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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 tonight on unsolved mysteries
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or eerie tales for All Hallows Eve the
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legend of a gray man for more than a
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century this solitary ghost has wandered
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the sand dunes of a tiny island in South
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Carolina
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some residents claim that his ghostly
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appearances protected their homes a fury
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of Hurricane Hugo Halloween 1988 29
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year-old David Stone embarked on a
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bizarre spiritual journey across the New
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Mexico desert he left behind a trail of
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baffling clues and then mysteriously
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vanished
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eyewitnesses claimed that this woman
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possesses remarkable psychic abilities
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both mental and physical an
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extraordinary case of paranormal powers
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or a brilliant deception
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you'll also bring you an intriguing
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update last season's story about
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reincarnation and we truly experience a
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past life or is that all in the mind
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join me is Halloween night unsolved
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mysteries
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traditionally in Halloween ghost stories
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ghosts are described as frightening
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entities run a tiny island in South
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Carolina they tell of a very different
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kind of spirit over the last 170 years
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five deadly hurricanes have ripped
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through Pawleys Island every single one
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of these stars have been accompanied by
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a local sighting of a ghost known as the
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gray man in a bizarre coincidence
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apparently every person who has
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encountered the ghost has been spared
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from harm fairytale or evidence that
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ghosts do exist the record may speak for
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itself
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a legend of a gray man began in late
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summer of 1822 along the dues of a
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deserted beach on tiny Pawleys Island
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wealthy young planter rode with his
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master an admission of the heart his
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destination was his fiancee's plantation
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wedding was just days away
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the groom's overcome with youthful
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emotion and impatience
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by the time they could be pulled out of
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the marsh it was too late the young man
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was dead
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at the plantation bride-to-be heard the
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tragic news yes
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it's James he was fighting he fell in
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the marsh he died
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according to the legend the girl took to
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wandering the shore alone contemplating
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a life she no longer had reason to live
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one afternoon she discerned a shadowy
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form standing in the sands
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that night her betrothed whispered an
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urgent warning lady island
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she and her pairs left the next day just
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before a hurricane slammed into the
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island but the girl her family and
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miraculously their plantation were
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spared
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a specter of the dead lover had voiced a
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warning from beyond the grave it was not
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to be the last time
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one of the next recorded sightings of
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the gray man took place on Pawleys
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Island at the turn of the century in
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anticipation of an approaching hurricane
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a tenant farmer was hurting animals
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owned by a local family off the island
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20 encountered the gray man yeah crazy
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man do what you want the following days
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hurricane was right past the family's
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plantation spelling it from destruction
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the property owned by that family was
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protected in the hurricane which is
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always what happens when the great man
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appears to someone that was in October
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of 1893 through through the years have
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been numbers of different stories often
