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beyond belief
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[Music]
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fact or fiction
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hosted by jonathan franks tonight
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your challenge is to separate what is
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true from what is false
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five stories some real some fake
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can you judge which are fact and which
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are fiction
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to find out you must enter a world of
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both truth
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and deception a world that is beyond
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[Music]
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belief
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in trying to determine truth we must
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examine things from all angles for
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example
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this sculpture when viewed head-on is a
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simple clean cube shape
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but turn it around to another angle
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look what's revealed a mass of different
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shapes and lines
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that was previously hidden from view in
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tonight's stories
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the truth is often hidden we'll tell you
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which stories are based on reality and
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which are fiction at the end of the show
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and remember
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just like this metal sculpture while you
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think you see something clearly
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the truth may be hiding just around the
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corner
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do you have a favorite cure for the flu
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some people take medications
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vitamins pills others rely on home
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remedies like chicken soup
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no matter what you take into your system
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to fight the flu everyone agrees on one
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thing
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you need plenty of rest douglas hibbert
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is exhausted
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his resistance is low and he's beginning
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to get that dull
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achy feeling is it the flu is it beyond
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the flu
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is it in fact beyond relief
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attorney douglas hibbard had spent the
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last five days in eureka california
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conducting hearings for the employment
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development department
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oh
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i'm over here great job doug
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yeah yeah went pretty well see you back
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in sacramento okay
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oh happy anniversary and take care of
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that cold thanks
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all douglas wanted to do was get home to
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his wife carol and celebrate their 10th
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wedding anniversary
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he just wished he'd felt better
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hello hey carol hey i knew it was you
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how did it go we kicked butt
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you sound like you got worse oh yeah
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i feel horrible my body eggs
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got a fever oh duck i really wish you
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were home
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oh so do i
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honey i hate to do this but uh
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i uh i'm a little worried about making
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the five-hour drive
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with this flu i'm thinking of spending
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the night somewhere
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really don't worry i'll be home for our
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anniversary tomorrow
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okay well if you just take care of
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yourself and get
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plenty of rest
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i love you i love you too
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oh how you doing oh that's so good
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i have the flu oh nasty stuff i just got
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over it myself
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i need a nice quiet room ah well i got
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plenty of rooms and plenty of quad i
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just need a major credit card all right
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there you go yeah thank you
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i can't breathe
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i just wish i was there with you doug
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called his wife carol right after he
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checked in
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she was glad that he had found a nice
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clean place to stay but she was worried
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about his health
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she begged him to get some rest yes
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i'll try to get some sleep
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doug had hoped to sleep through the
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night but it was of no use
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the flu wouldn't let him all right
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hmm can i help you mr herbert
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yeah i can't sleep um i'm looking for a
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an open drug store nearby yeah yeah um
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you just follow crystal lake drive for
