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.

I hope the life is okay for you as we slide towards Orton here in the Northern Hemisphere. It's been a mix of reasonably warm sunshine and quite a bit of heavy rain today.

So the weather's playing games with us. I know in the Southern Hemisphere you're happy that you've got spring and that's just the way the world works and thank goodness it still is.

I'm going to do some shout outs on this edition and then we'll get to Irina McCaman Scott who's done some amazing research for a new book published by Philip Mantle's Flying Disc Press.

About the Pascagula case we've had Calvin Parker on this show. A very credible man I felt with his story very hard felt and if you want to go back and listen to that before you listen to this, then you know that's that might be useful, but I think you're going to pick up enough about the case anyway from this show by itself.

Irina McCaman Scott is a scientist who's also massively and has been for a huge portion of her lifetime involved in investigating subjects like uphology.

And alien abductions her book is called Beyond Pascagula the rest of the amazing story now this is an interesting thing the Pascagula events happened in 1973.

The account of it is that on October the 11th 1973 9pm two men Charles Hickson 42.

Calvin Parker aged 19 who were employees at a shipyard were fishing off a pier on the west bank of the Pascagula River in the Mississippi. Suddenly they sent something behind them.

They turned around to see an oval object with a light and then saw two flashing blue lights. And that is how one of the most amazing and now best known alien abduction stories began.

But with other alien abduction stories that we've read about and heard most of them you hear the story and then it begins to fade over time as people's recollections fade or some of the principles, the witnesses, the people who know about it die off.

This is a very different case and it's been highlighted by the research that Irina has done for her book because new witnesses in recent times, very recent times have come to light.

Much more detail and a whole narrative has emerged around the Pascagula abduction not just the story itself but around it as you're about to hear.

So this is something very different and the research that Irina has done for this is incredibly impressive as you will hear and she's given a big chunk of her life to trying to get to the bottom of this.

So before we get to Irina McCammon Scott on this edition of the unexplained just to say thank you to Adam, my webmaster has ever thank you to Haley for booking this guest.

And thank you to you for being part of my show. Thank you very much for all of your emails and the nice things you said if you've made a donation to the online show recently.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Continuing to do my work here and trying to do my best hope I'm able to deliver that. Okay, let's just do a few shoutouts Mike in Kent, nice to hear from you in the last day or two.

Joy, got your email this morning. Some kind and perceptive words. Thank you, Joy. Roger Martin, thank you. Tom wants to see me more on Twitter.

I must admit, I've got a Twitter account to use it nearly enough. Thanks Tom. Simon, thank you for your thoughts. Fill in Michigan. Peter Boyland, thank you for your email.

Stephen Stewart wants me to revisit the DB Cooper case. Okay, Polly in Kent, good to hear from you and Maureen and Rachel in York.

I think it was who I've just heard literally minutes before recording these words. Thank you for having some really nice and supportive emails and it's really heartening to hear from so many people.

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