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beyond belief
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fact or fiction
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hosted by jonathan brakes
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tonight your challenge is to separate
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what is true
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from what is false five stories
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some real some fake can you judge which
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are fact and which
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are fiction to find out you must enter a
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world of both truth and deception
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a world that is beyond belief
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[Music]
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perception is something that can often
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change right before our very eyes
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here's an example
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a contoured sheet with obvious valleys
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and peaks
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but when we take another look we see
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that it's perfectly flat
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so what's the reality it all depends on
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our perception
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tonight you'll be asked to judge five
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stories on whether they're fact or
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fiction
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what will your perception tell you some
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of them are inspired by actual events
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while others are total lies and remember
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what you may perceive as plateaus of
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truth
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may actually be mountains of deception
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blood is not only thicker than water
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it's also more informative
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through the analysis of blood types
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chemical makeup
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and dna we can learn much about a
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person's family ties
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even after that person's been dead for
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centuries samples of thomas jefferson's
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dna have proved this point
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of course most of us don't need to
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submit to extensive testing to confirm
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our family relationships we have only to
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look in the mirror to get the genetic
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links to our parents and our siblings
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lorine has never felt that way
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she's never looked like or acted like
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her parents and all her questions
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are about to be put under a microscope i
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was about to marry my childhood
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sweetheart
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we were perfect for each other we had
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absolutely everything in common
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of course to get our marriage license
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the state required a blood test
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that's when an old fear of mine was
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confirmed and i had to confront it with
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my mother
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sweetheart you don't really believe you
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were adopted
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i'm sorry mother but i do you and dad
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are both blood type
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a it wouldn't be possible for me to be
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blood type b
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i always suspected i was adopted now i
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have proof
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i broke these you've seen them before
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they were all taken when you were a
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little girl do you remember me telling
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you about the night you were born
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the blizzard your arrival wasn't exactly
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convenient
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but it was a blessing i never said i
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didn't feel loved
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but i was always different my interests
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my
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talents the only blonde in a family of
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brunettes and
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taller and you grew so fast
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but look how beautiful you turned out
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but mom the blood test
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was wrong the lab made a mistake
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you're still not convinced
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i could have been adopted as a newborn
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but why would they lie is there some
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awful family secret
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honey you
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have terrific parents and someday when
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we have children
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they'll be terrific grandparents
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so even if you really were adopted so
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what
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so what that's in the past honey and
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right now we have a wedding to plan
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and a future to consider i can't
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possibly think about the future
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until i know my history don
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i'm sorry but i can't marry you until i
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know the truth
