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every day we are faced with the
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challenge of separating fact from
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fiction
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beyond belief fact or fiction
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hosted by james brolin
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[Music]
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we live in a world where the real and
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the unreal
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live side by side where substance
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is disguised as illusion and the only
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explanations
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are unexplainable will you be able to
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separate stories of truth from fantasy
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tonight
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to do so you must break through the web
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of your experience
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and open your mind to things beyond
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belief
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[Music]
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what appears to be one thing like this
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carving of a duck
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might really be another like a carving
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of a rabbit
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it's all a matter of perception tonight
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we present several stories for your
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entertainment
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but we ask you to test your perception
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as you watch them unfold
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are these stories constructed from whole
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cloth or are they inspired by real
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events
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you have until the program's end to
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decide and by the way
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we reserve the right to change the names
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and details
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so let's begin our little game of cat
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and mouse
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or should we say duck and rabbit
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a disturbing piece of furniture isn't it
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the last bed we will ever sleep in
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to even view it empty like this
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sends shivers down many people's spines
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but for others it has no effect at all
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adam foster was not shaken by the sight
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of a coffin
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his family ran the foster funeral home
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there are always several of these in
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their downstairs parlor
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usually with occupants no big deal
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until the night of march 18th
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right ready you in here
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come on brent if you're in here just
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come out now all right i'm not gonna
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waste my time looking for you
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i don't have to
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that's not funny it was just a joke you
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know you're not supposed to be fooling
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around in the coffins
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oh come on dobby says you're stiff all
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right let's go come on
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has anyone seen my keys it won't be
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funny when they bury you alive
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yeah yeah there you are we're gonna
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leave without you now you don't want to
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be late for billy's do you get going uh
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he was
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flown around in the coffins well i was
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not adam's lost his sense of humor
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does anyone see my keys brent i've told
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you before stay out of the caskets
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they're for sale
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we are never gonna get out of here
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foster funeral home um i'm sorry we're
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closed mr foster
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i was wondering can we possibly postpone
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my husband's funeral tomorrow postpone
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it
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i know this is the not request but you
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see
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before reginald died he made me promise
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to bury
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him with his war medals now i can't find
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them any place
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is there any possible way we could just
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postpone the funeral
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well it is getting very late and
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i'm not sure that i can contact everyone
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you just don't understand
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if reginald wanted something done in a
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certain way
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come hell or high water he made sure it
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was done that way
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i'm not going to let him down with it i
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know how important this is to you
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but if you keep looking for them i'm
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sure that you will find them
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and we can talk about this again in the
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morning in the morning
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good night let's go bye honey
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bye mom i used to get the creeps when
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they left me alone
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especially when there was a body in the
