1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: There's nothing better than feeling comfortable in your own shoes, 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:05,200 Speaker 1: and that doesn't mean flopping down on the count with 3 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: bunny slippers. Maybe you're a parent raising a little rock star, 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 1: or a techno man working from anywhere and jumping from 5 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: one thing to the next. Whoever you are, All Bird 6 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: wants you to be comfortable in your actual shoes too. 7 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: Their wool runners, pipers, and loungers are designed for a 8 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: level of coziness that makes you feel like you can 9 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: do anything. 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Each shoe is carefully crafted from natural 14 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: materials that tread lightly on our planet, from ZQ certified 15 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: Marino wool to a bouncing midsill made from sweet foam, 16 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:51,159 Speaker 1: the world's first carbon negative EVA material made from sugarcane. 17 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me Richard mc lean smith. 18 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: For the weeks in between episodes, we look at the 19 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 1: stories that, for one reason or other, didn't make it 20 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 1: into the show. In last week's episode, from eternity to hear, 21 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 1: we ventured into Egypt's Valley of the Kings, where, in 22 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two, a team led by Howard Carter and 23 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 1: George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, uncovered the final 24 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:31,679 Speaker 1: resting place of the long forgotten pharaoh tutank Armoun. The 25 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: apparent fatal consequences of their extraordinary find led many to 26 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: suspect their disturbing of the sacred tomb had in some 27 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: way released a curse on any who dared to come 28 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 1: near it, though there is little way of ever knowing 29 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: the truth of such a claim. What is little in 30 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: doubt was the impact that Carter's and Carnarvan's rediscovery had 31 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: on the public imagination. The find made Carter and Carnarvin 32 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:05,559 Speaker 1: overnight celebrities, and with it a kind of Egyptomania took hold, 33 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: influencing everything from architecture and fashion to literature and cinema. 34 00:02:13,120 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: A perhaps less expected consequence was the spike in the 35 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: number of people suddenly claiming to be the reincarnated spirits 36 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:25,400 Speaker 1: of ancient Egyptians, with spiritualism proving especially popular in the 37 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 1: twenties and thirties, so too was the practice of supposed 38 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: past life regression, with no end of people now claiming 39 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:35,799 Speaker 1: to have lived a previous life, as the newly rediscovered 40 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: pharaoh Tutankhamun, or perhaps as the more widely known Pharaoh 41 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:45,920 Speaker 1: Rameses the Second. There was one woman, however, who had 42 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: a rather different story to tell. Her incredible claim to 43 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: have once lived before in a long ago and distant 44 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: land was not only linked to a far more obscure name, 45 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: but had been claimed long before Carter and Carnarvan's find. 46 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: The story of the woman formerly known as Dorothy Edy 47 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: has been described by one New York Times reviewer as 48 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: one of the world's most intriguing and convincing modern case 49 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: histories of reincarnation. In nineteen o four, a baby later 50 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: christened Dorothy Edy was born in South London to parents 51 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: Mary and Reuben Edy, a young couple from Ireland. A 52 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: few years later, at the family home in black Heath, 53 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: a three year old Dorothy was playing at the top 54 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: of the stairs when she tripped and fell, hitting her 55 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: head on the floor. By the time her parents found her, 56 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: it was too late. A doctor was called immediately, who 57 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: arrived a short time later only to confirm the terrible 58 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: news their young daughter was dead, and so it was 59 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: with monumental surprise when the doctor returned to the young 60 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: girl's bedroom where he had left her a short time later, 61 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: to find her sitting up, awake and playing happily in bed. 62 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: Not long after, the young girl began exhibiting odd behavior, 63 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: talking with a peculiar accent and speaking of large column 64 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: buildings that she remembered and how she wanted to go home. 65 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: The following year, Dorothy's parents took her to the British Museum, where, 66 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,720 Speaker 1: at the first sight of the Egyptian galleries, she is 67 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: said to have run to the nearest statue and kissed 68 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: its feet, declaring that she was finally home. Pointing to 69 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: one particular photo, a long, heavily eroded, flat topped structure 70 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 1: fronted by a grand colonnade, the four year old Dorothy 71 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: turned to her parents, stating that it was where she 72 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: used to live. The building was the Temple of Seti, 73 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,479 Speaker 1: the First, a lesser known, though by no means insignificant, 74 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 1: New Kingdom pharaoh of the nineteenth dynasty. It was fair 75 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,919 Speaker 1: to say the young Dorothee had certainly never heard of 76 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: him before. Dorothy's obsession would only intensify as she got older. 