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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 1884 one of the wealthiest
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men in New Mexico build his wife the
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finest house money could buy a glorious
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Victorian mansion but after the couple's
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youngest daughter died the lady of the
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house turned into a virtual recluse and
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a lot of folks say that her spirit has
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haunted the mansion for nearly a century
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tonight we'll take you along as a team
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of real-life Ghost Busters tries to
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flush the elusive ghost out of hiding in
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March of 1988 the head of a
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multi-million dollar drug ring named
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John rubus was assassinated just outside
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San Juan Puerto Rico
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or was he authorities now suspect
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someone else was murdered in his place
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and the crew bus is very much alive
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legend has it that nearly 150 years ago
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wealthy citizens of old Los Angeles
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buried their riches for safekeeping
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during the mexican-american war
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is there still fortune and golden jewels
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hidden in the shadows of LA's downtown
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skyline
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also a heartwarming update thanks to
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your cause the family has been reunited
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after 45 years apart jointly perhaps you
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may be able to solve a mystery
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this is the la posada hotel in Santa Fe
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New Mexico nestled within its Adobe wall
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which is a hundred-year-old Victorian
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mansion recently that mansion has become
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the focus of an unusual high-tech
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investigation no crime has been
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committed no one has been hurt no one
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has disappeared believe it or not this
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team of investigators is looking for a
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ghost
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so far the information we have regarding
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the la posada hotel it appears to have
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all the characteristics of what is
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referred to as a classic haunt because
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of the history because of the a variety
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of different types of witnesses who had
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these experience it certainly appears to
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be to look that way that it is a classic
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haunt we're trying to approach it very
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unbiased ly without any expectation so
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at this point we're not sure exactly
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what we're gonna find or what we're
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going to encounter if Christopher sure
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Cole and his team of real-life
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ghostbusters do encounter a spirit at
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the La Posada hotel she probably answers
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to the name Julius stop folks around
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here say judy has been haunting the
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place for nearly a century Julia came to
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Santa Fe from Germany around 1870 to
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marry Abraham stop one of the wealthiest
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men in New Mexico Abraham promised Judy
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he would someday build her the finest
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house money could buy
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seven children and 14 years later the
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Stobbs moved into Santa Fe is viktoria
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mansion look at the beautiful parlor
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that Papa has made mama with her
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favorite flower in mind see the roll
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stained glass when Julia moved into this
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house she became the queen of Santa Fe
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society all major affairs were held here
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I show you the life they entertained
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dignitaries from the government
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president Rutherford Hayes General
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Sherman governor Wallace big parties
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were held here and one would think she
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was a very happy woman in the new house
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Julia and Abraham were blessed with an
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eighth child a girl
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but tragically the baby would live only
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a short time according to Bessie salat
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Julia's joy turned to sorrow overnight
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she was so distraught over the the
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child's death and it said that she
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didn't eat or sleep for for two weeks
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and when she finally slept and she awoke
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and looked in the mirror all of the
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beautiful black hair on her head had
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turned completely white all of the grief
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went into her hair
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procore ting - legend Julius table
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withdrew from society and was rarely
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seen outside her mansion when Julia died
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at the age of 52
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she seemed far older than her years in
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1936 the starb mansion was acquired by
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the la posada eventually the modern
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hotel was built around
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the front door of the mansion is reached
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through the lobby and the starb home is
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as elegant as ever the rooms upstairs
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including Julia's bedroom can be booked
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by hotel guests and Julia over the years
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has had a way of making her presence
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known I think there there's something
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here there's no doubt to me to many
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people including guests who know nothing
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about the history of the place say there
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is something whether it's a ghost to
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where there is some sort of energy I
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don't know back in 1882 and it's the
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first formal brick building built in
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Santa Chuck barone was a hardened
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skeptic until 1991 when he and a desk
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clerk took several guests on an
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impromptu tour of the hotel
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even though Julia's room was not
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occupied Hotel policy required the clerk
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to knock anyway
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I just had no news in there I'll go
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double-check at the front desk
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he went downstairs I stayed up with the
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guests and our nobody came out the front
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door it been several minutes and by then