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in the newspaper after a storm and in
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1954 a man who lived in Georgetown and
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had a summer home at Paula's Island saw
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the gray man before Hurricane Hazel his
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home was so protected the beach towels
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that they had left hanging on the Radin
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of the porch
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were still there after the storm well I
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was here in Hurricane Hazel so it's very
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hard for me to believe that beach towels
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could have remained on that railing and
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not have been blown away but they did
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in 1954 Hurricane Hazel had left the
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southern Atlantic coast in ruins
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95 people were killed and over 1800
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homes were destroyed for the next 35
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years the killer winds steered clear
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Pawleys Island the gray man came to be
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perceived by locals as something of a
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guardian angel when he appears to you
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you're very blessed and fortunate your
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house will be saved and so I think it's
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strange how people seem to have a sense
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of fear of our ghosts and yet the gray
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man is a benign and kindly person who
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helps people when he comes and appears
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to them midnight
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September 22nd 1989 after laying waste
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to the Caribbean Hurricane Hugo slammed
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into the coast of South Carolina its
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winds ripped through the coastline at
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speeds in excess of 145 miles per hour
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thousands were forced to flee their
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homes in South Carolina alone that was
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close to 5 billion dollars worth of
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damage over 9,000 homes were destroyed
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pony's island was particularly hard-hit
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well it looked like a giant dump pile
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chairs couches ice boxes all that stuff
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was piled up in the middle of the road
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it was terrible
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it practically destroyed Paula Zahn
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it destroyed 14 houses in our section
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ours was left sanding amazing even
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though the entire neighborhood was
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destroyed the Moores home was virtually
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unscathed as we went in I was so happy
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to find everything just like I had left
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the papers that we had on the counter
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still there even though the front door
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had blown open
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there was no evidence of any anything
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inside and the house was intact even the
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little pictures and things were still on
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the fridge refrigerator they wanted to
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weren't even blown off the salt pepper
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shakers was still on the counter and
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little things that I had left around
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still Vega the devastation to the rest
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of the homes in the island brought about
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locals speculation as to the gray man's
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whereabouts caught up in the aftermath
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of the hurricane Jim and Clara Moore had
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completely forgotten about a haunting
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encounter that occurred two days before
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Hugo struck do you think much bad until
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later on when the article came out in
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the paper the great man failed to appear
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and then we talked about what we had
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seen
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it's hard to walk in this sand in it we
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were taking a walk late in the afternoon
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which we usually do and
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you see so many people walking on the
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beach at this time of the day that
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particular afternoon we only saw the one
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and he was coming directly toward us
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when I got within speaking distance I
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decided well you always speak to people
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whether you know imma not so I raised my
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hand to say hi
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beautiful evening Oh beautiful night or
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whatever and he disappeared
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I don't know how to explain it because
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of an eerie thing like that you know but
