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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 are about to see is not a news
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broadcast tonight the season premiere
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bunsall mysteries but under hypnosis
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Bruce Kelly was overwhelmed by vivid
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images of an American sailors death
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during World War II later he was amazed
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to learn that his vision of a sinking of
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a submarine actually took place fifty
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years earlier
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how could Bruce Kelley relive an
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accurate detail events that took place
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before he was even born after a killer
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tornado rips through Woodward Oklahoma
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the town's residents flee to a local
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hospital the scene is chaos and one of
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the survivors a young girl named Joan
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gate crossed is carried off by two
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strangers more than 40 years later she
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is still missing
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Pedro Santiago junior was his family's
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pride and joy popular athletic a good
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student
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then in December 12th nineteen nineties
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pedra was struck by a car in front of
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his house the driver callously fled the
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scene leaving Pedro to die join me for a
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dramatic season premiere perhaps you may
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be able to help solve on the street
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what are you afraid of the dark
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flying heights many of us Harbor at
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least one secret irrational field a
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phobia
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sometimes when the phobia is serious
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enough to disrupt normal functioning we
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will do almost anything to regain
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control of our lives from an named Bruce
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Kelly the attempt to cure his phobias
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took him to places he could never have
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imagined
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Bruce Kelley grew up in Glendora
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California a small town just outside Los
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Angeles
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Bruce is a natural athlete who went to
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college on a full baseball scholarship
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Bruce eventually became a Sales Manager
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for a medical supply firm he married
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divorced and as a single parent raised
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his only daughter through it all Bruce
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had been plagued by overpowering phobias
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a fear of flying and enclosed spaces
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which he believed hampered his career
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and a fear of water which was just plain
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bothersome anytime that it got around a
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swimming pool I would be afraid to even
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go close to the edge of the pool I was
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just to walk way around it it would even
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it even was to the point bad enough
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where I couldn't sit in a bathtub I
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didn't like the feeling of water coming
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up around me I'm going to count from
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three down to one when I get to the
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number one you're going to be deep in
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over the years Bruce had sought help
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from several different medical
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professionals nothing worked
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each finally in desperation he went to
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Ric Brown hypnotherapist who specializes
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in an unusual and controversial
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technique known as past life regression
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on this morning on number three you're
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going there now on the next number two
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you become a part of it on one you're
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there
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and when I was seeing what I was seeing
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and I said to him this can't be real
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his direction at the time was just go
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with it probably 99% of the people who
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come to me do not go into past lives
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probably only 1% of the people have
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spontaneous regressions when working
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with phobias and Bruce did have a
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spontaneous regression to a past life
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where are you submarine what's happening
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I'm drowning
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wrist was writhing in the chair he was
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actually moving around and going through
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the death scene tell me your name
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Johnston what is your full name
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James Edward Johnston James Edward
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Johnston the hypnosis sessions have
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taken an intriguing turn to Bruce County
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had apparently been thrust into the life
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of an American satyr named James Edward
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Johnston moment the attacker calling
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specific details that sealed astonishing
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what's going on Bruce said that Johnston
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had drowned in a submarine the USS shark
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very world war two Bruce also said the
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shark had gone down near Borneo
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just off an island called syllabus are
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you alone in this hallway no there's
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another man in the homeland Bruce even
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came up with the name of a man trapped
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with Johnston in the submarine
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Walter Pilgrim everything goes blank and
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there is there's the sense that
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something's rolling wrong there's
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there's water comes told Rick Brown that
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Johnson and pilgrim had both died at
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precisely 11:34 p.m.
