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[Music] next on Unsolved Mysteries a businessman Forks Over $30,000 for a horse and then disappears
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his bones are found almost 20 years later what happened two models on two different photo shoots are found dead in
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the same area is it the work of the same killer six people are murdered all for no apparent reason the police are
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baffled who is the killer finally a family says that the Farmhouse they just bought is haunted so they're suing the
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previous owners what do you think the court will decide these are stories you won't want
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to miss I'm Dennis finina and this is Unsolved Mysteries [Music] here at Unsolved Mysteries we receive a
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lot of viewer mail one of those letters was from a man with an unusual request he was experiencing strange
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premonitions which he simply couldn't explain they were about a murder and he
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asked us to look into the case Independence Missouri K I don't get off to S you take
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it Tyrone Rollins was hired as a school bus driver from the beginning he had an eerie feeling about the Rocky out
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croppings behind the bus yard I'd be sitting up in front of my bus and I'd feel like somebody watching
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me from behind and I'd look back there and there wouldn't be nobody on the bus
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for a while there I just thought I was going crazy this is strong feeling like some
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pulling inside me wanting me to do something and I just couldn't figure out what it
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was finally Tyrone gave in he simply had to investigate the north side of the Hill there he discovered a hidden
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cave that strong feeling was back again I knew I had to go in there for some reason it was like an amazing adrenaline
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rush just the feeling of being in there I didn't know if it was from not knowing
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what was in there when I shine my flashlight towards the Rocks you could see little tiny specks look like
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crystals so I started examining the rocks and it was just then that I Haden to glance over and I seen a pair of
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boots was just shocked I just couldn't believe what I was seeing dental records
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confirmed that the remains were those of Gary Simmons a businessman from Overland
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Park Kansas 25 miles [Music] away an autopsy showed that he was shot in the head Tyrone's incredible Discovery
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became a nightmare for the police they were confronted with a killing that happened 17 years earlier an
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investigation seemed almost pointless but the police had no choice Gary Simmons was dead and whoever killed him
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was still on the loose Neil Gary had owned an operated a lucrative chain of gas stations his
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hobby was horse trading yeah beautiful horse Gary always worked hard I believe he got involved in horses in order to
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have a form of relaxation and a means of doing something that was fun with his family how you doing just got back from
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a show down tuls Oklahoma man I saw some of the most beautiful horses I've seen a
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long time is that right to bet anything I might be interested in the day before he disappeared Gary learned of a prized
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horse for sale you know Tom Dixon Tom Dixon yeah yeah he had one of the most beautiful purebred appoes I've seen a
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long time raised him from a cat how much is he asking for him he's asking $30,000
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for [Applause] it hi can I help you yeah I'm here to see Mr Simmons do you have an
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appointment uh yeah we talked earlier on the phone uhhuh and your name please Tom
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Dixon it was the beginning of a mysterious encounter which lasted all day in which police are still trying to
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peace together excuse me Gary there's a Tom Dixon here to see you oh sure hi
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Gary a little while later he left his office with Dixon okay uh I'll follow you sure it's a great horse you're going
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to love Gary told his secretary that he would return shortly but he didn't say
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where he was [Music] going 15 minutes later he called in and asked his secretary to write a check to
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Tom Dixon for $30,000 okay 30,000 h hi can I help you with something yeah I'm here to pick up
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a check 30 minutes later Dixon picked up the check and walked out of the office yes he did and um I've drawn up the
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check but you're going to have to get Gary's signature on it Dixon then took
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the check to Gary Simmons for his signature but no one knows where that meeting took
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place later Gary was spotted at a truck stop 10 miles from his office the owner saw Gary Simmons
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walking back and forth between the counter and the window he remembers that Gary Simmons
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was alone and there did not seem to be anybody with him or waiting with him it was the last time anyone saw Gary
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alive just before noon Dixon showed up at Gary's Bank Gary Simmons had called
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the president of the bank and had informed him that Tom Dixon was on his way to cash the check the bank president
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recognized Gary Simmons voice and he did not recognize anything unusual in his voice to raise his suspicions
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either around 5 hours later Dixon was seen at a salvage yard 11 M from the bank he was driving Gary's Lincoln
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Continental where did you get that link H it's not my car it's something I need
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to get rid of I was wondering if you could uh use your machine to sort of crush it for me yeah I can make it flat
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for you you want to get rid of it you're going to have to melt fed's been keeping a real close eye on
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the furnace you got any uh better ideas yeah put a brick on the accelerator and drive it in the Missouri
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River hey thanks for the advice the following day one of Tom Dixon's friends
