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beyond belief
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fact or fiction
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hosted by jonathan frakes
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tonight your challenge is to separate
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what is true
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from what is false five stories some
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real
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some fake can you judge which are fact
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and which are fiction to find out you
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must enter a world of both
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truth and deception a world
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that is beyond belief
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truth and illusion often blend together
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the examples are all around us
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for instance this structure some might
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call it a box others are square
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still others are cube but what is the
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reality
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mass of confusion tonight you will view
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a number of stories
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and your challenge is to view them
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decide which are inspired by actual
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events
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and which are a mass of lies remember it
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won't be easy because
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if you've watched us before you know we
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don't always play
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fair and square
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[Music]
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step right up ladies and gents keep your
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eye on the little p
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which shell is it on
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anyone can win this simple game of
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observation let me guess
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you've chosen this one
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[Music]
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too bad care to play double or nothing
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fast eddie gleckin grew up running games
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like this and he loves what he does
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not for the excitement or the thrill of
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the gamble no fast eddie loves to cheat
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people out of their money
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he's a cold calculating unfeeling human
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being
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and where those qualities will lead him
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is about to be
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revealed
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[Music]
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jenny was the ex-wife of fast eddie
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gleckin eddie was the owner of a cheap
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tavern and a rundown section of brooklyn
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where i attended bar
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he was the kind of guy who would cheat
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his best friend out of a dollar and brag
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about it afterward
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i should know i was his best friend
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what are you doing here i told you never
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to come down i know but i came to get
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the money you owe me eddie i owe you
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nothing
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and you're nothing to me you were a
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mistake
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that's it you owe me five months back
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alimony and child support is the law
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oh okay i tell you what to do hire
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yourself a lawyer
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and sue me and then in a couple of years
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we'll go to court
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and you'll lose don't you care about
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your kids
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i care about me eddie gleckin not those
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brats
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they're your kids so get out of my face
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[Music]
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hello lady
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oh sorry man you lose wanna go again
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no no no thanks i'm all tapped up come
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on
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come on somebody here can play me huh i
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can't win all the time
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i'm in for a hundred
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maybe where did you come from i've never
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seen you in here before
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you want to play the game or not sure
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sure i play the game
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you seem pretty sure yourself
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[Music]
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you lose you cheated eddie what are you
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talking about
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i saw you i run a fair game here you can
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ask any one of these guys thomas
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why don't you tell yeah sure eddie's a
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nice guy
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again i'll be back
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and then we'll play by my rules
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[Music]
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hey what are your rules
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you'll see
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[Music]
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for the next two weeks fast eddie
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couldn't win at anything
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craps poker three card money whatever
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the game
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he lost big time he didn't know how but
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he really believed
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that that beautiful babe at the bar had
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put the jinx on it
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come on come on you'll never do it
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let's go eddie come on eddie come come
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on come on
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damage here's ten more come on
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[Music]
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there's enough money down here let's go
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you're gonna come
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hey eddie you gotta snap out of this
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look it's just a string of bad luck
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happens to everybody
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a boss high card wins
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for buck huh
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jack you can meet them
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[Music]
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king hey hey you won
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my man he's back yeah back
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eddie's luck returned it was just like
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before when he couldn't lose
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no one could beat him and there was no
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sign of that good looking chick anywhere
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[Applause]
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i'm so sorry to do that to you
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hey eddie what are you doing here
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i'm not giving you any money so you
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might as well get out eddie please
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the baby's sick and he needs to see a
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doctor
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i don't have any money you gotta help us
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out
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you gotta i can't believe you came down
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here
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i can't believe you came down here take
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it easy eddie
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[Music]
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you're embarrassing me in front of my
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customers now if you don't get out of
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here right now i'm gonna call a cop
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and you know they're all buddies of mine
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how would you like for the kids to come
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visit you in jail huh
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is that something you'd like
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[Music]
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you i let you start winning again eddie
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you had your chance for redemption but
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you failed the test
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what are you talking about i had a
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little streak of bad luck all right
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it's over so get out of my bar
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[Music]
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it's 100 000 i'll risk it all against
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your tavern
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[Music]
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what's a game you flip
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heads i win tails you lose
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[Music]
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what are you doing eddie shut up
