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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you were about to see is not a news
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broadcast shortly after the death of his
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grandfather Don Decker's life took on a
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disturbing almost supernatural dimension
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suddenly forever Don was brain
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mysteriously began to appear leaving his
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friends to wonder if he had somehow been
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possessed
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but for Don Decker Lorraine was only the
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beginning February 24th 1992 none
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seasonably warm night in the San
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Francisco Bay Area our Michael hunters
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seemed a perfect evening for a
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motorcycle ride he had no idea what was
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waiting for when Irene love was 16 she
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was startled to learn that she had been
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a dog that discovery led to a stunning
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revelation about IRAs long lost best
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friend from childhood we'll also
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introduce you to a man who apparently
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made his living as a professional
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hospital patient until one of us feigned
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illnesses turn fatal it is one of the
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artists scams he have ever encountered
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perhaps you can help unravel it an
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unsolved mystery
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we commit his body to the ground earth
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to earth ashes are rare twenty fourth
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nineteen eighty three guys in
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Stroudsburg Pennsylvania the funeral of
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James Kish pars in progress he had died
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of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of
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63 the board the copani with favor and
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give him peace
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his grandson 21 year old Don Decker had
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been granted a furlough from the county
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jail to attend the funeral II we would
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like to invite you to come forward and
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pay your last respects Don was serving a
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four to twelve month sentence for
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receiving stolen property
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it is a capstone of a troubled
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adolescence but no one knew was that Don
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had been keeping a dark secret he says
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that his grandfather James the man he
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was now obliged publicly to mourn it
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abused him physically from the time he
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was seven years old no other part of the
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family know anything about you know what
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happened and it was like you know like
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good fighting evil like I basically I
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put it you know Deva was gone and I was
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hoping you know that everything we
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changed in fact things would change and
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drastically but not no way Don doctor
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could ever have imagined after the
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funeral Don was completely unnerved by
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the way his perce clarified his
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grandfather's memory he decided to spend
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the night with his friends Bob and
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Jeanne Kieffer whom he had met a few
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months earlier
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it was at the Kieffer's home that all
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the uneasy feelings stirred up at his
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grandfather's funeral came back to haunt
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nan suddenly the air around him vibrated
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with a deep chill
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almost simultaneously water began to
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drip from the living room walls don fell
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into an eerie trance-like state jeannie
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have you got water running back there
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come take a look at this we've got a
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leak
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it's all over the wall at a total loss
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they decided to notify the landlord Ron
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man why get some pots or a bucket or
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something
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I'm gonna call Ron the phone rang and I
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got a call from my tenant Bob and he
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said you have to come down we have a
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problem and I said well what's the
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problem he says well he says I can't
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tell you he says just come down he says
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but he says you have to come down right
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away when one arrived he was just as
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puzzled as the Kieffer's about the cause
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of the problem look it's on the walls
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too sure it we decided that maybe you
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know some plumbing but there were no
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pipes in the front end of the house to
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leak there was basically nothing there
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that the water could have come from
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because me some condensation like that
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after watching it for a while I
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discovered that it wasn't only coming
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from the ceiling down it could come from
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the wall over or from the floor up there
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was no you know no basic direction that
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it was coming from you know it could
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come from anywhere
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ron van white telephoned his wife
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romaine and police officer john bogan
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officer loggia didn't know what to make
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of the strange scene inside the kefir
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house he brought in his partner
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patrolman Richard wool provides on this
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man I'm not sure I'm seeing what I'm
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saying if you don't tell me what's going
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on here John at this point he's telling
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me I just want you to walk into the
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house and I said well I'm not walking
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into the house unless you explain to me
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what I'm walking into
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he says trust me trust me just walk into
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the house I walked in the door and he
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came right in behind me and I couldn't
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got two steps inside the front door and
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I was absolutely pelted we were standing
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just inside the front door and there's
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Straub little water traveling
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horizontally and it just passed right
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between us and just travel out into the
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next room the rest of the house is dry I
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literally had a show going up my spine
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they make me like to make the hair stand
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up on your neck that's how that's how I
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fell this was a situation where things
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were happening that I never ever dreamed
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could possibly happen and there was no
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way of explaining what was going on
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we're gonna get you outside we're gonna