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dropped him off at a truck stop near Kansas City Dixon said that he was catching a ride with a CrossCountry
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trucker all right we're ready to go guys no one has seen Tom Dixon since 6 months
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went by Gary Simmons Lincoln Continental was pulled from the Missouri River less
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than 6 miles from the salvage yard where Dixon tried to get rid of it all you had
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was two grown men that had disappeared and that happens every day in America it was unknown whether they had disappeared
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and not wanted to be found or if Foul Play had indeed occurred upon finding Gary Simmon's body it became a homicide
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investigation police suspected that Gary was the victim of a bogus horse deal that Dixon acting alone or with a
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partner stole his money and killed him then during the filming of this story a new witness came forward oh Gary
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knew a horse that's for sure he knew what a good horse was and Roy Hilton is
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a local Rancher he says that he knew both Gary Simmons and Tom Dixon he claimed that he heard Gary calling his
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office and the bank from the whispering Downs horse r on the day he disappeared $3,000 Roy also said that Gary showed
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him the horse that he was buying this murder didn't come down over a $30,000
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horse deal it had to come down on some black market gas I'm almost positive of
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that because Gary was Simmons was having problem getting fuel fore stations Roy Hilton's testimony complicated and
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already confusing case Gary was struggling to save his chain of gas stations in the face of saring oil
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prices the year before his death Gary closed uh the bar of his stations because of lack of gasoline
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after Gary disappeared there was numerous rumors that Gary might have been involved in Black Market
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gasoline who murdered Gary Simmons and why a premonition a horse trade gone bad black
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market gasoline there may be only one man who knows Tom Dixon this Photograph has been aged to show
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how Tom Dixon might look today he is 5' 8 in tall with brown or graying hair and
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green eyes he may be working as a house painter or general contractor if you have any information about Tom Dixon or
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the murder of Gary Simmons please log on to our website at unsolved.com next two beautiful models are found
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murdered 2 years apart could it have been the same killer in the vast Angeles National
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Forest of Southern California two bodies are discovered at different times both victims appear to be
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models and both were reportedly connected to a photographer named Charles wurn the the similarities are eerie and
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investigators are wondering if this is the handiwork of one killer Kimberly Pandy Leos was a
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20-year-old aspiring model and actress she was married and had a 14-month-old son she told her husband
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that she had been booked to model at an outdoor photo shoot in the Angeles National Forest authorities believed she
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responded to an ad in a local [Music] newspaper Kimber torched car was found the following day near the Monte Cristal
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Campground in the park a search of the area didn't turn up any clues detectives were stumped and the
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case went cold Flash Forward one year the LA County Corner was called to investigate
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human bones that had been found in the Angeles National Forest using dental records the coroner
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identified the remains as those of Kimberly 2 years later it was a model shoot that
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also lured 27-year-old Linda SOC to Angeles National Forest Linda was a successful model and
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a former Los Angeles Raiders cheerleader her family and friends were frantic when a few days passed and no
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one heard from her police began to focus on Charles wurn after they found his signature on a car rental agreement in
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the area of the photo shoot he claimed that Linda soic died in a freak car accident during the
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shoot he said he panicked and that he buried her days later Rathburn helped police find Linda's body it was just 5
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miles from where Kimberly's body had been found the corer reported Linda's
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injuries were not caused by a car update Charles Rathburn has been charged with first-degree murder Rathburn was so
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distraught that he tried to kill himself before the trial he was convicted of first-degree
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murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole with the conclusion of the soc
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murder trial police now focused on tying Rathburn to Kimberly's murder we do have some similarities
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between the death of Kimberly pandelos and Linda sobec we we also have a person who has con fored and indicated that
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they saw Kimberly pandelos in the company of Charles Rathburn inside a Denny's restaurant shortly before her
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murder investigators tried but were unable to link Rathburn to the case and then they finally got the break they
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needed update a new witness came forward with information proving that these cases
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although similar were not connected Mana senu told police that her boyfriend David ramaker had repeatedly talked
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about Kimberly's murder he also threatened to hurt her the same way he hurt Kimberly if she broke up with him
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with mana's cooperation the police secretly recorded conversations between mana and ramaker these calls and other
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evidence led to his arrest ramaker was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the
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possibility of parole in Sacramento California police respond to reports of shots being fired at a convenience store
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44 Ed got a man down at the park what we found is that we in fact had a triple shooting a customer been
