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tonight on unsolved mysteries the images
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still provoke stunned disbelief as
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investigators continue the search for
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answers conspiracy buffs continue to
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push scenarios of military involvement
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and high level of cover-up what happened
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the TWA flight 800 it was a young
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families Dream House that turned into a
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nightmare of ghostly turmoil and demonic
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mayhem can a team of high-tech ghost
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busters find out what's behind the chaos
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don't miss this hair-raising tour of a
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haunted house from ancient Greece to
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TV's zenith of mythic exploits of
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fearless women warriors have captivated
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countless generations but were the
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Amazons more than just a legend recent
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discoveries and rushes they provide a
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surprising answer in 1992 doctors told
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candy Horner's family to prepare for the
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worst
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but as she slipped into a coma candy
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says she was visited by an extraordinary
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vision of love a vision that brought her
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back from the brink of death
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join me for these intriguing cases
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perhaps you may be able to solve one of
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tonight's unsolved mysteries
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for most of us haunted houses are the
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places we visit on Halloween we scream
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we jump we laugh and we go home but for
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20 years the family in a suburb of
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Cleveland Ohio has had to deal with a
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daunting fact that for them home is a
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haunted house first in 1972 a newly
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married couple will call them Joe and
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Mary Smith moved into what they thought
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was their dream home but the dream
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didn't last long by the time Mary was
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pregnant with their first child
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she got her first warning something was
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seriously wrong
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on a night when Mary was all alone she
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heard a commotion start up in the Attic
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it really worried me because it sound
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much more than a mouse or a raccoon or
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something started like grating noises
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and things being dragged start to speak
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Mary called her father a Cleveland
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police detective he approached the Attic
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with gun drawn expecting a burglar
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sweetheart
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take a look at this
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oh my god the attic was a complete mess
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blankets pulled out boxes of Christmas
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ornaments dumped childhood trinkets
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broken there was no sign of a human
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culprit and the Attic was supposed to be
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sealed tight against animals the thought
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ran through my mind that no animal could
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possibly have done that kind of chaos it
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wasn't probable at that point I just
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shivered kind of like what fear because
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something was there that I didn't know
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about and I didn't particularly care for
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that feeling at all hints of something
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sinister in the house never stopped
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doorknobs turned over their own accord
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and the strange noises continued Mary
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soon learned the house had a disturbing
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past
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in the 1940s previous owners have
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reportedly adopted a little boy one day
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the child mysteriously vanished even now
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no one knows what happened to him over
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the years Mary couldn't help but suspect
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that that boy might be connected to the
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hauntings one night when her own son was
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almost the same age as a long lost child
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Mary says he let out a blood-curdling
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scream it just was a very tormented type
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of a cry that's what I heard in his
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voice was that horrible fear Mary had no
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idea what had so traumatized her son
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until he visited his grandmother a few
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weeks later
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and I thought what happened
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he says grandma go home I'm never coming
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back here again
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why would I why aren't you coming back
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he says no no no what is he talking
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about
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the child was pointing at a religious
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picture of Saint Michael the Archangel
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trampling Satan underfoot the little boy
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later told his mother it was a same
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devil he had seen in his bedroom life
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and Mary's house became a ride on a
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surreal rollercoaster especially when
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she realized the hauntings were not
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always malevolent shortly after Mary's
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second child was born he developed a
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life-threatening case of jaundice the
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condition required surgery the night
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before the operation Mary got down on
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her knees and prayed I am grateful for
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all you have given me but please and
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much to my surprise as I was kneeling
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there praying I saw this most beautiful
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white light I just kind of engulfed your
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whole inner being with just a soothing
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soothing peace that everything will be
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alright
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Mary says the light was coming directly
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from the baby's room
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Mary was astonished all traces of
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jaundice seemed gone the next morning
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blood tests confirmed the baby boy was
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cured
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I think it's an evil spirit in our house
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but I also think there's a guardian
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angel looking over us and I think that
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there is a war between the good and the
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evil going on is my explanation and
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we're kind of caught right in the middle
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when Mary's third son was five he had a
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different kind of encounter the spirits
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of the house and he stared and blinked
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his eyes and stared again and he still
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saw it
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during the next several years the boy
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suffers severe stomach pains doctors
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couldn't find a cause or a cure
