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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 five weeks ago we brought you
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the story of a young man who is
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suffering from amnesia and living in a
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homeless shelter in San Diego thanks to
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you our viewers he now knows who he is
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it will soon be reunited with his family
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tonight the dramatic conclusion of his
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story and we'll introduce you to this
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woman also suffering from amnesia and
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needing your help to find out who she is
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we will also examine accusations that a
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nurse in Texas named Ethel nation saw
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dozens of babies - adopted parents - of
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those infants who are now adults would
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like your help to find their natural
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parents and finally with Halloween
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almost a pause
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- tales of things that go bump in the
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night
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during the Civil War this building was
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an important tapas for the Union Army
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today it is a museum and many employees
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believe some of the old soldiers never
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left this building an upscale restaurant
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known as a Moss Beach distillery also
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has a spectacular and intriguing past
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legend has it that during the Roaring
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Twenties it was a hotbed for loose women
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bathtub gin racketeering and mobsters
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over the years eyewitnesses to account a
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series of strange happenings right here
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in the distillery eerie sights and
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sounds of no matter how hard you try
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cannot be explained some believe that
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the ghosts of the Roaring Twenties are
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still here today brewing up spirit
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admission to make a fascinating and
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chilly unsolved mystery
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Moss Beach is a lonely windswept cold
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which lies 20 miles south of San
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Francisco the moss peach distillery is
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perched on a bluff overlooking the cold
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the restaurants name pays homage to the
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building's history during the heady days
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of prohibition it was a notorious
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speakeasy in recent years all manner of
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strange goings-on have been reported at
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the Moss Beach distillery waitresses
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where the cold wind swirled through the
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dining but no windows or doors are open
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one of the former owners claims she has
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seen objects fly through the air and
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doors locked mysteriously of their own
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accord at last count as many as five
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different ghosts have been reported
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lurking in and around his restaurant
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I've been here all day and I haven't
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seen a single ghost but over the years a
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lot of other people have or say they
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happen and since it's almost Halloween
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the rest of us should at least try to
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keep an open mind according to local
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legend all this ghostly business began
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some seventy years ago with a beautiful
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lady in blue
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the Roaring Twenties flappers
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fast-living
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illegal booze
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get the lead out Frank's Roadhouse the
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speakeasy at Moss Beach was a favorite
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jumping off point for bootleggers
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gentlemen the best whiskey money can buy
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Frank's was also the setting for a
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legendary love triangle the lady was
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beautiful she always wore blue the piano
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player had eyes only for her but their
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romance was conducted in secret because
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a lady in blue belonged to someone else
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the lovers communicated in code a silent
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language in which the lift of an eyebrow
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spoke volumes
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the lady's husband was a bootlegger and
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that night she made a serious mistake
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unaware that he would soon arrive she
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signaled the piano player to meet her on
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the beach
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Moss Beach was a bootleggers haven
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isolated and sheltered under a cliff
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just outside the speakeasy when the