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take her from there let's just go
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outside I'd like to stick around this
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point officers Bojan and wahlberg left
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to report the incident to the police
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chief
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all the Kieffer's and Don Decker's who'd
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gone hours without food walked across
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the street to get something to eat
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ron van hawai and his wife remained
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behind they left and everything else
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left to the rain stopped the house was
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normal stopping
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we were kind of thinking that maybe it
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was coming from them and we weren't sure
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at that time which one but we kind of
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figured you know because when they left
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it left you know so we were sure it was
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had something to do with one of them it
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had now been 23 hours since the
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mysterious rain began Pam's gravano
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ruined the restaurant opposite the
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Kieffer's house had visited them earlier
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that day and seen the rain firsthand
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Pam was convinced it was a devil's
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handiwork and that the devil was acting
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through Don Decker you look inna Donnie
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and he was like in a trench you know you
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you would look at you but now knowing
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that you were there I said to genius
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said you know he's got to be possessed
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oh my god we sitting there this is a
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couple of seconds later and there's
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water all over the pizzeria - never seen
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anything like that happen in my life so
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I went in the cash register I had a crew
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surface there I took it out put it on
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him and the minute you know put it on
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and touch the skin and he got burned
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burning an eternal black this boy is
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possessed you have to call you have to
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go to church you have to have the priest
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come and look at him
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I'm going back to the house to wait
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there's no way that anybody could have
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played it you know a joke like that this
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was real
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Donnie was doing it himself and he was
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doing it with that realize in it that he
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was doing it
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even Don ducktor had begun to believe
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that he was somehow responsible the
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reign of the restaurant is the final
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straw it made me more sure that I was
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had something to do with it because it
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was following me it didn't start raining
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in the house until I got there they were
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living there enough never happened and
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that's when I started realizing that
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that was me it's not a coincidence they
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think it's him
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I don't buy it back at the Kieffer's
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house from a in Van Wyk confronted Don
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Decker accusing him of somehow causing
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all the trouble on purpose it's your
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fault
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you made it rain in the living room you
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made it your fault you Johnny you're the
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one that's doing this you have to make
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the pots and pans don't over stove they
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started rattling that's when I got
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levitated off the floor it was just like
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floating then it was like a push but it
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wasn't like somebody taking your hand
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and pushing you it was like feeling it
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all over your body at one and I'm a big
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guy you know you know I always have been
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assertive and I mean made me felt like a
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newborn you know I'm scared right now
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just talking about it really
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right I believe that there was a I don't
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know if you'd call it an evil spirit but
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whatever a demon you know possessed his
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body and caused this I you know wake me
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up in the middle of the night I'm out
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here a few hours after the strange
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incident in the kitchen offers us Bo Jen
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and Walter arrival there chief
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a hardened skeptic and toe
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when the chief cuts in the house he was
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pelted with water just as rich and I was
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I got the impression that he was put on
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the spot maybe a little bit embarrassed
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like we expected something out of him
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that he could answer there was no way to
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explain what happened and I think he was
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put in a position where he might have
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felt a little uncomfortable the
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Stroudsburg Pennsylvania Chief of Police
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would be one of the only eyewitnesses
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from that bizarre night who denied that
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anything out of the ordinary had
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happened
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you've got me out of bed for this hey
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chief this isn't a police problem this
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is a plumbing problem
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this is a police problem these people
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were helpless these people are having a
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joke with you they're having their way
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with you look nobody's being heard here
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nobody's being threatened so we're out
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of here we'll talk about it outside the
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police chief coated his officers to
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leave the Keefer house he instructed
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them not to file a report
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in fact he directed them not to speak of
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the incident at all I think he just
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wanted out he could not give us an
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explanation for it he couldn't help us
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he can provide us with anything more
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than what we know we had experienced and
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what we came up with well he just
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flat-out denied it it didn't happen and
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he tried to convince me that nothing
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happened and he wasn't going to do that
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I saw it and that's all there is to it
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the next day acting against the specific
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orders of the police chief three of his
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veteran officers went to the Keifer home
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to try and figure out what was going on
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one of the officers was bill Davies this
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will just take a second bring your hands
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we're standing there and I gave mr.