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honey
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we're soul mates remember we're
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born to be married it's our destiny
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best friends born on the same day new
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year's babies
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if i was adopted maybe my birthday
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really isn't january 1st maybe that's a
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lie too
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i've always loved that we had the same
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birthday
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it was something extra special that we
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shared
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i'll still love you either way
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but if it's important to you we'll find
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out the truth
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[Music]
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together
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[Music]
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well these are the old files before
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everything was done on computers
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medical records you're asking about it
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here somewhere
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you know i could get somebody to do this
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for you maybe take a few days
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i really need to find the record today
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thanks
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okay you need anything else come get me
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[Music]
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this is it here's a copy of your birth
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certificate
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january 1st length
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wait parents russell and edna atkins
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so i'm legit here's the emergency room
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admitting form
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time of arrival patient already in labor
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it's all by the book honey i wasn't
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adopted after all
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relieved
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it's odd someone wrote boy then crossed
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it out
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and wrote girl well you're definitely a
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girl i can vouch for that
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maybe we're not done
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it's odd we don't usually deliver babies
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in the emergency room there's a
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maternity ward for that
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well it was january 1st there was a
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blizzard with the bad roads my parents
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barely got to the hospital in time
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73 and i remember that night
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i was an attendant nurse new year's eve
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power lines were down the hospital was
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working on backup generators
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ice on the highway caused some awful
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accidents we were doing double shifts to
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care for the injured and two women in
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labor came in that night
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and look on my mother's admitting form
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baby boy is written and then marked out
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well it was so hectic i suppose the
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nurse wrote it down wrong and then the
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doctor corrected it
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i was born the same night in the middle
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of the same chaos but my mother's record
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said baby girl
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but it's crossed out and changed to boy
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one boy baby and one girl baby
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the paperwork must have been mixed up is
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it possible that the paperwork wasn't
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mixed up but that the babies were
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an impossible story or is it is it too
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much to believe that two people
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raised by different families could fall
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deeply in love and turn out to have been
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switched at birth
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certainly switched at birth stories and
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become more common over the years
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but one combined with a love story
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strains credibility
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but it's now up to you to decide the
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truth or falsehood of our story
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have we presented you with the facts or
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have we pulled a last-minute switch
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we'll tell you whether this story is
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true or false at the end of our show
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next the spirits of halloween are out
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for revenge
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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next to christmas the most publicized
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and merchandised holiday is halloween
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pumpkin patches are as numerous as
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christmas tree lots
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every year millions are spent on
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costumes decorations
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of course trick-or-treat candy but like
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christmas halloween has its scrooges too
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take harold ratcher harold not only
