WEBVTT - Season 01 Episode 01: Opening the Gate (Rerun)

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<v Speaker 1>Hello, It's Richard mc lean smith here. As we take

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<v Speaker 1>a break between seasons, I thought i'd revisit some of

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<v Speaker 1>my favorite episodes from the show, and where better to

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<v Speaker 1>start than with our very first, the one that launched

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<v Speaker 1>it all back in January twenty sixteen. I'd been toying

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<v Speaker 1>with the idea for a while of creating a show

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<v Speaker 1>that explored the strange and unexplained that everyone from skeptics

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<v Speaker 1>to believers could enjoy. When I came across the story

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<v Speaker 1>of Netta for Nario, it all clicked into place. Here

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<v Speaker 1>was a story that had it all, the enigmatic, Netta herself,

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<v Speaker 1>an ancient mystical landscape, the occult, and crucially, one of

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<v Speaker 1>the most inexplicable mysteries ever featured on the show. Even

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<v Speaker 1>after seven years of episodes, this is Unexplained Season one,

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<v Speaker 1>Episode one, opening the gate. For many, our greatest fear

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<v Speaker 1>is that we are ultimately alone, with no explanation as

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<v Speaker 1>to why we are here. And I don't just mean

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<v Speaker 1>in the metaphorical sense, I mean literally that the human

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<v Speaker 1>race might exist alone as the sole sentient being in

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<v Speaker 1>the entire universe. Perhaps, in a way to counter this fear,

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<v Speaker 1>we tell stories so at the least we might share

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<v Speaker 1>our experience of the world and in some way feel

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<v Speaker 1>less alone. And sometimes these stories might involve beings or

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<v Speaker 1>entities from other realms, or even from a time before time.

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<v Speaker 1>There is certainly a strange comfort in contemplating things beyond

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<v Speaker 1>our everyday practical experiences, the thought that there are things

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<v Speaker 1>we don't yet know or understand, things unseen that might

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<v Speaker 1>speak of something more. But I often think, what if

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<v Speaker 1>these weren't just stories, What if we weren't in fact alone?

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<v Speaker 1>Might that be altogether more terrifying? And what if all

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<v Speaker 1>we needed to access these unseen worlds was some kind

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<v Speaker 1>of gateway? What price might we pay for opening it?

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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to Unexplained and I'm Richard Maclin Smith. In

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<v Speaker 1>discussing the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, the author Michelle

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<v Speaker 1>Welbeck was struck by his utter materialism. You see, for Lovecraft,

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<v Speaker 1>the ultimate horror is not to be found in the psyche.

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<v Speaker 1>His monsters aren't manifestations of a suppressed, unconscious or malicious

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<v Speaker 1>supernatural energies. His monsters were independently real, made of flesh

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<v Speaker 1>and blood. That we can't see them doesn't render them

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<v Speaker 1>figments of the imagination. It merely suggests that they are

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<v Speaker 1>occupied of another dimension that we have not sufficiently evolved

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<v Speaker 1>to see. Indeed, when Lovecraft writes that on completing the

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<v Speaker 1>repugnant Necronomicon, its ill fated author Abdullah has read, was

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<v Speaker 1>shortly after devoured in broad daylight in a market square

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<v Speaker 1>and Damascus by invisible monsters. And if this all sounds

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<v Speaker 1>a little far fetched, its worth bearing in mind. The

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<v Speaker 1>Many World's theory, a leading theory of quantum mechanics widely

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<v Speaker 1>accepted by some of the finest minds humanity has ever produced.

