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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 in 1987 Wytheville Virginia
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was dead used by an unprecedented wave
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of UFO sightings our newsman Danny
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Gordon the man at the center of the
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storm the sightings began a series of
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threatening phone calls and break-ins
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which made him regret that he ever went
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public with a story but a newspaper
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reporter in Ohio began researching
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several uncollected murders yet no idea
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that his investigation would take him
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into a dark and dangerous subculture and
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put him on the trail of a possible
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serial killer 70 years ago a man named
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Bill Beatty had a vision he would build
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a magnificent castle in the rolling
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hills of New Jersey today many people
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believe they have seen his ghost roaming
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the grounds unable and unwilling to
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leave his masterpiece join me for
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another edition unsolved mysteries
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during the past five years unsolved
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mysteries has broadcast a number of
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stories dealing with unidentified flying
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objects viewed in retrospect they
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Chronicle the history of UFO sightings
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in America and Europe today most of us
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take tales of UFO sightings for granted
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yet the phenomenon was virtually unheard
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of until just after World War two 1947
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the genesis of UFO sightings unfolded in
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the New Mexico desert near Roswell Army
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Air Base military investigators were
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called in to examine the debris of an
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unknown aircraft the incident was
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thoroughly documented and even
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publicized incredibly a few eyewitnesses
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claimed that alien life-forms were also
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recovered ultimately the authorities
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denied the entire affair and insisted
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the UFO was nothing more than a downed
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weather balloon
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eighteen years later in 1965 residents
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of a small Pennsylvania village observed
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a fiery object streak through the sky
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then fall to earth many witnesses saw an
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Air Force radar squadron hauling the
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object away the military dismissed
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deciding as a meteorite and insisted
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that nothing was ever recovered over the
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next 25 years reports of Close
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Encounters proliferated many of them on
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or near military bases
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one of the most remarkable occurred on
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December 26 1980 at Bentwaters an
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American airbase in England definitely
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something up there
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an object in the ground near our feet
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according to eyewitnesses the sightings
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continued in various forms until
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December 28th
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the next day a continent away in Texas a
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woman named Betty cash suffers severe
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radiation burns she claims she had been
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exposed to the energy field of a bizarre
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flying object
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most recently between 1989 and 1991
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thousands of people in Belgium reported
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literal invasion of strange unearthly
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crafts
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amazingly the Belgian air force is able
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to capture on radar the swift and
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erratic movements of an unidentified
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craft which defied the laws of known
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physics
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for those of us who've never encountered
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a UFO reports of such events often sound
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far-fetched
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in fact some eyewitnesses who go public
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risk becoming the object of ridicule and
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scorn others are simply ignored in
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either case an acknowledged UFO sighting
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can profoundly change a person's life in
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ways that he or she never imagined
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possible with Ville Virginia population
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8000 is nestled in the foothills of the
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Blue Ridge Mountains country music
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station W yve calls herself the voice of
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Wytheville on most days life here is
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peaceful unpretentious and uneventful
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but that was about to change for sure
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Nana Carter on October 7th 1987 radio
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reporter Danny Gordon checked in as
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usual with a County Sheriff and heard an
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unbelievable tale Austin ville got
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anything else
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you're kidding me three with County
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sheriff's deputies all former military
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men claimed they had seen a UFO when was
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that unidentified flying objects have
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been sighted over with County on Monday
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and Tuesday evenings the with County
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share the filler piece who came home at
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the end of the news which I usually
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relegate to something that's maybe an
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unusual like we had a one police officer
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killed five chickens once with two shots
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and that was a story that ran is kind of
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a haha piece and this was another haha
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piece and have been a very skeptical
