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next on Unsolved
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Mysteries at a military base in England
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two Airmen discover strange lights in
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the forest and then more bizar lights
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and weird events that cannot be
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explained in California a car catches
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fire on a remote Highway a young woman
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barely escapes with her life only to
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disappear
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in Missouri a teenage girl claims that a
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cult leader was forcing her to have sex
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with him and now he's a
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fugitive and police are summoned to a
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small school on Long Island a
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16-year-old has been murdered but
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religious Traditions require his friends
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and teachers to keep
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silent join us these cases have twists
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and turns that you will hardly believe
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I'm Dennis finina and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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rle sham Forest England home to
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America's Woodridge Air Force base
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airman FirstClass John Burrows and his
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partner were on routine Patrol along the
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base perimeter in moments it would
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become anything but routine hey what the
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hell's that
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of jeez I don't
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know hell is it I don't know I've never
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seen anything like it before it was
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about 2 a.m. the base was nearly empty
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come on let's go back to this Guard
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Station call the hard see what he wants
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to do all
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right there was definitely something out
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in the
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woods seemed like to me like a massive
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light show I was nervous he was nervous
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we didn't know what to expect and we
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decided at that point in time we better
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get back and let somebody know what's
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going on in case something de happened
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burls quickly notified his immediate
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Superior yeah we got some kind of weird
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activ in the woods off the base hey
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John yeah sure I can see him from here
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it's still going on yeah look it's some
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kind of weird lights in the trees I
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don't know they're moving all up and
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down in minutes another security patrol
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arrived they had also seen the strange
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lights you want spr man to go down off
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base you coming with us
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nope all right look we'll stay in radio
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contact Burrows and the second security
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team went off base to investigate off
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base leave your weapons they were
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ordered to leave their weapons behind
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because they were moving out of American
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jurisdiction we didn't know what we were
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getting
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into we started in on foot towards the
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lights at the same time we could hear
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the animals were very upset you could
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hear a lot of
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ruckus coming around us at that point we
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got a radio transmission they had just
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gotten contact from Heath Tower in
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London that an object had been seen over
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our base and it had disappeared on radar
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is that in I can't tell all of a sudden
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in the clearing there was an
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object it had a bank of blue lights on
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it and it was sitting there like
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strobing it was
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unbelievable we all hit the ground and
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then it went up into the
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trees when it was happening everything
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seemed to go slower we seem to be in
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like a I wouldn't say a Time Warp but
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like everything appeared to be happen
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slower to us and everything felt
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different but when it was all when it
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disappeared it was like everything was
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normal again the perception of the
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ground the um the air the sky the stars
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the whole nine yards were different
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where it go for more than 2 hours the
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three men played a game of cat and mouse
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with a mysterious craft
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it was off the ground in the Horizon
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above the trees and it always stayed out
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in the distance in Horizon it sometimes
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it appeared to get closer and we were
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going to get close to it again and then
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we never
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did when Sergeant Burrows and his men
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filed their report they assumed that no
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one would believe their account and yet
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the events of that night resulted in one
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of the most well-documented sightings of
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a UFO in history at our request the
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military personnel who actually
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witnessed the incident
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appeared on camera for the very first
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time spit it out what did you see the
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next morning Sergeant Burl nervously
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reported the sighting to his shift
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Commander we saw some lights sir red
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ones some white
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ones and well sir they um flew up into
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the trees he basically said gentlemen
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you saw something he thr Tower confirms
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that you saw something and um now let's
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go out into the area and see if we can
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find any physical proof of what happened
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I was when I got out there that
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basically I would see nothing there
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would be no Telltale evidence that
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possibly something happened that would
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make it easier for me because if there's
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nothing proving that something happened
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to me you can just kind of check it off
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but when you get out there and you find
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damage to the trees depressions in the
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ground and stuff that makes it even more
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unexplainable we came up through the
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woods to this point right about here I
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see we saw it hovering later that same
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day Burrows and a British police officer
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explored the site where Burrows saw the
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the strange object we were watching it
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for about 20 minutes see this there were
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circular impressions in the earth
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directly below the spot where the craft
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appeared to
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hover and stay over here was more of a
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mystery now because when I first saw it
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I didn't perceive it as something
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sitting on the ground with tripod like a
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tripod type thing now all of a sudden
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there's physical proof showing is
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something sat down in that area 3.4 M
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the British police officer dismissed the
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circles as the marks of animals who had
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been digging there but he did order his
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men to measure the distance between the
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circles here too they were exactly the
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same distance apart and formed a perfect
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equilateral
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triangle rumors of the UFO sighting had
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spread like wildfire later that morning
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Colonel Charles halt Deputy base
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commander arrived at Woodbridge security
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headquarters UFOs what are you talking
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about I saw something I was very
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skeptical I find what had allegedly
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taken place hard to believe and I was
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really going to debunk it quite frankly
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and as events unfolded I became more and
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more concerned that there may be
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something to this I kept telling myself
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that there had to be some type of an
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explanation for it but I certainly
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couldn't find one and even to this day I
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I can't explain what happened straight
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back straight back that evening unusual
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lights were once again spotted in the
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forest this time the base commander
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ordered large flood lights devices
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commonly known as light alls to be set
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up in the
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woods all right move it out at 9:30 p.m.
