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beyond belief
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[Music]
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fact or fiction
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hosted 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 and deception
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a world that is beyond belief
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an interesting lesson in perspective
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take a look at the normal looking man
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in the background and the miniature
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childlike
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figure in the foreground is it possible
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they're really the same size
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it's not only possible it's an absolute
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fact but sometimes facts can appear to
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be falsehoods and vice versa
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so will you be able to determine which
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of our stories are true and which are
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false
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we'll tell you which are which at the
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end of the show and remember it's not an
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easy challenge
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but then again that's where we separate
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the men
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from the boys
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there are a few things as beautiful as
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the glow of a candle
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the warm glimmer of light has come to
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symbolize everything from religion to
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romance
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the late mother of caitlyn woods
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designed this particular piece of
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sculpture
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she was a talented woman who passed on
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to her daughter an artistic soul
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and a house full of problems but the
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candle that lights caitlyn's spirit
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refuses to go out
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i was away at college studying
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criminology when my father was a victim
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of a home invasion robbery
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when he tried to stop the thief he
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suffered a massive stroke
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how you doing daddy you want some more
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no it's enough okay
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many months passed and my father's
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speech returned
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but the left side of his body remained
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paralyzed my mom had passed away years
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earlier
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so i moved back to help with my dad it's
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not right
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it shouldn't be my nurse you have a life
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you should be living in
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daddy we've been over this again and
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again
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would you just stop it this is where i'm
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supposed to be right now
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my father had no insurance and no money
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in the bank
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there was no way he could afford the
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care he needed i was all he had in the
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world
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and i was determined not to let him down
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my mom was a wonderful artist she always
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made beautiful gifts for me when i was
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growing up
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our home was filled with her creations
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especially the beautiful things she did
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with candles
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there was one that had an inscription on
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the holder
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when you need to light your way remember
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my love
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and let it sparkle for you that day that
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was my favorite
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but it was gone the thief had stolen at
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the night of the robbery
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i'll be right there daddy
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took my dad out for a walk almost every
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day after lunch
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it made him feel less like a prisoner
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and it took my mind off our financial
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situation
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our funds were running low and i didn't
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know how much longer i could take care
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of my father without getting a job
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remember this place daddy the first time
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your mama and i took you in there you
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were two years old look at that
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it hasn't changed one bit best mile high
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cake i ever had
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you want some
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are you okay please watch my father
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caitlin what are you doing
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caitlyn
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something strange came over me something
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that made me throw all caution to the
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wind
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an invisible power seemed to be forcing
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me to follow him
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foreign
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ah
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[Music]