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Duquette this go cross to hold just hold
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on to that for the next days it's
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burning my hands the birds and there's
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no explanation for it and you picked it
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up when you grabbed it not hot hot but
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it's hot and that's somebody had I held
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on to it what's going on here hey guys
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all a sudden he's lifted up off the
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ground and flew across the room with the
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force of though a busted hit'em
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Donnie look and there was three claw
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marks on the side of his neck
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let's do blood I have no answer for
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whatsoever and I just draw a blank even
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to today having a cop forty years in I
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never had anything like this here never
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I mean there's always an explanation
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when something happens if you got
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investigated you come up with something
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this is why it happened this case here
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there is no explanation finally on the
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third night Ron ban who I was able to
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convince an evangelical preacher who we
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will call Reverend Johnson to come to
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the house and attempt an exorcism every
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Protestant minister and Catholic priest
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and Stroudsburg had turned Ron down the
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van wise and the Kieffer's kept vigil by
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Reverend Johnson prayed for Don
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if she started to pray Donnie went into
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like a convulsion you know he he started
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to shake he pulled himself up until like
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a ball and the longer she prayed he
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started to relax then his whole body
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seemed to quiet completely down and as
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you're standing there watching this you
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could feel the house itself seemed to
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take on a totally different feeling and
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by the time she got done praying the
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water was gone and that was the last
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that we saw and he water at the house at
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all amazingly the rain had stopped Don
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Decker appeared to return to his old
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self some witnesses believe that
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Reverend John Cena performed a miracle
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or an exorcism but whatever it was the
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results that proved to be only fleeting
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after his fertile Don Decker returned to
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the Monroe County Jail within a few days
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the mysterious rain had once again
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materialized get me out of here what's
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the problem I'm soaking wet
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it's no gift rate here great can you get
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him out of here they put me in a maximum
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security cell that was in there with
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another maid and I was thinking you know
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I shouldn't make it rain in here and all
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sudden water just started coming out of
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a concrete floor and at that point I
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thought I could do stuff I can control
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it this time it was different this time
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Don felt powerful he realized he could
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manipulate the rain at will you could
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control her and I tell you what if you
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can control the rain make it rain in the
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warden's office make it rain and and
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Dave keen holds office
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I was sitting at a desk and I was
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writing a report I was all by myself in
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administration area and nobody else was
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around it was approximately 8 o'clock in
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the evening
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at the time I didn't feel anything my
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shirt was drooping down I didn't know
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what was going on and the officer told
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me to look at my shirt
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it's a branded shirt and right here on
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about the center of my sternum about 4
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inches long 2 inches wide
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I was just saturated with water he said
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he could make I was startled I'm scared
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so was the officer the officer was very
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frightened at that particular time and I
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just didn't have an explanation of why
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it happened all of a sudden I received
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this Atlantic call from a sergeant in
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jail
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his name is Keane hold and he said can
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you come over we need you we need your
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help Reverend Blackburn
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nice to meet you sit down splits Thank
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You officer we'll be fine so they
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brought this very meek mild-mannered
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young man into the room and he was
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asking my help
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I can make it rain they put a cross
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around my neck and it burned rosary in
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my hand and it burns on touch thing
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would to be a lot simpler if you just
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stopped all this nonsense right now
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you're making all this up aren't you all
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of a sudden like that demeanor changed
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and the smell came into the room nurses
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and doctors medical people will tell you
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that when you walk into a room where
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someone is dying with a cancer or
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something usually there's a smell you
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can tell when you walk in the room and I
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smelled a smell like that multiplied
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five times at least evil foreboding have
