Across the UK, across Continental North America and around the world on the internet by webcast and by podcast, my name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained.

Thank you very much for being part of my show.

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I'm very grateful for all of your comments and very grateful for all of your support.

I'm finding this a challenging time at the end of the year.

I don't know. I think I need to get myself a tonic or something.

That's the whole other issue. Maybe a lot of other people feel that way too right now.

I just thought I would reflect it here. The weather, changeable, bits of sunshine, bits of cloud,

sometimes very, very, very cold at night, sometimes not so cold by day or night.

Sometimes it feels like spring, next day it's cold. But you know

welcome to living in his majesty's United Kingdom I guess. Now what am I going to do?

Thank you very much to Adam my webmaster for his continued ongoing hard work on the show.

Guest on this edition and my thanks to him for stepping in John West, brand new book about ghosts. John West, born in London, film producer, actor,

author of books and articles on history, crime, ghosts and folklore,

his first book on British Ghosts, Britain's Haunted Heritage,

published November 2019, two new titles,

Britain's Ghostly Heritage, and the Battle of Gainesborough, 1843, followed in 2022.

There was a new book that was published at the end of October on Halloween in fact this year

2023. As a journalist John currently writes for psychic news and Suffolk and Norfolk life.

Many many features that he's written there. We're going to talk with him about his brand new ghost book,

the title of which we will reveal during the conversation,

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