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i don't know how the fire started but it
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made the thief run away
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[Music]
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i was too weak to get up i thought i
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would die
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but then the fire went out all by itself
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and then i saw it it was the candle that
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had been stolen from our home the night
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my father had the stroke
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[Music]
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thank god you're all right i'm so sorry
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dad don't ever do that again
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caleb look what i found
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there's the candling mother major yeah
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the junky who stole my purse must have
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been the same guy who robbed the house
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oh caitlin i'm so sorry daddy it's okay
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couldn't hold it
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okay
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what's this i don't know
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daddy it's it's a diamond necklace so
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that's where she put it
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what this necklace belonged to your
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grandmother
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your mother was gonna surprise you with
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it on your birthday she
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[Music]
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she never did tell me where she hit it
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it sounds just like mom
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i searched everywhere for this necklace
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i never did find it
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now i understand what mom's words meant
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when you need to light your way
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remember my love and let it sparkle for
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you that day
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i had the necklace appraised and we were
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shocked to find out it was worth almost
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a hundred thousand dollars
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the necklace made it possible to hire
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qualified help to look after my father
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he continued to recover and with his
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therapy he's now almost back to normal
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and i was able to go back to school and
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finish my law enforcement degree
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my mother's candle did light the way
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what's at play here it's of course
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possible that the same person who robbed
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caitlyn's father
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also stole her candle but who lit the
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candle during the struggle
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and why did the fire that saved
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caitlyn's life
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go out so quickly was it a sudden gust
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of wind
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or the spirit of caitlyn's mother
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watching over her
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does this story seem to be the result of
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calm reasoned factual research
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or is it the product of devious writers
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who are burning the candle at both ends
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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 detective encounters the
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strangest witness of his life
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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nature has provided flowers with many
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attributes their beautiful appearance
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their fragrance smell their delicate
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feel
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and nothing adds to our sense of
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well-being more than a perfectly placed
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flower arrangement detective russ parker
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is not a man who fusses over petunias
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he's a hardened veteran of the force
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whose only use for a flower
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is to hide a wire tap inside but he's
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just been called to investigate a death
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in a flower shop
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and there's a familiar fragrance in the
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air the scent
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of murder
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i've been working the murder beat in
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tacoma for the past 15 years
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step back folks watch the tape that i've
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seen just about everything but the
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homicide of cytos garden works
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turned out to be the strangest one yet
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what do we got male asian about 60 years
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old
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owns a shop and got no witnesses
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my partner dean santoni came over to
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homicide after only a couple of years
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with a department
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he had a college degree something i
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didn't have he also had wild ideas
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but i liked him oh man i just remembered
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what's that
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oh i got to get my wife some flowers
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it's our anniversary tomorrow
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congratulations there he is
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his nephew found him like this this
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morning when he came in for work