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newsman it was definitely not in my lead
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part of my news
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Danny Gordon's fluff story sparked
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unprecedented listener reaction reports
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of UFO sightings poured into WI ve with
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a switchboard jammed Gordon finally set
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up a special calling program for the
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evening of October 19th 1987
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what follows is based on verbatim
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transcripts of the actual telephone
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calls we could see was red green and
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white sort of flashing lights
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we saw a plane go by with you know red
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red flashing lights we knew it wasn't a
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jet of any sort okay well I appreciate
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that thanks a lot being a brasstacks
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journalist I always believed there is a
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plausible logical explanation and I felt
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at that time that it was military of
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some nature and that we would find the
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reason in a short period of time
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Danny Gordon thought the UFOs are most
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like the experimental aircraft being
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tested out of Virginia's Langley Air
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Force Base but he was repeatedly told by
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the military that there was no testing
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going on as more and more residents had
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sightings the military did come up with
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one explanation everybody had been
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telling us that what people were seeing
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were planes refueling and so I said well
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I didn't know that they did that and
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then I thought well why are they doing
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that down over my house you know isn't
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this something they should be doing away
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from populated areas I call the Pentagon
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and talk to the Air Force general there
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who told me if they refueling under
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13,000 feet than somebody's butts in a
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sling and to this day we don't know if
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they were refueling at 5,000 feet at the
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same time I have asked if it is military
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then I'll back off the story and leave
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it alone if you tell me because I'm a
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patriot and each time I'm told it's not
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us we're not doing it and we haven't
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been doing it on October 21st just two
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weeks after the original report Danny
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Gordon and a friend Roger Hall drove to
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the area south of whitfill where most of
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the sightings had occurred they brought
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along a 35 millimeter still camera as
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well as a video camera
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we were headed home after two hours of
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fruitless searching about a quarter to
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9:00 on route 21 south coming into
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Wytheville and just happened to look to
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my left and saw a very unusual object
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coming across the horizon
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what's that what there's some some
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lights or something I'm gonna pull over
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I pulled off to the side of the road in
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a hurry
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jumped out he get out of the the right
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side and as he got out I notice the
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craft was coming at me was very large
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you had a dome-shaped to the top of it
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and no wings
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and had what appeared to be a strobe
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putting out multicolored lights on the
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right side of the craft it was probably
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less than a thousand feet away and a
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thousand feet high to maximum we guessed
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it of being at least two football fields
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in diameter you could see three huge
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look like picture windows in the back of
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it that were lit from the inside out as
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I watched the sky from the left came a
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red ball as the big mothership went into
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a small skiff of clouds the red ball
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docked with a craft it was like you were
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watching a computer game and watching
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these things develop on the video screen
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did you get a picture of that no didn't
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you there's a camera on the trunk
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where's your camera in the car I was
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driving
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we looked at each other and realized no
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pictures the camera was on in my hand
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the camera was on his hand and we both
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knew we blew it don't we think I can say
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we were just all struck by it or just
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dumb whichever one I'm not sure with but
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we sure didn't get any pictures of it
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the next night Gordon and Hall would go
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out again this time they would take
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photographs with a film still
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undeveloped the press conference was
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called for the following day October
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23rd 1987 the night before the press
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conference I received a phone call from
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somebody who refused to identify himself
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and they said that I need to be aware
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that the CIA and the federal government
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were very much interested in with kind
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of UFOs I started to wonder why I had
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stepped into and my wife was urging me
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to back off to leave it alone and I also
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was receiving some anonymous phone calls
