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 Return of the Unexplained.

Thank you very much for bearing with me for a lovely crop of emails that I've had recently.

I'm a lot from new listeners if you are new to the show if somebody's referred you to it, or you've just discovered it by yourself, do let me know where you are.

Tell me what you think of the show, how you found it, all that kind of stuff, because I'm trying to put together a kind of profile of who likes this show, where they are, how they found it, and the kind of stuff they want to hear on the show.

Very, very important to me to feed back to me. You can do that very easily by going to the website, the Unexplained.tv, and following the links, send me a message just a short one if you want to.

To tell me about yourself and where you are, and anything else you want to say, I'm lovely to hear from you.

You had some really nice, very heartwarming emails, and some nice suggestions, not only about the show, but also about me and my life and all sorts of stuff.

I think we are becoming a family, and it's a lovely feeling to think that this little tiny podcast put together by some broadcaster in the UK, is reaching many corners of the world, and many different people, many different backgrounds.

It's what I always dreamt I would do when I set out in this broadcasting and journalism career of mine, but I could never have dreamt that one day we would be able to do this.

Thank you very much to Adam Cornwell, my webmaster at Creative Heart Spot in Liverpool for his hard work on all of this.

Adam is the guy who basically puts the show out to you. Make sure that everything is ticking over, and is responsible for the look of that website, but so many of you have been praising.

Watch out for some developments with the website and with what we're doing here in the coming months, and yes, I know that I've been told that I often say that, but this time, I think we're going to do some big things.

Here's hoping, you know, there are no guarantees in this world, but let's see.

The guest on this show is one of the most popular guests of the unexplained's history. His name David Paul Lydus, Dave Paul Lydus, former detective who writes books about missing people in the most incredible detail.

And I never really thought too much about the chronology of and the circumstances of people who go missing, not until I discovered Dave in his books.

Now I think every time, if I have on the news, for example, when I'm on the radio to report the case of a missing person, I try and think about the circumstances and any commonalities of that missing person to other cases, and in many cases there are.

Dave has done the most incredible research. His latest book is only just out. We may be the first interview with him. Certainly one of the first this book released, I think, August 31st, September 1st, so you're hearing this literally hard off the press.

And this one features a lot of young guys who've gone missing near water in very often mysterious circumstances.

And once again, in common with other books that Dave has written, other books in the missing 411 series, missing 411 series.

And once again, we find holes and discrepancies in investigations. Sometimes investigations are abandoned, they're not done properly.

And bizarre strangenesses about the actual discovery, if the person is discovered dead, sometimes they're not discovered at all, but the actual discovery of the person which may be very close to the person's point of disappearance, which seems utterly bizarre.

Sometimes six or ten or more days, sometimes a period of months elapsed, and the person is then found in or near water very close to where they went missing.

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