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anything that was thinking about me of
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past coz I figured I didn't that there
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was a guest in the room we trying
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security curiously the clerk had
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returned confirming that Julia's room
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was not booked well and so he'd knocked
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on the door again nothing happened we
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went in and the room was empty nobody
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here the windows were locked from the
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inside
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nobody come out the door and diarrhea no
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explanation for it around a year later
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Chuck son John Burroughs who also worked
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as a security guard had his own weird
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encounter when he checked the men's
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washroom at closing time
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security lock it up for the evening it's
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time to go I've looked in the mirror and
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there was a face like a reflection I
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felt the cold chill come through me and
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some told me it's it's time to leave I I
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left I didn't turn off the lights I
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didn't turn off the hall lights I didn't
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check the females restroom and I
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proceeded out the back door and I didn't
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come back I feel that it is real there
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is no doubt in my mind
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because I saw someone standing there you
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know looking down at us and you know
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before then I was not a believer but you
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know once I saw her there you know I
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believe that she is present here this
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past June
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Ross wiesen Hoffer in Holly Nora were in
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Santa Fe to attend a friend's wedding
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even though they stayed in the room
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across the hall from Julia's Ross and
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Holly had never heard any of the stories
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we shut the TV off at that time I was up
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and I was trying to go back to sleep and
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my eyes were closed and at that time I
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felt something staring at me I saw you
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did white apparition you know I put my
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head down and you know I'm like my gosh
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you know this isn't happening to me
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right now and then I looked up again for
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the second time and at that point it
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started become more defined
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I put my head back down and you know
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when I looked up the third time it would
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definitely was Julia standing there
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and at that point I jumped up out of bed
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flick the lights on I said we're out of
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here within five minutes we're down at
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the front desk I've never seen him like
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that I've never seen him scared
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especially enough to have goose bumps
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he was he was definitely a skeptic
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before and then once he saw this happen
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he was a believer so I was quite
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surprised just two weeks later Ross and
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Holly were back at the La Posada to talk
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to Christopher Chicago from the office
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of scientific investigation and research
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but the hotel shakuni's team of ghost
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busters included a physician a
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psychologist and an electrical engineer
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it was getting more defined where would
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I be in relationship to where you saw
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their gold to determine whether the
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hauntings here can be explained in
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scientific rational terms she would
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closer yeah of the 800 investigations
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honson poltergeist phenomena that I'd
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been on 70% of them appeared to be have
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rational explanations for them we have
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found definitively answers however
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there's another 30% which apparently we
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cannot find a rational explanation for
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they define the known laws of nature and
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physics at least as we know them today
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kind of remind you of would you take a
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look at that and just tell me what comes
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to mind and what you can see in there an
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important part of each investigation is
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a psychological evaluation of the
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subjects Breaking Bad News are bringing
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bad news to the family pull your arm
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back towards you as hard as you can next
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the subjects undergo a physical
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examination to eliminate any possible
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somatic causes for the sighting one of
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the cases that come to mind is one
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situation where a woman had a brain
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tumor pressing against a certain part of
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her brain which would cause the
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seizures and it would create the
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illusion at least to her that some type
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of entity was coming and having physical
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contact with her when we get to the
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aspect of the case where we're looking
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into the environment we begin to take
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samples of the water samples of the air
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we take elements that the individual
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would actually have physical contact
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with pieces of carpet with the wall
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paint on the wall we're looking for
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toxic elements which could somehow
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affect them
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for example certain types of phosphine
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gases when mixed with air can produce
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flashes of light and some might see this
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as poltergeist phenomena when in fact
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it's it's obviously rationally
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explainable after examining the
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environment if we don't find anything
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which is obvious we will then proceed to
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set up equipment in the environment to
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do a long-term surveillance we would
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have specially designed radioactivity
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monitoring equipment we look for
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electrostatic discharge of any of any
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type we would look at the magnetic
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fields both electromagnetic fields and
