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it's time once again to cross over the
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boundary between the real
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and the unreal beyond belief
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fact or fiction
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hosted by jonathan frakes
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we live in a world where the real and
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the unreal live side by side
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where substance is disguised as illusion
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and the only explanations are
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unexplainable can you separate truth
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from fantasy
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to do so you must break through the web
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of your experience
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and open your mind to things beyond
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belief
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sometimes to see the truth we have to
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look at things from another angle
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take this portrait of a single cloud
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when viewed from a different perspective
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it becomes an entire circus
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we encourage you to view our stories
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tonight with an open mind
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examine them from a variety of angles
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we'll tell you at the end
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if they're true or false so follow the
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clown
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as he turns the corner
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our circus is about to begin
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but mysterious forces caused some soil
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to be fertile
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while other gardens yield nothing but
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wilted dreams
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what is the secret of the green thumb
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joss myrtle doesn't possess a green
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thumb in fact
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lately his efforts to cause his land to
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bloom are mostly all thumbs
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but joss myrtle loves his land and even
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though he has no financial resources
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he is determined to see it thrive again
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no matter what the cost
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i was just a teenager when it all
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happened i worshiped my father
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but he was putting our family through
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terrible times
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our farm was going under nothing was
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growing
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but papa refused to admit it
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joss did you hear what i said i heard
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you
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well look at it the land is worthless
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it's been barren for two years your
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mortgage is about to go on the
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receivership
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look joss i understand what you're going
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through
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but the best financial advice i can give
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you is to sell now cut your losses and
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give your family a chance
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paula he's going under he's dragging you
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down with him when are you gonna wake up
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you're my brother harold and i love you
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but i won't have you talking about my
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husband that way
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in his own home well you're gonna lose
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your home you're gonna lose everything
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josh i brought the papers with me we're
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making you the best offer you're gonna
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get
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i'm gonna leave them i urge you to take
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a look at them and i urge you to accept
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joss i strongly urge you to accept our
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offer
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you gotta get your farm out of
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he's hopeless he's utterly hopeless
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papa
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papa are you okay
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this land means everything to me april
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it's been in our family for generations
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it's been good to us it's
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it's given us life i owe this land my
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soul
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uncle harold says we're gonna have to
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leave
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we're not leaving the farm stays in the
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family
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it's always been handed down and that's
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the way it's gonna be
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i'm gonna make the land rich again
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so it'll grow
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how you gonna do that papa don't you
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worry how
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just know we're gonna stay
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a few nights later i was tossing and
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turning going in and out of sleep
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i had lived on the farm all of my life
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and the idea of giving it up and moving
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somewhere else frightened me
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i didn't know any other life but as
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scared and sad as i was
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papa was going through a lot worse
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i'm not sure what made me get out of bed
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at that moment maybe it was the voices i
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heard downstairs
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one boy sounded like papa's but the
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other i had never heard before
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you got here quick you called i came
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what can i do for you will you give my
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family 20 years of props
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there's no saying exactly what i'll do
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you're not the one who calls the shots
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here
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josh look this means everything to me
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but i don't know if i can go through
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with it
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now we're never just make up your mind
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do you have everything you need to do
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just come with me
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i wasn't sure who the stranger was i
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thought maybe it was mr johnson the rich
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man who lived in the next county
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i'd seen someone who looked like him
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hanging around the barn once and
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that's who papa told me it was i
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couldn't help but follow them out the
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door to see what was going on
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it was really cold that night that i
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didn't even think about getting a coat
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nothing could take away the chill i was
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feeling
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i had no idea what they were doing and i
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was too far away to hear what they were
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saying
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the only thing i do know is the one
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thing i'll never forget
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that was the last time i ever saw my
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papa alive
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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hmm
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i'm telling you i went outside and i saw
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it he wasn't there i think he went away
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but he disappeared what do you mean he
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disappeared
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it had to have been a night no it wasn't
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a nightmare i know what i saw he's gone
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mama said she didn't believe my story
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she said papa had just
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up and left and i was making the whole
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thing up to ease her pain
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but i knew deep down she didn't believe
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her story either
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[Music]
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when she thought i had gone back to
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sleep she went out to the part of the
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field where i had seen papa and the man
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in black go and that's where she found
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it
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the pile of papa's clothing the wind
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took care of the rest
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[Music]
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stay stay
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stay on the land
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the wind never stopped howling for the
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rest of that night
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mama and i kept hearing what we thought
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was a voice
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a voice that sounded like papa's finally
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we fell asleep in each other's arms
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exhausted scared and strangely at peace
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in the morning the wind had died down
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and when i opened my eyes
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i knew something was different i could
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feel papa all around me
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in fact i was sure that if i opened the
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door i would see him standing outside in
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the field
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mama mama
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mama wake up what what is it it was
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something wrong nothing's wrong
