In April 2006, a 27-year-old med student walks into a bar but seemingly never comes out. It sounds like the beginning of a joke but has been nothing but a nightmare for the family of Brian Shaffer. Shaffer's disappearance, part locked-room mystery, part cautionary tale, remains one of the strangest vanishings of recent times.&nbsp; Written by Emma Dibdin and produced by Richard MacLean Smith. Watch/follow at youtube.com/@unexplainedpod, tiktok.com/@unexplainedpodcast, X @unexplainedpod, facebook.com/unexplainedpodcast, <a href="https://www.unexplainedpodcast.com">www.unexplainedpodcast.com</a> Thank you for listening.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Unexplained is a haunting and unsettling bi-weekly podcast about strange and mysterious real life events that continue to evade explanation. A story-based show mixing spoken-word narrative, history and ideas - often to terrifying effect - that explores the space between what we think of as real and what is not; where sometimes belief can be as concrete as &lsquo;reality,&rsquo; whatever that is&hellip;
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