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saying you know it's something you need
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to leave it alone because it's not for
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your place to be messing in defense
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matters
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Becki after the press conference
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Gordon discovered that his house had
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been broken into a key
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oddly nothing was stolen and Gordon is
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convinced that someone was looking for
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the photographs when developed the
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pictures revealed only vague streaks of
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light in the sky but Danny Gordon would
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soon have another opportunity to
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photograph the UFOs six weeks later on
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December 2nd Danny his wife and daughter
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were leaving the local mall when they
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encountered some unexpected visitors
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[Music]
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we look very quickly and solved what I
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thought was one large object which later
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appeared to be for flying fish shapes as
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soon as the objects were photographed
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they disappeared from view
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one of the pictures came out and they
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had a lot of grain but they showed
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definite four shapes of objects in the
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sky but the most impressive point in the
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four photographs the objects appear to
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change shape or light formations within
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one click of the camera they go from a
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teardrop shape to a round ball shape
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then they go to a flying saucer like
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this shape and then they go to add shape
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as they go out of sight
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the people of width you do that
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something extraordinary was happening in
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their town by the end of December the
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sightings numbered well over 1500 one of
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the first occurred here near Interstate
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81 a mile from downtown Wytheville
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eyewitnesses said the craft resembled a
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brilliantly lit whirling carousel
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immediately other sightings cropped up
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I'm not mistaken about what we saw
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absolutely not because we had never seen
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this before we didn't have any reason to
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make any stories up I kept a journal
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Tricia Akers had 10 sightings all of
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them here 8 miles north of Wytheville
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the best way I can describe them is that
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they lose sort of look like a cross
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between a helicopter and an airplane
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with no noise no or very little noise
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and to be so large I don't know how they
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stayed up I'd say that the educated uh
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psychologists and psychiatrists
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debunking what we've seen and everything
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they've never been here they've never
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seen it
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I was skeptic until I start seeing this
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stuff rita marie fought saw a UFO behind
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this Ridge half a mile from her house
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I've seen the circle of object in the
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sky of all different colors that kept
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going around and around it would be sort
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of looking like a carousel but it didn't
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scare me none of this has scared me
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until I see the little green men walking
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around I won't be scared you just had
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this feeling of something really really
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big just move and just drifting over
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your head and no sound or anything
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Mary Jean Williams in sight
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occurred directly above her house in the
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center of Wytheville it had all the
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white lights in the front used to be
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semicircle of white lights and it was
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just huge I mean it was just absolutely
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huge
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but you couldn't actually see an outline
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or anything like that I know it wasn't
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the planet Venus and I know it was not
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atmospheric phenomena these were some
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kind of craft moving over our house
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eventually I got around to calling the
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Pentagon and talked with a spokesman for
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defense of the Pentagon and he speaks
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for all the defense branches and he told
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me quote twice we do not deny UFOs exist
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the government confirms they exist but
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we deny they pose a threat to the
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populace of with County and my question
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was how do you know this and he said I
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can't tell you but there's no threat to
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you so that's reason we're not sending
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convoys of aircraft down or to protect
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with County on march 19th 1988 Danny
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Gordon was packing for a broadcasters
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conference in Virginia Beach where he
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was to speak about his UFO coverage I
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received a phone call home from a
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retired military intelligence officer
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and first he told me to make sure that I
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taped the conversation so you could put
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the date and everyone to be aware I said
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why do you want to tape this and he said
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I want your friends to know something
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happens to you that I'm forewarned Jews
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he told me that because of his