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hates the holiday he's a troublemaker
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and the trouble he makes is for anyone
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foolish enough to ring his bell on
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halloween night
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and so we come to another year and
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another halloween
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but beware because on this halloween
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nobody can predict what we'll find
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every community has a home like the
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ratchet house it's the one owned by the
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meanest man in town
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luckily the townspeople didn't have to
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interact with harold much
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he lived on the other side of the bridge
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the only time
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anyone bothered to cross the creek to
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see him at all
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was on halloween
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storm's blowing in hope it waits a while
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so children won't be disappointed
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you know it's halloween tonight i
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thought i'd put some candy in a bowl
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there's gonna be no kids coming by here
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tonight
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not after the lesson i taught them last
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year i wouldn't be so proud of that
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harold ratcher
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scared those children so badly one had
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to go to the hospital
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well they were trespassing on my
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property
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time was i was too spread out around
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here for kids to come begging for treats
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besides i won that case in court the
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town's grown up
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suburbs are just to the other side of
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the bridge now
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have to expect some children coming over
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yeah with their greedy hands out
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playing tricks on anybody who doesn't
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give in to their extortion
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they're just harmless little children
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yeah well what about the year they
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covered the tree in toilet paper
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smash raw eggs in the mailbox
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well
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mind you any little hoodlums come across
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that bridge tonight
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they'll wish they hadn't
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oh frightening costumes
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you know how i feel about that i'm
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playing by the rules
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halloweens are a two-way street they
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wear scary costumes
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so can i
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harold don't
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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here you are there
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they don't all fall for your nonsense
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you're a little big for a
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trick-or-treater huh
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so are you
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oh we won't get any more
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trick-or-treaters tonight
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probably best that way
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in this weather
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ah
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i see you out there
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carol who are you hollering at some kid
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he has a dummy dressed up to look just
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like me and
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it's like i told you up to no good he's
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probably trying to get even after last
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year
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i don't see anybody out there you're
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making more out of this than need be
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you think so huh
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it's just the tree of course what else
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would it be
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i don't know what you're getting
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yourself all worked up about but i'm
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going to bed before you do the same to
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me
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[Music]
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you should have cut those branches
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they're going to be scraping all night
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whoa lousy kid
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[Music]
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oh uh i think my husband's having a
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heart attack
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no he doesn't have a history he said
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some boy was terrorizing him
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he's shaking can hardly breathe please
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hurry
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it'll take a while for the ambulance the
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storm flooded the creek
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the bridge between us and town washed
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away hours ago
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that's impossible the bridge washed away
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and how did the kid in the monster suit