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eventually like the man on the stairs
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the pains just disappeared I I think it
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it's gonna come down to be just plain
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being honest saying it's unexplainable I
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can say that the medications that I've
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used for him have helped ameliorate his
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symptoms and maybe have helped a little
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bit of the irritation that was there but
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as far as being able to cure and taking
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responsibility for curing his problem I
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cannot do that Mary and her husband
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considered moving many times if they had
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invested a good deal of money and effort
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in the house and they didn't want to
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risk losing it
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finally in 1993 Mary discovered what she
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now believes is a key to the house is
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unsettling history rumor had it that the
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little boy who once lived there and in
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fact died under mysterious circumstances
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and was actually buried somewhere on the
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property
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it just was creepy there perhaps thought
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there might be a connection in fact it
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wasn't it might be I was very concerned
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that there probably was a connection
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Mary went to bed that night believing
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that the unhappy fate of the little boy
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had somehow tainted her house with evil
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socks were so strong that I felt as
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though I was well-to-do that bad I
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thought I was gonna die and have it
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actually because because I couldn't
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escape but and I didn't know if they
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were going me more shocks and then the
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radio stopped saying which made it even
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worse and made a more bizarre downstairs
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mary ii son then a teenager had just
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finished showering he noticed the dryer
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had inexplicably gone on by itself and
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could not be turned off and i attribute
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it to the spirit that I believe exists
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in our home was so angry that the pieces
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finally fit that it just went crazy
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when most people think of a haunted
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house they think of spirits of the dead
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but in most cases houses that are
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haunted genuinely appear to be haunted
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by some type of an energy force dr.
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Andrew Nichols is a parapsychologist a
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Ghostbuster who hunts unexplained
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phenomena with the latest in technology
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energy force at the request of unsolved
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mysteries dr. Nichols his colleague Russ
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McCarty and another well-known
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parapsychologist dr. William roll
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investigated Mary's home we conducted a
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series of energy field scans throughout
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the house to try to establish a baseline
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energy field reading electromagnetic
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electric magnetic fields mark
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wave fields to try to determine if there
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are any unusual energy fields present in
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the house in one of the bedrooms the
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parapsychologists found an unusually
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strong electromagnetic field surrounding
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a dresser left behind by previous owners
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one of the suggestions that I made to
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the family was that they removed the
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dresser at least from the bedroom and
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preferably from the house temporarily
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and see if it has an effect on the
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haunting phenomena that they're
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experiencing in many cases we find that
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that's the case if a person has acquired
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a piece and antique and suddenly
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haunting phenomena starts up it may be
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actually associated with that that piece
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of furniture the parapsychologist found
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even stronger readings in the basement
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run abandoned well ran down 120 feet to
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an underground lake we find many houses
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that are haunted are located over
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sources of underground water and so
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there does seem to be a correlation this
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may conduct some form of psychic energy
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it may conduct some form of natural
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earth-based
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magnetic fields that stimulates a
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person's psychic abilities the well pipe
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is located directly under the bedroom of
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the primary witness so it's possible
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that she is being exposed to these
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natural earth generated magnetic and
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electrical fields on a regular basis
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people ask us frequently do we believe
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in ghosts and the answer is yes there's
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no question that people experience
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ghosts but what are they are they
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actually spirits of the dead are they
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some type of entities from another
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dimension or are they some strange
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artifact of human psyche unfortunately
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those are questions which for now remain
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an unsolved mystery coming up did a
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missile cause the tragedy of TWA flight
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800 could the US Navy be involved a
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special report on the controversy that
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refuses to go away but first what an
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undercover drug operation goes bad
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federal agent is gunned down
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I'd like to propose a toast to Richard
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Fez best agent this side of the
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Mississippi June 30th 1994 was a
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red-letter day for drug enforcement
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agent Richard fast I just want to say
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that I'm really proud to work with all
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of you guys I know honestly I mean you
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guys are the best team of agents I ever
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worked with
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after more than eight years of dangerous
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undercover work he was finally leaving
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the streets fast was being promoted to
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an administrative position fast his
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partner Michael pallamary
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I think Richard was in a position where
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he was ready to advance his career this
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this is really a positive stepping stone
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in in an agent's career we're gonna miss
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you buddy
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Thank You boss the launch celebration
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ended at 2:00 p.m.