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Colonel halt received word that the
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lights had mysteriously stopped working
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I don't know sir craziest damn things
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I've ever seen animals in the forest are
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acting weird Starlight Scopes going bad
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and radios ain't working and light alls
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ain't coming up let's get out there and
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see what we got all right sir this is
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Colonel halt to command we're going
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out base security was immedi mediately
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ordered to set up more flood lights
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Colonel halt put together a special
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investigative team I called the on duty
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or stand by a man in disaster
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preparedness and had him get his camera
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he was professional photographer and
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calibrate several radiac instruments to
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Take Along we were going to go debunk
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this by the time Colonel halt arrived at
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the site the second set of Lights had
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also stopped working what's going on
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Sergeant Colonel we're having a little
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problems with the light Vehicles weren't
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working properly and radio Transmissions
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were limited at best Lieutenant where'
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you see that light it was right through
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there sir armed with a Geer counter a
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Starlight scope to enhance night vision
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and a tape recorder to record his first
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impressions Colonel halt LED his team
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into the
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woods what he found stopped him in his
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tracks next one of the most amazing
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encounters with UFOs ever document
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minute
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continues radio breaking out Colonel
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Charles Halt and his men were patrolling
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the forest around Woodbridge Air Force
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Base in Southeastern England in search
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of a mysterious craft some belied it was
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a
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UFO follow
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me suddenly a strange glowing object
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appeared
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strangest thing I've ever seen sir as
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the object began to move away Colonel
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Halt and his men
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followed as we were pursuing this
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glowing object through the woods we
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noticed a farmhous directly in front of
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us we've got a reading of two on the
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counter that's much higher than
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background
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radiation The Farmhouse appeared to be
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glowing very brightly as though it were
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on fire you reckon there's somebody in
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there sir I don't know
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Lieutenant the object then broke into
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five white objects and
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disappeared let's
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go and there was a very strange feeling
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in the air it made your hair bristle
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sort of like static electricity you just
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had a very unusual feeling and I don't
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think it was all psychological I think
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there was something physiological about
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it multiple sightings of up to three
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objects of a similar character but I
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think there was some type of guiding
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force behind these
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objects whether it was trying to
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communicate with us whether it was
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trying to warn us or whether it was
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trying to do something to us I don't
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know to me it looked like a grid
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search like they were boxing off an area
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and looking for
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something and that was the thought that
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hit me right away and I stayed with me
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over the years it looked like a search
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pattern there's definitely something up
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there hey we've got an object we could
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very clearly see it s of danced theot in
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the sky and it sent down beams of
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light I noticed other beams of light
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coming down from the same object
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following different places on the
