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beyond belief
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fact or fiction
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posted by jonathan franks tonight
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your challenge is to separate what is
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true from what is false
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five stories some real some fake
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can you judge which are fact and which
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are fiction
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to find out you must enter a world of
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both truth
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and deception a world that is beyond
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[Music]
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belief
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an upside down portrait of a vaguely
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familiar face
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at first blush it appears to be a normal
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photograph viewed from an unusual angle
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but let's turn it over my apologies to
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any children we just frightened
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especially mine as you can see the photo
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is not what we expected
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our eyes processed false information to
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our brain and we were tricked
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tonight you'll be presented with five
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stories
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we'll tell you which are true and which
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are false at the end of the show before
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you prejudge them
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examine them from all angles and don't
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accept anything
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at face value
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[Music]
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every week you see ads for house sitters
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in the paper
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you ever considered being one people who
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need to leave town are always willing to
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hire
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a responsible party to live in their
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home and make sure no harm befalls it
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while they're gone
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ally prescott has taken on a house city
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job this weekend
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she has lots of good books to read and a
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things to do list provided by the owner
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but before this job is through her main
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thing to do
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would be to survive
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i was a junior in college and i thought
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i had found a great way to make some
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extra money
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i put an ad in the local paper offering
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my services as a house sitter
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i got a job right away and before i knew
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it i was spending my first night in a
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huge
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expensive mansion the owner was an
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architect named lloyd townsend
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mr townsend left that morning to join
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his wife madeline
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in london for a month-long vacation
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it was a beautiful house but the weather
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was kind of giving me the creeps
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come on carol just drag your butt
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out of your apartment and get over here
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well i'm all alone we can study here
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there's like
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15 rooms oh you come on it's just a
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little storm
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what's the big deal
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oh weird you're not gonna believe this
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i'm watching tv and the show just
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changed to some guy
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mixing something with a shovel in this
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little
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dark room no
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i i didn't touch anything
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wait a minute
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[Applause]
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yeah it's okay now i don't know it must
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have been some kind of cable access show
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i don't believe it the guy with the
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shovels back
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what is up with this tv
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yeah yeah i'll talk to you later
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weird
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when i get nervous i get hungry and i
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was feeling really hungry
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gross gross really gross
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[Music]
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passable
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[Music]
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it was so quiet in the house i decided
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to give the tv another chance
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i don't believe it
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what is going on here what is wrong with
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this thing
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okay no more tv
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turn off turn
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off hey this is insane
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there finally
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i couldn't figure out what was happening
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i was hearing the same scraping sound
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but the tv was
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unplugged no
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no that's not possible
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okay who is doing this
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somebody here
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[Music]
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alex is at you okay
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[Music]
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i was determined to find out where that
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sound was coming from
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it sounded like it was somewhere in the
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living room but i had turned the tv off
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there too
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i finally realized that it was coming up
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through the fireplace
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from the basement
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oh
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[Music]
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hello
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coming down here and i have a weapon
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is anybody down here
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is there anybody here i knew i was
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getting closer because the sound was
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getting louder
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and that's when i saw it i wasn't sure
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what it was at first
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why would anybody put a camera down here