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heads i win tails you lose
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heads i win
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yes i win
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eddie what did you do heads i win tails
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you lose that's the oldest sucker bet in
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the world man
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what's wrong with you man i don't know i
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couldn't help myself
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[Music]
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congratulations jenny the tavern's yours
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what i want it fair and square and i'm
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giving it to her
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wait a minute who are you i gotta know
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maybe i'm the patron saint of abused
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wives
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there's one thing for sure eddie you'll
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never win at anything again
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fast eddie gleckin only lived another
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two weeks
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he threw himself off the brooklyn bridge
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who was the mysterious woman who seemed
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to hold eddie's fate in her power
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was she really an avenging angel acting
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on behalf of eddie's ex-wife
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or was she a clever manipulator able to
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trick eddie into believing he could
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never win again
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and what about that last bet every
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gambler knows that heads i win tails you
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lose is an impossible wager
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how could eddie have possibly accepted
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was he under some spell
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or by that time was his spirit totally
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broken are you prepared to make an
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informed decision about whether this
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story is true or false
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or you're just going to flip a coin
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we'll find out whether this story is
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true or false at the end of our show
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next a photographer learns the true
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meaning of the words ghost town on
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beyond belief
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fact or fiction
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western towns have mostly disappeared
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from the american landscape these days
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have been bulldozed to make room for
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strip malls and freeways some have been
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saved as tourist attractions
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history preserved to sell beer t-shirts
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still others stand deserted no horses
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move down their empty streets
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no people walk through their swinging
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doors thomas l fergus is about to happen
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upon the strangest of western settings
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in fact you might say it's a location
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that truly deserves the name
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ghost town i've been traveling around
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the southwest shooting photos of ghost
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towns for a national magazine when my
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truck blew a radiator hose
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i couldn't have picked a better place
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they were having a cold spell
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but somewhere around 115 in the shade
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i knew one thing i had to get out of the
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heat
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no signal i wasn't surprised i never
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work when you really need him
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i really needed water now i was getting
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dizzy and i wasn't sweating anymore
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and everywhere i looked i saw nothing
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but sun
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[Music]
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somehow after almost fainting i got my
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second wind
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according to my map i was only a few
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miles away from a ghost town called
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red ridge i was hoping there was a gas
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station there or a phone that worked
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[Music]
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i found red ridge but there was no gas
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station and not a tourist in sight
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the town looked completely deserted
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[Music]
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i couldn't believe it i heard people
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inside and i thought i could finally get
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some help
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boy was i wrong my uh truck broke down i
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was wondering where the nearest gas
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station is
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where did you get those clothes wearing
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your skivvies in public
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[Music]
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skivvies
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[Laughter]
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oh i get it you're shooting a movie here
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huh
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you're joking
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i meant no harm i didn't i didn't mean
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to offend you
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weird very weird
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that's carlos
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hi y'all
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what do you have a cold
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beer we got beer but it ain't cold
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fine i'll drink anything
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my truck broke down i really need to
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find a gas station do you mind if i use
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your phone
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my what your phone your telephone
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why do i have to explain everything here
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that'll be two bits for the beer
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[Music]
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what is this come on it's a 20
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bill man you got gold silver
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no i don't then you don't get no beer
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look you can keep the change
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just give me something to drink please
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i've been baking under that sun for the
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last two hours
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and nobody's making any sense here yeah
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well he can play tricks with your mind
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son
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it's not the heat
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[Music]
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excuse me
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this can't be something something's
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wrong here
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what year is it
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[Music]
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it's 1848 what year you think it is
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can't be 1848 that's more than 150 years
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ago
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this can't be happening who are you
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people
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why are you doing this to me what's
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going on here
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[Music]
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you understand me boy
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[Music]
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i'm not trying to cause any trouble i
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just want to get out of here
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all right i'm going to call a friend i'm
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going to have him pick me up
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you'll never see me again i promise
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drop your weapon now this is not a
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weapon
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this is a phone you call people with it
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see
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[Music]
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let's go boy
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i woke up the next morning in a jail
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cell at first i didn't know where i was
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then it all started coming back
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and then i heard the truck engine
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sheriff sheriff let me out of here
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[Music]
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i am so glad to see you
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wait a minute you're the bartender from
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that saloon
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bartender
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i don't think so that saloon hasn't been
