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Speaker 1: This episode contains a graphic scene of gore and mutilation.

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Speaker 1: Parental discretion is advised. You're listening to the second and

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Speaker 1: final part of Unexplained Season six, episode twenty six, Under

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Speaker 1: the Rocks and Stones. With many on the island united

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Speaker 1: in grief over Reverend Lee's death and only just beginning

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Speaker 1: to process it, something far more disturbing was about to

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Speaker 1: come to light. In the locality of Lake Cappelle, about

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Speaker 1: a mile southwest of the newly discovered Dolmen, just off

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Speaker 1: the Lake Canus Road. It had just gone nine a m.

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Speaker 1: On the morning of Sunday, November tenth, nineteen twelve, when

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Speaker 1: a Missus Olivier looked out of her kitchen window toward

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Speaker 1: the home of her neighbor opposite, John Robert, and noticed

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Speaker 1: something unusual. The sixty three year old Robert was known

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Speaker 1: to be a man of regular habits and being a farmer,

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Speaker 1: was a committed early riser that morning. However, come nine

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Speaker 1: a m. Mister Roberts curtains had yet to open. Mister Gabriel,

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Speaker 1: another of Robert's neighbors, had also noticed this unusual occurrence,

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Speaker 1: and after waiting another hour and a half with still

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Speaker 1: no sign of movement from Robert's house, he went over

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Speaker 1: to investigate. To get to the front door, it was

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Speaker 1: first necessary to walk through a small greenhouse that had

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Speaker 1: been built on to the side of the property, which

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Speaker 1: was always locked when Robert was home. That morning, however,

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Speaker 1: the door was open, with all about seeming unusually still.

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Speaker 1: Mister Gabriel pushed at the greenhouse door. It opened with

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Speaker 1: a loud, metallic creak, and Gabriel stepped forward into the

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Speaker 1: space beyond. He was just about to call through for

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Speaker 1: mister Robert when the words caught in his throat sprayed

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Speaker 1: out below him. On the floor of the greenhouse was

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Speaker 1: Robert lying face down in a thick puddle of darkening blood.

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Speaker 1: There was blood sprayed across the wall and the window

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Speaker 1: above him too, and from what Gabriel could make out

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Speaker 1: from the mess of Robert's head, the entire back of

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Speaker 1: it had been smashed open. At twelve thirty, Constables rob

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Speaker 1: Yard and Ogier from the Guernsey Police arrived, accompanied by

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Speaker 1: a doctor Joseph, to analyze the scene. Judging by the

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Speaker 1: extensive damage to the back of Robert's head, Joseph had

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Speaker 1: little doubting the man was dead. As he made the

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Speaker 1: regulation check of his pulse before formally announcing it. Then

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Speaker 1: he turned the body over and gasped in horror. Five

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Speaker 1: strange wounds had been inflicted on the head, two substantial

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Speaker 1: each at the top and side, and another on the back.

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Speaker 1: Robert had been wearing a peaked cap at the time

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Speaker 1: of the assault. It had been carried out with such

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Speaker 1: material deep inside his skull. His head had also been

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Speaker 1: beaten with significant force numerous times, long after he was

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Speaker 1: but found no sign of a murder weapon or any

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Speaker 1: evidence even of an intruder. With mister Robert being a

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Speaker 1: man of such regular habits, it was a fairly easy

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Speaker 1: task to piece together his last known movements, As he

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Speaker 1: had done every Saturday night since as far back as

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Speaker 1: the home of his cousin Nicholas Robert, about a ten

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Speaker 1: minute walk away. Nicholas, who had a solid alibi for

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Speaker 1: The police and doctor Joseph estimated the attack to have

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Speaker 1: taken place sometime around nine pm the following Monday. After

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Speaker 1: Robert's death, his body was taken to the mortuary at

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Speaker 1: Town Hospital in Saint peter Port, where it was viewed

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Speaker 1: by members of the Royal Court. At one thirty pm,

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Speaker 1: John Roberts's remains were placed in a polished pine coffin

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Speaker 1: Saint Sampson's Church on Guernsey's East coast an hour later.

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Speaker 1: The hundred mourners gathered there, many still in shock, watched

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Speaker 1: on solemnly as mister Roberts's body was committed to the earth.

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Speaker 1: Over the next few days, police continued to make inquiries,

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Speaker 1: but had little to show for their efforts. John Robert

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Speaker 1: explain the shocking murder. Their best guess was that mister

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Speaker 1: Robert had entered his greenhouse freely and made it as

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Speaker 1: he was known to keep his key, before the assailant,

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Speaker 1: who they believed had likely been hiding in a small

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Speaker 1: To some the likely identity of the attacker was obvious.

