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

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

Well, here we are entering, what is it? The third week of June, staring down the barrel of July,

and for many of us we are still in lockdown.

But the signs that things may be changing are there, we've gone down from level 4 in the UK,

down to level 3, whatever that may mean for all of us, and things are slowly they tell us improving.

We're looking towards treatments and a vaccine and maybe getting back to something like normal life,

and I have to say, as a lot of people are saying to me, I've been through all of the emotions,

the full gamut of them, the depressions, the elation, the thinking of all the things that I'm going to do when this is over,

and the places I want to visit while I have time to go to them, all of these things happen when you're alone in lockdown

and staring at four walls, but you may well know that.

Your emails and communications have been massively important to me during this period, as many of you tell me the show has been important to you too,

which means an awful lot to me, thank you.

I'm a little behind on the emails, I am seeing and reading all of them, those that need a reply,

I am trying to make sure that they will get one, and it really has meant so much.

I just want to mention, no shout outs on this edition, but one person who emailed recently,

this is Liz on the black eye or in the Scottish Highlands, place that I've always wanted to visit.

Liz's email meant a lot to me, as many of the emails have done recently, she says I've been meaning to say these words for a very long time.

I've listened to your podcast for years, I've enjoyed them, I like the varied content and the interviewing style,

and she says some other nice things, and you know, just to get an email like that periodically means a lot and is a boost for me here,

as I sit doing the shows which you know that I massively enjoyed and have now been doing one version or another of the unexplained for 16 years,

14 years online as an independent podcast, and I remain very proud of that, because whatever happens to other bits of work that I do,

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