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open for over 100 years
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but there were people and music it was
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1848 and they
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they didn't know what a 20 bill was and
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then the sheriff
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shot me and hey
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take it easy have some water
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then he said the same words the
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bartender said
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the heat can play tricks with your mind
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son
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just want to get my truck fixed and go
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home hop
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in take you to a gas station probably
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suffering from heat stroke happens all
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the time out here
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it just seems so real
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what is it nothing
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just an old cell phone
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as you might have guessed the photos
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thomas took never came out
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was he the victim of heatstroke doctors
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tell us prolonged sun exposure
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and dehydration can cause a person to
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hallucinate
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but then how do you explain the bullet
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hole in his phone
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could this whole experience have been a
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practical joke played by a board movie
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crew
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if so where were the cameras the crew
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and the lights or maybe it was one of
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those old frontier days celebrations
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or just maybe thomas cross some line
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where the past and present
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are indiscernible as indiscernible as
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day from dusk
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love from hate or fact from fiction
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we'll find out whether this story is
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true or false at the end of our show
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next mysterious sights and sounds in an
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old attic
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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not long ago millions of american women
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worked proudly as seamstresses
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some worked in giant warehouses others
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out of their own homes
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but all shared one thing in common pride
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and respect for their work
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byron tompkins grandmother was a gifted
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seamstress and although her clothes
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adorned some of the most beautiful women
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in the world
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she herself struggled every day to
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provide a good life for her family
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she's gone now and life is bumpy for her
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grandson
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who's married facing struggles of his
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own but perhaps it's time for byron
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to reap what his grandmother has sown
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my husband byron and i were deeply in
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debt after our restaurant went under
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we were facing foreclosure on our house
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and figured the only way we might save
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it was to sell the antiques we inherited
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from his grandmother lillian
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we really didn't want to it all meant so
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much to byron
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but we had no other choice
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brunswick model c i think yes
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nice
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[Music]
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yeah so um so what do you think well
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there is really nothing here of
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worth i can give you fifteen hundred
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dollars
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for the whole lot fifteen hundred
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dollars or the sewing machine alone must
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be worth more than that
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that machine is a piece of history my
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grandmother was a seamstress at mgm
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studios over 60 years ago and she made a
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lot of great costumes on that machine
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well it might be worth a little more if
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it worked but
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i'm afraid in its present condition it
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is just a piece of junk i'm sorry
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it works it works look you just have to
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know how to work it
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please please mr tompkins you have my
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offer
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you may take it or you may leave it
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fifteen hundred dollars for my
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grandmother's life we're gonna leave it
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fine okay
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[Music]
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mr montague yes we'd like to think about
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it
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can we call you tomorrow of course think
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all you want
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you won't do better anywhere else i
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guarantee it
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i'll walk you to the door i'm most kind
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[Music]
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that's weird
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i can't believe that 1500 bucks for all
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that stuff and you know he's just gonna
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turn around and sell it for five times
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that much
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byron i know it's not a lot of money but
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it will buy us a little more time
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i think your grandmother would
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understand why is this happening to us
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first the restaurant now we might lose
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the house
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[Music]
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i just don't get it sylvie you know
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these things happen to everybody
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but we'll get through we've done it
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before
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i'll call mine to you in the morning and
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i just want to go to bed and
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dream of being rich
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look look at this all my buttons fell
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off that's
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weird i'll sew them on for in the
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morning
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but uh i kind of like the look
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[Music]
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sylvie wake up baby wake up
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listen listen ain't that strange now
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yeah it's called a refrigerator
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but it's coming from above
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there it stopped now go back to sleep
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[Music]
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that's not the fridge ah
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what happened
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you didn't drop these did you not me
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it's coming from the attic i think
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that's where these came from
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oh my god what's going on i don't know
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it must have started on its own
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happening
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oh
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you think it's gonna start up again i
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don't know i didn't think it would start
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the first time
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[Music]
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that was weird what a trip
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what is this what's gwtw
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i don't know was this always on the
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machine
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what's this oh
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look at this gown it's gorgeous
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your grandmother was so talented
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what's this tag on the sleeve
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oh my gosh byron you're not gonna
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believe this
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what vivian lee wardrobe
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gone with the win 1939.
