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Speaker 1: The Berwin Mountains have always been a liminal place, a

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Speaker 1: Caught between the Welsh wilds of Snowdonia to the west

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Speaker 1: It is a place where myth and magic simmer beneath

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Speaker 1: All cultures talk of other worlds, places beyond the one

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Speaker 1: places like Kur, the Sumerian land of the dead, or

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Speaker 1: of Welsh mythology, or ar Noon, as it is known,

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Speaker 1: creatures existing in their own right. Ar Noon, also called

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Speaker 1: the Mabinogi, a collection of stories in prose dating back

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Speaker 1: its kind in British literature. In the first branch, ar

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Speaker 1: Noon is depicted as a paradisical land ruled over by

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Speaker 1: King Arthur travels across the sea to this mysterious place. There,

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Speaker 1: learned that Arnoun is also home to a race of

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Speaker 1: the citizens of the mystical land are depicted as something

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Speaker 1: people of South Wales regarded North Wales as pre eminently

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Speaker 1: And curiously, there is one place more than any other where,

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Speaker 1: You're listening to unexplained, and I'm Richard McLean Smith. In

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Speaker 1: the evening of May tenth, nineteen seventy three, a young

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Speaker 1: couple were sitting in a car in Pike Hill, near

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Speaker 1: Around fifty similar sightings were seen over the next few

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Speaker 1: the British trade union movement. It had been a fraught

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Speaker 1: manifest even more unusual events. On January fifteenth, nineteen seventy four,

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Speaker 1: Three days later, police received a report from an anonymous

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Speaker 1: A strange and mysterious event that remains to this day unexplained.

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Speaker 1: In the evening of Wednesday, January twenty third, nineteen seventy four,

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Speaker 1: Anne Williams was settling down to watch TV when she

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Speaker 1: Williams lived in brow Dinham, situated at the northern edge

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Speaker 1: But what Anne had seen was a bright light high

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Speaker 1: It was followed by what sounded like an explosion, and

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Speaker 1: Seconds later, Williams was out of the house and running

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Speaker 1: Sergeant william turned to see a soft, yellowish glow cresting

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Speaker 1: it faded away and the night returned down. At the

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Speaker 1: support staff frantically worked the phones as more and more

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Speaker 1: the Landithlo also reported hearing the huge explosion and that

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Speaker 1: lights were flashing on the slopes of Cada Bronwyn. Another

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Speaker 1: Tina shouted through from the living room what the hell

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Speaker 1: was that? They asked. Running outside, the three of them

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Speaker 1: it was clear to Pat, an experienced nurse, that some

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Speaker 1: Pat replaced the receiver and looked across to Diane and Tina,

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Speaker 1: best to reassure them, keeping one eye on the pitch

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Speaker 1: sign off the downed plane. It was approaching ten PM

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Speaker 1: What in daylight had been a vibrant snow topped moorland

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Speaker 1: pointing out the windscreen toward a strange, diffuse light in

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Speaker 1: hazy ball that was glowing and pulsating. As Pat recalled later,

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Speaker 1: After watching for fifteen minutes, with nothing else to be done,

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