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.

Well, whether report from London or for, that's the only word I'm going to say.

A rain-spattered window I'm looking at now, very grey, and the outlook for the next week or so is going to be cold.

But over yet, we're about six weeks away from the spring and I can't wait. That's all I'm going to say about the weather.

Thanks to Adam, my webmaster for his usual work on the show. Thank you Adam, and thank you to you for all of the emails.

Please keep those coming. Now on this edition of the show, and with listener discretion advised, because some of the content is necessarily disturbing.

I'm going to let you hear a conversation that's one of the number that I had on the radio show, and up to now have never released as a podcast for posterity.

And I think this one should be released despite the content. But because of the subject, it's American-based foreign correspondent, Iver Davis.

Very well known in this country, wrote a book about the Charles Manson case. Manson exposed a reporter's 50-year journey into madness and murder.

According to the write-up about this book, Iver Davis is the brutally honest guide to this true crime horror story. In fact, it shocked the 1960s and continues to shock today.

Also, the write-up about the book says in this mix of personal memoir, criticism, and investigative journalism,

Davis delivers a truly original take on the Byzantine case, the terrified, and mesmerized the United States, and the United Kingdom, it has to be said, including his new conclusions that the Beatles, their song Helter Skeleton, as was always said, did not make them do it.

Davis was on the front lines of the story, offers vivid personal accounts, interviews, hivotoo unknown details from the very beginning, right up to the death of the blue collar psycho, Charles Manson.

He charts the tragic inside stories, not only of those murdered, but of a long list of collateral damage victims. It is a compelling, difficult listen.

So just to say it again very clearly, this is disturbing material, but this is something that happened. And I think, even though a lot of things that happened in the past are unpleasant,

I don't think we should be sanitizing and not talking about these things, especially when either Davis is a man who was actually there, a British man who was actually there covering these events and covering the trial.

I think his reflections you'll find interesting. So either Davis, the guest from the United States, this conversation originally broadcast on the radio show in 2019, of course, it's 2023 now, and four years on very nearly.

I think we should be broadcasting this and putting it on the collection of podcasts to make sure that it doesn't disappear. So that's why I'm going to do it.

If you have a guest suggestion for the unexplained, I'm into a new round of guest booking. I spent a lot of last week just getting the diary up to date.

So we're pretty much clear into the beginning of the spring with bookings, but certainly there may be guests that I've overlooked haven't spoken with recently. We've quite soon got a conversation with Richard Hogan coming up.

I think it's been a few years since I last spoke with him. It tells me he's got some new information.

There are some guests who I am trying to get on the show and whose names keep coming up. And thank you for reminding me, David Paul Dydus, the missing 4-1-1 guy. I've been trying and trying and trying for months to get him on the show.

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