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geomagnetic fields we would analyze the
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spectrum of light from infrared to
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ultraviolet and everything in between
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the environment in this case the
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upstairs rooms of the Staub mansion is
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sealed off for a period of 12 to 72
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hours state-of-the-art monitoring
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equipment worth more than a half a
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million dollars is set up in an adjacent
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area the team then returns to the
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environment armed with special thermal
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cameras which measured temperature
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variations
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finally the room is plunged into total
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darkness the team uses a most advanced
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night-vision equipment to examine the
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environment we have floors that are long
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sighted at the end of every
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investigation the team sits down
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together for a case rapidly something
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people can can perceive you know there
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are no air vents we were able to analyze
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the environment in every possible way
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and we did not encounter anything which
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was unusual or extraordinary quality and
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innovation been hearing trouble okay
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psychologically I think in terms of the
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behavioral profile I see the examination
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is performed on Russ muhuali prove that
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they are in fact very credible witnesses
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functioning individuals I see no
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evidence of any suspicious area based on
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all the results of the investigations
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we've conducted here we haven't found
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any facts to disprove the fact that the
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la posada is haunted there certainly
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then is that possibility that there is
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unusual paranormal phenomenon taking
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place here
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Kristopher Chaconne and his team do plan
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to return to the hotel at least once
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more to search for definitive signs of a
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hotel in the meantime if you should find
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yourself in Santa Fe if you should check
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into one of the rooms in the original
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star mansion it might not be a bad idea
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to leave a single red rose on the
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windowsill after all
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rumor has it that it was Julius Tom's
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favorite flower when we returned the
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puzzling death of John rubus that a
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cunning drug lord staged his own
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murdered to evade capture
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March 7th 1988 San Juan Puerto Rico
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flames consumed a late-model car and
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apparently been abandoned in a remote
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corner of the city
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the next morning local authorities found
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the remains of a body charred beyond
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recognition in the backseat of the car
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the only evidence that might eventually
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lead to an ID of the victim was a
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fragment of jawbone and four loose teeth
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recovered from the ashes
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one week later an anonymous informant
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told police that the dead man was jon
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Rubus it was a name authorities knew
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well John Scott rubus was a ringleader
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of a multi-million dollar drug network
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headquartered in Puerto Rico rubus
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operation had a virtual monopoly on
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cocaine and marijuana distribution in
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the Midwestern United States we were
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able to obtain dental records from John
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Rubens's dentists in Florida and we
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shipped those dental records to a
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pathologist in Puerto Rico who had found
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in the burnt automobile four loose teeth
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and a piece of a jawbone that
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pathologist identified those loose teeth
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as being those of John Rufus
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for years rubus had eluded law
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enforcement in several countries now
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fire and apparently accomplished what
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the law could not john rubus was out of
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business or was he it began with a few
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whispered rumors but in the months that
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followed the grisly discovery in puerto
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rico authorities began to suspect at the
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fiery death of john rubus was in fact a
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cunning hoax a ruse to avoid prosecution
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tonight in an exclusive interview a
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former member of the drug lords inner
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circle claims that john rubus is very
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much alive and as busy as ever
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the sprawling Empire of John Reuben is
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operated with military precision a fleet
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of small airplanes ferried tons of
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cocaine and marijuana from secret
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plantations deep in the jungles of
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Colombia Panama and Jamaica
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the flights converged at the island of
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Puerto Rico the drugs were repackaged
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and then shipped into the United States
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through Milwaukee and Chicago between
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1981 and 85 rubus slipped an estimated
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30 million dollars worth of drugs into
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the u.s. the rubus operation was a model
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of efficiency the pre-arranged times
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illicit cargoes arriving from South
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America were dropped just off the coast
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of Puerto Rico small boats were already
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in place winning to retrieve the drugs
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in most cases rubus had two hands-on
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with the drug trafficking where a lot of
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the higher echelon drug traffickers
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normally would stay in the background
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rubus came to the foreground and
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actively got involved in the
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distribution process the drugs were
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brought from the beach to a hidden
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processing plant in the Puerto Rican
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highlands there the large bundles have
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broken down into one pound packages it
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could readily be smuggled into the u.s.