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Richard fast had one last piece of
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unfinished business
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late that afternoon agents fastened
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Pelin arrow drove to an automotive
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repair shop just outside of Phoenix
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Arizona
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they were posing as drug buyers and
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carrying 160 thousand dollars in cash it
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was Richard fastest last undercover
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assignment the previous day he had set
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up a deal with this man
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Agustin Vasquez Mendoza Mendoza had
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agreed to sell him 22 pounds of
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methamphetamine or speed Mendoza was
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known to aegis fasten Pelin arrow as
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Fernando 6:45 p.m.
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Pelin arrow stays in the truck while
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fast enters a garage the man in a dark
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blue shirt is a confidential police
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informant the other man is one Vasquez
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an associate of Fernando's Rolando
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himself is not present Nadia I'm sorry
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the operation proceeds as expected
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Vasquez wants to see the cash in the
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back of the garage two more men wait on
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the left a second police informant on
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the right a man named Rafael Rubio
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another associate of Fernando's is this
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it's my brother-in-law
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let me see he looked into the duffle bag
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and didn't touch it or anything but
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apparently he he was satisfied that
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there was in fact 160 thousand dollars
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there yeah we got a deal
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six-thirty Vasquez apparently calls
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Fernando to confirm but the buy is good
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and again dang Adam fair Suites outside
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until agent pelo narrow repositions the
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truck
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6:32 Helen arrow puts backup units on
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alert a deal is going down 6:35 the
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double-cross best gives a reveal what
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the drugs and the cash Richard told the
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individual that if he wanted the money
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that he didn't have to do this he had
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kids he had a family that he was just
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doing this to for profit and that he
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didn't have to do anything wrong that
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that anything he wanted he could have
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one individual told the other one to
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hang curve Richard and the two
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informants I believe Richard saw death
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staring him in the face
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and he reacted Rubio has been shot once
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Ian Vasquez flee in opposite directions
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was very chaotic at that point but when
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I saw the vehicle leaving I tried to ram
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it and I missed it I was on the radio
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all this time and I just I put out a
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message that that vehicle needs to be
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stopped
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let's go with backup unison pursuit of
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the suspects
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Pelin arrow rushes inside richard fast
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has been shot five times at point-blank
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range he will be dead within an hour
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6:41 Drug Enforcement agents high-speed
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pursuit of revealed when he fled in the
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vehicle it was rush hour traffic he was
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on both sides weaving in and out of
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traffic and he was making every attempt
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possible to avoid being captured 6:45
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p.m. best guest enters an alleyway a few
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hundred feet from the crime scene
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6:52 three miles away the ages close in
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on Rubio
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by 7:15 is all over later Rafael Rubio
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and one Vasquez are booked on charges of
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first-degree murder
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they are both convicted and sentenced to
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life in prison
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however Agustin Vasquez Mendoza is still
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on the run he has also been charged with
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first-degree murder authorities believe
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he masterminded the rip-off
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robbery was their motive from the very
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onset I don't think that there was ever
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any intent to do a dope deal with us
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that they knew that the money was
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outside apparently these people did not
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want to negotiate they had a plan and no
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matter what Richard did or said was
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going to deviate them and at that
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particular point in time I believe that
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Richard realized that he had to do
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something to protect not only his life
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but the life of other people as well
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Richard fast died a hero's death at the
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age of 37 he was honored with a DEA
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award of Valor he left behind a wife and
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four children I lost my best friend
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I miss him girly Richard will always be
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in my heart and that thing can never
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take those memories and him away for me
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but our main intention now is to seek
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this fugitive that's out there
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[Music]
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next every week millions of fans
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thrilled to the feats of Xena the
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warrior princess but did a legendary
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race of Amazon women ever truly exist
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they call them Amazons strong fearless
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women like T V Xena
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ruthless warriors who dominated men
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contrary to popular belief The Legend of
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the Amazons did not originate in South
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America but in ancient Greece where the
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historian Herodotus first immortalized
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the mythic deeds in the fifth century BC
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rumor had it Amazon's were so warmer
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that they could not marry until they had
