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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 for Janine price extraordinary
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events are almost commonplace objects
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hurl themselves across the room and
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appliances explode now researchers are
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attempting to unravel the mystery
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Jeanine psychokinetic powers in 1980 a
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woman named Etta Smith says she
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experienced a haunting psychic vision a
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vision so powerful and so persistent
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that it led her directly to the body of
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a murder victim in credit it is the tale
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description of the crime was so accurate
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that she became a suspect herself
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tonight a special unsolved mysteries
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report mysteries of the psychic mind
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perhaps the most dramatic mystery of the
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human mind is a phenomenon known as
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psychokinesis the ability to affect
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objects without so much as a touch in
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Pennsylvania a troubled young man named
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Don Decker seemed a cause or could only
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be labeled as rainstorms bizarre showers
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had followed wherever he went nine
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credible witnesses including police and
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clergy verified Decker's extraordinary
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experiences
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Evon a cop for years and I never in
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anything like this you're never I mean
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there's always an explanation when
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something happens if you got
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investigated you come up with something
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this is why it happened this case here
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there is no explanation and then there's
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Janine price Long Beach California
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by her own account
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Janine price has endured a series of
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baffling psychic episodes a stretches
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back to her childhood but even before
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objects began a spark can explode around
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her
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Janine claims she discovered she had the
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unsettling ability to read minds and
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predict the future
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it all began around the age of 10 janine
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says she was consumed by an inexplicable
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get unshakable feeling that she had a
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sister a sister she had never met
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Jenny's mother refused to answer her
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questions she just ignored me so then I
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became even more obsessed with finding
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out who this person was that I was seen
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that I went prying into my parent my
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parents personal effects one time
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there were a lot of pictures of children
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and other people but this one picture I
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came across when I touched it I knew it
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had to be the person
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where did you get this I was just
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looking through some my dad's things
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they told you never to go through our
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things it's nobody it's just a picture I
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I know who this is it's my sister isn't
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it I know it Jenny's mother was finally
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forced to admit that Janine did indeed
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have a half-sister Judy from her
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father's previous marriage but there was
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more to Jenny's premonition a terrifying
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revelation she hardly dared put into
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words
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I didn't told my mother and a brief
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simple form that mom I know I'm gonna
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meet her one day and right after I meet
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her she's going to die
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and she's mama you know I hate to tell
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you this but she says something's gonna
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happen to to Judy it's just I know she's
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going to die and something with her head
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something's something's something with
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blood and in her head it's like
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something's going to burst years later
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Janine did meet the sister she says she
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envisioned while still a child in April
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of 1980
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Janine's brother Andrew showed up
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accompanied by none other than the
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long-lost Judy we bonded very very
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quickly very closely matter of fact I
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never told her that I had a feeling that
