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beyond belief
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fact or fiction
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hosted by jonathan frakes
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tonight your challenge is to separate
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what is true
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from what is false five stories
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some real some fake can you judge which
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are fact and which are fiction to find
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out
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you must enter a world of both truth and
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deception
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a world that is beyond belief
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can we really trust our own eyes observe
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these two painted figures
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the one on the right obviously looks
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bigger than the one on the left
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but let's switch positions
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know which one seems bigger the truth is
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they're exactly the same size
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and so it is with our stories tonight
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what seems to be true
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may turn out to be completely false or
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vice versa
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so be careful how you judge them or
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should i say
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how you size them up
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have you ever noticed the curious things
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one sees discarded by the roadside
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one shoe is very common in fact maybe
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that's where they get the expression
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tossed out like an old shoe
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you also see lots of hubcaps on the road
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of course spare tires
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and even furniture shows up on the side
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of the highway now and then
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but none of these items have prepared
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the bradleys for what they're about to
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encounter along the roadside
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jerry can't resist taking advantage of
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it and mary
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well she's waiting for the other shoe to
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drop
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my new husband jerry and i considered
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ourselves the luckiest people in the
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world
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we were married in our hometown of gary
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indiana and decided to drive cross
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country to los
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angeles for our honeymoon
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we are here my friend oh yeah
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exactly exactly
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what a beautiful spot where
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are we near as i can figure we are just
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outside of flagstaff on an old stretch
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of route 66
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i think so we're lost well no we're not
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lost i mean all roads lead somewhere
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right
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come on let's go eat i'm starving
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nothing ever bothered jerry he just took
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things as they came
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but i believe in fate everything happens
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for a reason
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like most newlyweds we didn't have much
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money but it didn't really matter
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all we needed was each other call of
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room service orders up some lunch
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okay well how about if i make you
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another peanut butter and july sandwich
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perfect yeah you read my mind
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what about my tip
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what's wrong there's something over
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there lay in the grass right there
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you know you know what this is there's a
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1944 barton
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they don't make them anymore
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it's a it's a classic and it's in
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perfect shape well it must belong to
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someone
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yeah why would anyone leave it here i
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don't know but if it's that valuable i'm
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sure they're gonna come back for it yeah
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and then that just doesn't make any
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sense i mean it
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must have fallen off a truck or
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something it's not our business jerry
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i wonder if it still runs who cares we
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should just leave it alone now come on
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let's go
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just wait a second what are you doing
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come on stop that put it back down jerry
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oh wait this is this is kind of weird
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the date on this license plate is from
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1944.
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it's never been renewed i'm getting a
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really bad feeling from this i just want
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to go okay
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oh get off of it jerry
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they're still gassing it all right
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jerry there's blood on the front fender
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yeah probably just hit a deer
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i can't believe it i'm gonna take it for
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a little spin
