Tales of the Unexplained

Jenny has listened to Lewis Jones since she was seventeen. Now she and her best friend Amby work the evening shift with his late-night show on the radio. They know his voice, his favourite pub and the conspiracies that keep him talking long after midnight.Then Amby goes missing after a meet-and-greet. Jenny's calls are blocked. The police take a report. When she confronts Lewis outside his studio, something moves beneath his skin.Conrad Blackwood takes the case, with Eddie, Roxie and Jenny following a trail from the local pub to the rooms beneath The Fangs nightclub. Other women have disappeared around Lewis. His devoted listeners keep defending him. And buried beneath the familiar voice is something the team needs to hear clearly before they go any further.After Hours is the fifth Blackwood Institute case: a full-cast supernatural horror drama about a trusted voice, a missing friend and the people who keep listening.A Smoking Man Studios production. Presented and narrated by Flynn Davidson.Explore our stories: https://smokingman.studioSubscribe on your favourite podcast platform for the next Blackwood investigation.Original fictional audio drama with AI-assisted writing, character voices, narration, sound effects, background score and cover art. Opening theme supplied by the producer. Characters, organizations and events in this story are fictional.Content notes: strong language and adult humour; abduction, captivity and threats to women; demonic possession; graphic sewage-related body horror; drug references; coercion and occult ritual peril. For mature listeners.An episode of Tales of the Unexplained.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.Explore more from Smoking Man Studios.This episode includes AI-generated content.

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.From Smoking Man Studios. Explore our website: https://smokingman.studioSubscribe on your favourite podcast platform for the next Blackwood investigation.Original fictional audio drama. A Smoking Man Studios production.Content notes: strong language, coercion and loss of bodily control, invasive medical procedures, abduction and physical restraint.An episode of Tales of the Unexplained.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.Explore more from Smoking Man Studios.This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 Tales of the Unexplained: a complete full-cast supernatural horror story within a continuing series.From Smoking Man Studios.Explore our website: https://smokingman.studioListen 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/tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.Explore more from Smoking Man Studios.This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 Smoking Man Studios. Explore our website: https://smokingman.studioSubscribe 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.An episode of Tales of the Unexplained.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.Explore more from Smoking Man Studios.This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 Smoking Man Studios. Explore our website: https://smokingman.studioSubscribe 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.An episode of Tales of the Unexplained.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.Explore more from Smoking Man Studios.This episode includes AI-generated content.

When the familiar turns predatory, even the safest places become evidence. In this episode of 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/A Smoking Man Studios production.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.Explore more from Smoking Man Studios.This episode includes AI-generated content.

When ordinary places start enforcing hidden rules, the result is not just fear — it is a trap. In this episode of 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/A Smoking Man Studios production.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.Explore more from Smoking Man Studios.This episode includes AI-generated content.

A birthday party can be lonely enough when nobody shows up. But in this episode of 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/A Smoking Man Studios production.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.Explore more from Smoking Man Studios.This episode includes AI-generated content.

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 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/A Smoking Man Studios production.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.Explore more from Smoking Man Studios.This episode includes AI-generated content.

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, 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/A Smoking Man Studios production.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-of-the-unexplained--6458041/support.Explore more from Smoking Man Studios.This episode includes AI-generated content.