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she was gonna have a short life after
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she had known me yeah I just knew it
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wasn't my place to do so all the time
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there were times where I want to say
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Judy no don't go out the door because
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you're not gonna live and I want to
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spend all that time with you
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within a year judy was admitted to the
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hospital complaining of severe headaches
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her doctor assured the family that it
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was nothing more serious than migraines
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but Janine recalls it on her first visit
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she sensed her childhood premonition
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would soon be fulfilled as soon as I
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touched Judy the this is a sense of
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death and illness was so strong I think
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I became too over powerful to our
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overbearing with the doctor
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I started suggesting that he take x-rays
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of her her her skull and her brain and
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can't scan we've done a couple of tests
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somebody report she's gonna be all right
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well the tests that she really needs she
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needs a brain scan brain scan yes is
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there some medical information I don't
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know do you know the name of a former
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doctor no but it's very important you
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see I didn't want to tell you this but
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she she has a brain aneurysm I don't
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think this would be a good time to talk
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to her about that right I remember the
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doctor tell me because who would know
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better even even know what you're
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talking about you're not the doctor and
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I said no I'm not but I know my sister
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has aneurysm on her brain and he just
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kind of like shrugged me off and as I
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got more persistent with the doctor he
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finally had me x coordinates from the
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facility
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I remember distinctly if Jeanine it
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warning everyone that was what they did
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for it wasn't enough that she needed a
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you know something to detect their might
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an internal problem indeed there were
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there was because uh shortly afterwards
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she died
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Judith Kelly price died on August 8th
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1980 at the age of 35
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cause of death and aneurysm of the brain
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for Janine the devastating loss was the
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most painful episode in a lifetime of
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frustration you very alone it's like a
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captain without a port you know you
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belong somewhere but where do you find
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that place to blow your you're not
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considered to be normal but you're not
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abnormal in September of 1994 Jeanine
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sought out dr. Michael Persinger one of
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the world's foremost experts in psychic
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phenomena his laboratory at Laurentian
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University in Canada is at the forefront
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of efforts to find areas of the brain
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that produce psychic experiences when
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individuals feel that they can see into
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the future and they have verified
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experiences of precognition and you look
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at those portions of the brain that are
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most active what you find is that these
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individuals brains are organized in such
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a way as that they can make connections
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between events that most people cannot
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dr. Persinger and his staff have tested
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thousands of individuals including
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Janine Price he has come to believe the
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psychic episodes result from brief
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bursts of unusually high levels of
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electricity within the brain
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similar to epileptic seizures
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in terms of the activity of Janine's
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brain what happens during brief periods
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of time is that normal functions are
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enhanced way way above normal
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what precognition is is that you're
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seeing things in time outside the normal
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temporal frame while suppose portions of
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the brain that mediate space and time