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come on
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it was the most beautiful sight we had
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ever seen
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fields were green and the crops were
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growing
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i wanted papa to see it too but i had
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the feeling he knew all about it
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[Music]
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did joss myrtle really disappear and
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become part of his land
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or did he simply go away one night never
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to return
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was his daughter dreaming when she saw
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him hit by lightning that night
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then how do you explain the sudden
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greening of the myrtle farm
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and what about that pile of clothes and
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who was the mysterious stranger
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is there truth blossoming here or is it
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just another
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home-grown lie we'll find out whether
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this story is true or false at the end
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of our show
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next a luxury liner hits an iceberg on
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beyond belief
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fact or fiction the luxury liner very
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much in our thoughts these days
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the image of a giant ship cutting
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through the waters combines our
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fantasies of opulence
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with the undeniable romance of the open
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seas no wonder these miracles of the
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waves
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have a way of capturing our imagination
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this next story of a seafaring disaster
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is set in a time
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earlier than most of our tales but the
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inspiration for its telling
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is as fresh as tomorrow
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it was a cold winter's morning when
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harris fisher an author who hadn't had a
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best seller in much too long
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met with his publisher
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it's a good idea harris but it's just
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not what people are reading
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true stories are where interests lie
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nowadays
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jack the ripper that's what's selling
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i'm a writer i'm not a newspaper
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reporter
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the stories come from my imagination and
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the tide will change until it does
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pick up a paper look at the headlines
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it's not me zachary ah
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fiction is still greater than anything
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you could read in a newspaper
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you'll see
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back in his apartment fischer struggled
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once again with the writer's block that
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was crippling his creative process
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story after story would start in his
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head only to go nowhere
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he knew his publisher's suggestion of
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stealing a plot from the headlines was a
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good one
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especially for a writer with no ideas
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but fisher was determined to come up
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with an original plot
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but then an article caught his eye
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[Music]
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a grand story took shape in front of him
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his story as rich as the day's headlines
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that's it
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[Music]
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suddenly it was all so easy the chains
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around his imagination seemed to be
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breaking off link by link
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if it was a story that came from the
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headlines that people would buy
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then that was what fisher was going to
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give them always one who worked better
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from a visual concept
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he began to draw on a sketch pad
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fisher could see the ship in front of
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him like the titanic it would be a giant
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luxury cruiser
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like the titanic it would have huge
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smoke stacks that would tower above its
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decks
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there was no stopping the direction that
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his mind was heading now so he
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let it go yes and like the titanic
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the massive ship would set sail from
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england
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this was the story fischer knew he could
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sell and so this was the story
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he would write
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soon fischer's apartment was filled with
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a sound it had not heard in months
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the furious clacking of typewriter keys
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fisher's imagination was sailing as fast
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as any ship
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his story would follow the same plot as
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the titanic
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his ship would also be traveling to the
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united states in fact
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its destination was new york crowds
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would gather on the docks to wish it bon
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voyage
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this wondrous unsinkable legend
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[Music]
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there were periods when fisher
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questioned his project
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could he really get away with this idea
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wouldn't readers reject the concept
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yet it all seemed so clear why not give
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in to the words that were crying to be
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let out
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after several hours of inner struggle
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fisher knew he had no choice he must go
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ahead with this book
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the similarities to the titanic were an
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intrinsic part of fisher's story
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right down to the name he chose for his
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ship
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there was no stopping fischer now the
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world outside his apartment
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ceased to exist all right i'm coming
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coming
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i'm sorry to disturb you mr fisher but i
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thought you'd want your food brought up
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to you again
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oh thank you mrs clark there's going to
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be a big storm coming in tonight
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do you have enough wood yes yes i'm fine
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you know
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my husband and i marvel at your talent
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your stories are always so original
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thank you mrs clark goodbye
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goodbye
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back to his typewriter the parallels
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would continue
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both the titan and the titanic were the
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same approximate length and width
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each ship had three propellers and each
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carried over 2 000 passengers
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both ships were the most expensive
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luxurious sea going structures of their
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time
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and the creme de la creme of society
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spent fortunes to book passage
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and then fisher added his most
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outrageous touch of
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all his ship the titan
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would be hit by an iceberg
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and like the titanic great numbers would
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die of exposure in the icy waters of the
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atlantic ocean
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harris come in come in i just wanted to
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stop by to see if you read my story yet
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please sit down
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[Music]
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harris a 70 000 ton ship on its maiden
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voyage
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carrying over 2200 passengers and it
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hits an iceberg and sinks
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over 1500 people die
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come on harris it's not gonna happen i
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told you
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people aren't interested in fiction the
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only difference between fiction and
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non-fiction is that fiction hasn't
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happened yet
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and this never will
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all right harris give it another try and
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in the meantime
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i'll give this another look harris
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fisher's story was written in 1898
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the titanic went down in 1912.
