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this program is about unsolved mysteries
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whenever possible the actual family
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members and police officials have
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participated in recreating the events
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what you are about to see is not a news
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broadcast
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recently strange unexplained lights have
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been spotted and photographed on the
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night sky some aviation researchers
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believe these amateur videos contain
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evidence that the Air Force has
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developed a new generation sophisticated
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aircraft but the Air Force says they are
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not ours in Ohio de box vanished while
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working the night shift at a plant that
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processed high grade uranium for nuclear
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weapons
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several days later unidentifiable human
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remains were found in one of the plant
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furnaces Dave box's family believes he
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was murdered to prevent him from blowing
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the whistle on safety violations and
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illegal radioactive dumping and a
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fascinating look at one of the mysteries
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of the animal world
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we will follow to ordinary house pets a
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captain a dog he became lost and then
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traveled more than a hundred miles
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through unknown terrain to somehow find
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their owners
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join me for these intriguing news
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stories and more another edition of on
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remember the old lassie films with a
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loyal resourceful collie would
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miraculously make her way across
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mountains and through forests to find
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her way home
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well it might not be as implausible as
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you think we've heard of a number of
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animals common household pets who
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somehow traveled incredible distances
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guided by their own mysterious radar to
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be reunited with their owners there is
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no scientific explanation for this
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remarkable phenomenon
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it is truly one of nature's most
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baffling mysteries
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sue Anderson of Baltimore Maryland has
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been an animal lover for as long as she
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can remember in the spring of 1992 suit
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packed her belongings for a
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cross-country moved to Modesto
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California the last thing she loaded up
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in the van were her most valued
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possessions her 5 beloved cats
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I had puss and Cinderella and wooly
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bugger and Nova and Stardust they're
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like children to me in a way and I feel
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when I take on the responsibilities of a
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pet then that responsibility is mine
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until the pet dies
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sooo caravanned with her brother who was
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also moving west the two of them along
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with the five cats set off in tandem for
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California pursues feline family who
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were all house cats it was the first
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time they had been further from home
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than the local vet sue felt a special
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affinity for Noland a black Shorthair I
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gotten over about four years ago she was
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left outside of my apartment she was
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cold and frightened and hungry and knew
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that she was being deserted she just
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kind of clung to me and got very
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attached to me and ever since then it's
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been a very very close relationship near
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the end of the trip sue says lava began
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acting strangely she would climb up on
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the seat behind me and she would talk in
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my ear she would get up on the dash and
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I would have to pull her down so I could
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see around her she would sit in my lap
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and get very affectionate want to be
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petted animals that have left that I've
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had that have run away or got separated
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from me and passed always acted
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extremely affectionate it's like they
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were saying one final farewell
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after 10 days on the road Sue and her
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brother finally made it to California
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how you doing
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exhausted they pulled into a rest stop
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south of Bakersfield 200 miles from
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Modesto their final destination they
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plan to sleep until daybreak before
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pushing on
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oh no I felt devastated she was in a
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strange place I'd never been here before
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and excuse me I was worried about her
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survival Sue's premonition about Nova
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had apparently come true
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she and her brother searched for an hour
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but in the end Sue had to leave Nova
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behind I was very very anxious about her
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very very frightened for her and very
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upset about the whole incident during
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the next few weeks
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sue started a job in San Jose and made
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new friends but Nova was never far from
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her thoughts a sympathetic co-worker
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gave Sue a picture of a black cat as a
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memento
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every day when she got to work sue would
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take a few minutes to gaze at the
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picture and pray that Nova would somehow
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find her people would stop by they would
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always stop and say ah get real she's