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chapel but i guess i was kind of used to
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it by now
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i'm coming i'm coming
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i'm sorry we're closed need to see
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reginald hannon
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i'm sorry sir viewing hours ended at 7
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30. i can't come to the funeral tomorrow
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i must see him tonight please
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it's very important i have these
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these are the medals his wife's been
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looking for
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he's supposed to be buried with them
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tomorrow
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please let me see him for just a moment
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i can't let him be buried without
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all right come on through here i
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appreciate it
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it was way after hours and dad would be
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furious with me for letting him in
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but he did have the medals and so i
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figured he must know the guy
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do you mind signing the registry
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this guy was starting to get to me i
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couldn't wait for him to leave
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may i go in now please yeah it's right
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through here
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this was the part i hated the most
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getting anywhere near those dead bodies
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would you mind if i had a moment alone
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yeah thank you my boy thank you
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it was okay with me to get away from the
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casket i guess my nerves were getting
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the best of me
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the sooner that guy came out the happier
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i'd be
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[Music]
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was this guy ever gonna come out
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i mean how close was he to reginald
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hannan
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what was he doing in there for so long
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anyhow
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[Music]
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hey i missed her i'm gonna need to cut
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it short all my dad's not gonna like the
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fact that i let somebody in after hours
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okay hello
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come on mister i was nice enough to let
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you in the first place
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how about
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sir
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[Music]
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hello i couldn't find him anywhere
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what was going on here
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that's when i found the bag that the
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metals were in
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[Music]
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what really happened here how could the
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stranger at the door have disappeared
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from sight
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did adam miss the stranger's exit while
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he was tying a shoe
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if so why did the stranger appear to be
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the same man who was in the casket
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was there an identical twin involved
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that nobody knew about
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if that was the case why did he sign in
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as the deceased
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or was this the story of a restless
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spirit who couldn't find peace until his
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mission was completed
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complete fiction or a strange truth
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was this story true or false we'll tell
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you at the end of our show
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next a frightening subway ride to a
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world beyond belief
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how many times do your plans work out
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not just the big plans like career
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marriage family but the simple plans
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like getting from
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point a to point b that's all al and ann
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larkin wanted to do they were going to
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take the subway from their apartment to
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a dance club
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they had no idea that this simple plan
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would take them for the ride of their
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lives
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al and i were finally getting a night
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out together something we both really
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needed
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it was al's first night off in a month
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and he really wanted to stay home and
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sleep
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but i insisted we go out we live near a
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new subway stop in downtown los angeles
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and we decided to try it out it was a
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decision neither one of us would ever
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forget
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i was so excited to be out for the
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evening that i didn't even notice that
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we were the only ones standing on the
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subway platform