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an amazing story especially when you
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consider the titan was written
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14 years before the titanic ever sailed
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could harris fisher really have imagined
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all those parallels to the titanic
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was there some newspaper article about
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plans to build the titanic that he
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lifted his ideas from
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or was it another example of art
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foreshadowing life
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the same way jules verne wrote of
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submarines long before their invention
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or da vinci sketched flying machines
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centuries before the wright brothers
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as our story of the ship that hid an
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iceberg the truth
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or is it simply a titanic hoax
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we'll find out whether this story is
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true or false at the end of our show
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next a diary predicts disaster beyond
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belief
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fact or fiction
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[Music]
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once private thoughts were kept in
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locked diaries hidden away from prying
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eyes
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today's high-tech generation are more
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than likely to record their deepest
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secrets
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on a computer kim maddox
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is a lonely girl who feels safe
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recording her thoughts on a computer
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but what happens when outsiders invade
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the private sanctuary of her innermost
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feelings
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we are about to see the frightening
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consequences
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i never fit in people think i'm weird
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because i see
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things before they happen
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[Music]
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can you believe that little geek
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actually had the nerve to talk to me
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what did she say something about brad's
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party
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this is it let's go
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hey cam hey
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we've got something for you i wasn't
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popular
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and rasha and daley were so i loved it
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when they paid attention to me
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did you see the look at her we got her
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so good i didn't hate them i hated
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myself
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i decided to take a walk adorable
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i realized now they must have been
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hiding
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the freak left her computer behind well
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she must be going someplace special
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who cares where she's going i have a
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better idea
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let's take a trip into kim world
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my mind was so preoccupied i never
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remembered to lock up
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i can only guess what happened next
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daley do you think anybody saw us no no
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one saw us come on
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let's try the back door
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they really should lock their doors
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there it is her computer
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let's see what we have
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go to diary yeah let's see what's on the
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little freak's mind
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look she's got stuff about all the kids