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are suddenly enhanced in terms of
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activity simply put dr. Persinger says
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the brain is something like a television
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receiver the components within a
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standard TV could be rewired to receive
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channels that aren't on the dial
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during seizure conditions the brain can
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be similarly reorganized result may be
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enhanced possibly psychic capabilities a
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brain less constrained by time or space
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of the 30 or 40 individuals with
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Janine's profile many of them also
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report having the ability to influence
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objects at a distance the experiences
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such as light bulbs exploding around
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them radios failing glass breaking I
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didn't do this as a joke I held it
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developed as I became a an adult
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there were several incidents where
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things actually exploded in my hands I
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remember one time I was holding a coffee
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pot
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and then I went through many more
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situations to her we finally had to
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remove our class glasses out of the
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house because they were if I touch them
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and if I got upset
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they wouldn't break in my hand they
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would shatter in general it appears that
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these occurrences are associated with
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stress and tension and the theory is
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that they are means of the mind of the
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brain to release the stress attention in
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the individual Jeanine says a rash of
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psychokinetic activities erupted during
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a particularly stressful time of her
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life she was divorced raising two
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children and living at her mother's
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house I've seen her get real upset and
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she has some pictures on the wall one
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time and she was terribly upset she her
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ex-husband had it had words and so forth
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there was a really a trying situation I
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can't talk to you like this alright just
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just forget it forget it
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goodbye
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what was that she didn't will it to
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happen it just it just happened it was
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just this tug of magnetic forces went
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and just just pulled it stuff on the
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wall and slung it to the other side of
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the room I think some of my son's little
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friends are kind of afraid of me because
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we were going out to the car one day in
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broad daylight and I was just I wasn't
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even angry I was just charged up
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I'll give it to you in the car
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the force was so strong that the energy
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was coming off my hand actually cause
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sparks and the keys flew up out of my
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hand it's not like any other night I'm
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getting mad cuz my mom's just like gets
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mad she does all kinds of weird stuff
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you don't wanna mess with her
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so she's not like any other mom it can
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be scary at times because um you know
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it's going to occur but you don't always
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know exactly when and there's always
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that fear that you might have someone
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with you that you don't want hurt
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according to family members one of the
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most dramatic incidents took place when
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Janine asked her son to warm up a baby
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bottle in the microwave I was so tired I
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put it on for one second my mom got mad
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she went over there and touched it and
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reset it
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Janene would later call a factory
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repairing it could think of nothing to
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explain the microwaves sudden
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destruction he had told me out of all
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the years he had been servicing he said
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he had never seen anything like that my
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daughter was in a hurry one day she had
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to appoint my somewhere I don't remember
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exactly what it was yeah she had this
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outfit that she wanted to iron and the