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<v Speaker 1>Although the theory has many interpretations, it allows for the implication

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<v Speaker 1>that we are, at any one time surrounded by an

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<v Speaker 1>infinite amount of other dimensions, all stacked up and existing

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<v Speaker 1>right on top of each other. It is a theory

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<v Speaker 1>adopted by some eupologists to explain the sighting of UFOs

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<v Speaker 1>and aliens. In answer to the question what possible technology

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<v Speaker 1>could exist for them to travel across space to deifying

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<v Speaker 1>all concepts of time and space expansion, they might merely reply,

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<v Speaker 1>perhaps they don't come from outer space at all. The

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<v Speaker 1>famous occultist Alista Crowley once claimed to have made contact

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<v Speaker 1>with an unearthly being after completing a sacred ritual known

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<v Speaker 1>as the Amalantra. Working with it, Crowley claimed to have

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<v Speaker 1>invoked the spirit of an entity known as Lamb. Crowley

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<v Speaker 1>made a drawing of the entity, which, with its large

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<v Speaker 1>eyes and elongated forehead, bears a striking resemblance to the

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<v Speaker 1>familiar gray alien of Law only. This drawing was made

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<v Speaker 1>in nineteen eighteen, a good thirty years before such images

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<v Speaker 1>entered the public consciousness. The much loved thinker and psychoonaut

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<v Speaker 1>Terence McKenna frequently discussed his experiences of taking the drug

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<v Speaker 1>dimethyl tript meine, also known as DMT. The hallucinogenic is

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<v Speaker 1>believed to stimulate the piineal gland, a gland at the

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<v Speaker 1>base of the brain that is considered responsible for near

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<v Speaker 1>death experiences. It is also thought by some to be

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<v Speaker 1>the location of the third eye, a sort of biological

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<v Speaker 1>gateway into other dimensions or states of consciousness. On the

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<v Speaker 1>experience of taking the drug, McKenna describes the sensation of

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<v Speaker 1>being propelled through an unknowable space into a place beyond time,

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<v Speaker 1>only to be greeted by strange looking entities who had

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<v Speaker 1>been waiting for him. Or long. He called these beings

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<v Speaker 1>clockwork elves. It is an experience that has been shared

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<v Speaker 1>by many uses of the drug. Yet for all these

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<v Speaker 1>different examples, might these entities in fact be the same thing.

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<v Speaker 1>Perhaps over the years we have just labeled them in

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<v Speaker 1>different ways, sometimes angels, sometimes demons, sprites and aliens, and

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<v Speaker 1>maybe even The island of Iona lies just off the

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<v Speaker 1>western coast of Scotland. Measuring barely three and a half

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<v Speaker 1>miles long. It is known for its white, sandy beaches

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<v Speaker 1>and its wild and rugged beauty. It is also known

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<v Speaker 1>as the final resting place of many ancient kings of Scotland,

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<v Speaker 1>including Shakespeare's own Macbeth. Like many of the Scottish islands,

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<v Speaker 1>it has a rich history of folklore, paganism, and even witchcraft.

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<v Speaker 1>An island where the past seems forever to lurk in

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<v Speaker 1>the shadows, it has often been described as a thin place,

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<v Speaker 1>a place where heaven and Earth are thought to be

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<v Speaker 1>separated by only the finest of vales. Back in the

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<v Speaker 1>autumn of nineteen twenty nine, a beautiful, young occultist named

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<v Speaker 1>Netafornario told her friends in London that she was planning

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<v Speaker 1>a trip to the island Drawn by Iona's mystical past,

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<v Speaker 1>she told them that she planned to make contact with

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<v Speaker 1>the island's ancient spirits. Netta made it to the island,

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<v Speaker 1>but what exactly she found there we will never know.

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<v Speaker 1>For less than two months after her arrival, Netta would

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<v Speaker 1>be found dead in the most mysterious of circumstances. It

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<v Speaker 1>is a mystery that remains to this day unexplained. Nora

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<v Speaker 1>Emily Fanario, known as Netta to her friends, was born

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<v Speaker 1>in Cairo in eighteen ninety six. After the premature death

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<v Speaker 1>of her mother, she was abandoned by her father and

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<v Speaker 1>sent to live with her grandfather in London. Her childhood was,

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<v Speaker 1>by all accounts, an unhappy one, characterised by a restlessness

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<v Speaker 1>of spirit and a seemingly unrequited desire to belong. In

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen twenty two, having tried to settle down in Italy,

