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tonight on unsolved mysteries they call
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it the chair of death more than 300
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years ago a condemned killer pronounced
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a curse on the seat as he was led to the
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gallows legend has it that ever since
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those who ignored the warnings were
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doomed to an untimely death for 11 years
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Audrey Santo has been in a coma-like
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State yet her bedroom has become a
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religious shrine a constant stream of
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visitors believes as somehow in this
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mysterious sleep state Audrey can
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perform miracles a dog rescues a total
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stranger from drowning
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a pet pig saves the life of its owner
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what turns animals into heroes is an
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instinct a sixth sense for something
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more it may look like nothing more than
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a war and weather-beaten a scrap of
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olive wood many believe it holds
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extraordinary power the power to heal is
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it possible and this is an actual
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remnant of a legendary Holy Grail
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and the power of log transcend death
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consider the purity and simplicity of a
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single red woman this woman says it was
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a gift sent from beyond the grave by her
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father television star Michael Emma join
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me for these fascinating stories perhaps
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someone somewhere has at one vital clue
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that can solve a mystery
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perhaps that someone is watching perhaps
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it's you
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the English village of first cuz all the
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quirky charms and quaint customs a
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visitor might expect it also has one
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attraction you might not expect as you
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wander through the clutter of the
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villages tiny Museum you might find
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yourself drawn to a remote alcove and a
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valuable antique chair but it's not on
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display for its rarity according to the
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locals
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this chair is cursed with an astonishing
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and lethal power it all started way back
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in 1669 Thomas Busby a convicted
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murderer on his way to the gallows was
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granted a last wish a final pint of ale
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on his favourite chair at his favorite
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pub when he finished the condemned man
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gathered himself for the hangman caught
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into the chair and let his voice ring
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out may sudden death come to anyone who
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dares sit in my chair thomas Busby's
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curse echoed Darla's centuries proving
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his potency over and over again at least
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that's how is told here with typical
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British reserved after he was hanged
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this chair remained in the pub and
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people were dared to sit in it but
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gradually it became noticed that they
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were coming to a sticky end afterwards
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or very shortly afterwards
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no one knows exactly how many victims of
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curses claims as Thomas Busby met his
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maker but the legend gained a great deal
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of notoriety during World War two Airmen
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at a nearby base made the pub a hotspot
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the chair a hot seat people started
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noticing those who PSAPs didn't come
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back well unlike came here I didn't
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believe in curses but now have mixed
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feelings after hearing certain things
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about this chair the only way I would
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sit in the chair if my doctor tell me
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I've only got 12 hours to live a great
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many people take it very seriously I'm
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not a superstitious man but I wouldn't
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sit in it 1966 300 years after Busby
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drank his last pint a pair of Royal Air
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Force pilots down a few too many of
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their own the Tingo didn't last long the
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Pirates were about to be grounded for
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good
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the chair was no longer known merely as
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Busby's chair now it was the chair of
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death a few years later two bricklayers
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working nearby took a lunch break at the
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pub despite the chair sinister
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reputation they couldn't resist daring
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as powders you've got to be kidding give
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it a try
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do you think I'm scared then you do it
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all right then
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[Music]
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that afternoon Busby's curse struck
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again legend has it the chair never had
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an off day anyone who wore miss wooden
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bottom died swiftly a roofer who tempted
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the chair fell to his death when the
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roof he was working on collapsed a
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cleaning woman stumbled into the chair
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while mopping soon after a brain tumor
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killed her no one escaped the chair of
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death I well with all this rain we've
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been having I haven't been in much need
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of new supplies for safety sake the pub
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owner finally moved the chair into the
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basement out of harm's way or so he
