You're with your child at the neighborhood playground. All the children stop playing and suddenly form a circle.

One steps behind the rest, runs around them and tags your child.

All then lock arms with one another. Your child solemnly steps into the circle in a bright flash.

They disappear.

You need my help.

This is a voice from darkness. Hello, this is Dr Malcolm Ryder, Parapsicologist. Here, as always to answer your paranormal questions, warn you of strange events unfolding,

and take your calls regarding the most dire of circumstances.

That said, we already have a caller on the line, someone I'm surprised to hear from, to be

honest, as this person is, well, an old acquaintance of mine whom I haven't spoken with in years.

They claim to have something I want.

We'll find out what that is, I suppose, together in the second half of our show first though we go to

National Alerts

National Alerts this alert is for Fair Hope, Alabama.

For the past four nights, windows and doors have disappeared from homes and buildings across the town.

I do not mean to suggest they're being stolen. No, the doors and windows of fair hope

are literally disappearing, leaving behind walls with no method of entry or escape.

In all cases, the fire department has arrived broken through the walls to rescue those trapped inside.

But in each case, there are no living persons. Only the mummified remains of former Fair Hope residents.

The City Council advisors sleeping outdoors until the cause of this anomaly is discovered.

So if you're in Fair Hope, Alabama, please be careful when indoors.

That is the only national alert for this week.

Onward to quick questions.

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