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<v Speaker 1>Netta returned to the UK to the town of Bishop

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<v Speaker 1>Stafford in Hertfordshire. The town had recently developed a reputation

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<v Speaker 1>as somewhat of an occultist hotspot, being as it was

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<v Speaker 1>the location of the Grange, an institute run by Irish

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<v Speaker 1>occultist and prominent freemason Theodore Moriarty. At some point, Netta

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<v Speaker 1>was initiated into a secretive magical order known as the

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<v Speaker 1>Alpha and Omega Temple, a branch of the Hermetic Order

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<v Speaker 1>of the Golden Dawn that had remained loyal to its

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<v Speaker 1>original founder, Samuel Mathers. Members of the Golden Dawn were

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<v Speaker 1>devoted to the study of hermetic magic and other esoteric traditions,

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<v Speaker 1>and countered among them the likes of the poet W. B.

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<v Speaker 1>Yates and Alistair Crowley. Followers believed that beyond our world

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<v Speaker 1>of the senses lay other worlds and entities that we

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<v Speaker 1>might contact if only we had the requisite knowledge and training,

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<v Speaker 1>and that in turn, with their knowledge, they would gain

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<v Speaker 1>a better understanding and control of our own world. By

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen twenty nine, Netta had moved again, relocating to Richmond

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<v Speaker 1>in London. There is a photo of her taken around

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<v Speaker 1>this time, showing a striking, dark haired young woman in

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<v Speaker 1>a long, handmade silken tunic. In her eyes one might

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<v Speaker 1>discern a certain sense of knowing, or perhaps the awareness

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<v Speaker 1>of something beyond our everyday understanding of things. A few

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<v Speaker 1>months after this photo was taken, Netta made her journey

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<v Speaker 1>to the island. Upon arrival, to Iona, Netta took up

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<v Speaker 1>lodgings with a woman named Missus McCray in the small

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<v Speaker 1>village of Treymoor. Missus McCray, a lifelong resident of the island,

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<v Speaker 1>was instantly smitten with her new lodger. Over the coming weeks,

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<v Speaker 1>Netta would fascinate her host with knowledge of the occult

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<v Speaker 1>and her mystical practices, and in return, Missus McCray would

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<v Speaker 1>delight Netta with her own tales of mysterious happenings and

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<v Speaker 1>Hebridean folklore. By day, Netta would roam the beaches and moorlands.

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<v Speaker 1>Then at the coming of night, she would attempt to

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<v Speaker 1>make contact with the spirits of the island, falling into

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<v Speaker 1>lengthy trances in order to do so. Netta had confided

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<v Speaker 1>in Missus McCray that shortly before her visit she had

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<v Speaker 1>fallen into such a trance that had lasted over a week.

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<v Speaker 1>She gave express instruction that should she again enter any

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<v Speaker 1>such state, she should be left alone, and that no

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<v Speaker 1>doctor should be called for. Before long, strange things began

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<v Speaker 1>to occur. Netta began to speak of visions, things she

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<v Speaker 1>had seen in the heavens, and of messages that she

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<v Speaker 1>had received from the spirit world. Her host and fellow

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<v Speaker 1>lodgers became increasingly concerned for her well being. Only that

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<v Speaker 1>far away look in her eyes that had been at

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<v Speaker 1>first so charming, now seemed instead to suggest a sort

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<v Speaker 1>of madness, or maybe even something far worse. On the

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<v Speaker 1>morning of Sunday, seventeenth of November nineteen twenty nine, Missus

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<v Speaker 1>McCray found Netta unusually restless and agitated. She began packing

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<v Speaker 1>up all her belongings while muttering to herself that certain

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<v Speaker 1>people were disturbing her. Telepathically, she spoke of a mysterious

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<v Speaker 1>ruddless boat that sailed across the sky and messages she

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<v Speaker 1>had received from another world. She had decided to return

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<v Speaker 1>to London without delay. Unfortunately, no boats operated on the

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<v Speaker 1>island that day, and Netta was forced to change her plans.