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February 11th 1942 are there any
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survivors
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the memories were just like the it was
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something that happened yesterday
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they're very close to the surface they
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came up real easily at first it was like
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I was just making it up like this this
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really can't be happening this really
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can't be real I have to be making this
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up and I went to the library more to
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prove that it didn't happen and it did
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happen the next day
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armed with the names of two sailors a
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submarine and a date Bruce began a crash
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course World War two history
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Bruce learned that during the war 52
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American submarines carrying nearly
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3,500 sailors were lost at sea 21 went
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down in battle 10 in accidents 21 more
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simply seemed to disappear
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no one knew exactly what had happened
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incredibly Bruce found that the very
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first American sub lost in the war was a
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USS shark the submarine Bruce had named
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under hypnosis
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Bruce was also astounded that the shark
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and disappeared near an island called
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syllabus once again
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Bruce's memories proved accurate they
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also had a crew roster there and on the
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crew roster was James E Johnston which
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was the name that I had come up with
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under hypnosis and it also gave the
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approximate date of loss which was
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February 11th 1942 which was also the
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date that I'd come up with under
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hypnosis
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Bruce was further amazed but on the crew
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list he found the second name he had
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remembered
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Walter pilgrim chief electrician's mate
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Hera's he was standing up on the back of
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my neck on up when I saw it it was like
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oh god this is real I was in total total
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disbelief in total shock and and there
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was there was also a there was also an
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element of excitement that you know
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maybe there is something to this
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here's your mother married you know
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is your mother living no over the next
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six months Bruce Kelley saw Rick brown
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on average once a week with each session
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more details emerge details that
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appeared to come from the life of James
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Edward Johnston I'm going to go now to
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your mother's death is that acceptable
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yes in time Rick brown began to talk to
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Bruce Kelly as if Bruce in fact were
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James Edward Johnston you're there now
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are you at home or in the hospital it's
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in a home are there many people there
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yes
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Bruce saw himself as Johnston around age
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12 keeping watch at the moment of his
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mother's death a young cousin named
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Elizabeth stood with him
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other memories were far less dramatic
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even mundane Bruce vividly recalled that
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is Johnston he always made it a point to
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eat the end pieces from every loaf of
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bread in another session Bruce
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remembered that Johnston was born in
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February of 1921 as a young man during
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the Great Depression he was enrolled in
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a government work program called the CCC
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Civilian Conservation Corps the year was
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1938 the place California Bruce
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remembered a young girl there named
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Molly Lassiter James Johnston's first
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love I'd like to move forward to a time
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when you're with Molly is that
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acceptable yes moving very quickly now
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three to a time when you're with Molly -
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you're there now one where are you on
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the bridge
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what are you doing on the bridge we're
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talking what are you talking about I'm
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asking to run away with me is she afraid
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yes what is she afraid of her father
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what is she afraid of her father about
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why is she afraid of him probably afraid
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for me and what is she afraid that'll
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happen to you and he might harm me or
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even kill me
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do you ever see Molly again No