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shot outside the front door two clerks have been shot behind the counter and looking at the scene uh we had the
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feeling that there probably was very little conversation between this shooter and his victims and that it appeared he
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walked in the store maybe had not said anything to him and simply started shooting and they were all head shots
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the one thing that really struck us immediately was it was more an execution not a robbery it seemed like the primary
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motive for whoever the shooter was in that case went in there to kill people 35-year-old Steven Anderson a
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store employee was dead Anderson was the father of three young Sons two other people were mortally
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wounded an employee Zade Ahmad oby and a customer 42-year-old Thor Johnson Senior investigators had no
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eyewitnesses there wasn't too much to go on the Killer's identity was a complete
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mystery none of the victims were gang members and very little money was taken the detective's first step was to look
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through the cash receipts from the night of the killings late that evening a woman left
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the store after buying a magazine apparently the next customer was the gunman he bought two 99
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items his sales were rung up but never totaled a customer Thor Johnson came to the store just seconds before the killer
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left Johnson was shot in the back of the head the biggest feeling we take away from that is just that it was very cold
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blooded very unnecessary and we were really concerned that are we looking for somebody who may
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do this again can I help you you want some money then exactly one week to the hour
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after the convenience stor murders the killer struck again this time he targeted a pizza parlor less than one
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mile from the convenience store three employees were closing the restaurant the victims were 18-year-old
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Sarah Cook and 19-year-old Kyle Reynolds two local college students and 30-year-old Andrea coladangelo once
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again investigators were left with three victims but not a single eyewitness the second event at the pizza parlor
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only confirmed our worst fears instead of any kind of traditional motive murder now we were probably dealing with more
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of a psychological motive the obvious psychological motive being that here we had a guy who killed because he likes to
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kill he was getting a thrill out of killing ballistics reports confirmed that the same weapon a small caliber
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pistol was used at both murder scenes the person committing these crimes has little sophistication about weapons uh
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you'd get to feeling that it may be someone who may even be a younger person
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borrowing the weapon from uh Daddy's nightstand or something of that sort of
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nature update after we first broadcast this story 22-year-old Eric Ry Leonard was
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arrested for the six murders incredibly Leonard tried to execute all of the possible
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Witnesses but his attempts failed and the people who saw him near the crime scene identified him as the
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killer police found a 25 caliber Beretta in Leonard's Father's House ballistics test proved that this
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was the gun used in all six murders Leonard was convicted on multiple murder charges and sent to death row where he
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remains today next debris from an ancient ship is found Frozen in a Turkish Glacier
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some believe that it's part of Noah's Ark we've all heard of Noah's Ark it's
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one of the best known stories in the Bible and while some people say that it's only a tale others insist that it's
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not only true but that there is proof they claim that physical evidence of Noah's Arc has been found on Mount arat
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Mount [Music] Ararat according to the Bible the area where Noah's AR came to
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rest after the great storm it's a desolate area Rising above the headwaters of the Tigris
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River in recent years several Expeditions have explored the Ararat mountains and Incredibly two separate
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teams believe that they may have found the Ark in two different locations just 17 mil miles
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[Music] apart one of the sites is on Mount ararat's northeast side under a permanent 23 squ M
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Glacier a Turkish businessman named George hakopian said that when he was a young boy in 1906 he saw noark wedged in
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a melted part of the glacier Hagopian described the vessel to archaeological illustrator Alfred Lee he said it looked
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like a long box it's rectangular and the the corners were kind of rounded a little bit the the sides sloped in
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slightly the roof he said was basically flat with just a slight pitch to it and there was a stair kind of apparatus at
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one end his uncle hoisted him up onto this ladder and he walked on up onto the roof and there all the way down the
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middle of the roof he saw these holes and he stuck his head in and it was dark he shouted and his voice echoed
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and re-echoed inside it was Hollow George agopian went back a couple years later saw the same thing but ice and
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snow were beginning to cover it up again 17 years later Alfred Lee met Ed Davis who was station in Iran with the United
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States Army Davis said that he also had seen the ark when Ed Davis started talking the
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hair on the back of my head just stood up because I could like hear an echo of George Hagopian from years before Ed
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Davis's setting occurred in roughly the same area as George hopan however when
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Davis saw what he thought was the ark it had broken into two we waited a while and the fog kind
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of lifted and it Shone through kind of a funnel and it showed the Ark in the end
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you could see in the end of it and we saw both parts you stand there with your mouth wide open Ed Davis described three
