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The early evening of January seventh, 18 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty seven, in Peking, as Western has called it then, 19 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 1: was an especially chilly one, not that anyone cared down 20 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: at the French Club in the heart of the city's 21 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,959 Speaker 1: legation district. For a start, there were far more important 22 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 1: things to be worried about. With China firmly in the 23 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: grip of its own civil war, other forces were also 24 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: looking to assert themselves outside the city walls. The ominous 25 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: presence of Japan's military loomed large, as rumors of an 26 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: imminent attack grew louder by the day. Japan's presence in 27 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: the region had been supported by an eight nation alliance 28 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: of the world's most powerful states, keen to preserve their 29 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: imperial ambitions in China in the way could the Box 30 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: a rebellion of the nineteen hundreds. But things had changed. 31 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: Alliances had fractured, chiefly those between the United States, Germany, France, 32 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: the United Kingdom, and what was now the communist Soviet Union. 33 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: The fracturing of the whole world was only two years away. 34 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: But down in the legation quarter on that especially chilly 35 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: Thursday evening, you'd be forgiven for thinking anything of the 36 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: sort was taking place. A legation is a diplomatic minister, 37 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: one rank below an ambassador. The legation district, then, was 38 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,040 Speaker 1: where said ministers their headquarters and their families were based. 39 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: It was a kind of strange hinterland of wealthy aristocrats 40 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: and foreign dignitaries, a world of gas lit, swanky embassy buildings, 41 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: well stocked bars, and tailored coats, rising incongruously out of 42 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 1: a city where most people lived cheek by jowl in 43 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 1: the hutons, ancient networks of low rise, narrow lanes and 44 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: cramped courtyard dwelling that made up the bones of Old 45 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: p King, or Beijing as the Chinese called it, which 46 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,279 Speaker 1: is to say that though Legation District residents were undoubtedly 47 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,160 Speaker 1: highly informed of current events, they were also weirdly shielded 48 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: from them, or at least that was how it seemed 49 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 1: to them, surrounded by their private guards and the kind 50 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: of luxury that most residents of Beijing, or indeed anywhere 51 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: could only imagine. It was a disconnection experienced most keenly 52 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: by the children of the Legation quarter, especially those occupying 53 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: a strange hinterland of their own, like the three young 54 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:42,600 Speaker 1: women presently zipping about the French clubs newly installed ice 55 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: skating rink in the French legation zone. Ethel Guryevitch, Lilian 56 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: Maronovsky and Pamela Werner for over an hour, they skated 57 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: about the rink in their fur coats and hats, their 58 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: breath and laughter clouding generously in the cold air. They 59 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: shared cigarettes and a little wine. Then, as it approached 60 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 1: seven thirty pm, Pamela announced it was time for her 61 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: to leave, as she was expected home for dinner. As 62 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:17,679 Speaker 1: young women in their late teens and early twenties each 63 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 1: were caught somewhere between the naivete of adolescence and the mature, 64 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: worldly women they one day hoped to become, perhaps none 65 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,799 Speaker 1: more so than nineteen year old Pamela. As it happened, 66 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: Unlike her friends, she didn't live in the legation quarter, 67 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: but in a traditional Hutong home with her father, a 68 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: retired diplomat. She also loved to cycle everywhere and was 69 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 1: fluent in Mandarin, affording her a little more freedom than 70 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: most of her expat contemporaries. Nonetheless, it was always a 71 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: little hard for Ethel and Lilian whenever the time came 72 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: to watch her leave the safety of the legation district, 73 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: especially night. They wondered whether it was safe for her 74 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: to be going home alone in the dark, But as 75 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: Pamela always assured them, it would be no different to 76 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: any other time she'd done it. Besides, she said, nothing 77 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 1: can happen to me here in p King, And with 78 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 1: that she slung her skates over her shoulder, climbed onto 79 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: her bicycle, and rode off into the chilly night. You're 80 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: listening to Unexplained, and I'm Richard McLean Smith. Pamela Werner's father, 81 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: Theodore Chalmers Werner, was the son of wealthy Prussians, who 82 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: was born in New Zealand but was classed as a 83 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: British citizen. Having been educated at Tunbridge School, one of 84 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 1: England's oldest and most elite private institutions, Werner joined the 85 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,279 Speaker 1: British Diplomatic Service in his late teens and was promptly 86 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: sent to Beijing to learn Mandarin. He took to the 87 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: language and culture with gusto and held a variety of positions, 88 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:11,080 Speaker 1: but there was one area in which he was sorely lacking. 