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Bruce Kelley and Rick brown began to
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research Johnston's life
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Bruce's memories checked out with
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remarkable accuracy
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Johnston had been in the CCC 1938 of
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1939 stationed a tule Lake near the
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California Oregon border in 1940 yet
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listed in the Navy and served on board
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the USS shark
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CCC and naval records listed James
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Edward Johnston's hometown of
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Jacksonville Alabama the date on
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Johnson's birth certificate confirmed
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another crucial fact a month and year
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Bruce Kelley had remembered under
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hypnosis were correct February 1921
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Bruce came up with a significant amount
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of information that was well past being
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coincidental there were too many lines
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of evidence that pointed to the fact
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that Bruce Kelley is the reincarnation
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of James Edward Johnston I could be the
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reincarnation on James or it just may be
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some information that somehow or another
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that I've tapped into and it means you
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know it's something else that's
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happening I don't I don't know
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although Bruce's phobias were cured his
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life had taken on a new and unexpected
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dimension there seemed to be a
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mysterious synchronicity between Bruce
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Kelley and James Edward Johnston Bruce's
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hypnotherapist Ric Brown made two trips
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to Johnson's hometown verifying facts
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before he finally persuaded Bruce to go
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there with him Bruce's first visit was
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films that happened but you're about to
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see he is not a recreation
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on April 17th 1993 Rick Brown and Bruce
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Kelly arrived in the town where James
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Edward Johnston was born and raised
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Jacksonville Alabama at the house where
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Johnston and his mother had lived Bruce
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Kelley experienced a sudden strong
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reaction again these events were filmed
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as they happen
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there's a lot of stuff your back
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bedrooms right over here yeah yeah
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that's the bedroom okay that's that's
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the windows data
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we've been a lot of places but this
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yeah
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sure it yeah
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so I remember used to come in the back
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it was there's like a there was an alley
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back here or a dirt road or something
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yeah is almost like um he wasn't good
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enough to come in the front door moving
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to the side of the house when I could
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actually see the bedroom and I knew that
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was the bedroom
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that's when the feelings really started
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hitting remembering that he used to have
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to come in on the back street and come
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through the back door the back porch I
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remember that a room of the feelings of
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kind of feeling like a second-class
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citizen they were poor she was unmarried
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I couldn't vocalize it myself and
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somebody off-camera said something to
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the effect of your your you come home
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and that's when I got real emotional
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because that's exactly what it was after
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was Bruce Kelly went to meet several
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people who remember James Edward
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Johnston as a boy one of them probably
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knew Johnston better than anyone else
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his cousin Betty Betty's real name is
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Elizabeth and Bruce believes she is the
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same Elizabeth he saw under hypnosis the
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little girl who was with James Edward
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Johnston when his mother died
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Betty remembers her as death but not the
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specifics of the scene however when she
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met Bruce other memories of her cousin
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whom she called Edward flooded back
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Betty began to press Bruce for details I
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remember anything about braids yeah one
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of the first sessions that Rick and I
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had I talked to him about always liking
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the heel of the bread wanting to get the
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the end off the bread because the the
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only thing the only reason that many
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thing to me was growing up I was the