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base my boss was standing in his front
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yard at Woodbridge and he could see the
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beams of light falling down and the
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people in the weapon storage area and
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several places on the base also reported
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the lights I woke up about 3:34 in the
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morning and for whatever reason I felt
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like maybe something happening and I
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don't know why I just woke up and felt
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like something that came back don't ask
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me why it just was a gut feeling so I
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went ahead and got up and went up to the
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base all of a sudden a couple of like
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blue transparent type lights appeared in
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the sky they were all of a sudden in the
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Horizon and one of them broke towards us
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Mike you okay back the only time the
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light offs were working as far as came
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on and off when I saw them were when the
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light passed them and I have no idea
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what caused light off to come on and off
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other than the fact that the blue light
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as it passed it the light all came
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on at about the same time just 300 yd
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away Colonel Hal's team also had a
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remarkable close encounter
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hey here here the object was coming at
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us at a very high rate of
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speed one of these beams of light fell
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very very close to us sort of a pencil
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beam of light from the object to the
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ground near our feet but this is
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unreal the visitor never
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returned I drafted a memo sent a copy to
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London and it was swallowed
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up it became very quiet
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this is a copy of Hal's memo it was
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submitted to British military
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authorities who never acted on it the
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United States Air Force would not
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acknowledge the episode either but then
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a private citizen used the Freedom of
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Information Act to obtain halts memo not
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everybody was
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convinced James Mah is a noted UFO
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skeptic and director of two private
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observatories a burden of proof for for
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any event that is extraordinary is upon
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those making the claim not upon those
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who uh look at it from a skeptical
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perspective where is the evidence show
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me the evidence and that's what science
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is all
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about on the first night at about 3:00
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that morning a bright Fireball which is
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a very bright
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meteor came into the Earth's atmosphere
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and this is unquestionably what John
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buroughs saw that
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night I've seen meteor showers come down
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before it you know it wasn't a meteor
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falling out of the sky and it went up
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not down meteors fall from the sky they
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don't go back up into the sky meteor is
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not going to go up go back and forth and
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maintain position in the sky for a long
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period of time meteor is not going to
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send beams of light down I think both of
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them are being honest as to what their
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perceptions are but human perception is
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very very uh easily fooled and I think
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when they went out there to the woods
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everybody was out there expecting to see
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a
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UFO with that preconceived notion the
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way you view things can be greatly
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influenced there's definitely something
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up there m believes that the glowing red
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light that Colonel halt saw that night
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was simply a reflection from the
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revolving beam of a nearby Lighthouse it
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appears to be heading north if it were a
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just a reflection how does one explain
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two different sightings and two
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different places in the sky how does one
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explain the object moving through the
