthday Party. - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1x1qck9/only_one_kid_showed_up_to_my_sons_birthday_party/ I got a nursing job at a private psychiatric facility. They’re still using the 1930s handbook. - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1wyo7ln/i_got_a_nursing_job_at_a_private_psychiatric/ Humanity Has Been Reported - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1x3ht5m/humanity_has_been_reported/ A Minor Correction - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1x20qdy/a_minor_correction/ I'm a deep sea researcher. My team discovered something that isn't supposed to exist. - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1x0c7tl/im_a_deep_sea_researcher_my_team_discovered/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support. This episode includes AI-generated content.

    The Boy Who Came to the Birthday Party

  7. Oct 10

    Neighbors, Babysitters, Ghosts, and Records

    A quiet neighborhood, a child’s bedroom, a house everyone swore was haunted, and a buried archive of the past all begin with the same dangerous assumption: that ordinary places are safe because they look familiar. In this episode of Strange Tales of the Unexplained, a seemingly friendly neighbor’s favor turns into a police warning, a new babysitter sends a photograph from inside a child’s room, a town’s most feared haunted house reveals a truth far more human than folklore, and a surviving witness follows the trail of a hidden record into the heart of the Conservatory. These stories move through suburban dread, paranormal encounters, spirit-box voices, secret graves, a mysterious girl named Jaine, a drifting alien ship, and the kinds of buried facts people build entire lives around forgetting. Listen closely as each story strips away another layer of trust, revealing what can live behind a locked door, beneath a lawn, or inside a record no one bothered to retrieve. By the end, the question is not whether these places are haunted, but what else has been waiting there the whole time. Sources: My neighbor asked me to watch his house for a week. The police told me to lock myself inside mine. That almost killed me. - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1x0r6ad/my_neighbor_asked_me_to_watch_his_house_for_a/ We Hired a New Babysitter. She has Been Sending us Disturbing Messages. - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1wzvoie/we_hired_a_new_babysitter_she_has_been_sending_us/ There’s a house so haunted in my town no one can survive longer than five minutes alone inside… I am its only survivor. - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1wzleo8/theres_a_house_so_haunted_in_my_town_no_one_can/ We Found You - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1wfgqdm/we_found_you/ Best HFY series of all time? - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1wp28g0/best_hfy_series_of_all_time/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support. This episode includes AI-generated content.

    Neighbors, Babysitters, Ghosts, and Records

  8. Oct 3

    When Your Own Voice Calls Back

    Tonight’s episode begins with a rule meant to keep a child alive: never answer your own voice when it comes from the wrong place. What starts as an intimate housebound terror in a quiet upstairs bedroom turns into something far older and more invasive, a presence that can borrow memory, speech, and movement until the boundary between self and threat starts to collapse. From there, Strange Tales of the Unexplained widens into a nightmare of impossible human instinct and cosmic consequence: a Federation council chamber where Terrans are judged for what they might become, a cargo spine haunted by a dead captain’s black notebook, a station counter where a frightened traveler insists a human is trapped behind the door, and a Titan reenactment that abruptly becomes a real battle when a hidden warship wakes inside an asteroid. Across all five stories, the same dread threads through the dark — the terror of being recognized, imitated, answered, or refused when it matters most. If these are the kinds of stories that stay with you after the lights go out, this one goes deepest where trust is supposed to live. And once a voice from below knows how to call you, the question is no longer whether you can hear it — it is whether you can resist answering. Sources: When I was eight, my mother told me never to answer myself. - https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/1wu46eq/when_i_was_eight_my_mother_told_me_never_to/ Why we should fear the Terrans - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1wosjja/why_we_should_fear_the_terrans/ Heritage - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1wgfvnd/heritage/ Welcome to Human space - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1wtrsi6/welcome_to_human_space/ Laser tag - https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/1wngaj5/laser_tag/ Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support. This episode includes AI-generated content.

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Strange Tales of the Unexplained is a full-cast horror audio drama following the Blackwood Institute for Paranormal Investigations. Original supernatural fiction, cinematic sound design and the atmosphere of classic radio drama bring each dangerous case to life. Conrad Blackwood knows the occult. Eddie Szabo can uncover disturbing memories by touching objects. Roxanne “Roxie” Boudreau keeps the team focused on the people who need saving. Together, they investigate hauntings, predatory creatures, dangerous rituals and paranormal encounters that the authorities refuse to believe. The supernatural is real. So is The Brotherhood, a secret organization working against Blackwood. As the investigators confront ghosts, vampires, curses and occult conspiracies, every discovery carries a cost—and closing a case does not undo the damage. Each Blackwood episode follows one complete investigation through three connected chapters, while the team's relationships and its conflict with The Brotherhood continue across cases. Start with The Rookery | Blackwood Case 01. Presented and narrated by Flynn Davidson. New episodes every Friday at 10 AM Mountain Time. Produced by The Unexplained Company. These stories are fiction and use AI-generated writing and voices. For mature listeners: supernatural horror, strong language and adult humour. Earlier episodes retain the show's original anthology format. Listen and explore the show: https://www.unexplained.co/listen Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/strange-tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.

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