Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

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So tell us about the alien abduction phenomena. Is that all tied into close encounters?

Well, the abduction phenomenon, I mean I had that happen to me so I'm definitely part of it,

is a subset of a very much larger experience that mankind is having with this.

Like for example, if you go into the community letters archive, you find very few descriptions of abductions.

There's some, certainly, I mean there's a significant minority of, let me put it that way.

It's not, they're not that rare, but they're certainly not the majority.

The actual truth is that the experience is so varied, so complex that you, it is,

it's the most complex thing that has ever happened to human beings.

And this is one of the things that this book, when you read those letters altogether

and the analysis of the letters, you realize this is something, something is happening to these people.

And it is very different, like there's one guy, I just, I'm back in correspondence with some of them,

some of them are still with us and with him and he still remembers this experience like it was yesterday.

He was working late and he came home in the early hours of the morning and went to bed

and if he put it, it felt like his head exploded, like he had no longer existed.

Now there's a syndrome called exploding head syndrome, if you can believe it,

but the head doesn't actually explode, but the person has this...

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