Dear listeners, we've reached the end of another unexplained season, so I just wanted to take the

opportunity to thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time

to listen to the show. A big shout out to those of you who've been with us from the beginning,

but even if you're listening to the show for the first time, thank you so much for giving us a

shot. I know there's a lot of other stuff out there that is equally deserving of your time,

so again, it's much appreciated. Whether you're a straight-up fan of horror and the weird,

or you're just like listening because the monotonous tone of my narration sends you instantly

to sleep, you're all welcome and I remain forever your humble servant. We've just got one more

unexplained extra for you to conclude season 6, but don't fret, we'll be back very soon at the end

of June with season 7 for our seventh year at the podcast, which is frankly astonishing and once

again all thanks to you listeners. So without further ado, thank you so much again and see you on the other side.

Welcome to one unexplained extra, with me Richard McClean 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 last week's episode, she's electric, we trace the strange tale of 14-year-old Angelique

Cotan from Normandy in France, who in 1846, after a series of heavy electrical storms, was said to

have displayed an unusual ability to move objects without touching them. Often when I come across this

kind of story, the first assumption made by the people exposed to the apparent supernatural event

tends to be that some kind of haunting is taking place, other to pesky poltergeist is to blame for

the strange disturbances. It's unusual then that Angelique's story seems to begin and end with

the speculation that she was single-handedly responsible for the peculiar goings-on. There have

been similar reports of strange powers of flicking people before and since the case of Angelique

Cotan. In the year 1686, a man called Breakmans, who lived in Brussels, was said to be similarly

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