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never gonna come back you know how
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you're just dreaming I said well maybe
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one day she will so I kept it up there
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the entire time I was working there a
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full year passed then on July 16th 1993
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sue came across two stray cats outside
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of work to Sue's amazement and against
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all odds
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Nova had journeyed some 250 miles
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through completely foreign territory to
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find her way too soon
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she had a mole inside her ear she had
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five or six distinguishing white hairs
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on her chest and she let me look at her
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claws and I could identify her claws all
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these things were adding up that this
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was indeed my cat
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how can we explain
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Nova's incredible journey loaded animal
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behaviorist Miriam Yard theorizes at
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owners and their pets can form a bond
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strong enough to develop a kind of
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mental telepathy she told me that she
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spent ten to twelve hours at her place
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of work and by thinking of the cat than
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seeing her own surroundings
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subconsciously she was sending the
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visual images to the cat come to this
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area come to this place this is where I
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am can I prove it no anyone can disprove
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it probably not we don't know that's
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half the fun in this particular case
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that we can theorize I like to think
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that there is enough of a bonding that
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if you really believe in your capacity
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to love
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and let that love be a kind of a guiding
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light that they will use that love to
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get back to us when they want to and
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that that's the sort of communication in
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his own way
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Mother's Day weekend 1992 John and Susan
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Riesgraf of Duluth Minnesota and had
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three children arrived at a cabin on the
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edge of bear head Lake State Park 100
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miles from their home the Reese grafts
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have brought along their dogs lady
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Akali and wolf code a Belgian Shepherd
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it was springtime ice was coming off the
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lake green leaves are starting to butt
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out and it was just a good time to take
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a break and we were real excited to be
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there and go for hikes and take the dogs
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out the Reese graphs had been to the
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cabin on several occasions and felt
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perfectly comfortable letting the dogs
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out on their own
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normally lady and wolf cub returned
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within an hour but this time was
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different we called for them to come in
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and they didn't show and we thought well
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there may be chasing a rabbit or
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something they recalled continuing
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through the morning and they didn't show
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up and so we were concerned and we were
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looking for them on the trails calling
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for him and we thought they would show
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up and they didn't
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the next day a forest fire erupted -
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just a few miles southwest to the reefs
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crafts cabin the flames were headed in
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their direction they had to evacuate
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immediately leaving without the dogs was
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especially difficult for seven-year-old
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Hannah who had literally grown up with
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lady and wolf Kerr I was scared because
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I didn't know where they'd go and wish
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we could have stayed when my mom told me
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that we were good leaving I felt sad and
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I wish we didn't have to leave the fire
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was devastating it burned out of control
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for three days and consumed more than
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nine thousand acres of timberland
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from their home in Duluth 100 miles away
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the Ries graphs could do little more
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than wait and hope for the best we had
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called Susan's father and I had asked
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him to go back to the cabin a few times
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because I thought they would come back
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to the cabin I thought that would be our
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best hope but and he had done that and
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had not seen anything
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okay honey what do you want to pray for
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tonight Hannah however refused to give
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in to the unthinkable especially in the
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case of lady her favorite please help
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lady find her way home please protect
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her and keep her safe
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please pick her home very soon eight
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every night in my bed I would pray
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because I knew that the Lord if it was
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his will that she would come home and I
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felt that she would almost two weeks
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after lady disappeared
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a hungry bedraggled colleague wandered
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up to a house on the outskirts of Duluth
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incredibly Hanna's prayers and mm-hmm
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yes this is a Ries craft family
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you found lady out of the blue and some
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folks that were about 15 miles from her
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house Colin said your dog is in our yard
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and he said wiped it and they said your
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dog's a collar your name is lady is this
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you know the telephone number I said yes
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and I said do you realize you know this
