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Outlook Weekend: Stan and the 'Weird World'

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What would you do if a person you trust wanted you to disappear into a secret community?

Pauline Dakin's family life was full of secrets and unpleasant surprises. She told Jo Fidgen about her decision to disappear into a hidden community called the 'weird world'.

Pauline Dakin is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and a professor of journalism. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, her childhood was marked by many mysterious incidents and unexplained getaways - where her family suddenly had to flee at a moment's notice and she couldn't talk to anyone about what was going on. Pauline tells Jo Fidgen how she managed to uncover her family's extraordinary secret - including a hidden community called the 'weird world'.

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