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lady's husband found out she had left
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Frank's Roadhouse he made his way to the
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cove and frantically questioned his
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cronies suddenly the bootleggers saw his
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wife of the piano player and went mad
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with jealousy a life flashed a gun was
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drawn a lady threw herself between the
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two men she loved where the struggle was
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over the beautiful lady in blue lay
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lifeless victim of her lover's dagger or
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so it is said some will deny that she
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ever existed but others will swear that
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her ghost haunts Moss beach to this very
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day
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believers claim it just as the blue lady
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once held caught inside the speakeasy
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her spirit now provides the restaurant
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breathing a chill wind down the necks of
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women she seizes rifles moreover some
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employees swear that she calls out their
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names seductively when they are all
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alone in the dining room
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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she's mischievous a lot of pranks will
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happen a lot of things will go on but I
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don't think that any of it is malicious
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I don't think that anything is supposed
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to be hair-raising Zand you're running
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out of a building or anything else like
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that she's good she's she seems to be a
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kind soul nice spirit
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it's just still sort of amazes me that
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she still is there and still playing
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tricks on people you know every time I
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come back and talk to someone they give
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me the list of all the things that she's
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been doing when Patten dave Andrews on
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the moss Beach distillery their family
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lived on the ground floor
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they say the blue lady seemed to delight
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in locking them out of their rooms
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paddles who says that the blue lady
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liked to play other tricks especially
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late at night when Pat was all alone in
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the restaurant office my checkbook
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lifted right off the shelf above my head
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and sailed around it was kind of slowly
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around in this small room but I just
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told her to put it back and it went
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right back onto the shelf I was a total
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skeptic couldn't been more skeptical
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than it would be impossible to be more
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skeptical than I was and I just didn't
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believe in it and then as as time went
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on the things that happened you know
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totally brought me around to the point
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of view that there it is here
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there's no offense or buts about it
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happened on the cliff outside the
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restaurant some neighborhood children
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once claimed they saw the blue lady but
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she seemed to be a very different kind
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of ghost not the playful spirit who
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dwelt indoors but one with a somber
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demeanor concerned for the children's
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safety
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go back go away it's dangerous
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please listen hurry
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the housekeeper of one of the restaurant
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employees police she has met the same
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spirit and that it is definitely not the
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two-timing flapper a popular legend
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first time I see the blue lady is one
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night I am very sick I have Cola have
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fever
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yeah I see one person in the side in my
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bed
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[Music]
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tu eres Consuela
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see also from solo quiero hablar contigo
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porque tu tienes algo mio not a rotten
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banana to you
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estoy hablando de musica
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[Music]
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the mysterious blue lady would soon
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reappear this time just after Consuela
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had finished showering she claims that
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once again the spirit asked for her
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music and then revealed her name me
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nombre
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[Music]