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get over to our house
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[Music]
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was harold ratcher victimized by his own
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cruel imagination
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or did someone sneak across the bridge
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before the rain washed it out
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someone who was perhaps out for revenge
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against harold ratcher
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or was the culprit as something harold's
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wife
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mary but then how do you explain the
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grim reaper
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it couldn't possibly have been her could
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it in this tale of trick-or-treat
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have we opened the door of truth or are
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we leaving you
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holding the bag we'll tell you whether
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this story is true or false at the end
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of our show
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next a young woman lives with the ghost
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of her favorite cat
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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do you have a pet chances are it's a dog
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or a cat
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and while dogs retain the title of man's
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best friend
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cat owners number over 27 million in the
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united states alone
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these are a few of the products aimed at
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feline fanciers
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wendy baker is a proud cat lover in fact
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you might say that the attention she
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pays to her cat named precious
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is obsessive it's enough attention to
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fill a lifetime or
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for that matter nine lifetimes
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[Music]
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as a child psychologist i had worked
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with hundreds of cases
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but never before had i entered a
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situation not knowing the nature of the
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problem
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the parents urged me to meet their
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daughter with them in their own home
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i guess they felt if i didn't see it
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with my own eyes i'd never believe it
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oh she actually takes better care of the
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cat than she does herself
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you know we moved about six months ago
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wendy was upset about leaving her old
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school and her friends so we thought
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we'd get her precious
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i tried to explain to her we had to
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relocate for this job i was taking but
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well you know kids oh and wendy
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really loved that cat i mean precious
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slept on her bed every night on a
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special pillow
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followed wendy around like a shadow it
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was
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really sweet where is the cat oh well
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about two months ago it ran out into the
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street
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and wendy hasn't gotten over the loss no
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we
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figured give her a little time yeah but
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it's been two months it's a little
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bizarre
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maybe i should have agreed to seek out
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help sooner but kids teenagers they're
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supposed to act eccentric you know at
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first we thought it was some sort of uh
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hallucination and then we thought she
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was doing it on purpose just to make us
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angry and now we don't know what to
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think except that
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she is taking this way too far and
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we really need some help what do you
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mean by eccentric
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oh hi hey pumpkin
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hey um wendy this is the uh
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the doctor we talked about hi wendy i'm
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dana
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dana white
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[Music]
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hello
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we asked dr white to um talk to you
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oh about precious
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good baby
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you're hungry today huh
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did you miss me i missed you too
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um you know i've got that algebra test
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tomorrow i'm going to study
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she pretends precious is still alive
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the food actually disappears
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in the morning it's half eaten
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and my husband thinks that maybe wendy
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is actually
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me have you tried to make her stop well
