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.

Thank you for being part of my show and the reason I'm so happy at the moment I think is

that a shaft of sunlight is piercing my apartment at the moment.

It's really beautiful, lovely blue sky, but this morning, for hour upon hour upon hour,

it rained heavily, I mean, like consistently, beating on the windows and I thought, well,

that's it then. No more sunshine until about March next year, which, you know, I hate the winter.

I don't know how I get through it most years, maybe you're the same, but lovely right now.

Thank you very much for all of your emails. Thank you to Adam, my webmaster for his continued hard work on the unexplained.

Guest on this edition of the unexplained, man called Brian Allen, and another book published by Philip Mantle's Flying Disc Press.

This is a really neat book and I think having been through it today and yesterday,

that it would make a great Christmas gift for somebody, you know, I'm not here to sell books,

but it's a really good book. Brian Allen is the man who's going to be on here and the book is called,

and you know, I had to do this because any book that's called The Book of Secrets,

Aliens, Ghosts and Ancient Mysteries, you know, that's got me hooked from the start.

On the book jacket, it says Brian Allen has added an abiding interest in all kinds of paranormal

occult phenomena since his first encounter aged around three.

Although initially, his interest in the subject was passive involving studying books, etc.

over the last 50 years or so, he's been involved in a hands-on basis.

During this time, he's witnessed some genuinely astonishing phenomena,

and met amazing people. He's written 14 books,

dealing with various aspects of the paranormal in one way or another,

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