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same way
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my mom would bring home a loaf of bread
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and the first thing I do is open that
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thing up and grab the heel out of there
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did you open both hands sometimes and
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I'd get in trouble for it sometimes too
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yeah sucked it did you with you went to
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that house yeah
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the second on the way up yeah did yeah
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what were your feelings eh yeah that's
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that's been the the emotional high of
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the of the trip it was it was real
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difficult real emotional
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do you feel that that you are Edward
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reincarnated I don't you don't really
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feel that I don't know I don't know all
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you know I've been asked that question
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so many times and all I know is for some
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reason or another I have all this
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information about him I don't know where
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it comes from from it for me to stand
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here I really don't know I have doubts
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but they're just certain were things
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Bruce said that Edward used the back
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door and this is is true and not
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everyone would would have that knowledge
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the older you get the more you're going
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to look at something like reincarnation
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or anything that offers an answer and
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reincarnation regardless of what this
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religion or that religion or anything
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else thinks of it it offers a solution
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at the Jacksonville cemetery a memorial
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stone has been erected in honor of James
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Edward Johnston no one knows exactly how
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or when Johnston died except perhaps
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just perhaps Bruce Kelly
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I was in my bunk and when the attack
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happened
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and everybody was heading toward their
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stations I had gotten into the first
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hallway when there was a depth charge
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the de submarine was rolling and moving
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James squirts got to his feet and he's
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gotten 510 feet more down the hallway
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when there was a second depth charge it
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was obviously a direct hit
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the next the new memory I have is the
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area that I'm in filling up with water
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and filling up real fast
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there was another man in the hallway and
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he was experiencing the same thing I was
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knocked off his feet a couple times and
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now trapped in this hallway that was
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filling up with water
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[Applause]
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the last real image that I had was the
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the other man in the corridor you know
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that I wasn't alone in this corridor
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there's somebody else here and they're
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going through the same thing I am
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we are dying
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I'm probably not as afraid of death as
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most people in the United States are or
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Western civilization our death isn't
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something like that I think about every
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day and I just I just try to live every
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day and enjoy every day the best that I
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can and when death comes it comes I
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think that there is something beyond and
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I don't I don't think it's a a final
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situation I don't think just it's the
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end of there's more although we know it
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seems far-fetched there may actually be
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one person who can verify Bruce Kelley's
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extraordinary experience her name if she
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exists is Molly Lassiter she would have
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lived near the California Oregon border
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in 1938 would today be around 70 years
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old if Molly is out there perhaps a
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mystery of Bruce Kelley and James Edward
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Johnston will at last piece on next
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thanks to you our viewers a fugitive
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cult leader accused of rape has finally
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been tracked down
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this is Julie Cooper of Kansas City
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Missouri with her as Tim sandy the man
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who rescued Julie from a childhood that
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she says was nothing short of a living
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nightmare when Julie Cooper was just 6
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her parents joined a religious cult in
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Missouri called the de Cloud family the
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leader of the sect was a charismatic X