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for a while we went along with the
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charade we thought maybe it would be
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better for her but
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then last week we finally confronted her
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we
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told her how we felt and begged her to
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stop
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and the next morning we found this
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told us precious was upset
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i have an idea
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[Music]
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i'd like to tell wendy that i want to
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photograph precious
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maybe she'll warm up to me more quickly
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that way would you mind if i used your
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camera
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and play right into her fantasy this is
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a strange case mr baker i am willing to
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do anything that might help wendy
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i can't say i have a lot of experience
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in situations like this but
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something in my gut just tells me that
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this is the right move
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is there film in that camera well looks
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like it's loaded only 11 shots used
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and we haven't used it in a while
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[Music]
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okay let's give it a try
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great
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come in
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hey wendy
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i know you want to study but i was
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hoping we could talk for a few minutes
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or just to get to know one another they
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just don't get it
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i don't need a shrink they need glasses
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it's a nice room yeah it's all right
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the old house was nicer your parents say
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you spend a lot of time in here
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yeah well they won't leave me alone out
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there they're always mad
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about precious
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hey how would you feel if i took some
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pictures of precious
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are you trying to make me like you a
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little
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sure go ahead take her picture
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she always loves taking her afternoon
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naps in this pillow
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oh hey
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you scaredy cat did that sound frighten
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you
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it's okay precious it's just a camera
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hey how about if i take a picture of you
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holding precious
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sure okay
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[Music]
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great
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that's beautiful
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i think it is the right decision hi
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if you would develop this role of film
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as soon as possible
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i think that when she sees there is no
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cat she'll be able to accept it
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let's try this first before we proceed
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with the therapy
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oh thank you thank you so much for
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coming to our home
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thank you thank you very much oh it's my
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pleasure
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i just hope it does the trick you know
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what to say about pictures
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sometimes seeing is believing yeah well
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i'll walk you out
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i was surprised to receive a call the
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next day mrs baker asked if i could come
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right over
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so i did
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hi um i called my husband but he's not
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here yet
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please come in
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i just got back from the photo lab
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now i knew why mrs baker was so upset
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what's the explanation here how could an
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image of precious show up in the
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photograph remember
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the role of film was already in the
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camera was it an old photographic image
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left over from when precious was still
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alive
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perhaps a double exposure if so why were
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there no other images of precious on
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that same role
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or is it possible that precious still
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existed on some
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spiritual level the soul that could be
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seen and felt by the person who loved
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him most
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wendy baker does this story of the
00:25:03
invisible cat deserve to be deposited in