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of course I didn't worry too much about
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it but God I said well I was just seeing
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things but I'm sure that he was there
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and when I started to speak he wasn't
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there so I didn't know it was a great
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man I just thought it was someone on the
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beach until he disappeared and then
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that's it was to thank him I can't
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explain our good fortune except through
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the presence of the Green Man and the
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lure of course
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they may have used three men but I know
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our house was saved I can't think of any
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way that you could rationalize the
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saving of our house except it had to be
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a miracle I never did believe too much
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in ghosts
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I have changed my outlook I believe
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there there are ghosts after seeing a
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ghost you gotta believe it you know
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it is said that every legend has some
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basis in truth according to the story
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the grey man ended his tenure on earth
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with an urgent mission unaccomplished
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his great love irretrievably lost yet
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some say he unknowingly walks the sands
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of pawleys island still searching for a
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woman who has been in her grave for over
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a century
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it is somehow inspiring to contemplate a
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love is so strong as to defied death but
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if these witnesses are to be believed
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and the gray man's personal tragedy has
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led to others salvation and to those
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whose homes and lives he's helped to
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save the only real tragedies that they
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cannot give the gray man a heartfelt
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thank you next The Strange Case of a
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young a successful stockbroker who
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vanished in the New Mexico desert the
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desert the stretches across Arizona and
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New Mexico has been a part of Native
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American myth and legend for centuries
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many believe it is a source of mystical
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power a spiritual vortex for natural
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beauty and supernatural energy
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mysteriously merged in 1988 this
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picturesque but unforgiving wilderness
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became the setting for real-life mystery
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it all began on Halloween two years
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dawn October 31st 140 miles east of
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Tucson Arizona local farmer Larry rivers
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encountered a young stranger who claimed
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to be searching for the Beast it was
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pretty cold that morning I come driving
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out my Road and this guy's walking out
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here in a short sleeve shirt a pair of
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shorts on carrying a stick in his hand
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hello you lost no I'm not lost
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what are you doing out here I'm looking
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for the Beast not telling me where they
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gonna find the Beast out there and you
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tell me he'd find it
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that is weird
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the stranger was later identified as 29
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year old David Stone he has not been
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seen or heard from in two years
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David stone was a highly successful
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stock market analyst who ran a branch of
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his father's business in La Jolla
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California but about four years ago
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David expressed a desire to change his
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life and became increasingly involved
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with a New Age movement the term New Age
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encompasses a variety of religious
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beliefs and philosophies promotes self
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enlightenment and spiritual growth many
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followers believe it they can tap into a
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universal energy through the use of
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crystals pyramid power and meditation
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but in this case David stones unyielding
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obsession with a newfound spirituality
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they have sent him on a journey from
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which there is no return well I think it
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could best be described as overachiever
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in just about every way you've never met