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powers you don't I can make it rain and
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at that point he raised his hand and he
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rubbed his fingers together and all of a
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sudden it started to rain
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it was like The Devil's rain was a mist
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I was in the presence of evil I'm gonna
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pray for you I don't want you to pray
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for me I don't care whether you want me
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to or not
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prayer is my prerogative and I opened up
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the Bible and started read to him but
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the pages never got was from the day so
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help me it was a frightening sin and
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wickedness was found in you through your
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widespread trade you were filled with
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violence I think it was brain war from
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reason was brilliant I prayed and I said
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and it was only a brief period a Naren
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stop I bite you in the name of Jesus
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Christ he subsided and you could feel a
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peace he said thank you
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he got tears in his eyes and we hugged
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and we prayed together he was possessed
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there's no doubt in my mind there is no
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way that a human being could do what he
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did in that room there's no way that he
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did anything but what he did was
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spiritual and it wasn't of God
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guaranteed it was not of God well it's
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over and it hasn't happened again so
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basically I'm just hoping that it never
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will and I just you know go day by day
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and as for my grandfather I think what
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had happened was his doing because he
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abused me when I was young he got a
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chance to abuse me again I think what
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makes this case very unique is that all
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of the witnesses are so credible we're
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dealing with very good well seasoned
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police officers that were obviously
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rather frightened and shaken by this but
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also had the powers of observation chip
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Decker no relation to Don and Peter
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Jordan are the principal paranormal
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researchers on this case they believe
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that somewhere there is information as
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yet undiscovered which may help them
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unravel this mystery The Donald Decker
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case the rein boy case is by far this
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singularly most fascinating an important
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case I have ever
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we been involved in that does not mean
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that I believe that it necessarily is
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proof positive to me of demonic
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infestation but is the case in my own
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personal experience up to this point
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that comes the closest to that
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hypothesis
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what happened to Don Decker in all nine
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eyewitnesses ten recounting Don himself
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are willing to go on public record
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claiming they saw heard and felt
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phenomena
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apparently not of this world is it
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possible that Don Deckard somehow
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memorized by the pain of a childhood
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trauma stumbled into another world which
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none of us confound or was Don Decker
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perhaps trapped in some murky region of
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his own psyche his power to do good and
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his power to do evil locked in combat
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with Don's own body as a battlefield
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after all is John Milton wrote in
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Paradise Lost the mind is its own place
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and in itself can make a heaven of Hell
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a hell of heaven
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next a champion motorcycle racer is
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gunned down at an apparent robbery
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turned lethal
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the shimmering lights of San Francisco
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Bay can be seen from more than a dozen
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surrounding communities on the evening
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of February 24th 1992 one of those
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communities became the scene of a tragic
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unsolved murder at 8:33 p.m. a man
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slowly approached a gas station in
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Emeryville across the bay from San
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Francisco he was hunched over his
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motorcycle weaving in an erratic and
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perilous fashion
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police and paramedics were dispatched to
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the scene and attempted to revive the
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stricken right this pulse was feeble and
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he was barely alive the absence of any
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external injuries left the authorities
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mystified
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there was no bleeding at all at the site
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if it had been a reported motorcycle
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accident or some kind of an accident you
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would expect to see some kind of blood
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but there was absolutely none there no
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motorcyclist is rushed to a nearby
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hospital it was later discovered that he
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had been shot three times by a small
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caliber weapon one of the bullets that
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shattered his knee a second had lodged
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in his abdomen the third and fatal
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bullet had punctured his aorta
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the wounds were nearly invisible but had
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resulted massive internal bleeding the
00:24:28
victim never again consciousness is
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pronounced dead shortly after 9:00 p.m.