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in school
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no way how does she know that wait are
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we in there
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march 13th i saw daley and her boyfriend
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travis in the school hallway today
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i'm afraid they'll be breaking up soon
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poor daily
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that is so not true russia is going to
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fail civics and spend the summer
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in school too bad she'd really rather go
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to europe with her parents
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her teacher is so mean please just
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ignore it she's so weird
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she's coming let's go
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when i came back i didn't know they had
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been there
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when i saw that the computer was turned
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on i thought maybe i had forgotten to
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turn it off
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but i wasn't sure
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it was a creepy moment
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that i didn't like
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it's dumb luck everyone knows i hate
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civics hello
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hi travis
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what what do you mean we need space
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the only reason why i went out with you
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in the first place was because i felt
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sorry for you
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jerk that stupid idiot
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daily believe it what it's coming true
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everything she wrote in the diary oh
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yeah well
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let's find out what else she knows
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i can't believe we're just breaking in
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look we're just gonna find out what the
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little witch is predicting this week
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that feeling is coming over me again
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something bad is going to happen smoke
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lots of smoke at daley's house what
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oh my god they're at my house
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my predictions were just for me to read
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i couldn't control them
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they just came over me i was starting to
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feel something really terrible was going
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to happen to rasha and daly
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i didn't know if i could stop it from
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happening but i had to find a way to
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warn them
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hi kim hi we just wanted to come over
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and say hi
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look i i know we haven't always gotten
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along we just wanted to say that we're
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sorry
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and that all is forgiven right
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yeah yeah sure
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do you want to come in sure
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i'm glad you guys stopped over
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my parents are going away for the night
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and i was going to see a movie
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would you like to come i really need to
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talk to you
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okay okay yeah we will um meet you there
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okay eight o'clock show sure we'll see
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you there
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as if freak i never told them what i
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wanted to say
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then they'd never want to be my friends
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but i guessed if they were reading my
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diary
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they would find out on their own
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but maybe we shouldn't do this and come
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on let's just leave her alone