89 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: Possessing a quick, hot temper, he became known for terrible 90 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: interpersonal skills and frequently got into violent disagreements with his superiors. This, 91 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: combined with what other British diplomats considered a little too 92 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: much of an interest in Chinese culture, meant that he 93 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:32,920 Speaker 1: was mostly posted to remote locations to keep him from 94 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: causing too much trouble. Despite his effective ostracization from the 95 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 1: Foreign Office, Edward Werner developed a great affection for China 96 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: and had no intention of returning back to the UK. 97 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 1: In nineteen eleven, at the age of forty seven, he 98 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: married a young socilite, the twenty four year old Gladys Ravenshaw, 99 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: and a pair eventually made Beijing their home. After retiring 100 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,600 Speaker 1: from the Consular Service in nineteen fourteen, Werner devoted himself 101 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: fully to scholarly work, indulging his passions for Chinese culture 102 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:11,880 Speaker 1: and folklore, establishing a reputation as a meticulous and respected sinologist. 103 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: He and Gladys tried for years to have children, but 104 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they were unable to conceive, and so 105 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: in nineteen nineteen they decided to adopt. It was then 106 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: that they met and fell in love with a sprightly 107 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,520 Speaker 1: two year old girl from a local orphanage. The couple 108 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: decided to take her home and named her Pamela. Not 109 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: long after, Gladys became seriously ill. After weeks of treatment 110 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: in China, she was eventually diagnosed with meningitis and sent 111 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: to the United States to see a specialist. She returned 112 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: to Beijing sometime in nineteen twenty two, having failed to 113 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 1: overcome the illness. Tragically, she died shortly after, leaving the 114 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: five year old Pamela without a mother and the by 115 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: then fifty eight year old Edward a single parent. By 116 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: all accounts, Edward Werner, albeit with significant assistance from servants 117 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: and nanny's, was a devoted father to Pamela. With his 118 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: diplomatic career over he was able to devote much of 119 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: his time to bringing her up, including teaching her Mandarin, 120 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: in which she became fairly fluent from an early age. 121 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: The Verners lived at Number one Armor Factory Lane in 122 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 1: a modernized traditional courtyard house. Like many children of wealthy 123 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: expats in the area, Pamela attended Saint Mary's School for 124 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: Girls in the Legation Quarter, then later tiens In Grammar School. 125 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: It was at Tiensin Grammar that Pamela was allegedly sexually harassed, 126 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: possibly by the school's head teacher, Sidney Yates. To what 127 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: extent he was reprimanded if he was at all, or 128 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: whether Pamela was blamed for the incident by the perpetrator, 129 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: as is often the case isn't known either way. Some 130 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: have speculated it marked the beginning of a change in 131 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 1: Edward's relationship with his daughter, and he became worried that 132 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:26,520 Speaker 1: men might start to take advantage of her. Sometime around 133 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:31,479 Speaker 1: late December in nineteen thirty six, one of Pamela's Chinese classmates, 134 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: a young man named hansho Ching, turned up at her house. 