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first killed an enemy in battle even
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their name at all some implications in
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Greek Amazon apparently meant without
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one breast the women supposedly cut away
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their own flesh to make it easier to
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shoot a bow and arrow the Greeks used
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the Amazons as the antithesis of what a
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Greek woman should be the Greek woman
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should stay at home
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take care of the kids take care of the
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house and the Amazon went out and fought
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the Greeks and so therefore she got her
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got what was coming to her when she was
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killed for centuries people assumed the
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tales of wild Amazon Warriors were
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merely fiction an ancient myth created
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to enhance the glory of Greece now 2,500
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years later archaeological digs on the
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windswept Russian steppes have revealed
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a long buried secret a tribe of nomadic
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women warriors perhaps real-life Amazons
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once rode these desolate plains
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the goal is to determine if we can
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determine any specific ethnicity from
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these particular tribes their
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indo-european but there may be subtle
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differences there are subtle difference
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Janine Davis Kimball that a team of
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American and Russian archaeologists has
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spent four years excavating iron age
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burial mounds in southern Russia the
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date from the time of Herodotus is
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writings traditional scholars believe
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early nomads were male-dominated tribes
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the men were the leaders the warriors
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the priests but these graves tell a new
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story we never think of women in in the
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context of a nomadic Society it's not
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ever been interpreted from that point of
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view so here we are out in the steppes
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we're excavating nomads early nomads and
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suddenly we have women with weapons
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women who are actually controlling
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wealth because of the wealth in their
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burials we have a different concept
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entirely of what we think of nomads the
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burial mounds contain the graves of both
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men and women perhaps the most
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intriguing remains are those of a young
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girl no more than 14 years old she was
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only as tall as an average woman today
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but the artifacts buried with her proof
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she was no ordinary teenager she had a
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quiver by her side that had a lot of
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bronze arrowheads in it she had a dagger
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on the other side and then there was
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this large boars tusk that was drilled
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and it was probably suspended around her
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waist from a cord another woman was
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found with a bronze Arrowhead is still
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embedded in her body cavity a sign that
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she likely died in battle but these
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women were more than warriors the wide
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variety of ritual artifacts found in the
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graves showed a society where the power
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of a woman was often greater than that
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of a man the graves of the male no mass
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also reveals surprises we have a lesser
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variety
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of statuses among them male population
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than among the female population there's
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guys that fight and there's guys that
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don't and we even have males that have a
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child buried with them and this is
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extremely unusual because we have no
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females with a child buried with them
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but who were these warrior women are
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they the archetypes for the Amazons
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they're matriarchal culture is gone
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overrun 2,000 years ago by invading
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Mongols Huns and Visigoths today only
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their bones bear witness we've signed
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typically proven that they're there were
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women warriors number one number two we
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also now realize that women have not
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always been at the bottom of the pit and
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can control their own lives and and and
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be like a woman warrior The Legend of
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the Amazon still echoes in South America
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the majestic Amazon River is named after
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them in the United States California
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takes its name from an Amazon Queen
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Khalifa and on Tel Aviv
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mythic power of warrior women continues
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to fascinate the world
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the discovery in Russia isn't definitive
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proof that Amazon's were real but it
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does raise tantalizing possibilities who
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knows what the next excavation will
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reveal perhaps someday archaeologists
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will discover evidence of other ancient
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fables the true root of Ulysses Odyssey
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the calcified bones of the Cyclops for
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their shattered marble columns of the
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lost city of Atlantis when we return a
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woman on the brink of death the
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extraordinary vision a breathtaking
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recovery that her doctor says can only
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be a miracle
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and later ever since the crash of TWA
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flight 800 the investigation has been
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shadowed by disturbing rumors of
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conspiracy and government cover
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according to all the medical literature
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candy Gaither Horner should have died in
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1992 she has convinced she is alive
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today because her sister Roxy reached
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out to save her life if so was nothing