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[Music]
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gwtw
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we sold the dress and made enough money
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to get ourselves out of debt
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[Music]
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is this story true was the sewing
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machine taken over by the spirit of
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byron's grandmother
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or was it just some mechanical
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aberration that caused the machine to
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behave that way
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but then how do you explain the gwtw
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could that really have been a random
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pattern
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was that swatch there all along
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unnoticed by byron and sylvia
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is this story of a sewing machine that
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takes on a life of its own the truth
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or have we just stitched together a
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series of lies
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we'll find out whether this story is
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true or false at the end of our show
00:25:54
next a sleepwalker brings a curse on his
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family
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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can't sleep that's why devices such as
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this one were invented
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with a push of a button our ears can be
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transported to the soothing wash of the
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ocean's waves against the shore
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or the tranquil sounds of the nighttime
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forest
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leon t woodward never gets a good
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night's sleep anymore but leon doesn't
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merely toss and turn in his sleep
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he walks and his sleepwalking is
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becoming increasingly frightening and
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destructive
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and as for his wife well let's say
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leon's sleep disorder is starting to
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push her buttons
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my husband leon was struggling to keep
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his business from going under
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we had a beautiful little daughter and
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what i thought was a happy marriage
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but soon after our finances worsened
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leon began to leave our bed at night and
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go for walks
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in his sleep leon would frequently trip
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over peggy's toys
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he even smashed her favorite dollhouse i
00:26:59
was worried he would break his neck
00:27:02
what happened you you were walking in
00:27:04
your sleep again
00:27:06
did you hurt yourself i don't think so
00:27:10
leon we have to do something about this
00:27:13
i know
00:27:15
i know
00:27:20
of all the problems his sleepwalking
00:27:22
caused leon felt
00:27:23
most guilty about damaging our
00:27:25
daughter's dollhouse
00:27:28
she loved that thing so much she spent
00:27:30