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any calling cards here bernie well the
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hose is clean
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in fact the whole scene is clean yeah
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the killer was probably wearing gloves
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no kidding you learned that in college
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the guy put up quite a struggle whoever
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did it finally finished him with the
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garden hose
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crushed his windpipe the cash register
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was open and
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all the money was gone so we got a
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robbery that got out of hand
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i'm not surprised this whole
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neighborhood's gone downhill
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transients it's a shame it used to be a
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decent place to live
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not anymore would you say found him
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god's nephew
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he's that's what he shook up
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it's so horrible
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i love my uncle he was like a second
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father to me
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he took me in and he taught me the
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business
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did he have any enemies
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everyone loved him everybody except the
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killer
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listen if you can think of anything that
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might help give us a call
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thanks we're uh sorry for your loss
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[Music]
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i'm done here uh you can take them
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whenever you're ready
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no suspects no witnesses no prints
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all right let's round up some of the
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transits uh we'll see if any of them
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about their standard of living
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i have a better idea why don't we put
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together a lineup
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line up how do we have a lineup if we
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don't have any witnesses
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the plants were here the plants
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yeah when i was in college
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i took a biology class with a professor
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named comstock now he was
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well he was a little out there but he
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had this theory that
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plants have the same emotions and
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reactions that we do
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where are you going with this i know it
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sounds crazy but comstock hooked up a
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plant
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to a polygraph machine and exposed it to
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all kinds of different
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um violent acts like boiling a lobster
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alive the needles went nuts i saw it
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myself the plant
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felt the lobster's pain you're kidding
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me right
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you're telling me these plants know
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we're talking about them right now
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all i know is what i saw and the
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experiments worked
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look we got nothing to lose russ
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[Music]
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with no witnesses at all i agreed to the
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crazy plan
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besides sometimes you do something
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anything and the guilty start betraying
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themselves
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i made them do it after hours though i
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didn't dare use any of the regular
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polygraph guys
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they would have laughed me right out of
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the station house so santoni got his old
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professor to come in and set the whole
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thing up
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as we got closer to actually doing this
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crazy thing i started getting a naked in
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my gut
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i didn't like feeling stupid are you
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ready professor
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you can call in your first suspect
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i can't believe we're doing this first
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man step up state your name
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my rights are being violated i want to
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see a lawyer shut up and say your name
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it's ray dietz and i didn't do nothing
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have him approach the plant
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walk up to the table and give us two
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profiles
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all right get back in line next man same
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routine
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it was no surprise to me that the
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professor's theory was coming up empty
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as i figured there was no unusual
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movement on the polygraph machine
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okay that's good
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that was the last one you sure your
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machine's hooked up properly doc
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yeah it's hooked up right well maybe one
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of your leaves was having a hard time