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i was hoping for one of those romantic
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nights filled with spontaneous
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excitement
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but i was tired and it was all i could
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do to keep his spirits up
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besides we were about to get all of the
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excitement we could handle
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oh we won't be out late okay dinner a
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movie that's all then we'll go home
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yeah after midnight oh come on
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hey band leader
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oh undertaker
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[Music]
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the man in the tuxedo was just the start
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of the strange things that we would
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experience that night
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and as our subway pulled into the first
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stop things just didn't seem right
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there was a weird energy going on and i
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was feeling it more than i was uh
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are we on the right train i don't know
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um excuse me does this train go to
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melrose this train goes nowhere
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hey where'd he go i don't know
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you know it's saturday night this car
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should be packed
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i know and then where decides to tell
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you which line you're on
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right now a station look
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is that melrose i couldn't tell great
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we're on a train has been taken out of
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service are you sure about that oh no
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well then what do we do now we find a
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conductor
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of course there was no conductor
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anywhere every car was empty
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and then without any warning the train
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began to speed up
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and then it didn't feel like a speeding
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train anymore it felt like a nightmare
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that was out of control
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my heart was beating out of my chest and
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no matter how hard i would breathe
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i couldn't get enough air inside my
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lungs i was in a total
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panic and the train seemed to be going
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faster and faster
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i can't
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stop
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i'll do something
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go go
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i don't care what station this is we are
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getting off
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come on stop come on
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i couldn't believe it the train seemed
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to actually be coming to a stop
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i was just praying with all of my heart
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that the doors would open
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right back where we started we're good
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let's go home come on
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unbelievably we had only been gone for
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30 minutes
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but you're okay right yeah i am i smell
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gas
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[Music]
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it's coming from you viewing it was our
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next door neighbor's apartment
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this is you and it's me anne i got this
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what's the viewing mrs ewing
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okay maybe we should call a soup there
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isn't time
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and then i remembered the key wait wait
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wait the key oh the key
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[Music]
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it's a chain this is
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al raced over to mrs ewing while i
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turned off the gas if it weren't for
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that train ride that scared us into
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coming back early mrs ewing would have
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surely died
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i should have gone into the other room
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to help al but something caught my eye
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come on you got to get out of here come
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on
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get out of here baby come on
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i must turn the heater on again and i
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forgot to light it
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we should take it to the emergency room
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no no no i'm all right
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i'm just lucky you two smell the gas oh
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this is ewing who is this
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why that's edward my husband
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he passed away 29 years ago
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he said he'd always watch over me
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we were looking at the same man we saw
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on the train
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he said he'd never leave me
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[Music]
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is this story possible there are subway
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service trains the test equipment they
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don't stop at any stations
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they don't pick up any passengers and
