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The Unexplainers

The Unexplainers

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The comedy adventure podcast that unexplains the unexplainable.


Skeptic Mike and believer John travel the world in search of unexplainable stories. From UFO crash-landings to extra dimensional beings, we will blow your mind.


The cult BBC hit lives on, Mike shows up sometimes but John and Producer Rhys are still investigating.

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© 2025 John Rutledge, Mike Bubbins, Rhys Waters, Nathan Mackintosh. All rights reserved. Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Dechmont Woods UFO & The Godfather of Weird: Charles Fort (Premium)

    Dechmont Woods UFO & The Godfather of Weird: Charles Fort (Premium)
    Mar 9 2026

    In this episode of The Unexplainers, John and Rhys dive into one of Scotland’s strangest UFO encounters: the 1979 Dechmont Woods incident involving forestry worker Robert Taylor. They recount Taylor’s terrifying experience with a silent, hat-shaped craft, spiked rolling spheres that grabbed his trousers, and the baffling physical evidence that left police and doctors stumped—complete with ground marks, torn clothing, and no conventional explanation.


    From there, the pair segue into the life and legacy of Charles Fort, the “godfather of weird” whose obsessive cataloguing of strange phenomena—rains of frogs, mysterious lights in the sky, and other “damned facts” science tried to ignore—helped shape modern paranormal investigation, science fiction, and the Fortean Times.

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    6 mins
  • Sitting Down Will Kill You

    Sitting Down Will Kill You
    Feb 23 2026

    Sit down, get comfy… and maybe reconsider that chair. In this episode of “The Unexplainers,” John Rutledge (aka Eggsy from GLC) and Rhys Waters dive bum‑first into two delightfully ridiculous horrors: the infamous cursed Busby Stoop chair that “kills” anyone who sits in it, and Hanako-san, Japan’s legendary toilet ghost who might drag you to hell, feed you to a three-headed lizard, or just kindly pass you some toilet paper.


    Expect:

    • Darkly funny true crime–meets–folklore around a haunted pub chair, WWII airmen, unlucky builders, and an Indian restaurant fined for serving the wrong meat.
    • A crash course in Japanese urban legends, school bathroom hauntings, and why ghosts apparently love toilets.
    • Skeptical takedowns of curses, health & safety rants, and way too much discussion of terrible British school toilet paper.

    If you like paranormal comedy, creepy folklore, and jokes about dying on the loo, this haunted furniture and toilet-ghost double bill is for you.

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    32 mins
  • The 2026 Unexplainers Trailer

    The 2026 Unexplainers Trailer
    Feb 18 2026
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