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In the last episode alone with Everybody, 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:29.240 we ventured to the northern reaches of the Brecon Beacons 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.520 in Cumerie to hear the story of how one couple's 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:36.959 dream moved to the region quickly turned into a devastating nightmare. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.880 The couple stayed at the property known as he Old 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:45.360 Fannog for almost seven years, during which time they and 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.200 their children were said to have been subjected to an 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:53.960 extraordinary array of supposed paranormal and supernatural episodes. With the 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.880 family unable to afford a move, a great deal of 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.920 time and energy was spent trying to find someone who 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:05.240 could alleviate their fear and misery. However, despite multiple efforts 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.079 from numerous parties, none were quite able to do it, 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:16.200 with the exception of one person, Eddie Burks. It's fair 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.800 to say that few people, if asked to imagine the 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:23.160 archetypal self styled psychic, would have the quiet and modest 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:28.080 Eddie Burkes in mind. Born in nineteen twenty two in 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.360 the district of Bow, in East London. Eddie's was a 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:35.720 happy and fairly ordinary childhood, with the exception of one incident. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.399 At five years old, during a minor operation in hospital, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.679 Eddie had what he believed to be a near death experience. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.680 It was while under anesthetic that Eddie found himself traveling 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.840 through a tunnel of light before arriving moments later in 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:57.120 a bright garden paradise, only to be instantly thrust back 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.760 down the tunnel again, awaking soon after back in the 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:06.120 hospital ward. The incident was never forgotten, but for the 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:09.360 most part, barring his involvement in the Second World War, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:15.080 Burkes's life was superficially at least fairly unremarkable, spending his 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.800 days working as a science officer researching roads for the 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:24.680 British Civil Service, until one afternoon in June nineteen eighty three, 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:35.720 when Eddie's life changed forever. There had apparently been signs 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:38.640 that something was occurring in the years prior to this moment. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.320 The premature deaths of his wife in nineteen seventy and 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:48.440 his son a decade later had understandably been devastating. However, 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.480 in both instances, Eddie had been comforted by the belief 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:55.440 that he had felt their presence within days of them dying, 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.400 but nothing could quite prepare him for what was about 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.760 to happen. On that fateful afternoon in nineteen eighty three, 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.800 Eddie was paying a visit to then Director of the 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:11.000 College of Psychic Studies, Brenda Marshall, to discuss a growing 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:15.720 conviction that he might have psychic abilities. The College had 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.920 originally been founded in eighteen eighty four as the London 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:24.760 Spiritualist Alliance, before rebranding itself in the nineteen fifties. Much 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.760 like the better known Society of Psychical Research, the Alliance 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.240 had been established to investigate and scrutinize the growing number 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.839 of apparent mediums plying their trade in Victorian Britain. However, 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:41.080 their investigative merits were thrown into question when Eleanor Sidgwick 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.440 of the spr accused William Eglinton, a medium the Alliance 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:51.120 had previously supported, of being a fraud. The disagreement caused 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.840 somewhat of a schism between the two groups, with the 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.760 Alliance remaining committed to its belief in Eglinton's apparent abilities, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.120 which were indeed later revealed to have been unquestionably fraudulent 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.119 by the nineteen eighties. However, the Alliance had long since 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.800 moved away from the embarrassment, having by then adopted a 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:16.200 far more rigorous approach to the analysis of potential paranormal phenomena. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.880 That afternoon in the summer of nineteen eighty three, as 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.080 Eddie Burke's talked quietly with Brenda, the college's president, he 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.600 became suddenly distracted by another man's voice in the room 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.920 that seemed to be talking to him. The apparent voice, 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.279 he believed, was pleading with him to help him find 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.800 his way. As Eddie would later claim, it was the 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.680 first time he had ever been contacted by a ghost, or, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:49.600 more precisely, according to him, a lost soul. From that moment, 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.719 after claiming to have helped the spirit move on to 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:57.839 another realm Eddie realized his true calling to help the 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:08.880 dead find their way out of life. It was sometime 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.159 in the summer of nineteen ninety two, nine years after 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.960 she had first met Eddie Burkes, when an envelope bearing 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.559 the logo of Coot's Bank arrived on Brenda Marshall's desk. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.599 The letter was instantly intriguing, since Coots happened to be 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:28.400 just about the most exclusive financial institution in the country, 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.520 serving the royal family, among many other of the world's 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.159 most wealthy citizens, which made what she was about to 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:41.159 read or the more surprising. A few weeks previously, one 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.919 of the bank's receptionists had been sat at the front 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:51.040 desk when all the computer systems simultaneously malfunctioned. A flickering 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.040 of the building's lights was followed by a sudden drop 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.040 in temperature and the appearance of a vague, shadowy figure 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.839 without a head, making its way across the bank's vast 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:08.400 atrium before seeming to disappear into a darkened doorway. When 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:12.080 she reported the incident to the bank's personnel director, she 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.000 was amazed to discover that she wasn't the first to 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:19.760 have seen the strange apparition. In fact, three other receptionists 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:25.080 had also reported the same thing on multiple occasions. With 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.920 all four staff now too terrified to work, unable to 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.239 dismiss the claims out of hand, or perhaps just looking 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:36.160 for a way to calm their staff, the bank's archivist 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:40.280 suggested they contact the College of Psychic Studies to see 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.320 if they might help, and Brenda knew just the person 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:52.360 to ask, are you always taking care of your family. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.080 Do you often take care of others and not yourself. 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.360 Now it's time to take care of yourself to make 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.400 time for you. You vid teledoc gives you access to 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.360 a licensed therapist to help you get back to feeling 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.680 your best to feeling like yourself again. 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It was three days later, shortly after 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.559 one thirty p m. When a black cab pulled up 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:08.640 outside the bank's grand glass fronted facade at number four 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:14.920 forty the strand seconds later, an unassuming middle aged man 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:19.120 in a light gray suit and comfortable shoes stepped out 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:21.920 on to the pavement, gazing up at the entrance for 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:27.080 a brief moment before making his way inside. The entrance 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.440 hall was a huge and opulent space, designed in the 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.960 seventies and the manner of a giant conservatory for maximum 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:38.559 natural light, housing an internal garden of glossy marbled stone 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:42.480 and lush trees, complete with a pond of koi carp 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.160 Eddie paid it little notice as he made his way 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.640 to the first floor, where he was introduced to the 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.080 bank's archivist, as well as three of the receptionists who 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:57.560 had witnessed the apparent specter. Moments later, the five of 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.720 them discreetly made their way to a small office next 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:05.559 to the front desk to begin the procedure. It wasn't 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:10.360 long before Eddie was picking something up. After instructing one 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.319 of the others to write down what he was about 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:17.359 to say, he began. He is a man of considerable 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:21.600 pride who did not bend to the Queen's command and 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.000 was beheaded not far from here on a summer's day. 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.200 I have been waiting here a long time, he is saying, 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.000 Eddie went on to describe the man as being dressed 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:38.560 in Elizabethan clothes of the sixteenth century, who also wore 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:44.800 expensive jewelry on his fingers and around his neck. Soon after, 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:49.200 the others watched, astounded as Burke's then claimed to see 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.640 a second entity appearing in the room alongside them. It 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.640 was the man's daughter, he said, come to collect her 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:02.280 father and lead him into the next world. Burks reported 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.520 seeing them walk into a blaze of white light before 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:10.880 they both vanished together. After thanking him for his time, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.320 Burkes suggested they let him know if they have any 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:18.440 more disturbances. They made his goodbyes and went on his way. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.200 Although the bank had requested Burkes's intervention be carried out 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.560 under the strictest confidence, it wasn't long before the full 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.800 account was picked up by the press, with both the 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:41.679 bank and many at the college being embarrassed by the exposure. Regardless, 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:47.040 one thing was certain. The apparent ghost was never seen again. 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.679 With the incident now out in the open, Unlike Burkes, 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.440 who was happy just to have helped, a number of 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:59.240 papers were understandably keen to establish the identity of the 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:05.120 supposed ghost and verify Burke's claims. A few days later, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:10.800 royal historian and Jesuit priest, Father Francis Edwards, came forward 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:15.280 with the name Thomas Howard, whose description and life bore 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:20.480 a remarkable similarity to the details provided by Eddie. Born 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.240 in fifteen thirty six, Howard, the fourth Duke of Norfolk, 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.319 was a close friend of Queen Elizabeth First before becoming 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:33.000 hopelessly entangled in the complex political rivalry between her followers 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.920 and those of her rival to the throne, Mary Stuart. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.120 In a tragic but fitting representation of the ruthless political 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.520 climate of the time, Howard, who was at one point 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:48.760 encouraged by Elizabeth to marry Mary Stuart, was accused of 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:54.120 treason when he eventually agreed to do just that. In response, 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.960 he was arrested and thrown into the Tower of London. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.680 Nine months later, in the summer of fifteen seventy two, 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.600 Howard was marched from his cell to the space inside 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:09.360 the castle known as Tower Green, where his head was 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:15.520 promptly removed from his body. Incredibly, the revelation that this 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:18.120 may well have been the ghost haunting the offices of 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.360 Coots struck such a chord with the Duke's ancestors, they 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:26.640 felt compelled to now lay his apparently previously unsettled soul 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:31.119 to rest. And so it was that, on November fifteenth, 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:35.400 nineteen ninety two, on a wet and miserable afternoon in London, 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.400 a handful of aristocrats gathered together in a small chapel 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.720 in Covent Garden to pay their last respects to the 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:47.320 fourth Duke of Norfolk. Joining them were a number of 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:53.280 representatives of Coot's Bank, and of course Eddie Burkes, who 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.280 was even invited to give a speech to mark the occasion. 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.440 If you enjoy listening to Unexplained and would like to 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.920 help supporters, you can now go to Unexplained podcast dot 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:12.960 com forward slash support. All donations, no matter how large 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:20.520 or small, are massively appreciated. All elements of Unexplained are 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:24.000 produced by me Richard mcclained smith. 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