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i'll be right back
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i'll never forget the terrible feeling i
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had in the pit of my stomach
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as i watched jerry pull away
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huh
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are you all right
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i think i broke my leg oh oh the girl
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oh god i couldn't stop
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where is she
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she's gone and so is the motorcycle
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and the uh and then the girl in the
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motorcycle just
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just uh disappeared i know i hit her
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look it happened i mean look at me
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take it easy i know this all sounds like
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we're completely out of our minds but
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i saw the whole thing and it happened
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exactly the way he told it
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i swear to you you don't believe us
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no i believe you
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54 years ago there was a terrible
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accident in this very spot
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a young soldier home from the war
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borrowed his friend's barton motorcycle
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he sped down this road to see his
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girlfriend they were gonna meet right
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here
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underneath that tree it was late
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getting dark and he didn't see her
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standing by the side of the road waiting
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for it
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he hit her lost control of the bike two
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young people
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very much in love died right here
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54 years ago to the day what are you
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saying
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every year on this day somebody sees
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that old motorcycle
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but it always disappears before they can
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get to it
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you're the only one who ever got to ride
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it and see the young girl
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but why did this happen now to us
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who knows
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joe let's get him ready for transport
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looking back now jerry and i believe we
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were chosen to release the spirits of
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these two young lovers
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maybe now they can both rest in peace
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what caused jerry bradley to fall off
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the motorcycle and break his leg
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was it all an illusion why have others
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reported seeing the same cycle on that
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same day every year
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and where did the bike go could both
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jerry and mary
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have been hallucinating at the same time
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are we telling the truth in this story
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or will it turn out that we're just
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recycling a lie
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we'll tell you whether this story is
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true or false at the end of our show
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next a mysterious stranger and a
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high-stakes pool game
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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the pool table can be the setting for a
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gentlemanly contest of skill and
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strategy
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or a set piece in a seamy world of
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sharks and hustlers
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our story takes place in the south side
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pool a world where
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dishonesty often triumphs over decency
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and where the clock of ivory spheres
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can sound the sinking of a man's life as
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casually
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[Music]
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as the sinking of the three ball in the
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corner pocket
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[Music]
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maybe i love the game of pool too much i
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bought the southside pool
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35 years ago i never made a lot of dough
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out of it but at least i was around the
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game every day
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a year ago i got a bad break my wife
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needed surgery and i took out a loan
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against the business
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well things went from bad to worse and i
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ended up having to sell the place for
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nothing
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cocky young hustling nikki rush
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all right who's next gonna lose some
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time i'll play one arm behind my back
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come on hop to it pops you're thirsty
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come
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almost on i needed money so i stayed on
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and did odd jobs around the place
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funny how things work out i never
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thought i'd be making less than minimum
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wage at a place i used to hunt
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can you see i'm shooting here
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that stick belonged to the great
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jacklist five times world champion