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decks inside and large cages on the bottom deck smaller cages on the second deck and on the roof a venting system
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with many holes so that you could see how the light and ventilation can go clear to the bottom deck in this
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illustration Alfred Lee reconciled the two accounts the intact AR is George Hagopian sighting in 1906 and below are
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the two pieces described by Ed Davis although Hagopian and Davis weren't able to pinpoint the exact
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locations their stories intrigued amateur archaeologist Don shaki I can't think of anything more
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exciting that I could be doing in my lifetime than having a small part in seeing this whatever it is verified and
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we have good reason to believe it's there's something there we we got we got
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to prove it Don shaki launched an expedition to mount aret after studying classified us
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satellite photos for 3 Days Don and his guides climbed up the Mountain's South Side our
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whole goal was to get to the spot over the top down the glaciers to this particular location and verify what the
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satellite information had told us the Turkish government prevented them from traveling to the north side so ahed a
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Turkish guide continued on by himself Ahmed crusted Mount aret and started down the North Slope at an elevation of
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nearly 16,000 ft he spotted something half buried in the snow from a distance of 300 y he took
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this photograph which seems to show the end of a rectangular object with a peak roof
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he came back and and I said is anything showing he said a coup a coupe and I said what are you talking about I me a
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coup a coup like a chicken cou oh he kind of had a pointed top and he said that you could see the outline of it in
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the side he said in all of my years he have never seen anything like it he said there's some artifact there Don shaki
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believed that AMT might have glimpsed the remains of Noah's Ark shaki returned
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to the states and took the photograph the forensic anthropol ologist Dr Jim Ebert it certainly does not look natural
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it looks very strikingly man-made to me uh what I see uh when I look at this is something that stands out from the rest
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of the uh terrain and that is a what looks like a solid uh structure you'll never know until you get up there and
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can see it and stand next to it shaki returned to Mount Ararat and studied the mount M from the air unfortunately the
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site was now covered by snow shaki stopped his search but remained convinced that he might have
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found the resting place of Noah's Ark others disagreed we've been told for
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years that the Noah's Ark is on top of Mount arat because that's what the Bible
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says and that's not what the Bible says uh the Bible says the ark came to rest
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uh on upon the mountains of aat that word is in the plural David fossil was a former Merchant Marine officer and
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Merchant Salvage expert he believes that the ark was buried here a full 17 Mi south of Mount Ararat fossils teams
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searched the area and discover traces of iron which do not appear to be natural deposits every 20 to 30 in uh
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approximately we have the remains of an iron fitting or an iron pin of sorts that are still there in the soil and
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discernible well this is uh one of uh 5 400 iron fittings uh that we've located
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of course we haven't pulled them all out of the boat uh it's been it's been cut
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in half by a diamond saw scanned by electron microscopes at Los Alamos National Laboratory and um this
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particular iron fitting is 94. 84% man-made rod iron looking at the mound from above the iron deposits form a
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distinct pattern of intersecting lines which fossil believes is the framework of the arc the bolts length is 515 ft
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and the width averages 85 ft the same measurements recorded in the Bible given the shape of the thing and the size of
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the thing and where where they found it I mean if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck until somebody finds
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something else uh what else could it possibly be but Noah's Arc are the metal fittings remnants of
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Noah's Ark some have suggested that David fossil found the remains of an ancient
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Mongol Fort others say it's a geological formation however the Turkish government
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has declared the mound the official site where no is Arc rests the man who is in
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charge Professor Sali Bak tutan uh who is also a geologist he says it's it's
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Noah as Arc 200% it is not a geological anonyyymous more exploration and Analysis before
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we'll know the answer but for now noark remains an intriguing and Elusive unsolved
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[Music] mystery next a 21-year-old college student is missing after a night of partying who's responsible for her
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disappearance one spring afternoon in kusada Louisiana Carol and Luke long received a
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call from a friend of their 21-year-old daughter Wendy good listen I have Wendy's car I just want to know how to
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get it back to you guys where's Wendy hie honey Wendy drove to sheveport to shop and to party with her friends for
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the weekend her parents expected her home by Sunday afternoon instead they received the news
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that Wendy had disappeared I thought you was with you no I haven't seen her since Friday night
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we called the police and told them that we thought something had happened to Wendy and that's where it all started
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somebody knows where Wendy's said and we just want to find her so bad Wendy long
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had taken a semester off from college and planned to return in the fall at the time of her disappearance she was living