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i suddenly realized i was standing in
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the same area as the man on the tape
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but what had he been doing down here
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what was he mixing
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is that
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[Music]
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who's there
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[Music]
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my husband buried me alive who are you
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i'm madeline townsend
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i'll get help
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[Music]
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i called the police right away and they
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freed mrs townsend from the ash catcher
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lloyd townsend was arrested for
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attempted murder in europe
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and brought back to the united states to
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stand trial
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and me i gave up house sitting and went
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back to being a part-time waitress
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the video that ali saw was of mr
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townsend mixing the mortar for the brick
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tomb he had encased his wife inside
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fortunately mrs townsend had suspected
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her husband for some time
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and had planted the video camera in the
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basement to spy on him
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but how did the video keep turning up on
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the tv sets upstairs
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was it because the townsends had
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recently rewired their home
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but then how did the camera turn itself
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on
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in deciding whether this story is fact
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or fiction put yourself
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in ally's place are you occupying a
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space where trust resides
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or are you sitting in a house of lies
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we'll find out if this story is true or
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false at the end of our show
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next a mysterious vision appears during
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an armed robbery
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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the neighborhood phone booth what with
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the popularity of the personal cell
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phone they're becoming a vanishing
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species
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but how many dramas have taken place in
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these tight little boxes how many secret
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romances
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how many extreme pleas for help jason
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laird
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is in a desperate place he's down to his
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last chance
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will he stand up for what he believes no
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matter what the consequence
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or will he just phone it in
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i was driving through this small town
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called port angeles on my way back to
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college when my car started losing power
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i knew something was wrong so i pulled
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into the first repair shop i saw
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yeah you got a problem here fuel pumps
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busted
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oh man i don't believe this well can i
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make it back to school
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no without a fuel pump carburetor ain't
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getting any gas
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that's why you're losing power so how
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much is a new fuel pump
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i don't know labor parts
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around 400 bucks 400 bucks
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maybe a little more but i got to get
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back to school
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not in this car
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okay go ahead fix it you got 400 bucks
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i'll get my parents to wire me the money
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just fix it
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hello hello jason is that you
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jason is that you there was no way i
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could ask my parents for more money
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it was real tough talking to my dad
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about anything and my mom was fighting
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cancer
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i just couldn't go through with the call
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[Music]
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i always felt so guilty about the money
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my parents had to spend to put me
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through college
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especially since they had so little for
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themselves then i saw it
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just laying there
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why would a gun be alongside the road
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like that
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did somebody toss it out of a passing
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car
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i never held a gun before but as soon as
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i picked it up strange thoughts started
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running through my head
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i was so desperate i wasn't thinking
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straight
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all i saw was a quick solution to my
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problem
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[Music]
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so
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i didn't want to hurt anyone so i waited
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for everyone to leave
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but as soon as one customer left another
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one would come in
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it was now or never all i had to do was
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scare the guy
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and take the money
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[Applause]
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i couldn't believe my eyes it was my
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father
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i got out of there fast i was totally
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freaked
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my parents lived over 500 miles away and
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i had just heard my dad's voice on the
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phone
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and where was that man now why didn't he
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come out of the store
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this time there was no one in the store
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except for the clerk
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i must have imagined the whole thing it
