We like to think we know the difference between fantasy and reality.

Perhaps one evening we might find ourselves alone at home, then we hear a noise or see

something odd.

Maybe it's a cupboard door left slightly ajar.

A door that we could have sworn was closed before.

Slowly we might begin to feel the creeping sense of fear.

That perhaps someone somewhere is watching us.

That we aren't alone after all.

Fear it would seem is a powerful primal emotion.

So potent that it can even make us afraid of something that may not exist.

But then again, just because we can't see something doesn't mean it isn't there.

In a physiological sense at least most people would feel confident if asked to locate

and identify the human heart or indeed the brain.

But if someone were to ask where exactly does consciousness reside we might find

the answer a little harder to come by.

It is a question that has profound consequences, particularly if you're inclined

to believe that the mind might also exist outside the body.

You're listening to unexplained and I'm Richard McLean Smith.

On one cold January evening in 1924 a young woman named Doris was giving birth

at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London.

The attending obstetrician Lady Florence Barrett had made a successful delivery

when things took a turn for the worse.

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