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we will we will but you just can't trust
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these computers
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they can get really sick
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wait we should look and see what she
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wrote first
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i can't believe this we are going to
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brad's party anyway
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i knew they would never make it to the
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movies to be with me
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brad's party was going on at the same
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time
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the sad part was i knew they'd never
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make it there
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either i didn't wish anything bad on
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russia and daily
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it wasn't their fault they were mean to
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me and it's not my fault that i always
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end up the same way
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alone
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our story ends before we find out the
00:25:05
exact fates of rasha and daly
00:25:08
sad to say that shortly after reading
00:25:09
kim's diary they were involved in a
00:25:12
fatal traffic accident was their
00:25:14
untimely end
00:25:15
really predicted by kim or were they so
00:25:17
frightened upon reading the diary entry
00:25:20
that they were driving in a state of
00:25:21
blind panic bringing about their own
00:25:23
demise
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but then how do you explain the accuracy
00:25:27
of all those other prophecies on kim's
00:25:29
computer
00:25:30
this story may be fact then again
00:25:33
it may be fancy what's your prediction
00:25:36
we'll find out whether this story is
00:25:38
true or false at the end of our show
00:25:40
next a woman explores the hidden secrets
00:25:42
of her past
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of beyond belief fact or fiction
00:25:45
[Music]
00:25:47
the human brain much too complicated to
00:25:49
be understood
00:25:50
by the human brain repressed memory
00:25:54
total recall deja vu all found here
00:25:58
and all basically unexplainable jane doe
00:26:02
has no recollections of her past
00:26:03
yet on the blank wall of her memory
00:26:05
images appear that she seems to remember
00:26:08
you are about to enter her world to
00:26:10
experience a tale of amnesia
00:26:13
you will never forget
00:26:17
after the accident i had completely lost
00:26:19
my memory
00:26:20
i hated the name jane doe but that's all
00:26:22
they could call me
00:26:25
nobody knew who i was or where i came
00:26:27
from
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i had no identification or records
00:26:31
all i had were these flashes in my brain
00:26:34
and i was beginning to get one now
00:26:39
stop stop stop the car susan please
00:26:44
susan was an attendant in the hospital
00:26:46
where i was staying
00:26:48
she was assigned to drive me to a
00:26:49
specialist several hundred miles away
00:26:52
but what i was starting to experience
00:26:54
was more important than any help a
00:26:56
doctor could give me
00:26:58
i was starting to experience my past
00:27:02
all of a sudden have this funny feeling
00:27:05
that i've been in this
00:27:06
town before and i think i've even been
00:27:10
in this diner
00:27:21
well it certainly is quaint
00:27:32
something told me there was a counter
00:27:33
area upstairs that i had visited many
00:27:35
times
00:27:46
good afternoon ladies well it'd be
00:27:51
i'd like a gardenia float please a
00:27:54
gardenia float please
00:27:57
with extra whipped cream kind of fancy
00:27:58
for this place two scoops of ice cream
00:28:01
root beer and some nuts sprinkled on the
00:28:04
top and
00:28:04
it's served in a in a dish that looks
00:28:06
like a flower now in all the years i've
00:28:08
been here
00:28:09
i've never heard anybody order a
00:28:11
gardenia float
00:28:14
would you settle for a piece of bud
00:28:16
special pie
00:28:19
sure why not
00:28:24
it's gonna be all right jane stop
00:28:26
calling me jade
00:28:27
[Music]
00:28:29
my name isn't jane doe
00:28:31
[Music]
00:28:36
she's suffering from post-traumatic
00:28:38
memory loss
00:28:39
that's just a fancy way of saying i've
00:28:41
got amnesia
00:28:44
gosh i'd really like to help you out but
00:28:47
i've never seen you before
00:28:50
now annie here might know more than i do
00:28:54
after all she's been delivering mail in
00:28:56
these parts for about 100 years now
00:29:04
why don't you talk to her while i go
00:29:05
freshen up in the ladies room
00:29:09
oh it's just uh past those two booths
00:29:12
take a right and a left and it's across
00:29:14
from the jukebox that's exactly right
00:29:26
i think i'll have my usual
00:29:29
lemonade with two sugars
00:29:32
how'd you know that did did you use
00:29:37
did you used to buy lemonade from a
00:29:38
little girl on spring street
00:29:41
spring street that that's
00:29:45
that's part of the i-90 interstate
00:29:47
that's been gone for years
00:29:49
are you okay hon i don't know my head is
00:29:52
splitting open
00:29:53
i see flashes and they just disappear
00:29:59
what is it this table
00:30:03
there's something special about it
00:30:10
[Music]
00:30:24
[Music]
00:30:25
aw loves bp
00:30:28
what does that mean do you know those
00:30:31
people
00:30:32
i don't know but it sounds familiar
00:30:36
ep is billy palmer they said he was in
