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Speaker 1: Episode four, The Widening Gyre, Part two of three. It

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Speaker 1: was already dark as Guy Playfair approached the front gate

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Speaker 1: first time in the early evening of Monday twelfth of September.

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Speaker 1: A one faced Peggy greeted him at the door. Though

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Speaker 1: clearly exhausted, she thanked him warmly for coming and promptly

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Speaker 1: showed him through to the kids, where, over a cup

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Speaker 1: on all the mayhem of the last few weeks. Guy

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Speaker 1: was struck immediately by how resolute Peggy was and how

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Speaker 1: he thought it certainly wasn't Peggy. Afterwards, Guy was introduced

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Speaker 1: he could barely keep up as the words tumbled fast

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Speaker 1: stepped in to introduce himself and was soon regaling Guy

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Speaker 1: Then later, away from the family, he told Guy a

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Speaker 1: little more about what he'd seen, as Maurice Gross had

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Speaker 1: also noticed whatever was happening, he thought seemed to be

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Speaker 1: the room at the time, all of which sounded more

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Speaker 1: been rigged up to a shutter release cable that Graham

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Speaker 1: Graham should head back downstairs. Taking his cue, Graham promptly

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Speaker 1: it was agreed not to mention it to Janet, partly

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Speaker 1: Later that night, Graham was unable once again to capture

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Speaker 1: As Janet prepared for bed, Graham attempted a quick test

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Speaker 1: Now all of them were completely drained of power. The

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Speaker 1: following day, Maurice Gross, who'd been ill at home with

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Speaker 1: Janet's room being repeatedly knocked over by an apparently invisible force.

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Speaker 1: Fun and Games for Children, it read. Listening back to

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Speaker 1: a recording of the event, Guy marveled at how each

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Speaker 1: to the sound of the book whizzing through the air

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Speaker 1: Look at your pillow, mum, came Janet's voice, suddenly from

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Speaker 1: long after the event with the book, Guy was sent

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Speaker 1: when listening back to the tape, Guy could clearly hear

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Speaker 1: A short time later, the video team, led by A

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Speaker 1: as if something invisible had deliberately tampered with it. Though

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Speaker 1: At this point both Morris and Guy favored the two

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Speaker 1: main possibilities that either Janet was unwittingly exerting her own

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Speaker 1: that Peggy's brother John was visiting the family when, after

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