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 very much for all of the messages that have come to me over the new year period.

Very kind and some good guest suggestions and other things that have come in.

Please know that I do get to see each and every email as it comes in here.

And you can contact me if you want to by going to the website, The Unexplained.tv,

following the link for messages and you can email me from there.

And if your message requires a reply, then please put in the email response required.

And then I will get back to you. And if I don't, please remind me.

I'm quite happy to hear from you reminding me that I sent you an email three weeks ago.

And maybe it slipped my mind. My mind is a very flexible place at the moment and I'm trying

to keep a lot of balls in the air at this moment. As we go into this brand new year, who knows what

this year will portend? Is that the word? Who knows? It's all a blank canvas, isn't it?

Looking out the window now, my window is spatted with rain, it's grey, but it is mild.

It's almost like a spring day here. What is going on? Question we've asked a thousand times here,

and I've just gone and asked it again, but I hope all is good with you. Thank you to Adam, my web

master, for taking me into another brand new year and above all else, thank you to you for being

part of this show. If you made a donation to it recently, thank you very much. You know who you are.

Now, we're going to do something slightly different here. We're going to talk about some of the

ghostly stories and strange happenings around the life and times of a controversial figure from

history in England, Oliver Cromwell. Now, I've got to go into this conversation by being honest

with you. My education from 11 to 14 severely failed me. Okay, we used to have an examination

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