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the name Alma Reid conjured a dim memory
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from Consuela's childhood when she was
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10 years old
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Consuela's father had given her sheet
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music written by one of his close
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friends Ricardo parlour een a famous
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Mexican musician the song was titled
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peregrina he was dedicated to Ricardo's
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beloved her name was Elmer Reade
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accoding to Consuela Alma Reid and
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Ricardo Paul marine were star-crossed
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lovers Alma was already married to
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another man when she fell in love with a
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handsome musician legend has it that in
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1927 she walked into the sea
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preferring death to life without her
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beloved Ricardo
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some say she drowned herself off the
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northern California coast
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not far from lost Beach
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[Music]
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I became involved with the blue lady
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Sylvia bronde as a national reputation
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as a psychic she has worked with the
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police on many unsolved criminal cases
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in 1992 the owner of the Moss Beach
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distillery asked her to find out just
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who luring the blue lady was and I said
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Oh
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I have more things to do than to go
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ghost chasing but I said what the heck
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so after I got up here I walked in and
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said oh my god there is a ghost here and
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I'm getting the name Mary Ann or Mary
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Ellen Morley and she seems to be swerved
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all in sort of like a hat the restaurant
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employees were surprised when Sylvia
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came up with a totally new identity for
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the blue ladies maybe I'd say 26 maybe
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20 Sylvia what all to say that Mary
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Ellen Morley had been killed by crushing
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blows to the chest and head but her
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demeanor seems we took that information
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went over to the San Mateo County vital
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statistics and research documentation
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between 1910 and 1930 and in fact came
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up with a name that Sylvia Browne had
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had mentioned during dinner Mary Ellen
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Morley
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Jennifer Tyler and Jan buckle stole
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another restaurant employees dug through
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the archives and made an eerie discovery
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Mary Ellen Marley's maiden name was read
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and in an astounding coincidence she had
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a sister named Alma Jennifer and Jen are
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also intrigued by the newspaper accounts
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of Mary Ellen Moore Lee's death when she
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was killed
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it had a made front-page news in the
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Redwood City standard as well as The
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Times Gazette and so it was it was
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really chilling when I came upon that
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cuz all of a sudden she became very real
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Mary Ellen Morley lived in Redwood City
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California near the San Francisco Bay on
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the day of her death Mary Ellen and her
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husband Frederick had driven north to
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visit her mother's grave the cemetery
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was 15 miles from the Moss beach
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distillery
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[Music]
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returning home on the Bayshore highway
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that same night Frederic lost control of
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his automobile it overturned and Mary
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Ellen was trapped in the wreckage with
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her last breath she asked Frederic to
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take care of the three-year-old son
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jackals
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[Music]
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[Music]
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when Frederick Morley heard a car he
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frantically ran for help but in the end
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he could do nothing to save his wife the
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injuries she suffered were crushing
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blows to the chest and head the exact
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injuries described by Sylvia Browne
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you say that you're very tired
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the owner of the distillery called
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Sylvia Browne back to the restaurant for
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a seance because you've been walking so
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long so cold so tired
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Sylvia claims of Mary Ellen Marley's
