Across the UK, across Continental North America and around the world on the internet, by webcast

and podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

Well, thank you for returning to the show. This is the last one of 2009. It's been a

very big year for us. Launch the new website. We've done more shows. We've taken the show

out on the road. There are more plans for 2010. Please watch this space. Again, thank you

for the great email traffic that I've had over the last month since edition 27, went

out. Emails from all parts of the world and all parts of the UK and many, many more emails

saying again that we wondered where you'd gone from talk sport and now we found you again

and we're glad you're doing the show. So certainly there is no doubt that that show had

an audience and we are reconnecting with that audience, which is a nice feeling. This

time round we're going to bring you Darren W. Ritten, the ghost hunter based in the

Northeast. He's got not one but two new books out. We'll be talking about those and some

of his very, very scary experiences with presences from the other side, if you believe that

kind of thing. Also, we're going to bring you a conversation with Nick Pope about something

that only appeared in the news a few days ago here in the UK and astonishing statement

while I thought it was astonishing and many other people did too from the Ministry of

Defence here saying that they are effectively closing down their UFO investigation facility.

Now, as you might know, Nick Pope is now an independent investigator but he was the man

who did those investigations for the Ministry of Defence up until the 1990s. So that's

why we're going to be talking to him in just a second. But I'll read you the statement

on the Ministry of Defence blog that's just appeared and it'll only take about a minute

or so to read it's worth hearing. Here it is, there have been various media reports

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