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remembering
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hey what's uh going on i saw the lights
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uh nothing just a little experiment
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so um you guys getting leads on who
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murdered my uncle
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yeah actually we did a real good one
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see uh a witness just turned up
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really
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well yeah i didn't know if there were
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any witnesses yeah there was a witness
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and uh he just identified he was the
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killer
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that's crazy why'd you do it steve
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oh where are you going steve i i didn't
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kill my uncle
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see i think he did
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after two hours of questioning steve
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cyto finally broke down and confessed to
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the murder of his uncle
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his motive an inheritance he didn't want
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to wait for
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after he confessed he asked me who the
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witness was
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i told him i was sure he knew in fact he
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probably even watered him a few times
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could this story be true can a plant
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really identify a murderer actual
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studies have shown that plants and
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flowers
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respond to outside stimuli they even
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grow faster when they're talked to and
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treated with love
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does this story of the flower jury carry
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the bouquet of truth
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or is it just another blooming lie
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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 an escape artist is trapped in an
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icy tomb
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on beyond belief fact or fiction nobody
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has ever captured the imagination of the
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american public
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like harry houdini even with the modern
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spectacular heirs to the throne
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many still consider houdini the greatest
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escape artist of all time
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of course in his own day houdini had his
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imitators and competitors
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but the only ones who came close were
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leonard and philip kirby
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as we joined their story they're so sure
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of themselves they claim they can escape
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from anything including their fate
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[Music]
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the first time frederick rain saw the
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kirby brothers perform
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he knew they had something only the
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great ones possess
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the fact was frederick had always
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dreamed of discovering an act that could
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achieve the same greatness as his idol
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master of escape
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harry houdini
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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but he never expected it to be two
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houdini's
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frederick took the kirby brothers under
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his wing becoming both their mentor and
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manager
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unfortunately he was only able to get
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the brothers sporadic bookings
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all the public wanted was to see houdini
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who in 1925
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was at the pinnacle of a success in
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spite of all that
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word was getting out the kirby brothers
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could escape from anything
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and no one could figure out the secrets
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of their death-defying stunts
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[Music]
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where's my brother right here leonard
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while the brothers abilities were truly
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amazing
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there was a dark rumor surrounding them
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it was said
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that they had a curse on their heads put
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there by a gypsy from a little-known
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town in east europe
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as punishment for stealing the gypsy's
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secrets one of the brothers
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would die while performing an escape
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[Music]
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this houdini that i'm so sick of the
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great houdini calm down leonard i won't
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calm down
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but he's holding us back he's a great
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artist leonard
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he's earned his acclaim what are you
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saying
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that we're not as good of course not
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would i be here if i believed that
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buried alive i mean we can do this trick
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we could do it faster
