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my name is Howard Hughes and this is The Unexplained.

As ever, thank you for your contacts, your emails, and your messages on my Facebook page, the official Facebook page of the unexplained with Howard Hughes.

The website, of course, is still storming thanks to Adam, my webmaster, that is The Unexplained.tv.

Those are the two main portals for The Unexplained, so anything that's happening with the show or to the show, you'll find out about on my official Facebook page or indeed through the website.

We've had some really great guests lately, including Chris Hadfield, and thank you very much for your very nice feedback about that.

Chris Hadfield was gracious, generous with his time, a wonderful and interesting man who I'd love to speak with again.

I spent a long time trying to get Chris Hadfield on this show, and partly with the help of Johnny at Talk Radio, we made that happen.

It was well worth the wait, and as I say, I hope to speak to this immensely interesting man who's had a fantastic life again.

Okay, the guest on this edition of the show is similarly somebody who's had a truly remarkable life that's taken many twists and turns.

Marla Freese, you may well have seen on television. You might not instantly recall her name, but if you've watched various TV series, including Married With Children, Diagnosis Murder, Everybody Loves Raymond, Marla is in those shows, and she is an accomplished actress.

But she is also a medium and a psychic, and she's written her life story. It's been out for a little while now, but it's the first time that she and I will have spoken.

It's called American Psychic. It is a remarkable story, we'll work our way through that, and we'll also get her own story about some of the work she's done helping police with their inquiries, also her involvement with Secret Spies in the US military or around the US military.

She's a truly remarkable life, and a very frank and honest account of it in the book too. So Marla Freese, the guest on this edition of the unexplained.

As I've said in the last couple of editions, I'm now booking my podcast guests myself again, so life becomes a little more challenging, so any thoughts that you might have about guests' psychic could include, ways to contact them, gratefully received, and I will then keep on top of it.

And thank you very much for all of your support for my shows, the online show, and indeed the radio show. And if there's any news about the radio show by the way of course, I will tell you on the Facebook page first.

You will be the first to know after I know. A lot of debate recently, by the way, about doing the podcast in video. More and more people seem to be using video, and I just think that there is a place in this world still for the spoken word.

Art Bell had the occasional little dalliance with video, but only as a kind of CCTV camera in the corner of his studio.

Many years ago he did that, and he stopped doing it. I think that the sound of what people has to say is the most important thing in my own personal view, and it's only a personal view, is that pictures can often detract from it.

And thank you very much for all of your emails and thoughts about this, because most of you getting in touch with me feel exactly the same way.

You know, sometimes when you're listening to somebody, then you're following what they have to say, whatever reaction you may have to it, is a matter for you and for me.

But if you can see where they're sitting, and you're looking at the slanted books on their bookcase, or you're thinking that their hair looks peculiar, or how could they possibly dress like that, or isn't that study that they're sitting in fantastic,

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