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police officer named Nelson the clown
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Nelson thought that he was God's Son
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you're not really that he was Jesus
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Christ but that he was one of God's sons
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and that he couldn't do any wrong Judy
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says it by the time she was 10 the cloud
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was demanding to have sex with her
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according to Julie she initially refused
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but eventually the pressure became so
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great that she gave in and he says well
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are you ready now of course you know
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after all that had happened I said yes
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Julie claims that over the next 12 years
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she was subjected to constant
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humiliation and emotional torture by de
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Cloud forced to serve as his unwilling
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sex partner
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finally in September of 1992 Julie
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Cooper made her escape
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aided by Tim Santi and electronics
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repairman they had met when Tim visited
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the compound to work on the cloud
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satellite dish at Tim's urging Julie
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went to the police they immediately
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issued a warrant for the clouds arrest
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but before it could be apprehended the
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clouded his followers disappeared
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I want Nelson to get caught because it's
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not fair to anyone else that's up there
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my mom and dad they they need to know
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that he isn't the Messiah he's a
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criminal
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what he was doing is wrong
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after our broadcast several viewers
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Masson Angelo Texas a small town 500
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miles from two clouds old headquarters
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in Missouri call to say they had seen
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the clouds wife in the area the coat had
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apparently settled in this farmhouse one
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state and local agents converged on the
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scene the cloud kicked out the screen of
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the upstairs window in an attempt to
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escape the deputies approached him and
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he tried to wrestle with a few of them
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briefly there are so many law
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enforcement officers though that he
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didn't that didn't last very long they
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put the handcuffs on him and escorted
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him out of the building Nelson declared
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was booked at the local County Jail and
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later extradited to Liberty Missouri to
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stand trial on for criminal counts
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including forcible rape and sodomy since
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the arrest of Nelson the cloud other
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former members of the group have come
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forward willing to testify about things
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they witnessed when they were members as
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a group Nelson de Cloud is currently out
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on bail thanks to 25 thousand dollars
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raised by followers a trial is scheduled
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for November 16th 1993 if convicted on
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all charges
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Nelson the cloud could spend the rest of
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his life in prison I feel confident now
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that I can have a normal life after
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seeing him caught knowing that it can be
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done
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for Julie Cooper her long ordeal is
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almost but not quite over she still has
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to testify to clouds
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upcoming trial however this courageous
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young woman has already found a happy
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ending to her story
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last summer Julie became engaged to Tim
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sandy the man who helped her escape
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[Music]
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[Music]
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next perhaps you can help find a
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hit-and-run driver whose victims 11 year
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old boy Chicago skyline Rises
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majestically above the southwest tip of
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Lake Michigan yet the city's character
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is defined largely by the diverse
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communities which fan out from the
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shoreline the Logan Square section of
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Chicago is a close knit middle-class
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neighborhood Pedro Santiago jr. was born
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here a new Logan Square like the back of
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his hand it was a place where he always
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felt safe Pedro a fifth grader was
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popular with his peers a good student
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and a talented athlete but the time he
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is 11 years old he had already earned a
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black belt in karate on December 12th
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1990 Pedro came straight home from