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children kept buzzing around her feet
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and pulling out her skirt and just
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really upsetting an irritating aggravate
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especially when you're pressed for time
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and you've got to get some party in the
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corner breakfast yeah I'm doing it now
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honey and she's just going like this
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ain't no way you know and I'm looking at
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the iron the I wasn't plugged in I
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looked at the plug and I looked at her I
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says honey would you like me to play the
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iron in no we do not know what type of
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energy it is so we invent the term for
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it
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pique psychokinesis and that essentially
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stands for our ignorance we don't know
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how it operates by looking at the brains
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of people such as Jeanine we might get
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an understanding in the form of energy
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that causes these types of incidents
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scientists are far from explaining the
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mysterious forces of psychokinesis even
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high-tech tools like magnetic resonance
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imaging have failed to reveal all the
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secrets of the human brain still the
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exploration has helped Janine price cope
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with a powerful forces she says once
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dominated her life if I could bring at
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will the energy that I have when I'm
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frustrated or tired I've been told that
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people like myself that energy has been
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used in channeled in to people with
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illnesses if I could do that I would I
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did it there in a moment
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a stunning clairvoyant vision leaves a
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woman to the body of a murder victim as
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mysteries of a psychic mind continues
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as a young girl Etta Smith says she had
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the occasional odd feeling about events
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yet to happen but nothing that led her
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to believe she possessed special
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abilities then at the age of 32 Etta had
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a single extraordinary psychic
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experience that changed her life forever
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in 1980 Etta Smith was working in an
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aerospace facility in Burbank California
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on December 17th a news bulletin
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triggered an overwhelming sense of dread
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3 1 year-old Melanie Uribe had not been
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seen for days when investigators feared
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the worst
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despite a massive search no one knew
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what had happened to her she's not in a
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house with as if someone was talking to
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me I it was a mental thought that it was
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as if someone was speaking to me she's
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not in house after that thought
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registered It was as if I saw a picture
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I saw a canyon area I saw a road I saw
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it curving I saw a dirt pack
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I saw shrubbery in a soft white through
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the shrubbery I could not clearly see
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what the white was but it was something
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distinctively white and when I thought
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about that I thought well if what I'm
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experiencing is the possibility of where
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this person could be maybe the white I
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see is her uniform knowing that she was
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a nurse
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detective Ryan Ferreira the vision was
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so powerful and so profound she felt
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compelled to tell the police even at the
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risk of being ridiculed excuse me
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detective Ryan
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Edda Smith that sergeant said you had
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some information on Melanie Uribe I
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couldn't just let it go help you fine
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because I kept wondering if this person
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needed help and if their life depended
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on that help well it would be very wrong
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of me not to do something I think I've
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seen her you've seen her I gave her a
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lot of credibility on the fact that she
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came in on her own you'd found her truck
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she indicated her conscience was
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bothering her which triggered a response
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to me that possibly your conscience is
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bothering because maybe she knows more