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had to have been my nerves
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i should have just forgotten the whole
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idea but i couldn't
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all i could think about was getting the
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money for my car
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hey hey you
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[Music]
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you're not my father you can't be
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no you can't be
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what is happening here
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hello dad jason how are
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oh you're home where else would i be
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your mom had a rough day today
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is she okay she's fine now she's
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sleeping
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what are you doing in port angeles how
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did you know i was here
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your phone collect remember oh that's
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right
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jason are you okay
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are you in any trouble
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what do you mean why would you think
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that
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the strangest thing happened i dozed off
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a little while ago
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and i had this dream your car broke down
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and uh you were really upset
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and then you were in this uh mini mart
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looking at sunglasses
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and then and i know you'd never do this
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jason but
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in a dream you had a gun
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and you reached into the tail
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it woke me up
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it's some dream you had
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just you know if you're ever in any
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trouble um i'm here to help
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thanks dad you already have
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my dad wired me the 400 for the new fuel
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pump
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and a little extra to keep me going
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we've become a lot closer since then
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i almost made the mistake of my life
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that night
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i'm just glad someone was there to stop
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me whoever it was
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what's the explanation here who was the
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man in the convenience store
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it couldn't have been jason's father he
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was miles away was it a lookalike
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a twin brother of his father's that
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jason had never heard about but then how
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do you explain the accuracy of his
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father's dream
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was jason's dad somehow transported to
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the store
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while asleep is this strange happening
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in the all-night march steeped in hours
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of research
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or are we just presenting a lie of
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convenience
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we'll find out if this story is true or
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false at the end of our show
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next strange things surround a man in
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his new classic car
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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america has always had a love affair
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with the automobile from its earliest
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beginnings the car has meant more than
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mere transportation for many these hood
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ornaments stand as an expression of
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image
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and self-worth val giraldi does more
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than invest his money into classic cars
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he also invests his heart and soul and
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his latest acquisition
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may do more than take him where he wants
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to go it's threatening to drive him
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crazy
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[Music]
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i'd been a car nut all my life when i
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was eight years old
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i could tell you what kind of car was
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coming just by the sound of its engine
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after a good year in the stock market i
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was finally able to purchase the car of
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my dreams
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a 1940 packard
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i fell in love with the car from the
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first moment i saw it
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it was kept in my condition by its
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original owner clifton teasdale who had
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died a year before
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all i cared about was making sure it
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stayed that way
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nice set of wheels mr geraldine
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this is more than just a set of wheels
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emery
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this is a 1940 packard 120 cabriolet
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it's worth more than all the cars in
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this garage put together
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really huh these beauties don't come on
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the market anymore emery
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look at those lines it's a work of art
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how'd you find it
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a client of mine tipped me off the
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owner's widow kept it locked in a garage
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for the past year since her husband's
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death
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apparently the old girl made some kind
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of death bed promise to her husband
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never to sell it but well i could be
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pretty persuasive
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yeah what'd you do well let's put it
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this way emery she didn't know what hit
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her
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careful emery now there's some new rules
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with the packard
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number one never touch it and you don't
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let anybody else touch it either
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i understand mr geraldine you also want
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a bigger parking space
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i don't want anybody accidentally
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denting it well actually i think all the
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parking spaces in the building are the