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investigation into the UFO field that
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they had hit his son and caused his son
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to die with some kind of virus connected
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to leukemia no he said that he had
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information to the federal government
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was not very happy with my UFO
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investigations and they felt like I was
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too loud of a voice to quieten by just
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killing me which made me very happy and
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he said they won't acquire you in a
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different fashion you know it's one
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thing for someone to threaten myself
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when he threatened my family
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you're trading on very thin water so
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when I found out that he could be
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believed just could be it scared me the
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same time made me mad because I had to
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try to protect my family protect myself
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and at the same time because I am I
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believe in free speech I was refusing to
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allow this man to stop me from going to
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Virginia Beach to talk well I'm going to
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Virginia Beach
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I appreciate it I appreciate thank you
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for coal what was that about
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nothing oddly enough it was the same
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weekend that there was a hepatitis
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epidemic in Virginia Beach had I come
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down with hepatitis I would have
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believed and everyone would have
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believed they had gotten to me but I
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came back with no problems and the
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children were in good shape less than
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one month after the distributing fold
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card Gordon had two surprised visitors
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at his home Michael
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the Richmond Gazette okay let's ask a
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few questions we don't mind about these
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recent UFO sightings okay great
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they remain for approximately 45 minutes
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one interviewing Danny Gordon the other
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roaming through the house snapping
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photographs they had told me when they
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left they would send me a copy of the
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article psychic peruse it and when I
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didn't receive one I called the
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newspaper and they said well these two
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guys are not on our payroll they don't
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work for us so who they were I don't
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know but they wind my house saw my
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picture saw my negatives talk to my
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family took pictures and then left but
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then they were not with a newspaper
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thousands I think we've gotten thank you
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very much for your time thank you
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[Music]
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a few weeks later Danny Gordon sat down
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to organize and catalogue his UFO
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photographs when I got to the canister
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which had the UFO negatives I quickly
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opened it up and found some UFO
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negatives but the one negative with the
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shots from the shopping mall was missing
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I felt like maybe there was something in
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those photographs that I was not seen so
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I took the photographs to some other
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people to look at we use magnifying
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glasses we looked we measured angles
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trying to find out why these photographs
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were so important and we've yet to
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discover why anyone would want to steal
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that warm Pacific set of four in a
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series of photographs of the UFOs Danny
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Gordon had nearly reached the end of his
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rope his house had been broken into
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he had received countless late-night
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phone calls some of them threatening
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bogus reporters had visited his home and
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finally his UFO negatives disappeared
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[Music]
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two months later the stress caught up
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with Danny Gordon
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[Music]
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doctors would later determine that the
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attack had been brought on not by heart
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problems but by severe exhaustion Danny
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Gordon was cautioned a continued
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involvement with the UFO controversy
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could jeopardize his health I myself
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have not had a sliding since December of
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1990 but purposely I don't go out and
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look because it's upset my life enough I
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would just as soon never see a UFO again
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in my lifetime if I had my choice I'd
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not report the UFO story again it's just
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been too hard on my life and created too
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many problems don't look up because once
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you look up and you tell somebody what
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you saw your life has changed forever
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in late 1987 Danny Gordon receives an
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average of 500 telephone calls about
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UFOs each month today the calls add
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little to approximately 50 per month the
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UFO heyday and Wytheville is apparently
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drawn to a close
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Danny gorgeous health and life for back
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to normal but if history is any
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indicator some time soon in another
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small town someone else will look up and
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his or her life will never be the same
