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.

Well, we're pretty much at the end of 2018. You may be hearing this either side of Christmas. It's been recorded just before,

but you know, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas if you haven't had it yet and if you have had it.

Then I hope you really enjoyed it and I send you my very, very best wishes for 2019.

Thank you for supporting me through what will be in 2019, 15 years of the unexplained.

13 years as a podcast, couple of years on the radio at the beginning and three years on talk radio in the UK now.

So that's a pretty good, a pretty good track record, I think, for something that I devised and started myself.

What a year 2018 has been though, hasn't it?

We lost our bell this year and I have to say that I still feel like my compass has gone.

He was my guide and the thought that our bell was always there. His archives of course will always be there.

But the thought that he was always there gave me a benchmark and I think there are lots of shows out there now.

But all of us, I think, have lost our compass.

There's nothing to go back and reference it all to. You know, there isn't a standard anymore.

So who knows what will happen in 2019, fascinating times, but wherever you are at bell.

Who knows, maybe you can even hear these words now. I was lucky enough to get to know you wasn't I in your lifetime and speak to you.

A few times and you liked my shows, which was very humbling, but I hope you're happy and we miss you.

I think is all I can say.

Lots of things happened in my life. I'm going to have to be making some decisions about it.

I think in the new year because I need to be trying to make more money from my life.

Otherwise, I'm going to have a problem, but I continue to love all of my work.

And indeed, over the holiday period, I'm, you know, doing some work to make some money on radio, not unexplained shows,

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