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from 1970 to 1975.
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he started out hustling right here when
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he was 15 years old
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he was the greatest natural pool player
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i ever seen leon what are you doing
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come on get back to work what am i
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paying you for
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it was tough having nikki russ as a boss
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but i was 65 years old
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where else could i go at least i was
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still around the game
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not a bad night especially when you add
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in what i want
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hey the dog's allowed in here
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he'll be waiting outside the stranger
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looked kind of familiar to me
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but i knew he wasn't a regular smells
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just like it used to
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still has plenty of play you have to
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shoot here before
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yeah a long time ago
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i knew this man but i just couldn't
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place him it was driving me crazy
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you looking for some action
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let's shoot some pool
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the stranger got nothing off the break
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so now it was nikki's turn
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nicki was really hot tonight
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it seemed no matter what he did the
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balls would fall just right
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of course the stranger asked for a
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rematch the second game went quicker
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than the first
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i'd seen nikki like this before he just
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couldn't lose
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when a guy is this hot you don't bet
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against them stranger insisted on
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doubling the stakes
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nicki never took a breath just kept on
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seeing
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i just scored 10 grand in two hours
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you're the
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best nikki
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hey look it's late and uh you're
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probably out of cash so
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how about one last game
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for fifty thousand dollars
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yeah i don't have 50 grand on me
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i've got a pool
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you're hustling me what do you care can
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you beat me
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i you can't lose it's 50 grand
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all right you're on hot shot
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there's just one condition i want to
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change
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cues sure go ahead
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that's when i figured out who the
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stranger was it had been a long time
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since i seen him
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but it was the great jack lesko hey leon
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think there's any magic left in the old
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stick maybe
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they've been playing nine ball all night
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and the stranger had yet to sink in a
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ball on the break
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[Music]
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nine ball on the break the man wins
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i don't believe this give the village
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sale to leo
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it's his place again
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i don't have to do that yes you do you
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lost
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take care leon thanks jack
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i don't know how you did that
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didn't make any sense i couldn't figure
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it out
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who was that guy you two scammed me no
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you got beat fair and square by the
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great jack let's go
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jack let's go that's impossible why
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because jack let's go stop playing pool
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about 15 years ago
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when he went blind
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nikki russ and donna left town the
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following morning
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and they never set foot inside leon's
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pool hall again
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what really happened at the south side
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pool hall that night
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was it really jack lesko who came back
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to shoot pool if so
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how could a blind man shoot with such
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skill and accuracy
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there have been cases of blind people
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regaining their sight for brief periods
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of time
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is that what happened or was there some
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paranormal power in the golden cue
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itself
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are we presenting a story based on an
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actual event
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are we just playing another game dirty
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pool
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we'll tell you whether this story is
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true or false at the end of our show
