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Speaker 1: continuing for a few more weeks yet, So apologies to

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Speaker 1: everyone for any confusion. Now, with that out the way,

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Speaker 1: welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClain Smith, where

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Speaker 1: for the weeks in between episodes, we look at stories

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Speaker 1: it into the previous show. In last week's episode, Fire

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Speaker 1: in the Belly, we ventured into the murky realm of

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Speaker 1: alleged spontaneous human combustion, or SHC as it is often

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Speaker 1: part due to a recent tweet I saw remarking on

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Speaker 1: how prevalent these stories used to be and how rarely

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Speaker 1: we hear about them today. Certainly compared to tales of

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Speaker 1: apparent hauntings or UFO sightings, for example, that continue to

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Speaker 1: crop up, modern cases of apparent SHC do seem increasingly

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Speaker 1: rare that we might notice. This is perhaps due to

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Speaker 1: just how memorable these types of stories are when you

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Speaker 1: first come across them. Perhaps flicking through an old copy

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Speaker 1: of The Unexplained Magazine or the Fourteen Times. For me,

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Speaker 1: it was always the strange and shocking images that came

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Speaker 1: their often banal and domestic settings. That being said, a

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Speaker 1: proposed case of spontaneous human combustion was put forward as

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Speaker 1: Although Fahatty's body was found close to an open fireplace,

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Speaker 1: local fire officer Jerry O'Malley concluded that this had not

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Speaker 1: Coroner doctor Kieran McLaughlin even went as far as to

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Speaker 1: Our extra episode this week also involves a fire revealing

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Speaker 1: something peculiar in its wake. Its tenuous connection to last

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Speaker 1: week's episode is that, like the story of Mary Reesa,

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Speaker 1: studying at Harvard University when he went missing from his

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Speaker 1: the our Best Fiends. Lou Egner was working as a

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Speaker 1: Just wait, she said. A moment later, Lou watched with

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Speaker 1: after this that artist James Darling Jones was alerted to

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