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dog has traveled a long way to get to
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your yard
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finally after 13 days apart lady was
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reunited with her family I felt really
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happy that she was back that she would
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be with our family again happy lady's
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amazing adventure made headlines in
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Duluth before long several people
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contacted the Ries graphs and they
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learned just how far lady had travelled
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to make her way back home
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a few days after lady's disappearance a
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railroad worker spotted a collie 30
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miles from the cabin the dog was
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following a set of tracks leading east
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the eyewitness said that when he tried
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to approach the dog she avoided him and
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remained steadfast on her course
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about a week later another eyewitness
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spotted a collie near an old logging
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trail approximately 15 miles from Duluth
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ladies incredible journey had begun here
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at the cabin
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the Ries graphs now believe that is a
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fire spread she may have traveled east
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into the Superior National Forest
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she then swung south towards a city of
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Isabela over the next few days lady was
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spotted by the railroad worker and later
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along the old logging trail eventually
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lady ended up on the outskirts of Duluth
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altogether she had traveled more than
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150 miles the Reese grafts have no doubt
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that lady would have made her way to
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their house if she had not been taken in
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by the kindly company she's found her
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home and she's there to stay since this
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long walk home she stays home it's like
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she realized - this is my family and we
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just appreciate her whole lot more
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unfortunately the Reese grafts still do
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not know what happened to their other
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dog wolf kheh they can only hope that he
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is safe perhaps adopted by a caring
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stranger
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while ad was successful in her journey
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and Wilco was not is one of life's
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mysteries perhaps just perhaps ladies
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success can be attributed to the
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powerful force she had guiding her the
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love of a small child but Lee returned
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strange lights in the night sky UFOs or
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secret aircraft developed by our
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military at one time or another we have
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all looked up at the night sky and seen
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something which you just cannot explain
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recently there's been a rash of such
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sightings unidentifiable lights and
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objects it seemed to move like nothing
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known to man some say they are UFOs
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others speculate that they are a new
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generation of sophisticated military
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aircraft this video was shot by a camera
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crew hired by Aviation Week magazine
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eyewitnesses say it shows a pencil-thin
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aircraft trailing balls of golden light
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some believe it is evidence of an exotic
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new propulsion system
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in this footage a conventional airplane
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seen here was being filmed when a
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mysterious object suddenly appeared the
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object traveled at a high rate of speed
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and exhibited pinpoint maneuverability
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in this haunting image several
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eyewitnesses observed an unusual light
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source possibly an aircraft hovering
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over the Nevada desert
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and here an unknown wedge-shaped object
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which made no noise
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flies over Roswell New Mexico the
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footage was shot by a man named Stephen
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Douglas of Amarillo Texas
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people have been sighting and witnessing
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aircraft that can do fantastic amazing
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things I mean high speed stop on a dime
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turn like a ballet dancer or move
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incredibly slow the mystery behind this
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is there seems to be some aircraft that
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have some fantastic flying abilities
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that seem to be a quantum leap over
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anything that's previously known Stephen
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Douglas spends much of his time trying
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to unravel the mystery of these
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unidentified aircraft Douglass is an
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aviation enthusiast and journalist who
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publishes a newsletter called intercepts
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Douglas believes that the mysterious
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lights are in fact experimental military
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jets which are being kept under wraps
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just as a legendary stealth fighter was
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for nearly a decade
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until he was publicly unveiled in 1988
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the air force for national security
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reasons would not confirm rumors that
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the stealth was being tested recently
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there's been similar speculation about a
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new spy plane reputed to travel at
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speeds exceeding Mach 6 in 1992
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Stephen Douglas obtained what he
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believes as evidence that the plane may
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actually exist it's probably bad 11:00
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a.m. and the house began to rattle let
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me call you back this house just really
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shook I'm gonna find out what it is and
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I'll need to call that it was more of a