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than she's telling us but then again
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maybe she's she is in fact sincere and
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real so let's treat her in that light
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until we find out otherwise
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based on her psychic vision etta
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pinpointed the area in Los Angeles
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County where she thought the missing
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nurse might be found despite detective
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Ryan's willingness to listen better
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worried that the police would not do
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anything immediately so she decided to
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investigate on her own accompanied by
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her daughter Tina Etta drove to Lopez
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Canyon just don't understand this I am
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so certain
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when Etta stepped out of her car at the
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top of the canyon the feeling of dread
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returned Etta was certain that melanie
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had not only been there but that
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something horrible had happened to her
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oh no she's here no she is definitely
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here I felt trauma and I felt scared and
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I felt it was like an energy that was
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like tingling inside of me it was sort
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of like you feel when you get an
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adrenaline rush or something white on
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the way back Darla Canyon era and Tina
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noticed a set of fresh tire tracks wait
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a minute wait a minute what is it I
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stopped for reasons unknown to me I
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wanted to look at these tire marks and I
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wanted to put my hands in them
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I'm starting to feel more trauma and
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it's starting to build and I'm getting
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more nervous what's going on
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she was a here she was right here and
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when it got to that point it was like I
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was on overload she was so frightened
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when we got back in the van the only
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thing that I could think about is I want
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to leave here I don't want to be here
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anymore
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further down the canyon Etta stopped
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again when Tina noticed something
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unusual in the brush I walk within six
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feet of this object I could not tell
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what I was looking at
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the only thing that I can truly
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distinguished and know what this was but
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she had on white nurse issues
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go go etter immediately contacted the
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police an autopsy later determined that
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the body was indeed
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Melanie Uribe she had been robbed raped
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and beaten to death
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Etta Smith's clairvoyant vision had been
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confirmed would you have a seat right
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here we just want to ask you a few
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questions that evening
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Etta was summoned to the police station
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at 7:00 p.m. she was questioned by two
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detectives she had never seen before no
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that's fine
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did you know the victim Melanie Yuri B
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no no I never met her I just I heard
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about her on the news you'd have been up
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to Lopez Kenyon they wanted me to
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explain to them how the whole thing had
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unfolded mrs. Smith whose and that
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seemed very normal to me my but after I
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felt I had finished telling them
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everything and filled in the blanks it's
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like okay let's start at the beginning
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tell us this again so we go through the
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story again and again
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and again once I saw it in my head
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expect us to believe this this one out
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for hours until about ten o'clock that
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evening when it comes very obvious to me
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and now I'm a suspect you're a liar
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do you think I had something to do with
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this murder mrs. Smith you know too much
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there's too much of a coincidence I
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don't have any idea what happened to
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that woman the investigating officers
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having no other leads or clues didn't
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have any other choice at that time but
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presume she was in fact an accessory