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the victim was later identified as
00:24:39
thirty year old Michael hunter an avid
00:24:41
motorcycle racer who had survived
00:24:43
hundreds of dangerous competitions only
00:24:46
to perish on a lonely Bayfront road what
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happened to Michael hunter is
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unfortunately at all too common
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occurrence in today's big cities an
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innocent person is murdered the killer
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walks away the police are left without a
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suspect or a motive even in a highly
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competitive field of motorcycle racing
00:25:06
Michael hunter was known as a man with
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no enemies he lived for one thing and
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one thing only high-speed racing during
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the mid-1980s Michael hunter suited up
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for competitions throughout California
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earning a reputation as one of the
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area's top cyclists he said that racing
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gave him probably the highest high that
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he'd ever had in his whole life he said
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if there was nothing that beat this
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excitement and the thrill of the racing
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and I think the competition was maybe
00:25:39
almost incidental to the the thrill of
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the racing he was always sharing always
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teaching might took me in hand from the
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beginning and taught me how to ride
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taught me how to ride safely he taught
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me how to ride clean
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the evening of February 24th began like
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many others for Michael hunter
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a 7:45 p.m. he climbed aboard his red
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white and blue sport bike apparently
00:26:16
just to go for a run February 24th was a
00:26:21
beautiful evening it was almost like a
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summer night crystal clear no breeze it
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was just it was very pleasant to be out
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in
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a few minutes after Michael left home he
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stopped off at an ATM half a mile away
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as he withdrew $20 miss checking account
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a security camera in the ATM recorded
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the transaction from the photographs
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that we have it would appear to be an
00:26:58
uneventful withdrawal so we don't have
00:27:01
any reason to think that he was robbed
00:27:04
or shot at the ATM machine Michael Nutt
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showed up at a liquor store half a block
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from the ATM there he purchased the pint
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of whiskey which was later found in his
00:27:19
jacket pocket
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what happened next is pure conjecture
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the police believe that Michael may have
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headed to a frontage road three miles
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from the gas station known first
00:27:35
breathtaking view of the Bay Bridge it
00:27:38
was here while enjoying the fresh winter
00:27:40
breeze that Michael hunter may have
00:27:42
encountered his killer or killers the
00:27:48
police theorized if someone may have
00:27:49
robbed Michael of his wallet at gunpoint
00:27:51
and then demanded his motorcycle a
00:27:54
customized Honda VFR interceptor sport