135 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:39,440 Speaker 1: Some say they were just friends, others that there was 136 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: more to the relationship, and though it isn't clear why. 137 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,640 Speaker 1: Not long after he arrived, Edward Werner is said to 138 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: have violently accosted him, beating him with its cane before 139 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: chasing him away from the house. Werner reportedly hit sho 140 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: Ching so hard that he broke his nose. Not long 141 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 1: after this incident, Werner announced that he planned to send 142 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: his daughter back to England to continue her education there 143 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: at the first opportunity. It was a move which Pamela 144 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 1: was said to being extremely resistant to. On the morning 145 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: of Thursday, January seventh, nineteen thirty seven, the day Pamela 146 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: went ice skating at the French Club in the Legation Quarter, 147 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 1: she attended a dental appointment, then went back home. Later 148 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: just before leaving again that afternoon, she told a family 149 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: servant named Ho Yong that she'd be back for dinner 150 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,679 Speaker 1: at seven thirty, and asked if he could prepare her 151 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: some meat balls and rice. At some point, she made 152 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 1: her way to the wagon Lits Hotel, a popular hangout 153 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: for the city's expat community, where she met up with 154 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,400 Speaker 1: her friend Ethel Guryevitch. The pair then went back to 155 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: Ethel's home, where Ethel's mother served them tea and cake, 156 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: before they then headed back out to meet their friend Lilian. 157 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: Having left the skating rink shortly before seven point thirty 158 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: that evening, it shouldn't have taken her more than fifteen 159 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: minutes to get home, but by nine pm there was 160 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 1: still no sign of her. Growing increasingly worried, since it 161 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: wasn't like Pamela not to stick to an arrangement, her father, Edward, 162 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 1: asked Ho Young to go to the ice rink to 163 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,360 Speaker 1: look for her. By the time he arrived at the rink, 164 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 1: the whole place was dark and everyone had gone home 165 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 1: for the night, save for a handful of workers diligently 166 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: cleaning the place up. Oh Young asked if they'd seen 167 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: anyone matching Pamela's description, but all shook their heads. There 168 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: were at least two hundred people there that night, and 169 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: they hadn't been keeping tabs on individual guests. When Ho 170 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: Young returned empty handed, a despondent Edward sent him home 171 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 1: for the night. Then, grabbing a coat and a flashlight, 172 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: he ventured out alone into the icy darkness to see 173 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: what he could find himself. For hours, with the temperature 174 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: now well below freezing, Werner traped back and forth between 175 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: his home and the legation district, his weary feet crunching 176 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: over the frozen ground as he asked anyone he came 177 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: across if they'd seen his daughter, but no one had. 178 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: It was about one a m. In the morning when 179 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: Edward finally cut his losses and returned home, where he 180 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: spent an anxious night waiting for any word from his daughter. 181 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: Not ten minutes walk from Edward and Pamela Werner's home 182 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:43,319 Speaker 1: stood the Fox Tower, a dark and imposing monolithic fortress 183 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: with a garish red tiled roof and upturned eaves in 184 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:53,239 Speaker 1: the manner of much ancient Chinese architecture. Formerly a watchtower, 185 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: built in the sixteenth century, it marked what once had 186 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: been the eastern access gate to the ancient Imperial City, 187 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 1: a borderland between worlds now strangely out of place. By 188 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,079 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty seven, though it was still an impressive structure, 189 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:14,959 Speaker 1: it had long been abandoned and was home then only 190 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,640 Speaker 1: to the many hundreds of bats that nested there, though 191 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:21,880 Speaker 1: some believed it was also home to things a little 192 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: less earthly. The man who ordered its construction was said 193 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: to be cruel and obsessed with achieving immortality, and he 194 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:35,200 Speaker 1: employed all manner of our chemical practices to achieve his aims. 195 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 1: No sooner had the tower been constructed, rumors began to 196 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: emerge that it had been taken over by fox spirits, 197 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 1: which gave rise to its name. Fox spirits are shape 198 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: shifting mythological beings said to typically disguise themselves as beautiful 199 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,640 Speaker 1: women to ensnare unsuspecting men, though it is said they 200 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: also have the power to possessed them, causing them to 201 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: go mad. Even in nineteen thirty seven, locals knew to 202 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: stay away from the Fox Tower. More recently due to 203 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 1: the belief that the area was also haunted by a 204 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 1: man who committed suicide the year before, the morning after 205 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: Pamela disappeared, A thick mist swelled at the base of 206 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: the tower. Over the frosty ground. Amorphous shapes seemed to 207 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: flitter in and out of it, long loping, four limbed bodies, 208 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 1: maybe foxes, maybe wild dogs, it was hard to tell. 209 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 1: Through it all came a long, eerie howl. Two rickshaw 210 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,760 Speaker 1: pullers appeared through the mist, when their attention was caught 211 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: suddenly by a pack of feral dogs sniffing about a strange, 212 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: lump and gray thing at the base of the tower. 