Welcome to Unexplained Extra, the final episode of season 4, with me, Richard McLean-Smith.

Where for the weeks in between episodes, we look at stories and ideas that for one reason

or other didn't make it into the previous show.

In the last episode, the weight under, we learned about a series of strange events that

apparently plagued a number of residents of the Newport Housing Development just outside

of Houston, Texas in the 1980s.

The events, which ranged from alleged supernatural activity to general feelings of oppression

and malaise, were said to have been so incessant that many residents were ultimately forced

to move, often at a considerable cost.

When it transpired, the development had been partially built over an unofficial graveyard

known as Black Hope Cemetery.

Many of those affected were left wondering if that had in some way been a trigger for all

the to take in place.

It is a compelling idea, and one that is routinely played out in many a successful horror story.

Certainly, whatever we believe about the supposed supernatural consequences of disturbing a grave,

there are few of us who wouldn't feel a little uneasy at the prospect of unwittingly

digging up someone's final resting place, or indeed living above it, and yet we might

ask, why?

All of us will die, and even for those who believe we are somehow more than a bundle of

cells and flickering synapses and that something else awaits us beyond this mortal realm, there

are few who consider the preservation of the body, or its final resting place, to have

any significant bearing on that.

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