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forest how does one explain the sighting
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in the forest by the three Airmen
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there's just too many
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things I have a lot of unresolved
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questions I'm not sure I'll ever have
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answered I've had people suggest all
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sorts of things everything from I've
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seen the second coming of Christ to the
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devil's after us I can't explain it I
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really can't I know it was beyond the
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realm of anything that we experience in
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ordinary life
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around the same time two other
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unconfirmed sightings were reported in
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the vicinity of Woodridge Airbase at
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least 15 men all of them US Air Force
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personnel witnessed the strange lights
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and objects firsthand the Air Force
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continues to have no official comment on
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the entire series of
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events Colonel Charles halt has retired
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from the Air Force he spends much of his
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time discussing his unusual encounter he
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hopes that the US government will begin
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to take UFO sightings more
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seriously and maybe one day it
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will next a young woman disappears she
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may be hitchhiking around the country
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lost and alone
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in a remote corner of the park a car is
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found stuck in the mud the radio has
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been ripped out there are small traces
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of Blood on the dashboard and the front
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seat along with shredded identification
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papers a few torn up photographs are
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scattered
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nearby it looked like Foul Play but was
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it the photos the papers and the car
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were all traced to 22-year-old Christy
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Krebs she had worked as a chef just
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seven miles from where her car was found
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for christe's parents the scene was all
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too
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familiar when Christy graduated from
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high school she went to work full-time
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in a local restaurant she was cheerful
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and upbeat but she also became
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infatuated and then obsessed with a
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married
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man then one day 3 years before her
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disappearance christe apparently began
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to fantasize about marrying this same
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man she drove around for hours and lost
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her way on a country road her car became
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hopelessly stuck in the
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mud I have to get out of
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here when the car was found it looked
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like this the interior had been totally
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destroyed by flames and Christy was
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nowhere to be seen the fire apparently
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sent Christie into a traumatic mental
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breakdown the morning after the incident
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railroad workers saw a dazed and
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disoriented young woman wandering along
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the tracks one of the men recognized
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Christie and called her
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parents initially we thought things were
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okay but as we were driving M back into
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town the behavior we were getting from
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her was very bizarre uh chanting and and
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patting her doing very weird things and
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I just looked at my wife and said we're
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not going home we're going to the
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hospital we wondered if she was ever
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going to be the same again at first they
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thought that she might have been on
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drugs but they were able to test her and
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see that there were no drugs in her
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system
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hello hi Christie over the next few
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months Christie was in and out of the
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hospital and was eventually diagnosed
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having had a psychotic trauma related
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break why are you doing that my car I'm
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my keys your car is okay it's all right
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your car's okay you need to get some
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rest after therapy and drug treatment