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next in Ohio a reporter's curiosity
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leads to a statewide hunt for a possible
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serial killer on April 19th 1990 the
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partially nude body of a woman was found
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behind a truck stop in Lincoln County
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Ohio
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she had been beaten to death all of her
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jewelry and some articles of clothing
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were missing despite an extensive
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investigation by county sheriff's the
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victim was never identified no one was
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aware that her murder was not an
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isolated case four years earlier the
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body of this woman 23 year old Shirley
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Dean Taylor was found behind a traffic
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barrier on Interstate 71 in nearby
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Medina County Taylor a known prostitute
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had also been beaten to death as in the
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case of the Jane Doe all jewelry and
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several pieces of clothing had been
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removed from the body
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no one would connect the nearly
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identical murders until 1990 in November
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of that year
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Michael Behrens a reporter for The
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Columbus Dispatch began preliminary
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research for a possible story on serial
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killers I had remembered a statement
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that an FBI agent had once said and that
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prostitutes make the ideal serial killer
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victim because their transient and often
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their disappearances aren't reported
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immediately so I started looking at
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prostitute deaths all across Ohio
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primarily using newspaper stories is the
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way to track those deaths bears began to
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cross-reference unsolved murder cases in
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Ohio a sinister pattern soon emerged
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eight women in eight different counties
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had been beaten or strangled to death
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each was found alongside a major
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interstate each was a known or suspected
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prostitute all these women who were
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killed in Ohio also worked at truck
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stops or were last believed to have been
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working at a truck stop and that was the
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third major factor that started tying
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these dust together
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Michael Behrens began an investigation
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that took him into a little-known
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subculture of Ohio's interstate truck
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stops
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you drive by them and you see these
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these restaurants and these trucks but
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until you sit there you don't see what
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the underbelly the underworld of these
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little mini cities that form each night
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and then break apart each morning and
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come together bears discovered a
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flourishing sex for sale industry at
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truck stops throughout the state on any
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given night any number of women were
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available the prostitutes work off a CB
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radio and it's all done anonymously the
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the prostitute will get on the radio and
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give her handle and some little
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catchphrase that she's developed as her
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trademark and the truck hoe answer back
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and say yeah this is the blue Peterbilt
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in row three come meet me and she goes
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off to the truck and then usually once
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she gets in the truck she'll use the
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trucker CB to radio to her next customer
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twenty-seven-year-old anna-marie
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Patterson was a sixth known victim in
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reviewing the investigation of her
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murder
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michael bears uncovered several possible
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clues to the killer's identity
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On February 8 1987
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Annamarie was working at a truck stop in
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Austin Town Ohio 150 miles north of
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Columbus according to witnesses just
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after midnight anamarie answered a call
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from a driver of a black or dark blue
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Peterbilt truck the man used the CB
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handle dr. Nolan 25 days later
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annamarie's body was found alongside
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interstate 71 north of Cincinnati
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Annamarie was found about 250 miles from
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where she was last seen in a field and I
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drainage ditch in about four to six
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inches of water her head had been bashed
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in and she was brutally beaten she
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wasn't just killed she was mutilated in
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essence Annamarie had a rule of only
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staying in the truck stop and would not
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allow a trucker to take her off the stop
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that's why it's believed that she was
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probably killed or at least knocked
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unconscious at the stop at the time of
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her death
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Annamarie Patterson was six months
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pregnant an autopsy revealed that she
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had been killed within 48 hours of her
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disappearance the condition of her body
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clearly indicated that the killer
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kept it refrigerated for nearly a month
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there has been some speculation that
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some of these victims have been driven
