Across the UK, across continental North America, at around the world, on the internet, by webcast and by podcast mining is Howard Hughes, and this is the return of the unexplained.

Thank you very much for being so kind about the show, I'm not going to do any shout outs on this edition but we do have a really good show lined up here.

With a man who I featured on my radio show quite recently and we didn't really have enough time, what with commercial breaks and the other imperatives that you have to abide by to explore what he has to talk about in as much depth as I would have liked.

So we're going to get him on here, his name is Dr Gary Schwartz. He is an academic who researches many of the coolest topics that we talk about here, many of the most interesting ones.

Things like life after death and synchronicity, which we'll be talking about mostly here, he's also done some intensive research about mediums which we talked about on the radio show a few weeks ago.

He is a very very interesting man, he is a man of depth and thought and somebody who I think that you're going to like.

Now if I sound a little tired, it's because late last night I was on the London radio station that the unexplained normally is broadcast from.

Reporting from the scene of the London terror attack, the one that you will have seen reported about.

And I was watching the work of all the various crews, TV crews from various parts of the world, I spoke to some of the guys from NBC including their London reporter.

I spoke to an Australian reporter reporting for the nine network, Michael, his name.

They were crews from Japan and every European country all trying to take in what had happened in London, which the world regards as a decent democratic and above all safe city.

It is a nightmare. It's not a nightmare that these days is unthinkable unfortunately because of things that have happened here and in other countries recently.

But for me, it was humbling to see the work of the emergency services last night as they were getting on with their job in good humour.

Many of them having done astonishingly long shifts since the atrocity happened.

But just to watch the mechanics of their work and to walk around the site that had been caught and off by police and go on the radio and talk about it and talk to people who were observing it.

And we did remark upon a phenomenon that had appeared there, but it appears anywhere these days where there's been something like that.

The phenomenon of people going there to take a look and take pictures.

And I was asking last night what was that all about and I think I worked it out.

The fact of the matter is that there is a lot of virtual reality in the world at the moment.

And we get information about everything that happens on a small screen.

Quite frequently a tablet or in our phones on my phone I have.

All the worlds media coming in all the time now couldn't be without my smartphone.

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