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school and called his mother at work to
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fill her in on his plans for the
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afternoon Eric she's on the ball blaster
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Pedro left his house just after 3:00
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p.m. at that exact moment two
00:26:15
neighborhood teenagers were walking back
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from the corner market
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well I never seen anything like that
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happened so I couldn't believe that it
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happened I started walking towards the
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car I know that you know I seen that it
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was real I started I started to run
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towards the car the driver he he got out
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of his car he started cursing he started
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hitting his car I guess he was upset
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with himself for doing it
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phaedra was a he was trying to talk but
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my friend was studying me you know not
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to waste his energy gonna call an
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ambulance
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don't let him meet seconds later the man
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jumped into his black goldsmobile and
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took off when I was on the phone talking
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to the man from the fire station I seen
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him pass right by me
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twelve minutes later Pedro was on his
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way to the emergency room the hospital
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chaplain called Pedro's mother
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immediately when I answered the phone
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and I heard the voice at the other end
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yeah I kind of got shot so I said what
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happened and then they saw the person
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talk to me and said it's an emergency
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your son it's in the hospital Pedro was
00:27:51
unconscious and suffering from massive
00:27:52
head injuries his parents had only a few
00:27:56
precious seconds to comfort him before
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he was taken into the operating room
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when we got to the surgery room and they
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said why you kiss him now okay that's
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all the time we've got
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and then they took him in they said soju
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would be about an hour and a half or two
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hours then we went in the waiting room
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and we kept on waiting and waiting
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Pedro hung on for ten agonizing days but
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he never regained consciousness he was
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buried on the day after Christmas in
00:28:47
1990 with Pedro's death the hit and run
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incident escalated to a case of
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manslaughter
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police had put out an all-points
00:28:59
bulletin for the car's owner a Cuban
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immigrant known on the streets as cut
00:29:03
Kimba when police efforts to find kijima
00:29:08
failed
00:29:08
Pedro's father began to nose around on
00:29:11
his own I went to Lara bars a lot of
00:29:17
places in Chicago and I guess everybody
00:29:22
did you know catch him burr you say yeah
00:29:24
but he left Chicago is nothing here
00:29:27
anymore and I keep asking everybody
00:29:31
until one day I went to this restaurant
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I asked the men come oka cheemba you
00:29:39
know being a king he left town a long
00:29:42
time ago one last time I saw him was
00:29:46
around Christmas he wanted me to lend
00:29:49
him some money so he could move to Novi
00:29:51
or did he say why he was moved I think
00:29:56
he was in some trouble with the police
00:29:58
he had to get out of town so I gave him
00:30:01
a hundred bucks he told me maybe she
00:30:04
knew your now oh oh
00:30:08
Florida give me a lot of places for he
00:30:11
maketh this so I give it three police
00:30:14
all those places
00:30:16
nearly two years have passed with no
00:30:19
further leads for the santiago's nothing
00:30:22
will ever be the same to me it's like it
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happened just the other day it's very
00:30:32
hard to let go hi I tried and just the
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happy times and that we spend with pure
00:30:43
joy and all I see his smiling face we
00:30:55
just made similar I know I won't give my
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son back but I would like to see him get
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cut behind black top
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Kachinas real name is Gerardo Gonzales
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he has not been charged with any crime
00:31:14
however police would like to question
00:31:16
him a chambers Cuban stands five feet
00:31:20
eight inches tall and weighs around 160
00:31:22
pounds he may be living in New York
00:31:25
Florida Michigan or Illinois when we
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return
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a four year old girl survives the
00:31:33
devastating tornado and then
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mysteriously disappears
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the Woodward Oklahoma 50 years ago
00:31:50
belonged to a simpler quieter age on
00:31:52
April 9th 1947 two events were the talk
00:31:56
of the town
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a popular Ingrid Bergman film had
00:31:59
finally arrived at the town's only movie
00:32:01
theatre more importantly a telephone
00:32:04
operator strike at left Woodward's 5500
00:32:07
residents virtually cut off from the
00:32:09
outside world and the phone's been
00:32:12
working that day Woodward might have
00:32:14
gotten news of an impending disaster a
00:32:16
monstrous tornado that had churned his
00:32:19
way across Texas and was headed directly
00:32:21
towards them
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as darkness fell the giant twister
00:32:27
slammed into the town reducing it to
00:32:29
rubble more than 1,000 people were
00:32:32
injured more than 100 killed all in a
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matter of minutes
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nearly half a century has passed since
00:32:42
the disaster but incredibly one survivor
00:32:45
still remains unaccounted for today Joan
00:32:49
gaye Croft was only four years old when
00:32:51
she mysteriously disappeared during the
00:32:53
chaotic aftermath of the tornado
00:32:55
although Joan gay was last seen more
00:32:57
than 46 years ago some members of her