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they go at higher speeds than normal
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trains
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could ann and al have gotten aboard one
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of those trains by mistake
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but then where did that other mysterious
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passenger come from
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and was he really a double for mrs
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ewing's late husband or
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were the shadows of the subway playing
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tricks on their minds
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or are we playing tricks on yours
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was this story real we'll find out at
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the end of our show
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next a boy lives in fear of a monster in
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his closet
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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[Music]
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what were your childhood fears
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the boogeyman the monster under the bed
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or simply being afraid of the dark
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most of us outgrow these fears in an
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early age but for some
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the fears hang on longer take danny
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johnson he's 10 now but
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ever since he was two he's been afraid
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of something in his closet
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and now that the other kids have found
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out he really has something to fear
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this is a very difficult story for a
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mother to tell but years have passed now
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so i'll try
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my youngest son danny was 10 years old
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and living in constant terror
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his days were filled with threats and
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taunts from the kids at school
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his nights were filled with terrible
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dreams about a monster inside the closet
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in his room
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my older children had no sympathy for
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dany either and that's a memory i can't
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lose
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could i have done something to change
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things it's a question i ask myself over
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and over but
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what could i have possibly done
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[Music]
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i found dany sleeping downstairs in the
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middle of the night
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that was a common occurrence in our
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house hey
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danny honey wake up
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hey you can't keep sleeping out here
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i want to go up there
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how long is this going to go on huh
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you have nothing to be frightened of
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okay
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okay let's go to bed i'll tuck in yeah
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[Music]
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okay oh danny
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look
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let's see here nana
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no let's check up this sleeve here
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nothing see down here
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did you see anything yeah no there's
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nothing in here
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let's get in bed and i want you to stay
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there
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okay all right you had a boy
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okay comfortable yeah good
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please stay with me mom oh honey
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you have gotta get over this but i'm
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afraid to
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i know nothing's gonna get you
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there's nothing in the closet okay
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all right oh and um
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if you don't stay in bed i'm gonna get
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yeah
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[Applause]
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shut the door
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love you honey
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brian honey will you get the juice out
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of the fridge for me no mom i can't
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what i'm afraid
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there's a monster in the refrigerator
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i would just stop it you should be
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thankful you don't have an
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imagination like your brother danny if
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you ask me nobody has
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danny is just seeking attention mom
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everybody's laughing at him at school
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all right all right all right that's
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enough
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i want you to leave your brother alone
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understood yes mom
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danny come on you're gonna miss the bus
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let's go you guys you're gonna be late
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bye i love you
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love you you're good
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come here come here
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don't let him get you down i won't
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mother okay i love you
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bye bye sweetheart have fun
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danny continued to live his life as the