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vibration that was felt
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so I went outside and there was this
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aircraft flying by or the house
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incredibly fast I seen a lot of the
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aircraft crisscross the skies around
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here but this thing I couldn't believe
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how fast it was murder and behind it it
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left a contrail that wood was unique
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what they call it doughnuts on a rope
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contra Stephen Douglas took this
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photograph of the contrail some aviation
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researchers believe it might have been
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made by what is known as a pulse
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detonation wave engine an experimental
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technology allegedly used in the spy
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plane the Air Force was unable to
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identify the source of the contrail in
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the photograph which raises an
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intriguing question if it is not one of
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our planes whose is it
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a year later Douglas had another unusual
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sighting he and his father-in-law
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Elwood were in Roswell New Mexico to
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videotape military airplanes that were
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participating in mock war games shortly
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after a group of b1 bombers took off an
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unidentified aircraft entered the area
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can you tell what that is
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Elwood noticed an aircraft coming
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towards us from the southwest as soon as
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I started shooting tape the battery
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light and the camera told me that the
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batteries were about exhausted
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I got possibly seven to ten seconds
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before the batteries in the camera we
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couldn't hear any sound at all this
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aircraft made no sound at all it was
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just super quiet it looked like like a
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flying triangle and immediately I knew
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hitmen must have been tr3 a Black Manta
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the tr3 a black matter is another
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high-tech aircraft that is widely
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rumored to exist the matter is thought
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to be a reconnaissance plane which
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operates in tandem with a stealth
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fighter but in a statement issued to
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unsolved mysteries the Air Force said of
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the matter quote it has no basis in
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reality when the Air Force analyzed
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Douglass's footage they believe the
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aircraft might be a navy ea-6b Prowler
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however the Navy could not identify the
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plane citing the poor quality of the
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videotape a computer enhancement of a
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frame from the videotape appears to show
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a triangular shaped wedge Douglass
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claims the object was virtually silent
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and moves slower than conventional
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military aircraft but if the aircraft
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does not belong to the Air Force and
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cannot be identified by the Navy the
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same question remains whose is it one of
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the intriguing aspects of this story is
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that the airport where douglas shot is
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footage is in the same area or one of
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the most controversial UFO episodes took
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place more than 40 years ago
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in 1947 army investigators from Roswell
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Air Base went public with the shocking
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news that a flying saucer had crashed on
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a ranch in rural New Mexico a few days
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later the army reversed itself and
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claimed that what had actually been
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found was a downed weather balloon
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nevertheless many people are convinced
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that the army did recover the wreckage
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of a craft from somewhere other than
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Earth and that now even more incredibly
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the military has somehow managed to
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glean the secrets of the UFO to achieve
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a breakthrough in aviation technology
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these aircraft are doing things which a
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lot of physicists you have generally
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said are not possible you know they were
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maneuvers sir
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why they fly how fast they are and the
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real mysteries is how they made late
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there are some that speculate that maybe
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this technology was gleaned from alien
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technology that somehow either we have
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Harvard or it has been here for a while
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UFO technology to power the next
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generation of military aircraft at best
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it is difficult to accept Stephen
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Douglas believes that planes he has seen
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were developed by our military using
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conventional technology yet the military
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says such aircraft do not exist is there
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another explanation if the Pentagon has
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the answer they are not saying and
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perhaps just perhaps it is better that
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way
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on a prior broadcast we explored one of
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the great mysteries of religion the
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Shroud of Turin according to the Bible
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after Jesus was crucified he was wrapped
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in a linen shroud more than 1,000 years
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later a three and a half by 14-foot
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linen cloth mysteriously turned up in
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France it showed the faint image of a
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man's body front and back
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ever since believers have hailed this
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cloth as a marvelous relic they claim
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that Christ was buried in the shroud and
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that his image was miraculously