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spirit was weary from searching for Jack
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her son L incredibly Sylvia also says
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she saw three other spirits with Mary
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Ellen
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a beautiful blonde named Anna Philbrick
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her dashing lover John Cantina and
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Hannah elder a Mennonite woman as the
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sails came to an end
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Sylvia said Mary Ellen ward that would
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soon be a fire at the restaurant concern
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is that what you're saying Mary Ilic
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four or five days later after this we
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had a fire here in the restaurant we had
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to close the restaurant temporarily and
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that was really eerie
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that was kind of scary I've moved from
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a1 on a scale of ten of belief to
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somewhere in the neighborhood of an
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eight I would say in a Tim with regard
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to my blue lady I'm convinced she's here
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does a spirit of a beautiful blue lady
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really hunt the most Beach distillery
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if so who could she be most people now
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believe she is Mary Ellen Morley the
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young mother who died in a tragic car
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accident
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others swear that the blue lady is al
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Marine the ill-fated lover of Ricardo
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parlour een a few still hold with the
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original legend of the beautiful flapper
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who romanced a piano player at Frank's
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Roadhouse perhaps all three women
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thought los beach perhaps the most Beach
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distillery is not only a watering hole
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for humans but a gathering place for
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spirits as well when we return a tale of
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a haunting from a different era
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some say the spirits from a civil war
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have taken up residence in the drum
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barracks Museum
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on April 12 1861 the first tragic shots
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of the American Civil War were fired at
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Fort Sumter South Carolina over the next
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four years the battle raged along a
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thousand-mile front the most of the
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fighting took place in the southern
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states the Union war effort eventually
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spread across the country all the way to
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Wilmington California in 1862 a military
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installation was established on 60 acres
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overlooking Los Angeles Harbor
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christened the drum barracks after an
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obscure lieutenant colonel the facility
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was a key Center for training and
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processing troops by the end of the war
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nearly half of California 17,000 Union
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volunteers had passed through the
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barracks today all that remains of the
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outpost is a single building which now
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houses a modest Museum and some very
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unlikely tour guides I don't call them
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ghosts or I don't call them hauntings
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usually what I do believe in is we call
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them spirits it's a comfortable feeling
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they don't bother me and I'm very
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comfortable here with them you can lock
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the rooms at night I do I I make a check
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in fact very religiously I check all the
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rooms they're locked the lights are off
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the shades are down and you come here at
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eight o'clock in the morning and the
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light in the parlor jolly well might be
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on and then again it might not but the
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shades may be up
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in 1986 Marge O'Brien was hired to
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revitalize the drum barracks the museum
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had fallen into disrepair
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despite being declared a historic
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landmark in 1963 it was very dark very
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sad feeling as you walk through and it
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was just the kind of a building just
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kind of standing here saying help me
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over the next few months margin a team
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of craftsmen and volunteers work
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diligently to overhaul the museum the
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officers lounge was faithfully restored
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and loo displays were installed the old
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building was coming back to life in more
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ways than one I'm sitting in my office