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same size
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so all right then i'll pay extra for
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these two
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spaces and i also want you to put a
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chainling fence around
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them a chain-link fence i'm not sure i
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can do that
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you can do it emery
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[Music]
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yes sir
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emery got the fence up that night and i
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slept great
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knowing the packet was protected
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no it can't be
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good morning mr geraldi so how do you
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like the fence huh
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emery there's a dent in the door you did
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it
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you hit my car when you put the fence in
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no no no so i didn't touch your car sir
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i swear
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yeah sure dents don't just appear
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i don't see a dent well of course
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there's a dent
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oh this is crazy i'm sorry there was a
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dent
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well maybe it was a shadow you know the
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lights down here could have been playing
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tricks with your eyes
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yeah it must have been a shadow
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[Music]
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every chance i got i'd give the packet a
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quick dusting
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i'll bet teasdell himself never took
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such good care of it
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i don't believe it
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this is no shadow somebody keyed it
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every
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well you're gonna tell me that's a
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shadow
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i don't see a scratch mr geraldi what of
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course there's a scratch
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i don't understand it it was there it
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was a deep ugly scratch
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well it's not there now look i think
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you're worrying too much about the car
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mr grilled you're seeing things i'm not
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seeing things
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car is making me a little crazy look
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just forget about it for a while it's
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fine
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really maybe you're right emery
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just need a good night's sleep that's
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all
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[Music]
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good night
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[Music]
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i was becoming neurotic about the
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packard i felt a lot better after a good
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night's sleep
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but then the worst possible thing
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happened it wasn't shadows
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it wasn't my imagination the packet was
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gone
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what was going on here i had the only
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key
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maybe i should never abort the car from
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mrs teasdale
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luckily clifton teasdale had installed a
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tracking device on his car
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and the police found the packet a few
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hours later abandoned at the local
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cemetery
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hey hey watch it i don't want any
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scratches on that chrome
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yeah who are you i'm the owner
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uh you see any damage or anything no it
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looks good to me
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why don't you just let me drive it home
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sorry it's got to go through the impound
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first
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fingers
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why would somebody steal it and leave it
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out here i don't know
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and then i thought i noticed something
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that didn't seem
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possible
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i couldn't believe what i was seeing the
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packet was found in a cemetery where the
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original owner
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clifton teasdale was buried
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shortly after the last incident val
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giraldi returned the packard to clifton
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teasdale's widow
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at no cost to her but the questions
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remain
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who or what drove the car to teasdale's
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grave that day
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and how do you explain the disappearing
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dent and scratch on the car's body
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were they figments of garald's obsessive
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imagination or was emery the parking
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attendant at the bottom of all this
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is this story of the classic car based
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on truth
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are we just taking you for a ride we'll
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find out if this story is true or false
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at the end of our show
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next a man tries to stop a terrifying
00:24:42
dream from coming true
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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excuse me but i've always wanted to do
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this
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buses for springfield hilldale bikini
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corners
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now leaving at gate number seven all
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it's a aboard sound approximately 22.2
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million americans
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travel by bus every year jordan hicks
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works at one of the many depots that
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dispatch the buses drivers and
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passengers on their way
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as they say relax and leave the driving
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to them
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but jordan hicks will soon have an
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experience that leaves him so unnerved
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he's not about to leave the driving to
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anyone