213 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: Every so often, they dug their teeth into it and 214 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: wrenched a bit of it away. The sweet trill of 215 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: a bird pierced the air, followed moments later by the 216 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 1: appearance of an elderly man holding a song bird in 217 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:12,360 Speaker 1: a cage, which he was taking for a walk. He 218 00:15:12,480 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: too was distracted by the sight of the dogs milling 219 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: about the strange, lumpen thing. With his curiosity getting the 220 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: better of him, he settled the cage by the side 221 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: of the road and carefully lowered himself into the frozen 222 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: ditch for a closer look. After shewing the dogs away, 223 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: he drew near to the shape until his brain was 224 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: finally able to calibrate what it was. To recognize the 225 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 1: twisted limbs as arms and legs, their appendages as hands 226 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: and feet, and the thickly matted material at the top 227 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: of it all as hair. But where there should have 228 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: been a face, he saw only a ragged gray void. 229 00:15:53,280 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: He reeled back in horror, leaving the rickshaw men to 230 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,920 Speaker 1: cover the body with a bamboo mat and keep the 231 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: feral dogs and onlookers away. The man with the songbird 232 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 1: hurried to the nearest police box to report his grisly find. 233 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 1: Officers from the Beijing Police arrived soon after. Inspector Hang 234 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:24,120 Speaker 1: shir Chung stepped forward to inspect the corpse. From what 235 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: little he could discern from the partially clothed body, he 236 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: concluded it was a young white woman, probably European. He 237 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 1: looked up at the Fox Tower looming over him. Had 238 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 1: she jumped from there, he wondered. Many formerly wealthy Russians 239 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 1: from the now Soviet Union had fled to Beijing in 240 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: the wake of the Bolshevik uprising. Unable to reconcile their 241 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: new found destitution with the luxuries of their past, some 242 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,240 Speaker 1: chose to end their lives that would at least explain 243 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 1: the horrific injuries and the crumpled manner of the body, 244 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:04,719 Speaker 1: he thought, But then he took a closer look. Almost 245 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: hidden within the extensive bruising that covered the body were 246 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: quite clearly multiple stab wounds. Some were especially large, though 247 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: oddly there were no big stains or any other sign 248 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: of the blood that should have flowed out of them. 249 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:23,280 Speaker 1: He noticed then that the arm was virtually hanging off, 250 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: and a particularly deep incision had been made across the 251 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: woman's neck. That the face was almost entirely missing, he reasoned, 252 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: was probably due to wild dogs who may well have 253 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,679 Speaker 1: been picking at the corpse ever since it appeared in 254 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: the area. This then, was no suicide, and as it happened, 255 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:49,120 Speaker 1: the victim was no destitute immigrant, not at least judging 256 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,719 Speaker 1: by the expensive platinum jewelry that still adorned her body 257 00:17:53,359 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 1: and the platinum and diamond wrist watch that lay close by. 258 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,560 Speaker 1: So not a robbery gone awry either. There was something 259 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: else too, a cart lying in the frosty dirt. Inspector 260 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: hand bent down to pick it up. It appeared to 261 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,639 Speaker 1: be a membership card for an ice rink, splattered with blood. 