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doing the proverbial paperwork and
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something will take my attention either
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a window will rattle the roses will hit
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against the window something wind
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possibly and that something attracts me
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to the fact that I should be checking
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something
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[Music]
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and I will walk over to the parlor nine
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chances out of ten when I have this
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feeling and I open the door more likely
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than not the lights on the on the table
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are on
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most times I will walk up the stairs and
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check the gun room very often that too
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has the lights on and the window blinds
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open even though they have been closed
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and down because of the rule here is
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that after every tour you pull the
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shades down turn off the light and lock
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the door never thought much about ghosts
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I've never inquired about it never tried
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to speak to the dead never got involved
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even when I first came here I took it
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very lightly Forrest Neal was always a
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skeptic when it came to ghosts in the
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light until the summer of 1989 it was on
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a Monday morning Museum being closed I'm
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here by myself and I heard someone
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walking and one of the hallways as it
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continued I walked out to my door
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looking down the stairway
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I proceeded out knowing that someone was
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probably in a gift shop hiding waiting
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for me to leap as I went into gift shop
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no one went over the bathroom I expected
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for something to happen and there was no
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one in the bathroom and since then I
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become pretty much a believer we were up
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there in the gun room cleaning dusting
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my group Yasmin works with volunteer
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groups who assist in the museum's upkeep
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in 1991 she too began to believe that
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the drum barracks might in fact be
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haunted I put down the blinds and turn
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off the light and walked a dream and
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left came downstairs and left a building
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there were nobody around you will be
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back Friday won't you yeah 10:30 just
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silver needs polishing okay we'll do
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that when I looked up I saw the blind
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and the window that we were working went
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up really slowly did you just see that
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what the blind went up by itself it gave
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me the impression as if someone was
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holding it you know someone was doing it
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to me a ghost who is like Casper the
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Friendly Ghost or some movie or
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something you know I guess you know and
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one doesn't believe it until they
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actually are really convinced Fred Duran
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is an exterminator for the city of Los
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Angeles and the museum is among his
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regular stops on one visit in particular
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Fred got all the convincing he needed as
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they got into the kitchen that morning I
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heard some footsteps behind me and I
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thought it was the caretaker yeah and I
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didn't pay any attention to it have you
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seen the real know
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as I turned around there was this guy
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there I thought it was kind of odd
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because he was in a Civil War outfit and
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I thought it was the caretaker that
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lived there
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so as I was going out towards you know
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the front of the building to go out
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towards my vehicle and then I you know I
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saw the caretaker there in the work and
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the workmen also and I just asked him I
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said you know hey the guy that lives
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here takes his job seriously and they
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said you saw the captain's ghosts and I
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said oh come on guys and they said no
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you actually saw the captain's ghosts
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hey Fred said he saw it he saw it I have
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no doubts in that Fred's a very honest
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man my reaction is I wonder why at this
