A New Series from The Missing and Unexplained Podcast — It’s always daunting to pick the next season for The Missing and Unexplained Podcast. A series is a different beast than a one-off episode: they require an incredible amount of time, dedication, fact-gathering and checking, story outlines and interviewing. So I tend to be picky when it comes to choosing…

Lost at Sea Back in 2015, I heard about the horrific shipwreck Valencia on the west coast of Vancouver Island and how it inadvertently created The West Coast Trail. To this day, I don’t know what drew me to it; it was likely a blend of my passion and enthusiasm for history, being…

Hello! I know this is coming late, so thank you for being patient. Despite being a seemingly long month, March flew by in terms of prepping for the podcast. That said, this is coming down the pipe next month (I hope). …

I was in grade 8. I remember the class working quietly to figure out the answer to some tedious math questions on a quiz in the first period. I was not fond of math, so I stewed silently, grimacing at the paper before me. Our teacher, Mr. Osbourne, sat in…

Here is a breakdown of what is coming out on the pod this month. The first episode in March is an interview with Adam Shoalts, author of “The Whisper on the Night Wind.” I received the book as a gift last year, and it was a great, chilling surprise. In…

Every month I am going to write a short blurb about what is coming out next month on “The Missing and Unexplained Podcast” so you have an idea of what I am working on. For February, I have two episodes coming out. The first is an interview with Heather Shtuka…

Happy New Year! As many of you know, my podcast “The Missing and Unexplained (TMUP)” was on a hiatus in 2022 as I worked on a separate project (something I hope I can share more details about this year). …

One of the better feelings in life is coming across art you have yet to experience and having it transcend your soul. It does something — like a spark when you plug a chord into an electrical socket. Music is particularly good at this. Case in point, I just watched…

Hello, I am sharing a piece of short fiction I wrote last year with Christmas approaching. It was for a spooky Christmas microfiction story contest. This did not win, but I wanted to share it for fun! My approach to the story was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s unfinished work…