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 a special edition of The Unexplained.

Very good reason for this being a special edition and we're not going to do the regular stuff this time round but there is, as I said, very good reason for that.

You might remember about six months or so ago I put out an appeal for what has become the lost edition of the radio show.

I don't have a copy of it for this simple reason.

The digital copy that I took of the show and I tended to record everything that I did became corrupted.

So in other words, you could hear one word and then you'd miss the next three. It is, as we say, unplayable.

So this particular show I don't have.

So six months ago I started making appeals for the show with Al Beelik, the man behind the Philadelphia experiment.

You may have heard of this, the Montalk project, the time-shifting experiment that apparently the United States Navy, the United States government did.

So I got Al Beelik, the man who was involved in this he says and has over the years occasionally talked about it.

I managed to track him down and in 2005 we put him on the radio show and that show got more response from listeners than any other show of its kind that I'd ever done.

Now, as you know, I was very new to it all then back in 2005. I'd only been doing it for five or six months or so.

And I was still feeling my way about how you introduce these subjects to the public of Europe because that show was on AM radio.

And I had listeners write the way down into Europe by night and on the internet I had listeners all over the world.

So it was a big deal for its day, but I was feeling my way.

So one day I heard about the Philadelphia experiment. I'd heard Al Beelik on American radio once before.

I realized he was not an easy man to get hold of, so I tasked my young producer to try and track him down and I gave him a few leads.

And I said, if you can do this, I'm going to buy you not just one beer, I'm going to buy a case of beer.

Anyway, we did the research and eventually we came up with a phone number for Al Beelik, we tried the number.

The guy answered and one thing led to another the next thing he was on the radio show.

We did a full hour with him back in 2005 and it was for me an amazing hour because I wasn't sure of what to expect.

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