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.

And there's a very great man once saying, welcome to my world, and it's a very strange one indeed.

Thank you very much for all of your support, the nice emails you keep sending, no shout outs on this edition for a particular reason,

a very special guest on this edition of the show, more about that in just a moment.

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Now, guest on this show, Eric Vandanican, the author of chariots of the Gods, and around about three dozen other books since then, a man who travels the world, he's 82 years of age now,

but his fire and enthusiasm are not dimmed as you will hear in this conversation from my radio show last week.

I promised you when I started doing the radio show, I would bring the best of the guests from the radio show to this show online and share them with the world.

So that's what I wanted to do. Eric Vandanican, like I say, due in London, on Saturday, October the 15th, he's giving a talk here, which you'll hear him talk about in this conversation.

And a remarkable man, he was on the show, as we said two years ago, very nearly, and got more downloads, I think, than any other guest that I've ever had.

And, you know, he always prompts a lot of response. I find him remarkable in so many ways.

But let's judge for ourselves, shall we, as we hear now from my show on talk radio and this audio courtesy of them, we listen to Eric Vandanican, the author of chariots of the Gods.

A very special guest for this show, always a very special guest for any show that he does. His name is Eric Vandanican, the daddy of them all, you could say, the man referenced and revered by so many, who've made a connection between mankind and visitors from space.

Now, have with me tonight, here on the table, you can just hear me leafing through it, an original signed copy of Eric's book, Chariots of the Gods, published in 1969, this one.

And given to me peculiarly and bizarrely enough, just over a week ago, as a gift by a very special person who didn't know, and neither did I, that Eric was going to be on this show.

So I find that a little bit bizarre and possibly unexplained itself. Now, on the back of the book, and the pages are turning very brown with age now as I leaf through it here.

There are some quotes about what is inside the book, and it's a very well written, very tightly packed volume that I think stands up very well today.

The Sunday Mirror is quoted on the back of this book as saying the author's theory is that in the Earth's remote past, the planet was visited by beings from space who perhaps far the humanity as we know it.

A challenging discussion about our past and future, that was the daily mirror of the day.

Also on the back of the book is a quote from the daily mail, it says powerful stuff, and no matter how one tries, it cannot be discarded as a crackpot theory.

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