262 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 1: It was about this time that Edward Werner, who had 263 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: since resumed the search for his daughter happened to be 264 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,879 Speaker 1: passing the Fox Tower when he saw the small crowd 265 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: of people gathered at the base of it. He drew 266 00:18:28,040 --> 00:18:31,080 Speaker 1: closer until he was just about able to make out 267 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:34,040 Speaker 1: the grim scene at the center of it all and 268 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: what was quite clearly a badly battered dead body. No, please, no, 269 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: he muttered to himself as he continued forward toward it. 270 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,479 Speaker 1: Then he caught a glimpse of the body's clothing, and 271 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: his legs went weak. Werner recognized it immediately as his 272 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: daughter's No, no, no, he repeated as he hurried ever closer, 273 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: the tears welling up in his eyes as the officers 274 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: tried to hold him back, until finally he saw it all. 275 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:21,600 Speaker 1: Oh God, Pamela, he cried. Then everything went black. Edward 276 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: Werner fainted at the sight of his daughter's body. Such 277 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:29,120 Speaker 1: was the brutality with which he had been quite evidently murdered. 278 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 1: He was eventually dragged away and carried back home. Later 279 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: that evening, the nineteen year old Pamela Werner's body was 280 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: taken to the Peaking Union Medical College to be autopsied. 281 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: It was not an easy time to carry out a 282 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 1: murder investigation among the general chaos of the city, crowded 283 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:53,640 Speaker 1: as it was with so many war refugees, most mornings 284 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: authorities would find themselves collecting several bodies from the streets, 285 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 1: Although most had died by suicide or natural causes. This 286 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:07,440 Speaker 1: was significantly different, with the victim being a foreign national. 287 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,159 Speaker 1: Detective hand brought it immediately to the attention of the 288 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: Legation Quarters. British Police Commissioner William Thomas both knew that 289 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: the ensuing investigation would not be a mere formality. It 290 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: had been an especially brutal attack, and while Pamela's body 291 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: was found on land under Chinese jurisdiction, there was every 292 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: reason to suspect, not least of all because of the 293 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: lack of blood at the scene, that the murder had 294 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,800 Speaker 1: not been committed. There s just whose jurisdiction it fell 295 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:43,199 Speaker 1: under was not entirely clear. Not only that, with it 296 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: occurring close to the Legation Quarter, which Pamela regularly frequented, 297 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: did likely need to interview others who spent time there. 298 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 1: Only the Beijing Police had no authority in that region, 299 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: and in any case, many of its residents and diplomatic immunity. 300 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: Then there was the social standing of the Wernets, which 301 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: would most certainly attract press attention. In short, it was 302 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 1: a complicated and delicate case, so in a very unusual move, 303 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: Commissioner William Thomas agreed to a joint investigation with the 304 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:19,920 Speaker 1: Beijing Police, in which they would work together to find 305 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: the perpetrator. Detective Chief Inspector Richard Dennis, a former veteran 306 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: from Scotland Yard who was now the chief of police 307 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: for the British in the city of Tienjin, was selected 308 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: to lead the investigation alongside Inspector Hahn. The Beijing Police 309 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: agreed to this because Inspector Dennis was not under the 310 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:43,440 Speaker 1: authority of the British Diplomatic Service, and so it was 311 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: hoped his findings could not be influenced by them. For 312 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: the most part, Inspector Hahn was glad to have Dennis's assistance, 313 00:21:51,560 --> 00:21:54,120 Speaker 1: not least of all because of the access it afforded 314 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: him with the expat community, But it would be a 315 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: few days yet before he could join him in Beijing, 316 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: so in the meantime, Inspector Hahn began by reviewing the 317 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: evidence from the scene where Pamela was found. Pamela's skirt 318 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 1: was loosened around her body. Her silk stockings had been 319 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:27,440 Speaker 1: torn and her underwear was missing, although her overcoat, scarf, 320 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: and shoes were still with the body when it was discovered. 321 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:34,199 Speaker 1: As mentioned before, there wasn't much blood on them or 322 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 1: at the scene at all. Pamela's watch that was located 323 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,640 Speaker 1: near the body was found to have stopped shortly after midnight, 324 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: suggesting this as a possible time of death. And while 325 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:49,200 Speaker 1: her skating rink membership cart was discovered at the scene, 326 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:53,479 Speaker 1: her bicycle and skates were nowhere to be found. And 327 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 1: then there was the autopsy. Pamela had received several blows 328 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: to the head, strong enough to fracture her skull, possibly 329 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: inflicted with a smooth wooden or stone implement. The pathologists 330 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: surmised to inflict such direct blows, the assailant would have 