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point what the reason was at this point
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in time why he had to should to come now
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and why - Fred Marge O'Brien became
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determined to find out who or what had
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been taken up residence in the drum
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barracks in 1991 she asked Barbara
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Connor an internationally recognized
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psychic to visit the museum she says we
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seem to have some creaks and groans and
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I thought right away mentally I thought
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to myself oh it's an old house it's just
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settling and I said well I've never done
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it before but sure I'd like to come out
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so we came out and starting to go
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through the Barry according to Barbara
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Connor the drum barracks was teeming
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with ghostly activity
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in the officers lounge she claims to
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have encountered several spirits who
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were playing cards and others stood by
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the window peering through the curtains
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but one phantom seemed more forceful
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than the rest she looked at me and he
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says I want this chair closer to the
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fireplace because I'm cold and I was
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telling Marge I said this gentleman that
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sitting in this chair here has a foot
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that is his boot is too tight for him
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what was interesting is my research
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showed that Colonel Curtis who was the
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commander here the longest had
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frostbitten his left foot when he was
00:25:59
fighting Indians up in Washington right
00:26:03
around the ankle above where the nerve
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endings were was a great deal of pain
00:26:07
which he suffered much of his life he
00:26:09
would wear a boot that was a size
00:26:11
smaller so that he could have more
00:26:13
control of that foot and he dragged it
00:26:15
there is no way Barbara could have known
00:26:18
that when she walked into the room I had
00:26:20
just started to uncover this research
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[Music]
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upstairs Barbara Conner continued to
00:26:29
have visions which seemed to explain
00:26:31
some of the strange noises Marge and the
00:26:33
staff had grown familiar with
00:26:41
I told Marge I said there's a little boy
00:26:44
here and he's throwing the ball up
00:26:47
against the wall and she goes that's
00:26:49
what that is and I go what she says well
00:26:53
we've heard this thump thump thump and
00:26:55
we couldn't figure out what it is and I
00:26:56
said well that's it he's throwing this
00:26:58
ball up against the wall and I said if
00:27:01
you want him to stop just tell him to
00:27:02
stop and he'll stop as the tour came to
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an end
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Barbara Conner says she saw the specters
00:27:15
of Colonel Curtis and his officers in a
00:27:18
planning session
00:27:20
the colonel was standing there at the
00:27:23
table and when we came in he looked at
00:27:25
us then all sudden he started looking in
00:27:26
a box over on the side like he left what
00:27:29
he was doing and went over and started
00:27:31
digging in this box and he turned to me
00:27:33
and mental he's projected he wants his
00:27:36
award he wants the award he's trying to
00:27:39
find an award and I said what award and
00:27:42
he says I have an award I want my award
00:27:44
and I wanted on that wall but I had
00:27:48
never heard of a plaque before and I
00:27:50
didn't I don't remember anything ever
00:27:52
hanging in that storage room but I
00:27:55
discovered later that when he left
00:27:57
Washington that Colonel Curtis didn't
00:27:59
receive an award for his work with the
00:28:01
Indians up there and possibly that could
00:28:04
have been the plaque
00:28:06
remember Curtis young it's time to go
00:28:09
home lights out you can go on them back
00:28:11
home that's fine with me
00:28:13
[Music]
00:28:17
I believe that there's something here
00:28:24
people asked me have I seen it I have no
00:28:26
I haven't seen it and apparently they
00:28:28
don't talk to me if I'm wrong in talking
00:28:32
to spiritual then I'm wrong because I do
00:28:34
have become accustomed to I'm pleased
00:28:38
that they're here if indeed they are
00:28:40
because it means someone with a longer
00:28:42
span here is going to take care of this
00:28:44
place and it will be taken care of
00:28:47
do the long-dead spirits of the Civil
00:28:50
War still roam the drum barracks at this
00:28:54
point the museum staff has little doubt
00:28:57
skeptics might say they have overactive
00:29:00
imaginations or perhaps a fanatic
00:29:02
reverence for the past but those who've
00:29:05
experienced the unguided tour of the
00:29:08
museum believe it is nothing less than a
00:29:11
case of living history when we return a
00:29:18
young man and woman sold as infants by a
00:29:21
nurse in Texas are searching for their
00:29:23
natural mothers
00:29:34
these three infants were all born in San
00:29:37
Antonio Texas between 1959 and 1966
00:29:41
what they have in common is a connection
00:29:43
to an opportunistic woman a woman who
00:29:46
according to son ran a secret but
00:29:48
profitable business in which she sold
00:29:50
babies for more than twenty years that
00:29:54
question of a letter prize first came to
00:29:56
light when the mother of this infant
00:29:58
began looking for her in November of
00:30:04
1959 18 year old Eileen's Ella cough was
00:30:08
alone scared and seven months pregnant
00:30:10
she was taken in by a nurse in San
00:30:13
Antonio named Ethel nation On January 6
00:30:18
1960 Deline gave birth to a healthy baby
00:30:21
girl
00:30:22
almost immediately Ethel whisp the
00:30:24
infant away Ethel stole my baby and I
00:30:32
searched I searched I tried everything
00:30:36
in San Antone I talked to a lawyer
00:30:42
Ethel wouldn't help me I just couldn't
00:30:45
find my baby
00:30:48
Ethel nation always denied that she had
00:30:50
anything to do with a disappearance of
00:30:52
d'Alene's baby but in 1968 Dai lien
00:30:55
found a photograph of her daughter in
00:30:57
Ethel's house it took another 15 years
00:31:01
of searching before die lean and her
00:31:03
daughter were reunited on national
00:31:05
television when I first saw my daughter
00:31:08
she looked beautiful and she smiled and
00:31:15
I was just overjoyed he was so beautiful
00:31:18
- finally after all these years we