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many more miles than the actual distance
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from last seen to found there may be an
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indication that the killer's doing
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something with these victims he's
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verbally physically or otherwise after
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death according to Barron's the killing
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spree began with a murder of an
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unidentified woman in April of 1981 over
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the next nine years the bodies of seven
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other victims were dumped along
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interstates of different counties each
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woman was viciously beaten or strangled
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to death each had jewelry and clothing
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removed from her body the conclusion we
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reached is that there was overwhelming
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evidence that a potential serial killer
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was trolling Ohio interstates in search
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of victims and not only Ohio but many
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different Midwest states and even going
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to the East Coast we thought the
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evidence was overwhelming to present
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that to the public on March 10th 1991
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the Columbus Dispatch ran Michael Byrnes
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story it detailed compelling evidence
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which suggested the murders of the eight
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women or the work of one killer ten days
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later the Ohio Attorney General and the
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Buckeye State sheriffs Association
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formed a special task force they
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established a 24 hour toll-free hotline
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as part of an unprecedented statewide
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investigation we were finding that what
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was happening in one County was not
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necessarily being told to another County
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and a clue in one County that may have
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met nothing may have met a great deal in
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just the adjacent County
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but maybe the most significant clue in
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this case is also the most perplexing
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killers tend to dump in places that they
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feel comfortable with that's why you'll
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find a grouping of bodies and a river or
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such this killer scatters these bodies
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and that's the big question why there
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have been great speculation among the
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officers themselves as do we really have
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an intelligent killer out there who
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knows enough about law enforcement to
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have dumped the bodies in these
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different jurisdictions there's even
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been speculation that the killer could
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be a security guard or even a former
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police officer who knows enough about
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police investigative techniques to do
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that
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Michael Behrens is convinced that one
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killer is responsible for the eight
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murders he is equally convinced that the
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victims were all doomed by their
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occupation I think the killer no doubt
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picked prostitutes because he knows that
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it does affect the quality of
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investigation prostitutes aren't going
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to be pursued as aggressively as if it
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was a child or a suburban housewife
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that's a fact of life and I think
00:31:07
everyone would agree to that I think
00:31:10
that the public has compassion for
00:31:12
anybody who was innocently murdered no
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matter what their profession no matter
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how they live their life when someone's
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life is snuffed out for absolutely no
00:31:22
reason I think people get angry
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the last known victim in Ohio was
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discovered in November of 1990 however
00:31:32
authorities have been stunned to learn
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of as many as 150 other homicides
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nationwide that fit the same basic
00:31:38
pattern recently truck drivers have been
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arrested in three separate murder
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investigations in each case of victims
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were prostitutes but none of these
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suspects has been connected to any of
00:31:49
the Ohio murders at least two of the
00:31:54
victims were last seen getting into a
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black or dark blue Peterbilt tractor
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possibly pulling a refrigerated trailer
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the driver may use a CB handles dr. know
00:32:04
stargazer or dragon I'd like to be able
00:32:09
to say that we know now whether it's one
00:32:12
person and whether it's a serial murder
00:32:14
the truth is that we don't and while
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that is certainly a plausible theory at
00:32:19
this point is nothing more than that
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stay tuned an elegant mansion in New
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Jersey is said to be haunted by the
00:32:33
ghosts of its building the ghost really
00:32:46
exists the fact is at 25 percent of all
00:32:50
Americans today believe they do
00:32:52
perhaps ghosts are no more than our own
00:32:54
need for something beyond the world we
00:32:56
can touch and feel and logically
00:32:58
comprehend or perhaps as one family in
00:33:01
New Jersey believes they're really out
00:33:04
there in 1923 a man named Bill Beatty
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had a dream he imagined a 17th century
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norman castle rising stone by stone on
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150 acres of woodland and basking ridge
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new jersey the kitchen and the basement
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Billy Beatty had the means to make his
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dream come true as an advertising
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executive in New York City yet amassed a
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sizable fortune his wife Sarah was
00:33:36
wealthy in her own right when's the oak
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coming gonna take 2 or 3 days this is
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the window I was talking about the
00:33:44
babies envisioned their castle is a
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center of an artist colony surrounded by
00:33:48
bungalows fronting a man-made lake oh
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how far up we're gonna go we're gonna go
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up another foot okay and you're gonna
