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Speaker 1: Unexplained Extra with me Richard McClean smith were for the
Speaker 1: weeks in between episodes, we look at stories and ideas that,
Speaker 1: for one reason or other, didn't make it into the
Speaker 1: previous show. In our last episode, Folly Adieu, we followed
Speaker 1: the extraordinary story of forty year old twins Suboena and
Speaker 1: Ursula Ericson. In two thousand and eight, the pair embarked
Speaker 1: on a bizarre and chaotic journey from Ireland bound for London, England,
Speaker 1: which resulted in a serious injury for Ursula and the
Speaker 1: murder of a seemingly innocent man, Glenn Hollind's head, which
Speaker 1: Sabina was later convicted of psychiatrists argued that Sabina had
Speaker 1: suffered from a very rare form of momentary insanity known
Speaker 1: as folly adur a madness of two. The condition they
Speaker 1: believed had been brought on due to Sabina's apparent intense
Speaker 1: connection to Ursula, who was thought to have been suffering
Speaker 1: from a fevered state of paranoia and delusion at the time,
Speaker 1: which was effectively contracted by Sabina. However, since cases such
Speaker 1: as these are extremely rare, with some medical professionals even
Speaker 1: questioning their existence, and with neither sister going on record
Speaker 1: to explain exactly what occurred, some have questioned the official
Speaker 1: narrative of this story, or at least what little there
Speaker 1: is of it. One of the more contentious theories about
Speaker 1: what actually happened is the suggestion that Sabina and Ursula
Speaker 1: were acting under some kind of jiress or had been
Speaker 1: instructed to complete a task of some kind with links
Speaker 1: to a large drug operation. It has also been speculated
Speaker 1: that the pair were already under police observation when they
Speaker 1: were initially spotted walking along the motorway. One argument claims
Speaker 1: that cut footage from a two thousand and eight BBC
Speaker 1: documentary detailing the unusual events reveals that the two women
Speaker 1: were initially arrested under section one three six of the
Speaker 1: Mental Health Act. Had this been the case, Sabina would
Speaker 1: not ordinarily have been released only a few days later,
Speaker 1: and as such would not have gone on to kill
Speaker 1: Glenn Hollins's head, the inference being that perhaps an order
Speaker 1: had come from higher up to let Sabina go regardless
Speaker 1: of her health, because the police wanted to secretly track
Speaker 1: the rest of her journey to find out what she
Speaker 1: was up to. However, this supposedly cut footage was included
Speaker 1: in an earlier TV show screened by the BBC, which
Speaker 1: suggests there was no such cover up. Furthermore, the clip
Speaker 1: in question doesn't actually show that they were arrested under
Speaker 1: section one three six, but rather that there was the
Speaker 1: possibility that they might be. I have to admit I
Speaker 1: was a little unsure about whether I should tell this
Speaker 1: story Unexplained, partly because it occurred so recently, but also
Speaker 1: because it feels in some ways exploitative in ways that
Speaker 1: other unexplained stories haven't. Certainly, if you read up anything
Speaker 1: about the events online, it isn't long before you come
Speaker 1: across all sorts of prurient theories about why things unfolded
Speaker 1: the way they did, and I was a little wary
Speaker 1: that this show might be contributing to all that. In
Speaker 1: the end, I hoped that, by sticking only to what
Speaker 1: is known and has already been detailed numerous times, that
Speaker 1: a lion wasn't crossed by way of an explanation of sorts.
Speaker 1: Notwithstanding the tragic death of Glen Hollind's head, what has
Speaker 1: always haunted me about this story, if the folly Adeur
Speaker 1: diagnosis is correct, is the notion of perpetrating something so
Speaker 1: horrific without even knowing, only for it to suddenly become
Speaker 1: apparent to you later, Like so much of Western's storytelling traditions,
Speaker 1: for want of a better phrase, we find this tragic
Speaker 1: experience detailed in ancient Greek mythology. In what is considered
Speaker 1: one of the greatest tragedies ever written. Euripides's fifth century
Speaker 1: b c. E play The Back Eye, tells the story
Speaker 1: of Dionysis's revenge on King Pentheus and the people of
Speaker 1: Thebes for not believing that he was the son of
Speaker 1: the god Zeus. In it, Dionysus disguised as a mysterious
Speaker 1: stranger exacts his revenge by driving all of the women
Speaker 1: in the city mad, including King Pentheus's mother a Gave,
Speaker 1: and leading them into the mountains to observe the Dionysian rites,
Speaker 1: intoxicating animalistic rituals designed to return individuals to a naturally
Speaker 1: chaotic state. When King Pentheus learns that the stranger has
Speaker 1: been encouraging others to engage in Dionysian worship, not realizing
Speaker 1: it is the god themselves, he orders the figure arrested.