331 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:14,680 Speaker 1: been very close to the victim, suggesting that Pamela may 332 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: well have been killed by someone she knew. But there 333 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 1: were many other wounds, more blunt forced trauma to her 334 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,320 Speaker 1: right arm, along with numerous stab and slash wounds in 335 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 1: multiple locations which went clean through muscle, likely inflicted with 336 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: a two edged blade at least four inches long, possibly 337 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:40,800 Speaker 1: post mortem even more horrifically. When the coroner inspected her 338 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,360 Speaker 1: sexual organs, he found that a sharp implement had been 339 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: used repeatedly to penetrate the young woman's vagina, so much 340 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,640 Speaker 1: so that it was impossible to tell if she'd been 341 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: sexually assaulted, either before or after she was killed. And 342 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: there was more. The coroner couldn't help but notice how 343 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:03,760 Speaker 1: some of the larger stab wounds actually looked more like incisions. 344 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:08,679 Speaker 1: When he opened the body up, he discovered why most 345 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 1: of Pamela's internal organs had been removed. Her bladder, liver, 346 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: and kidneys were all gone, and so too was her heart. 347 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: The ribs surrounding it had even been broken specifically to 348 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,040 Speaker 1: take it out, judging by the extensive neck wound and 349 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,879 Speaker 1: the partially severed arm. The coroner also concluded that it 350 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:35,040 Speaker 1: was likely the perpetrator had attempted to dismember Pamela's corpse, 351 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,160 Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, had been forced to give up 352 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,160 Speaker 1: and leave the body as it was, perhaps having been 353 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: spooped off by a passer by. As for the lack 354 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: of blood, it seemed that the body had been deliberately 355 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:54,360 Speaker 1: exanguinated shortly after death. The watch suggested that Pamela had 356 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 1: been alive for several hours after leaving the ice rink, 357 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 1: placing her time of death somewhere between ten pm and 358 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:06,960 Speaker 1: two am. One of the few internal organs remaining was 359 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,440 Speaker 1: the stomach, which contains some partially digested meat and rice. 360 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 1: Since Pamela was only known to have eaten a little 361 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 1: bread and cake before she left the ice drink to 362 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,720 Speaker 1: make the fifteen minute journey back home, it begged the 363 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,640 Speaker 1: question when had she eaten this? Was it possible that 364 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:30,040 Speaker 1: Pamela hadn't in fact left to go home, but to 365 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:40,879 Speaker 1: do something else since stead to many, the murder of 366 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: Pamela Werner was reminiscent of the crimes committed by so 367 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: called Jack the Ripper some fifty years previously. According to 368 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,040 Speaker 1: a guynecologist who was also present at the autopsy, although 369 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: Pamela's killing appeared to be sexually motivated, it was not 370 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: the work of what might be termed an ordinary sexual sadest, 371 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: but something far more unusual. When Chief Inspector Richard Dennis 372 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: arrived in Beijing to join Inspector Han, the unlikely duo 373 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 1: began their investigation by retracing Pamela's steps on the day 374 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:19,640 Speaker 1: that she died. From this, they quickly gleaned one vital 375 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: new piece of information. It was something that had come 376 00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: up in speaking with Pamela's friend Ethel Garyevitch, one of 377 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: the last known people to have seen Pamela alive. When 378 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: the pair had met at the Wagons Lits Hotel the 379 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,920 Speaker 1: day she disappeared, Pamela let slip that she'd already been 380 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: there that afternoon. Chasing up the lead, hann and Dennis 381 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 1: discovered that she'd spoken to the concierge there about renting 382 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: a room. The men couldn't help but wonder if she 383 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: was planning to meet an unknown romantic acquaintance there. Either way, 384 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 1: the revelation hinted at the possibility of Pamela having something 385 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 1: of a secret life, or at least one she wanted 386 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,719 Speaker 1: to keep hidden from her father. The two detectives combed 387 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 1: through Pamela's diary, but couldn't find anything significant to expand 388 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 1: on the theory. At a press conference a few days later, 389 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,480 Speaker 1: the pair admitted that they'd yet to find even a 390 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: single solid lead. In the absence of a possible suspect, 391 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:28,399 Speaker 1: public speculation began to