Across the UK, across continental North America and around the world, on the internet, by webcast, and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is the unexplained.

Well, look, thank you very much for all of your kind suggestions about my chest infection. I continue to be in the grip of it, and every so often when I'm on the radio, I get overtaken by a bit of a coughing fit.

Many of my colleagues also affected by this, and an awful lot of people I know as well. It seems the viruses and bugs this winter season here in the Northern Hemisphere may be have been a little bit worse, and possibly a little more pervasive than they have been before they seem to hang around.

But you've sent me some great suggestions, including echinacea, and golden tea, and various other things, so I'm going to give them all a try, because I really want to get rid of this thing. It's becoming a real bore now.

Thank you for all of the emails, and for your donations, please keep those coming. You can make a donation or send me an email with your thoughts and guest suggestions. Go to the website www.theunexplained.tv

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And I love to hear from you. Please keep spreading the word. I know a lot of you are telling your friends about this, and it's lovely to hear the ways that you use the show, the places that you're at. When you listen, maybe you're doing a night shift in a hospital, or you're jogging around Copenhagen, or whatever you're doing, really nice to hear your stories.

I'm going to do a lot of shout outs. We have some important stuff to do this time. First up on the show, we're going to remember Leonard Nimoy, with one of the top Hollywood correspondents who knew him. And then after that, we're going to talk with Seth Chastack from SETI, the search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Institute, of which he is the boss.

So all of that to come on this edition. And in the next edition, we have a very important guest. We have Whitley Streiber. So two good shows coming up, I think.

Okay, shout outs. Richard Pace, good to hear from you again, Richard. He's got a question that he wants me to ask Russell, brand if he comes on here. We're still trying.

Claire Broad in Hampshire, thank you. Marlene wants us to move the site. The website I'm talking about to HTML5 protocol. We could do that, but funding would have to be enough to allow us to do that.

It simply is too expensive a thing for us to do on such a small show at the moment, Marlene, but we're thinking about it. Michael Bowell, good to hear from you.

Kurt in Little Rock, Arkansas, Tom B in Gloucester, Rick Barts in Illinois. Good suggestion. Rick Becky in Liverpool tells me about the haunted Dolby Hotel. I know Becky, the Dolby Hotel.

My dad used to drive me past there a lot. And I think that when he was in the in the police in Liverpool, he used to visit that place from time to time. I think James Cheedle, nice comments. Thank you.

Irene in Adelaide says you may like to talk to psychic Rosemary Waller in Adelaide. She was on five double a radio. And she spoke all about the twin towers before they even happened.

Thank you for that thought, Irene. I'm going to get in touch. And if you know Rosemary Waller, then you know, oil the wheels for me in advance. If you can, this is from a listener. I'm not going to give your name because you asked me not to, but I'm going to read the experience.

He says, I live in Ohio. I love the show. I thought you might be interested in my experience about a year ago. I was doing some yard work in the backyard and it was dark when I finished. So I had some tools that belong in the garage and I figured I would just put my tools in the wheelbarrow and push it up to the garage. So as I was pushing the wheelbarrow across the yard, I noticed a white light near the pine trees. It looked like a car headlight going up and down. And then it went out.

When I got to the side of my house, I saw three white lights about 100 feet up a perfect triangle, probably 40 feet wide. As soon as I saw the triangle, I heard a sound of locusts, but not an audible sound. It was in my head.

And it was way too cold for any insects to be out at that time as I made my way along the side of the house. I almost walked directly underneath this thing. Then another smaller craft came out of the triangle around four foot long with a white light at each end. And I watched that object fly over the house and disregard or rather disappear behind some trees. And that's all I remember. I don't even remember putting the tools away and the next day I was going to take a shower and I noticed a scab about two inches below me.

I was on my belly button, but it wasn't like a normal scab. It was flush with the skin, hard as a rock. And it wouldn't peel off like a normal scab, like it was a part of my skin. I managed to dig this scab off and it looked like it had a root attached to it. This is a staggering story.

There was also a scab on my right arm. Same kind of thing really weird. I don't know what happened that night, but since then I've seen other strange lights in the sky. He says, keep up the good work, buddy.

Boy, I think you need to tell somebody about that. And thank you very much indeed. You know who you are. I know who you are. And please take care of yourself.

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