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next a small southern town hides a
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deadly secret on beyond belief
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fact or fiction
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what do you want to be when you grow up
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some of us keep asking ourselves that
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question well into middle age
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for a young person just out of high
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school the world is an exciting place
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so many choices which is the right one
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yet some young people seem to know
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exactly what they want to do
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tommy stewart was just such a young man
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ever since anyone could remember he
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wanted a career in law enforcement
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and everyone in his small town was
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rooting for him to make it but somehow
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things took a wrong turn for tom and to
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figure out exactly what happened
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may take the local sheriff's entire
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career
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there wasn't much crime in our little
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town of beaufort alabama
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oh there was the occasional drunk we had
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to put up at the county's expense from
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time to time but
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nothing really big ever happened we
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liked it that way
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folks around here didn't have to lock
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their doors
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but then it all changed
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that was tommy stewart a young eager
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beaver if ever there was one
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sheriff driscoll i picked up those
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wanted posters
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oh good good thanks tommy uh
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tommy which one of posters were those
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again
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it's the fbi's 10 most wanted oh yeah
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well you you might as well go ahead and
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put them up
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yes sir tommy grew up dirt poor on the
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outskirts of town
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and he had the same dream for as long as
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i knew him
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all he ever wanted out of life was to
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become an fbi agent
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you know one of these fugitives is from
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a county only 30 miles away
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that effect if he ever passes through
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beaufort
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his running days are gonna be over tommy
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worked his way through a small local
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college with odd jobs around town and
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every day he'd put in two or three hours
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here at the station
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just to learn as much as he could about
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the law i got to go deliver some
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groceries to mrs hawkins
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i'll be back later
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bye sheriff you couldn't help liking
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tommy
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he was just that kind of a kid
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it's purely coincidental and it's also
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jurisdictional
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checking your teeth before you put your
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foot in i understand
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i made it i'm getting it
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i was accepted in the academy sheriff
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i'm gonna be an
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fbi agent i'm real proud of you tommy
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you deserve it i couldn't have done it
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without you
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i'm gonna go tell the others all tommy
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needed was
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enough money for travel and living
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expenses i got him a job at the cotton
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mill as a courier
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they entrusted him with making the
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monthly bank deposit which was
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usually around ten thousand dollars what
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happened
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next just never made any sense to me
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one day tommy just disappeared along
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with the mills ten thousand dollar
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deposit
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he never showed up at the fbi academy
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and no one ever saw or heard from him
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again
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we did a thorough investigation but
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never found one
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thing that explained what happened to
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thomas stewart
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not too many days went by over the next
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five years that i didn't think about
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tommy
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i hated that the case had gone unsolved
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for so long
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and i never believed that he took that
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money
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joseph delaney fbi i'm here
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investigating a ring of counterfeiters
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we believe is operating in the area
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counterfeiting huh that's news to me
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yeah well hopefully i'll be able to wrap