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about a mile
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yeah and then you uh come to the come to
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the first light take a right
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stanley's drugs can't miss it thanks
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no problem
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mr everett geez what happened to you
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i need you to do me a favor well sure
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did you get your medicine
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i need you to put this in the motel safe
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for me
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i'm afraid i might lose it what is it
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thank you
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[Music]
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it all seemed very odd to motel owner
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harold plum
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why was doug hibbard soaking wet and
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covered with mud
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but harold had learned not to ask
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questions
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[Music]
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weird
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huh good evening thanks for our motel hi
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my name is carol hibbert
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and i believe my husband douglas hibbert
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is registered there yeah he's here
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i keep calling his cell phone and i'm
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not getting any answer
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maybe he has it turned off i mean i i
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know he's here i i just saw him
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would you like me to ring through to his
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room for you yes please okay hang on
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he's not answering would you do me a
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favor
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could you check on him and see if he's
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all right
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he wasn't feeling well oh sure um
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just give me your number there and i'll
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i'll call you right back
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mr hubbard
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harold was surprised to find that
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douglas hibbard was not in his room
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he also found it strange but there was
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no sign of the wet muddy clothes that
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hibbard was wearing
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[Music]
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can i help you i need to talk to you
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about a guest i believe you have
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registered here by the name of douglas
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hibbard
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what about him he's dead
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his car went off the road he had this
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room key on him
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i was just talking to him a few minutes
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ago sir that's impossible
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a witness saw mr hibbert's car going to
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crystal lake about an hour ago
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he just told it out his body was inside
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harold plum remembered the bag douglas
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hibbard gave him to keep in the safe
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he wasn't sure if he would be there
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[Music]
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he wasn't sure of anything anymore
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[Music]
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carol hibbard arrived at the lakeshore
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motel the following morning to pick up
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doug's belongings
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inside the box was the diamond ring doug
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couldn't afford to buy when they first
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got married
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years ago he had promised carol that one
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day he would buy it for her
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as an anniversary present
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what really happened here how could
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douglas hibbard have given the motel
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owner that diamond ring
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if he was already dead was his will to
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keep his promise
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so strong that nothing not even death
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could stop him from delivering her
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anniversary gift
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or did the motel owner just imagine
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douglas walked in if so
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how did he get the gift back is this
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story about the dedicated husband based
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on reality
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or have we left you holding the bag
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we'll find out if this story is true or
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false at the end of our show
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next psychic powers are used against a
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gang of thieves on beyond belief
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fact or fiction wheelchairs like this
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are used in many ways these days
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there is of course the primary use as
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transportation for those that are unable
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to walk on their own
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but recreational opportunities now exist
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for the wheelchair bound
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they're now used in races even marathons
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and wheelchair basketballs become an
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exciting competitive activity
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but you're about to see a wheelchair