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[Music]
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i've been working as a maintenance man
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for the madison tour bus company for the
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past 10 years
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my job was to make sure that each bus
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was spotless before it left the yard
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but that morning i had something else on
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my mind something much more urgent
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sal sal has bus 29 is it left yet no
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no 29 is not going out until 10 30. oh
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have you seen laugh he's in his office
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[Music]
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lyle lyle i know this is gonna sound
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crazy but you gotta stop
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us 29 from leaving this morning why
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isn't it clean enough for you jordan
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they're all gonna die in there
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what do you mean they're all gonna die
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in there okay i told you that this was
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gonna sound crazy but i had a dream last
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night that
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bus 29 had a horrible accident a dream
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yeah the mclaren bridge went out i was
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there lyle
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trying to wave him down but they
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wouldn't stop bus 29 went nose first
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right into the river
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nobody had a chance they all drowned
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sure you know i can't stop a bus from
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going out because somebody had a bad
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dream
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no you don't understand it was more than
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a dream it was it was so
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real it was it was like like a
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premonition
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bus 29 is a great lakes tour it's a full
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load
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and it will be leaving as scheduled at
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exactly 10 30 a.m
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i can't let that happen lil
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[Music]
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mr masterson smashers jordan hicks
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there's emergency please let me in
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[Music]
00:27:05
sorry mr masterson's busy right now this
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is extremely important debbie i have to
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see him
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what's the big emergency hicks you have
00:27:13
to stop bus 29 from leaving i had a
00:27:14
dream it crashed
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everybody died please mr masterson you
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can stop it
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are you out of your mind that is the
00:27:20
most ridiculous thing i've ever heard
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there's only 10 more minutes left get
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back to work hicks i'm busy
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nobody would listen but i had to do
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something or the blood of all those
00:27:31
innocent people would be on my hands
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stop the watch
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jordan what are you doing jeff you can't
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leave you're gonna die
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get out of the way and let this bus
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leave or you're gonna be in a whole
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bunch of trouble
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what's going on jordan had some dumb
00:28:12
dream that the mclaren bridge went out
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and this bus goes down
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don't worry folks uh the bus will be
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leaving shortly
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uh just a little scheduling problem get
00:28:22
back in the bus and take off check you
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can still make the schedule
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no don't do it chet
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you got to believe me you're all gonna
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die in there keep your voice down you
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maniac
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i can't do it lyle i can't leave
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has everybody lost their mind around
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here it was a dream
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because of you and your stupid dream
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we're 15 minutes behind
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schedule with a bus full of angry people
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they're demanding their money back
00:29:02
now you can either get on that bus and
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start driving
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or you can find yourself another job i
00:29:08
won't do it
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fine lyle get another driver you're both
00:29:15
fired
00:29:20
mr masks not now debbie i'm busy but you
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won't believe what i just heard on the
00:29:23
radio
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the mclaren bridge just collapsed
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my god
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if i had left on schedule we would have
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been right in the middle of that bridge
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the schedule's an alternate route and i
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gotta leave in about ten minutes
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chad i need to ask you about something
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why'd you believe me when nobody else
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would
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because last night i had the same dream
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you had
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how is this possible we've all had
00:30:14
premonitions before
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but can two people have the same dream
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at the same time
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or did the driver chet carter just
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imagined he had the dream
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after being upset by jordan's warnings
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whatever the case
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many lives were saved as a result in
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telling this tale of bus 29
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have we reached the destination of truth
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or is this just another rest stop
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on the highway of lies we'll find out if
00:30:39
this story is true or false at the end
00:30:41
of our show
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next a dead man's curse haunts his widow
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from the grave on beyond belief
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fact or fiction
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they say the grass is always greener
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than the other person's yard
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but today we have lots of ways to
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improve the situation special
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fertilizers seeds
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even vitamins for today's lawn and of
00:31:01
course a variety of different sods to
00:31:03
choose from
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suzanne elliott is about to become
00:31:06
preoccupied with a certain plot of dead
00:31:08
grass
