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.
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Daniel Mercer comes home from a leadership conference with a bruised eye and an unsettling new manner. He remembers his wedding, his wife's birthday and the number of their honeymoon flight. Lena has never felt less certain of who she's living with.
Conrad, Eddie and Roxie follow the conference's medical assessments into a clinical programme with ties to the Brotherhood. The people behind it want access to more than their patients' memories. When Roxie disappears, Conrad and Eddie must find her before the next procedure begins.
Behind the Eyes is the fourth Blackwood Institute case: a full-cast horror audio drama that turns the Vril conspiracy into a story of stolen bodies, compromised trust and the fear of watching your own hands obey someone else.
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Original fictional audio drama. A Smoking Man Studios and The Unexplained Company production.
Content notes: strong language, coercion and loss of bodily control, invasive medical procedures, abduction and physical restraint.
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30 Oct 2026
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.
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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.
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23 Oct 2026
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.
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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.
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