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show up in a rather unusual place
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at a crime scene
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as a detective i'd investigated many
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robberies in my downtown district
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but the tri-city jewelry heist is the
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one i will never forget
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the anvil armored truck service received
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pickups
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at the tri-city jewelry company several
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times a week
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the guards were trained to take nothing
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for granted and to approach each
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delivery and pickup as a potentially
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dangerous situation
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there was nothing that aroused their
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suspicion that morning it all seemed
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routine
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okay he's in we got three minutes
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what the guards should have taken a
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closer look at was the flower delivery
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van parked across the street
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excuse me can you tell me where to catch
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the number three bus i'm very late for a
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doctor's appointment and i'm a little
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lost
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get out of my way
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what are you doing it's crazy
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i arrived on the scene a half hour after
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the robbery
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i never expected to find anything out of
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the ordinary
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i was wrong
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okay so you really didn't get to look at
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the guy huh
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every sub coming sorry
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how about you this thing was pretty well
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planned
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i must been watching you guys for weeks
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detective
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yeah i might have something there was a
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guy in a wheelchair that got caught in
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the middle of the robbery
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can you give us an id better than that
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he says you can tell us where they are
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mr sigmar detective hanson i understand
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that you were a witness to the robbery
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that took place here
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i was a victim i was just passing by
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minding my own business when this guy
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comes running up pistol whips the garden
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knocks me out of my chair
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what kind of punk would do that huh two
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guy in a wheelchair
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i don't know they're scum that's what
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they are scum
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mr sigmar you told officer hannah that
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you knew where we could find them is
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that true
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yeah it's true i got this
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special power that comes and goes
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sometimes when i get real mad i see
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flashes of stuff in my mind stuff kind
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of stuff
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after that guy knocked me down i was
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yelling at him and this address just
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popped into my head
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1211 carlson's tree is that where you
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think they are
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i know that's where they are i can feel
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it
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see that's how it happens things just
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pop into my head
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okay thank you mr sigmar i'm gonna need
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your address and phone number
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i may want you to come in and take a
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look at some pictures yeah sure
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whatever i want those animals to put
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away
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i had worked with psychics before so i
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decided to check out the address that
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peter sigmar gave me
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1211 carlson turned out to be an
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abandoned warehouse downtown
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even if it turned out to be a waste of
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time i had no other leads
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he should have seen the look on his face
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when i knocked him out of his chair
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i gotta know i can find it so fast
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the guy in the wheelchair that one of
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you gentlemen knocked over he told you
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that's right let me tell you something
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detective that guy in the wheelchair
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he planned the whole thing he blocked
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the guard so i could get the money
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what yeah we met him in jail his name is
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darren snyder
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why'd you knock him over we decided to
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cut him out figured you know what could
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he do
