Summary
Josie Long presents short documentaries and stories about unearthly happenings - from the myths surrounding Lake Stechlin, which is said to boil whenever a major catastrophic event happens anywhere in the world, to an uneasy evening at a conference for exorcists.
Possession Produced by Geoff Bird
Psychic Blob Originally made for KCRW's Radio Race Music by The Black Spot Produced by Jeff Entman
Lake Stechlin Featuring Jessica J Lee
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2018.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.9 | Hello, welcome to the podcast version of shortcuts. |
| 0:07.4 | Spring is not here. |
| 0:09.0 | I've been recording today from the studio with icicles hanging down on the window frame |
| 0:13.9 | and snow falling all around us. |
| 0:16.5 | Merry Christmas, wrap up warm, and Halloween has come early because we've got some spooky stories. |
| 0:21.5 | We really are catering for everything except Easter. |
| 0:31.1 | This is shortcuts. |
| 0:36.0 | Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures, and found sound. |
| 0:45.2 | Today, unearthly. |
| 0:49.0 | I find it remarkably strange. |
| 0:51.4 | This nuclear power plant chimney and this floating laboratory in this really |
| 0:57.6 | very empty, natural-seeming place. It's kind of eerie but very beautiful at the same time. |
| 1:04.3 | If I invite you to come to an exorcism, you for sure will listen. |
| 1:08.8 | This change your voice. I'm speaking like this. You know, say I'm Rex. This change your voice. Speaking like this. |
| 1:12.0 | You know, say I'm wrecks. |
| 1:14.8 | More or less. |
| 1:16.2 | But I'm faking it. |
| 1:20.3 | Truly uncanny experiences are rare. |
| 1:24.4 | On today's program, we have three stories that are difficult to explain, unnerving, unearthly. |
| 1:32.2 | Please can you imagine that I'm saying that in a kind of Vincent Price voice. |
| 1:36.4 | I would describe myself now as a sceptic, but even a total sceptic can feel their own doubts |
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