intensify. Some wondered if perhaps the 392 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:32,120 Speaker 1: evil spirits that reside in the foxtower might have been 393 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 1: to blame, but there was something else that had caught 394 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:39,399 Speaker 1: the public's attention. Pamela's body had been found on the 395 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: edge of an especially shady part of town known as 396 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:47,159 Speaker 1: the bad Lands, a maze of narrow hutong streets packed 397 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 1: with opium dens, brothels and gambling houses, where the city's 398 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 1: underworld did its business openly and the lights burned a 399 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 1: little lower. It sat just outside the walls of the 400 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 1: Legate Quarter, close enough that it was well known to 401 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 1: the foreign community, and even frequented by some of them, 402 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 1: even if they preferred not to say so out loud. 403 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: It was a place where people went to disappear, and 404 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,400 Speaker 1: not the kind of place that you went to by accident. 405 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 1: Could the killer have come out of there? The inspectors wandered. 406 00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,959 Speaker 1: Helen and Edgar Snow were American journalists who lived in 407 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: one of the courtyard homes adjacent to the Werners. When 408 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: Helen found out about Pamela's gruesome murder, she was reportedly 409 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 1: extremely shaken. She later told Inspectors Han and Dennis that 410 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 1: the quom In Tang government might have carried out the 411 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: killing and have mistaken Pamela for her. The quom In 412 00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,560 Speaker 1: Tang or Nationalist Party, had governed China since the late 413 00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: nineteen twenties, when their leader Chiang Kai Shek's forces swept 414 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: to power following a bloody civil war. By nineteen thirty seven, 415 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 1: they were the official government of the Republic of China, 416 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: based in the southern capital of Nanjing, and were locked 417 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: in an uneasy stand off with both the communist forces 418 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,120 Speaker 1: of moods At Dong and the ever encroaching Japanese military. 419 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,160 Speaker 1: They were not, by any measure, a government that tolerated 420 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: descent or scrutiny from foreign journalists. Although now based in Nanjing, 421 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 1: the Kuomintang still had agents in Beijing, and Helen snow 422 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 1: knew that they were not happy about certain things that 423 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: she and her husband had written, in particular unsympathetic portrayals 424 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: of the Kuomintang hierarchy, which had contrasted markedly with their 425 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: more positive portrayal of Maos at Dong's communists. Helen thought 426 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: it quite possible that Kuomintang assassins had been sent to 427 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 1: murder her, but in the dark, had mistakenly attacked Pamela instead. 428 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:04,240 Speaker 1: The two women looked somewhat similar, especially in low lighting, 429 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,360 Speaker 1: and they lived on the same street. To Inspector Dennis, 430 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: it seemed partially plausible, But why would they have gone 431 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: to such lengths to mutilate the corpse. Weren't their typical 432 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: political assassinations much tidier affairs, he thought, usually involving just 433 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: a single shot to the head. After ten days of investigating, 434 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,840 Speaker 1: Inspectors Hahn and Denis still had very little to show 435 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: for their efforts, other than their leading hunch that Pamela's 436 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,840 Speaker 1: killer had possible links to the bad Lands area. Perhaps 437 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,600 Speaker 1: they'd just been visiting there when they caught sight of 438 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: Pamela and attacked her. But then Inspector Han began to 439 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: wonder what if it wasn't the killer who had the 440 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:56,920 Speaker 1: connection with the bad Lands, but Pamela herself. Han immediately 441 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:00,040 Speaker 1: ordered his officers to go door to door through the 442 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,959 Speaker 1: bad Lands, dingy, smoke filled streets to see what they 443 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: might uncover. It wasn't long before their diligence paid off, 444 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: when shocking new evidence came to light that would take 445 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: the investigation in an entirely new and even darker direction. 446 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,960 Speaker 1: You've been listening to the first part of Unexplained Season nine, 447 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 1: episode fifteen, Red Dust, the second and final part, will 448 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: be released next Friday, March twenty seven. This episode was 449 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:37,680 Speaker 1: written by Diane Hope and Richard McLain Smith. Thank you 450 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,960 Speaker 1: as ever for listening Unexplained as an Avy Club Productions 451 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: podcast created by Richard McLain Smith. 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