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Speaker 1: even from a time before time. There is certainly a

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Speaker 1: But I often think, what if these weren't just stories,

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Speaker 1: What if we weren't in fact alone? Might that be

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Speaker 1: price might we pay for opening it? You're listening to Unexplained,

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Speaker 1: and I'm Richard McClain smith in discussing the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft,

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Speaker 1: The author Michel Welbeck was struck by his utter materialism.

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Speaker 1: You see, for Lovecraft, the ultimate horror is not to

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Speaker 1: we have not sufficiently evolved to see. Indeed, when Lovecraft

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Speaker 1: writes that on completing the repugnant Necronomicon, its ill fated

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Speaker 1: And if this all sounds a little far fetched, it's

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Speaker 1: come from outer space at all. The famous occultist Alister

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Speaker 1: Crowley once claimed to have made contact with an unearthly

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Speaker 1: Working with it, Crowley claimed to have invoked the spirit

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Speaker 1: The much loved thinker and psychonaut Terence mc kenna frequently

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Speaker 1: Iona Sharp relates a story for when he lived on

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Speaker 1: was it solely a coincidence that this is where Nedda's

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Speaker 1: In truth, we will never know. The Friday after Netta

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Speaker 1: The opera, called The Immortal Hour, tells the story of

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