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<v Speaker 1>After finally calming down, she decided to stay after all,

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<v Speaker 1>and promptly retired to her bed. The next morning, morning,

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<v Speaker 1>Netta was nowhere to be found. As the hours wore

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<v Speaker 1>on and she did not return, the people of the

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<v Speaker 1>town became alarmed for her safety. They sent out a

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<v Speaker 1>search party to scour the bays and inlets for any

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<v Speaker 1>sign of the young woman. They searched the rocks and moorlands,

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<v Speaker 1>becoming increasingly desperate as the short November day turned steadily

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<v Speaker 1>to night. After a long and fruitless search, they returned

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<v Speaker 1>reluctantly to their beds. The following day, the search was renewed,

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<v Speaker 1>but again they found nothing. About two and a half

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<v Speaker 1>miles away from Missus mc cray's cottage, by the side

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<v Speaker 1>of Loch's Stanage, were the remains of an ancient village

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<v Speaker 1>in which Netta had expressed interest in visiting. As dawn approached,

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<v Speaker 1>two local men were searching the surrounds of the ruins

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<v Speaker 1>when they made a shocking discovery. There, lying sprawled across

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<v Speaker 1>the top of a small mound, naked except for a

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<v Speaker 1>large black cloak, was the dead body of Netta. For Nario,

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<v Speaker 1>a black and silver cross hung about her neck, and

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<v Speaker 1>by her hand lay a small silver dagger. Underneath her body,

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<v Speaker 1>a large cross had been carved into the turf, presumably

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<v Speaker 1>with the same dagger. Her body was covered in unaccountable

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<v Speaker 1>scratch marks. The soles of her feet were torn and

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<v Speaker 1>had bled a great deal, while her heels remained unscathed.

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<v Speaker 1>But perhaps strangest of all was the location of her body.

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<v Speaker 1>Netta had been found lying on top of what is

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<v Speaker 1>often known as a fairy mound. The fairy mount or

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<v Speaker 1>fort is thought to be imbued with Druidic magic, and

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<v Speaker 1>is considered to be a gateway between the realms of

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<v Speaker 1>magic and our own human world. The precise cause of

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<v Speaker 1>her death proved inconclusive, though was later recorded as death

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<v Speaker 1>by exposure to the elements. She was thirty three years

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<v Speaker 1>of age. Needless to say, there has been a great

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<v Speaker 1>deal of speculation about the nature of Netta's death. Had

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<v Speaker 1>she made her way to this remote spot in response

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<v Speaker 1>to some mysterious urge. Had she attempted some sort of

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<v Speaker 1>magical ritual and merely underestimated the chill of the night,

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<v Speaker 1>or was it something else entirely? Had Netta in fact

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<v Speaker 1>achieved what she had set out to do and opened

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<v Speaker 1>a door to another world, a world that perhaps she

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<v Speaker 1>had not been entirely ready to discover. It has been

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<v Speaker 1>suggested that the precise reason Netta had traveled to Iona

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<v Speaker 1>was to perform a ritual to bring peace to a

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<v Speaker 1>fairy woman who had long ago been burned alive by monks.

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<v Speaker 1>The monks had been followed as a Saint Columba, who

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<v Speaker 1>established a monastery on the island in five sixty three

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<v Speaker 1>a d It was Columber's intention to rid the Kingdom

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<v Speaker 1>of Scotland of its pagan past and replace it with

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<v Speaker 1>the new face of Christianity. Further reports from the knight

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<v Speaker 1>of Netta's death speak of strange blue lights coming from

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<v Speaker 1>the location of her body, and a cloaked man seen

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<v Speaker 1>close to the area. A number of letters of strange

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<v Speaker 1>character were also believed to have been taken by the police,

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<v Speaker 1>but were never later released. Had Netta somehow made contact

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<v Speaker 1>with the fairy woman, had she somehow burst through into

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<v Speaker 1>her world, but found herself unable or unwilling to return