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christe made rapid progress and after 6
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months things were looking up Christy
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was released from the hospital hospital
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and her therapists recommended that she
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go back to work but only part-time I
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think it was suggested she worked 20
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hours a week to start with and she did
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incredibly well and she was very proud
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of herself and she got herself a second
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job at a local fast food
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restaurant
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20 eventually Christy began working 10
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to 12 hours a day three years went by
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Christy's parents worried about her
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manic pace yet Christy insisted that she
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was okay right up until the night she
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disappeared that night Christy left work
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in High Spirits but she didn't go
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straight home Christy drove around until
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at some point she veered onto a dirt
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road she ended up here just 7 miles from
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the spot where the car fire had occurred
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once again stuck in the mud
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I think that she probably had flashbacks
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it was like reliving that Nightmare and
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all of that I think just overloaded all
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the
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circuits christe's father believes that
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his daughter suffered another psychotic
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break in my mind the last thing she did
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she went through her wallet in in total
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frustration whether she's looking at
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pictures of family and friends she
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ripped them all up she ripped them up
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and Scattered them around whether she
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was destroying her past and and trying
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to get away from it you know I really
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don't know I know that my daughter went
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through a really tough time out there
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for 2 or 3
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hours the authorities think that before
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she abandoned her car christe changed
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into a gym outfit that she always
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carried with her her work clothes were
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found sopping wet and neatly folded on
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the back
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seat the next morning a full scale
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search was launched but there was no
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trace of Christie however over the next
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few months several sightings were
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reported in Texas then in Salt Lake City
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and finally a year later in
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California just outside the farming town
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of viia California an off-duty Highway
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worker named Mike case picked up a
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hitchhiker who looked like Christie it
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was 300 M south of the spot where
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Christy's car was abandoned it seemed to
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me that she didn't have it all there at
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first I thought possibly she was on some
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type of drugs but talking with
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her a little bit at the beginning I knew
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that possibly she was in a a world of
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her
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own what happened to your wrist there I
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did happen to Noti that on her wrist
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there was two slash marks on her wrist
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and I asked her directly I said well
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what happened there and she said said I
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had a breakdown had a boyfriend he
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wasn't very
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nice Mike dropped Christy off at an
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intersection near Hanford
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California a week later he read an
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article about christe's disappearance
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and contacted her parents they
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immediately sent
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photographs I went through several of
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the pictures and my personal failing
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that was the girl I picked up on the
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freeway I'm positive that is her I'm
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positive and I I can say that now I can
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say it's positive I believe that Christy
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is out there somewhere and that she's
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alive because Christy is a
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Survivor she has a lot of strength she's
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very friendly I believe that she would