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imprinted on the cloth at the moment of
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resurrection when I first began to study
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the Shroud of Turin I was convinced it
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was a crock and that it would take me
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probably less than two hours to put away
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this pious fraud after all anyone with
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an IQ of a hundred or over knows that
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all relics by definition are frauds but
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I must admit here I am some 17 years
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later I who came to scoff have stayed to
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pray my own personal belief is that the
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Shroud is probably authentic
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skeptics regard the shroud as a
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masterful painting a work of an unknown
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Renaissance artist however those who
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believe the Shroud was painted were
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hard-pressed to explain two distinct
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attributes first the total absence of
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brushstrokes also when the shrouds image
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is analyzed by computer it projects a
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remarkable three-dimensional picture
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almost like a sculpture virtually no
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other work of art has this
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characteristic what all was said and
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done it seemed like the Shroud would
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remain a tantalizing mystery a source of
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endless speculation it was certainly the
00:25:56
last story we ever expected to update
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but for every mystery there is someone
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somewhere who never gives up trying to
00:26:03
find a solution
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dr. Emily Craig a forensic
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anthropologist and medical illustrator
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claims that she is figured out the
00:26:14
secret using dry paint pigments ground
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into a fine powder dr. Craig has created
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an image on cloth that she believes
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replicates the distinct qualities of the
00:26:25
Shroud it is an ancient technique known
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as destroy I think it goes back to cave
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paintings it goes back thousands of
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years they've used carbon dust and
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ochres and different natural occurring
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pigments for centuries working first on
00:26:47
paper dr. Craig applies the dust more
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heavily for the raised features of the
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face the forehead nose lips and chin the
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lower areas receive less pigment once
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it's done to my satisfaction I want to
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take a piece of linen you lay the linen
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down and then taking a wooden spoon or
00:27:10
any flat flexible object we're just
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going to rub the entire image and make a
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direct transfer the image now on linen
00:27:23
satisfies one of the shrouds main
00:27:25
attributes there are no brush strokes
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dr. Randy Brizzy a textile scientist is
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dr. Craig's partner he put the dust
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drawing to his most important test the
00:27:39
same computer analysis that revealed the
00:27:42
shrouds hidden 3d properties the tests
00:27:49
showed that dr. Craig's method can
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produce the singular 3d attribute of the
00:27:54
Shroud what we have accomplished I
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believe is that we have demonstrated
00:28:01
that a miracle is not required to
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produce the image on the Shroud of Turin
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and it can be drawn on there in a simple
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straightforward manner for half a
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millennium the image on the Shroud of
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Turin has challenged believers and
00:28:17
skeptics alike have its secrets finally
00:28:20
been revealed
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Emily Craig and Randy Brizzy believeth
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they have discovered how the Shroud was
00:28:29
created however not everyone in the art
00:28:32
world or the religious community is
00:28:33
convinced perhaps a mystery of the
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Shroud will and should remain forever
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unsolved the small community at Fernald
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Ohio lies in the midst of farm country
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20 miles from Cincinnati for many years
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the town's main employer was this
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factory the feed materials production
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center also known as M L o the casual
00:29:08
observer would never guess that NL o was
00:29:10
in fact owned by the Department of
00:29:12
Energy from 1953 to 1989 it was one of
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the few plants in the United States
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which processed high grade uranium for
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use in nuclear weapons when I was hired
00:29:25
in there they said that was a low-level
00:29:27
radiation plant and that you'd have
00:29:30
anything to worry about there was
00:29:32
nothing back here that would bother you
00:29:33
and just you know go on about your
00:29:36
business not to tell anybody what you
00:29:38
were doing and everything would be fine
00:29:43
however conditions in the factory or
00:29:45
anything but fine in the fall of 1984
00:29:49
NLO was rocked by a scandal of major
00:29:52
proportions when an accident allowed a
00:29:54
massive dose of radioactive smoke to
00:29:57
escape into the atmosphere
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an investigation played a reveal that
00:30:02
over the years NLO had released more
00:30:04
than 200 tons of radioactive dust
00:30:06
particles into the air and local water
00:30:08
sources some said that nlogn was in
00:30:12
essence a third largest nuclear waste
00:30:15
dump in the country the effect that it
00:30:18
has on the environment is one thing we
00:30:24
have an environmental disaster but I
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think if you did a survey around the
00:30:31
phenom community you will find very few
00:30:34
people who trust the government now for
00:30:39
the people of fernand the disastrous
00:30:41
accident followed on the heels of
00:30:43
another disturbing controversy involving
00:30:46
nlogn a few months earlier in June of
00:30:49
1984 an employee named Dave box had
00:30:52
disappeared while on the job though his
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body was never found some of his
00:30:57
personal effects were and box was
00:31:00
presumed dead after the accident the
00:31:03
case of de box took on a sinister new
00:31:06
dimension
00:31:09
de box worked at NLO for three years and
00:31:12
all evidence indicates that he died a
00:31:14
horrible gruesome death inside the
00:31:16
factory the official ruling was that no
00:31:19
foul play was involved the
00:31:21
representatives from the Department of
00:31:22
Energy in the current Hamilton County
00:31:24
Sheriff's Administration have refused to
00:31:26
speak with us de box friends and family
00:31:29
are convinced that he was murdered and
00:31:31
they will not rest until they learn how
00:31:33
he died and who was responsible
00:31:38
David box grew up in Staten Island New
00:31:40
York in 1981 he was hired at NLO was a
00:31:44
pipe fitter and quickly earned the trust
00:31:46
and respect of his co-workers bux was a
00:31:50
father of two sons and a daughter
00:31:51
in 1979 he divorced yet he remained
00:31:55
devoted to his ex-wife and children he
00:31:59
was great he would do anything for us
00:32:01
kindness can be loved his children you
00:32:06
know did his job it was just very kind
00:32:09
of person Sunday June 18th 1984 began
00:32:15
like any other evening for date bucks he
00:32:18
worked the graveyard shift at nlogn at
00:32:21
11:00 p.m.
