Unexplained

Some say the MV Joyita was always cursed, others laughed it off. What is beyond dispute, is that on one hot day in October 1955 the ship and its 25 passengers and crew set sail on a routine journey from Samoa to the Tokelau islands.

And none of them were ever seen again. 

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith

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In the early hours of Tuesday 15th May 1979, 23-year-old David Booth awoke from a terrible dream, sweating profusely with tears in his eyes. In it, he watched as a silver American Airlines plane fell from the sky and crashed right in front of him.

Then he had the dream again. And again.

Soon he began to wonder, what if it wasn't just a dream?

Written by Richard MacLean Smith

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The second and final part of Season 09 Episode 4: To Each Man His Castle 

We return to the Florida scrubland as Edward Leedskalnin embarks on his strange solitary mission to build a vast megalithic dreamscape carved from oolite limestone.

Then the rumours begin; whispers of huge stones being moved about as if freed from gravity itself, and of a strange black box equipped with otherworldly powers...

Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith.

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In the winter of 1923, Edward Leedskalnin, a small, sickly man, stepped out of the Florida sun and onto a patch of coral bedrock, as though he had finally reached the end of a long and mysterious pilgrimage. 

In time, he would carve that ground into a place so strange and improbable that—if the whispers are to be believed—could only have been built with the aid of otherworldly powers...

Written by Neil McRobert and Richard MacLean Smith.

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Deep in Alaska, in the ghost town of Portlock, villagers once whispered of something colossal stalking the fog—an unseen presence that is said to have left shredded camps and vanished men in its wake. Decades later, the forest is silent, but the stories have never gone away...

Written by Diane Hope and Richard MacLean Smith

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