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and better leonard what's the point if
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we just keep duplicating houdini's
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tricks we'll never get out of his shadow
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philip's right we have to come up with
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something
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different something more dazzling than
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being buried alive
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then that's what we'll do we'll show
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everyone including harry houdini that
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were the greatest escape artists in the
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world
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it took the kirby brothers less than a
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week to come up with a trick
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that would surpass houdini's buried
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alive
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[Music]
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philip was to be entombed in a coffin of
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ice for 24 hours
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leonard i thought i was fine with this
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but now that i see the ice i don't know
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frederick it's all been worked through
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it just seemed so dangerous
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that's the point frederick it has to
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seem dangerous or it won't entertain the
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audience
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well well what if something goes wrong
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it won't
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look i'll be standing vigil for the
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entire 24 hours
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if i see even the slightest problem i'll
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release philip immediately
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i don't know it's that ridiculous curse
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isn't it
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that one of us will die during an escape
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i'm just
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you don't believe in that do you i'm
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just worried about you boys
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i won't die in there frederick i promise
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you
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ladies and gentlemen you are witnessing
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something that has never
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been attempted before not even the great
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houdini himself
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could have imagined it welcome
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to frozen alive
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my brother will remain entombed
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inside this frozen casket
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for the next 24 hours
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go about your business but i guarantee
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that every time you return my brother
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will still be inside this coffin of ice
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frozen alive
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[Applause]
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the first few hours passed quickly and
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philip seemed to be doing fine
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there was no evidence of the curse
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with only two hours left the kirby
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brothers were about to make history
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and then something went terribly wrong
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[Music]
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help me
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[Music]
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he's gonna die in there
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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all right how did we do 22 hours
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are you all right i'll be fine you see
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fredrik
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i didn't die
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his brother leonard was dead
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an autopsy was performed but no absolute
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cause of death was found
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some suspected it was his heart but
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leonard kirby was in perfect health
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and only 23 years old
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after leonard kirby's death his brother
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philip retired houdini himself died a
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year later from a burst appendix
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but were the kirby brothers really
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cursed or was the threat of the curse
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enough to make leonard's heart stop from
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fear causing a tragic
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self-fulfilling prophecy do you believe
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this story really happened
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or is it just an escape from reality
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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 an x-con's life is changed by an
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old bicycle
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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bicycles like everything else
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it'll make them the way they used to
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this one made years ago was built to
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last
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a new seat some fresh paint a few new
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parts
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it'll be ready again maybe not for the
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tour de france but
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certainly for a local paper route nick
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and kenny morgan are about to come
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across this bike
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and they're going to make some changes
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to it but what they're really about to
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change
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is their future