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outsider he wanted desperately to fit in
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and be a part of things but he was
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labeled as a coward
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the kid who was still afraid of monsters
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but as painful as these memories were
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for dany he always knew there were worse
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moments to come
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my older son brian was part of that
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group that was tormenting dany this
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particular day
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a day that would change all of our lives
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forever
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[Music]
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you guys get them tomorrow let's go come
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on you guys you walked anywhere you
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almost got him
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he's got to go i paddle with you bugs
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hey what are you gonna do with that bat
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oh we're
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so scared hey danny you better watch out
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the monster will go
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i'm afraid of any of you i'll take you
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all one
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come on danny we're going upstairs
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hey danny is that the closet
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is that where the monster lives
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oh i bet the monster's really hungry
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hey what do you say we open
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the door what are you guys doing danny's
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about to meet his little monster
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mom's not gonna like that mom's not
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gonna know is she debbie
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you know this could have a lasting
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psychological effect on danny shut up
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debbie if you're so brave won't you go
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in the closet
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okay baby yeah brian shaw but you're
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[Applause]
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next
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all right what's going on in here
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huh
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[Music]
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what no way
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what's this that's brian's shirt
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where'd he go who brian he went into the
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closet
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[Music]
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he's gone
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[Music]
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i told you there's a monster in there
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[Music]
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there's no way the kid could have gotten
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out of this closet except through the
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door
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mrs johnson let me ask you again
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is there any reason why your son would
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want to run away from home
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[Music]
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excuse me mrs johnson i need to speak to
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my partner i couldn't hear exactly what
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the police were saying
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to each other but i guessed what the
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report would read my son brian would be
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officially listed as a missing person
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another young boy who ran away from home
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it's really weird
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the kid just seems to have vanished into
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thin air
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what do you want me to write in the
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report that the kid was eaten by a
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monster
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[Music]
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danny's brother was never seen or heard
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from again
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what really happened here did danny's
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brother run away from home
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was it really a way out of that closet
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that nobody ever found or maybe
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this was a tragic lesson about being
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kind to other human beings
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taught by a spirit hidden deep in a
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boy's closet
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or maybe it came from the deep recesses
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of our writer's imagination
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the truth about this story will be
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revealed in our final act
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next a surprise witness makes an
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appearance at a trial
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that's beyond belief
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[Music]
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after countless movies and television
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dramas live cameras in the courtroom and
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extensive news coverage
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we sort of know what to expect in a
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court of law these days
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at least that's what the defense lawyer
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in this next murder trial thought
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until he defended robert miller and
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experienced
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the strangest day in court he had ever
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seen
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there he was my client the manicure the
00:25:05
fancy jewelry
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why would a man like robert miller
00:25:08
commit murder