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thought actually don't sit in it I can
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tell you're more than one or two stories
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about people and met a premature death
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simple even that sort of thing within
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the hour the delivery mayor's delivery
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days world
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it was the last straw
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there was only one safe place for the
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chair the local museum the curators made
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sure no one would sit in Busby's chair
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again they hung it on the wall five feet
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off the ground
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people come that they're horrified okay
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they sort of further register horror
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when they come in and see this chan and
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hear the story though it's killing days
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are presumed to be over people continue
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to come forward with more tales of the
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chair of death the strangest one it was
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just a couple of months ago a fella rang
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me a retired man from Derby who'd been
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stationed on the Air Force Base during
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the war and he was a member of the RAF
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band and they used to played functions
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and thirst can travel there by truck on
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the way back one night they picked up
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two Airmen who were walking home from a
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night out in town and there one of these
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Airmen wanted to use a toilet so the
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stopped here at the Busby stupid while
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waiting for the airman the driver of the
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truck all unknowing sat in Busby's
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chairs when the airman didn't return the
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driver left the pub without him the
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abandoned and furious Airmen had to make
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his own way back to the base when he got
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there he called a building brick and
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smushed the head of this driver and
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killed him these days that chair isn't
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taken down even for cleaning just in
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case anyone is foolhardy enough to test
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Busby's curse once more
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the power of the chair has been hung up
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with it and I wouldn't advise anybody to
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take it down and sit on it now because
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it does seem that those who challenge
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the power of the chair have been the
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quickest to succumb to it next the
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unique and strange story of a girl who
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many believe is somehow healing was sick
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even though she has been in a near coma
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for 11 years as you can see this is
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Audrey's room and the person sitting
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down on her left is her grandmother and
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the person standing on your right is one
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of the nurses meet Audrey Santo this is
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not a reenactment audrey has been in a
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coma-like State called akinetic mutism
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for 11 years every week people line up
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at this window to get a glimpse of her
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not because they are morbid but because
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they believe she's a miracle maker
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her astonishing story begins when Audrey
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played by her family swimming pool in
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Worcester Massachusetts she was only
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three years old when tragedy struck
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Audrey was underwater for several
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minutes before she was rescued by her
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brother on the way to the emergency room
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she went into cardiac arrest it was a
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parent's worst nightmare
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Audrey's initial diagnosis after the
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near drowning was that she had massive
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brain damage from the drowning and a
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very poor prognosis they didn't think
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she was going to live very long we just
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started praying that's all just prayed
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because when things are totally out of
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your control what else can you do it's
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God's control then you got to give him
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the ball and let him run with it
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Audrey Lynde but she has remained
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bedridden for 11 years
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she shows an awareness of what's going
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on around her but she is unable to move
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or talk she's not fully conscious by any
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stretch of the imagination yet she's not
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unconscious a year after Audrey's
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accident her mother took her to the
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famous miracle site of mega gorya hoping
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for a cure the trip nearly killed Audrey
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but from that time on a gradual
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progression of unexplained phenomena
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took place one of the most remarkable
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occurred in the Santos living room
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October 1993 Audrey was nine a picture
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of the Virgin Mary appeared to be crying
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not tears but drops of oil we're all
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looking at this image and and I simply
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you know if this is forgery let us know
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this because all of a sudden it occurred
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just to the to the kids and I that maybe
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this weeping was for Archery's healing
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there are many meanings of oil for
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example healing and so on and all I
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conclude quickly then that God is saying
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this is a holy place and this little
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girl is mine