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John is one of the craftiest guys I've
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ever met in my life and his ability to
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smuggle drugs into the United States
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unmolested you know he has several years
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maybe five six seven eight years of
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successful smuggling with no type of
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wiretapping or anything
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ran a real self organization rubus was
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very ruthless that's typical of the drug
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business you you have to gain your
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respect through fear and rubus was very
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good at that in one notorious incident
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Ruba supposedly became suspicious at one
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of his pilots was running his own
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smuggling operation using a company
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plane and i see that it takes you twice
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the time using twice as much fuel I get
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nervous yeah but we have the problem
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down
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hey John you've got the wrong man here
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yeah that's right I got the wrong man
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how did I walk down gorilla vodka what
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do you think it would take for me to
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pull the trigger huh
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what do you think it would take Oh what
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do you think I'm gonna take go on get
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out of here get out get out
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rubus ruled was such an iron hand that
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it took investigators years to penetrate
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the organization locate the hidden
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processing plant and close in on rubus
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himself by December of 1987 authorities
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in the United States had enough evidence
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to charge 37 members of the Ring every
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one of them was arrested everyone but
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John rubus he seemed to have vanished
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into thin air
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three months later the charred remains
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were identified as rubus based solely on
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the four teeth found at the scene in the
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United States the outstanding charges
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against rubus were dropped in Puerto
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Rico police uncovered a vendetta that
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had apparently led to the murder of the
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fugitive drug lord donald kertzer a
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former associate of rubus was convicted
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of masterminding the hit allegedly rubus
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was killed in retaliation for raping
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both Kurt sirs girlfriend and the
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fourteen-year-old daughter of Kurt sirs
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housekeeper
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according to Puerto Rican authorities
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the night of his death rubus arrived at
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the airport in San Juan he was met there
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by two women one of whom was ultimately
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convicted in the case although he rarely
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drank rubus was said to be heavily
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intoxicated explaining that they had an
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unexpected errand but women drove their
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passenger to a deserted area on the
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outskirts of town
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well - chica
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[Music]
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officialy John rubus ceased to exist
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official but a few months later his
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former associate Richard received a call
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from a dead man I have no doubt about it
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being John rulers you know we had
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acquaintances you know an extensive
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period of time so I mean you know I know
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his voice anywhere we also began to
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receive information through some various
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other of the co-defendants that had been
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charged in the case that perhaps rubus
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was alive that they had seen him that
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they had talked to him and what was
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reported to us was that one of the
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defendants wives had received a
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telephone call from a person that she
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identified as John rubus authorities
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have another reason to believe rubus is
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still alive it was simply too smart to
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let himself be trapped john rubus in the
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business he was involved in illegal
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narcotics was a very suspicious
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individual and took a lot of precaution
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to protect himself he never travelled
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alone and when he did travel he always
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traveled armed so the facts that were
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put together just did not fit well with
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what we knew of John Rubis
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two people have served time in Puerto
