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Speaker 1: the island's incredible folklore and paranormal history. As the expert

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Speaker 1: have our own truth, our own story ghosts that haunt us.

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Speaker 1: Starring Olivier nominated actor and former Blue Peter legend Peter Duncan,

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Speaker 1: When Darkness Falls is a spine chilling ghost story that

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Speaker 1: co dot uk. If you dare welcome to Unexplained Extra

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Speaker 1: with me Richard McClane Smith where for the weeks in

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Speaker 1: between episodes, we look at stories and ideas that, for

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Speaker 1: In last week's episode This Woman's Work, we heard the

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Speaker 1: story of the Cheltenham ghost, of female apparition dressed in

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Speaker 1: It is thought that this woman in Black may have

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Speaker 1: inspired Susan Hill's own Woman in Black from her nineteen

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Speaker 1: Despite a bitter and acrimonious separation from Henry and moving

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Speaker 1: found itself attached to a residential property on Unexplained. We've

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Speaker 1: having arrived straight from Hell. The casha were most interested

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