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not be aloner that she would hook up
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with someone we want her back home
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because we know that with our help she
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can once again recover from whatever it
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is that she's going through and um we
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really hope somebody out there knows
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where she is and can help her get home
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Christy's parents now believe one of the
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most credible sightings is from a woman
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who picked up a girl hitchhiking between
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Salt Lake City and Park City Utah the
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woman was able to describe details about
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her clothing that had never been
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released to the public Christy Krebs is
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5'2 in tall and has a deformed right
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thumb that is thick at the knuckle with
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the tip of the thumb curving inward
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next a young woman is held against her
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will by a cult she accuses its leader of
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kidnapping and rape let
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me the small Midwestern town of Liberty
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Missouri just before midnight at the
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compound of a local religious
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group hello Tim this is Julie what are
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you doing it's late can you please come
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get me the young woman is Julie Cooper
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and she's 22 years old she made this
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desperate call for help to a man that
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she had met only once she would tell him
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that she had been trapped in a religious
00:24:46
cult called the decloud family for 16
00:24:50
years the family nearly 30 men women and
00:24:53
children live together in a commune far
00:24:56
removed from the outside world okay
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Julie had told me bits and pieces of
00:25:01
what had gone on but I'm still not aware
00:25:03
of the whole story and I'm thinking well
00:25:05
you know it's no big deal nobody's going
00:25:07
to catch
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us Julie convinced him to help her
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Escape From The
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Cult she was crouched down in the grass
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um with a trash bag full of
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clothes go go go she was very very
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nervous and very afraid
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after 10 years Julie Cooper had finally
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escaped from the cult she then contacted
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authorities and told a horrifying story
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of her life within the commune the most
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chilling allegations focused on the
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leader of the cult Nelson
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decloud Nelson decloud was an ex police
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officer from Raytown Missouri a suburb
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of Kansas City he considered himself the
00:25:54
spiritual leader of his family re that's
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what he called his father
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Nelson thought that he was God's son not
00:26:03
really that he was Jesus Christ but that
00:26:05
he was one of God's sons and that he
00:26:08
couldn't do any wrong and he said to me
00:26:11
these are they which came nson had a
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very booming voice his eyes were like a
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white blue where it just would scare you
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praise the
00:26:20
Lord when her family joined the cult
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Julie Cooper was just 6 years old when
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she was 10 she says forced her to watch
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him have sex with a female member of the
00:26:35
family I want you to stay out here for a
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little while he asked me to have sex
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with him and I didn't want to and I
00:26:41
didn't what I want you to do Julie is
00:26:43
what God want you to do you understand
00:26:45
me yes all right I guess he was so far
00:26:48
into he couldn't do any wrong kind of
00:26:51
deal that it didn't matter to him now
00:26:54
you listen to me do you know how old
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Mary was when she had Jesus
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14 years old 14 years old now you think
00:27:01
about that there's nothing wrong with
00:27:03
that he put me out in this like wooded
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area what God I didn't have any food I
00:27:07
didn't have any jacket or anything like
00:27:09
that when you coming
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back I'll don't know when to come back
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God will tell me when to come back Julie
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stood in the field alone and shivering
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for 8 hours only then the Nelson take
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her back to the compound there is a
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sinner amongst us
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and I am deeply troubled another member
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of the family was publicly humiliated
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after she confronted the cloud about his
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cruelty she has chosen to
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disobey my word she has chosen to
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disobey God's word he was going to make
00:27:45
an example of her in front of me in
00:27:46
front of others comes
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Penance that was enough to scare me he