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it started with one weeping picture then
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as the days went on almost every
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religious icon in Audrey's room began to
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cry tears of oil another image started
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weeping and then another image started
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weeping we started thinking well is
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there a rhyme or reason to this or could
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it be a hoax one person who thought it
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was a sham was a newly hired nurse when
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I started piecing everything together my
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first time saying I got to get out of
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here
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he's better than us I really tried to
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call their bluff on this but as I stayed
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there I just I believed it I couldn't I
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can't find any reason why these things
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are happening and I have checked I
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checked the statues
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I checked the cups I mean I'm looking
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for wires and anything that would soften
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oil reaction and it was there was
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absolutely nothing nothing there that I
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can explain why it's happening news
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began to spread within the Catholic
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community fervent believers began to
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request samples of the oil some even
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anointed their sick loved ones with it
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the mysterious events began to take on a
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new dimension Caitlyn McQuaid was
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thought to have cerebral palsy she no
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longer has braces on her legs
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Victor fanucci recovered from crippling
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neck pain a motorcycle accident had left
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Joey paralyzed he was severely injured
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legs he can now walk without crutches
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in a remarkable departure from tradition
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the local Catholic Diocese approved the
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weekly performance of Mass and a
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makeshift sanctuary in the family's
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backyard pilgrims came to the Santo home
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to ask Audrey to pray for them to
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receive samples of the oil at first they
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came by the dozens then by the hundreds
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until the numbers reached the thousands
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joana Stanley Parag were given a sample
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of oil by a friend when their 17 year
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old son Jim lapsed into a coma after a
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car crash a serious student he intended
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to go to college that was before a
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pickup hit the driver's side of his car
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they told us that jim's condition was
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very very grave and it would be a
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miracle if he survived the night we're
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concerned that Jim was not going to make
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it Jim was still comatose seven days
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later when they place the oil on his
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forehead and then the monitor showed
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that Jim was responding I can still
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remember the feeling of awe because I
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didn't expect that
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particular effect
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and it was just a few hours later that
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he did come out of his coma and a nurse
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is used to call me a miracle kid it took
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Jim a year to improve enough from his
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injuries to return to high school and
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graduate Audrey's astonishing abilities
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took a new twist in June of 1994 without
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warning a mysterious rash appeared on
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her legs was Audrey taking on the
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painful side effects of sick people dr.
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Harding had no explanation for it so a
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laboratory examined the biopsy of Audrey
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skin and they sent back a report that
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said it's the rash that you might see
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with a patient on chemotherapy and she
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wasn't on chemotherapy knowing the
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supernatural stuff flying around her
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perhaps somebody had come in maybe their
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wife dying of cancer or their husband or
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their child and on chemotherapy and had
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asked her if she would ask God for
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healing for their loved one and that you
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know perhaps she took that on that
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suffering and on behalf of a patient but
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one of the most incredible aspects of
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Audrey's story is Audrey herself after
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11 years of being bedridden she is
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surprisingly healthy you just wouldn't
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expect her to be so well nourished
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looking her skin to be in such perfect
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condition she really just looks like
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this maybe happened to a few weeks ago
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or a month ago not like it happened to
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living years ago the girls never had a
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bedsore you know and for someone who
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doesn't move around and have a trach and
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stuff she really has not had any kind of
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pneumonia or cold or anything in three
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years which is really in itself
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a remarkable thing it's gotta be God I
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mean stupid actual comes from two
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sources in my book the devil or God and
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since this is all good and people are
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coming back to God and they're being
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healed this must be of God
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next heartwarming stories about a blind
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dog and an overweight pig
