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.

And very literally, it is a return because for the first time in five years, I'm just back from a brief holiday.

I took five days away in West Wales, in one of the most unspoiled, beautiful, rural areas of this United Kingdom.

And I returned to the place of my Welsh ancestry, and it was a marvelous, marvelous experience. It'd been a long time since I've been in that area, and I've discovered new places, places that I hadn't seen before.

So I stayed on a farm, very close to Cardigan, in the country near a place called Newcastle, emlin. If you live in Wales, you know exactly where this is.

And it was accessible only by single track roads, miles of them. But digital technology being so good. My satellite navigation in the car, knew all of these tiny little roads, takes a lot of adjusting too.

When you get there, if you've been in the big city, and then you go there, then you have to adjust the way that you feel.

You've got to slow down, and you've also got to adjust to the driving there and the tiny little road.

So everything moves at a beautiful reassuringly slower pace.

Thank you very much to Catherine Allister, who run the place that I stayed for being so kind, and the kindest thing they did for me was to just leave me undisturbed for a week.

So I had a week of complete peace, just traveling around the little towns, spending time at Aberport from the coast. Look that up, that's a beautiful, beautiful place.

And by the end of the week, I didn't want to return. So my break in West Wales, I think I probably needed, I was just getting to the stage where after the last few years of being battered around by life, I just had to get off the merry-go-round for a while.

And I'm going to make some big changes in my life that I'll tell you more about quite soon.

But back to the records, as they say, was they used to say on American Top 40 radio, back on the unexplained, I didn't have a show booked for this time.

I've checked out a few guests and wasn't particularly satisfied with them.

So what I'm doing this time is I have rediscovered a digital tape that I didn't even know I had.

I found it underneath my bed, believe it or not, when I came back home the other day.

And it's a digital recording of the first anniversary edition of the radio version of the unexplained.

You know, this show was first on national radio and then it was replaced by a political show, man called George Galloway, took over.

And the unexplained ended and you, the people who listened to the show, emailed me in your hundreds and said, please keep this show going.

So I took the show that I devised, the unexplained to the internet and we've been here for nine years now.

Anyway, this first anniversary show includes an interview with a man who doesn't do a lot of radio, doesn't do a lot of interviews at all.

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