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<v Speaker 1>to our earthly realm, Perhaps a clue can be found

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<v Speaker 1>in the writings of Fiona MacLeod. MacLeod was the pseudonym

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<v Speaker 1>of William Sharp, a Scottish poet and fellow occultist whom

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<v Speaker 1>Netta greatly admired. In an article titled Sharp relates a

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<v Speaker 1>story for when he lived on the island as a child,

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<v Speaker 1>he had traveled to his friend Elsie's house, only to

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<v Speaker 1>be met by her distraught mother. She told him that

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<v Speaker 1>Elsie had somehow made contact with a monk from the

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<v Speaker 1>seventh century. She believed the monk had been hostile to Elsie,

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<v Speaker 1>afraid of what he might do. Elsie was now hiding

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<v Speaker 1>on the only part of the island that she felt safe.

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<v Speaker 1>Her mother continued, the monks are still strong.

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<v Speaker 2>Here, except where there is a path that no monk

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<v Speaker 2>can go there. In the old days they burned a woman,

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<v Speaker 2>but she was not a woman. She was one of

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<v Speaker 2>the sorrows of the Sheen, a fairy. It's ill to

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<v Speaker 2>any that brings harm to them, and that is why

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<v Speaker 2>the monks are not strong by Stanagway.

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<v Speaker 1>Was it solely a coincidence that this is where Netta's

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<v Speaker 1>body was found. Netta's friend and fellow occultist, Dion Fortune,

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<v Speaker 1>believed Netta to have had a deep knowledge of green rays,

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<v Speaker 1>an elemental is also known as a fairy, and the

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<v Speaker 1>green ray is supposedly the wavelength of energy in which

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<v Speaker 1>their world operates. Fortune also believed that Netta had a

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<v Speaker 1>strong pineal sensitivity. The supposed seat of the third eye

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<v Speaker 1>our own gateway into other dimensions, this being the same

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<v Speaker 1>gland so stimulated by d mt as to reveal clockwork.

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<v Speaker 1>Elves to Terence McKenna. Perhaps it was also this gland

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<v Speaker 1>that Crowley affected when conducting the amalantra working that revealed

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<v Speaker 1>to him the strange entity he called Lamb. In truth,

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<v Speaker 1>we will never know. The Friday after Netta was discovered,

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<v Speaker 1>the Islanders laid her body to rest. They placed on

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<v Speaker 1>top a rough tombstone etched with the letters M E.

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<v Speaker 1>F for Marie, Emily for Nario. Finally, I want to

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<v Speaker 1>just draw attention to an essay written by Netta that

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<v Speaker 1>you can actually find online. The essay is an attempt

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<v Speaker 1>by Netta to make clear to people the true meaning

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<v Speaker 1>of an opera written by her favorite writer, Fiona MacLeod.

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<v Speaker 1>The opera, called The Immortal Hour tells the story of

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<v Speaker 1>an immortal race of fairies who are feared by humans

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<v Speaker 1>for the interference they can bring to mortal lives. Reading

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<v Speaker 1>the essay, I was struck by one part, in particular

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<v Speaker 1>concerning the finale of the opera. De Lure, an agent

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<v Speaker 1>of unseen and fateful powers whose touch brings madness and

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<v Speaker 1>death to mortals, has stolen the wife of the hero

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<v Speaker 1>King Yokaid. In a desperate bid to be reunited with

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<v Speaker 1>his queen, Yoch eight begs of Delure, my dreams, my dreams,

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<v Speaker 1>give me my dreams, to which de Lure replies, there

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<v Speaker 1>is no dream save this, the dream of death. At

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<v Speaker 1>this point, Delure touches your cad and he is instantly

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<v Speaker 1>removed from this world. As Netta notes, it is the

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<v Speaker 1>moment implying that death itself is only a dream and

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<v Speaker 1>that the ultimate reality for your aid lies in the

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<v Speaker 1>other world, where all life is one life. Had Netta

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<v Speaker 1>two come to the same realization that death was merely

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