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knew that I was already scared ourselves
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or
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husband I felt like
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it was my fault
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because here or she tried to stand up
00:28:03
for me and I wasn't giving
00:28:06
in he found me and he says well are you
00:28:10
ready now of course you know after all
00:28:13
that had happened I said yes Julie
00:28:16
became a prisoner in the compound forced
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to serve as one of the Cloud's unwilling
00:28:21
sex partners when she was 15 she made
00:28:25
her first attempt to escape after
00:28:28
everything had happened to me everything
00:28:29
was going on um I decided to run away
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you know I just couldn't take
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anymore nelon De Cloud immediately
00:28:36
organized search parties to find Julie
00:28:39
Julie you stop right where you are you
00:28:41
hear me girl you stay right there stop
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right
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there come here come here don't let me
00:28:49
go
00:28:53
please Nelson and another guy came
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picked me up handcuffed and took me back
00:28:59
I was so scared of him of what would
00:29:01
happen to me offer your shoes Julie was
00:29:05
ordered to take off her clothes and
00:29:07
later she was severely beaten offer your
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shirt after that he always kept me with
00:29:14
him I always had to sleep with him in
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his in his bus in his area he wouldn't
00:29:20
let me out of anybody's
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00:29:25
sight seven more years passed J jie
00:29:28
patiently waiting for one more chance to
00:29:30
escape and then Nelson De Cloud asked
00:29:34
Julie to contact a satellite dish
00:29:37
repairman and that's when Julie Cooper
00:29:39
met Tim
00:29:42
Santi as I pull into the driveway I see
00:29:45
several cars I see a lot of kids running
00:29:47
around and the first impression that I
00:29:49
get is that you know this has to be some
00:29:50
type of party the satellite
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company oh brother Nelson this is our
00:29:56
brother and God Nelson de Cloud Nelson
00:29:58
I'd like for you to meet
00:30:00
Tim when Tim was introduced to Nelson he
00:30:04
didn't show him any respect he didn't
00:30:06
think of him as anybody or anything and
00:30:08
that made me feel good made me feel like
00:30:10
I could trust in someone I could
00:30:12
actually talk to this person and he
00:30:14
could understand me over the next couple
00:30:17
of weeks afterward um I'd asked her out
00:30:20
for a date and she had seemed like she
00:30:23
was willing but was not that there was
00:30:25
something that was holding her back well
00:30:27
he had asked me out and of course I told
00:30:30
him that I couldn't go and I couldn't go
00:30:31
for a year you know wouldn't be able to
00:30:33
get out for a year that was just a way
00:30:34
of putting him off and seeing if he was
00:30:37
willing to go on with trying to wear me
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down in the course of our conversations
00:30:42
on the phone um we had she had come up
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with a plan that she had that she would
00:30:46
need to sneak out at night
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undetected I called him up and I said I
00:30:52
want to go
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tonight we made it time 1:15 in the
00:30:56
morning and uh sure enough 115 hit he
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was
00:31:01
there go go
00:31:03
go after I left I was afraid they would
00:31:06
take me back um they
00:31:10
would beat
00:31:12
me uh do something to my mom I'm still
00:31:15
afraid that he is torturing my mom in
00:31:17
some way for what I've
00:31:20
done at dawn decloud and another family
00:31:23
member went looking for Julie pretending
00:31:26
to be police officers they drove to
00:31:28
Tim's house Hey Hey where's
00:31:34
Julie what where is
00:31:36
Julie lucky for Julie decloud had the
00:31:40
wrong address the house belonged to
00:31:42
Tim's brother Ted Tim and Julie were
00:31:45
just a few yards away sound asleep in
00:31:48
the house next door the next day Ted
00:31:50
came up to me and said what the hell's
00:31:51
going on here two strange people had
00:31:54
come into his home um
00:31:58
looking for me like I you know like I
00:32:00
was a criminal or something they won't
00:32:03
let me leave and that's when Julie had
00:32:05
told us the whole thing of what was
00:32:07
going on why did you want to run
00:32:10
away she had also alluded to the fear
00:32:13
that any man that was physically able
00:32:15
from that group would probably come and
00:32:17
try to get her and they raped me and I
00:32:20
can't stay there
00:32:22
anymore detective Dwayne WMA of the
00:32:25
local sheriff's department had been
00:32:27
suspicious of the cloud and his cult for
00:32:30
a long time I was
00:32:33
abused I believed Julie from the
00:32:35
beginning abuse what what type of we had
00:32:38
a hard time trying just to focus on the
00:32:41
charges that of a rape at the time cuz
00:32:43
there's so many other things that could
00:32:44
have been he could have been charged
00:32:46
with De Cloud quickly ordered the women
00:32:49
and children to load their possessions
00:32:51
onto four converted buses decloud then
00:32:54
took them away from the
00:32:55
commune we believe they're still
00:32:57
together because Nelson feeds off the
00:32:59
power of being in control of a group if
00:33:01
he doesn't have the group then he has no
00:33:04
power I want Nelson to get caught
00:33:06
because it's not fair to anyone else
00:33:08
that's up there my mom and dad they need
00:33:10
to know that he isn't the Messiah he's a
00:33:15
criminal what he was doing was
00:33:18
wrong the sheriff's department issued a
00:33:21
warrant for Nelson De Cloud but he was
00:33:24
long
00:33:26
gone update
00:33:28
after our broadcast several viewers from
00:33:31
San Angelo Texas called Unsolved
00:33:34
Mysteries sanangelo is a small town 500
00:33:38
M from De Cloud's old headquarters our
00:33:41
viewers called to say that they had seen
00:33:43
de Cloud's wife in the area the cult had
00:33:45
apparently settled into this Farmhouse
00:33:48
when state and local agents arrived
00:33:50
decloud kicked out the screen of the
00:33:52
upstairs window to make his escape and
00:33:55
the deputies approached him and he tried
00:33:58
to wrestle with a few of them briefly
00:34:00
there were so many Law Enforcement
00:34:01
Officers though that he didn't that
00:34:02
didn't last very long they put the
00:34:04
handcuffs on him and escorted him out of
00:34:06
the building Nelson decloud was brought
00:34:09
back to Liberty Missouri to stand trial
00:34:12
he was convicted of rape sodomy and
00:34:15
kidnapping he is currently serving a
00:34:17
prison sentence of
00:34:20
220
00:34:22
years next at least three different
00:34:26
women go on a date with this man and are
00:34:29
never seen