00:32:21
bucks met his rideshare partner Harry
00:32:24
easterly in a local restaurant parking
00:32:26
lot Dave got into my truck we left had a
00:32:31
little conversation on the way to work
00:32:32
he had talked about vacation with his
00:32:35
kids and bought a new lunchbox for work
00:32:38
and everything seemed to be normal day
00:32:44
box's primary responsibilities at NLO
00:32:47
were to inspect and maintain equipment
00:32:49
all of the plants throughout the factory
00:32:51
this included making sure that the
00:32:54
safety pumps and dust collectors used in
00:32:56
the Iranian processing were in proper
00:32:59
working order dave was a fairly quiet
00:33:03
guy but if you worked on a job and say
00:33:06
it was high radiation level Dave would
00:33:08
tell you say you know that particular
00:33:10
dust collector is fairly radioactive so
00:33:12
watch yourself for that pump has a
00:33:14
certain kind of acid in it so be careful
00:33:16
when you work on it but he would you
00:33:18
know try to help you out as much as you
00:33:20
could because
00:33:20
been there longer and I had only the
00:33:26
maintenance crew and security personnel
00:33:27
were on duty during the graveyard shift
00:33:30
the production lines were shut down at
00:33:33
midnight box reported to the maintenance
00:33:35
room for his work assignment yeah need
00:33:39
you to look at the pump build an eighth
00:33:40
which Bob herb knows which one see him
00:33:43
all right it was sort of just like any
00:33:45
other night he would open this toolbox
00:33:47
leave his keys in his lock and lay the
00:33:49
lock in the keys in the top of it Dave
00:33:53
went to one Aryan and I worked on a job
00:33:55
in another plant at around 4:00 a.m. box
00:34:00
and a supervisor was seen in a parked
00:34:02
pickup truck by an NLO employee the
00:34:06
witness spoke to unsolved mysteries on
00:34:08
the phone but declined to appear on
00:34:10
camera the witness said that box
00:34:13
appeared to be having a serious
00:34:14
discussion with a supervisor but he
00:34:16
could not determine what they were
00:34:18
talking about
00:34:19
oddly the windows of the truck rolled up
00:34:22
despite the fact that it was a hot humid
00:34:24
night an hour later at 5:00 a.m. the
00:34:29
same witness ran into a box on the
00:34:31
factory grounds let's put my tools away
00:34:36
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the witness was struck by the fact that
00:34:40
box is walking towards plant four not
00:34:42
plant eight where he had been assigned
00:34:44
it was the last time Dave box was seen
00:34:47
alive later that morning his friend and
00:34:50
fellow employee Harry easterly became
00:34:53
suspicious about Dave's absence
00:34:55
approximately seven o'clock that morning
00:34:56
we had a safety meeting in conference
00:35:00
room in plant four we showed up for the
00:35:03
meeting but Dave wasn't there walked
00:35:05
back over to the maintenance building
00:35:06
put my tools away
00:35:08
and notice that Dave's toolbox was still
00:35:10
open so I thought well he's probably
00:35:13
working overtime
00:35:14
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[Applause]
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so when it made a few phone calls but I
00:35:23
couldn't locate him so I went back out
00:35:24
and told the security guard at the desk
00:35:27
that Dave hadn't come out I was going
00:35:29
home and I would meet him that the next
00:35:32
night at the restaurant
00:35:37
at around 7:30 that morning a furnace
00:35:40
operator in plant six notified his
00:35:42
supervisor that the casings in his oven
00:35:44
were covered with a strange sticky
00:35:46
residue they lack the worker also
00:35:49
detected an unusual odor that what's up
00:35:54
then something strange in here this