77 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 1: As a teenager, she began to experience intense and vivid 78 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 1: dreams of wandering through grand halls covered in ornate frescoes, 79 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 1: or stepping into the warmth of a bright desert sun. 80 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: At fifteen, in one night time reverie, she claimed to 81 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 1: have been visited by the mummified body of Seti the 82 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: First himself. In response to her increasingly bizarre claims and 83 00:05:53,760 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: sleep disturbances, Dorothy's parents had her admitted to a psychiatric hospital. However, 84 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,200 Speaker 1: doctors were unable to find anything clinically wrong with the 85 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: young woman. After leaving hospital, Edy remained more convinced than 86 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 1: ever that her spirit belonged in Egypt, and made it 87 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:19,760 Speaker 1: her lifetime's ambition to move there. She began studying hieroglyphics 88 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:24,279 Speaker 1: and collecting Egyptian antiquities. She took on a job working 89 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: for an Egyptian culture magazine, which advocated support for an 90 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: independent Egypt, which was governed by Britain at the time. 91 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: In her late twenties, Ed met an Egyptian student named 92 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:41,359 Speaker 1: Imam Abdul mcguid, and in nineteen thirty one, much to 93 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:47,159 Speaker 1: EDI's joy, the pair decided to relocate to Egypt. It 94 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: is said that when Edy first stepped foot onto Egyptian soil, 95 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: she kissed the ground, announcing that she was there to stay. 96 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,919 Speaker 1: Are you always taking care of your family? Do you 97 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: often take care of others and not yourself? Now it's 98 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 1: time to take care of yourself, to make time for you. 99 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: You deserve it. Teledoc gives you access to a licensed 100 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: therapist to help you get back to feeling your best 101 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: to feeling like yourself again. With teledoc, you can speak 102 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 1: to a licensed therapist by phone or video. 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That's t e la 112 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 1: DC dot com slash unexplained. Podcast Edi and mcgwid would 113 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: marry soon after and give birth to a son, who 114 00:08:15,200 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: they named Seti, in honor of the man that Dorothy 115 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: had come to feel a strange connection to. She herself 116 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 1: later adopted the name om Seti, meaning mother of Setti. 117 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: One morning, shortly after her son was born, Omsetti awoke 118 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: to find herself sitting at her desk, a pen in 119 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: her hand and reams of paper in front of her 120 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: covered in short fragments of hieroglyphic script. 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The 131 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: pair had apparently become lovers, resulting in Ben Treshit becoming pregnant, 132 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: as was ever the case ben Tresciit was then said 133 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 1: to have borne the brunt of the scandal, being forced 134 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: to commit suicide rather than endure an inevitable public flagellation. 135 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty five, om Stti separated from her husband 136 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 1: and took a job working for renowned egyptologist Selim Hassan 137 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 1: at the Department of Antiquities, becoming the first woman ever 138 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:04,800 Speaker 1: to work. It was said that when Omsetti first visited 139 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 1: the Temple of Seti in Abidos, she recognized it instantly, 140 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,439 Speaker 1: and when tested by the Chief Inspector of Antiquities to 141 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: locate elements on the wall paintings inside, she was able 142 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,839 Speaker 1: to do so perfectly, despite the fact that the paintings 143 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:25,839 Speaker 1: had never been made public and it was pitch black inside. 144 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 1: Omsetti eventually moved to Abados, where she would remain until 145 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: her death in nineteen eighty one, never wavering in her 146 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: conviction that she had lived a previous life. Omsetti is 147 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: often dismissively described as an eccentric fantasist. However, as greatly 148 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: revered cosmologist Carl Sagan once noted, she was a lively intelligent, 149 00:10:53,120 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: dedicated woman who made a real contribution to Egyptology. If 150 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,719 Speaker 1: you enjoy listening to Unexplained and would like to help supporters, 151 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: you can now go to Unexplained podcast dot com forward 152 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: slash support. All donations, no matter how large or small, 153 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: are massively appreciated. All elements of Unexplained are produced by me, 154 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: Richard McClain smith. Please subscribe and rate the show on iTunes. 155 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: Feel free to get in touch with any thoughts or 156 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 1: ideas regarding the stories you've heard on the show. 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