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i'll check it out yeah you do that
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there's just one thing i don't
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understand how did he know we'd be here
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what do you mean we changed hideouts
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snyder didn't know about this place
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i followed up on the name darren snyder
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i found out that he was an ex-con
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the long rap sheet and then one of his
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aliases was peter sigmar i located
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snyder a week later
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and arrested him for armed robbery he
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still insisted
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no one had told him the location of the
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hideout and that he possessed a special
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power
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so how did peter sigmar know the new
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hideout of the three men
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did he somehow overhear someone mention
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it that seems unlikely
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they were going out of their way to keep
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it from him was he truly psychic
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no one had ever seen evidence of that
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before maybe he was so furious at being
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betrayed
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he somehow converted his anger into
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psychic energy
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is this story of thieves falling out
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inspired by an actual event
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or are we double-crossing him we'll find
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out if this story is true or false
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at the end of our show next a young
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couple needs a miracle
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on beyond belief facts or fiction
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a life support system medical equipment
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designed for the purpose of sustaining
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life when our own vital organs
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cease to function at its most effective
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the system takes over temporarily
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until a medical solution or a miracle
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can be found
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at its least effective life can be
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prolonged indefinitely often without
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hope
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julie driscoll is currently being kept
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alive by life support
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her boyfriend gary believes deep in his
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heart she will pull through
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but right now gary is searching
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desperately for a second opinion
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[Music]
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my girlfriend julie had been in a coma
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for the past seven months
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while driving her head hit the
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windshield after he was broadsided by a
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pickup truck
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julie never regained consciousness but
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she was alive so the doctors put her on
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life support
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she was on her way to meet me we were
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gonna go to a movie
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i hardly ever left julie's side since
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the accident i knew that somehow she
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could still hear me
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and that one day she'd recover
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i ran into your friend denise today she
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uh she sends her love
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she got a new puppy a little golden lab
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i read that it's good to keep talking to
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a comatose patient sometimes it can
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trigger something
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so i just talk about whatever came into
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my head i had to keep connected to her
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remember lucy your dog she misses you
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everybody misses you not as much as i do
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you know i love you julian
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how you doing gary i'm okay dr parkins
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she looks so peaceful today
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she is
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julie's parents are here and they they
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want to see you for a minute
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sure
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i'll be back
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lately it seemed that julie's parents
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were losing hope it was hard for me to
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talk with him like i used to
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hi gary hey i was just telling julie
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about how her friend denise cut her new
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puppy
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you know miss julie loves animals i
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couldn't even pass a pet shop without
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her
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i'm sorry mrs driscoll i didn't mean to
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upset you gary
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i know it's hard but it's time for us to
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face reality
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it's been seven months and julie shows
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no sign of coming out of the coma
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you you know we've consulted several
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specialists
