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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: and ideas that, for one reason or other, didn't make

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Speaker 1: it into the previous show. In the last episode, Valleys

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Speaker 1: of the Uncanny, we followed the story of Alan Godfrey

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Speaker 1: from his involvement in the bizarre case of Sigmund Dadamski

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Speaker 1: in Yorkshire, England. At the time, Sigmund Dadamski's death raised

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Speaker 1: eyebrows in uthology circles, not so much because of the

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Speaker 1: strange circumstances of it, but because he also happened to

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Speaker 1: share a name with one of the most controversial figures

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Speaker 1: in the history of UFO culture. George Adamski, was born

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Speaker 1: In nineteen fifty two, but then sixty year old Adamski,

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Speaker 1: who had long had a fascination with esoteric ideas, hit

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Speaker 1: many Venutians were already living here on Earth. Despite being

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Speaker 1: ridiculed by most of the UFO community, which at the

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Speaker 1: time very much prided itself on scientific rigor and a

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Speaker 1: Adamski's story resonated with people. Without realizing, Georgia Damski had

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Speaker 1: numerous others began claiming that they too had been contacted

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Speaker 1: by alien entities, most with similar messages of peace and love,

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Speaker 1: with which they wanted to enlighten the ever fractious human race.

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Speaker 1: The story of two contactees in particular make for interesting listening,

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Speaker 1: with one even proving the inspiration for one of the

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Speaker 1: most widely discussed psychological phenomenons of recent times. It has

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Speaker 1: been suggested that those who become involved in the contact

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Speaker 1: traditional religions. Like many people, despite being left unconvinced by

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Speaker 1: the message of such religions, they remain hungry for a

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Speaker 1: sense of spiritual purpose and meaning in life in many ways.

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Speaker 1: Gloria Lee was a prime candidate. Born in nineteen twenty six,

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Speaker 1: Lee worked for a while as an actor before becoming

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Speaker 1: Bible written in eighteen eighty two by John Balunubroh. According

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Speaker 1: to Lee, it all started in nineteen fifty three when

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Speaker 1: the voice told her to look up. When she did,

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Speaker 1: As Lee would later publish in her nineteen fifty nine

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Speaker 1: being from Jupiter through the instrumentation of Gloria Lee. The

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Speaker 1: In December nineteen fifty four, at the modest home of

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Speaker 1: fifty four year old Dorothee Martin on the outskirts of Chicago,

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Speaker 1: beings of planet Clarion. It would begin with a tingling

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