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i just picked up my younger brother
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kenny at the county prison farm
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he needed some clothes so we stopped at
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a thrift shop on the way home
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kenny had just done six months for a
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drunken brawl in a bar
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but really he wasn't a bad kid
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he started getting into trouble after
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our parents died in a car accident 10
00:24:09
years earlier
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it was real hard on both of us but kenny
00:24:12
had a temper
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we had no other family so we just
00:24:15
bounced around from one foster home to
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another
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hey what do you think it's you
00:24:23
i'll take it kenny drove me crazy
00:24:27
but he reminded me of our dad you know i
00:24:29
was glad he was out of jail but the bad
00:24:32
news was i just lost my job and i was
00:24:34
going through my savings real
00:24:36
fast hey nick
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come here look at this
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what did you find look at this thing
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it's a classic
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it's got to be at least 50 years old and
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they only want five bucks for it it's
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because it's falling apart
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look at all the rust
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yeah it's a piece of junk okay so it
00:25:06
needs a little work
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we can we can fix it up it'll be a blast
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we can do it together
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i don't know come on nick it's only five
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bucks
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i'll pay you back i liked seeing kenny
00:25:18
give a damn about something
00:25:20
and there was something about that old
00:25:21
bike that was important to him
00:25:23
and he was right you know it was fun
00:25:25
working on it together it was like we
00:25:27
were kids again
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for a while everything was okay
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[Music]
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we were going out every day looking for
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work
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it was pretty discouraging but i knew
00:25:38
i'd get something
00:25:40
kenny was another story
00:25:45
oh just take it easy i'm never gonna get
00:25:48
a job nick
00:25:49
no one's gonna hire me well give it a
00:25:52
chance
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it's only been a week i've been in jail
00:25:55
nick
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nobody wants me stop feeling so sorry
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for yourself
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hey don't tell me how to feel okay
00:26:03
fine i won't tell you anything yeah
00:26:06
that's right
00:26:11
that night kenny started drinking again
00:26:14
and with kenny
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one beer was one too many
00:26:25
you can't drink here
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it's just i know i know what you like
00:26:31
when you start drinking
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oh would you just leave me alone man
00:26:33
you're not my dad do you want to go to
00:26:35
jail again
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is that what you want you know it ain't
00:26:39
gonna be six months this time it's gonna
00:26:41
be a lot more well who cares
00:26:46
i'm getting out of here no no get off my
00:26:49
back are you gonna go
00:26:50
get out before you're even like this
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sorry man
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yeah me too
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i thought it was broken
00:27:21
it was
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[Music]
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[Music]
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that was weird there's something inside
00:27:36
the handlebar
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i i don't believe this it's a
00:27:46
property of johnny morgan
00:27:49
dad well that can't be it's got to be
00:27:53
another johnny morgan
00:27:55
it says if found please return to 1267
00:27:58
maple drive
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in hackensack new jersey
00:28:04
that's her dad was born hackensack new
00:28:06
jersey
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[Music]
00:28:11
this was dad's bike
00:28:16
we knew it was a long shot but kenny and
00:28:18
i called new jersey information
00:28:20
and gave them the name morgan and the
00:28:22
address on the note
00:28:24
and we got the surprise of our lives
00:28:25
when the person who answered the phone
00:28:27
said he was our father's brother
00:28:30
glenn and we never even knew we had an
00:28:33
uncle
00:28:34
our father never mentioned him and well
00:28:37
glenn didn't know about us either
00:28:39
hi he must be uh nick nick
00:28:48
it's your dad's bike all right
00:28:53
our mom took this when john first got it
00:28:56
he was just 16 years old wow
00:28:59
look at that i can't believe you found
00:29:03
this thing way out here
00:29:04
it was stolen in hackensack 40 years ago
00:29:09
how come he never uh
00:29:12
willie never told us about you
00:29:15
[Music]
00:29:18
pretty stupid really
00:29:20
[Music]
00:29:22
your dad and i started this construction
00:29:23
company when we were both in our
00:29:25
early 20s then we had this bad falling
00:29:29
out
00:29:30
he moved away and we just lost touch
00:29:36
i never even knew he died
00:29:40
or that he was ever married you never
00:29:43
try to find each other
00:29:45
we were both real stubborn
00:29:48
the years just passed
00:29:55
look i'd like to um
00:29:59
i still have the company that your dad
00:30:02
and i started
00:30:03
not the biggest in the world but i
00:30:06
really could use some help
00:30:08
you want us to work for you no with me
00:30:11
what do you think
00:30:13
that'd be great looks like i got a job
00:30:16
nick
00:30:20
kenny and i moved to hackensack and
00:30:22
joined uncle glenn in the family
00:30:23
business
00:30:26
and we didn't take a whole lot with us
00:30:28
but we made sure we took our dad's old
00:30:30
bike
00:30:33
a bike that had been lost for 40 years
00:30:35
is suddenly found by the owner's son
00:30:37
thousands of miles away just a
00:30:39
coincidence
00:30:41
if so how do you explain the bike's
00:30:42
broken horn starting to beep just as the
00:30:45
brothers began to fight
00:30:46
another coincidence was the father's
00:30:48
spirit residing somewhere in this old
00:30:50
schwinn bike
00:30:52
is this story coasting in on the truth
00:30:54
are we trying to
00:30:55
peddle a lie we'll find out if this
00:30:59
story is true or false at the end of our
00:31:01
show
00:31:01
next a teacher attempts to lift a curse
00:31:03
off his star pupil
00:31:05
on beyond belief fact or fiction
00:31:09
[Music]
00:31:12
who can explain the mystery of music how
00:31:15
can a genius
00:31:16
like beethoven create masterpieces
00:31:18
though deaf
00:31:19
and how could mozart create full
00:31:20
classical compositions
00:31:22
at the age of five what about today's
00:31:25
child prodigies
00:31:26
children who can sit down at the piano
00:31:28