00:35:56
there's all kind of big firm crust all
00:36:00
over the salt crust
00:36:01
yeah I'm dipped a couple of ingots
00:36:03
saying they've got a slick film all over
00:36:05
that's okay just go ahead and keep Larry
00:36:08
yeah what this man won't be the one
00:36:12
starts a problem but there's something
00:36:13
in there kind of like a leg a leg
00:36:19
take a look
00:36:27
the supervisor apparently found nothing
00:36:30
wrong and told the furnace operator to
00:36:32
go back to work
00:36:36
at 11:00 that night Harry Eastern and
00:36:39
arrived at the restaurant to meet Dave
00:36:41
box as usual he had not heard about what
00:36:44
happened in plant six it was days turn
00:36:47
to drive and his car was already there
00:36:51
wasn't anything out of the ordinary
00:36:53
because he would pull his car in and go
00:36:55
get something to eat and then come back
00:36:56
to the car or get something to take for
00:36:58
lunch
00:37:03
and I leaned up against Dave's car and I
00:37:05
noticed the fender was still cold so I
00:37:07
reached over touched the hood and hood
00:37:10
was still cold Harry began to suspect
00:37:14
that something was wrong when he arrived
00:37:16
at the factory he reported date box
00:37:18
missing and had a security guard pry
00:37:21
open boxes Locker
00:37:22
are these the clothes he was wearing
00:37:23
that's what he was wearing and you
00:37:26
haven't seen him since you left No
00:37:28
[Music]
00:37:32
on Sunday night he was missing we were
00:37:37
informed of the fact on Tuesday on
00:37:40
Wednesday my mother tried to contact the
00:37:43
plant to find out more information they
00:37:47
told her they couldn't give her any
00:37:48
information they didn't know anything
00:37:50
and that was that
00:37:53
but inside the plant an investigation
00:37:56
was confirming the worst it was learned
00:37:59
that at 5:15 on the morning of day box's
00:38:01
disappearance the temperature in the
00:38:03
furnace and plant 6 which was kept at a
00:38:06
constant 1,300 degree temperature at
00:38:08
momentarily dipped 28 degrees suggesting
00:38:12
that something foreign had been dumped
00:38:14
into it
00:38:16
a worker it also found what appeared to
00:38:18
be a piece of bone on the lip of the
00:38:20
furnace the Hamilton County Sheriff's
00:38:22
Department was called in and the furnace
00:38:24
was shut down
00:38:30
investigators had to wait three days for
00:38:32
the molten liquid inside the furnace to
00:38:35
cool then employees sifted through the
00:38:37
waste material searching for some kind
00:38:40
of evidence
00:38:47
my god those keys belong to the victim's
00:38:51
car they also belong to three padlocks
00:38:55
of his and a one key
00:38:58
we believed went into his residence but
00:39:00
we couldn't prove that because was bent
00:39:02
and in I'm not very good shape
00:39:07
the conclusion was inescapable de box
00:39:11
was almost certainly dead but the news
00:39:14
left Harry Easterling dumbfounded
00:39:16
he claims that Dave's keys were still in
00:39:19
his toolbox at 7:30 a.m. more than two
00:39:22
hours after the gage in plant six
00:39:24
registered the temperature crop
00:39:27
when I left the plant to go over to the
00:39:31
maintenance shop his keys were in the
00:39:33
box
00:39:33
when I left there to go home they were
00:39:34
still in the box I went home when I came
00:39:37
back that night his keys were still in
00:39:40
the top of his toolbox the supervisor
00:39:42
closed his box put the lock on his
00:39:45
toolbox and took his keys out of the
00:39:47
lock and from there on I do not know
00:39:50
what happened to the keys in addition to
00:39:54
the keys investigators uncovered a steel
00:39:57
toad from a boot part of what they
00:39:59
thought was an eyeglass frame fragments
00:40:02