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Rican prisons for the murder of John
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Reubens but was rubas truly the victim
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or was someone else assassinated in his
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place rubus was fully capable of staging
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his own death and may well have had his
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own teeth extracted in order to
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accomplish a false identification of a
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body and I believe that there was
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substantial reason to believe that John
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rubus is alive he could have he did pull
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it off I know John pretty well I mean
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and John is a very mystique type of guy
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one thing that he would never do is call
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yourself in a situation where he
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couldn't get out he always had an exit
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that most people didn't know about
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bottom line is that John ruled was still
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rights
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when we return surprising discoveries in
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a treasure hunt downtown Los Angeles
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[Music]
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Spanish doubloons
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royal jewels chests of gold in our
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experience is nothing like an old legend
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of buried treasure to learn otherwise
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sensible folks into the wilderness to
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risk their lives while these tales may
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be rich in history and folklore we've
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learned that they don't usually amount
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to much when it comes to actually
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finding anything of value that is until
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we heard about the Buried treasures of
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Elysian Park 575 acres of hills and
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secluded canyons situated just two miles
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from the heart of downtown Los Angeles
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in June of 1994 unsolved mysteries
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brought in a team of historical
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researchers and high tech surveyors to
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follow up age-old rumors of buried gold
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and jewels it would now be worth
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millions incredibly the sensitive
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instruments revealed that the legendary
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treasures of Elysian Park may in fact be
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real
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it seems hard to believe that 150 years
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ago Los Angeles was just a dusty Pueblo
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a quiet outpost in the northernmost
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territory of Mexico but that way of life
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came to a sudden end in 1846 war had
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erupted between Mexico and the United
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States according to stories handed down
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over the years well-to-do Angelenos
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panicked as American forces drew near
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some dog elaborate escape tunnels others
00:28:36
bury their family fortunes for
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safekeeping this was the best thing that
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they could do to protect their valuables
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but at the time and it was a customary
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way because there were no banks if you
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wanted to protect something bury it hide
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it loose Elysian Park was the most
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logical place for people living in the
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Los Angeles area at that time - to bury
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treasure
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through the years stories circulated
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that some families never came back and
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that their treasures were still waiting
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to be discovered in Elysian Park in 1984
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two sisters higher Roy Roush to explore
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in the park
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the women recalled their father
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searching for one of the fabled
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treasures when they were children
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soon they located a spot that seemed
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familiar
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that's pretty good I realized that this
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was an excellent place to bury treasure
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because it was a place where you could
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dig a good sized tunnel without being
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observed those there was trees and Hills
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well the first thing that attracted my
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attention was on the side of a sandstone
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bluff were three indentations the holes
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seemed to be rather symmetrical and
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rather smooth and looked like it
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probably could be man-made however it
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was quite possible that they could be
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natural also so keeping that in mind I'm
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now looking around for some other signs
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and symbols about seventy-five feet away
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at the same level on the side of the
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hill I discovered some initials carved