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a kinder gentler young man's and him
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very close to family but then on the
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other hand you put him in a football
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uniform and he was like a proverbial
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commando for years
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David struggled with his dual nature on
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October 28th 1988 during a party at his
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apartment
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David temporarily lost control
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he said he might have hidden Oh 2025
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times and he didn't really hurt him but
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I felt like he had to do that roughly
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around nine o'clock in the morning where
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you going
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oh I'm not sure Grand Canyon it's in our
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desert Sedona David told John that he
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needed to get away to reflect on his
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explosive behavior he said he would
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return home a few days later later
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five days later David's car was
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discovered on a desolate stretch of New
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Mexico highway 80
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when we hadn't heard from him we called
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the New Mexico State Police and his car
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had been found abandoned and they had
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towed it in police interviewed local
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residents and learned that several had
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seen David we had left her home in
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Canton City and we're driving up to the
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ranch because we went by we saw this
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young man and we thought perhaps he'd
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had car trouble so we stopped
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No
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and so we just went on I heard this
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voice and I seen this man walking across
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the way there thought it was unusual
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that he'd be going out across the desert
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at that time of the year in shorts with
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no coat or anything you know
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David's car was found near the pyramid
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mountain range pyramids are an integral
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part of New Age philosophy and each year
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many believers come here to experience
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what are known as vision quests
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according to New Age philosophy a Vision
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Quest is an introspective journey taken
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in order to discover one's inner self it
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is believed that through isolation and
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meditation a person can experience a
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vision which will reveal their true
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identity I am convinced that once he
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arrived at that location that he felt
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like this would be the perfect starting
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point for whatever Vision Quest he
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personally felt that he had to embark on
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there are quite a process of preparation
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in that process you have to face what
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they term is being the Beast this beast
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is that evil or negative ISM which is in
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you and is the object that must be faced
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by every person in conquering before you
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can reach this state of oneness with God
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four days after his son's car was
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discovered Harry stone joined a
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full-scale manhunt launched by the
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Bootheel search and rescue team for
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three days they scoured the desert using
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four planes and more than 40 trackers
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and volunteers on the ground david's
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trail headed Northwest from his car in
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the direction of Granite Peak we thought
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was interesting because that mountain
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from the south looks kind of pyramid
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shape it has an interesting look to it
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that might have meant something to his
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religion it might not have one half mile
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from the highway searchers discover the
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first in a series of bizarre clues left
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by David that's when they found a large
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pyramid up in that wast had been made
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out of sand mounted up and rocks on the
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corner that was the first thing we found
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after I got further down the canyon it
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seemed like the tracks were real fresh I
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had a real strange feeling the hair
