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.

Hoping that everything is okay with you,

I know the world is topsy-turvy, upside down,

and in many respects not a nice place at the moment.

And I just want to say here, by the time you hear this,

anything could have happened, and events may well have overtaken everything.

My thoughts very much go out to the people,

the ordinary people of Ukraine, and the privations that they are suffering at the moment.

You know, here, significantly west of you,

all of us are thinking about you right now.

But like I say, by the time you actually get to hear this,

everything may have changed.

So that's all I'm going to say about that situation for now,

but it's really sad and disturbing the state that the world has got itself into.

First, we had a pandemic. Now we've got this.

When will we ever get a chance to live our lives as we once did in peace and relative normality?

I don't know. Well, that's as much as I want to say on this show.

Okay, the guest on this edition,

remarkable story of Rose Thornton.

Rose Thornton went through some terrible events in her life that we will discuss,

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