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the bank of truth
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or have we tossed another lie into the
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kitty
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we'll tell you whether this story is
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true or false at the end of our show
00:25:14
next a showdown with death at a roadside
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motel
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on beyond belief fact or fiction
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[Music]
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observe keys that unlock doors to hotel
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and motel rooms
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something most of us take for granted
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but think about the mysteries that exist
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in the simple act of opening a motel
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door
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who has stayed here before what
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activities took place here
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has anything been left behind and what
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will await you during your stay
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in most cases those questions are
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unimportant but for joe bender and his
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wife angie
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this key is more than a device to open
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their door
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it's a passport to the unexplained
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[Music]
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my husband was once a good cop but the
00:26:01
years on the force it made him cold and
00:26:03
hard about criminals
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and lately he was burned out and getting
00:26:07
himself into big trouble
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his suspension gave us a chance to take
00:26:11
a few days for ourselves
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something we really needed i wanted to
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believe in joe
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but i knew the police force had changed
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him he wasn't the same man i married
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we got a quiet room
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they're all quiet around here
00:26:44
california's license
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you and the mrs on vacation
00:26:50
just getting away for a while
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twenty-three
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[Applause]
00:27:11
[Music]
00:27:20
this trip will be good for both of us i
00:27:22
don't care if i ever see la again
00:27:28
i had seen the old woman's reaction to
00:27:30
the paper through the office window
00:27:32
she knew who joe was all right i just
00:27:34
wish i did
00:27:36
and then something totally strange
00:27:38
happened
00:27:39
hey joe what are you doing
00:27:43
i i thought i saw my god did you hurt
00:27:46
yourself
00:27:53
that's blood
00:27:57
i couldn't get joe to change rooms he
00:27:59
just wanted this one cleaned up
00:28:01
i was feeling very uncomfortable
00:28:08
well it's gone now
00:28:17
strange place unbelievable
00:28:21
are you okay sure
00:28:24
i'm not gonna let them beat me honey
00:28:28
it's just it's all this stress you've
00:28:30
been under
00:28:31
the way these internal affairs people in
00:28:33
the press have hounded you
00:28:34
bastards after everything i've given
00:28:38
and of course you know the courts they
00:28:40
protect guilty and don't think that i
00:28:41
don't know which ones are guilty
00:28:44
that guide crucifying me over punk
00:28:48
he deserved everything that he got
00:28:54
just just try and get some rest
00:29:03
[Music]
00:29:10
[Music]
00:29:20
[Applause]
00:29:24
huh
00:29:26
why what the hell do you want
00:29:37
what's the matter joe you wanted me to
00:29:40
go for my gun
00:29:42
oh who what are you talking about we're
00:29:44
alone joe no no
00:29:46
there's no one here you're you're
00:29:52
dreaming was here he was right here
00:29:58
[Music]
00:30:00
we gotta get out of here joe
00:30:04
come on come on
00:30:09
wake up hey
00:30:12
[Music]
00:30:15
right now you're going to tell me what's
00:30:17
in our room what is it i don't know what
00:30:19
you're talking about
00:30:22
[Music]
00:30:26
i only know what other people have told
00:30:28
me what a long time ago
00:30:31
a man named william bonnie was killed in
00:30:34
an unfair gunfight
00:30:35
and some people believe that his spirit
00:30:38
remained here
00:30:39
you're telling me that this hotel is
00:30:40
haunted william bonnie
00:30:43
died on this ground i've never seen him
00:30:47
but i'll tell you this tonight isn't the
00:30:50
first night that i've had to mop up
00:30:52
blood
00:30:53
i'm gonna go get our stuff you stay here
00:30:55
we're checking out
00:31:03
do you really believe all this about a
00:31:05
ghost
00:31:08
a lot of people believe it some think
00:31:10
he's waiting on a chance for revenge
00:31:15
you see in that gun fight william bonnie
00:31:18
was shot
00:31:19
dead by a lawman
00:31:36
[Music]
00:31:42
[Music]
00:31:44
do
00:31:47
[Music]
00:31:55
did joe bender fall prey to a ghost or
00:31:57
was he the victim of his own
00:31:58
guilty conscience did his stressful
00:32:01
situation lend to his own suicide
00:32:03
was his demise caused by the spirit of
00:32:05
billy the kid
00:32:07
a man who was unfairly shot to death
00:32:08
years ago by another lawman
00:32:11
in judging the merits of this story you
00:32:13
must decide the winner of the showdown
00:32:14
that takes place every day
00:32:16
truth versus falsehood we'll tell you
00:32:20
whether this story is true or false at
00:32:22
the end of our show
00:32:23
next a married couple encounter a
00:32:25
strange drifter on beyond belief fact or
00:32:28
fiction
00:32:30
these are all things that come in handy
00:32:32
when your car gets a flat tire
00:32:34
of course many people choose to just
00:32:36
stay in their car and call the auto club
00:32:38
but sometimes phones aren't available
00:32:40
the husband in our next story
00:32:42
isn't very handy but like most men he
00:32:44
takes a certain pride in his ability to
00:32:46
read his manual and change a tire in any
00:32:47
situation
00:32:49
but the strange situation he and his
00:32:51
wife are about to encounter
00:32:52
isn't covered in any manual
00:32:57
when we started to david's mother's
00:32:58
house that morning we were already
00:33:00
arguing
00:33:01
i was completely on edge because i love
00:33:03
david but i knew our marriage was
00:33:05
slipping away
00:33:17
i'd feel better if you put on your seat
00:33:18
belt just stop worrying
00:33:22
you look fine your dress is fine you're
00:33:24
not listening to me
00:33:27
besides which i'm wearing slacks
00:33:31
whatever you look all right whenever we
00:33:33
visit your mother i feel like i'm being
00:33:35
scrutinized
00:33:36
imagining things my mother is not that
00:33:38
critical really
00:33:39
then why do you always feel like you
00:33:40
have to please her
00:33:43
yeah you're not in competition with her
00:33:44
rebecca i make plenty of time for you oh
00:33:47
just like you make time for your boss
00:33:48
your
00:33:48
friends your golf buddies
00:33:52
you always make me feel like i'm last in
00:33:53