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in the side of another rock
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halfway between the two signs Roy
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spotted exactly what he had been looking
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for evidence of an old tone found
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something it was not military it was not
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a miner's tunnel it was not for a
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building it was not an old toilet pit it
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all came together it was perfect
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obviously it was a treasure shaft there
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was no other reason for this hole being
00:31:10
there it seems simple for a move dirt
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claimed treasure the sisters said they
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had permits from Park officials when Roy
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suggested that the crew dig at night to
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avoid attracting rivals we got down
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about 25 feet and I got a fairly good
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signal right in the center of the hole
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we all got excited because metal
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detectors don't lie in a situation like
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that
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the instrument had indeed detected
00:31:50
buried artifacts but they were not
00:31:52
exactly what Roy Roush was looking for
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we've uncovered two very old flashlight
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batteries the oldest Fights light
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batteries I'd ever seen even though I
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got no more readings with my metal
00:32:06
detector after we uncovered the two
00:32:08
flashlight batteries we kept digging 30
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feet into the tunnel another artifact
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the frayed end of a very old crudely
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made rope this was bad news so after
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finding the two old flashlight batteries
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and the piece of rope it was quite
00:32:29
obvious that somebody else had already
00:32:31
beat us to the treasure years before for
00:32:36
Roy Roche it was a treasure hunters
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worst nightmare
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he was certainly had found the right
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spot but far too late it was a
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combination of gratification and
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disappointment the gratification was
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that we had correctly found a treasure
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tunnel and had excavated it but the
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disappointment was that after all the
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time and money and work and effort that
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we put into it we had nothing to show
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for our efforts except a couple of old
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flashlight batteries and a piece of rope
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although we came up empty-handed Roy
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Roush believes there are still buried
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treasures in Elysian Park with a total
00:33:23
value approaching 1 million dollars to
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test that theory unsub history's called
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upon experts from the National
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underwater and marine agency or Numa a
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non-profit group that conducts both
00:33:38
ocean and ground surveys their surface
00:33:41
investigation was fully approved by city
00:33:44
officials the sensing device emits radar
00:33:50
waves as it is dragged across the field
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a cross-section of what lies underground
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shows up on this monitor an anomaly such
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as a cannon or perhaps a treasure chest
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would appear on the screen as a
00:34:04
discernable shape among the colors now
00:34:08
if there's a foreign object in there
00:34:10
like maybe a box or cannon something
00:34:12
doesn't belong there we can see it we
00:34:14
have an image of it now we don't know
00:34:16
what it's made of yet so we'll come back
00:34:18
over and do electromagnetic survey to
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see if that cannon type object is a log
00:34:24
or really has some metal to it or that
00:34:26
box could have some gold or silver in it
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or if it's just a wooden box after the
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survey was completed computers
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translated the information into these
00:34:37
cross-sections
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here is the first anomaly the open to
00:34:42
interpretation
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these marks could suggest the presence
00:34:46
of a vertical tunnel rolling to a depth
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of roughly thirty feet the second
00:34:52
anomaly was detected less than 10 feet
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below the surface the survey findings
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indicate that this anomaly is not only a
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solid object but is also metallic if
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there is treasure here I would prefer to
00:35:06
see it stay here I'd like to keep that
00:35:08
mystery alive I think it adds to the
00:35:10
mystique of this park I think it's
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something that people would probably
00:35:14
continue to to talk about in the future
00:35:17
and help to keep the mystique of the
00:35:20
treasure that might be in Elysian Park
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alive representatives of Numa believe
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the anomalies may be important relics
00:35:30
from the city's history links to its
00:35:32
Mexican past however it is unlikely we
00:35:35
will ever know for sure obtaining a
00:35:38
permit to excavate in Los Angeles is
00:35:40
even more difficult than finding a
00:35:41
buried treasure and digging without a
00:35:44
permit is strictly against the law
00:35:46
violators are subject to arrest and
00:35:48
could end up in jail rather than on easy
00:35:50
street next a man searches for the
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American soldier who helped save his
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family during the final days of the
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Second World War
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recently we received a rather unusual
00:36:11
letter from one of our viewers she