of what they believed was date boxes
00:40:04
walkie talkie and a piece of stainless
00:40:07
steel wire that was looped together in
00:40:09
three oddly connecting circles also
00:40:12
recovered were several pieces of human
00:40:15
bone the official police investigation
00:40:20
was unable to determine conclusively how
00:40:23
de box died however suicide was a
00:40:26
distinct possibility box had a history
00:40:29
of psychological problems that around
00:40:31
the time of his divorce he had
00:40:32
apparently tried to take his own life I
00:40:37
know my father did not commit suicide
00:40:40
there was no reason for him to commit
00:40:42
suicide he had purchased groceries for
00:40:46
the week he was planning a vacation with
00:40:50
me and my younger brother for the
00:40:51
following summer to Florida he paid all
00:40:55
of his bills for the month there was no
00:40:58
reason for him to commit suicide from
00:41:01
what everything I know about the
00:41:03
circumstances of what occurred back then
00:41:05
I would have to say that he was probably
00:41:07
lowered into the furnace that he was
00:41:08
probably murdered I can't think of any
00:41:11
other way that it could have happened I
00:41:12
don't believe that it could have been
00:41:15
suicide or that I could have in an
00:41:18
accident
00:41:22
on the night the day brock Stein he had
00:41:25
been working in plant a plant and had
00:41:28
released four times one radioactive
00:41:30
contaminants into the environment than
00:41:33
any other plant at the plant site why he
00:41:37
was killed
00:41:38
I think he knew something and I think
00:41:41
they had to deal with plant eight I
00:41:44
think they had to deal with their
00:41:46
releases the threat to the public
00:41:49
alchemy environment and it's possible he
00:41:54
was a whistleblower or was going to be a
00:41:55
whistleblower
00:41:56
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00:42:00
I believe that they could have been a
00:42:06
shining or they kind of hit him with
00:42:08
something dr. moon conscious
00:42:11
took the body back to plant sex with
00:42:14
eternal says
00:42:17
question I have is whether or not Dave
00:42:20
box was alive at the time that they
00:42:23
threw him into that cornice I would hate
00:42:26
to think that he was conscious I can't
00:42:29
imagine a more horrible death than that
00:42:32
[Music]
00:42:33
[Applause]
00:42:34
[Music]
00:42:41
[Applause]
00:42:49
we never developed any information
00:42:52
indicating foul play we had that in the
00:42:56
back of our minds but no one ever gave
00:42:59
us any indication or reason to believe
00:43:02
that foul play may have occurred there
00:43:07
are probably people out there that know
00:43:09
what happened and there may not be
00:43:11
people that know what happened either
00:43:12
because you know if they knew I doubt
00:43:16
that anybody would tell you you know
00:43:19
fear maybe fear of their life
00:43:20
I still have days where I can't believe
00:43:28
he's gone I am very angry I mean we
00:43:32
loved him he loved us and there was no
00:43:35
reason for this to happen
00:43:37
we just want somebody to please come
00:43:40
forward and tell us any information
00:43:41
anything at all
00:43:44
there's a final bitter footnote to the
00:43:47
death of Dave box
00:43:48
nine years after the fact his family is
00:43:51
still waiting to lay him to rest in 1989
00:43:55
an Ella was shut down and boxes remains
00:43:58
a few bone fragments are presently in a
00:44:01
sealed drum on the clothes plant site
00:44:03
too toxic to be buried in the ground
00:44:06
[Music]
00:44:18
join me next time for another intriguing
00:44:20
edition unsolved mysteries
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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