for the first time and play perfectly
00:31:30
nathaniel bourne is a musical genius
00:31:33
since he was a child
00:31:34
he could captivate audiences with his
00:31:36
musical gift
00:31:38
but can a gift be taken back nathaniel
00:31:41
bourne is starting to think so
00:31:42
and the thought is striking a desperate
00:31:46
cord
00:31:50
i was one of the most successful concert
00:31:52
pianists in the world
00:31:55
everyone knew the name nathaniel bourne
00:31:58
i made my debut when i was only 11 at
00:32:00
carnegie hall's new york philharmonic
00:32:02
under leonard bernstein
00:32:04
i played chopin's piano concerto number
00:32:07
one in e minor
00:32:09
it brought tears to bernstein's eyes the
00:32:12
next
00:32:13
22 years of my life were like a dream
00:32:16
i sold millions of records and played in
00:32:18
all the great concert halls
00:32:21
and then something terrible happened
00:32:24
while playing my signature chopin
00:32:25
concerto
00:32:27
i became frozen it was an artist's
00:32:29
greatest nightmare
00:32:31
somehow i had developed a creative block
00:32:34
and could not play
00:32:36
you shouldn't be sitting outside in the
00:32:37
rain like this nathaniel
00:32:39
you'll get sick doesn't matter
00:32:43
don't be like that let's go inside where
00:32:46
it's warm
00:32:47
i built a fire
00:32:59
i tried psychiatrists hypnotists
00:33:03
everything i could think of nothing
00:33:05
worked
00:33:07
then my wife helena brought us back to
00:33:09
boston where i grew up
00:33:10
she hoped this might touch things that
00:33:12
would unblock me
00:33:14
but it just got worse
00:33:21
gregory canceled two more months of
00:33:23
concert dates
00:33:25
i'm not scheduled to play again for the
00:33:27
rest of the year
00:33:30
i might as well tell him to cancel next
00:33:32
year too
00:33:39
why don't you call martin schiller
00:33:42
martin schiller why
00:33:46
he was your first teacher and you always
00:33:48
spoke so
00:33:49
fondly of him perhaps he could help
00:33:54
martin martin was quite a character
00:33:59
i haven't seen him in years i think the
00:34:02
last time was at uh
00:34:04
lincoln center yes i remember he wore a
00:34:07
red bow tie
00:34:08
with a tuxedo
00:34:12
you know martin first started teaching
00:34:14
me when i was five years old
00:34:16
martin always came exactly at five
00:34:19
o'clock on saturday
00:34:20
he'd bring a piece of chocolate and he'd
00:34:22
tell me
00:34:23
as soon as the lesson is over you may
00:34:25
have the chocolate
00:34:29
i honestly believe i used to play better
00:34:31
just knowing that piece of chocolate was
00:34:33
waiting for me
00:34:36
he must have been a wonderful teacher he
00:34:38
was
00:34:46
i took helena's advice and called martin
00:34:49
schiller
00:34:50
i set our visit for five o'clock on
00:34:52
saturday
00:34:53
i suddenly wanted very much to see him
00:35:00
again
00:35:02
mart dude coming
00:35:06
right on time of course a punctual man
00:35:10
is a respectful man
00:35:16
good to see you how have you been i
00:35:19
could complain but what would be the
00:35:20
point
00:35:21
people hate complainers you haven't
00:35:24
changed a bit
00:35:26
ah let's get to work
00:35:34
oh this piano was a far cry from the
00:35:38
upright i used to teach you on
00:35:46
as soon as our lesson is finished you
00:35:48
may have this chocolate
00:35:56
i uh told you about my
00:36:00
problem
00:36:10
sit
00:36:16
do you remember how we used to play
00:36:19
together
00:36:21
i do
00:36:26
[Music]
00:36:34
play even though it was just simple
00:36:37
scales
00:36:38
something inside me was making it
00:36:40
impossible
00:36:41
[Music]
00:36:43
i'm sorry martin i can't nonsense
00:36:48
the chocolate is waiting for you
00:36:54
[Music]
00:37:01
[Music]
00:37:09
give me your hands
00:37:17
there was an energy coming from martin's
00:37:19
hands that i felt throughout my entire
00:37:22
body now
00:37:26
[Music]
00:37:29
i felt like his hands were still there
00:37:32
guiding me but
00:37:33
i was on my own
00:37:37
[Music]
00:37:48
yes
00:37:53
[Music]
00:38:26
it was impossible to measure the sense
00:38:28
of gratitude i was feeling for martin
00:38:34
[Music]
00:38:41
what happened next was totally
00:38:44
unexpected
00:38:47
[Music]
00:38:52
hello hello mr borton yes
00:38:55
we've never met i'm martin schiller's
00:38:57
son stefan
00:38:58
ah you just missed your father he left
00:39:01
moments ago
00:39:02
that's impossible i came over to tell
00:39:05
you why he missed his appointment with
00:39:07
you
00:39:08
my father passed away in his sleep last
00:39:12
night
00:39:17
[Music]
00:39:31
from that day forward nathaniel bourne
00:39:33
resumed his stature as one of the
00:39:34
world's great pianists
00:39:36
but was it really the spirit of martin
00:39:38
schiller that visited nathanael that day
00:39:40
or did the entire incident exist only in
00:39:43
nathaniel's mind
00:39:44
but then how do you explain the
00:39:46
chocolate wasn't that proof of martin
00:39:48
schiller's visit
00:39:50
does this story play out as a
00:39:51
composition of harmonious truth
00:39:53
or have we hit a false note
00:39:58
next you'll find out which of our
00:40:00
stories are fact
00:40:01
and which are fictional when beyond
00:40:03
belief returns
00:40:07
now let's look back at tonight's stories
00:40:08
and find out which ones are inspired by
00:40:10
actual events
00:40:11
and which ones are totally false what
00:40:14
about the woman whose family and very
00:40:16
life were saved by a special candle
00:40:19
[Music]
00:40:23
i it was too weak to get up i thought i
00:40:26
would die
00:40:28
but then the fire went out all by itself
00:40:33
if you thought this story was based on a
00:40:35
real life occurrence you're right a
00:40:38
similar story happened to a woman in the
00:40:40
east
00:40:40
in the early 80s
00:40:45
how about the flower that caught a
00:40:47
murderer
00:40:50
hey what's uh going on i saw the lights
00:40:56
uh nothing just a little experiment
00:41:04
plus
00:41:08
so um you guys get any leads on who
00:41:10
murdered my uncle
00:41:11
this one has to be false right wrong
00:41:14
our research shows a similar incident
00:41:17
happened in the new york area
00:41:18
in the late 70s
00:41:23
what about the escape artists who
00:41:25
couldn't escape their terrible curse
00:41:28
i'll be standing vigil for the entire 24
00:41:30
hours
00:41:31
if i see even the slightest problem i'll
00:41:33
release philip immediately
00:41:35
i don't know it's that ridiculous curse
00:41:39
isn't it
00:41:40
that one of us will die during an escape
00:41:42
i'm just
00:41:43
you don't believe in that do you i'm
00:41:45
just worried about you boys
00:41:47
i won't die in there frederick i promise
00:41:49
you
00:41:50
if you thought this one was phony you're
00:41:52
right
00:41:53
it never happened
00:41:58
how about the old bike that brought good
00:42:00
fortune to a family torn apart for years
00:42:09
that was weird there's something inside
00:42:12
the handlebar
00:42:19
i i don't believe this it's the
00:42:22
property of johnny morgan
00:42:25
dad have you heard a story like this
00:42:28
before
00:42:29
you may have a similar event happened in
00:42:32
new england in the 90s
00:42:37
let's have one more look at the story of
00:42:39
the music teacher who returned from
00:42:41
beyond to inspire his prized pupil
00:42:44
give me your hands
00:42:46
[Music]
00:42:52
there was an energy coming from martin's
00:42:54
hands that i felt throughout my entire
00:42:56
body
00:42:59
now
00:43:04
i felt like his hands were still there
00:43:07
guiding me but
00:43:08
i was on my own did a similar story to
00:43:11
this one
00:43:12
take place perhaps but this one has been
00:43:15
made up
00:43:20
truth and fiction they often seem to be
00:43:23
two sides of the same coin
00:43:24
and when that coin is spun is the result
00:43:27
fate
00:43:28
luck or a combination of the two is it
00:43:31
possible to determine the fake from the
00:43:33
real
00:43:34
or are we dealing in a realm that is
00:43:35
truly beyond belief
00:43:38
i'm jonathan franks
00:43:41
the true stories on tonight's show were
00:43:43
based upon first-hand research by author
00:43:45
robert treylands
00:43:47
this is campbell lane
00:43:54
[Music]
00:44:30
you