hours painting and repairing it with
00:27:32
leon
00:27:34
[Music]
00:27:40
see daddy fixed it i told you it'd be
00:27:43
all right
00:27:45
thanks daddy now try not to be so clumsy
00:27:48
next time
00:27:49
at least your dolls are all right that's
00:27:51
the most important thing
00:27:55
they all love you you know i love them
00:28:00
too
00:28:02
i didn't know what to make of the
00:28:04
expression on leon's face
00:28:06
at that moment but i've never forgotten
00:28:09
[Music]
00:28:14
it
00:28:16
[Music]
00:28:22
months passed and leon's condition
00:28:24
worsened he began going on longer and
00:28:26
longer walks
00:28:27
the doctors suggested that we put bells
00:28:29
on his wrist so we could hear him
00:28:34
and thank goodness we did
00:28:46
i couldn't take it anymore i even
00:28:48
suggested a psychic healer named madame
00:28:50
tula
00:28:52
she had the reputation for being
00:28:53
melodramatic but i could put up with the
00:28:55
theatrics
00:28:56
in exchange for some answers
00:29:01
what's wrong what is it
00:29:10
someone has cashed a dark and ancient
00:29:12
spell
00:29:13
spell come on this is ridiculous
00:29:18
you have been hexed mr woodward
00:29:23
you are doomed to wander in the night
00:29:24
for the rest of your life
00:29:27
you will leave your home one day
00:29:30
and you will not return oh in a minute
00:29:33
this is crazy
00:29:35
what can we do about it how do we break
00:29:37
it i'm sorry
00:29:39
there is nothing i can do listen
00:29:43
i'm never gonna leave you i love you
00:29:46
[Music]
00:29:50
for the next week i hardly slept at all
00:29:53
i laid awake every night making sure
00:29:55
leon was still there next to me
00:29:57
we even discussed securing him to the
00:29:59
bed but only as a last resort
00:30:02
now i wish we had finally exhaustion
00:30:06
took over and i fell asleep against my
00:30:08
will
00:30:10
i'll never forgive myself for that
00:30:15
i ran through the house listening for
00:30:17
leon's bells
00:30:20
but i heard nothing this time leon was
00:30:23
gone
00:30:24
i feared madame tula's prophecy had come
00:30:26
[Music]
00:30:34
true
00:30:36
[Applause]
00:30:37
i i can't think of anything else
00:30:41
oh i did tell you that he was wearing
00:30:42
his striped pajamas didn't i
00:30:45
i'm sorry but i have to ask this is
00:30:47
there any reason
00:30:49
why he might leave you marital problems
00:30:52
maybe
00:30:52
no we have a perfect marriage
00:30:56
it was the sleepwalking i am sure of it
00:31:00
well i'll file a missing person's report
00:31:02
and we'll keep an eye on the hospitals
00:31:03
if anything comes up
00:31:04
i'll let you know right away
00:31:08
you will find him won't you let's hope
00:31:12
he just comes home
00:31:21
hello hi mom
00:31:26
no not a word
00:31:29
i'm going crazy
00:31:32
he could be lying somewhere hurt
00:31:37
what am i gonna do
00:31:40
i love him so much
00:31:46
what if that old woman is right and what
00:31:50
if he's gone forever
00:31:51
mommy hey
00:31:58
what is it honey i know where daddy is
00:32:02
i'll call you right back
00:32:05
where where is daddy come with me i'll
00:32:09
show you
00:32:15
[Music]
00:32:17
sweetheart you're really worried about
00:32:19
daddy aren't you
00:32:21
daddy said he never leave me
00:32:24
we'll be back and we have to believe
00:32:27
that but he's here
00:32:28
in my dollhouse look
00:32:33
there in peggy's precious dollhouse was
00:32:36
a doll i had never noticed before
00:32:42
see it's daddy
00:32:46
[Applause]
00:32:51
[Music]
00:32:54
what's the reality here was there really
00:32:56
some
00:32:57
supernatural force that caused the
00:32:59
disappearance of leon woodward
00:33:00
or was it all a scheme to skip out of an
00:33:02
ominous financial situation
00:33:05
what about the doll that looked so much
00:33:06
likely on was it always there and not
00:33:09
noticed until that
00:33:10
day or was it something leon had made to
00:33:12
leave behind as a comfort to his
00:33:13
daughter
00:33:14
nor was it some strange curse that
00:33:16
trapped the restless spirit of leon
00:33:18
woodward
00:33:19
inside the walls of the child styles
00:33:22
are you ready to decide if this tale of
00:33:24
the strange some nambalist is real
00:33:27
would you like to sleep on it we'll find
00:33:29
out whether this story is true or false
00:33:31
at the end of our show
00:33:33
next a woman is terrorized by a gang of
00:33:35
thugs
00:33:36
on beyond belief fact or fiction
00:33:39
the neighborhood laundromat up until 20
00:33:42
years ago
00:33:44
