<b>Unexplained History delivers unexplained events analysis and deep dives into the history of the unexplained. </b><br /><br /><b>Join host Tom McKenzie</b> weekly as we uncover the secrets behind history’s greatest cold cases and cover-ups. If you’re fascinated by true crime, ancient mysteries, paranormal activity, and government conspiracies, this podcast is for you.<br /><br />Each episode creates a gripping audio landscape exploring events that defy explanation — from baffling disappearances and cryptid sightings to the dark realities of the Cold War and the occult.<br /><br /><b>The Team</b><br /><ul><li>Narrative & Direction: Rob Davenport</li><li>Lead Researcher: Mike Sherwin</li><li>Sound Design & Score: Smoking Man Studios</li></ul><br /><br />New episodes drop every Tuesday. Listen in — and decide what you believe.<br /><br />Visit us: <a href="https://www.unexplained.co" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.unexplained.co</a><br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support</a>.
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<b>Unexplained History delivers unexplained events analysis and deep dives into the history of the unexplained. </b><br /><br /><b>Join host Tom McKenzie</b> weekly as we uncover the secrets behind history’s greatest cold cases and cover-ups. If you’re fascinated by true crime, ancient mysteries, paranormal activity, and government conspiracies, this podcast is for you.<br /><br />Each episode creates a gripping audio landscape exploring events that defy explanation — from baffling disappearances and cryptid sightings to the dark realities of the Cold War and the occult.<br /><br /><b>The Team</b><br /><ul><li>Narrative & Direction: Rob Davenport</li><li>Lead Researcher: Mike Sherwin</li><li>Sound Design & Score: Smoking Man Studios</li></ul><br /><br />New episodes drop every Tuesday. Listen in — and decide what you believe.<br /><br />Visit us: <a href="https://www.unexplained.co" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.unexplained.co</a><br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support</a>.
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Recent Episodes
June 24, 2026
America’s First UFO Panic: The Mystery Airships Before Roswell
Before Roswell, before flying saucers, and even before the Wright brothers, Americans were already looking up at the night sky and reporting strange craft, glowing lights, secret pilots, impossible machines, and visitors from Mars.<br /><br />In this episode of Unexplained History, we investigate the mysterious airship wave of 1896 and 1897 — a forgotten panic that swept from California to Texas through newspapers, rumors, eyewitness accounts, and small-town legend. From the glowing lights over Sacramento to the bizarre Aurora, Texas crash story of a dead “Martian” pilot buried in a local cemetery, this is the story of how America learned to turn strange lights in the sky into a mystery about technology, secrecy, and the future.<br /><br />Was there really a hidden inventor flying across the country before powered flight officially existed? Was Aurora an early UFO crash case? Or was the entire panic powered by newspaper sensationalism, tall tales, and a country desperate to glimpse tomorrow?<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support</a>.<br /><br />🎧 Unexplained History explores the myths, mysteries, and misunderstood moments that shaped our world. Hosted by Tom Mackenzie and Don Masterson. New episodes every week.<br />Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — and uncover the stories history tried to forget.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.unexplained.co" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">More at The Unexplained Company</a><br /><br />History, Mystery, True Crime, Conspiracy, Paranormal, CIA, Cold War, Ancient Aliens, Archaeology, Unsolved, Supernatural, Tom McKenzie, Audio Drama, Storytelling, Documentaries.
June 9, 2026
The Dogon Sirius Mystery: Ancient Star Knowledge or Modern Myth?
For decades, one astonishing claim has haunted the world of ancient mysteries: the Dogon people of Mali supposedly knew about Sirius B — a tiny, dense companion star invisible to the naked eye — before modern astronomy could explain it. <br />Was this sacred knowledge preserved through ancient tradition? Evidence of visitors from the stars? Or did a complex Dogon cosmology become transformed through translation, colonial fieldwork, and the ancient-astronaut boom of the 1970s? <br /><br />In this episode of Unexplained History, we follow the trail from the cliffs of Mali to nineteenth-century observatories, French anthropologists’ notebooks, Robert Temple’s The Sirius Mystery, and the deeper question behind the legend: what happens when a living tradition is turned into proof for someone else’s theory?<br /><br />The Dogon Sirius story may not reveal alien contact — but it does reveal something just as strange about belief, wonder, and the mysteries we bring with us when we look up at the stars.<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support</a>.<br /><br />🎧 Unexplained History explores the myths, mysteries, and misunderstood moments that shaped our world. Hosted by Tom Mackenzie and Don Masterson. New episodes every week.<br />Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — and uncover the stories history tried to forget.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.unexplained.co" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">More at The Unexplained Company</a><br /><br />History, Mystery, True Crime, Conspiracy, Paranormal, CIA, Cold War, Ancient Aliens, Archaeology, Unsolved, Supernatural, Tom McKenzie, Audio Drama, Storytelling, Documentaries.<br /><br />This episode includes AI-generated content.
June 4, 2026
The Betz Sphere: The Metal Ball That Moved on Its Own
In 1974, a Florida family discovered a polished steel sphere in the burned grass near their Fort George Island home. It was heavy, seamless, strangely balanced, and according to the Betz family, it seemed to move on its own, respond to music, and behave as if something inside it was alive.<br /><br />Soon, the mysterious object attracted newspaper attention, a U.S. Navy inspection, UFO researchers, and speculation that it might be alien technology, military hardware, or a device from somewhere far stranger. But as the claims were tested and the source trail widened, the Betz sphere began to look less like a message from another world — and more like an industrial object with one of the strangest accidental journeys in unexplained history.<br /><br />In this episode of Unexplained History, we investigate the Betz mystery sphere, the UFO fever surrounding it, the Navy’s findings, the ball check valve explanation, and the bizarre Volkswagen bus story that may finally explain how a metal ball became one of America’s strangest artifact legends.<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unexplained-history--6429156/support</a>.<br /><br />🎧 Unexplained History explores the myths, mysteries, and misunderstood moments that shaped our world. Hosted by Tom Mackenzie and Don Masterson. New episodes every week.<br />Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen — and uncover the stories history tried to forget.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.unexplained.co" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">More at The Unexplained Company</a><br /><br />History, Mystery, True Crime, Conspiracy, Paranormal, CIA, Cold War, Ancient Aliens, Archaeology, Unsolved, Supernatural, Tom McKenzie, Audio Drama, Storytelling, Documentaries.<br /><br />This episode includes AI-generated content.
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