00:36:14
called our attention to the moving story
00:36:16
of a man she knows in Germany who's
00:36:18
looking for someone here in the United
00:36:19
States needless to say we were both
00:36:22
intrigued and anxious to help so this
00:36:25
past summer we traveled to Europe and
00:36:27
came back with a poignant mystery of
00:36:29
kindness and compassion for more than a
00:36:35
decade siegfried Marguerite liar at
00:36:37
Marlin Bock Germany have been searching
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for an unsung American hero a young
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soldier who forged an unlikely
00:36:44
friendship with Siegfried when he was
00:36:46
just a small boy nearly half a century
00:36:48
ago 1945 the final days of the Second
00:36:55
World War a Germany's civilian
00:36:59
population it was a time of uncertainty
00:37:00
and despair among the innocent victims
00:37:05
was young siegfried line whose
00:37:07
neighborhood and Ludvig haven was
00:37:09
leveled by Allied bombers Siegfried's
00:37:14
mother immediately fled with her three
00:37:16
youngest children the liar's walked 125
00:37:19
miles to take refuge with relatives in
00:37:22
the village of Muhlenberg they quickly
00:37:24
discovered that the hardships especially
00:37:27
for children were universal just very
00:37:34
bad
00:37:37
histoire de mafia y FS for Ben's a boy
00:37:40
and it suffice very little food to be
00:37:43
had huge margin he had to go with smear
00:37:47
vouchers and buy food but there wasn't
00:37:50
much around
00:37:53
in March of 1945 American troops rolled
00:37:57
into mourning back the German citizens
00:38:00
had feared the worst
00:38:02
a conquering army bent on revenge but
00:38:05
instead they encountered a benevolent
00:38:06
Corps of occupiers and provided them
00:38:09
with food and medical supplies one of
00:38:12
the GIS was a young man named Alexander
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[Music]
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hey you want something
00:38:20
c'mere chocolate
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prepare us all right hey hey kiddo
00:38:30
can you say chocolate if a sympathetic
00:38:39
to me and fending for English yes will
00:38:42
you take this home if it hadn't been for
00:38:45
him perhaps I would not be alive today
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it was a guardian angel for me I am
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Alexander American the guardian angel
00:39:07
took it upon himself to track Siegfried
00:39:09
down Alexander took a genuine interest
00:39:20
in the lyre family and before long the
00:39:22
food shortages were a dim memory he
00:39:29
brought us food from the Army the same
00:39:31
food eaten by salmon being also a saint
00:39:40
he used to come by every day if only to
00:39:42
pick me up and take me to kill the
00:39:44
gardener to pick me up there later
00:39:46
each time he would bring a little food
00:39:51
the bond between the German child of the
00:39:54
American GI grows stronger with each
00:39:56
passing day Alexander would often invite
00:39:59
Siegfried to tag along
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routine patrols around town
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gee hmm hey grab the wheel
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i watch the road watch the road enik
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meet me at the bank after the night bus
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allowed to drive with him that was the
00:40:20
most wonderful thing when I was sitting
00:40:30
in the cars your other children saw me
00:40:32
saver perhaps I've been jealous because
00:40:36
I prefer go out to drive and say Quentin
00:40:38
I first very proud I don't know if you
00:40:42
can understand what I'm trying to say
00:40:44
too
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but I have to go
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inevitably a time came to say goodbye
00:40:52
we may not see each other for a long
00:40:54
time for a very long time
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throw away a facade perhaps I should
00:41:03
never see him again
00:41:04
yeah remembers I agree that you are
00:41:06
great as I think about it to say that
00:41:09
Vasily said
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[Music]
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[Music]
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the boy
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[Music]
00:41:38
Hashima bhagavad-gita I have always
00:41:41
thought about how he helped us and said
00:41:44
I shouldn't turn helps other people he
00:41:49
was not obliged to us in any face as a
00:41:53
human pink human thoughts today
00:42:01
Siegfried has only one precious memento
00:42:04
of Alexander this photograph taken in
00:42:07
the spring of 1945 at the time Alexander
00:42:11
was approximately twenty years old he
00:42:13
would now be around 70 Siegfried lire
00:42:18
does not know Alexander's last name he
00:42:21
does know that Alexander was part of an
00:42:23
army unit that marched in a more
00:42:24
laid-back Germany on March 27th 1945
00:42:28
while there the soldiers were housed at
00:42:30
the Gruner bomb guesthouse
00:42:40
on a previous broadcast we brought you
00:42:43
the poignant story of the Krong family
00:42:45
of Anna Wan Illinois just before
00:42:48
Christmas in 1948
00:42:50
hilda cron and seven of her children had
00:42:52
been evicted from their home the only
00:42:54
available shelter was the Henry County
00:42:56
Jail
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eventually the children were all
00:43:00
separated either put up for adoption or
00:43:03
placed in foster care
00:43:05
eighteen years later two of the children
00:43:08
Marie and Raymond managed to find each
00:43:10
other together they set out to track
00:43:13
down the rest of the family
00:43:15
[Music]
00:43:18
for 18 years Marie and Raymond suffered
00:43:21
through a series of near misses and
00:43:23
false leaves finally in 1993 they did
00:43:27
locate one sister Carol then their story
00:43:30
aired on unsolved mysteries incredibly
00:43:33
within a few hours two more sisters and
00:43:36
three brothers had been found on July
00:43:41
9th 1994 we were at Raymond's house in
00:43:45
Houston Texas as the Kron family
00:43:47
gathered for their first reunion at more
00:43:49
than 45 years Marie's dream had finally
00:43:52
come true I've been looking forward this
00:43:56
for a long time
00:43:58
because I didn't know if I would ever
00:44:00
get to really meet him in person or not
00:44:05
I feel that the love is you know still
00:44:10
there it's it never went away it was
00:44:14
it's always been there and I always
00:44:16
wondered about him and now I'll finally
00:44:19
get to find out what's been going on
00:44:22
with their life and everything and get
00:44:24
reacquainted
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[Music]
00:44:28
for the oldest sister Betty Jane the
00:44:32
reunion was particularly emotional I
00:44:34
knew that was Marie right away just by
00:44:38
looking at her I knew that was Marie and
00:44:42
that's when the first one I embraced I
00:44:46
was very happy to see them all and they
00:44:49
all start coming to me and I start going
00:44:51
to them hugging them and everything so I
00:44:53
was very happy and I feel so good I
00:44:55
really do for Raymond the end of the
00:45:00
search meant a new beginning I always
00:45:12
knew that their names and everything but
00:45:15
I just as I you know I didn't know how
00:45:18
to go about finding them or anything we
00:45:21
hunted and we just got turned down every
00:45:23
place we turn to try to find him and
00:45:25
then do this count alone and it worked
00:45:34
[Music]
00:45:42
join me next time perhaps you may be
00:45:46
able to help solve the mystery
00:45:52
[Music]
00:46:14
[Applause]
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[Music]