most people living in a big city cleaned
00:33:45
their clothes in store fronts that house
00:33:47
machines like these it was a chore to be
00:33:49
sure
00:33:50
but it was also a place where he could
00:33:52
see friends catch up on some reading
00:33:54
or even strike up a new romance as
00:33:56
appliances have become more friendly
00:33:58
laundromats have become more scarce
00:34:00
still some hang on maria sanchez owns
00:34:03
one such place
00:34:04
her faith keeps her hanging on through
00:34:06
many obstacles like bad weather tough
00:34:08
times
00:34:09
and sheer terror
00:34:13
i'd been working hard for the past year
00:34:15
trying to make a go of my late husband's
00:34:17
laundromat
00:34:19
i was raising five small children on my
00:34:21
own it wasn't
00:34:22
easy business was very slow i couldn't
00:34:25
talk the landlord mr flint into a fresh
00:34:28
paint job
00:34:28
even though it might have attracted some
00:34:30
new customers
00:34:32
i felt sorry for mr flint he wasn't a
00:34:35
very happy man
00:34:37
[Music]
00:34:39
how you doing maria good afternoon mr
00:34:42
flint
00:34:43
i wasn't expecting you today i would
00:34:45
have to make an appointment i
00:34:47
own the place i know i'm just surprised
00:34:50
oh i got a bit of a surprise for you
00:34:54
i can't give you any more extension on
00:34:56
your rent
00:34:57
you're two months behind now in fact i
00:34:59
gotta bump it up another ten bucks mr
00:35:02
flint i can't pay any more rent
00:35:05
i'm having trouble paying what i own now
00:35:07
look maria i have expenses
00:35:09
i got a business to run if you can't pay
00:35:12
i'm gonna have to evict you
00:35:14
not that i'm gonna like doing it but uh
00:35:16
that's the way it is
00:35:18
evict me but this is all i have
00:35:23
how how will i support my children
00:35:26
what will happen to them maria i can't
00:35:28
solve everybody's problems i have enough
00:35:30
problems of my own
00:35:38
mr flint why are you doing this we go so
00:35:41
far back
00:35:42
why are you making this so hard for me
00:35:44
you think life is hard for you alone
00:35:47
dirtbags broke into my house last night
00:35:50
they took some things that meant an
00:35:52
awful lot to me things i can't replace
00:35:54
ever
00:35:57
i'm sorry mr flynn what happened to you
00:36:01
it's a terrible thing i will pray for
00:36:05
you
00:36:06
hey maria save your prayers for somebody
00:36:08
who believes
00:36:10
you got another week and that's it
00:36:24
i prayed not only for the salvation of
00:36:27
myself and my children
00:36:28
but i also pray to the holy mother for
00:36:30
mr flint
00:36:32
i asked for a small miracle that day
00:36:34
even though i knew they don't always
00:36:36
come
00:36:37
one never came for my husband ramon but
00:36:40
i never lost my faith
00:36:43
[Music]
00:36:48
that afternoon i filled the coin changer
00:36:51
with my last hundred and fifty dollars
00:36:53
in change
00:36:54
i was feeling very fearful about the
00:36:56
future
00:36:57
what was going to become of me and my
00:37:00
children
00:37:01
i really needed a miracle but i got just
00:37:05
the opposite
00:37:06
i was about to experience a terrible
00:37:08
moment
00:37:17
just stay away from me
00:37:34
man there's nothing in these things this
00:37:35
place is a toilet
00:37:38
you hear that lady he thinks your place
00:37:39
is a toilet
00:37:42
this one here you think baby i think
00:37:44
that's really rude
00:37:46
don't you oh
00:37:57
[Music]
00:38:03
they were at the machines that i just
00:38:05
loaded with change
00:38:06
they were using slugs instead of
00:38:08
quarters it was like stealing the last
00:38:10
money i had
00:38:12
i want you to go over there and hit them
00:38:13
lady please stop you're hurting me
00:38:20
hey guys look i'm winning vegas
00:38:25
[Applause]
00:38:25
[Music]
00:38:26
stay down don't move
00:38:31
give me some of them old copper slugs
00:38:32
man i want one too all righty
00:38:35
good luck
00:38:46
ding ding ding ding ding
00:39:03
you know you're very lucky you didn't
00:39:06
get hurt man
00:39:07
these same punks have been going from
00:39:08
town to town doing a lot of damage
00:39:10
it was horrible i thought they were
00:39:12
going to kill me
00:39:14
look at this place it's destroyed
00:39:17
there's going to be thousands of dollars
00:39:19
worth of damage here
00:39:21
i'm breaking the lease you're out of
00:39:23
here but mr flint it's not my fault
00:39:26
this is what your prayers did nothing
00:39:28
all that got you was more trouble
00:39:30