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stood up on my arms and I had an intense
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feeling that he was sitting watching me
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on the second day trackers discovered
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another puzzling clue
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once again David had erected a small
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pyramid but this time he left behind his
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gold Rolex watch into quarters what that
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means must be something to do with his
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religion the coins and David's watch
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were found here about 1/4 mile from the
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first pyramid approximately 3 miles to
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the north another puzzling clue was
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discovered searchers came upon a strange
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sequence of numbers written in the sand
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they later learned that these numbers
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are called a Fibonacci series and are
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used by stock market analysts that world
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over but the last number in the sequence
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should have been 21 oddly David wrote 18
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he knew better than that so it's one of
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the mysteries is why would he write 18
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instead of 21 but that goes along with a
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lot of other unanswered questions it's
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real rare for a person to be out as long
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as he probably was without ever losing
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the gum wrapper or without ever finding
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any sign really slip worthy 8 any sign
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of that kind of stuff we never found the
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stones now feel that the number 18 may
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have been David's Way of telling them he
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was in trouble
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ironically his car was found at mile
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marker 18 and during his senior year in
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college
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David's football jersey number was 18 by
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the final day of the search the elements
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had all but obliterated David's
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footprints however bloodhounds were able
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to track his set over the rocky desert
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terrain
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they funneled it back to highway 80 when
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they came to the intersection of
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Interstate 10
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David's trails suddenly stopped
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approximately 13 miles north of where
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his car was found at the time we took it
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to be a hopeful sign that he'd
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hitchhiked out or that somebody given
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him a ride and that was the only thing
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we could understand it would mean why
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the Saint disappeared like he did well I
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just kept feeling that everything was
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there to let us know what had happened
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but we just weren't seeing it at the
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conclusion of the search Carol and Harry
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stone made a more extensive inventory of
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the items left in David's car tucked
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away in a pocket version of the New
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Testament they found a business card
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bearing the name of a Tony by esteros
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and an Arizona phone number they
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immediately contacted by esteros I never
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met David Stoll myself but uh the
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possible wave you could have gotten my
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card as I placed it on a mesquite tree
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for other friends to find our campsite
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maybe the wind blew it down he picked it
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up later at this point nothing makes
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sense how am i card that into his Bible
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to tell you the truth in addition to the
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business card the stones found a
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strangely worded note the note said they
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think the word is in the safe six knives
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in Rob's room
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you just buys your tea and just takes
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your chances Halloween we don't know
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what the word tea means we think it's
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the old saying you know you buy your
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ticket and you take your chances but
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they just said use buys your tea and you
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takes your chances Halloween and that
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was a day he disappeared which was
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October 31st Halloween
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what is the meaning behind the strange
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clues that David left across the desert