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either before or after the commission of
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the crime
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Etta volunteered to take a polygraph
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exam at midnight five hours after she
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was first brought in for questioning
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Etta underwent the first of two tests
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Etta passed both exams
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however the detectives withheld that
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information they were still convinced
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that only someone involved in the crime
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could know the details
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Etta had revealed I wasn't sure if it
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was a bluff or what I was so tired I
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don't think I really cared anymore I
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wanted to get away from them it was like
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I was either gonna go home or I was
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going to jail I'm not sure I cared but I
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did get angry you can't leave me here at
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5:00 a.m.
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Etta Smith was formally booked on a
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charge of murder I think one of the
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jailers don't matter
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but I'm telling the truth
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for four days at a languished in jail
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unaware of certain dramatic events
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taking place on the outside seems like
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we made a mistake
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we've just arrested two young men and
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confessed of murder of Melanie Aviva in
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the end Etta Smith was completely
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absolved 15 years later the two
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confessed killers are still in prison
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tonight as case I was quite amazed and I
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think a lot of other people were too but
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I think a lot of them were reluctant to
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want to admit it and it not been for
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Etta Smith I don't think this case would
00:25:55
have been solved as rapidly as was or
00:25:57
possibly not at all I sometimes wonder
00:26:04
what it was that transpired from this
00:26:10
innocent person who was murdered
00:26:14
how her death somehow reached out and
00:26:17
touched me I think it's one of the
00:26:21
mysteries in life that many things
00:26:24
happen to us throughout our life that
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are unexplainable
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since the remarkable psychic experience
00:26:33
in 1980 Etta Smith has honed her
00:26:36
apparent powers she has assisted police
00:26:38
and crime victims in several cases
00:26:40
always providing her services free of
00:26:42
charge in a moment you will meet a
00:26:45
different kind of psychic a man who
00:26:48
claims his paranormal abilities enable
00:26:50
him to communicate with the dead even
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for a professional psychic an unusual
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occupation in itself the man you're
00:27:03
about to meet is unusual James Van
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Praagh claims that he can contact the
00:27:08
spirits of the dead and convey the
00:27:10
detailed messages to those they left
00:27:11
behind
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it may sound outlandish but who among us
00:27:16
have given the chance wouldn't want to
00:27:17
communicate with a loved one who has
00:27:19
passed away April 24th 1994 Burbank
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California
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a moving collection of photographs
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celebrates the brief life of a young man
00:27:32
named Doug Raskin Jewish tradition
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teaches us that when a person dies is
00:27:38
only the body that dies
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I believe that those of you who feel
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Doug's presence one week earlier just
00:27:46
shy of his 33rd birthday
00:27:48
the brilliant attorney and accomplished
00:27:50
outdoorsman had fallen to his death
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while climbing Mount Fuji in Japan
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Doug's parents Sue and Don Raskin did
00:27:58
not know how or if they could overcome
00:28:00
their grief just seemed like nobody
00:28:04
could comfort us and one of my relatives
00:28:07
had mentioned James Van Praagh who was a
00:28:11
medium and I kind of picked up on it
00:28:15
real fast because I was looking for
00:28:17
anything or anybody who could help Don
00:28:20
and I at this time duh I couldn't
00:28:22
imagine anybody have the ability to be
00:28:24
able to see somebody in another place
00:28:27
and I was very very skeptical I really
00:28:31
didn't feel that that was where I was at
00:28:33
at the time I wasn't feeling well and
00:28:35
yet I was still hurting and needed to
00:28:38
find something before their meeting with
00:28:42
James Van Praagh the reskins gave the
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psychic no details whatsoever about
00:28:46
themselves this recreation is strictly
00:28:49
based on transcripts from the actual
00:28:51
session did you have a son did you have
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a son that passed over to the other side
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he's here was this some kind of accident
00:29:07
because he gives me accident was it car
00:29:10
or something no nothing
00:29:13
what's their head injuries the Reston's
00:29:16
were duly impressed from Van Praagh
00:29:18
accurately stated that their son had
00:29:20
died their excitement grew as Van Praagh
00:29:23
began to talk about other family members
00:29:25
who had passed away
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is there a Nicki or a Mickey what
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Nicki's my father and I
00:29:36
is there a daddy or a Dorothy I have an
00:29:40
aunt Dorothy did she pass over yeah
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who's Ben Ben's my dad when he told us
00:29:51
all about these events and named all the
00:29:53
people that were already
00:29:54
many many years some of them were gone a
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dozen or so years ago and their
00:30:00
personalities that they had that were so
