It is a question that has taxed the greatest of minds: is there life after death? And if so, can it ever be proved?

In 1903, three Polish scientists agreed upon a bizarre pact in order to settle the matter once and for all. But they did so without considering the implications of what would happen if their experiment should ever come to fruition.

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When lowly metal detectorist Kenneth Momerath discovered human bones beneath the Nevada desert in 1996, he would unwittingly unleash evil forces over which he had no control.

But were his own human failings as much to blame? Or was he just a sap who had strayed into a deadly world.

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Is there such a thing as an alternative reality? A parallel universe of the “What If?”

How different would our world be if the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs had missed the earth. If Judas had rejected the 30 pieces of silver. If John Lennon had never met Yoko Ono.

At this moment, is there an another you, smarter, richer and better looking, wondering if there is another him or her begging for small change on a street corner?

One day we may find out. But until then we can only accept the vicissitudes of fate, while all the time wrestling the eternal quandary: “What If?”

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The Loch Ness Monster. Sasquatch. Strange creatures now dismissed as hoaxes. But can the same be said for the thousands of other sightings of strange creatures recorded throughout history? Even if just one of them was proved to be correct, what does that tell us about our own grasp of the natural – or unnatural world?

And our place in it?

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Are we really alone in the Universe? In the summer of 1976 the former mining town of Flimby in remote West Cumbria was divided when office cleaner Martha Bevir alleged she had been the victim of a series of alien abductions. Her employers, however, claimed she was a workshy malingerer. But who was right? And what do subsequent events in the town tell us about our place in the scheme of things?

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Coming soon: Season 1 of the Well Weird podcast with Adrian Claypole...Stories from beyond beyond.

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