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Speaker 1: Hello, It's Richard mc lean smith here. As we take

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Speaker 1: a break between seasons, I thought i'd revisit some of

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Speaker 1: start than with our very first, the one that launched

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Speaker 1: it all back in January twenty sixteen. I'd been toying

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Speaker 1: of Netta for Nario, it all clicked into place. Here

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Speaker 1: was a story that had it all, the enigmatic, Netta herself,

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Speaker 1: an ancient mystical landscape, the occult, and crucially, one of

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Speaker 1: the most inexplicable mysteries ever featured on the show. Even

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Speaker 1: after seven years of episodes, this is Unexplained Season one,

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Speaker 1: Episode one, opening the gate. For many, our greatest fear

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Speaker 1: is that we are ultimately alone, with no explanation as

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Speaker 1: to why we are here. And I don't just mean

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Speaker 1: in the metaphorical sense, I mean literally that the human

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Speaker 1: we tell stories so at the least we might share

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Speaker 1: less alone. And sometimes these stories might involve beings or

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Speaker 1: entities from other realms, or even from a time before time.

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Speaker 1: There is certainly a strange comfort in contemplating things beyond

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Speaker 1: our everyday practical experiences, the thought that there are things

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Speaker 1: we don't yet know or understand, things unseen that might

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Speaker 1: these weren't just stories, What if we weren't in fact alone?

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Speaker 1: Might that be altogether more terrifying? And what if all

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Speaker 1: we needed to access these unseen worlds was some kind

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Speaker 1: of gateway? What price might we pay for opening it?

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Unexplained and I'm Richard Maclin Smith. In

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Speaker 1: discussing the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, the author Michelle

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Speaker 1: Welbeck was struck by his utter materialism. You see, for Lovecraft,

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Speaker 1: His monsters aren't manifestations of a suppressed, unconscious or malicious

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Speaker 1: supernatural energies. His monsters were independently real, made of flesh

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Speaker 1: and blood. That we can't see them doesn't render them

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Speaker 1: figments of the imagination. It merely suggests that they are

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Speaker 1: occupied of another dimension that we have not sufficiently evolved

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Speaker 1: to see. Indeed, when Lovecraft writes that on completing the

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Speaker 1: repugnant Necronomicon, its ill fated author Abdullah has read, was

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Speaker 1: shortly after devoured in broad daylight in a market square

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Speaker 1: and Damascus by invisible monsters. And if this all sounds

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Speaker 1: Many World's theory, a leading theory of quantum mechanics widely

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Speaker 1: Although the theory has many interpretations, it allows for the implication

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Speaker 1: that we are, at any one time surrounded by an

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Speaker 1: infinite amount of other dimensions, all stacked up and existing

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Speaker 1: adopted by some eupologists to explain the sighting of UFOs

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Speaker 1: and aliens. In answer to the question what possible technology

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Speaker 1: perhaps they don't come from outer space at all. The

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Speaker 1: famous occultist Alista Crowley once claimed to have made contact

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Speaker 1: Emily Fanario, known as Netta to her friends, was born

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Speaker 1: Netta greatly admired. In an article titled Sharp relates a

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Speaker 2: Here, except where there is a path that no monk

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Speaker 1: Was it solely a coincidence that this is where Netta's

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Speaker 1: strong pineal sensitivity. The supposed seat of the third eye

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Speaker 1: Elves to Terence McKenna. Perhaps it was also this gland

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Speaker 1: to him the strange entity he called Lamb. In truth,

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Speaker 1: we will never know. The Friday after Netta was discovered,

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Speaker 1: F for Marie, Emily for Nario. Finally, I want to

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Speaker 1: just draw attention to an essay written by Netta that

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Speaker 1: you can actually find online. The essay is an attempt

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Speaker 1: of an opera written by her favorite writer, Fiona MacLeod.

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

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Speaker 1: his queen, Yoch eight begs of Delure, my dreams, my dreams,

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Speaker 1: other world, where all life is one life. Had Netta

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