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were they a coded message that he was in
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trouble are worthy a sign of his
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ultimate destination it seems apparent
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that David managed to walk out of the
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desert but what became of him after he
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reached the intersection of Highway 80
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and interstate 10 there are always those
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unanswered questions
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you know life has to go on it's very
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difficult at times
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and we would always want him to feel
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free to contact us and let him know that
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we love him and would want to hear from
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him but we you know we face the
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possibility
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when we return the story of a woman
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named Katie who has reportedly
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demonstrated bizarre psychic abilities
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that defy explanation you're about to
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meet a woman named Kate according to
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witnesses Kitty can predict the future
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materialize objects out of thin air
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she has supposedly written perfect
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medieval French while in a trance a
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surprising accomplishment for a person
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who claimed that she never learned to
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read or write throughout history many
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have claimed to possess psychic powers
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but have been exposed as clever fakes
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using sleight of hand
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is Katie gifted with eerie paranormal
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abilities or is she just a talented
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magician with extraordinary powers of
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illusion you be the judge I'll see
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people that ain't there
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you hear voices and no one else hears
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objects coming from eyes ears nose mouth
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you know just popping out I've seen her
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take forks spoons nails anything like
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that and by doing this she could take
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two fingers and you could watch it droop
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I've saw Katie's face go from nothing
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there to the diamond start to come out
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of her eye
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Katie is a great classical physical
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medium a psychic who has the ability or
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apparently the Billie's a gift but she
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has where things happen which are
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unexplainable physical things
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mind over matter seeds germinating
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things moving without reason things
00:26:43
appearing and disappearing and all kinds
00:26:47
of prophecy all kinds of things both
00:26:48
mental and physical phenomenon Katie
00:26:56
says that her odd experiences began in
00:26:58
1974 she was 25 years old I was cleaning
00:27:05
in the kitchen and this man opens the
00:27:08
door he comes in and proceeds to go back
00:27:12
to my bedroom
00:27:15
I thought it was the guy that we were
00:27:17
written from so I go back to the bedroom
00:27:22
to see what he wants
00:27:23
and when I get back there there's nobody
00:27:26
there side thing yeah god I'm losing it
00:27:34
you know I've seen this man walk in my
00:27:37
door back to my bedroom my windows are
00:27:40
locked there's no way out and he's not
00:27:44
there several days later Katie's husband
00:27:48
brought home a family photo album which
00:27:50
Katie claims she had never seen before
00:27:54
that's the man I saw that's my dad he
00:27:59
had a picture of and I said well this is
00:28:02
the man had open the door and he says
00:28:05
cabbie he said that's my dad I had never
00:28:09
never seen a picture of his dad and his
00:28:12
dad had died maybe five years before we
00:28:15
had ever ever met my view myself was
00:28:19
very skeptical when it comes to psychics
00:28:21
so I view myself as very skeptical
00:28:24
anyway if I can't see something it's a
00:28:28
quite tangible I just don't believe it
00:28:30
and in this particular case we've seen
00:28:33
some some things that were quite
00:28:35
astounding that I can't explain
00:28:39
jerry burr is a retired police
00:28:41
investigator who has enlisted Katie's
00:28:43
help on several occasions in one
00:28:46
burglary investigation were withheld the
00:28:49
location of the crime scene from Katie
00:28:52
that's it okay that's right according to
00:29:01
BER Katie not only found the house she
00:29:04
described the oriental art inside and
00:29:07
said that something had been stolen from
00:29:08
a box in a Blue Room as we walk in in
00:29:12
the entryway it was all oriental art
00:29:15
walked into the room that the the
00:29:17
bedroom that the items were taken from
00:29:18
and it turned out the bedroom was blue
00:29:21
as well she had said it was taken from a
00:29:23
box and sure enough the items that were
00:29:25
taken were from a cherry wood box didn't
00:29:29
know what to think at first because she
00:29:31
was so dead on and because I am quite
00:29:33
skeptical I started looking at Katie as
00:29:35
a good suspect what I just wasn't aware
00:29:38
that you know she was that good
00:29:42
fifteen minutes later Katie had another
00:29:45
premonition as we left the house we were
00:29:50
driving back around and I kept smelling
00:29:54
this this odor
00:30:01
I don't I don't smell it
00:30:06
strongest and he says when what
00:30:09
direction is it coming from now and I
00:30:11
said from the water there so he walked
00:30:13
up on this lake dock and he asked me if
00:30:18
I could still smell it and that told me
00:30:19
yes and he asked me kind of jokingly
00:30:22
says well do you know when this stuff is
00:30:25
gonna come in here she said that in two
00:30:29