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have five you and have 11 by five in
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1930 before construction was complete
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the babies moved into the castle with
00:34:02
her four children but Bill Beatty would
00:34:05
never see the completion of his dream
00:34:09
just one year later he died at the age
00:34:12
of 45 a victim of influenza his castle
00:34:15
would not be finished for another five
00:34:17
years
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Sarah Beatty never remarried she raised
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all four children in the castle and
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lived there until 1941
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from 1945 to 1971 the castle was
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occupied by two different boys schools
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from the start
00:34:38
students and teachers reported eerie
00:34:41
organ music at going through the corners
00:34:43
oddly the school or no pipe organ
00:34:46
however the long dead Bill Beatty had
00:34:49
old one
00:34:52
was it possible that bill Beatty loved
00:34:55
his castle so much that he refused to
00:34:57
leave even in death old timers remember
00:35:00
the Sarah Beatty often held seances
00:35:02
trying to communicate with Bill when the
00:35:05
second boys school moved out of the
00:35:06
castle many of the faculty and students
00:35:09
remain convinced the premises were
00:35:11
haunted in 1972 Town and Carroll
00:35:18
Burlingame bought the castle and began
00:35:20
to remodel they would soon learn about
00:35:22
the ghost in residence firsthand Carroll
00:35:26
was really the first one to feel some
00:35:28
sort of present and she had a friend
00:35:30
that was sort of an amateur
00:35:32
parapsychologist and we brought her in
00:35:34
and she said well there definitely is a
00:35:36
presence here
00:35:37
he's definitely friendly and he's male
00:35:41
and Carol said well maybe we should try
00:35:44
to get rid of him
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shouldn't we have a seance and and she
00:35:49
said no you better leave things exactly
00:35:51
the way they are he's friendly he's
00:35:52
happy let it go with that
00:35:57
after the brooding games moved in
00:35:59
hammering noises resounded through the
00:36:01
hallways and disembodied footsteps tried
00:36:04
to stairs before long the ghost made his
00:36:10
presence known another more high-tech
00:36:13
way he said I can fix it you just get
00:36:25
into a movie just the really interesting
00:36:27
part and all of a sudden the station
00:36:29
would change it would go from two to
00:36:32
three to four to five and it happened
00:36:35
more than one time I knew that there was
00:36:39
a presence here what I couldn't figure
00:36:41
out was why was he here
00:36:43
who was he when was he going to leave if
00:36:47
in fact was he ever going to leave I
00:36:50
just it was something I couldn't figure
00:36:54
out the Berlin games began to delve into
00:36:57
the history of the castle soon Eugene
00:37:00
Melville who is now 78 years old turned
00:37:02
up he had worked for Sarah baby from
00:37:05
1933 to 1937 and had his own remarkable
00:37:09
tale of encountering the ghost I said to
00:37:13
him what I see there and they said they
00:37:16
sensed something themselves but they'd
00:37:18
never seen him but I have filled him
00:37:21
there loud even though I only seen him
00:37:24
that once I can truthfully say him that
00:37:27
was the only time I ever laid eyes on
00:37:29
him was that once it was 1934 three
00:37:35
years after Bill Bailey's death Eugene
00:37:38
Melville's
00:37:39
being Sara searched for a bracelet which
00:37:41
had been lost during a family gathering
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but his thinness but it was a figure of
00:37:56
a man standing there it didn't stay long
00:38:00
therefore men take meant for me to
00:38:01
examine it very good it was a gorgeous
00:38:03
just like that
00:38:05
it was scary if right in the daylights
00:38:10
out of me and I never seen him again
00:38:12
I just never wanted to go in that
00:38:14
balcony I never went in there again it
00:38:16
bothered me I passed by it but to get me
00:38:20
in there to stand there I'll forget it I
00:38:23
wouldn't go in there Don and Carol
00:38:27
Burlingame finally understood that they
00:38:29
shared their home with a ghost of bill
00:38:31
baby they believe that on one occasion
00:38:34
bill demonstrated how much he cared
00:38:36
about the castle we decided we were
00:38:39
gonna go off for a little ride and carol
00:38:41
was sort of a fresh-air fiend so she had
00:38:43
all the windows open and in the servants
00:38:45
wing where we were living
00:38:46
Ben Don said you better close all the
00:38:48
windows are supposed to rain I said no
00:38:49
it's not gonna rain don't worry about it
00:38:50
I'm leaving them all open so I left them
00:38:53
open we went out and it rained
00:39:06
we came home and all of the casement
00:39:09
windows which opened from the inside and
00:39:11
opened to the inside were all closed and
00:39:14
last what did it good there's no water
00:39:17
on the floors
00:39:18
everything's fine and the windows are
00:39:20
closed how's that possible
00:39:21
I don't know so there wasn't a drop of
00:39:23
rain in the house so our only conclusion
00:39:25
was because there's no other way for
00:39:26
them to have been closed is that bill
00:39:29
helped us out when he saw the rain
00:39:31
coming he closed all the windows and
00:39:32
gave us a hand from that day off bill
00:39:37
beatty's ghost was a constant presence
00:39:39
in the brewing games lives bill and I
00:39:44
have an agreement I chatted with him one
00:39:47
day because I didn't see him but I
00:39:49
chatted with him anyhow and I said bill
00:39:52
you can stay here for as long as you
00:39:54
want I enjoy having you around you don't
00:39:57
bother me
00:39:58
just don't ever let me see you because
00:40:01
if I do see you I'll probably wind up in
00:40:04
a padded cell somewhere so you're
00:40:06
welcome to stay just don't materialize
00:40:08
and he never has we've had several
00:40:14
experiences in the house one of which
00:40:17
was I have a habit of leaving the bread
00:40:18
out because it's handy and I'd leave it
00:40:22
out somewhere and the next thing I turn
00:40:25
around it would be on the floor I was
00:40:29
alone in the kitchen the bread was on
00:40:31
the counter there was no way that it
00:40:34
could have fallen off by itself and when
00:40:36
it did fall off or a fly off it was it
00:40:40
went a considerable distance so I know
00:40:42
that someone had to have moved it
00:40:45
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00:40:47
there was no one else there with me at
00:40:49
all no animals John wasn't around and
00:40:51
there was no way the bread could have
00:40:53
fallen off the counter because it was
00:40:55
sex square okay bill that's enough
00:40:58
knock it off and that led me to believe
00:41:00
that Bill had to be there saying hi I'm
00:41:03
here there was just no way that that
00:41:07
break could have fallen off the counter
00:41:08
by itself in 1986 the brooding games
00:41:15
invited dr. Michael een Mayer a noted
00:41:18
parapsychologist to visit the castle
00:41:20
mayor along with an assistant conducted
00:41:23
a series of tests for paranormal
00:41:24
activity our physical instruments were
00:41:28
not able to detect anything unusual but
00:41:31
in this particular case the sheer volume
00:41:33
of the reports adds to the credibility
00:41:36
of the case people have experienced
00:41:39
similar phenomena when living at the
00:41:41
castle even though these are people who
00:41:43
may never have spoken to each other one
00:41:46
of our witnesses in this case a
00:41:48
particularly credible witness in fact a
00:41:51
professional person of some stature
00:41:54
reported seeing
00:41:56
in the driveway in front of the castle a
00:41:59
person who dissipated right in front of
00:42:03
his eyes can I help you
00:42:06
who are you
00:42:12
I think the big news here is that humans
00:42:16
persons can act as sensors and when we
00:42:20
quantitatively evaluate their responses
00:42:22
we find that we cannot dismiss this
00:42:26
evidence as caused by coincidence
00:42:32
the key to existing where the ghost is
00:42:34
if you can accept it you can enjoy it
00:42:38
and when things happen you just write
00:42:40
them off as oh it must be the ghost or
00:42:42
it must be bill if you know who happened
00:42:44
to know who it is as in our case we do
00:42:46
and you can have fun with it I firmly
00:42:50
believe he will never leave the castle
00:42:52
the love of the thing maybe got the
00:42:56
better of his soul and I think that's
00:42:59
the thing got such power you know is the
00:43:01
soul it's eternal
00:43:05
it's been said that the spirits of those
00:43:07
who died with unfinished business are
00:43:09
destined to wander for eternity this
00:43:12
would seem to be the case with Bill
00:43:14
Beatty in 1991 after nearly two decades
00:43:17
in the castle the Berlin games moved
00:43:19
away as far as they know the ghosts to
00:43:23
Bill Beatty stayed behind the Berlin
00:43:26
games hoped that when the castle is next
00:43:28
sold his new owners will enjoy the
00:43:30
ghosts presence as much as they did
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join me next time for an all new edition
00:43:51
unsolved mystery
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