00:30:38
here all the time
00:30:41
poor kid he was killed in a bad
00:30:44
crash years ago
00:30:48
he's on his way to elope it happened on
00:30:51
the bridge outside of town
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maybe around midnight yeah
00:30:58
is the cemetery still across the road in
00:31:00
saint mary's church
00:31:04
hasn't moved
00:31:08
come on susan thank you
00:31:13
there in the cemetery i was sure i would
00:31:15
discover the link to my past
00:31:18
i stared at the headstone of billy
00:31:20
palmer praying that it would open
00:31:22
some closed door who was he
00:31:27
i felt if i stood there long enough it
00:31:29
would become
00:31:30
clear i had a few false hopes
00:31:34
but in the end billy's grave gave me
00:31:38
absolutely no answers at all i felt i
00:31:41
was so close to finding myself
00:31:44
and
00:31:49
nothing
00:31:50
[Music]
00:31:54
just a blank
00:31:58
i was so sure this was gonna lead
00:32:00
somewhere
00:32:03
our jane doe never knew the possible
00:32:05
truth for only a few feet from billy's
00:32:08
grave was the grave of the girl who died
00:32:10
with him that same night
00:32:11
her photo a dead ringer for our jane doe
00:32:15
angela wright born 1930 died
00:32:18
1950.
00:32:21
[Music]
00:32:23
did our jane doe actually live a past
00:32:26
life in the town she was visiting
00:32:29
was it really her who died in that
00:32:30
accident years ago
00:32:32
was that photograph in the cemetery just
00:32:34
someone who looked like her
00:32:36
is this the first time you were being
00:32:37
asked to judge the truthfulness of this
00:32:39
tale
00:32:40
or as that great philosopher yogi berra
00:32:42
once said
00:32:44
is this deja vu all over again
00:32:47
we'll find out whether this story is
00:32:48
true or false at the end of our show
00:32:50
next spontaneous fires invade a home
00:32:53
on beyond belief fact or fiction
00:32:56
[Music]
00:33:00
many say that fire is man's first great
00:33:02
discovery
00:33:04
for centuries it has allowed us to cook
00:33:05
our food heat our dwellings
00:33:08
and light our pathways and everything
00:33:10
that has been invented since either
00:33:11
relies on fire
00:33:13
or imitates it but fire is inspiring
00:33:16
something else in the lives of stuart
00:33:17
and laura freeland
00:33:19
the destruction of their security and
00:33:21
when we cannot control our own safety
00:33:23
that all we have left are the fires of
00:33:26
fear
00:33:29
[Music]
00:33:34
detective harold peters had been a cop
00:33:36
for over 20 years
00:33:38
he has seen more than he cares to
00:33:40
remember but the only cases that keep
00:33:42
him up at night are cases like this
00:33:44
that's why he's here today searching
00:33:46
through the rubble for answers
00:33:48
and remembering when this was a dream
00:33:50
house whose dreams
00:33:52
kept going up in smoke
00:33:55
[Music]
00:33:57
steward
00:34:02
honey honey get back
00:34:08
[Music]
00:34:16
you folks have somewhere to stay tonight
00:34:18
yeah yeah i don't understand
00:34:20
it we just bought the house they said
00:34:22
everything checked out fine
00:34:24
well i've never seen flames shoot out
00:34:25
from an outlet before i'm sure an
00:34:27
electrician will be able to figure it
00:34:28
out
00:34:29
good luck
00:34:34
[Music]
00:34:42
you sure this is the right one yes of
00:34:44
course
00:34:45
yeah i can't figure it out i mean it
00:34:46
looks brand new not even scorched
00:34:48
i don't understand i don't know the
00:34:51
insurance company wants me to change it
00:34:53
and check out the wiring if
00:34:54
there's a problem with the electrical
00:34:56
i'll find it
00:35:04
god stewart
00:35:07
honey what's that smell i don't know but
00:35:09
it just started getting really bad
00:35:17
it's in here too where's it coming from
00:35:20
i don't know
00:35:30
call 9-1-1
00:35:31
[Music]
00:35:34
the fire department confirmed the
00:35:35
overwhelming odor of sulfur
00:35:37
by now they had been called to the
00:35:38
freeland's residence on five different
00:35:40
occasions
00:35:42
another fire and another dead end that's
00:35:45
when police detective harold peters was
00:35:46
assigned to the case
00:35:48
freeland nice to meet you might have
00:35:49
asked you a few questions no
00:35:51
your name is uh stuart freelance yes
00:35:54
and your name laura sloane freeland is
00:35:58
there an e at the end of sloan
00:35:59
no detective what's this all about why
00:36:01
the police
00:36:02
well we're trying to figure that out mr
00:36:04
freeland i mean the fire department
00:36:06
can't keep coming out here
00:36:08
i will tell you what's baffling here
00:36:09
though there are no scorch marks on this
00:36:12
wall here
00:36:13
there's the fire's touching the wall you
00:36:14
figure you got to leave a mark but uh
00:36:20
nothing right the insurance company has
00:36:23
sent
00:36:23
inspectors electricians even soil
00:36:25
specialists no one can figure it out
00:36:28
shame where do you work mr freeland
00:36:32
take aerospace and uh
00:36:37
business good yeah it's good
00:36:40
what are you saying detective did we
00:36:43
have something to do with this
00:36:45
oh no no no no no let me be honest with
00:36:48
you
00:36:49
i can't figure this out i mean there's
00:36:51
no scorch marks on the floor or the
00:36:52
walls i mean it's the damnest fire i've
00:36:54
ever seen
00:36:55
for the fire department too what do you
00:36:56
think we should do damn if i know
00:36:59
maybe ought to get yourself a psychic
00:37:02
the next day the freelance called dr
00:37:04
lloyd cameron
00:37:06
a man with an incredible success record
00:37:08
in spirit depossessions
00:37:11
well there are no fluctuations in
00:37:13
temperature or energy levels
00:37:15
what does that mean it means that i
00:37:18
don't see anything in this house
00:37:21
where is another answer maybe the energy
00:37:24
has attached itself
00:37:26
to one of you come on that's crazy
