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 Return of the Unexplained.

Well, look, the first thing I want to say is thank you for bearing with me over this last

five weeks or so since I last did a show. I've had a lot of emails. Some of them very,

very brief just saying, where are you? And unfortunately, I haven't been able to come

on here and tell you exactly what happened. So I'll tell you now very briefly, they

do say that in life when problems come, they don't come singly, they come perhaps in

pairs or maybe in threes. Well, that's a fact and I can definitely attest to that. I got

a virus about seven weeks ago. I might have mentioned it on the show. Eventually, it went

to my ears and made them very, very bunged up and left me with a thing called tinnitus.

Now if you have it and millions of people do famous names like William Shatner and many

other people have this thing, you know what it is, it can sometimes be the response to

an acoustic trauma like a very loud noise. If you've been to a rock concert or something

like that, or it can be the response to a virus, that it seems is what mine is. It is

a constant ringing in the ears that never changes accompanied by some hearing loss that

we're hoping is eventually going to work its way away. Now, I'm not a patient person.

In fact, I'm not a patient patient. And I'm pushing the medics to try and get some results

on this as quickly as possible. But I'm NHS here in England. In other words, I'm having

my treatment on the public health system. I tried to fund a little bit of the treatment

myself at the beginning ran out of money. So now I'm with the NHS and it's good, but

a bit slow. But that's where I am at the moment, trying to get treatment for this. And

I haven't been able, literally, to record anything during these weeks. In fact, it's had

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