weeks that we would have this marijuana
00:30:31
would come up on the beach two weeks
00:30:35
almost to the hour we had 25 bills in
00:30:38
marijuana wash up
00:30:42
the marijuana washed ashore only a few
00:30:44
hundred yards where Katie had sensed a
00:30:46
distinctive smell however police
00:30:49
confirmed that marijuana shipments had
00:30:51
often been recovered in the same area
00:30:54
was Katie's prediction a true display of
00:30:56
psychic powers or just a lucky guess
00:31:01
psychics make general predictions and
00:31:04
it's difficult to confirm them I don't
00:31:07
think on the basis of what I've seen
00:31:09
that Miss Katie has any special powers
00:31:13
surely not Professor Paul Kurtz has
00:31:15
spent 15 years investigating the
00:31:17
unverified claims of the paranormal she
00:31:20
may have the powers of persuasion but I
00:31:23
don't know that there's anything
00:31:24
mysterious about what she's done or what
00:31:27
she claims to do stick your tongue out
00:31:32
please
00:31:33
Katie's abilities however extend beyond
00:31:36
the psychic realm and the most
00:31:38
astounding manifestations are physical
00:31:41
Katie has been videotaped by her
00:31:43
psychiatrist sweating what appears to be
00:31:45
gold foil out of the pores of her skin
00:31:49
it comes out all over my body face eyes
00:31:53
ears mouth arms thighs that's coming
00:31:58
back wherever I got a pores this is
00:32:04
where it comes out of it that's getting
00:32:06
larger it seems to me PD is supposedly
00:32:10
exerted the foil more than 100 times
00:32:13
psychiatrist Bret toll Shores has
00:32:15
examined her during some of these
00:32:17
episodes yes miss Katie has the ability
00:32:20
apparently of having an italic goal like
00:32:23
metal foil form on her body and
00:32:26
sometimes on objects nearby
00:32:29
for example a framed picture of her late
00:32:32
mother and this goal like foil will
00:32:34
appear on the borders of the picture on
00:32:37
the frame more likely the gold who using
00:32:39
the words loosely will appear on her
00:32:41
cheeks under the eyes domin forearms
00:32:44
here we have something which is a
00:32:46
medical marvel
00:32:50
I saw the gold on her tongue first as
00:32:53
dr. Schwartz was taking the gold off he
00:32:58
had to actually peel it off with a
00:33:00
tweezer like instrument and then I
00:33:03
looked down at her arm and I was holding
00:33:05
her hand and there was nothing on her
00:33:08
arm at all and then she had these long
00:33:11
strips of gold that resembled candy kiss
00:33:18
wrapping as we were sitting in a room
00:33:21
with Katie kiddie had picked up the
00:33:24
front of her blouse and cold flakes were
00:33:27
covering her entire stomach area and
00:33:30
after was brushed off with her shirt
00:33:31
still in the open position more bull
00:33:34
flakes appeared
00:33:37
eyewitnesses insisted these incidents
00:33:39
were not faked that the gold fall
00:33:41
appeared before their eyes a laboratory
00:33:44
analysis of the material reveals it to
00:33:46
be 80 percent copper and 20% zinc I
00:33:51
don't think there's any objective hard
00:33:54
evidence that this is exerting from a
00:33:57
porous most likely point that someone
00:34:00
wants other people to believe us and so
00:34:03
they put this metallic paper on them to
00:34:07
Professor Kurtz's colleagues were able
00:34:09
to simulate Katie's alleged abilities
00:34:11
using ordinary metallic foil okay so
00:34:15
this is what we did we went to a regular
00:34:17
art store in Buffalo we bought something
00:34:18
called gold leafing it's very thin
00:34:21
strips of foil colored gold and the
00:34:26
chemical composition of the foil closely
00:34:28
resembles that of Katie's foil strips
00:34:31
Kathy helped me and then I sprayed
00:34:33
hairspray on it so it would stick and
00:34:35
it's been stuck for four hours since
00:34:36
11:00 this morning and I have some on my
00:34:38
tongue and I can still talk and swallow
00:34:41
sometimes and then I put it on my
00:34:43
stomach if somebody come up to me and
00:34:50
said well hey I know this person that's
00:34:53
got this stuff that comes out of their
00:34:54
skin you know it's gold
00:34:56
no I really have seen this I would think
00:35:00
it was a trick until I seen it myself I
00:35:03
would I would believe that it knew well
00:35:05
what are they doing you know how are
00:35:08
they getting this on them or you know
00:35:12
what kind of magic are they doing I
00:35:15
would believe it was fake to us art even
00:35:23
more unbelievable are Katie's apparent
00:35:25
powers of a portation where solid
00:35:27
objects seem to appear out of her mouth
00:35:29
nose or ears
00:35:33
this videotape taken by her psychiatrist
00:35:35
shows what appears to be a gold charm
00:35:37
emerged from the vicinity of her ear
00:35:41
this tape was also shot by dr. Schwarz
00:35:44
and shows a glass stone or something of
00:35:46
diamond the person materializing out of
00:35:49
Katies I might look as though she's
00:35:53
going to throw up or in coffee off away
00:35:56
- out pops a gem of some kind right out
00:35:59
of the mouth now prior to that the mouth
00:36:01
and throat was examined very carefully
00:36:03
was nothing there she sipped some water
00:36:05
and swallows and nothing was he created
00:36:07
which it's hard to see how it could be
00:36:08
anyway in the stomach so you have to ask
00:36:10
the question where did this thing come
00:36:12
from are these examples of a portation
00:36:17
really skillful sleight of hand this
00:36:20
footage has been slowed down to take a
00:36:22
closer look in these frames we can see
00:36:26
the object emerge from above her ring as
00:36:31
soon as we saw the airport ation we
00:36:33
decided we would get a magician in here
00:36:35
who has attended our meetings and worked
00:36:38
with us in the past to see if he could
00:36:40
duplicate what she has done and he did
00:36:43
that I assume that at the point when she
00:36:46
actually caused the gem to appear
00:36:49
she had the the gem pond in her hand
00:36:51
just like this pond between her fingers
00:36:53
a very comfortable place and you can
00:36:55
gesture convenient comfortably and
00:36:57
nobody suspects anything and then when
00:37:00
she reached her hand up to her eye it
00:37:02
was a simple matter to spread her
00:37:04
fingers a problem you could see them
00:37:05
spreading apart as the gem falls through
00:37:09
just like that is Katie a brilliant frog
00:37:16
if so it seems odd that she is never
00:37:18
attempted to profit in any way from her
00:37:20
abilities but could Katy truly be marked
00:37:24
with paranormal powers where does
00:37:27
something like this fit into my thinking
00:37:28
it doesn't it's um it's beyond me it's
00:37:32
beyond my comprehension I was a doubting
00:37:35
Thomas too but if you saw it you too
00:37:39
would be a believer
00:37:41
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00:37:44
I've learned to accept a little bit more
00:37:46
now than what I did in the beginning but
00:37:50
I do still have questions in my mind
00:37:53
that are not answered yet and I don't
00:37:56
know if they will be answered I'm gonna
00:37:58
keep trying to find out
00:38:00
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00:38:05
next a surprising update on our story of
00:38:08
reincarnation can two lovers from the
00:38:10
past be reunited reincarnation life
00:38:22
after death has fascinated people in
00:38:24
cultures all over the world for
00:38:25
centuries
00:38:26
last season we presented the eerie story
00:38:29