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with her parents one of her flaws may have been that she's too trusting she thought everybody she met was her
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friend she was one of those people that made friends with everybody sweetie shortly afternoon Wendy left her
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parents home driving her own car and headed to shreport 50 mi from kusada on the way she picked up two
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friends from nakatosh after an afternoon of shopping the three picked up another friend Tommy
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who lived in the shreport area nothing how's it going later that evening they
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arrived at a Shri Port party there was drinking at the party uh and I'm told that Wendy had quite a bit
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to drink that night so that when it came time for them to take Tommy back home she didn't want
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to drive in fact she didn't want to go with them at all she decided to stay where she was are you okay to drive her
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two friends that she came to shreport with drove Tommy back to where he was staying at the
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time after dropping Tommy off Wendy's friends got into trouble their statement is that they
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went to get some food and they were stopped by a state trooper and one of the friends was arrested for
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DBI and taken to the Benton jail Tommy told the police that he was concerned that Wendy might be stranded at the
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party so he drove his own car back to to the party and picked Wendy up on the way to kushat he stopped for
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gas and a qut of oil when he came back out of the the gas station Wendy was talking to two young
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men in a black Chevy truck hey Tommy come here this is Mike and zance Tommy said that it appeared that
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she knew them and Wendy told Tommy at that point not to worry about it that she was going to go with them and they
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were going to get her home are you sure you know these guys I yes I'm sure I
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know these guys I will get home okay just go home all right Tommy said that that was
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the last time that he saw Wendy Tommy agreed to take a polygraph test which he passed Tommy did extremely well on the
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polygraph uh the polygraph examiner himself was very impressed with him and the details that he could remember
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at that point they decided that it would be beneficial to hypnotize Tommy to see
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what else he could remember under hypnosis Tommy provided a more detailed description of the black Chevy pickup
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truck and the two men a police artist produced these sketches but no one came forward to
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identify them on the day after Wendy vanished her ex-boyfriend claimed that he received a
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message from Wendy on his answering machine hey Mark this is Wendy this is a really bad connection hear me hello he
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said that the it sounded like she was on a cell phone and he didn't hear everything that she said he did clearly
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hear uh the words this is Wendy he said the rest of it was very staticy and he erased the
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message at that time he didn't even know that Wendy was Miss missing Wendy Long's
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missing person's case is filled with many more questions than answers a key question involved another
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of Wendy's ex-boyfriends just tell me who you were with last Friday night there are quite a few reports that
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indicate that there was some physical violence in between them no the thing that concerns me about
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Wendy's exboyfriend is the fact that another girlfriend of his came up missing years prior to this
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and that she was never found but Wendy's ex-boyfriend apparently had an alibi the boyfriend
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cannot be placed in shreport anytime that Friday or Saturday um I consider him to be suspect
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only because of the prior things that happened for Wendy Long's parents the nightmare that began with a single phone
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call continued we've had people call and said that they've been praying for us
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and praying for Wendy I'm just trusting God to answer our prayers and to lead us
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to wherever windy might be update 5 months after Wendy's disappearance a surprising
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development Tommy whose real name is Robert Stewart was arrested for check fraud
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police asked more questions they focused on the inconsistencies in the story that
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he had told about the last time that he saw Wendy long investigators said that Robert Stewart Alias Tommy eventually
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broke down confessed to the murder and pinpointed the location of Wendy's body Stuart pled guilty to the rape and
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murder of Wendy long and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole next
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it seemed like the classic English Farmhouse an oasis of peace and quiet and then the nightmare
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[Music] began in the beautiful English Countryside sits Lowe's Cottage a 250y
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old farmhouse that some say leaves its guests with an impression that is quite haunting it's very frightening we we
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think the place is haunted we've seen ghosts we've had articles thrown about
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we've seen candles move all the time the inside of your stomach's churning up uh
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expecting something to happen even when it's quiet you're still on edge The
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Smiths are not only scared they're also angry they're suing the former owners
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for selling them a haunted house and the former owners are counter suing they say
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the Smiths are making the whole thing up so they don't have to pay for the house
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and now a court must decide is the house really haunted Andrew Smith and his wife Josie
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moved their family to an old farmhouse in the village of upper Mayfield they thought that it would be
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the perfect place to raise their two children in the about 6 weeks after moved in we