Speaker 1: Sometime later, a herdsman arrives from the mountains, explaining how
Speaker 1: he saw the female followers of Dionysus, known as menads,
Speaker 1: behaving strangely, wandering the local forests, suckling other animals, and
Speaker 1: performing miraculous feats. They'd even attacked the herdsman when he
Speaker 1: tried to intervene, falling upon his animals and ripping them
Speaker 1: to shreds with their bare hands before going on to
Speaker 1: attack a nearby village. Eager to put an end to
Speaker 1: the apparent outbreak of Dionysian madness, Pentheus assembles an army
Speaker 1: in preparation for massacring the women, only for the mysterious
Speaker 1: stranger to convince him that he should spy on them
Speaker 1: instead to see what they get up to. Now. Under
Speaker 1: the stranger's spell, Pentheus travels to the forest, and, having
Speaker 1: got close to the Meanads, is helped into a tree
Speaker 1: to get a better look at them. At that moment,
Speaker 1: the stranger is revealed to be none other than Dionysus themselves,
Speaker 1: and exposes Pentheus to all their followers In an instant.
Speaker 1: The Meanads, led by Pentheus's own mother, Agave, in a
Speaker 1: fevered state of madness, rip up the tree by the roots,
Speaker 1: knocking Pentheus down and into the arms of his mother.
Speaker 1: Taking one look at her son, whom she mistakes for
Speaker 1: a lion, Agave puts her foot on his shoulder and
Speaker 1: rips off his arm by the socket, then proceeds to
Speaker 1: violently twist his head until it is wrenched clean from
Speaker 1: his body, and then the rest of the Meanads fall
Speaker 1: onto it, ripping off his legs and the other arm,
Speaker 1: before clawing the flesh from his bones, until the forest
Speaker 1: floor has been drenched in blood and littered with the
Speaker 1: pieces of Pentheus. With the Meanads sated, a Garve takes
Speaker 1: the head of what she still believes to be a
Speaker 1: lion back to thebes to display to her father, Cadmus,
Speaker 1: revealing it with pride. A Garve can only react with
Speaker 1: utter confusion at the look of horror on Cadmus's face.
Speaker 1: As a father demands to know what she has done,
Speaker 1: Agave calls out for her son Pentheus, to marvel at
Speaker 1: her trophy and help her nail it above the door,
Speaker 1: but Pentheus is nowhere to be found, and soon as
Speaker 1: the madness begins to wear off, that lion's head she'd
Speaker 1: been carrying in her bloody hands begins to change shape,
Speaker 1: until finally the decapitated head of her son is revealed
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Speaker 1: is the back eye is an extreme example, but the
Speaker 1: remains something uniquely troubling about the idea that it's possible
Speaker 1: to exist for a time in one state of awareness
Speaker 1: perpetrating all sorts of terrible acts without ever having the
Speaker 1: sense that there's anything irrational or terrible about them, only
Speaker 1: to then effectively awake from this state later with the
Speaker 1: full realization of what you've done. If your awareness remained
Speaker 1: the same, such as might be the case with someone
Speaker 1: determined to have psychopathic tendencies, for example, from your own perspective,
Speaker 1: at least this realization would never come. The true horror
Speaker 1: only arrives in the moment of emergence from the previous
Speaker 1: state of awareness. With that said, what is equally challenging
Speaker 1: is understanding that from the perspective of the person behaving
Speaker 1: in ways that we might not consider sane or rational,
Speaker 1: for them, there is not an awareness of behaving insanely
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Speaker 1: for example, the child of an extermination camp guard or
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Speaker 1: that appears to you the natural order of things. Every
Speaker 1: One around you that you love and respect never questions
Speaker 1: this world. On the contrary, they actively embrace it, getting
Speaker 1: upset or defensive if any one dares to query it.
Speaker 1: And as you get older, slowly you become the active participant,
Speaker 1: And before long it is you who now holds the
Speaker 1: whip and the branding iron. It is you who marches
Speaker 1: the line of camp prisoners at gunpoint, leading them into
Speaker 1: the gas chamber. But not once do you question the
Speaker 1: legitimacy of your actions, because this is the world you've
Speaker 1: grown up in. It is the world your parents and
Speaker 1: all your friends participate in. Two and all those you
Speaker 1: are hurting barely even register as human. Then imagine, in
Speaker 1: the midst of committing a monstrous act, the blindfold is
Speaker 1: suddenly ripped from your eyes, and for the first time
Speaker 1: in your life, you see everything in a completely different light.
Speaker 1: Everything that you thought was the correct and natural way
Speaker 1: of the world was nothing but one perspective of it.
Speaker 1: And you look at the human being in front of
Speaker 1: you leading to death on the floor, and down at
Speaker 1: your hands that are covered in blood, and you realize
Speaker 1: what you've done. Except it isn't madness you've awoken from,
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