Strange Arrivals is a production of I-Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey.

For the best experience, listen with headphones. This episode includes discussion of violence, sexual abuse, and suicidal ideation that, while they almost definitely did not actually happen,

may be disturbing to some listeners.

Could this be the man whose experiments with hypnotism were finally to become a legitimate part of science which today cures the mentally ill?

Did you have a vision beyond your time, Dr. Mesmer?

Were you entirely a healer or entirely a fraud?

I held a key.

It might have unlocked,

the door to an unknown world.

But I could not enter. Those who follow the men of science,

those who follow the men of science,

I wonder, they will find a footprint left by old messes, the All I'm Miss Smith.

This Jonathan.

I'm Toby Ball and this is

I'm Toby Ball

and this is Strange Arrivals.

Episode 7, The Case of Emma Woods, Part 2.

In the last episode, we began to look at the case of a woman who goes by the pseudonym Emma Woods.

With the help of her therapist, Emma contacted alien abduction researcher David Jacobs, who taught history at Temple University. contacted Alien Obduction Researcher

researcher David Jacobs who taught history at Temple University in Philadelphia

Because of the distance between Philadelphia and New Zealand where Emma lived

Jacobs began to conduct hypnotic regression therapy over the phone.

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