line you know when i'm working late
00:33:56
it's for us when i'm golfing with a
00:33:59
client
00:34:00
it's for us i understand
00:34:03
you don't notice what i'm wearing when
00:34:05
i'm sitting eight inches away from you
00:34:07
you expect me to believe you understand
00:34:09
how i feel
00:34:13
great i think we have a flat
00:34:24
i can't get any service out here
00:34:31
are you sure you're doing that right
00:34:37
you know these tires are new there's no
00:34:39
reason for this to be flat
00:34:50
looks like you need help oh yes
00:34:54
you're the guys at the tire center they
00:34:56
uh use a power drill
00:35:00
let me try
00:35:08
knock yourself out
00:35:18
i don't know is this a good idea
00:35:22
we'll give him a couple of bucks
00:35:37
sometimes the direction we choose is not
00:35:39
the right one
00:35:44
you uh you were turning the wrench the
00:35:48
wrong way
00:35:50
it's not a wrench it's a tire iron
00:35:57
my mom is not gonna be happy
00:36:02
sometimes we try to please so many
00:36:05
others
00:36:07
we lose sight of those who are most
00:36:09
important
00:36:11
the ones we truly love
00:36:16
it's easy to take them for granted
00:36:19
they're always there for us
00:36:23
yeah well uh you know we really
00:36:26
appreciate this
00:36:30
can i give you a lift somewhere
00:36:35
[Music]
00:36:39
at first i was concerned david invited
00:36:41
this strange man into our car
00:36:53
i'd feel better if you put on your seat
00:37:06
belt
00:37:14
so how far are you going i'll know when
00:37:16
the time comes to leave you
00:37:21
so you just travel from place to place
00:37:26
family must miss you you know i envy you
00:37:30
doing whatever you want not having
00:37:32
anyone to answer to
00:37:33
complete freedom life's just one big
00:37:36
adventure huh
00:37:41
that it is
00:37:44
but when you see how much can be gained
00:37:46
when two joined together as one
00:37:48
to have someone who knows your private
00:37:50
most personal pain and can replace it
00:37:52
with joy
00:37:53
that is an adventure
00:37:57
[Music]
00:38:00
yeah well everything takes work
00:38:03
life is work
00:38:06
[Music]
00:38:08
any heavy load can be made lighter when
00:38:10
two work together
00:38:12
as opposed to pulling in opposite
00:38:13
directions
00:38:16
when love is held in an open hand it can
00:38:18
flourish
00:38:20
instead of being crushed
00:38:32
[Music]
00:38:40
it's like you know us david
00:38:44
oh my god he's gone
00:38:50
what the hell
00:38:54
he must have fallen out
00:38:58
well he's wearing his seat belt
00:39:01
[Music]
00:39:09
[Music]
00:39:10
after searching the area and not finding
00:39:12
him we felt like we needed to report
00:39:14
what happened
00:39:15
so when david spotted a police officer
00:39:17
we pulled over
00:39:18
just it was there and gone i've been up
00:39:22
and down this stretch of highway so many
00:39:23
times
00:39:24
i know every crack in the pavement i
00:39:26
could look for that drifter but i won't
00:39:27
find him
00:39:31
you're the fourth couple that's told me
00:39:33
this story
00:39:35
and that's just this week
00:39:42
[Music]
00:39:45
come on honey we gotta go
00:39:50
when we finally arrived at david's
00:39:51
mother's house things were different
00:39:54
she sent something had happened
00:39:55
something that brought us closer
00:39:56
together
00:39:58
it was if our wedding vows had been
00:39:59
respoken and we owed it all to that
00:40:01
drifter
00:40:02
whoever or whatever he was
00:40:08
so was the strange hitchhiker that
00:40:09
disappeared from the car a ghost
00:40:12
if he was real how did he disappear from
00:40:14
the back seat
00:40:16
some who don't believe in spirits have
00:40:17
suggested that perhaps the hitchhiker
00:40:19
was a professional escape artist
00:40:21
if so what could have led him to spend
00:40:23
his life lending spiritual enlightenment
00:40:25
to drivers along the highway
00:40:28
drifter angel or ghost
00:40:31
is this story of a stranger who hopped a
00:40:33
ride true
00:40:36
or is there a hitch to it next
00:40:39
you'll find out which of our stories are
00:40:41
fact and which are fiction
00:40:43
when beyond belief fact or fiction
00:40:46
returns
00:40:49
now it's time to find out which of our
00:40:50
stories was inspired by an actual event
00:40:53
and which ones are total fiction
00:40:56
what was your opinion of the story of
00:40:58
the couple in love who turned out to be
00:41:00
switched at birth
00:41:01
well it was so hectic i suppose the
00:41:04
nurse wrote it down wrong and then the
00:41:06
doctor corrected it
00:41:08
i was born the same night in the middle
00:41:10
of the same chaos
00:41:12
but my mother's record said baby girl
00:41:14
but it's crossed out and changed to boy
00:41:18
one boy baby and one girl baby
00:41:22
the paperwork must have been mixed up is
00:41:25
this one too fantastic to be true
00:41:27
not really our research shows that a
00:41:29
similar story took place involving a
00:41:31
couple in the northeast around the late
00:41:32
70s
00:41:35
[Music]
00:41:38
now let's take a look at the evil
00:41:40
halloween scrooge who was paid back for
00:41:42
his treachery
00:41:43
by an unexplainable force trick or treat
00:41:57
i see you out there
00:42:06
did you think our research staff found a
00:42:08
story inspired by an actual event
00:42:11
not this time it's the creation of a
00:42:14
writer
00:42:19
how did you judge the story of the girl
00:42:21
with the imaginary cat
00:42:22
that turned out to be more than just
00:42:24
imagination hey how would you feel if i
00:42:26
took some pictures of precious
00:42:32
are you trying to make me like you a
00:42:34
little
00:42:39
sure go ahead take her picture she
00:42:42
always loves taking her afternoon naps
00:42:44
in his pillow
00:42:45
oh really did we make up this story of
00:42:49
the young woman obsessed by a cat that
00:42:51
nobody but her could see
00:42:53
no this story is inspired by an actual
00:42:55
event that took place near paris in the
00:42:57
mid-50s
00:43:03
what did you make of the tale of the
00:43:05
crooked policeman who apparently
00:43:07
received his revenge from the ghost of
00:43:09
billy the kid
00:43:10
was this one true you're gonna tell me
00:43:12
what's in our room what is it i don't
00:43:14
know what you're talking don't lie to me
00:43:21
i only know what other people have told
00:43:23
me what a long time ago
00:43:27
a man named william bonnie was killed in
00:43:29
an unfair gunfight
00:43:31
and some people believe that his spirit
00:43:34
remained here
00:43:35
you're telling me that this hotel is
00:43:36
haunted according to our research a
00:43:38
similar event to this one did occur
00:43:40
in a period between the world wars and
00:43:42
the american southwest
00:43:44
it's fact
00:43:49
now let's review the story of the
00:43:51
mysterious hitchhiker who changed the
00:43:52
lives of a married couple
00:43:54
true or false there is no reason for
00:43:56
this to be flat
00:44:04
david looks like you need help
00:44:08
if you thought this one was based on an
00:44:10
actual event you're right
00:44:11
it's a story that has been reported by
00:44:13
travelers along a highway in new york
00:44:15
state
00:44:15
it's fact
00:44:18
[Music]
00:44:21
how was your perception tonight did it
00:44:23
stay constant or did it change before
00:44:25
your eyes
00:44:26
the perception of truth must include the
00:44:28
awareness of falsehood
00:44:30
but where does one begin and the other
00:44:32
let off
00:44:33
that's the challenge of discerning fact
00:44:35
from fiction and that's why we're often
00:44:37
left with a choice
00:44:38
that's beyond belief i'm jonathan franks
00:44:42
the story entitled for the record is
00:44:44
true based upon first-hand research
00:44:46
conducted by author robert treylands
00:44:48
for beyond belief fact or fiction this
00:44:51
is don lafontaine
00:45:05
[Music]
00:45:33
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