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.

Well, I hope everything is okay with you. I'm recording this as we are well and truly into the fourth week of lockdown.

And, you know, I'm continuing to make tasks for myself. Apart from planning the future, I'm giving myself things to do.

So I'm rewiring things and trying things out. It's weird really, but, you know, at least the sun is shining in a world that unfortunately I can't go out and explore.

But, you know, we hope to get some news on the exit strategy, certainly in the UK for the end of lockdown and how they might phase that in.

I think people just need to be leveled with and given a clue as to how, when that happens, when it's deemed that it can, you know, how it will happen, just so that we can, you know, make some plans.

Life is, a lot of it is all about making plans. Of course, we do know the famous John Lennon quote that life is what happens when you're making plans.

Sometimes your plans don't happen. I have a million plans that never materialized, but we have to have some idea of where the chart is taking us.

It's like going on a seavodge, even if you divert around a few islands and atolls, it's just nice to have an idea of the final destination and how you might get there, I think, before you set out.

I don't know what you think about all of that. But, apart from that, I'm coping with it all. I hope you are too.

I think the world divides at the moment into two kinds of people, those who get stir crazy in a lockdown situation and those who are because they're used to dealing with their own company, which I am, those who are able to handle it.

So it's a very interesting study and psychology, don't you think? And I think a lot of academic papers and all sorts of things will be written at the back end of this.

Thank you very much to my webmaster, Adam Cornwell, who's definitely kept the wheels turning for me during all of this. Thank you, Adam.

And thank you to you, like I say, for all the communications. When you get in touch, please remember to tell me who you are, where you are, and how you use this show.

Now, I'm not going to do any shout outs on this edition, apart from this. I got a good email from Kay in Essex.

And Kay, let me know if you want me to talk with you about this on the radio show at some point when we do listener stories.

You tell me a story about a near death experience that you had. And the doctor in hospital, you were, in fact, you had pneumonia, you were on a ventilator, in intensive care for three weeks.

The doctor said it was the medication and it was a hallucination caused by that. But you think, as many people think, that the experience that you had was more than that, especially after you've read other people.

Some experiences, I'd like to know more about that. Kay, thank you for the email. And I can tell you, I know I've mentioned it before on the show that my own mother, when she was a small child, had pneumonia as you did Kay.

And my mother nearly died. I think she was nine or ten. And the doctor came, though, were not the treatments that we have today then. And the doctor said to my grandmother, her mother, your daughter will either make it tonight or won't.

It was make or break. And my mother made it through, but believe that she had a near death experience. She went to a very beautiful place, a place of eternal sunshine and beautiful colors of a kind that we don't have here.

And so many people who have these experiences say, those she met on that side, if you believe in this, told her that she had to return.

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