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can you guess what qualities make them
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an unsolved mystery
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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they say that inside even the smallest
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dog lose a heart and mind of a wolf
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so what strange force makes these
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animals our best friends
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even more puzzling but inexplicable
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instinct persuade them to risk their
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lives for ours
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what is the potent and mysterious bond
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between us and them
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Annette MacDonald and her dog Norman
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often walk along the shore of a tidal
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estuary in Seaside Oregon Norman is a
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yellow land the kind of dog often used
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to guide the blind in this case however
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the roles are reversed
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Norman is blind and that guides him when
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Norman's gonna bump into something I
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just say easy easy
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if I throw the stick and he doesn't hear
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where it lands and he goes the wrong
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direction I tell him to go the other way
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I just say other way other way he'll
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usually turn around and go the right way
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on August 5th 1997 Annette was guiding
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Norman through the usual game on Norman
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suddenly reacted to a different sound
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he just took off like a bullet I was
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surprised that he didn't even run that
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fast Anna tried to call him back
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worried he would hurt himself but he
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ignored her completely 15 year-old Lisa
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nibbly was caught in the dangerous
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undertow of the incoming tide I was
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having a hard time getting enough air
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and now my lungs were just burning
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because it was just so hard for me to
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breathe and my face was just on fire cuz
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I was screaming so loud for someone to
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help me amazingly Norman started
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swimming straight toward her I couldn't
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believe that he knew what to do that he
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knew somebody needed him and he did it
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just it's incredible but Lisa saw the
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woman heading toward her she stopped
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screaming Norman became instantly
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disoriented and it suddenly realized
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Norman had been following Lisa's voice
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the moment Lisa called him Norman got
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his bearings a swam straight toward her
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it was the most helpless moment in my
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life I felt like everything was
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depending on Norman to get out there and
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get her because there was no way I could
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I'm not a swimmer and I wouldn't have
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been able to save her it was all
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depending on him when he swam out to me
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he kind of looked at me in my face and
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kind like he was saying grab a hold of
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me I'm gonna help you
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Lisa grabbed North Len lost her breath
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her arms were shaking with fatigue
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incredible
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Roman came back for another try
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he turned around and like swung himself
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around so I could grab the back of him
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so you could swim and I could hold on to
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him I think he knew that he had to help
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me he knew what he was doing
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julissa's astonishment Norman told her
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towards shore as though he'd been
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trained for it all his life moments
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later they were back in the shallows
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safe he's my guardian angel and I was so
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happy that that happened he saved me and
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was amazing
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neither a net nor Lisa understand what
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mysterious instinct inspired a blind dog
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to risk his life for a stranger at least
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I will be forever grateful to her hero
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normally when you look into a dog soft
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brown eyes it's not hard to see the
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heart of a hero but what about other
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animals
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August 4th 1998 Joe Altman was
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vacationing at a campground on Lake Erie
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about her husband was out fishing she
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was relaxing in their trailer suddenly
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she felt a pain in her chest and her
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left arm went numb
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oh no one in the campground heard her
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cries no one except Lulu her pet
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pot-bellied pig
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Joe's heart attack continued with pain
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and creasing she became terrified that
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she would die no one close enough to
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help seconds passed minutes she was
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getting weakened within minutes
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paramedics were rushing Joe to the
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hospital they took me to the emergency
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room and admitted me and they said in
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even 15 minutes I would had no quality
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of life or I would have died but how did
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the young man happen to arrive just in
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the nick of time
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what guardian angel guided him to her
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door to Joe's amazement it turned out to
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be Lulu the pig from a moment Joe fell