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this thing up quickly and uh
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get out of your hair
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something wrong no no no
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uh why don't you grab that desk right
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over there
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thanks i couldn't help noticing that
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agent delaney was about the same age
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tommy would be by now
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there was something familiar about him
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yes sir um
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[Music]
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you know i can't help but think that you
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and i met before it's possible
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i lived here in beaufort about five
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years ago for a short time
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right before i entered the academy you
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remember a local boy named tommy stewart
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yeah i remember we talked a few times
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about our mutual ambition to join the
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bureau
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yeah right yeah it was uh
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terrible how he disappeared with all
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that money thomas stewart was no thief
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for the next week i noticed that agent
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delaney didn't do much investigating
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one of my deputies overheard him talking
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to the beard trying to get himself
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transferred out of beaufort
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there was something wrong about delaney
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but i
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just couldn't put my finger on it
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[Music]
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yeah arlene old henry makes just called
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he was hunting crawfish down at briar's
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bog when a body popped up said it just
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about gave him a heart attack
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delaney we got us a body that turned up
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down at the bog
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you busy right now vlog
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yeah i'm a little shorthanded i can
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really use your help
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yeah sure
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[Music]
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oh my god it's thomas stewart
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[Music]
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the pete moss must have preserved his
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body over the years you set me up
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[Music]
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what
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[Music]
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you murdered tommy didn't
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i needed the money he fought back i'm
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gonna kill him
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[Music]
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give me the weapon son
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i'm not going to prison
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give me the weapon
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i am not going to prison
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it was the strangest thing i ever saw
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there was no splashing
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no struggle it was as if somebody
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reached up and
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pulled him down into the ball but that
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wasn't the end of it
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we recovered joseph delaney's body the
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following day
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and bay on his forehead was a deep gash
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that matched tommy's exactly
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[Music]
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was it just a series of coincidences
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that brought fbi agent joseph delaney
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back to buford
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or was it his own guilt that led him
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back like the old cliche was he
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compelled to return to the scene of the
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crime
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or was the dead boy with the unfinished
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dream able to reach from his grave to
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accomplish what he had always wanted to
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do
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solve a crime and get his man is this
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story based on actual police files
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or should our writers be put under
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investigation
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we'll tell you whether this story is
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true or false at the end of our show
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next a strange curse haunts a local
00:25:46
cemetery
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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one of the world's oldest occupations
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that of the gravedigger
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it's a profession that's guaranteed of
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future customers
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and one that has been spotlighted in the
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works of shakespeare edgar allan poe and
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even stephen king
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while reverence for the dead is an
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essential part of the work
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our next story deals with a man who has
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none at all
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pete ringwald is a bitter nasty hull of
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a man
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in fact the dead are probably the only
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people he hasn't offended
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and all that may be about to change
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the table before me in the presence of