i'm sorry you feel that way excuse me
00:39:32
mrs sanchez
00:39:34
looks like they were putting these old
00:39:35
coins in your change machine
00:39:38
thank you let me see that
00:39:46
are there any more of these coins yeah
00:39:48
they're in the machine
00:40:01
[Music]
00:40:04
i don't believe it they're all here
00:40:08
every one of them these are my
00:40:11
coins your coins the robbery i told you
00:40:15
about
00:40:16
they took my coin collection old english
00:40:19
pennies they're worth a fortune
00:40:22
but it wasn't the money
00:40:25
it belonged to my father he gave them to
00:40:28
me
00:40:29
when he died his fingers touched
00:40:33
every one of these
00:40:37
i thought they were gone forever
00:40:39
[Music]
00:40:43
okay i'm gonna repair the laundromat for
00:40:46
you
00:40:47
you are you can stay here rent free
00:40:50
for as long as you're in business oh
00:40:52
what
00:40:53
[Music]
00:40:54
you have no idea how much it means to me
00:40:58
to get these coins back
00:41:00
your prayers did work
00:41:04
it's my way of thanking you
00:41:07
[Music]
00:41:13
thank you
00:41:14
[Music]
00:41:18
it was a miracle all right it was the
00:41:20
first time i had ever heard mr flint
00:41:22
laugh
00:41:28
is this story true because the same rare
00:41:31
coins that were stolen from mr flint's
00:41:33
home have really turned up at the
00:41:34
laundromat
00:41:36
both places were located in the same
00:41:38
general area but what are the odds that
00:41:39
those stolen coins would be just the
00:41:41
right size for the coin mission
00:41:44
do you believe in this tale of the power
00:41:45
of faith or on closer examination
00:41:49
you find that it just doesn't wash
00:41:52
next you'll find out which of our
00:41:54
stories are fact
00:41:55
and which are fiction when beyond belief
00:42:00
returns now let's look back at tonight's
00:42:03
stories and find out which ones were
00:42:04
inspired by
00:42:05
actual events and which ones are totally
00:42:07
false
00:42:09
how about the story of the gambler whose
00:42:11
luck was changed by a woman with
00:42:12
mysterious power
00:42:14
fact or fiction what's the game
00:42:18
you flip heads i win tails you lose
00:42:23
what are you doing eddie shut up if you
00:42:27
thought this story was based on a real
00:42:28
life occurrence
00:42:30
you're right it's inspired by a bar and
00:42:32
grill where a similar story took place
00:42:34
in the late 70s
00:42:35
it happened
00:42:38
[Music]
00:42:41
let's take another look at the man who
00:42:42
found himself surrounded by the ghost of
00:42:44
the old west
00:42:46
drop your weapon now this is not a
00:42:49
weapon this is a
00:42:50
phone you call people with it see
00:42:55
did you think this story really happened
00:42:58
we gotcha partner
00:42:59
it's a fake
00:43:01
[Music]
00:43:05
and what was your opinion of the sewing
00:43:06
machine that saved a young couple's
00:43:10
on i don't know it future have started
00:43:12
on its own
00:43:19
is this story inspired by an actual
00:43:21
event not this time
00:43:23
our writer has exaggerated the truth
00:43:30
and now let's have one more look at the
00:43:31
sleepwalker who walked out of his
00:43:33
family's life
00:43:34
daddy said he'd never leave me
00:43:38
we'll be back and we have to believe
00:43:40
that
00:43:41
but he's here in my dollhouse look
00:43:46
did a similar story to this one actually
00:43:48
take place
00:43:50
yes it did in florida in fact when
00:43:53
author robert treylands investigated the
00:43:55
story
00:43:55
he was shown the doll that was the tiny
00:43:57
replica of the father
00:43:59
it's fact
00:44:01
[Music]
00:44:04
how about the story of the laundromat
00:44:06
that was saved by the power of a good
00:44:08
woman's prayers
00:44:09
i can't give you any more extension on
00:44:11
your rent
00:44:12
you're two months behind now in fact i
00:44:15
gotta bump it up another ten bucks
00:44:18
mr flint i can't pay any more rent was
00:44:21
this story based on a real happening
00:44:24
according to our research this happened
00:44:25
in the vicinity of our nation's capital
00:44:27
it's inspired by an actual event
00:44:34
tonight we've attempted to demonstrate
00:44:35
the similar nature of fact and fiction
00:44:38
we must weigh the difference every day
00:44:40
and sometimes the only thing that tips
00:44:42
the scales are circumstances
00:44:43
that can only be regarded as beyond
00:44:45
belief i'm jonathan franks
00:44:48
join us next week for more beyond belief
00:44:51
fact or fiction
00:45:05
[Music]
00:45:36
you