00:30:02
right on I mean there's just no way
00:30:04
possible Sue and Don were astonished as
00:30:09
James recounted specifics of Doug's
00:30:11
funeral that only those who had been at
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the service could have known did you
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have pictures of him doing different
00:30:19
things he saw that on one side of the
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room was a whole bunch of pictures or
00:30:25
something yes a collage a collage of
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different pictures yes he saw that and
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then there was like one main picture was
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there yes in a card we made for him with
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the same I just couldn't believe that
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James would know all these things and he
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specifically addressed the fact that the
00:30:44
pictures and the collage that we had put
00:30:48
out for that event for the celebration
00:30:50
were absolutely spectacular he says I
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couldn't have done it better myself
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and I really laughed at that because
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they were v-dog saying that because he
00:30:58
loved photography basically I macclare
00:31:02
sentient and I'm clairvoyant Clara
00:31:05
sentient means Claire sensing I'm an
00:31:06
individual who senses feelings and
00:31:09
emotions with a spirit people people
00:31:12
that pass to the other side I'm a
00:31:13
sensitive I'm able to pick up their
00:31:15
thoughts and I feel their emotions when
00:31:18
they come through and that's what I
00:31:19
relate to people and it shows me flowers
00:31:22
all around for the rest khun's any
00:31:24
residual doubt she might have had were
00:31:26
erased when Jane spoke of another family
00:31:28
tragedy that had occurred 33 years
00:31:31
earlier you don't have another son do
00:31:36
you yeah did you ever lose a baby yes
00:31:46
she lived for five days I had completely
00:31:51
forgot about that because I was there
00:31:54
only for Doug
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what I have made him repeat it he says I
00:32:00
said your daughter's all grown up today
00:32:02
I said oh my god he knows about our
00:32:04
daughter then I became such a believer
00:32:09
he likes the picture of himself taken at
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the base of the mountain was there a
00:32:15
picture of him taken at the base of
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Mount Fuji do you know the seance
00:32:24
brought enormous comfort to su and dong
00:32:26
even though Van Praagh was not 100%
00:32:29
accurate
00:32:30
in fact the raskins felt that he
00:32:32
completely missed the mark when he
00:32:34
talked about photos of Doug on Mount
00:32:36
Fuji they had been told that Doug's
00:32:38
camera quit but was never recovered two
00:32:43
months after we had been to James went
00:32:48
to the mailbox and I I saw an envelope
00:32:50
from Japan and I came running into the
00:32:53
house of yell from Japan as it turned
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out
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Doug's climbing team had gone back to
00:33:01
the spot where their friend perished and
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unearthed his camera from beneath mounds
00:33:04
of snow inside the package was a
00:33:08
photograph James Van Praagh had talked
00:33:10
about this is the picture taken at the
00:33:13
base of the mountain beautiful there was
00:33:20
just so many things that have occurred
00:33:22
that James could not have known about
00:33:24
that it would be impossible for him to
00:33:29
have ever looked up or researched or
00:33:31
anything and that's really what made me
00:33:35
a believer in him it's almost everything
00:33:38
he said was correct and it really
00:33:40
changed my whole belief there is another
00:33:43
side and that James Gable was able to
00:33:45
open it up to us
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dis Van Praagh have genuine psychic
00:33:50
abilities that enable him to communicate
00:33:52
with those in the afterlife or is he
00:33:55
highly perceptive uncommon ly skilled a
00:33:57
scattershot guesswork to find out we
00:34:00
invited 10 people to a seance as past
00:34:03
December none of the participants had
00:34:05
ever seen or talked with Van Praagh
00:34:07
before they all hoped however to make
00:34:10
contact with specific loved ones who had
00:34:12
passed away
00:34:13
keep in mind the session lasted several
00:34:15
hours we have exerted some of the more
00:34:18
dramatic moments the lady that stands
00:34:23
behind which is very pretty woman and
00:34:25
let's play she's a very pretty woman her
00:34:26
skin is very soft I put that way and I
00:34:29
feel she's young lady I got it Paula
00:34:33
Hartland came to the seance anxious to
00:34:36
find out about her mother would passed
00:34:38
away in 1986 from emphysema about having
00:34:42
some regrets she had some regrets and
00:34:44
when she comes back she's very connected
00:34:46
to you okay it's her mom your mother you
00:34:52
might have passed over yes though for
00:34:55
six of the ten participants Van Praagh
00:34:57
was able to correctly identify the
00:34:59
people he had hoped to contact for some
00:35:02
even revealed the cause of death Jackie
00:35:06
McDonald's daughter had been murdered in
00:35:08
her own home a scenario that Van Praagh
00:35:10
sketched in details yes and then she
00:35:14
goes back into bed and she thinks I was
00:35:17
just her mind playing games and she
00:35:19
climbs back to bed and I have to say
00:35:21
that she she falls asleep and she shows
00:35:23
me see the next thing she shows me is
00:35:28
her being attacked and there was someone
00:35:30
on top with a knife and I see the man
00:35:35
boy he grabbed something the counter it
00:35:40
looks like the knife was in it was in a
00:35:42
he was wasn't it it was in some kind of
00:35:44
a holder because he pulls it out just
00:35:47
the big block of knives that's it
00:35:48
because it's not the daughter showed me
00:35:50
a visual it's almost as if it's a very
00:35:54
quick movie in front of my head in my
00:35:56
mind
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and I see things very fast it's a little
00:36:00
shadowy but certain details stick out
00:36:03
and he loves Birds Kathy Hall wanted to
00:36:07
find out about a friend who had killed
00:36:08
himself but in this case as in others
00:36:11
Van Praagh drew a blank sure is there is
00:36:15
there anybody is there anything there
00:36:17
from Freddy
00:36:21
Joseph ready who's that
00:36:23
Freddy's a friend of mine that pesto
00:36:27
joking around I'm being told Freddy is
00:36:30
joking around don't know why joking
00:36:32
around did trouble breathing good point
00:36:36
no how do you pass up a heart attack
00:36:39
she killed himself oh no I don't get
00:36:41
that no I'm not getting it it's not
00:36:44
there it's hard to tell sometimes I
00:36:46
admit it's very hard to tell all the
00:36:48
time exactly it's not gonna be hunter
00:36:50
percent what's going to you know what's
00:36:51
black was black and white his wife was
00:36:54
that his ring during the seance James
00:36:56
Van Praagh was unaware that this man
00:36:58
professor Michael Shermer had been
00:37:00
planted in the group by unsolved
00:37:02
mysteries Shermer is a publisher of a