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noticed things happening but if you stand over here it's really cold you'd
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walk into our bedroom when the temperature would be a couple of degrees lower than the rest of the house
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definite temperature drop the rooms you could never really see the ceiling there
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was always this hazy it was always hazy but the former owners two sisters who grew up in the cottage say that they
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never experienced anything out of the ordinary our parents myself and myself sister never saw any ghosts or heard any
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strange noises or anything associated with the Paranormal I don't think it's
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haunted I would lived there for about 25 years never saw anything heard anything but the Smiths insisted that
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living there was a [Music] nightmare you get this feeling when you're in the room that if this thing
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was a person with its little finger it could flick you straight across the room one night we stayed awake till about
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3:00 in the morning then we just fell asleep through exhaustion and within minutes of us falling asleep I felt this
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pressure on my throat strangling [Applause] me when Josie was being strangled that
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was that's what you call Fe that was that made my hair shoot straight up one
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night I was in the kitchen that was downstairs it was about 8:00 at night and I turned around and I saw this young
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girl she had the old gathered top with the body on the gathered skirt and I thought oh there's somebody outside it
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wasn't until I thought about it that I realized I could see the window frame
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through her the former owner Sandra padmore says no way that's rubbish absolute rubbish we never
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saw any Ghosts no unusual happenings there was nothing flying around rooms there was no vile smells and
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Mists nothing at all the Smiths however were worried that they were up against some sort of demon
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we have requests that come from uh individuals who are very deeply upset to people who have buildings that causing
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them problems you know various smells apparitions anything really that is to do with the
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supernatural Lowe's Cottage comes out fairly near at the top of the list of this The Smiths then asked the Reverend
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marford to bless their home to R this house of all evil after the Vic could bless the place the house just lit up
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everywhere it just seems so light when when you see the reaction to a prayer in the house that's when you
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kind of really amazed and there's no two ways about it there's definitely
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something The Smiths believe the Vicar's prayers would finally bring them peace
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but later that [Music] evening doing I don't know perhaps you left the timer
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on switch it off me okay then the Smith's talk to their neighbors so you're the young couple
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that's taken over L's Cottage this is a story about that cage you know the Smith soon found out that
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everyone else in town seemed to know about the tragic history of Lowe's Cottage except for
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them during the 1860s a milkmaid named Elaine Herring lived in the cottage with her lover Joseph
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Phillips the Smiths checked the town records and discovered that indeed the young couple really had existed Elaine
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was murdered by her employer and died in the cellar of Lowe's cottage which is now the
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kitchen when Joseph Phillips heard about Elaine's death he hung himself in despair or so The Story Goes The Cottage
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isn't taunted the cottage has no reputation in Upper Mayfield of being haunted or in ashborne for that matter
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it's all untrue there's no record whatsoever of Elaine Harring and Josie
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Phillips ever living at Lowe's Cottage then local newspapers began writing stories about the hauntings as a result
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the bank refused to refinance their house saying that the publicity had decreased the home's value so the Smiths
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filed a lawsuit against Susan Melbourne and Sandra pador had we known any of this any of at
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all we wouldn't have bought the place we wouldn't have stayed clear of it we
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should have been given the choice if anybody had bought our house instead of us with a weak heart I'm sure it would
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have killed them the Two Sisters thought that the whole thing was ridiculous absolute rubbish nothing happened at
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Lo's Cottage Mr Mrs Smith are have come up with this story about the ghost um to
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try and get out of pain The Smiths hired two paranormal investigators to videotape their home
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they'd hop to get evidence to support their case the investigators used a night vision camera and placed two
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candles to capture evidence of a haunting suddenly the lower candle tumbled down the stairs and the other
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candle flew through the air was well literally scared to death we didn't know what to think what to do
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but you just definitely got the presence that there was somebody with you they definitely not imagining it because
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we've had the experience we definitely believe that they should have told us the house is
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haunted we have got to tell people if anybody should anybody in their right mind want to buy our house we have got
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to tell them what has happened and the fact that it's haunted and I think the
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same should apply to them update the court battle went on for years finally the arguments concluded
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and the English judge reached the verdict in less than 5 minutes he ruled against the
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Smiths he concluded that the unearthly happenings were most likely the work of a person and not a ghost since then
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there have been no reported ghostly sightings [Music] [Music]