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no client of mine had ever been found
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guilty but this one was going to be
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tougher than most
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the lady d.a was making her case now and
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i had to advise miller to keep calm
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mr o'neal what is your position at the
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yacht club i am the head custodian at
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the calabash yacht club
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and on the day in question what were the
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weather conditions
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there was a storm coming in i tried to
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warn mr miller but he wouldn't listen
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that was his way so mr miller took a
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boat out knowing the storm was coming
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yeah he said they'd be back in a couple
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hours and not to worry
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they being mr robert miller and
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elizabeth warren the deceased
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yes what was their demeanor
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uh pardon um were they getting along
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oh they were happy like they were
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celebrating how could you tell
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oh lady had a big bottle of champagne
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and she was drinking and the defendant
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no he was sober uh mr miller never drank
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did mr miller come back within a couple
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of hours
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oh yeah was elizabeth warren with him uh
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no ma'am what did he tell you what
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happened uh he said that ms warren had
00:26:17
fallen overboard
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he was pretty upset uh but mr miller
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said he
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went in after her and he couldn't find
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her
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so his clothes were wet yes they were
00:26:31
oh the cause of death was not from
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drowning how do you know
00:26:35
we found no water in her lungs what was
00:26:37
the cause of death then dr harding
00:26:39
blunt trauma to the head as if someone
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had hit her
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i object the prosecution is asking the
00:26:44
coroner to make a conclusion
00:26:46
sustained i'll ask it another way
00:26:50
is it your testimony dr harding that
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elizabeth warren was dead before she hit
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the water
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yes
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order order
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proceed mr montgomery your honor
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i call mr robert miller to the stand
00:27:13
how long had you and elizabeth warren
00:27:15
been business partners
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uh nearly 20 years we were just out of
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college and you were close
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inseparable we were not only business
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partners
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we were best friends and why on the day
00:27:29
of september 23rd did you and the
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deceased go out on the boat
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i got rid of that
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mr miller uh pardon
00:27:47
why were you and elizabeth warren on the
00:27:50
boat mr miller
00:27:52
ah we were uh celebrating the
00:27:54
acquisition of quintel
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the computer software company and uh how
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would you describe your feelings on that
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day
00:28:01
it was the happiest day of our lives
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[Music]
00:28:12
mr miller are you all right
00:28:15
uh i'm sorry this has just uh been a
00:28:18
very difficult time for me
00:28:20
i understand sir mr miller
00:28:24
the prosecution is trying to make the
00:28:27
case
00:28:28
that you killed your friend and business
00:28:30
partner
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did you i could never do that
00:28:47
mr miller i think we've covered all we
00:28:49
need to cover right now
00:28:51
i can understand how upsetting it is to
00:28:53
be accused of murdering your partner
00:28:55
and friend of 20 years i have no more
00:28:58
questions
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your witness
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mr miller you say that elizabeth warren
00:29:06
was your best friend
00:29:08
but yet it was widely reported that she
00:29:10
was going to start a new company
00:29:12
get out from under your shadow no that's
00:29:14
ridiculous
00:29:17
she needed me more than i needed her
00:29:20
they're not going to buy it robert
00:29:21
they all know you're lying why are you
00:29:23
lying robert
00:29:25
i'm not lying you would have been
00:29:27
nothing without me
00:29:28
what do you mean she would have been
00:29:29
nothing without you mr miller
00:29:32
i'm sorry uh i meant we were a team
00:29:38
elizabeth was the idea person and i was
00:29:41
the sales guy
00:29:43
sounds to me like you would have been
00:29:44
nothing without her it's all starting to
00:29:46
unravel robert
00:29:47
no it's not i won't let it who are you
00:29:50
talking to mr miller
00:29:51
your honor i request a recess i must
00:29:53
confer with my client
00:29:55
this is it robert no one believes you
00:29:57
they all know you killed me
00:29:59
and your next stop is the gas challenge
00:30:02
stay away from me
00:30:03
i'm not going to the gas chair you
00:30:06
always
00:30:20
the people rest your honor
00:30:23
so easy i got you elizabeth
00:30:29
[Music]
00:30:31
will the defendant please rise
00:30:39
in the case of the people versus robert
00:30:41
elgin miller
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what find you
00:30:47
we find the defendant robert elgin
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miller
00:30:50
not guilty by reason of insanity
00:30:56
robert miller i'm releasing you to the
00:30:58
custody of the state psychiatric
00:31:00
hospital in north point
00:31:01
you will remain there until such time as
00:31:03
you are deemed mentally
00:31:05
competent bailiff
00:31:18
[Music]
00:31:31
was he really insane that's not my call
00:31:34
no client of mine has ever been found
00:31:37
guilty
00:31:40
was it strained nerves or a guilty
00:31:42
conscience that trapped the killer
00:31:45
or did robert actually see the woman he
00:31:47
murdered
00:31:48
now prior to taking the stand he seemed
00:31:51
perfectly calm and collected yet moments
00:31:53
later he was carrying on bizarre
00:31:54
conversations with an unseen
00:31:56
presence or perhaps it was all just a
00:31:59