00:37:05
magazine that investigates among other
00:37:07
things claims about psychic phenomena
00:37:10
Van Praagh is a Mentalist a Mentalist is
00:37:14
a magician doing an act he's doing what
00:37:18
we call cold reading that is you meet
00:37:20
somebody you've never seen before and
00:37:22
you tell them things about them you
00:37:23
start general you throw things out
00:37:25
rapid-fire you watch their facial
00:37:26
expressions to see if you're getting
00:37:28
hits or misses when you get a Miss you
00:37:30
go right on to the next thing you don't
00:37:31
even blink when you get a hit you follow
00:37:34
that till till the end until they start
00:37:37
say no again and then you go to the next
00:37:39
thing and you just keep doing that did
00:37:41
she see different doctors at one period
00:37:43
of time thank you
00:37:44
she was bedridden also wasn't she was
00:37:47
she in a bed okay
00:37:50
okay was it cancer that your mom no it
00:37:52
wasn't the reason I asked questions yes
00:37:55
or no questions is number one I am also
00:37:58
very human I have to validate that what
00:38:01
I'm getting from the Spirit is indeed
00:38:04
I'm on the right level with this
00:38:06
individual I'm speaking with I want to
00:38:08
make sure that the spirit
00:38:10
is coming through right that the
00:38:12
information is correct I've got to give
00:38:14
you something about a marriage here
00:38:16
something about a marriage was there a
00:38:18
separation with the marriage please yes
00:38:20
and that did your husband pass over
00:38:22
because your husband's standing next to
00:38:24
me and your husband is here okay I get a
00:38:29
very strong impact with him and he made
00:38:31
an impact with a cot was it a car he was
00:38:35
driving a pickup truck he wasn't driving
00:38:37
he was walking in the Sudan was he
00:38:40
crossing somewhere yes well he was he
00:38:44
was in the street yes Laura what Berlin
00:38:47
says husband had indeed been struck by a
00:38:49
car and killed for Laura and Prague went
00:38:53
on to make what seemed an astonishing
00:38:55
revelation yes you're going to get
00:39:00
married again he says he will get
00:39:02
married again you will and he's going to
00:39:05
help you he's gonna help you get married
00:39:06
again and he says honey I was shocked
00:39:10
that he would know that because only
00:39:13
myself my fiance and my sister and his
00:39:19
mother knew they aren't even in the
00:39:22
state and it wasn't something I was
00:39:25
thinking about that kind of solidified
00:39:28
things for me
00:39:29
most people who lose a spouse eventually
00:39:32
do get remarried and and Van Praagh will
00:39:35
always keep it positive he wants you to
00:39:38
know he loves you
00:39:39
well of course what else is he gonna say
00:39:41
he wants you know you'll be remarried
00:39:42
well what's he gonna say you'll you'll
00:39:43
never be married again you'll be
00:39:44
miserable miserable spinster the rest of
00:39:46
your life this isn't gonna happen right
00:39:49
so these are just general principles of
00:39:50
cold reading and he says you stand well
00:39:54
but tend to the sails with his wife
00:39:56
Teresa they intentionally said on
00:39:58
opposite sides of the room you've had
00:40:01
major loss such a traumatic loss got you
00:40:06
thank you very much and you're connected
00:40:08
aren't you you too Lou - is this your
00:40:11
wife yes because he's pointing to her
00:40:14
you know you're his wife it's your name
00:40:16
Teresa because the wheels that come to
00:40:19
the session hoping to find out about
00:40:21
their now
00:40:21
ten-year-old son Kevin had been
00:40:23
innocently gunned down in 1991 allegedly
00:40:27
by gang members and a drive-by shooting
00:40:30
yeah I want to bring in your is a boy
00:40:33
yes cuz I get a boy yes okay so his son
00:40:37
he says I'm their son yes okay
00:40:40
was he killed yes because he says I was
00:40:42
killed
00:40:43
yeah was there a gun involved here
00:40:46
please
00:40:47
yes because he shows me a gun and he
00:40:49
says he was shot yes
00:40:52
I don't feel he was shot once I feel he
00:40:54
shot more than once okay I feel riddled
00:40:57
I really do with bullets I do I felt
00:40:59
many bullets in me and this is what he's
00:41:02
giving me here I'm sorry it's a gang
00:41:07
it's a gang yes
00:41:10
gang of kids gang of kids and it's
00:41:12
Teresa approached me to come in to see
00:41:13
James on Prague
00:41:15
I was very skeptical I really didn't
00:41:17
want to come but then to know that Kevin
00:41:20
was killed with a gun and it was
00:41:22
multiple shots it was outside on a
00:41:25
street he just kept alluding to more and
00:41:28
more of the things that he had no idea
00:41:32
he would have had no idea I'd go a big K
00:41:36
and I don't know why but I'm being given
00:41:38
the K is his name with a K please like
00:41:41
kids or Ken Kevin Kevin thank you as I
00:41:44
said yeah he said I see a big K and the
00:41:47
first name he said was Kevin I mean okay
00:41:50
you can't get that off of you know just
00:41:52
being around this room it was just
00:41:53
amazing I think he's wonderful
00:41:55
absolutely wonderful first of all she
00:41:58
had her son's ring on big black ring
00:42:02
with a K in diamonds on this ring around
00:42:04
her necklace around her neck now maybe
00:42:08
he saw that maybe he didn't I don't know
00:42:10
I'd go to bed k and I don't know why but
00:42:14
I'm being given the case I was watching
00:42:15
her her eyes you know who what you know
00:42:17
she starts crying eyes are like saucers
00:42:18
and he already knows it's it's her son
00:42:21
that died so two most common names for
00:42:24
boys with starting with AK a cannon
00:42:25
Kevin he says Kenner Kevin she says
00:42:27
Kevin
00:42:28
bingo Kevin now she'll run home and tell
00:42:30
everybody he got my son's name Kevin
00:42:33
right like that I didn't
00:42:34
no he didn't get it however Teresa
00:42:38
claims that Van Praagh couldn't have
00:42:40
seen the ring because she had kept it
00:42:42
hidden in the bodice of her dress
00:42:44
but perhaps disagreements about details
00:42:47
and beside the point
00:42:48
a Vern Prague may not have satisfied
00:42:50
everyone at the seance most felt a sense
00:42:53
of comfort and healing I do feel a
00:42:57
little more at peace I know that there
00:43:00
is another life after this because what
00:43:04
James had told me through Kevin and the
00:43:07
fact that he sees me that he hears me
00:43:09
talking to him that it's not all in vain
00:43:12
is what really makes me feel at ease
00:43:16
sometimes you don't know how you're
00:43:17
going to make it from one minute to the
00:43:19
next it's so horribly painful but now I
00:43:23
know that my Debbie could see me and
00:43:25
that she can hear me and I can tell her
00:43:28
I love that there was just quite a few
00:43:31
things that were close enough that made
00:43:35
you think well he's tapping into
00:43:36
something I'm just not quite sure what
00:43:38
it is and when one realizes that there
00:43:41
is a life after death it indeed will
00:43:44
change their life and how they live on
00:43:45
the earth and how they treat each other
00:43:47
and that is really my most important
00:43:50
belief my mission
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on our next unsolved mysteries in 1988 a
00:44:06
massive explosion killed six
00:44:08
firefighters in Kansas City Missouri in
00:44:11
the tragic aftermath investigators
00:44:13
determined that arson was the cause
00:44:15
making the six deaths nothing less than
00:44:18
cold-blooded murders join me next Friday
00:44:22
for another intriguing edition unsolved
00:44:26
mysteries
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