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and the consensus is that julie's
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condition is irreversible
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no no it's not i don't believe that gary
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we know how much you love her we all do
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but it's time to let her go
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we've decided to disconnect julie's life
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support
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no no you can't do that she can come out
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of this i know she can
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the insurance has run out but it's not
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about the insurance
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if julie had just shown one sign of
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coming out of the coma we'd keep her on
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life support
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julie wouldn't want to go on this way
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you know that
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look just give me one more day
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okay i i just want to talk to her i know
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i know she can hear me
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please just one more day
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okay
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i didn't want to give up i pleaded with
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julie to respond
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i could feel our time running out
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joey we don't have much more time
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okay i know you can hear me
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you have to come back what do you want
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me to do
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why can't i reach you
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don't you love me they're gonna stop
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your life support okay
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you have to fight you have to live
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give me please are you holding up gary's
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the same
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i just can't get through to her
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you've done everything that you could
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now sometimes all the love in the world
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is just not enough
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the drizzles are going to be here in a
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while so why don't you give yourself a
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break
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no i can't i don't want to leave her
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alone
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gary you got to go easy on yourself
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well this isn't your fault
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[Music]
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i didn't know how i was gonna live
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without julie i never let myself think
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about it
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it's so hard julian
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i knew there were no more options but i
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just couldn't accept letting her go
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i was finally ready to admit it was
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hopeless and then
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gary julie truly i hurt you
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no i didn't imagine that that was you it
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was your voice
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julie say something to me say something
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again
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please i hear you gary
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i am you too julie i hear you
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i can move
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look you can't pull life support she can
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move julie can move
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you actually saw her move she told me
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she could move
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she spoke well not exactly look i know
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this is gonna sound crazy
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but julie spoke to me telepathically
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i'm sorry there's no change no
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no it can't be julie julie do something
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show them please
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go ahead dr perkins no don't do this
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let her go gary please
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gary look at my head
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go ahead looking around
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oh gary please stop just oh my god
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oh my god okay it's moving
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she's coming back julie slowly regained
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consciousness and after months of
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therapy
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she was able to return to a normal life
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the doctors were amazed by her total
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recovery
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there was absolutely no brain damage
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julie and i picked up right where we
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left off
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and are more in love than ever
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did julian gary actually communicate
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telepathically
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or did gary's sleep deprivation cause
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him to imagine that he heard julie's
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voice
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if so then why did julie's hand move
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exactly when gary heard her voice
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was that just coincidence does this
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story of a medical miracle stand on its
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own
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or does the truth show no visible signs
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of support
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we'll find out if this story is true or
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false at the end of our show
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next a young boy channels a mysterious