00:27:57
bike probably Mike's love of his
00:28:02
motorcycle would cause him to be
00:28:05
reluctant to turn it over
00:28:09
Michael apparently tried to outrun the
00:28:11
bullets it was a race he had no chance
00:28:16
of winning I think that he was probably
00:28:21
pretty scared tonight I like to think I
00:28:25
really like to believe that he didn't
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know what was going on would have taken
00:28:31
him a long time to get to that station
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that's not a short stint to ride when
00:28:38
Michael had very few minutes to live
00:28:41
after he was shot the bullet that
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shattered his leg would have caused him
00:28:47
to be in a great deal of pain and it was
00:28:52
his past experience and training that
00:28:55
enabled Michael to make the ride into
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the gas station where he knew
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there would be some kind of health care
00:29:05
an hour later Michael hunter was dead
00:29:08
leaving his family to wonder who killed
00:29:11
him and why I think all the time he
00:29:15
raced I knew that something could happen
00:29:18
to him because he was living beyond what
00:29:22
most people do as far as is what he
00:29:24
chose to do for his recreation had he
00:29:27
died that way it was a choice he would
00:29:29
made and a conscious choice he'd made
00:29:32
and I think that it would have been a
00:29:34
lot easier to accept
00:29:38
there's just no information coming our
00:29:41
way about a person that was on a red
00:29:45
white and blue motorcycle dressed the
00:29:48
same kind of way obviously very
00:29:51
noticeable I believe that somebody saw
00:29:55
Michael hunter in the last 40 minutes of
00:29:57
his life
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and we need those people to come forward
00:30:01
to tell us that little piece of
00:30:03
information that will identify the
00:30:06
killers of Michael hunter
00:30:10
Michael hunters friends and family have
00:30:13
raised a $10,000 reward for information
00:30:15
which may help solve this case
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[Music]
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but we returned a nationwide search for
00:30:26
the true identity of a hospital hopping
00:30:29
compound just before 9:00 a.m. on
00:30:43
February 11th 1992 the emergency team at
00:30:47
a Danbury Connecticut hospital springs
00:30:49
into action the patient a man registered
00:30:53
as Tom Hughes is in the grip of a severe
00:30:56
cardiac arrest for 90 minutes doctors
00:31:01
and nurses labored to revive him however
00:31:06
all their efforts are in vain at 10:20
00:31:10
the man known as Tom Hughes is
00:31:12
pronounced dead on the hospital
00:31:16
dutifully attempted to contact the man's
00:31:18
wife they discovered that her name and
00:31:20
phone number were bogus so were the
00:31:23
patients social security number address
00:31:25
occupation and employer Tom Hughes
00:31:29
simply did not exist among the man's
00:31:34
possessions were receipt from a hospital
00:31:36
in California and a bus ticket stub from
00:31:38
Pennsylvania to Connecticut starting
00:31:41
with these meager clues authorities soon
00:31:43
uncovered a peculiar fraud scheme until
00:31:46
he died a man known as Tom Hughes had
00:31:48
essentially been a professional hospital
00:31:50
patient it was a scam that may have
00:31:53
killed him
00:31:57
he says happened while you were working
00:31:59
yes I was helping my brother do some
00:32:02
work on a house he's buying over in
00:32:04
Ridgefield the con man would stay in a
00:32:06
hospital for three to seven days before
00:32:09
sneaking out and leaving his bills
00:32:11
unpaid wait and the next thing I know it
00:32:15
appears that Tom would check into a
00:32:17
hospital with some sort of small
00:32:18
self-inflicted wound and have a
00:32:20
complaint of the lower back pain we
00:32:23
think that he was checking himself into
00:32:24
the hospitals to obtain the pain pills
00:32:26
okay well my first try something a bit
00:32:28
stronger and I'd like to suggest that
00:32:30
you check herself in for observation for
00:32:32
a few days and objection well whatever
00:32:35
you say sure the doctor we were able to
00:32:39
determine that Tom had essentially been
00:32:40
travelling across the country and
00:32:43
staying in one hospital after another
00:32:45
I'm taking a bus from one destination to
00:32:48
another we were able to track him from
00:32:50
California all the way to Rhode Island
00:32:52
and points in between yes my name is
00:32:56
Thomas Hughes I need to speak with
00:32:58