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to the floor
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Lulu seemed to know something was very
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wrong she ran to the kitchen and
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squeezed herself through the dog door
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scraping her belly wrong outside Lulu
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threw herself against the gate
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battering until it broke
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her cries kept getting failure that's
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because she was going farther away from
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me that I didn't register that at the
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time Lulu went to the campgrounds main
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cross rooms incredibly she parked
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herself in the middle of the road
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forcing drivers to back up or swerve
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around her even more amazing Buddha
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repeatedly retraced her steps returning
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constantly to Joan she'd come back in
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through all the doggie door and scrape
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her belly and check on me and put that
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big mug of hers over my face and she'd
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go out back up through everything and do
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everything again it just seemed like I'd
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hollered forever and Lulu had run back
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and forth forever and nobody came but
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Lulu apparently wasn't willing to give
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up finally someone stopped
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Moody's behavior defies explanation did
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she actually conceive an execute a plan
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to save Joan's life how could a pig do
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that and why would she animal
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behaviorists my credit pack instant are
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genetically programmed responses to fear
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pheromones but Jo has a simpler answer
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Lulu London every morning I thank God
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that she was there and every morning I
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thank our we will literally saved my
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life
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[Music]
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next some say that water from a chalice
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call the mantillas Cup has a power to
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heal code at D the Holy Grail
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[Applause]
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it was a most sacred object of the
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Middle Ages a great elusive prize
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coveted by King Arthur and his knights
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of the round table
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centuries ago wandering minstrels
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popularized the image of a bejeweled
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golden chalice the Holy Grail
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but that is a romantic ideal the reality
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may be quite different
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thousands of people believe this
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well-worn palm sized bit of olive wood
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kept under lock and key in West Wales is
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the true Grail all that is left of a
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simple workman's comp
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a cup from which Jesus Christ Himself
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drank at the Last Supper the calf is a
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unique symbol which brings God and man
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together and of course for the catholic
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least christ is present in the cup many
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people regard the Holy Grail and Jesus
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Christ as one on the same
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it is a powerful notion that the lips of
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Christ actually touched an object that
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still exists today but is it truly the
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Grail where is the proof believers say
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it lies in the customer oculus power to
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heal Hunter's testify they have been
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cured of the worst afflictions arthritis
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heart disease blindness leprosy even
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deadly cancers the legend of the Grail
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begins with his wondrous journey from
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biblical Palestine to a modest cottage
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in England for more than two thousand
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years every object associated with a
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Last Supper and the crucifixion has
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taken on a mystical significance none
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more so than the Holy Grail for the
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historian the Grail is legend pure and
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simple that legend is an amazing thing
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it's can enable people to do heroic
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things under the worst of circumstances
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and that's why the Grail story is one of
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the greatest stories in the entire
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history of the world and always will be
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though it was not recorded in the Bible
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the Grail legend holds that blood
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spilled from Christ's wounds as his body
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was being prepared for bearing
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joseph of arimathea caught a few drops
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in the Grail after the resurrection
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joseph was accused of stealing the body
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of christ and was imprisoned without
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food or water each day however an angel
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placed a wafer in the Grail keeping
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Joseph alive until he managed to escape
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with his life and the Grail he brought
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the precious cup to the western isles of
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brittany there he founded the Church of
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the Holy Grail on Glastonbury Tor a
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church whose ruins still stand today 100
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miles west of London there is sufficient
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evidence written evidence to support the
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coming of Joseph and the Holy Grail with
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11 or so disciples to the Western come
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finds of England indeed to Glastonbury
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via the Bristol Channel from Palestine
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for a thousand years after Joseph came