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spirit on beyond belief
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fact or fiction have you ever visited a
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chinatown section in a major city
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it's like a world unto itself souvenirs
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such as these are found
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everywhere making chinatown a must stop
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for many tourists
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even those that have no prior background
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with the chinese culture at all
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take jim bartlett and his family they're
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from wichita and on a visit they're
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about to make the chinatown it'll be
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very clear
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that they're not in kansas anymore
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our family had a 200-acre farm back in
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wichita kansas
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we've been saving up for a vacation to
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san francisco for a long time
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jim look at these dolls
00:24:58
oh we've got plenty of souvenirs annie
00:25:00
we can open up a shop of our own
00:25:01
couldn't we randy
00:25:03
can we go the cable cruise again later
00:25:05
after we eat okay bud
00:25:12
okay
00:25:15
we'd hit all the top tourist spots the
00:25:17
golden gate bridge
00:25:18
alcatraz fisherman's wharf it was our
00:25:21
last day
00:25:22
and so we came to the only place we
00:25:23
hadn't seen yet
00:25:25
chinatown i'm hungry don't worry we're
00:25:29
gonna eat
00:25:30
how about this place
00:25:36
oh prices are pretty good the duck looks
00:25:39
pretty good too
00:25:40
doesn't it randy randy
00:25:43
jim where did randy go i don't know he
00:25:45
was just here
00:25:46
we just looked away for a second where
00:25:48
could he have gone
00:25:51
there he is randy
00:25:54
how did he get across the street so fast
00:25:56
randy
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why doesn't he answer me randy you know
00:26:01
i think i better have a little talk with
00:26:02
that boy
00:26:06
it was totally unlike randy to wander
00:26:08
off like that
00:26:09
but the mystery was about to grow deeper
00:26:22
joshua
00:26:26
we couldn't understand what was
00:26:27
happening but it sounded like randy was
00:26:29
talking chinese
00:26:33
what do you think you're doing you don't
00:26:35
know how to talk chinese oh
00:26:37
surven ching randy you stop talking like
00:26:41
that this
00:26:41
isn't funny we're leaving right now
00:26:48
yoho randy what's wrong why are you
00:26:52
doing this
00:26:53
well this roll down means our show
00:26:58
okay it's time to stop the play acting
00:26:59
we're going back to the hotel
00:27:09
[Music]
00:27:32
team randy randy where are you going
00:27:36
randy
00:27:38
[Music]
00:27:41
please they've waited almost a century
00:27:44
for this moment
00:27:45
you know what are you talking about
00:27:46
that's our son in there
00:27:48
right now your son is wenching my
00:27:51
great-grandfather's
00:27:52
master what this is insane i want my son
00:28:00
back
00:28:06
[Music]
00:28:15
jim what's going on i don't know
00:28:20
the ball was made 100 years ago by
00:28:23
master artist wen ching
00:28:26
it was entrusted to my great-grandfather
00:28:28
who was when chang's
00:28:29
apprentice he was to keep it until they
00:28:32
met again
00:28:36
and so they have what are you saying
00:28:40
the spirit of the great art of wenching
00:28:43
is in your
00:28:44
sun i don't understand
00:28:47
why randy he was chosen to be when
00:28:51
chinese vessel
00:28:52
it is a great honor
00:28:59
[Music]
00:29:19
they're going to have lunch
00:29:22
oh randy
00:29:26
how'd it get in here
00:29:30
why do i have this bull
00:29:34
we'll explain it to you later son
00:29:40
your bowl back oh no
00:29:43
it is your sons
00:29:46
are you sure yes
00:29:50
he was chosen
00:29:55
come on jim let's go
00:30:05
we decided that the right thing to do
00:30:06
was to donate the mandarin's bowl to the
00:30:08
chinese cultural museum in san francisco
00:30:11
the head of the museum was very grateful
00:30:13
he told us it was a priceless artifact
00:30:15
made by a master artist in the late
00:30:17
1800s
00:30:19
and there was some chinese words written
00:30:21
on the side of the bowl that he
00:30:22
translated for us
00:30:23
they said embrace this bowl until next
00:30:26
we meet
00:30:28
i shall return as a child from the
00:30:30
yellow fields of wheat
00:30:32
wheat was the crop we grew back on the
00:30:34
farm in kansas
00:30:39
is it possible that a young farm boy
00:30:41
from kansas could be possessed by the
00:30:43
soul of a chinese artisan
00:30:45
if not how could the boy suddenly speak
00:30:48
chinese
00:30:48
young randy never spoke a word of
00:30:50
chinese before or after this incident
00:30:53
could he have stumbled upon the ability
00:30:55
temporarily
00:30:56
there are stories of people who have
00:30:57
played an instrument perfectly for just
00:30:59
once
00:30:59
and once only could this be the same
00:31:02
phenomenon at work
00:31:04
is this story of the precious artifact a
00:31:06
vessel for the truth
00:31:09
or are we just trying to bull you over
00:31:12
we'll find out if this story is true or
00:31:14
false at the end of our show
00:31:16
next a tycoon hides an evil secret on
00:31:19
beyond belief
00:31:20
fact or fiction helping a famous person
00:31:24
to write their autobiography
00:31:26
is a daunting task you must use every
00:31:28
tool at your command to make
00:31:30
accurate notes of the thousands of
00:31:32
stories that you'll hear
00:31:33
martin names has taken a job to write
00:31:35
the autobiography of wilford clayton
00:31:36
a hard-headed businessman with a heart
00:31:38
to match in fact
00:31:40
clayton is so mean that wait
00:31:43
martin's been taking the notes let's let
00:31:45
him tell the story
00:31:50
no where was i
00:31:54
sentiment oh yeah cinnamon
00:32:01
okay mr clayton we're recording
00:32:04
sentiment is for losers you know i
00:32:07
learned a long time ago that the week
00:32:09
worked for the strong and most people
00:32:13
they're happy with very little they have
00:32:15
no self-esteem
00:32:17
they think that whatever they're earning
00:32:18
now is all they deserve
00:32:20
and they're right wilfred clayton was a
00:32:23
cold-blooded monster he was the most
00:32:25
insensitive self-loving egomaniac i'd
00:32:28
ever
00:32:28
met that thing picked me up if i walk
00:32:30
around
00:32:31
yeah it's very sensitive
00:32:35
yeah most people were born to serve
00:32:38
telling them to do they'll do it treat
00:32:40
them like a dog they'll obey
00:32:43
show them the hope it'll jump clayton
00:32:46
was the president and founder of one of
00:32:48
the largest textile companies in the
00:32:50
united states
00:32:51
he hired me two months before to
00:32:52
ghostwrite his autobiography
00:32:54
it was my first paying job as a writer
00:32:56
and i was excited
00:32:58
but that didn't last long once i got to
00:33:00
know him
00:33:01
now me i own a townhouse in new york
00:33:05
another on the beach in barbados and a
00:33:09
villain in the south of france
00:33:10
at first i took my notes in longhand but
00:33:12
i switched to a tape recorder so i could
00:33:14
tune out his obnoxious opinions
00:33:16
i didn't get everything i have today by
00:33:18
giving my employees an annual cost of
00:33:19
living raising i can tell you that
00:33:21
they don't like it they can find
00:33:23
themselves another job
00:33:26
so what do you think marty boy pretty
00:33:29
good huh
00:33:30
i'd say i got myself a bestseller