someone about a personal injury case the
00:33:02
con man had made sixteen calls before he
00:33:04
died on a civil engineer yeah
00:33:08
investigators trace them hoping to
00:33:10
locate friends or family members instead
00:33:13
they uncovered yet another facet of his
00:33:15
unusual scheme every single call had
00:33:19
been made to an attorney in fact we
00:33:21
think he called the attorney's number
00:33:23
the story that he wanted to have a
00:33:25
lawsuit because of his injuries at work
00:33:28
but I think the real reason he called
00:33:30
the attorneys was to again tell his
00:33:32
story to someone and borrow some money
00:33:35
he needed travel money and he would
00:33:38
obtain this by borrowing small amounts
00:33:39
in the attorneys oh listen I I hate to
00:33:41
ask you this would you do me a favor
00:33:44
sure well I'm expecting a package for my
00:33:49
wife today it's come on see Odie
00:33:51
could I borrow $40 until tomorrow yeah I
00:33:55
guess I could do that I'll just add it
00:33:57
to my bill okay $40
00:34:00
we know that Tom had been traveling from
00:34:02
hospital hospital for a year two years
00:34:04
or possibly longer
00:34:05
and each time taking excessive amounts
00:34:08
of painkillers and we believe that there
00:34:12
could be a contributing cause of his
00:34:14
death
00:34:15
this photograph of the unidentified man
00:34:18
was taken just hours before his death he
00:34:20
weighed 277 pounds although authorities
00:34:24
caution that he may have put on much of
00:34:26
the weight since he began living in
00:34:28
hospital beds
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[Music]
00:34:52
next a woman needs your help to fight a
00:34:55
childhood friend it turned out to be
00:34:57
much more than just a friend most of us
00:35:09
have read Alice in Wonderland pondered
00:35:11
what it might feel like to fall through
00:35:12
the looking glass into a place where
00:35:14
nothing was quite as it seemed for a Los
00:35:17
Angeles woman named Irene love Looking
00:35:20
Glass was an old strongbox harboring her
00:35:22
mother Minnie's private papers once
00:35:24
Irene opened it her parents and her best
00:35:27
friend turned out not to be at all what
00:35:30
they seemed 1962 mid-city Los Angeles 16
00:35:42
year old Irene love was killing a
00:35:44
Saturday afternoon in her mother's bed
00:35:46
new I used to play music a lot my
00:35:50
records I would sometimes even go to my
00:35:52
mother's drawers and just be nosey have
00:35:55
always been nosy I looked around and
00:35:57
there was some metal box I opened it up
00:36:00
and there were some papers there were
00:36:02
they in 1942 and I thought God mom keeps
00:36:05
this then there was another piece of
00:36:09
paper folded up and it was a birth
00:36:11
certificate and it had Irene went on it
00:36:15
and I go huh same first name was mine I
00:36:20
notice the father's name was Glenn
00:36:22
mother's name was Ramona County General
00:36:26
Hospital the date I said well the date
00:36:29
that was what caught me the date was the
00:36:31
same date as my birth and by that time a
00:36:35
little bit later on my mother came home
00:36:42
what's that and I showed her the paper
00:36:47
[Applause]
00:36:49
where'd you find this over there what
00:36:53
are you doing snooping through my things
00:36:54
you know those are private papers
00:36:57
are you my real mother Irene I love you
00:37:04
so much and it came to life that I was
00:37:07
adopted and she and my dad had adopted
00:37:10
me three days after I was born and she
00:37:14
was fearful that I was going to at that
00:37:16
point leave and go in search for my real
00:37:20
parents and I told her no I wasn't I
00:37:23
just wanted to know what was a story
00:37:25
about it many and Forrest Lovett brought
00:37:31
Irene home on June 3rd 1946 they could
00:37:42
not have children of their own Shalini
00:37:44
and Forrest are especially thrilled with
00:37:46
her new daughter look at that big they
00:37:50
provided her with everything even a best
00:37:52
friend Dolores for just one year older
00:37:56
than Irene was the only child of Minnie
00:37:58
and Forrest best friends
00:38:02
they would bring her over every day or
00:38:05
every weekend we went on camping trips
00:38:09
we went to the park we went everywhere
00:38:13
to the lakes we never really argued it
00:38:17
was like we we knew each other we
00:38:19
connected
00:38:20
if one one is something the other one
00:38:22
knew about it and it was always there we
00:38:26
were just connected so close that there
00:38:30
was like a great friendship there every
00:38:35
holiday they would come over and bring
00:38:37
the gifts and we exchanged guests there
00:38:39
in the living room it was basically we
00:38:44
got the same toys so they didn't deny us
00:38:46
anything they made sure that we were