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00:34:37
again on an earlier program we told you
00:34:41
about missing fugitive Robert weeks two
00:34:44
of his long-term girlfriends had planned
00:34:46
to break up with him and they both
00:34:48
disappeared after one last dinner date
00:34:51
their bodies were never
00:34:53
found weeks's ex-wife Patricia had also
00:34:57
V finished years before whoever he's
00:35:00
involved with now may end up in the same
00:35:03
situation I definitely think there's a
00:35:05
pattern and I definitely think it could
00:35:06
happen
00:35:08
again
00:35:10
update the day after our broadcast
00:35:13
Robert weeks was captured in Arizona he
00:35:16
was living there with a new girlfriend
00:35:19
and when she saw our story about him
00:35:22
well she turned him in at the time weeks
00:35:24
was running a company called snuff it
00:35:27
which made ashray his business partner
00:35:30
was interviewed shortly after week's
00:35:32
arrest he said I haven't told anybody
00:35:34
this yet but I watched that
00:35:38
program and I said what he said yeah he
00:35:41
said I watched it
00:35:43
but I didn't figure any of my friends
00:35:45
would be watching weeks was brought back
00:35:48
to Nevada on a long-standing
00:35:49
embezzlement charge shortly after he was
00:35:52
indicted on two counts of murder he was
00:35:55
sentenced to life in prison with without
00:35:57
the possibility of
00:35:59
parole Robert weeks was still behind
00:36:02
bars when he died in
00:36:05
1996 sadly the bodies of Robert weeks
00:36:09
victims were never found weeks knew a
00:36:12
lot about Mining and authorities believe
00:36:15
that he may have hidden the bodies in
00:36:17
one of the many forgotten mines in
00:36:19
either the Arizona or Nevada
00:36:26
desert Orthodox Jews Trace their Roots
00:36:29
back 5,000 years to the time of Moses
00:36:33
and they live according to strict codes
00:36:35
that have remained unchanged for
00:36:39
centuries to maintain their Traditions
00:36:41
many communities have established
00:36:44
yeshivas which are schools that
00:36:46
emphasize the principles of Orthodox
00:36:51
Judaism one Saturday morning Don Daly a
00:36:54
veteran Nassau County New York police
00:36:57
detective
00:36:58
was dispatched to a Yeshiva in Long
00:37:00
Beach New York to investigate the murder
00:37:03
of one of its students the victim was
00:37:06
16-year-old hyam Weiss a single blow to
00:37:09
his skull with a sharp object had
00:37:11
severed his spinal column investigators
00:37:15
found no murder weapon there was no
00:37:17
evidence of a robbery and there were no
00:37:19
signs of a struggle detective da
00:37:22
realized that this would be unlike any
00:37:25
other homicide investigation in his 25
00:37:28
year career well I think initially we
00:37:31
were dealing with a Saturday which is a
00:37:32
Sabbath when we arrived at the scene
00:37:34
sometime around 8:00 in the morning uh
00:37:36
it was difficult to talk to anybody at
00:37:38
that particular time because uh number
00:37:40
one uh the people we're dealing with
00:37:42
being Orthodox Jews uh then not able to
00:37:46
write we couldn't take statements from
00:37:47
anybody we got the impression a lot of
00:37:49
the students at that time were afraid to
00:37:51
talk to us or a little shy as he
00:37:54
investigated the scene Dy thought the
00:37:56
killer might have been familiar with the
00:37:58
Yeshiva and the customs of Orthodox
00:38:02
Judaism it appeared that hyen had been
00:38:04
killed while he was sleeping his body
00:38:07
was then moved first from the bed to the
00:38:09
floor and later to another spot 2 ft
00:38:13
away curiously Ham's window was left
00:38:16
wide open on this chilly October night
00:38:20
it would be customary in the religion uh
00:38:23
to open a window or a door where the uh
00:38:27
the dead person would be to let the
00:38:30
spirit out it uh it would also be
00:38:32
customary uh for the uh the body to be
00:38:36
taken off the bed uh because the body
00:38:39
should be at the the lowest point and
00:38:41
the coolest point the coolest point
00:38:43
being the floor compared to the bed
00:38:45
another ritual would result in a third
00:38:48
puzzling clue one of the rabbis asked to
00:38:50
leave a memorial candle in the room to
00:38:53
burn for 7 Days the crime scene was then
00:38:56
sealed
00:38:58
however 2 Days Later another candle
00:39:01
mysteriously appeared no one in the
00:39:03
school ever admitted to having placed it
00:39:06
in the room if they lit that candle as a
00:39:09
gesture of uh sympathy or love uh for
00:39:13
high why wouldn't they come forward and
00:39:15
and say that that that's certainly a a
00:39:18
good uh thing to do nobody came forward
00:39:20
with that detective Dy set about piecing
00:39:24
together the final hours of H am Weiss's
00:39:26
life he learned that hyim was an
00:39:28
outgoing likable teenager who was at the
00:39:31
top of his class he had been attending
00:39:34
the Yeshiva in Long Beach for 2 and 1/2
00:39:37
years on the day he was killed hyim left
00:39:41
glass with his friends to attend
00:39:43
Services afterwards he returned to the
00:39:46
dormatory hours later two classmates saw
00:39:49
himim reading in the hallway many of the
00:39:52
students do that because of their
00:39:54
religion they don't put lights on and
00:39:55
off on the Sabbath it was dark so the
00:39:58
lights are left on in the main hallway
00:40:00
the students sit out in the hallway and
00:40:02
read police think the killer probably
00:40:04
knew the layout of the dormatory and was
00:40:07
probably aware that hyam was one of only
00:40:10
two students without a roommate we did
00:40:13
have one student who felt that he heard
00:40:15
his door open up sometime during the
00:40:18
night and then close again but he
00:40:20
assumed it was his
00:40:22
roommate there are a lot of questions
00:40:24
that we haven't been able to answer we
00:40:27
really never got any leads in this case
00:40:29
nothing from the outside which is
00:40:31
unusual we have some things that we have
00:40:33
to put behind us here a few days after
00:40:35
the murder detective daily called a
00:40:37
meeting with the students teachers and
00:40:40
rabbis but if anybody knows anything we
00:40:44
need the help but almost every question
00:40:47
he asked was answered by silence you
00:40:50
fell is really you know do you
00:40:51
understand how important this is we
00:40:54
learned at one point that in their
00:40:56
particular Orthodox Rel
00:40:57
unless you have proof or another witness
00:41:00
mere suspicion alone is not enough to go
00:41:02
and say anything or to accuse somebody
00:41:05
you know for sure who killed Kim Weiss
00:41:08
no police eventually polygraphed 40
00:41:11
students and several of the schools
00:41:13
teachers and rabbis no suspects or
00:41:16
motives were revealed who killed him and
00:41:19
why remains a Myst and not knowing makes
00:41:23
it much more difficult for me to cope
00:41:27
certain things I accept my son's dead
00:41:30
but the murder is still loose all these
00:41:32
unanswered questions makes me feel very
00:41:35
very unish why would anyone brutally
00:41:38
murder a 16-year-old boy who had no
00:41:41
known enemies police haven't covered
00:41:43
only one significant clue a jogger
00:41:46
stated that he saw a young man a few
00:41:49
blocks from the school on the morning
00:41:50
Ham's body was found all attempts to
00:41:53
identify the student have been
00:41:55
unsuccessful
00:42:33
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