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.

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The guest on this edition, a return visit with Whitley Streiber, author, visionary, some say, and very, very interesting man.

Contactee, I guess, above all else, we'll be talking with him about his brand new book, his new research and his life now.

Just to say this, before we get to the US and talk with Whitley, this has been a particularly difficult couple of weeks for me.

I mentioned this on my Facebook page, the unexplained with how I'd use the official one that is now up and running.

Thank you very much if you responded to that. I was explaining how I have had a return of tinnitus.

Now, a lot of my listeners, I know because you tell me, have this situation, ringing in the ears,

sometimes accompanied as it is for me at the moment with pain on hearing some loud sounds or sounds of a particular frequency.

So if I hear, I don't know, carry a bag from a supermarket, a plastic one scrunching, then that sounds like broken glass to me at the moment.

It's very worrying, very frightening, and I'm trying really hard to carry on and not let it depress me.

But, you know, I had tinnitus as you might remember about six years ago and spent years dealing with it, living with it and adjusting to it.

And unfortunately, after what they call a feedback accident with a pair of headphones, just a little sharp burst one second, I think it was, of loud sound, I threw the headphones off my head.

But too late, I had the ringing in the ears back worse.

And this is where I met. So if you have any thoughts and suggestions, buy of flavonoids, whatever they may be, or your own story of how you've beaten this, believe me at the moment I'd love to know that, because it is my personal challenge and you know that I love doing this, and I've been a broadcast to all of my life.

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