00:33:00
family are convinced she is still alive
00:33:02
perhaps with your help she'll be found
00:33:04
tonight perhaps she will even be
00:33:07
watching Joan gay Croft grew up in one
00:33:13
of Woodward's most prominent families
00:33:18
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her father Olin was a successful sheep
00:33:24
rancher he was able to provide a
00:33:26
comfortable life for the family his wife
00:33:28
cleda her twelve-year-old daughter from
00:33:30
a previous marriage and of course four
00:33:32
year old Joan Gaye who was remembered
00:33:34
fondly by her great aunt ruth bond she's
00:33:39
the most prettiest little little girl i
00:33:40
ever seen she was just perfect her
00:33:43
little teeth was white as pearls and she
00:33:46
was real bashful when someone had come
00:33:49
in why she'd get hold her mother dressed
00:33:51
him kind of hide around behind her she
00:33:54
was a Mama's girl April 9th 1947 had
00:34:05
dawned ominously with a sky tinted a
00:34:07
reddish cast that afternoon Ruth Bond
00:34:10
was visiting her sister when the day
00:34:12
suddenly grew dark and threatening feel
00:34:16
that I looked up he was just so still
00:34:19
that it was really odd color there
00:34:26
wasn't no noise any kind the birds
00:34:29
wasn't singing it was just quiet
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time we got home that thing had hit we'd
00:34:41
hear boards and 10:00 and stuff hit the
00:34:44
house and I just knew that we've never
00:34:46
had nothing like this when the tornado
00:34:50
hit I stepped out on the front porch and
00:34:52
I saw this car come down the street with
00:34:53
all four wheels locked up and the wind
00:34:55
was pushing it down the street
00:34:56
and I knew we were in trouble in wind
00:35:00
began to blow
00:35:01
I had became quite fierce and we huddled
00:35:05
back in the corner of the room to watch
00:35:08
the windows blow out electric light
00:35:11
lines bounced down the street it was
00:35:14
just a horrible horrible experience I
00:35:18
was very scared it lasted four to five
00:35:24
minutes which seemed like an eternity
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we were very lucky we had broken windows
00:35:37
minor damage and then mother and I went
00:35:41
to search for our relatives Marvella and
00:35:48
her mother Ruth joined the survivors
00:35:50
streaming to the town's only hospital
00:35:53
Ruth had been unable to find her mother
00:35:55
or brother nor had she heard from Oland
00:35:58
croft and his family an eerie calm had
00:36:01
settled over an unforgettable scene we
00:36:07
stepped over bodies some of them had
00:36:10
their skull all cut off and some of them
00:36:13
had their throats cut some of them was
00:36:15
dead he was just like wartime if they
00:36:19
dropped a bomb that's just about what it
00:36:21
looked like it was just terrible
00:36:32
jeongae and jerry are in the basement
00:36:34
Ruth learned that her nieces had made it
00:36:36
through the tornado their father Roland
00:36:38
was seriously injured tragically their
00:36:41
mother Clete was dead I thought oh no
00:36:45
Lord it can't be this it just can't be
00:36:48
this that's all she was a perfect mother
00:36:51
to those kids and then kids loved her
00:36:54
and you that was hard it was hard it was
00:36:59
real hard
00:37:04
Ruth picked her way through the dead and
00:37:07
wounded in the hospital basement until
00:37:09
she finally found her nieces Joan Gaye's
00:37:12
leg had been pierced clear through with
00:37:14
a finger-sized splinter of wood her
00:37:16
sister was bruised from the flying
00:37:18
debris well I thought my god saved them
00:37:22
both they're gonna be all right cuz they
00:37:24
needed one I was hurt very bad
00:37:27
you just think of it as a big old
00:37:29
splinter okay
00:37:32
my daddy I know her your daddy is let's
00:37:38
see if I can find your mama there poor
00:37:40
kids I got to tell her Mama's gone and
00:37:43
that was just heartbreaking so I didn't
00:37:46
let on like I even knew because that
00:37:48
wouldn't help those girls at all they
00:37:50
just went hysterical I'm sure they would
00:37:52
have relieved that her nieces were safe
00:37:56
Ruth hurried back outside there she
00:37:59
finally found her mother and brother no
00:38:03
roof she's bad we gotta get her to
00:38:05
Moreland hospital when she got to the
00:38:09
other hospital Ruth was pressed into
00:38:11
service helping the overburdened doctors
00:38:13
and nurses the next morning she finally
00:38:17
returned to her nieces took her
00:38:27
something took her did you know them no
00:38:30
Betty Betty well two men came by last
00:38:37
night the two men had claimed they were
00:38:39
taking the little girl to a hospital in
00:38:41
Oklahoma City some 120 miles distant but
00:38:45
calls to all the hospitals in that area
00:38:47
turned up absolutely no trace of Joan
00:38:50
Gaye Croft
00:38:54
less than a week after the tornado Ruth
00:38:57
received the phone call she had been
00:38:59
dreading a call from the local mortician
00:39:03
when the bodies were laid out in the
00:39:06
chapel area their relatives would come
00:39:09
in and look at them well when you
00:39:11
finally got down we had two left over
00:39:14
that nobody had identified Franklin one
00:39:22
of the unclaimed bodies was a young
00:39:23
blond-haired girl who bore a striking
00:39:25
resemblance to John Gay Croft the
00:39:28
mortician ask Bruce to bring some of her
00:39:30
nieces clothes to the mortuary these are
00:39:33
too big it's not your niece pray to god
00:39:37
you're right Franklin
00:39:38
Ruth insisted on viewing the little girl
00:39:40
just to be sure she was not Joan gay I
00:39:44
was really relieved it wasn't our Little
00:39:48
John gay I just
00:39:50
that was one burden off my heart right
00:39:52
there with Joan gates still unaccounted
00:39:59
for her family launched an all-out
00:40:01
search they listed her missing with all
00:40:06
of the law enforcement FBI they went to
00:40:12
all extremes to look for her and there
00:40:15
was never ever a trace of her
00:40:23
after nearly 50 years the identity of
00:40:26
the two men carried off Joan gay is a
00:40:28
source of lingering speculation
00:40:32
according to Ruth they asked the nurse
00:40:34
very specifically for the Croft children
00:40:38
and the men known the family were they
00:40:41
even rescue workers and where did they
00:40:43
take Joan gay whatever the answers many
00:40:47
of Joan Kay's relatives believe she is
00:40:50
still alive it's a possibility she could
00:40:54
be out there life I have no idea I think
00:40:58
maybe she might be because she wasn't
00:41:01
really hurt that bad until somebody can
00:41:04
prove to me otherwise
00:41:05
I will always believe I'll firmly
00:41:09
believe she's out there somewhere and we
00:41:13
went to find her and bring her back home
00:41:16
we just have a great big reunion that's
00:41:20
what we'd do we'd celebrate yeah all of
00:41:23
us would very few pictures of Joan gay
00:41:28
Croft survived the tornado Joan gay had
00:41:31
blue eyes blonde hair and at the time
00:41:33
spoke with a mild lisp she would
00:41:36
probably still have scars on her left
00:41:37
calf from the tornado injury Joan gay
00:41:41
Croft was four years old when she
00:41:42
disappeared April 9th 1947
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00:41:58
on our next unsolved mysteries in
00:42:01
Australia a panicky young pilot radios
00:42:04
that he's being tailed by a bizarre
00:42:05
light source seconds later the pilot and
00:42:09
his plane literally vanished from the
00:42:11
sky some believe it was a close
00:42:13
encounter of the most sinister kind also
00:42:18
the curious saga of a convicted bank
00:42:20
robber who refuses to tell authorities
00:42:22
his real name
00:42:23
the more we kept digging into this
00:42:27
gentleman's background the more mystery
00:42:31
surrounded him everyone that surrounded
00:42:34
him eventually disappeared perhaps
00:42:38
someone watching will know his identity
00:42:40
and what if anything he is trying to
00:42:43
conceal join me next time for another
00:42:47
fascinating edition unsolved mysteries
00:42:50
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