clever ploy to avoid the death penalty
00:32:03
fiction or inspired by actual events
00:32:07
you'd be the judge fact or fiction
00:32:10
we'll find out at the conclusion of
00:32:12
tonight's show next a visit to the
00:32:14
country turns into an experience that's
00:32:16
beyond belief
00:32:17
[Music]
00:32:20
you ever long for life in the country to
00:32:23
leave the city behind for the fresh air
00:32:26
the open space and the sounds of nature
00:32:30
julia randall was lucky to have
00:32:32
experienced that life as a youngster
00:32:33
when she visited her grandfather's farm
00:32:36
those were happy carefree times but
00:32:39
things change julia's grown up now
00:32:43
listen to her story of a visit to the
00:32:45
childhood memories
00:32:46
memories that would soon turn to terror
00:32:49
[Music]
00:32:52
on the ride from the airport to the farm
00:32:54
i thought about how
00:32:56
loving grandpa buck used to be but the
00:32:58
stroke had left him without the use of
00:33:00
his legs and
00:33:02
he had too much time to sit around and
00:33:04
think about dreams that would never come
00:33:05
true
00:33:07
i knew i used to be his favorite and i
00:33:10
was looking forward to returning some of
00:33:12
the love and attention he showed me when
00:33:14
i was a child
00:33:22
grandpa
00:33:25
grandpa it's me you don't have to yell i
00:33:27
can hear you i'm not
00:33:28
jeff i had a stroke he scared me
00:33:32
don't you knock you're lucky i i
00:33:35
recognize how to shot you
00:33:37
[Applause]
00:33:40
i'm gonna go get my stuff just stay out
00:33:43
of my way
00:33:50
i want you to know i don't need you here
00:33:52
i don't want you here
00:33:54
i get along just fine by myself
00:33:58
i have for longer and you've been alive
00:34:10
he completely ignored me until the next
00:34:11
morning it hurt but grandpa had always
00:34:14
taught me to be a fighter
00:34:15
i was gonna give this my best shot
00:34:20
how'd you sleep grandpa
00:34:23
i slept great there's nothing like fresh
00:34:26
air
00:34:28
i can't wait to get outside
00:34:33
do you still have the chickens what
00:34:35
about the cows what was the name of the
00:34:37
one you taught me to milk
00:34:38
was it susie
00:34:44
that's the worst coffee i ever tasted
00:34:48
and crippled like make better coffee
00:34:50
than you
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well maybe it's too strong for you buck
00:35:00
too strong
00:35:04
i'll show you too strong
00:35:15
here you clean it up
00:35:24
what grandpa didn't know what i couldn't
00:35:26
tell him was that the bank was about to
00:35:28
foreclose on the farm
00:35:30
without his knowledge i found a buyer
00:35:32
for the back parcel
00:35:33
a deal that would allow grandpa to stay
00:35:35
on his land
00:35:37
but it also set off a chain of events
00:35:39
that would haunt my dreams for the rest
00:35:40
of my life
00:35:50
i asked russ johnson to come over this
00:35:51
morning he's got someone who's
00:35:53
interested in the back parcel
00:35:55
i thought you should at least hear him
00:35:56
out
00:35:59
hello you're going to listen this time
00:36:04
you have to please
00:36:08
thanks for coming over can i get you
00:36:10
some coffee or something no no thanks
00:36:11
that's okay
00:36:15
you're wasting your time ross i'm not
00:36:16
selling anything
00:36:19
russ has worked really hard do not take
00:36:21
this out on him
00:36:22
i'm sorry uh please sit down
00:36:29
[Applause]
00:36:31
buck i know how hard this is
00:36:35
we had to do the same thing for my dad
00:36:37
your dad died
00:36:40
i'm not dead yet just some people think
00:36:42
i am
00:36:44
so what do you have for us russ well i
00:36:46
got an offer on the back parcel
00:36:48
he says he'll give you what you're
00:36:50
asking real nice guy from the next
00:36:52
county
00:36:52
uh his folks have been farming these
00:36:55
parts as long as you have buck
00:36:57
and the best thing is you get to stay in
00:36:59
the house
00:37:00
and keep the rest of the land that
00:37:03
sounds really great
00:37:04
what do you think grandpa doesn't matter
00:37:06
what i think
00:37:11
well i'll bring the uh paperwork by in
00:37:13
the morning
00:37:20
i'm really sorry julia i wish there was
00:37:22
an easier way no
00:37:23
no thank you for everything
00:37:36
you're happy now got what you want
00:37:39
what makes you so bitter why do you
00:37:41
think you can come here and mess up my
00:37:43
life you think i want to be here
00:37:44
you don't even like me grandpa you have
00:37:46
been nothing but mean to me since i
00:37:48
walked through that door well then
00:37:49
leave go on get out i'm not gonna miss
00:37:52
you
00:38:01
i'm gonna go put the tractor in the barn
00:38:12
i wasn't sure i could still drive a
00:38:14
tractor and i could feel his eyes on me
00:38:17
just like he watched me so many times
00:38:19
when i was growing up
00:38:30
start it up
00:38:34
sorry that's it
00:38:43
get the clutch out no
00:38:58
julia
00:39:12
so
00:39:23
[Music]
00:39:54
uh
00:40:08
ah
00:40:22
oh
00:40:30
[Music]
00:40:34
julia
00:40:37
there julia
00:40:52
[Music]
00:41:03
a final act of love by a man who seemed
00:41:05
to have no love left
00:41:07
could buck's paralyzed legs have found
00:41:09
the power to walk again to save his
00:41:11
granddaughter
00:41:12
there are stories of mothers who've
00:41:14
summoned superhuman strength
00:41:16
to lift heavy boulders even cars off
00:41:18
their children did buck experience that
00:41:20
kind of miracle or maybe
00:41:22
his paralysis was only in his mind
00:41:25
and he could walk all along or perhaps
00:41:28
this story never happened
00:41:30
next we'll find out which stories were
00:41:32
inspired by actual events
00:41:34
and which are fabrications on beyond
00:41:36
belief
00:41:37
fact or fiction
00:41:38
[Music]
00:41:45
if you're like me you've been forming an
00:41:47
opinion about our stories tonight
00:41:49
trying to guess which stories are
00:41:51
inspired by actual events and which
00:41:52
stories are simply a counterfeit reality
00:41:55
well now comes the moment when we reveal
00:41:57
the answers
00:41:59
our first story was about the young man
00:42:01
who was put in charge
00:42:02
of his family's funeral home and
00:42:04
encountered the shock of his young life
00:42:06
[Music]
00:42:13
is true stranger than fiction did a
00:42:15
story like this really take place
00:42:18
yes it did and what about the runaway
00:42:22
subway train um excuse me does this
00:42:23
train go to melrose
00:42:25
this train goes nowhere
00:42:33
would it surprise you to learn that this
00:42:35
story was inspired by an actual
00:42:37
experience
00:42:38
it was and what's your guess
00:42:41
on the story about the boy who feared
00:42:43
the monster in his closet
00:42:47
what's this that's brian's shirt where'd
00:42:49
he go
00:42:50
who brian he went into the closet
00:42:54
he's gone i told you there's a monster
00:42:56
in there
00:42:57
could the idea for a story like this
00:42:59
have come from a real life event
00:43:02
yes it did and what's your verdict on
00:43:05
the defendant
00:43:06
and the ghost he confronted in the
00:43:07
courtroom
00:43:09
what was the cause of death then doctor
00:43:11
all starting to unravel robert
00:43:13
no it's not i won't let it who are you
00:43:16
talking to mr miller this is
00:43:17
it robert no one believes you did this
00:43:20
seem like a clever tale
00:43:22
crafted by the mind of a writer ought to
00:43:24
fool you that's what it was
00:43:27
complete fiction our last story tonight
00:43:31
was about the stroke victim who left his
00:43:32
wheelchair to save his granddaughter's
00:43:38
life
00:43:42
if you thought that story really
00:43:44
happened we got you
00:43:46
it was fictional so were you able to
00:43:48
tell fact from fiction tonight
00:43:51
our first three stories were inspired by
00:43:53
fact
00:43:54
the last two were designed to fool you
00:44:01
well that's the end of tonight's show
00:44:03
we'll see you next week when we attempt
00:44:05
to demonstrate
00:44:06
that truth can be stranger than fiction
00:44:09
especially strange truth
00:44:11
goodnight join us next time on beyond
00:44:14
belief
00:44:15
fact or fiction this is don lafontaine
00:44:22
[Music]
00:44:56
you