00:31:22
finally I finally found her while the
00:31:27
story of diving silac off and her
00:31:29
daughter has a happy ending
00:31:30
the stories of two are the young people
00:31:32
who were sold by Ethel nation are far
00:31:34
from over perhaps someone in our
00:31:37
audience tonight can help unlock the
00:31:39
secrets of their past
00:31:42
Scott MERS was born in San Antonio in
00:31:45
1965 his adoptive parents were unable to
00:31:48
have children and paid Ethel nation
00:31:50
$1,200 for Scott Scott grew up knowing
00:31:55
he had been adopted when he was 10 he
00:31:58
began to have an odd recurring dream
00:32:00
which seemed to be about the mother he
00:32:02
never knew and perhaps the place where
00:32:04
he was born
00:32:05
[Music]
00:32:06
I remember walking through in the main
00:32:11
doorway
00:32:12
I remember feeling very cold in this
00:32:18
place I felt like very very horrible
00:32:23
things went on there there was a table
00:32:28
and beside this table there was a man in
00:32:34
a green robe and a lady dressed in white
00:32:39
I don't know what they were doing there
00:32:43
when I woke up I woke up almost
00:32:46
screaming I mean I was really really
00:32:49
scared he said I was born in that room I
00:32:53
was born in that room and he said I feel
00:32:57
like my my birth mother was having a
00:33:01
rough time in her life and for some
00:33:05
reason I felt very drawn to her almost
00:33:08
like she was calling me when Scott was
00:33:13
18 he and his adoptive mother Mary began
00:33:16
an intensive search for his natural
00:33:17
mother
00:33:18
Scott's adoption records revealed few
00:33:21
clues so he and Mary paid a visit to
00:33:23
Ethel nation she seemed really nice she
00:33:30
wanted to help
00:33:31
then as the times grew on it got worse
00:33:38
and worse and worse
00:33:40
[Music]
00:33:42
Scott and Mary visited Ethel on six
00:33:44
occasions was each visit Ethel changed
00:33:47
her story at various times she told
00:33:51
Scott he had been born in three
00:33:52
different hospitals but none of them had
00:33:55
his birth records on file who said
00:34:00
anything about Santa Rosa you did I
00:34:02
never he must be mistaken I never
00:34:05
mentioned Santa Rosa you most certainly
00:34:07
did the last time we came you told
00:34:09
Scotty he had been born at Santa Rosa I
00:34:12
sat right here when you said it on the
00:34:14
final visit Ethel became angry and
00:34:17
revealed what she said was the bitter
00:34:18
truth about Scott's mother your mother
00:34:22
didn't watch you your mother had an
00:34:24
abortion your mother was a [ __ ] your
00:34:27
mother was a [ __ ] and you want to know
00:34:29
why she didn't have the abortion because
00:34:31
it was too late she told me that I was a
00:34:35
bastard child but you want that all my
00:34:37
mother was was a [ __ ] a [ __ ] and that
00:34:40
I should have no right to even look for
00:34:43
her so for me to go home and for me to
00:34:46
stop looking for her scott mhairi
00:34:50
refused to give up they decided to visit
00:34:53
yet another place where Ethel said Scott
00:34:55
had been born a community health center
00:34:57
that in 1965 was known as the Woodlawn
00:35:00
clinic the very minute that we walked in
00:35:04
I was completely stunned I couldn't even
00:35:09
talk the feelings that I got from this
00:35:13
were just incredible I mean it was it
00:35:15
was very of a morbid type feeling but
00:35:19
yeah I felt like I had been there before
00:35:21
and at everything that in this dream
00:35:26
that I had back when I was 10
00:35:30
true before my eyes I was scared to
00:35:34
death he held onto me I held onto him we
00:35:38
both cried all the way down the hall
00:35:42
[Music]
00:35:46
I was so happy that it made sense it's a
00:35:50
dream that I had many years ago
00:35:55
sadly Scot Mirza still not found his
00:35:57
natural mother but through his search he
00:36:00
met a young woman who had a remarkably
00:36:02
similar experience with Ethel nation
00:36:06
donut Barker was adopted in July of 1966
00:36:09
by a childless couple from San Antonio
00:36:12
as a last desperate resort they had
00:36:14
approached Ethel nation after years of
00:36:16
trying to adopt through state agencies
00:36:20
donut learned that on the night she was
00:36:22
adopted her parents had to choose
00:36:24
between her and two other infants these
00:36:27
two little boys here that are twins and
00:36:30
this little girl over here now of course
00:36:33
you have your choice but I would prefer
00:36:35
that the boys be kept together if that's
00:36:37
at all possible
00:36:38
there were bassinets and there were
00:36:41
children of I think there were two twin
00:36:44
boys and myself my parents didn't
00:36:48
because they didn't expect that things
00:36:50
would happen so quickly they just
00:36:53
thought they were gonna go to see the
00:36:55
baby but at that point mrs. Nations told
00:36:58
my parents that they could go ahead and
00:37:00
take me home that night okay yes
00:37:03
absolutely
00:37:04
honey is there a problem hey ma'am we
00:37:08
don't have the full 1,700 I thought that
00:37:11
had been settled
00:37:13
we just didn't think we'd be able to
00:37:15
take her tonight you have some kind of
00:37:17
property do you have anything that you
00:37:18
sell how about the boat what kind of
00:37:23
boat it's alright we'll work something
00:37:26
out all as payment for dawnette Ethel
00:37:28
nation accepted a 14-foot ski boat were
00:37:31
$1700 you can go ahead and take your
00:37:33
baby home when she turned 18 donut began
00:37:37
to search for her natural parents she
00:37:39
found that her mother's name was listed
00:37:41
as Gloria Cantu the adoption papers had
00:37:44
been notarized by Ethel nation what can
00:37:47
I do for you this time
00:37:48
dönitz spoke with Ethel nation several
00:37:50
times and was finally told the same
00:37:52
story as Scott murders your mother was a
00:37:56
[ __ ] she didn't want you she went there
00:37:58
to have an abortion but it was just too
00:38:00
late to have one I don't understand
00:38:05
opening I told you you shouldn't have
00:38:07
been messing around with something like
00:38:08
this you should have left well enough
00:38:09
alone I really couldn't understand I why
00:38:15
or how she could say that it hurt there
00:38:22
is no way of knowing how many babies
00:38:24
were sold by Ethel nation who died in
00:38:26
1991 Scott lers a dawn at Barker now
00:38:30
suspect that there may be dozens of
00:38:31
other young people who like them will
00:38:34
not be able to rest until they are
00:38:35
reunited with their natural mothers
00:38:39
Scott MERS was born on August 5th 1965
00:38:42
in San Antonio Texas his mother's name
00:38:45
was listed as Joyce Collier she may have
00:38:48
been 22 years old
00:38:49
Scott's adopted mother Mary met her once
00:38:52
and recalls that she was thin with dark
00:38:54
hair and an olive complexion it's
00:38:58
important for me to find her because
00:39:00
there's a certain gap a certain hole is
00:39:03
inside me that I want to fill and I
00:39:07
think the only way that I can fill this
00:39:09
hole is to be hold myself and finding my
00:39:15
birth mother will do that if she's out
00:39:18
there and she is watching you know I
00:39:21
just want her to know that um I don't
00:39:24
want anything from her and above all I
00:39:27
don't want to hurt her or
00:39:30
you know maybe it's something she's
00:39:32
never told anyone or who she's currently
00:39:34
married to if she's married but I don't
00:39:37
want anything no strings attached I just
00:39:39
want to know what happened and how it
00:39:41
happened I would never in any way want
00:39:44
to hurt her
00:39:47
doughnut Parker's birthday is listed as
00:39:49
July 21st 1966 but she may have been
00:39:52
born weeks earlier
00:39:53
her mother Gloria Cantu may have been 23
