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Speaker 1: You're listening to the fourth and final part of Unexplained,

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Speaker 1: Season seven, episode eighteen, A Dance with Mister d John

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Speaker 1: d stood by the barge's rail as it drifted slowly

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Speaker 1: last lingering view of his beloved Mortlake House and library.

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Speaker 1: It was late September fifteen eighty three, and Dee, along

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Speaker 1: with his wife Jane and their children, and his scrier

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Speaker 1: Edward Kelly and his wife Joanna, was on his way

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Speaker 1: to Europe. It was hard to leave his home, and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't just the books, rare artifacts and laboratory equipment

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Speaker 1: he had to leave behind. The home contained significant and

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Speaker 1: treasured memories. It was where his children were born, the

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Speaker 1: Queen had visited him there, and it was where his

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Speaker 1: mother had died. But more important than any of that,

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Speaker 1: it was where he and Edward Kelly communed with angels,

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Speaker 1: and they were on a roll. Stopping now risked ruining

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Speaker 1: all hope of completing his investigation of the angels and

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Speaker 1: Nokian language and unlocking the secrets of the universe. For

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Speaker 1: all he knew, leaving Mortlake could mean severing all contact

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Speaker 1: with the other side, but In the end, D felt

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Speaker 1: him that all would be well. Only a few months before,

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Speaker 1: D and Kelly delivered news from the angels to post

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Speaker 1: Prince Albert Laski that he would soon be crowned King

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Speaker 1: of Poland. Shortly after that, D received the dire warning

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Speaker 1: still glowing from his own more optimistic prophecy, proposed a solution.

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Speaker 1: look after him for the foreseeable future. And so one night,

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Speaker 1: under cover of darkness, D and the rest of his

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Speaker 1: through all of London, past its many mullioned windows, the

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Speaker 1: taverns before fading as the boat slipped away downstream. As

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Speaker 1: stormy their boat was driven back to England. Forced to

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Speaker 1: abandon ship, Dee slipped and fell into the deep, stinking

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Speaker 1: before reboarding the ship. On September twenty eighth, they finally

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Speaker 1: off for Poland. All safe and sound for now. John

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Speaker 1: D's traveling party, minus Prince Laski, who had business to

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Speaker 1: attend to elsewhere, made tortuously slow progress across Europe, but

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Speaker 1: D was happy despite leaving England. The communications with the

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Speaker 1: angels continued unabated most nights. As they trekked deeper into

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Speaker 1: of Kelly's apparent visions were disturbing, however, including predictions that

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Speaker 1: the same time, a group of scholars broke into D's house.

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Speaker 1: It didn't bode well for Jane, but Kelly also delivered

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Speaker 1: to D what he described as the Kabbala of Nature,

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Speaker 1: a long stream of so called divine data. D was ecstatic.

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Speaker 1: It felt as though they were only months away from

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Speaker 1: discovering God's own blueprint for the universe. Day after day,

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Speaker 1: D would then spend more long hours collating them with

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Speaker 1: After five grueling months of travel, encountering floods, blizzards, and

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Speaker 1: Kelly conducted another seance, Kelly claimed to receive an angry

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Speaker 1: In early fifteen eighty seven, Kelly told D that he'd

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Speaker 1: At all. D pleaded for Kelly to return, much to

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Speaker 1: once more gathered around a crystal ball under candlelight. After

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Speaker 1: as Kelly relayed her message, he who commits adultery because

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