00:38:49
happy kids
00:38:52
I don't think of challenges was had a
00:38:55
better childhood than I have because I
00:38:57
had my my mom my dad I had billion Ford
00:39:01
they were just like my mother and father
00:39:02
I had Dolores who just had a we just had
00:39:06
a fun time they occupied every minute of
00:39:10
our lives when we were children together
00:39:12
and that was fun times is there anything
00:39:16
else she should tell me well honey day
00:39:21
in 1962 Minnie asked diary to think back
00:39:24
to our happy childhood
00:39:25
she asked you to recall a restaurant
00:39:28
Clifton's were minion forest had taken
00:39:30
Irene every Sunday
00:39:32
now many explained why they have always
00:39:35
gone to the same place Irene's birth
00:39:40
mother Ramona who is Hispanic worked at
00:39:43
the cafeteria this was her only
00:39:46
opportunity to watch Irene grow
00:39:50
don't
00:39:54
[Music]
00:39:56
at some point I release birth father
00:39:59
Glenn began to work at Clifton's -
00:40:05
minion Forrest would alternate their
00:40:07
seating locations in the restroom
00:40:09
so both Glenn and Ramona could see the
00:40:11
daughter they had been to
00:40:13
poverty-stricken to raise them settled
00:40:15
was never his play I never faulted them
00:40:22
for what they did they had to do what
00:40:25
they had to do and I'm thankful that
00:40:27
they gave me to a family and to the
00:40:29
family that they did give me too
00:40:30
so that's you know I was lucky in that
00:40:33
way Irene and Delores and their parents
00:40:37
lived happily until 1956 then Delores
00:40:41
his mother Billy died of a kidney
00:40:43
disease suddenly Delores seemed to
00:40:45
vanish into thin air Irene never saw her
00:40:49
again only years later but Irene's
00:40:53
mother finally told her the truth
00:40:55
did Irene learn what had happened to her
00:40:57
friend shortly after Delores mother died
00:41:03
her father came to the sad conclusion he
00:41:06
could no longer raise her alone
00:41:07
that she needed her mother he took
00:41:14
Delores to live with Glenn and Ramona
00:41:16
the couple who worked at Clifton's
00:41:18
cafeteria I'll take but why
00:41:21
finally the shocking news came out
00:41:24
Delores was also the child of Glenn and
00:41:27
Ramona wind Delores and Irene were
00:41:30
sisters
00:41:33
honey Irene was thunderstruck her mother
00:41:36
explained apologetically that she had
00:41:38
been afraid to let Irene continues
00:41:40
seeing Dolores after Dolores moved in
00:41:42
with Ramona and Glenn I was afraid if I
00:41:45
told you the truth then I would lose you
00:41:48
no matter what you'll always be my
00:41:52
mother
00:41:53
[Music]
00:41:57
in 1989 after both of her parents passed
00:42:01
away Irene found herself irresistible
00:42:03
drawn back to the old neighborhood
00:42:05
reliving her happy childhood with
00:42:08
Dolores in my mind I can see us playing
00:42:14
together we were like twins you know but
00:42:28
not knowing that we were sisters you
00:42:31
know that's so that's what I want real
00:42:32
bad to meet with her she's a part of my
00:42:36
early life she's a part of me I feel
00:42:40
things that I don't think anybody else
00:42:42
could feel right now because it's like
00:42:44
the emptiness that's going on inside of
00:42:46
me due to the fact I don't know where
00:42:48
she's at and I hope one day soon that we
00:42:52
can't come together and be the silly
00:42:54
little girls that we were when we were
00:42:56
growing up cuz I'm still silly little
00:42:59
girl
00:42:59
in heart and I want it I'm gonna be with
00:43:01
her as soon as possible
00:43:04
Eirene also has a message for her birth
00:43:06
parents Glenn and Ramona Wynn who
00:43:08
watched so lovingly from a distance
00:43:10
while she grew up Ramon and Leah I want
00:43:15
to get to know you also and bring you
00:43:17
back into my life I don't have any anger
00:43:21
I believe you did what you had to do and
00:43:25
I love you just if you're out there
00:43:29
listening please call me I want to hear
00:43:31
from you also
00:43:34
today Glen and Ramona wind would be 72
00:43:37
and 67 years old respectively they
00:43:39
divorced in the 50s and Ramona whose
00:43:41
maiden name was via married a man named
00:43:43
Richard's or Richardson with whom she
00:43:45
also had children these are two of the
00:43:50
last known photographs of Dolores Ford
00:43:52
in 1956 when she was 10 Dolores moved to
00:43:56
2nd Street in downtown Los Angeles to
00:43:58
live with Glen and Ramona win this July
00:44:02
Dolores will be 48 years old
00:44:04
last known address was also in the Los
00:44:07
Angeles area
00:44:08
[Music]
00:44:18
join me again next week perhaps you may
00:44:22
be able to help solve a mystery
00:44:24
[Music]
00:44:50
[Applause]
00:44:54
[Music]