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to Glastonbury the Grail remain hidden
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away all but forgotten then in the 12th
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century poets and troubadours revived
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the legend the quest for the Grail
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captivated all of Europe it's the
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spiritual Quillin to say the Star Wars
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trilogy the Superman movies the Batman
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movies all rolled into one
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everybody knows the characters everybody
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has some sense of what's at stake it's
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the salvation of the human race three
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centuries after the revival of the Grail
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legend Henry the eighth's added another
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chapter he ordered his soldiers salute
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to monasteries and destroy the churches
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including Glastonbury Henry the eighth's
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Reformation was one of the great acts of
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vandalism the history of the world to
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put it bluntly the King wants to get
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rich so you could fight France and Spain
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and he also wanted to remove what he
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thought were the wrong bits of religion
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of his land and that's why these great
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medieval Abbey's had ago a group of
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monks led Glastonbury just ahead of the
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Kings soldiers
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legend has it that they carried with him
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a secret treasure the true Grail for a
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time they hid in a monastery in Wales
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called strata Florida when strata
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Florida suffered the same fate as
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Glastonbury the monks fled again this
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time to nan Tia's house mansion owned by
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a family of aristocrats named Powell
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there the monks found sanctuary
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there were seven of them six months and
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the prior and they remained in mount EOS
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house and to one by one they passed on
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the last of the seven to die was the
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prior and it was the prior and handed
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this sacred relic over to the power
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family the panel's guarded the monks
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relic for 400 years handing it down from
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one generation to the next
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it became known as the nerdiest cup what
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began to transpire was that the chalice
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had healing properties how they
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discovered this is not known but at some
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point in time the healing properties
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became more apparent for many years
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Reverend Griffiths knew only the barest
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facts about the nan Tia's cup then one
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night in 1988 he had his first encounter
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with a mysterious powers of the Grail I
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was an itinerant ministry during those
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days and this particular day I was
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traveling to North Wales early in the
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morning aside set a time of rising at
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6:00 a.m. but at 4:00 a.m. I was
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awakened by a voice the first time it
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didn't register and I heard a second
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time the voice say you will find a holy
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chalice
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before dawn that very morning a friend
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called her friend suggested that the
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Reverend include the nerdiest Cup in a
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coming exhibition of Christian artifacts
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he told Griffis he might learn more
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about the cup at the ruined Abbey of
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strata Florida when I gave the curator
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the details I was amazed to find that he
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was convinced of my experience and he
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was more than willing to help but he
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made it to understand that it was
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breaking the rule because he had
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promised the family that he would never
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redirect anyone to their present
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location now the reason for this was
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because the present cup owners mother
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was sometimes inundated with as many as
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a thousand visitors per week and as a
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result she experienced a breakdown the
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current owner of the cup another direct
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descendant of the Powell family lives in
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seclusion
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protecting her privacy as vigilantly as
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she guards the Nadia's cup as the
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guardian of the Holy Grail my duty to
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safeguard the cup at all times but to
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allow people to drink from it to have
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water from it and to send water to
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people if they're ill
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when I first set eyes on the chalice I
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was a little disappointed because it was
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only fragmentary perhaps only a third of
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the original vessel left but when I
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handled it
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I had a total totally different
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appreciation of it I can't describe in
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in human language the effect it had upon
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me as if I was already in paradise it is
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precisely that feeling of holiness that
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has led many to believe that Cup has the
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power to heal
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the cups Guardian gives water that has
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been poured over the cup to Reverend
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Griffiths he patched the holy water on
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small prayer mats and sends them to
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those who were sick and crippled the
