Season 04 Episode 20: The Homecoming (RERUN)

Unexplained

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Science, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST

This week's rerun takes us back to the forests of Arizona in November 1975, where a crew of loggers were finishing another hard day's work in the wilderness. It was meant to be routine - just another evening drive back to town through the darkening woods, a journey they'd made countless times before.

But when the crew returned that night, one of them was missing. Travis Walton had vanished without a trace, leaving those left behind to relay a story so bizarre that it would divide not just his community, but the entire country…

Travis, they said, had been abducted by an alien spaceship.

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