Unexplained Inc.

Unexplained Inc., which its presenter also calls Unexplained Incorporated, is Phantom Phil's paranormal and metaphysical show. Its subject list runs from Sasquatch and telluric energy to shadows, sacred sexuality and prison-planet simulation, and it treats all of it as connected. Phil addresses listeners as 'true believers'. He signs off with a fixed charge, stay strong, stay healthy, stay curious, plus the warning that anyone who is not curious may as well already be dead. One episode opens with a recited creed for that community: we don't listen, we learn to hear; we don't think, we investigate; we don't accept, we question. That is the register throughout, earnest and unembarrassed. The guest conversations are where the show is most concrete. Mike Paterson of Sasquatch Ontario describes spending weekends in the forest chasing wildlife with a camera, his confidence that the Sasquatch were watching and approved of how he treated nature, and the personal things they have since told him. Phil steers that talk toward frequency, connection to nature and a thunderbird ceremony whose spirit is said to cross dimensions the way Sasquatch does, and he is openly delighted when a guest sees it his way. David C. Bumblebee arrives under the banner of 'spiritual science', comparing solar flare records with the electrical storms and cloud cover he observed at mountain sites such as Mount Wellington. Phil admits he has not yet read one guest's book and promises to before they speak again. He comes across as a fan first and an interviewer second. Around the interviews sit formats of the show's own making. The Great Escape is a chaptered self-empowerment series that starts from the premise that you feel trapped in a simulated matrix on a prison planet and offers blueprints out of the prison of the mind. Its eleventh chapter, Becoming The Storm / Destroy Everyone!, runs on baseball: Phil, a self-declared Blue Jays fan, holds up Toronto Blue Jays legend Jose Bautista's improbable career and Dave Mustaine's near-ruined one as proof that people find a way through when their dreams are about to burn. Shadow Sermons is something else entirely. It belongs to a villain character called Phantom Phil Fortune, who broadcasts Friday the 13th editions to his 'useful idiots' from the Fortress of Fortune, calls the public goldfish, says the planet is not worth saving, and insists nobody is poisoning anyone because people consume the food, telecommunications and health care on offer voluntarily. One edition is billed as the segment's final send-off, with Fortune claiming he is taking the show out from under Phantom Phil's nose. Consciousness Cafe is the softest format, pitched as meeting a friend for coffee; an edition with Viktoria K. and Christine C. covers shadows and sacred sexuality, with a guest describing how they hold space for others through breathwork, surrender and physical release because nobody did it for them. Video episodes are posted on Rumble alongside the audio. For a newcomer, the Sasquatch conversation is the cleanest way in, and The Great Escape is the clearest picture of what Phil believes the show is for.