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Speaker 1: On November sixteenth, an editorial column in The Guernsey Star

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Speaker 1: a few years ago a burglary in the island was

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Speaker 1: Yet nowadays Oldham, a month passes but we see that

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Speaker 1: It is rather deplorable, and one would be glad to

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Speaker 1: Though it seems to me that as long as the

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Speaker 1: dregs of the Breton population continue to drift this way,

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Speaker 1: and French peasants of the lowest class are allowed to

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Speaker 1: herd in our midst we cannot expect to maintain our

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Speaker 1: high standard others. However, as reports regarding the excavation of

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Speaker 1: the Dolmen in Lelee continued to crop up in the news,

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Speaker 1: began to wonder if something a little less tangible and

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Speaker 1: far more disturbing was responsible. On that same November sixteenth,

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Speaker 1: the police at Saint Helier in Jersey received a telegram

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Speaker 1: from the Constable of Saint Sampson in Guernsey requesting that

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Speaker 1: they at a man who was heading their way on

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Speaker 1: the latest faery in connection with the John Robert murder.

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Speaker 1: A short time later, a small team of Jersey officers

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Speaker 1: watched on from Saint Helier Harbor as passengers disembarked from

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Speaker 1: the Guernsey Ferry and quickly spotted the man who Guernsey

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Speaker 1: police had described to them. The man, who arrived with

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Speaker 1: his wife, was at a loss to explain why he'd

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Speaker 1: been suspected of the crime, and after a few hours

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Speaker 1: of questioning, he was eventually let go. A wire back

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Speaker 1: to the Sat. Sampson's constable explained that the man's answers

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Speaker 1: had all been satisfactory and there was no reason to

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Speaker 1: suspect that he was the murderer. The following week, a

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Speaker 1: reward of a hundred pounds about thirteen thousand pounds in

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Speaker 1: today's money, was put up for any information leading to

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Speaker 1: of the Guernsey community, was still presumed to be at

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Speaker 1: large on the island. John Robert's inquest, which concluded on

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Speaker 1: November twenty third, offered little comfort, having failed to establish

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Speaker 1: anything the police didn't already know, and soon the rumors

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Speaker 1: began to grow that something ominous and strange was happening

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Speaker 1: to the island. On the evening of Friday, November twenty ninth,

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Speaker 1: Charles Druet, who also lived in Lake Cappelle like John Robert,

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Speaker 1: was walking Larute to Coutanchey when two men were said

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Speaker 1: No reason for the attack was ever established. That same night,

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Speaker 1: the young son of Margaret Leticier was woken by a

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Speaker 1: The abundance of bizarre and horrifying incidences taking place so

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Speaker 1: uncovering of the prehistoric grave site in Lelee had unleashed

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Speaker 1: people to do malevolent things. Could the spirits of those

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Speaker 1: retribution for the disturbance of their final resting place. It

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Speaker 1: later came out that only a few weeks before, Margaret

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Speaker 1: Laticier had been found in a state of distress by

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Speaker 1: her children, having apparently just seen the ghost of her

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Speaker 1: husband William sat at the foot of her bed. The

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Speaker 1: man had been dead for five years, having hung himself

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Speaker 1: in the wash house close to where Margaret's own body

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Speaker 1: was later found. All of which seemed only to amplify

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Speaker 1: the growing sense of dread that some kind of unknowable

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Speaker 1: disregarding all the other unsettling events, there still remained the

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Speaker 1: very real issue that John Roberts murderer, regardless of whether

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Speaker 1: they were human or not, was very much still at large.

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Speaker 1: With many of the island's country roads and streets yet

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Speaker 1: to have lighting installed, many became too frightened to leave

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Speaker 1: with many people who lived alone choosing to stay with

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Speaker 1: friends or family for added security, and still the seemingly

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Speaker 1: random acts of violence continued. On the evening of Friday,

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Speaker 1: November thirtieth, mister Green from Saint Andrew's was knocked down

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Speaker 1: The following week, a missus d Garis was walking with

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Speaker 1: A little later that night, two miles away in castell A,

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Speaker 1: mister Maschon was woken by his daughter after she'd heard

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Speaker 1: suspicious noises coming from their back garden. Much like everyone else,

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Speaker 1: Maschon had found it hard to ignore or the talk

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Speaker 1: following year that two previously unreported clues regarding the ongoing

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Speaker 1: investigation into the murder of John Robert were remarked upon

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Speaker 1: in The Guernsey Star under the heading Strange Rumors. One

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