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Reverend says some of the results have
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been nothing short of miraculous I have
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a regular meal with a young man who was
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once totally blind and today he has
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perfect sight eyesight one case of a
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young man who was a leper at a leprous
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condition for 11 years but the following
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day his skin was perfectly clean from
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every trace of leprosy we have many
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cases of arthritic s-- and rheumatics
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who have been healed if not in the short
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term in the long term for which they
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were told originally there was no cure
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Marleen check me testifies to her own
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miracle well like I would imagine it was
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everyone whose nightmare I was having a
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shower one morning and I found a lump in
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my left breast
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marlis doctor believed the lump was
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cancerous while waiting for a mammogram
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Marlene wore one of the prayer claws
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beneath her clothes and then by the time
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I went for the mammogram everything was
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clear the lump was still there but there
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was nothing cancerous the doctors did
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say that the lump would still stay there
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but after a week or two the lump went
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and I've had no further problems with
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that the results and the testimonies
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were so amazing that I knew then that
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behind my whole experience from the time
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when I heard the voice to this present
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time that I have no doubts whatsoever
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about the authenticity of the chalice
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being the Holy Grail that Jesus used at
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the Last Supper is the nosiest cup the
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Holy Grail we may never know the cup has
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not been carbon-dated or scientifically
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tested in any way its Guardian fear such
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testing might damage it
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as it turns out there are at least half
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a dozen chalices scattered across Europe
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that many claim are equally strong
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contenders of the title of the true
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Grail it is interesting a note however
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that the others are made of more
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expensive materials gold bronze and
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other metals an anteus cup is simple
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wood precisely the kind of couple humble
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carpenter would break from next the
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television star Michael Landon sent a
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gift to his daughter from beyond the
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grave a compelling testament to the
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power of love the REO highway to heaven
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or to a Christmas ornament $300 in cash
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and a fragile red rose have in common
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some would say they were all signs from
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heaven tangible gifts sent from beyond
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the grave by television star Michael
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Landon grandfather Herman stegos and
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college student Joe McCarthy
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eighteen-year-old Joe McCarthy of Wausau
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Wisconsin was a go-getter in every sense
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a top-10 student in his high school
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class when it came time for college he
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chose Notre Dame in June of 1987 Joe had
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just returned home after his freshman
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year when he was killed in a car
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accident when Joe died there's number
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one there's emptiness in your heart and
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in your mind it's like where is he is he
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okay
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I kept thinking at the time if he could
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only just talk to me just one time
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didn't everyone's grieving around you
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and so you're thinking I wish I knew
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it's just that thought is he okay the
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macarthy's didn't actually expect an
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answer then three days after the funeral
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I was going through the through the
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basement out into the into the garage
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and I saw the angel that tops our
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Christmas tree
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laying there since Joe died in June and
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we had the Christmas ornaments stored in
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an upstairs closet I thought it was kind
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of strange but didn't really think a
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whole lot of it
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Joey's to kid me about vacuuming it was
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like mom if you ever get to heaven there
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gonna be a vacuum up there because you
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do it so much I said well cleanliness is
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next to godliness right kid so I did i
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vacuumed every day I still do and I saw
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something on the rug and I picked it up
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and I just thought it's an ornament and
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I just looked at I thought this is one
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of the ornaments from the Christmas tree
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why is it here and I just set it aside I
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set it on a shelf we had there and I
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didn't think much of it at the time that
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evening Dennis told Kathleen about the
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angel he had discovered it was right
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there in the middle of the floor I
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almost stepped on it I found an angel
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today too and I went and got it and
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showed it to him and it said it said