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before this story is through who knows
00:31:12
what else might die
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as we say our final goodbye to gordon
00:31:20
luther elliott loving husband devoted
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father
00:31:25
and successful businessman gordon luther
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elliott
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died of congestive heart failure after
00:31:30
spending the last six months of his life
00:31:32
in a federal prison he was imprisoned
00:31:34
for embezzling a large sum of money
00:31:37
from a company he owned with his party
00:31:41
enjoying greener pastures and life
00:31:44
everlasting
00:31:46
gordon loved his wife suzanne and his
00:31:49
son
00:31:50
james and he cherished the many
00:31:53
happy hours that he spent in his garden
00:31:57
gordon elliott loved making things
00:32:00
grow yes he did and although he couldn't
00:32:04
resist the temptation of greed
00:32:07
he must be forgiven his sins and be
00:32:10
allowed to rest in peace
00:32:12
amen amen
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[Music]
00:32:26
goodbye gordon we forgive you
00:32:30
oh shut up suzanne he doesn't want your
00:32:32
forgiveness
00:32:35
that's no way to speak to your
00:32:37
stepmother james my father
00:32:39
was an innocent man reinhardt you know
00:32:41
it
00:32:43
he went to prison for a crime he didn't
00:32:44
commit he helped you build a business
00:32:47
and you shafted him
00:32:49
it should be you in that grave
00:32:52
not my father come on suzanne
00:32:57
service is over
00:33:00
you know i was with him when he died and
00:33:03
he swore
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that no grass would ruin this grave
00:33:06
until the truth comes out
00:33:11
eric i think he knows what he doesn't
00:33:13
have any proof
00:33:15
get his inheritance forget the whole
00:33:17
thing
00:33:21
what was that whole thing about the
00:33:22
grass not growing on gordon's grave
00:33:24
until the truth comes out
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what did that mean just calm down
00:33:28
suzanne
00:33:29
old gordo took his gardening too
00:33:31
seriously he's dead
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there's nothing he can do
00:33:36
everything grows here don't worry about
00:33:39
it
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[Music]
00:33:48
[Music]
00:33:49
three weeks after the funeral suzanne
00:33:51
elliott quietly moved in with her dead
00:33:53
husband's ex-partner
00:33:54
eric reinhardt who was that on the phone
00:33:58
don't get mad but i called the caretaker
00:34:01
from the cemetery again
00:34:02
what why do you keep doing that eric
00:34:05
there still isn't any grass growing on
00:34:06
his grave
00:34:07
well that's because the caretaker is an
00:34:08
idiot i told you he doesn't know what
00:34:10
he's doing
00:34:11
well he said that there's grass growing
00:34:12
on all of the other graves around
00:34:13
gordon's
00:34:14
just not on his so there's something
00:34:17
wrong with the dirt
00:34:20
who cares no eric don't you see
00:34:25
it's gordon he is doing this
00:34:30
all right suzanne would it make you feel
00:34:33
better if i hired a private gardener to
00:34:34
take care of our little grass problem
00:34:46
cheers
00:34:50
i don't get it it's been a whole month
00:34:53
soil tested fine there should be grass
00:34:56
by now
00:34:59
i tried everything mrs elliot the
00:35:00
chemical organic fertilizer
00:35:03
bermuda rye buffalo grass
00:35:06
i even laid sod and that died i knew
00:35:09
nothing would grow
00:35:11
don't give up yet i got one more idea
00:35:14
we dig up the deceased and we re-bury
00:35:17
him in a more
00:35:18
nutrient-rich plot
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ma'am ma'am
00:35:25
go ahead dig them up it's not gonna work
00:35:34
i feel like i'm having a nervous
00:35:36
breakdown eric and you don't even care
00:35:39
i care suzanne but you're bringing this
00:35:41
on yourself
00:35:42
you're making a big thing about some
00:35:44
lousy grass it's gordon's grass
00:35:47
he's doing this to me i don't eat
00:35:52
i don't sleep i look like a hank
00:35:56
look i'll rebury him and the grass will
00:35:58
grow
00:35:59
no you don't know gordon
00:36:05
he won't let us rest until we confess
00:36:10
what
00:36:12
now you listen to me you don't even
00:36:15
think about confessing
00:36:16
i am not giving all this up i have
00:36:18
worked too hard and too long to get it
00:36:21
okay all right
00:36:24
then we have to go to gordon's grave and
00:36:26
beg his freaking
00:36:27
you've got to be kidding me i'm not
00:36:29
going to gordon's grave
00:36:32
then i will tell everything
00:36:35
i don't care anymore i can't do this
00:36:40
[Music]
00:36:51
huh look at that they've already dug his
00:36:52
new grave
00:37:12
get on your knees eric are you crazy
00:37:15
just tell them you're sorry and let's go
00:37:18
home it's freezing out here
00:37:20
eric get on your knees
00:37:29
gordon good and i know you can hear me
00:37:33
i am so sorry that you died in prison
00:37:38
we never wanted that to happen did we
00:37:41
irk
00:37:43
i know we didn't
00:37:46
eric and i never planned on falling in
00:37:48
love it just happened
00:37:50
gordon
00:37:53
and we did frame you
00:37:56
and we are so sorry okay
00:38:00
suzanne that's enough okay gordon will
00:38:03
you please
00:38:04
please forgive us
00:38:10
hey what's going on
00:38:14
who's in there i don't know i don't
00:38:15
think he can see us hello
00:38:29
the caretaker found the dead bodies of
00:38:31
suzanne elliott and eric reinhart the
00:38:32
following day
00:38:33
he also noticed that for the first time
00:38:36
grass was growing and gordon luther
00:38:38
elliott's grave
00:38:44
why wouldn't the grass grow on gordon's
00:38:45
grave was it controlling things from
00:38:47
beyond or was it merely a fluke of
00:38:49
nature that kept his cemetery plot bare
00:38:51
if so how do you explain that once his
00:38:54
death was avenged
00:38:55
the grass grew tall and thick was
00:38:57
gordon's son behind the entire scenario
00:38:59
but then why weren't the experts hired
00:39:01
by suzanne and reinhardt
00:39:03
able to make the grass grow in judging
00:39:06
this story
00:39:07
have we planted the sweet smell of truth
00:39:09
or is that a whiff of fertilizer in the
00:39:11
air
00:39:12
next you'll find out which of our
00:39:15
stories are fact
00:39:16
and which are fictional when beyond
00:39:18
belief returns
00:39:20
[Music]
00:39:23
now let's look back at tonight's stories
00:39:24
and find out which ones are inspired by
00:39:26
actual events
00:39:27
and which ones are totally false let's
00:39:30
review the story of the house sitter who
00:39:32
discovered a frightening secret
00:39:39
is there anybody here
00:39:45
[Music]
00:39:56
why would anybody put a camera down here
00:40:06
did you think this story really happened
00:40:08
you're right
00:40:09
our research shows a similar incident
00:40:11
happened around the oregon california
00:40:13
state line in the early 80s
00:40:19
what was your opinion of the young man
00:40:20
whose misdeeds were stopped by a vision
00:40:22
of his father
00:40:25
[Music]
00:40:33
[Music]
00:40:47
hey hey you
00:40:52
this strange story has to be fake right
00:40:55
wrong
00:40:56
it's fact a similar story happened to a
00:40:58
young man
00:40:59
in the pacific northwest about 20 years
00:41:05
how about the story of the classic motor
00:41:07
car that drove its owner to distraction
00:41:14
well you're gonna tell me that's a
00:41:16
shadow
00:41:17
i don't see a scratch mr geraldi what of
00:41:19
course there's a scratch
00:41:21
i don't understand it it was there it
00:41:24
was a deep ugly scratch
00:41:26
well it's not there now look i think
00:41:28
you're worrying too much about the car
00:41:30
mr geraldi you're seeing things
00:41:31
i'm not seeing things
00:41:35
this car is making me a little crazy was
00:41:37
this story based on a real happening
00:41:40
not this time we made it up
00:41:46
the story of the two men who had the
00:41:47
same premonition about bus 29
00:41:50
how did you judge that one
00:41:54
jordan what are you doing chad you can't
00:41:57
leave you're
00:41:57
gonna die get out of the way and let
00:41:59
this bus leave or you're gonna be in a
00:42:01
whole bunch of trouble
00:42:02
what's going on had some dumb dream that
00:42:04
the mclaren bridge went out and this bus
00:42:05
goes down
00:42:07
don't worry folks uh the bus would be
00:42:09
leaving shortly
00:42:11
uh just a little scheduling problem get
00:42:13
back in the bus and take off check you
00:42:15
can still make the schedule
00:42:17
no don't do it chet
00:42:21
you gotta believe me you're all gonna
00:42:22
die in there this strange story of a
00:42:24
double premonition seems to be a work of
00:42:26
fiction right
00:42:28
that's exactly what it is this story
00:42:30
never happened
00:42:34
the grave where no grass would grow
00:42:36
until the dead man was avenged
00:42:38
how did you judge that one and we did
00:42:42
frame you
00:42:44
and we are so sorry okay
00:42:48
suzanne that's enough okay gordon will
00:42:51
you please please forgive us
00:42:58
hey what's going on
00:43:02
who's in there i don't know i don't
00:43:03
think you could see us hey bro hello
00:43:05
hey hey hey hey we're here all right hey
00:43:08
hey what kind of bozo are you man
00:43:10
hey
00:43:15
did you think this was real if you did
00:43:18
we got you
00:43:19
this one's fake
00:43:20
[Music]
00:43:24
we were able to get a hold on the truth
00:43:26
tonight or did reality remain
00:43:28
an elusive concept and when you reach
00:43:31
out to grasp it
00:43:32
does it turn out to be beyond belief
00:43:35
i'm jonathan the two stories tonight
00:43:41
were based on first-hand research
00:43:43
conducted by author
00:43:44
robert treylands for beyond belief
00:43:48
this is campbell lane
00:43:58
[Music]
00:44:27
you
