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Unexplained

Season 05: Episode 09: Tenebrous (RERUN)

Unexplained

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Society & Culture, History

4.49.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

SEASON 9 BEGINS FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST

Our final journey into the archive takes us to the remote Bavarian countryside in 1922, to a lonely farmstead and the family who lived there, where something unspeakable was about to unfold. It was a place where shadows seemed to linger a little too long, and where the boundary between safety and terror proved to be as fragile as a footprint in fresh snow.

The word "tenebrous" means dark, shadowy, and obscure - and no word better captures what descended upon this isolated family in those final, terrifying days. 

What happened at their remote farm would become one of Germany's most notorious unsolved mysteries, a case so disturbing that it continues to defy explanation a century later…

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

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0:08.0

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0:27.6

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0:34.6

Hello, it's Richard McLean Smith here.

0:37.4

With Unexplained on an end-of-season break, this is our final archive episode. Hello, it's Richard McLean Smith here.

0:42.8

With Unexplained on an end of season break, this is our final archive episode before season nine begins next Friday, October 31st.

0:47.0

And with Halloween, only a week away, this week's episode takes a suitably dark and chilling

0:52.7

turn.

0:53.9

It is perhaps the darkest story ever covered

0:57.0

or unexplained. Our final journey into the archive takes us to the remote Bavarian countryside

1:03.6

in 1922, to a lonely farmstead and the family who live there where something unspeakable

1:10.5

was about to unfold.

1:12.9

It was a place where shadows seemed to linger a little too long, and where the boundary between

1:18.7

safety and terror proved to be as fragile as a footprint in fresh snow. The word

1:25.6

tenebrous means dark, shadowy and obscure, an apt word to capture what

1:32.2

descended upon this isolated family in those final terrifying days. Just what exactly happened at

1:40.2

their remote farm would become one of Germany's most notorious unsolved mysteries,

1:46.6

a case so disturbing it continues to defy explanation a century later.

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