00:39:56
years old when donut was born
00:40:00
Bost got MERS and dawn at Barker Lucia
00:40:03
may have been born in the Woodlawn
00:40:04
clinic in San Antonio Texas
00:40:06
[Music]
00:40:10
on the night of our broadcast several
00:40:13
viewers called our telecenter on behalf
00:40:14
of donuts birth mother Gloria Cantu
00:40:16
Martinez of San Antonio Texas a short
00:40:20
time later donut spoke to her mother for
00:40:22
the very first time and learned that
00:40:24
glory had never intended to give her up
00:40:26
but had been tricked into signing the
00:40:28
adoption papers
00:40:29
Donna was overjoyed to discover that
00:40:31
Gloria wanted to see her as soon as
00:40:33
possible on November 9th 1992 Gloria
00:40:39
flew to Washington DC for a tearful
00:40:41
reunion with da net for mother and
00:40:43
daughter it was an emotional end of 26
00:40:46
years of painful separation when I was
00:40:54
waiting for her to come out from the
00:40:57
plane I don't a million things are going
00:41:01
through my mind and just relief that it
00:41:07
was over that I was finally where I
00:41:11
wanted to be after a long time of
00:41:14
looking
00:41:16
[Music]
00:41:19
and I just couldn't put it here it
00:41:22
that was finally gonna happen what I
00:41:27
always wanted I've always wanted her
00:41:32
find her wondered what she was like if
00:41:38
she was married and she had any children
00:41:42
[Music]
00:41:45
the reunion was made even more special
00:41:47
when Gloria met her four grandchildren
00:41:50
for the first time Donuts dream of
00:41:59
having her entire family together
00:42:01
had finally come true next a woman
00:42:14
stricken with amnesia needs your help
00:42:16
and tonight's special alert
00:42:21
[Music]
00:42:28
last month we air the story of a young
00:42:30
man in San Diego California who had no
00:42:32
idea who he was or where he had come
00:42:34
from in May of 1992 he had wandered into
00:42:38
a local homeless shelter apparently
00:42:40
suffering from complete and total
00:42:42
amnesia doctors were baffled by his
00:42:46
memory loss the only clue to his
00:42:48
identity was a Boston library card which
00:42:51
bore the name pair a prim update on the
00:42:57
night of our broadcast the viewer in
00:42:59
Canada called her telecentre to say that
00:43:01
the young man had once worked for his
00:43:03
wife and that his name is in fact Pierre
00:43:05
Aprill Pierre soon learned that he has
00:43:10
two sisters that his parents live in
00:43:12
machine Canada where his father
00:43:14
practices medicine the next day they
00:43:17
spoke on the phone for the first time in
00:43:19
more than five months it was a very
00:43:22
emotional moment and then I even had to
00:43:25
tell him that I couldn't even trust him
00:43:27
100% that I wanted the package with
00:43:31
family pictures in it and with my birth
00:43:33
certificate in it and anything else he
00:43:35
could think of he said okay we'll send
00:43:38
that to you and then he said do you
00:43:41
remember your mom and I said no and she
00:43:44
was listening on the extension and she
00:43:47
burst into tears
00:43:49
a few days later the packet arrived
00:43:52
Pierre sat down with his fiancee only
00:43:55
let me San Diego and a friend to get
00:43:57
reacquainted with his past it is strange
00:44:01
to be told who you are and what you did
00:44:05
I'm someone again and for quite a few
00:44:09
months I was nobody and nothing
00:44:13
[Music]
00:44:25
shortly after pierce story air we were
00:44:28
contacted by authorities and Richardson
00:44:30
Texas a suburb of Dallas about another
00:44:32
unusual case of amnesia involving a
00:44:35
woman who calls herself Sandra evidence
00:44:38
like there's a wall across my brain and
00:44:42
it won't let me see the other side
00:44:44
occasionally a snapshot comes through
00:44:47
and I get a glimpse of a life before but
00:44:54
nothing solid nothing concrete on May
00:44:57
14th 1992 sandra fainted in the Dallas
00:45:01
area bus station and was transported to
00:45:03
a local hospital she seemed to be
00:45:05
suffering from total amnesia and the
00:45:07
police were notified I did receive
00:45:11
numerous phone calls from around the
00:45:13
United States from law enforcement
00:45:15
agencies and citizens in general
00:45:18
thinking that they may know who Sandra
00:45:21
actually is we did follow up on all of
00:45:24
the phone calls we received and we're
00:45:27
not able to determine who she actually
00:45:29
is this photograph was taken the day
00:45:33
Sandra was found initially she could not
00:45:36
remember her name and she is still not
00:45:38
sure that she truly is
00:45:39
Sandra Evans
00:45:41
in fact the tag on the luggage she was
00:45:44
carrying had the name Linda Kennedy on
00:45:46
it Sandra says the handwriting is hers
00:45:48
but is certain the name is not the
00:45:53
strongest clues a Sandra's identity or
00:45:55
several photographs found on the luggage
00:45:57
there is one of Sandra as a bride and
00:46:00
other shows two young children and
00:46:03
finally a picture of a teenage girl
00:46:05
which appears to be a high school
00:46:07
graduation portrait they troubled me I
00:46:13
didn't want to deal with the thought if
00:46:15
they could be my children it was much
00:46:17
easier to believe they could be nieces
00:46:20
and nephews because the thought of them
00:46:23
being mine and not knowing where they
00:46:26
are not knowing who they are not knowing
00:46:29
what conditions were that they were in
00:46:34
was too upsetting
00:46:37
at this point Sandra believes her
00:46:39
amnesia is a result of some traumatic
00:46:41
perhaps violent experience and she is
00:46:44
haunted by a vague fear of both her past
00:46:46
and her future I am afraid of what I'm
00:46:53
going to find on the other side because
00:46:55
something made me forget it I am afraid
00:46:59
that if I've had children that they
00:47:02
won't understand where I've been for the
00:47:04
last five months that if I my mother
00:47:10
must be elderly if this is doing
00:47:13
something to her update just moments
00:47:17
after this story aired in Canada a
00:47:19
viewer contacted authorities there and
00:47:22
identified Sandra Evans as her sister
00:47:24
Carol Ann Rose AK of London Ontario
00:47:27
carol-anne soon learned that she is
00:47:29
divorced and that the photographs found
00:47:31
in her luggage were over two sons about
00:47:33
teenagers and her 13 year old daughter
00:47:36
when I talked to my daughter I asked her
00:47:40
about things that we had done and she
00:47:43
said we did everything together she said
00:47:46
we were real close in fact the first
00:47:49
time I talked to her it was more like
00:47:52
she was the mother and I was the
00:47:54
daughter she was so sweet
00:47:57
she was so excited to talk to me even
00:48:02
though the information about her past
00:48:04
did nothing to jog her memory
00:48:05
Carolyn immediately began packing to
00:48:08
return to Canada for her children her
00:48:10
four sisters and her brother would be
00:48:12
waiting on October 30th 1992 a nervous
00:48:17
Carolyn accompanied by friends she had
00:48:20
made in Texas arrived at the Dallas
00:48:22
Airport to board a flight that would
00:48:24
take her back to her family six months
00:48:26
after she disappeared
00:48:29
oh yes I'm happy to go home no nervous a
00:48:33
little nervous but I'm happy to be going
00:48:35
home today Carol Ann lives with her
00:48:40
daughter in Milton Ontario she still has
00:48:43
no idea what caused her amnesia but is
00:48:46
currently undergoing therapy in the hope
00:48:48
that someday she will fully recover her
00:48:50
memory join me next time perhaps you may
00:49:04
be able to help solve a mystery
00:49:09
[Music]
00:49:31
[Applause]
00:49:34
[Music]
00:49:45
you
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[Music]
