Hello and welcome to Unexplained Extra, or this special edition of Unexplained Extra, I

should say, with me Richard McLean Smith. So this week, as you may be aware, I announced

that I would do a one-off sort of question and answer episode to coincide with the upcoming

release of the book Unexplained. In light of that announcement, I had a number of people

asking me what were the books that had inspired me or the show, so I just thought rather

than putting up a list on social media. Why not just talk about them? And I've been overwhelmed

with the response, so thank you all so much for getting in touch and giving me your questions.

I've managed to condense it down to about 15 or so, I think, apologies if I haven't included

yours on the show, so just a couple of quick easy ones to start off with. A few people had asked

me about the music, so the music in the show, I composed that myself and you can hear quite a large

part of it. On the Unexplained SoundCloud, so if you wanted to hear that, you could go to

soundcloud.com forward slash Unexplained podcast, I think, is the address and you can find it there.

And the other question that quite a few of you were asking was, is the book going to be an audio

book as well and will I be narrating it? And the answer to that is yes, it will be.

And so at the moment, the book is due out in the UK October the 25th, and we are sort of talking

about getting it distributed in the US and Canada as well, so I think just watch this space on that one.

So let's begin. I had quite a few questions in a similar vein to this one, so I'll just take one

of that, which is from Conan, who asks, have you ever had a personal supernatural experience?

So the short answer to that is no, but something that I might talk about in more depth later on

in another question, is that I suppose you could also say that maybe I have, but I wasn't aware

that it was supernatural. But I think what I do find fascinating though is that I have heard from

lots of people and from people that I would consider to be perfectly rational and intelligent

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