00:33:32
happening right here in this room
00:33:33
wouldn't you
00:33:35
say yes yes sir
00:33:39
you gotta play little mind games with
00:33:42
the worker ants
00:33:43
let them think the other guy is doing a
00:33:45
better job than they are
00:33:47
keep them hungry and scared they work
00:33:49
better that way
00:33:54
i hate him
00:33:59
i hate him i'd like to shove this tape
00:34:03
recorder down his throat and tell him i
00:34:04
quit
00:34:06
martin we need the money i know
00:34:11
why does a creep like wilford clayton
00:34:13
have so much when so many good people
00:34:15
have to struggle just to get by
00:34:20
now can you imagine how empty his life
00:34:23
must be
00:34:25
all he cares about is money and power
00:34:28
we have so much more than he'll ever
00:34:32
have
00:34:37
i love you i love you
00:34:50
later that night we were both asleep
00:34:52
when the storm kicked up
00:34:54
but what really woke us was the tape
00:34:55
recorder i used to have this woman
00:34:58
working for me
00:34:59
she told me she was a single mother he
00:35:02
wasn't getting paid enough to
00:35:04
feed her four kids i fired her right on
00:35:07
the spot
00:35:08
martin what's going on i think the
00:35:10
recorder came on
00:35:13
i hate weak people
00:35:28
foreign
00:35:39
it's over
00:35:46
what happened i wish i knew
00:35:58
yeah uh mr clayton i'm sorry i'm late uh
00:36:01
what with the storm last night i i don't
00:36:03
want to know your problems
00:36:04
there's plenty of other crummy ghost
00:36:06
riders out there who can get here on
00:36:10
time
00:36:16
i apologize yeah yeah stop whining let's
00:36:19
get to work
00:36:24
today i want to talk about how i started
00:36:26
this company
00:36:27
okay uh we're recording
00:36:31
now let's see he tried to warn me about
00:36:34
the fire hazard but i wouldn't listen
00:36:37
what are you doing i don't know it's
00:36:38
playing back instead of recording
00:36:40
there was an explosion and a fire broke
00:36:42
out in the tire room
00:36:44
i never said that what are you trying to
00:36:45
pull you must have said it's on the tape
00:36:48
people were running and screaming
00:36:49
everywhere some were trapped and
00:36:51
couldn't escape
00:36:52
nine
00:37:02
why won't this thing turn off
00:37:05
i denied it all and collected the
00:37:07
insurance that's how i built clayton
00:37:09
fabrics and textiles in an accompanying
00:37:11
yesterday
00:37:12
no no it's not true
00:37:24
wilford clayton survived the massive
00:37:26
stroke he had that day and became a
00:37:28
changed man
00:37:29
his autobiography was released shortly
00:37:31
before his death a year later
00:37:33
he gave me full writing credit and in
00:37:35
his will he left clayton fabrics and
00:37:37
textiles to the families of those that
00:37:39
perished in the fire
00:37:44
how did wilford clayton's confession get
00:37:46
on that tape
00:37:47
martin had left the recorder with
00:37:49
clayton a number of times did clayton
00:37:51
record a confession out of guilt and
00:37:52
then
00:37:53
pushed the wrong button trying to erase
00:37:55
it or was his brain
00:37:56
in such a pre-stroke condition that he
00:37:58
might have said something involuntarily
00:38:01
or was it the ghosts of nine dead
00:38:03
workers controlling things from beyond
00:38:06
is this story of the mysterious
00:38:07
autobiography researched with facts
00:38:10
or should you check our references next
00:38:14
you'll find out which of our stories are
00:38:16
facts and which are fiction
00:38:18
when beyond belief returns
00:38:24
now let's look back at tonight's stories
00:38:25
and find out which ones are inspired by
00:38:27
actual events
00:38:28
and which ones are totally false what
00:38:31
about the man who may have come back
00:38:32
from the dead
00:38:33
to give his wife a special gift
00:38:47
[Music]
00:38:51
mr everett geez what happened to you
00:38:54
i need you to do me a favor oh sure
00:38:57
did you get your medicine
00:39:02
i need you to put this in the motel safe
00:39:04
for me
00:39:05
i'm afraid i might lose it what is it
00:39:09
thank you
00:39:12
if you thought this story was based on a
00:39:13
real life occurrence
00:39:15
you're right our research uncovered a
00:39:17
similar incident
00:39:23
how about the wheelchair-bound man with
00:39:25
the apparent psychic ability
00:39:27
i was just passing by minding my own
00:39:28
business when this guy comes running up
00:39:30
pistol whips the garden knocks me out of
00:39:31
my chair
00:39:32
what kind of punk would do that huh two
00:39:34
guy in a wheelchair
00:39:36
i don't know they're scum that's what
00:39:38
they are scum
00:39:39
mr sigmar you told officer hannah that
00:39:41
you knew where we could find them is
00:39:42
that true
00:39:43
yeah it's true i got this
00:39:47
special power that comes and goes
00:39:49
sometimes when i get real mad i see
00:39:50
flashes of stuff in my mind stuff kind
00:39:53
of stuff
00:39:55
after that guy knocked me down i was
00:39:56
yelling at him and this address just
00:39:58
popped into my head
00:40:00
1211 carlson street is that where you
00:40:03
think they are
00:40:04
i know that's where they are i can feel
00:40:07
it
00:40:08
this one has to be false right wrong
00:40:11
our research shows a similar incident
00:40:13
happened on the virginia north carolina
00:40:15
border in the mid 80s
00:40:21
how about the couple whose love to each
00:40:22
other overcame a serious medical crisis
00:40:26
so hard julie
00:40:36
gary
00:40:39
julie julie i hurt you
00:40:42
no i didn't imagine that that was you it
00:40:44
was your voice
00:40:47
julie say something to me say something
00:40:49
again
00:40:50
please i hear you gary
00:40:55
i am you do julie i hear you
00:41:00
i can move
00:41:06
have you heard a story like this before
00:41:08
you may have
00:41:10
a similar event happened in the rocky
00:41:11
mountain area in the early 90s
00:41:17
let's have one more look at the story of
00:41:19
the little boy from kansas who seemed to
00:41:21
be possessed by a chinese spirit
00:41:40
jim what's going on i don't know
00:41:45
the ball was made 100 years ago by
00:41:48
master artist wenching
00:41:51
it was entrusted to my great-grandfather
00:41:53
who was wearing chain's apprentice
00:41:56
he was to keep it until they met again
00:42:01
and so they have what are you saying
00:42:05
the spirit of the great art of quenching
00:42:08
is in your son
00:42:10
did a similar story to this one take
00:42:12
place
00:42:14
perhaps but our presentation is a lie
00:42:21
the story of the writer who discovered a
00:42:23
mysterious confession on his tape
00:42:24
recorder
00:42:25
how did you judge that one
00:42:28
we're recording now let's see
00:42:32
he tried to warn me about the fire
00:42:34
hazard but i wouldn't listen
00:42:36
what are you doing i don't know it's
00:42:37
playing back instead of recording
00:42:39
there was an explosion and a fire broke
00:42:41
out in the tie room
00:42:43
i never said that what are you trying to
00:42:44
pull you must have said it it's on the
00:42:46
tape
00:42:47
people were running and screaming
00:42:49
everywhere some were trapped and
00:42:50
couldn't escape
00:42:51
nine people died stop
00:42:54
stop it nine people died nine people
00:42:58
died nine people died why won't this
00:43:01
thing turn off
00:43:04
i denied it all and collected the
00:43:06
insurance
00:43:07
that's how i built clayton fabrics and
00:43:09
textiles
00:43:11
is this story so strange that it must be
00:43:13
true
00:43:14
not this time it's fiction
00:43:20
how did you accomplish your mission
00:43:22
tonight we were able to predict which of
00:43:24
our stories were based on truth and
00:43:26
which were here to fool you
00:43:27
however you did be proud of your
00:43:29
achievement because the challenge of
00:43:31
separating fact from fiction
00:43:33
is a challenge that is truly beyond
00:43:35
belief
00:43:36
i'm jonathan frakes
00:43:40
wheelchair man and the vigil are true
00:43:42
based on first-hand research
00:43:44
conducted by author robert treylands for
00:43:47
beyond belief
00:43:48
this is campbell lane
00:43:58
[Music]
00:44:32
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