of a woman named Georgia Rudolph who was
00:38:31
convinced that she is a reincarnation of
00:38:33
a girl who lived at the turn of the
00:38:34
century tonight a surprising update on
00:38:37
George's bizarre story since childhood
00:38:43
Georgia has been beset by recurring
00:38:45
dreams and memories of an unfamiliar
00:38:47
earlier time visions of horses and
00:38:50
carriages a river and repeatedly old
00:38:54
fashioned stories often there is a young
00:38:57
man dressed in a brown suit of Derby hat
00:39:00
and always the image of a dark-haired
00:39:02
girl my whole childhood I thought I was
00:39:08
crazy because I don't think there was a
00:39:11
month that went by that I didn't have
00:39:15
either memories or dreams so we're gonna
00:39:20
go continually haunted by these images
00:39:22
Georgia sought therapy in the form of
00:39:24
regressive hypnosis that you've been
00:39:26
dreaming about and thinking when Georgia
00:39:28
first contacted me I felt it might be
00:39:31
something like an early traumatic
00:39:32
childhood memory that she was trying to
00:39:34
remember or possibly could be an aspect
00:39:37
of a multiple personality other thing
00:39:40
that the reincarnation was probably the
00:39:42
last thing in my mind about what had
00:39:44
happened to her under hypnosis Georgia
00:39:47
began to give detail to her visions she
00:39:51
believes the girl in her dreams was
00:39:52
named Sandra Jean Jenkins
00:39:55
the young man in the Derby hat was her
00:39:57
fiance his name was Tommy Hicks in 1914
00:40:02
according to Georgia's visions Tommy
00:40:04
Hicks drowned in the Ohio River his body
00:40:06
was never found
00:40:09
Sandra Jean Jenkins was left unmarried
00:40:12
and pregnant with Tommy's child
00:40:14
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00:40:17
distraught over the death of Tommy and
00:40:19
unable to face the shame of their unborn
00:40:21
child would bring Sandra Jean Jenkins
00:40:24
took her own life
00:40:30
Georgia began searching for the people
00:40:32
in places she saw in her dreams in 1984
00:40:36
she journeyed to Marietta Ohio where she
00:40:38
met with a reporter Ted Bauer Ted is a
00:40:41
lifelong resident of Marietta and worked
00:40:43
for the local newspaper for 32 years
00:40:46
when George arrived in Marietta I said
00:40:49
I'll take you around and show you some
00:40:51
of the places you talked about over the
00:40:53
phone and she says no I'll show you
00:40:55
where to go
00:40:57
I couldn't believe her knowledge of
00:41:00
Marietta I can't buy the reincarnation
00:41:03
bit but she has some kind of power some
00:41:07
way of knowing what happened in the past
00:41:11
in a nearby town Georgia located a house
00:41:15
she says matches the house and her
00:41:16
visions relatives of the former owner
00:41:20
gave Georgia what she feels as evidence
00:41:23
that Sandra Jean Jenkins did exist they
00:41:27
brought out a picture
00:41:29
taken in 1908 and the girl that I call a
00:41:36
Sandra it's standing in that picture
00:41:41
there was a statement made by a member
00:41:46
of the family
00:41:47
I don't know this girl's name but I know
00:41:51
she drowned out back of her house
00:41:55
Georgia story is difficult to accept but
00:41:58
there are so many coincidences that we
00:42:00
cannot simply dismiss it out of hand
00:42:02
after our broadcasts we learned of
00:42:04
another equally baffling coincidence a
00:42:07
36 year old college professor would
00:42:09
never met Georgia Rudolph claims that
00:42:12
over a year before our broadcast he
00:42:14
underwent hypnosis that had a past life
00:42:16
experience in which he recalled that he
00:42:18
was a young man living in Ohio at the
00:42:20
turn of the century named Tommy Hicks
00:42:24
when I saw the original segment with
00:42:27
Georgia Rudolph I could just feel the
00:42:29
anxiety building in myself because there
00:42:31
was almost instant recognition and my
00:42:34
wife was watching me and thinking what's
00:42:36
wrong with him and I was gripping the
00:42:38
arm of the couch tighter and tighter and
00:42:39
tighter as it went through and then when
00:42:41
she fine when Georgia Rudolph finally
00:42:43
said you know that his name was Tom
00:42:46
Hicks I almost fell off the couch our
00:42:49
broadcast aired in February 1990 in
00:42:52
September of 1988 Jack Turner underwent
00:42:56
regressive hypnosis with dr. Bruce
00:42:58
crystal in Jacksonville Florida the
00:43:01
particular session that I went through I
00:43:03
was taken back to turn-of-the-century
00:43:07
Ohio and I told the interviewer that my
00:43:13
name was Tom Hicks while under hypnosis
00:43:16
jack said that a river seemed to play a
00:43:18
large part in the life of Tommy Hicks
00:43:20
and that Tommy's younger brother had
00:43:22
drowned Jack also recalled that Tommy
00:43:24
Hicks had a girlfriend with long
00:43:27
care I still remain somewhat skeptical I
00:43:31
need more proof but we're getting closer
00:43:34
and closer to the point where we cannot
00:43:36
excuse it on the basis of chance or
00:43:39
probability I think Jennifer in
00:43:42
September to Jack's turnoff traveled to
00:43:44
Macon Georgia and underwent regressive
00:43:46
hypnosis was dr. Douglas Smith during
00:43:49
the session dr. Smith asked Jack several
00:43:51
key questions in order to determine if
00:43:53
he could have in any way fabricated the
00:43:56
events he described while under hypnosis
00:43:57
two years earlier no hairs pulled back
00:44:03
we have asked him to compare the
00:44:06
reincarnation experience that he had
00:44:08
with something that did not occur to him
00:44:11
and he could make a distinction in my
00:44:14
professional opinion I am quite certain
00:44:16
that he was telling the truth though
00:44:19
stuck I was skeptical before the two
00:44:23
regression sessions that I've had but if
00:44:26
they're not true then there's an awful
00:44:29
lot of very odd coincidences going on
00:44:32
something very definite is going on but
00:44:36
we have no rational explanation that
00:44:38
science can provide as to what's
00:44:40
happening I suggest we keep an open mind
00:44:46
the stories of Georgia Rudolph and Jack
00:44:48
Turner are indeed hard to believe but
00:44:51
keep in mind many of the world's
00:44:53
religions accept reincarnation as a
00:44:55
basic part of their beliefs
00:44:58
the rest of us the possibility of life
00:45:01
after death
00:45:01
however hopeful remains an unsolved
00:45:04
mystery
00:45:16
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00:45:22
next week on unsolved mysteries 55 years
00:45:27
ago aviatrix Amelia Earhart was the most
00:45:29
famous woman in America in 1937 she left
00:45:33
Oakland California to fly around the
00:45:34
world six weeks later her plane went
00:45:37
down on the South Pacific
00:45:38
today evidence mer mote island of Saipan
00:45:42
suggests that Amelia Earhart was
00:45:43
captured by the Japanese and may have
00:45:46
been executed in Woodstock Illinois a
00:45:50
high-school romance turned sour and ends
00:45:52
in tragedy for seventeen-year-old
00:45:54
Colleen Ritter perhaps you can help
00:45:56
capture her missing boyfriend who is
00:45:58
wanted for murder
00:46:01
also a special appeal from the musical
00:46:04
group New Kids on the Block
00:46:05
three years ago 16 year old Kari Nixon
00:46:08
disappeared in June 1989 she may have
00:46:11
been spotted at new kids concert in Los
00:46:13
Angeles join me next week for another
00:46:16
edition of unsolved mysteries
00:46:18
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