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Joseph's honor he said it's a sign he's
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okay the macarthy's had four angel
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ornaments each engraved with one of
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their children's names this one
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remarkably had Ben Jones they looked at
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it in and saw Joe's name on there it was
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really an incredible feeling the fact
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that he that he gave his mother an angel
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and I an angel on the same day to me was
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pretty powerful
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it may seem amazing but the mccarthy's
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experience is hardly uncommon dr. Luis
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Legrand chronic was more than 50 similar
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experiences in his book after death
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communication
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this happens just an innumerable amount
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of times and that's why we need to
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validate these situations that's why we
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need to get the general public to be
00:40:45
more accepting and open to this we can't
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explain it science will never be able to
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explain it it's a gift to the heart and
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that's what explains it
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indeed heaven-sent signs seem to come
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from Lowe's with big hearts people like
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Herman Steggles who was 69 when he died
00:41:04
unexpectedly he was very close to his
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grandchildren especially his eldest
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grandson
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Anthony Herman died just three weeks
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before Christmas his message arrived
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with a holiday mail when this package
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came it was kind of like it was exciting
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for the kids because it took their mind
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off of you know the grieving they opened
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up the package the wrapping paper was
00:41:29
all over the shipping stuff was all over
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my mother's living room floor so I asked
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Anthony if he could clean it up and take
00:41:36
the box out to the garbage Anthony was
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on his way out when he suddenly stopped
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in his tracks
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he says his grandfather spoke to him
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when I heard his voice it it did freaked
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me out because it was scary he said mom
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pop just told me I should look under the
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flap of the box she just said quit
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playing around
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she thought I was playing a game but I
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wasn't
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I said Anthony throw the box out I
00:42:06
thought he was playing with me
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he said no mom you don't understand I
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heard him twice he said look onto the
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flap look under the flap
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sure enough wedged in the bottom flaps
00:42:15
of the box was an onboard
00:42:18
it's a card inside were three crisp $100
00:42:21
bills one each for Anthony his brother
00:42:24
and sister Beth is convinced the money
00:42:28
would have been lost if her father had
00:42:30
not spoken from beyond the grave
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I think that was the biggest message in
00:42:36
the whole thing that you know grandpa is
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still here and grandpa's still watching
00:42:39
you and Grandpa spending the holidays
00:42:40
with you and I didn't leave and I didn't
00:42:43
abandon you and this is the way that he
00:42:45
could tell them you know that I'm still
00:42:47
here and this was a sure way of getting
00:42:49
out his message that you're not alone
00:42:51
and I'm still here with you and I still
00:42:52
love you each of you to have had an
00:42:56
experience of this nature when love is
00:43:00
rekindled the person is able to
00:43:02
reconnect with life again to get some
00:43:06
energy back to be able to look at
00:43:10
themselves in the mirror and say maybe
00:43:13
there is some meaning to what has
00:43:15
happened meaningful yes but were the
00:43:20
experiences of Joe's family and Herman's
00:43:22
family mere coincidences not a tones as
00:43:27
Michael Landon's daughter Shelly
00:43:31
in 1991 Michael Landon was at the top of
00:43:34
his career he was a highly regarded star
00:43:37
of highway to heaven in which he played
00:43:39
an angel sent to earth to help people
00:43:42
Michael first became well-known it was
00:43:44
as little Joe on bonanza then he played
00:43:47
the lovable father on Little House on
00:43:49
the Prairie Cheryl says that Michael
00:43:52
Landon was not very different from the
00:43:54
characters he portrayed there was a
00:43:56
warmth about him
00:43:57
there was this love the spontaneity it
00:44:00
was like he was my my angel from heaven
00:44:03
my father from heaven when Michael
00:44:06
Landon died of cancer in 1991 that a
00:44:08
youthful 54 Cheryl was devastated it was
00:44:13
the greatest loss of my life my best
00:44:17
friend my mentor my protector my
00:44:23
guidance everything my security it was
00:44:28
all gone and I started hearing my dad's
00:44:34
voice my father would come to me in
00:44:37
dreams and I thought boy I must be
00:44:40
really grieving because I'm hearing my
00:44:43
dad's voice I'm seeing him in my dreams
00:44:46
Cheryl vowed to carry on Michael's
00:44:48
legacy of emphasizing good deeds and
00:44:50
good-heartedness
00:44:51
her first step was writing a book called
00:44:54
I promised my dad as a publishing
00:44:57
deadline approached Cheryl felt more and
00:44:59
more uneasy about the prospect of
00:45:01
promoting the book on the talkshow
00:45:03
circuit
00:45:04
I remember going through so much of the
00:45:07
emotions and I really thought how could
00:45:10
I go on and do these television shows
00:45:12
successfully and I very clearly heard my
00:45:15
father during the day say when you go to
00:45:18
do your first show I'm gonna leave you a
00:45:21
long stem red rose a year later
00:45:24
Cheryl found herself in Manhattan
00:45:26
nervously preparing for her first talk
00:45:28
show appearance
00:45:30
that's when she says she heard Michael
00:45:33
Landon's voice again what's wrong you've
00:45:37
been so quiet since we got here
00:45:39
something really amazing happened to me
00:45:42
what just now when I was standing by the
00:45:44
window I heard his voice again and he
00:45:47
was right there and this time he told me
00:45:51
to find the fountain in Central Park
00:45:53
the strange part is that I knew exactly
00:45:55
where this fountain was never being
00:45:57
there before it was like I was guided
00:46:00
exactly to this fountain when I had gone
00:46:06
down to the bottom of the stairwell
00:46:08
there at my feet exactly where I had
00:46:11
stopped was a long stem red rose this is
00:46:15
just the way
00:46:16
it was like I had discovered a treasure
00:46:20
of gold I was so happy I was so full of
00:46:27
encouragement that it was just like a
00:46:30
boost of of love a boost of
00:46:35
encouragement Cheryl's friend who
00:46:38
witnessed the moment snapped this
00:46:40
picture to commemorate it for Michael
00:46:43
Landon's daughter it is a lasting
00:46:45
reminder of his love a single red rose
00:46:50
to Christmas ornaments trio of hundred
00:46:53
dollar bills are the grease trick and
00:46:56
just too willing to clutch at anything
00:46:58
they might bring them comfort or is
00:47:01
something else at work something beyond
00:47:03
explanation for the families of Joe
00:47:06
McCarthy her mistake owes and Michael
00:47:08
Landon no explanation is needed they
00:47:11
held the proof in their hands join me
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next time for another compelling out
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bonesaw mysteries
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