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mine enemies now anoint us my head with
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oil
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my cup runneth over surely goodness and
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mercy shall follow me all the days of my
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life
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and i will dwell in the house of the
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lord forever
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and so gabriel pine me and my brother
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got a job digging graves at the local
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cemetery in baton rouge louisiana
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[Music]
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the thing that bugged us the most our
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boss
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pete ringwald was the meanest man i ever
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knew
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we hated working for him but we needed
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the money
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pete had been the grounds keeper here
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for the past 20 years
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he never really cared about nothing or
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nobody
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especially the dead okay preacher it's
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time to wrap this medicine show
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up excuse me i said wrap it up put lid
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on it
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you're cutting into my lunch hour
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let us all join in a final ah man
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for it's time to leave these green
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pastures and
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return to our homes amen
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[Music]
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amen
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ah
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speed it up i'm getting hungry we're
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almost there boss
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almost don't cut it
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[Music]
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there rest in peace
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well that ain't right tim you shut your
00:28:12
mouth don't you say what's right in my
00:28:14
cemetery my damn dog can do your
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job
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real in that hole
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everything seemed to boil up pete's
00:28:35
blood people said he was born in a foul
00:28:38
mood
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and then he just got mean
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not where you hear that boss
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no respect for anyone
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not even the dead
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somebody's singing somewhere shut your
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mouth dummy i never call no break
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who the hell are you i'm just an
00:29:09
old woman do you like my song
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it's all about you
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get out of my cemetery you shriveled up
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a little bit you be
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warned grave digger you warned
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no respect for anyone
00:29:48
you two idiots get back to work around
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ah the both of you
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telling me my business smart assets
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think they know everything
00:30:09
i gotta them two boys
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[Music]
00:30:34
me
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no respect for anyone
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the next morning we had another bite of
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the berry and pete was ornerier than
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ever
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bo and me took it but we knew somebody
00:31:03
would have to pay
00:31:04
him back someday you got it bo almost
00:31:11
hey the hell did you do that for you're
00:31:14
useless you know that just useless
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[Music]
00:31:24
[Music]
00:31:33
[Applause]
00:31:44
bury this thing very deep put rocks on
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top of it
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crush it crush it that ain't right
00:31:52
i said crush it i'm gonna do that
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be out of unholy
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i never want to see the two of you again
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oh do it myself
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[Music]
00:32:23
you hear me
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[Music]
00:32:40
oh
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pete ringwald died in the old woman's
00:32:44
grave that day
00:32:45
the doctor said it looked like something
00:32:47
scared him to death
00:32:52
what's the explanation here was this an
00:32:54
elaborate plan of revenge
00:32:56
engineered by the two disgruntled
00:32:58
employees
00:32:59
if so was the old woman in on it too
00:33:03
was her spirit just making sure that her
00:33:04
body received a proper burial
00:33:07
this story of the wicked cemetery boss
00:33:09
based on an actual event
00:33:12
but are we burying the truth beneath the
00:33:14
mound of lies
00:33:17
we'll tell you whether this story is
00:33:19
true or false at the end of our show
00:33:21
next a woman becomes an uninvited guest
00:33:23
at a stranger's funeral
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
00:33:30
books can be viewed as food for the mind
00:33:33
stop reading them and your brain can
00:33:34
become
00:33:35
anemic read junk and your thinking can
00:33:37
become
00:33:38
malnourished but handle your diet of
00:33:41
books well and your lifelong learning
00:33:43
never stops
00:33:45
florence tyler has an insatiable
00:33:46
appetite for learning
00:33:48
although she's a teacher she barely
00:33:49
takes any time off because the world
00:33:51
offers so many opportunities to learn
00:33:53
more
00:33:54
her curiosity has always been a benefit
00:33:56
to florence but suddenly
00:33:58
it appears to have created a problem and
00:34:00
now she's about to learn something even
00:34:02
her curious mind could never expect
00:34:08
m anthony brinksman had been a top
00:34:10
lawyer practicing for over five decades
00:34:12
his client list was a who's whom the
00:34:14
rich and famous
00:34:15
send her in please that's why i couldn't
00:34:18
imagine why he contacted me
00:34:23
mr brinksman this is miss tyler how you
00:34:26
doing miss tyler
00:34:27
i'm m anthony brinksman hello
00:34:31
i agreed to meet with you mr brinksman
00:34:33
but i still don't understand why you
00:34:35
couldn't tell me what this was about
00:34:36
over the phone
00:34:38
is this a deposition or am i in some
00:34:40
kind of trouble have a seat
00:34:46
a very serious situation has arisen and
00:34:49
i need to make
00:34:50
certain inquiries on behalf of one of my
00:34:52
clients
00:34:54
look i don't have much time i have to
00:34:56
pick up my son from the babysitter and