00:37:29
how how could that happen something
00:37:32
somebody's done
00:37:34
something bad
00:37:38
oh god
00:37:50
what
00:37:54
it's me when i was nine
00:37:59
my brother scott and i set fire to the
00:38:02
woods next to our house
00:38:05
it got out of control and it burned the
00:38:07
whole lot
00:38:08
my father said that whoever did it
00:38:11
would be followed by fire i mean he
00:38:15
scared us so bad
00:38:16
we never said anything
00:38:20
i never told anyone
00:38:24
now you have what does that do
00:38:28
well it clears the conscience and it uh
00:38:31
releases the spirits
00:38:33
repression and denial are the
00:38:35
fountainhead
00:38:37
of paranormal activity
00:38:40
it's over mr friedland
00:38:45
but it wasn't over the fires continued
00:38:47
to burn inside the house
00:38:49
finally the insurance company determined
00:38:52
that the blazes were caused by
00:38:53
undetectable gases and ordered the house
00:38:55
torn down
00:38:56
the same day stewart and laura freeland
00:38:58
moved to another town
00:39:00
but something was left behind a member
00:39:03
of the wrecking crew found it
00:39:05
and handed it over to detective peters
00:39:07
at first it seemed like a useless
00:39:09
memento
00:39:10
but it turned out to be much more it was
00:39:12
an old scrapbook filled with memories
00:39:14
memories that should have been discarded
00:39:16
long ago but were saved like some
00:39:19
horrible lesson you don't want to
00:39:21
remember yet are afraid to forget
00:39:23
the book showed that laura sloane
00:39:25
freeland as a little girl
00:39:26
was involved in incident of criminal
00:39:28
arson the fire she started killed
00:39:31
several people
00:39:32
so the psychic was right only it wasn't
00:39:34
the husband that the evil energy had
00:39:36
attached itself to
00:39:37
it was the wife all along detective
00:39:40
peters had his answers
00:39:42
the question was did he believe them
00:39:46
[Music]
00:39:49
could this story have actually taken
00:39:50
place can spontaneous combustion occur
00:39:54
with no
00:39:54
scientific explanation or could the
00:39:57
fires have been caused by some
00:39:59
repressed spirits and to punish a woman
00:40:00
who had crossed the gods of flame in the
00:40:02
past
00:40:04
is this story real or unreal that
00:40:07
is the burning question coming up
00:40:11
we'll find out which of our stories
00:40:12
tonight were fact and which were fiction
00:40:15
when beyond belief returns
00:40:19
and now let's find out if you were able
00:40:20
to separate fact from fiction tonight
00:40:23
and how about the farmer who vanished
00:40:25
into thin air and then seemed to use his
00:40:27
spirit to replenish his land
00:40:29
how do you judge this one
00:40:38
[Music]
00:40:47
[Music]
00:40:50
three
00:41:00
if you guessed this was a work of
00:41:01
fiction you guessed right
00:41:03
we made this one up
00:41:08
what about the author who foretold the
00:41:10
tragedy of the titanic 14 years before
00:41:12
it sailed
00:41:20
a 70 000 ton ship on its maiden voyage
00:41:24
carrying over 2 200 passengers and it
00:41:27
hits an iceberg and sinks
00:41:29
over 1500 people die
00:41:33
come on harris it's not gonna happen i
00:41:35
told you people aren't interested in
00:41:38
fiction if you guessed this was a story
00:41:40
based on reality
00:41:42
you were correct it's fact
00:41:48
let's take another look at the story of
00:41:50
the student whose electronic diary
00:41:52
seemed to predict the future
00:41:54
look maybe we shouldn't do this and come
00:41:56
on let's just leave her alone
00:41:57
we will we will butcher you just can't
00:42:00
trust these computers they can get
00:42:02
really sick
00:42:05
wait we should look and see what she
00:42:07
wrote first
00:42:14
okay
00:42:18
i can't believe this we are going to
00:42:20
brad's party anyway
00:42:24
i knew they would never make it to the
00:42:26
movies to be with me
00:42:28
brad's party was going on at the same
00:42:30
time
00:42:31
i didn't wish anything bad on rasha and
00:42:33
daley
00:42:34
it wasn't their fault they were mean to
00:42:36
me and it's not my fault that i always
00:42:39
end up the same way
00:42:41
alone was this story based on an actual
00:42:44
incident
00:42:45
yes it was it happened
00:42:48
[Music]
00:42:52
and now it's time to decide the honesty
00:42:54
of the tale of amnesia
00:42:55
and a life lived before let's see a
00:42:57
brief reprise
00:43:00
i think i'll have my usual
00:43:03
lemonade with two sugars
00:43:06
how'd you know that did you use
00:43:10
did you used to buy lemonade from a
00:43:12
little girl on spring street
00:43:15
spring street that that's
00:43:19
that's part of the i-90 interstate
00:43:21
that's been gone for years
00:43:23
are you okay hon i don't know my head is
00:43:26
splitting open
00:43:27
i see flashes and they just disappear
00:43:30
was this story of a woman whose memory
00:43:32
was based on a past life true
00:43:35
not this time it's fiction
00:43:42
let's look at the strange story of the
00:43:44
house invaded by flames
00:43:46
real or not
00:43:50
my father said that whoever did it
00:43:53
would be followed by fire i mean he
00:43:56
scared us so bad
00:43:58
we never said anything
00:44:02
i never told anyone
00:44:06
now you have what does that do
00:44:09
well it clears the conscience and it uh
00:44:12
releases the spirits
00:44:15
repression and denial are the
00:44:17
fountainhead
00:44:18
of paranormal activity it's
00:44:22
over mr friedland the story of fire that
00:44:26
couldn't be controlled or explained
00:44:28
is inspired by a similar incident
00:44:35
so where is the line between fact and
00:44:37
fiction
00:44:38
who among us can see it so clearly that
00:44:40
there is never a question of what is
00:44:42
true
00:44:43
and what is beyond belief i'm jonathan
00:44:45
franks
00:44:47
join us for more stories on beyond
00:44:49
belief
00:44:50
fact or fiction
00:45:03
[Music]
00:45:30
foreign
00:45:32
you