00:34:58
they'll charge me if i'm late
00:34:59
i understand please sit down miss tyler
00:35:07
are you familiar with a gentleman by the
00:35:09
name of george
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randolph parker should i be
00:35:14
but you did attend his funeral at willow
00:35:16
glen cemetery
00:35:18
three days ago oh that's right that's
00:35:20
right i remember the name
00:35:22
but i i didn't know that man i i didn't
00:35:24
do anything i just
00:35:25
happened to be there at the funeral you
00:35:27
often go to funerals of people you don't
00:35:29
know
00:35:30
i didn't go to willow glen for that
00:35:31
reason why were you there
00:35:37
i am a high school art teacher and that
00:35:39
cemetery has a wonderful art collection
00:35:42
not many people know that i'm familiar
00:35:45
with the collection
00:35:46
now explain exactly what transpired
00:35:55
this is very important
00:36:00
i went there to do some research for my
00:36:02
class
00:36:04
i hadn't been there in quite some time i
00:36:07
spent about two
00:36:08
leisurely hours wandering through the
00:36:09
different sculpture exhibits
00:36:17
i was on my way back to my car when i
00:36:18
noticed a beautiful old chapel
00:36:21
it just had the kind of architecture we
00:36:23
were studying about in my class let me
00:36:26
understand something
00:36:28
if you had already finished your
00:36:30
research why didn't you just leave
00:36:35
i was struck by the chapel's old english
00:36:37
architecture and i wanted to get a look
00:36:39
inside
00:36:40
i feel like i'm on trial here or
00:36:42
something please continue
00:36:44
no i want to know what's going on i'm
00:36:45
sorry miss tyler but my client was
00:36:48
rather eccentric
00:36:49
there are certain issues that must be
00:36:51
resolved
00:36:53
now please continue
00:36:56
like i said i wanted to see the inside
00:36:59
of the chapel
00:37:01
the moment i entered a very special
00:37:03
feeling came over me
00:37:05
almost like i was meant to be there
00:37:10
it had a lovely decor quiet and serene
00:37:14
it's always been amazing to me how
00:37:16
something so simple could be so
00:37:18
beautiful
00:37:19
[Music]
00:37:21
i suddenly realized that i wasn't
00:37:22
exactly alone
00:37:24
there was a funeral coffin set up in
00:37:26
front of the altar
00:37:28
i saw the open casket and i felt
00:37:31
compelled to pay my respects to the
00:37:34
deceased
00:37:38
good afternoon please be seated
00:37:41
oh i'm sorry but i'm not here for the
00:37:43
funeral it's time to begin the service
00:37:50
obviously the whole thing felt very odd
00:37:53
to me but
00:37:54
i felt so sorry for the deceased there
00:37:57
was no one else there to pray for him
00:37:58
so i decided to stay
00:38:02
we are all gathered here today to say a
00:38:06
final goodbye
00:38:07
to george randolph parker
00:38:10
a man who lived his life by his own
00:38:12
rules
00:38:13
regardless of how others felt
00:38:16
so the only reason you stayed was
00:38:18
because you felt badly that no one else
00:38:20
was present
00:38:21
that's right the poor man obviously had
00:38:23
no family and i thought he might have
00:38:25
been homeless
00:38:28
yes well go on the minister finished his
00:38:32
service and i remember saying a quiet
00:38:34
prayer for mr parker
00:38:36
i couldn't wait to leave when i was
00:38:38
approached by the funeral director who
00:38:40
asked me to sign the registry
00:38:42
like i said i found the whole thing
00:38:43
uncomfortable but to be polite i signed
00:38:45
the book anyway with my name and address
00:38:49
well that's what happened and i didn't
00:38:51
have another thought about it until now
00:38:57
i've answered your questions i would
00:38:59
appreciate it if you would tell me why
00:39:00
i'm here
00:39:02
you were wrong about several points miss
00:39:04
tyler mr parker did have a family but
00:39:07
unfortunately they all loved him
00:39:09
he was not an easy man to like he had no
00:39:12
friends
00:39:14
but he wasn't homeless nor was he
00:39:16
indigent
00:39:17
by any means what does all this have to
00:39:20
do with me
00:39:21
i called you here to carry out mr
00:39:23
parker's wishes
00:39:25
as set forth in his will his estate was
00:39:28
to be divided among whomever attended
00:39:31
his funeral
00:39:34
what are you saying in that you are the
00:39:37
only person in attendance
00:39:39
you will be the sole recipient of his
00:39:42
entire estate
00:39:44
mr parker's net worth at the time of his
00:39:47
death
00:39:49
was 34 million dollars
00:39:56
ms styler
00:39:59
i believe that now you can pay your
00:40:01
babysitters over time
00:40:03
oh thank you oh my dear god thank you
00:40:06
[Music]
00:40:09
by the way m anthony brinksman is now my
00:40:12
personal attorney
00:40:15
florence tyler became a rich woman
00:40:17
purely by happenstance
00:40:19
or was it was it her own intellectual
00:40:21
curiosity that drew her to the cathedral
00:40:23
that day
00:40:24
or was she lured there by something
00:40:26
deeper
00:40:27
could it have been the strength of a
00:40:28
dead man's spirit that called florence
00:40:30
to the funeral service
00:40:32
was this hated man in life trying to
00:40:34
redeem himself
00:40:35
in death if you believe this story
00:40:39
will it leave you something of substance
00:40:40
to hold on to or will you merely inherit
00:40:43
the wind
00:40:46
next you'll find out which of our
00:40:48
stories are fact
00:40:49
and which are fiction when beyond belief
00:40:52
fact or fiction returns
00:40:56
and now it's time to find out which of
00:40:57
our stories tonight are totally made up
00:40:59
and which are inspired by actual events
00:41:02
let's take another look at the story of
00:41:03
the phantom motorcycle
00:41:05
was this one fact or fiction
00:41:23
yes
00:41:36
our research on this one shows that a
00:41:38
similar story took place in the american
00:41:40
southwest in the mid 60s
00:41:41
it's true
00:41:44
[Music]
00:41:47
what did you make of the tale about the
00:41:48
pool hall and the legendary player who
00:41:50
turned out to be blind
00:41:52
hustling man what do you care can you
00:41:55
beat me
00:41:56
play him nikki you can't lose it's 50
00:42:00
grand
00:42:03
all right you're on hotshot
00:42:08
there's just one condition i want to
00:42:11
change
00:42:11
cues did this one have the feel of
00:42:14
reality to you
00:42:15
if it did we fooled you it's absolute
00:42:17
fiction
00:42:20
[Music]
00:42:23
let's take another look at the story of
00:42:24
the fbi agent who made a surprise
00:42:26
confession at the scene of a murder he
00:42:27
committed
00:42:28
fact or fiction you set me up
00:42:31
[Music]
00:42:33
what
00:42:35
[Music]
00:42:40
you murdered tommy didn't
00:42:44
i needed the money
00:42:47
he fought back i'm gonna kill him give
00:42:50
me the weapon son
00:42:52
this story of the sleepy little town was
00:42:54
a crime committed by our writers on you
00:42:57
it's false
00:43:03
what was your opinion of the insensitive
00:43:04
gravedigger who was buried by his evil
00:43:06
deeds
00:43:07
fact or fancy
00:43:20
you hear me
00:43:26
[Music]
00:43:36
if you guessed this one was inspired by
00:43:38
real events you're right
00:43:40
it happened on the southeast coast the
00:43:42
late 80s
00:43:48
now let's take another look at the story
00:43:49
of the young woman who became the only
00:43:51
mourner at the funeral of a stranger
00:43:53
true or false
00:43:56
what are you saying in that you are the
00:43:59
only person in attendance
00:44:01
you will be the sole recipient of his
00:44:04
entire estate
00:44:06
mr parker's net worth at the time of his
00:44:09
death
00:44:11
was 34 million
00:44:15
this story of the woman who inherited an
00:44:17
unexpected fortune
00:44:19
was inspired by an actual event that
00:44:20
took place in los angeles in the
00:44:22
post-world war two
00:44:28
could you trust your senses tonight did
00:44:30
things turn out to be as they seemed to
00:44:32
be
00:44:33
or were your senses blunted by
00:44:34
circumstances that were beyond sensory
00:44:36
perception
00:44:37
beyond logic in fact beyond belief
00:44:40
i'm jonathan the story entitled
00:44:43
gravedigger's nemesis is true
00:44:45
based upon first-hand research conducted
00:44:46
by author robert treylands
00:44:48
for beyond belief fact or fiction this
00:44:50
is don lafontaine
00:45:04
[Music]
00:45:30
foreign
00:45:32
you