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less than amazing Roxy had been dead for
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13 years
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in October of 1992 candy Horner was
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fighting a critical run age an
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eight-year battle against leukemia a
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battle no one expected her to win don't
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give up every day I felt I was getting
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worse that I didn't I didn't really know
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if I if I was gonna make it or not
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when I started slipping in into my coma
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I thought about Roxy I thought about
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seeing her in her hospital bed I thought
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about where mom and dad gonna have to go
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through this again I thought a lot about
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that candy and Roxy were the two oldest
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and a family of six children they were
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the only girls born just 13 months apart
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they and their four brothers grew up in
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a small farming community in Illinois
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like most youngsters as sisters often
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fought as much as they played but by the
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time they were both adults and young
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mothers kandi and Roxy had formed a deep
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and permanent bond Roxie and I got real
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close one well she became a mother first
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and then I did so I asked her advice and
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she gave it to me and and we started
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getting along really really well with it
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then on February 27th 1979 Roxie was
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rushed to the hospital
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Roxie had suffered serious head injuries
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after being thrown from a Jeep she was
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awake and talking but her condition was
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critical
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are the time candy arrived Roxy had
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slipped into a coma I thought that she
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would be fine I thought she would wake
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up and and we'd go home and everything
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would be fine that's what I thought
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I know I've never said those words
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before but I I hope you have always
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known that candy never knew whether Roxy
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heard her words
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two days later Roxy died she was 22
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years old it was really hard um for a
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long time I just I still thought she was
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just gone for a while she'd be back it
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took a long time for me to realize that
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she was really gone calm thirteen years
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later
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candy herself was lying in a hospital
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desperately ill after seven years in
00:31:58
remission her cancer had revived more
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virulent than ever
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the only hope was a bone-marrow
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transplant
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at first the transplant seemed to be a
00:32:07
success but five days later Candy's body
00:32:10
began to shut down her liver failed
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she started sinking into a car
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her family had been very dedicated in
00:32:20
continuously supporting her talking to
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her and praying for her but there came a
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time when I felt that I needed to
00:32:27
prepare them for her possible death what
00:32:32
candy needed was a miracle and she
00:32:34
believes she got one at some point
00:32:36
during her ordeal candy says she felt a
00:32:39
gentle touch upon her hand and awoke to
00:32:41
see a young woman bathed in white light
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it was Roxie exactly as she had appeared
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in life
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mom and dad needs you here I was so glad
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it's here you need to stay and fight
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they had been so long I can't I'm too
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tired and it hurts too much mom and dad
00:33:06
already lost me I couldn't stand all
00:33:08
those you - I don't think I could take
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the pain any longer you have to stay
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here you know why because you're gonna
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be a grandmother someday really promise
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you I'm gonna be watching over you
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at first I thought Roxie's visit was a
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dream but then the more I thought about
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it I thought I was so close to death and
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I actually believed that she did visit
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me and she did give me the strength to
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fight
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I felt cold one day I I don't know why I
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just felt real cold and I just opened my
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eyes and there was my husband and my dad
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standing there
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all right they were smiling I mean I
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knew something good had happened I just
00:34:23
wasn't sure what I think all physicians
00:34:27
have cases in which they cannot explain
00:34:30
the outcome however in my experience as
00:34:33
a physician this is truly the most
00:34:34
amazing case and I feel qualified truly
00:34:37
as a medical miracle
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two weeks later candy was released from
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the hospital two years later
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Roxie's prediction came true Candy's
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daughter had a baby girl Emmie someday
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when my granddaughter grows up I'm gonna
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tell her all about Roxy
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I figured people can't believe what they
00:35:07
want to believe but I know that she was
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there with me she was with me I don't
00:35:16
know how but I do know that she was
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there and I did talk to her and she did
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talk to me
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me and Roxy had such a bond I loved her
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so much I never got to tell her that I
00:35:35
loved her and I feel like she came back
00:35:40
to tell me hey I know you love me and I
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love you too
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next what caused the crash of TWA flight
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800 some conspiracy buffs are adamant
00:35:57
that a missile fired by our own military
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brought the plane down
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the investigators insist the charges are
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baseless and irresponsible
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it was a summer of 1988 tensions are
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running high between the United States
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and Iran the USS Vincennes was
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patrolling the Persian Gulf this footage
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was shot aboard the ship on July 3rd
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that morning the Vincennes
00:36:39
believing it was about to be attacked by
00:36:42
her two surface-to-air missiles and an
00:36:43
unidentified aircraft
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the crews jubilance we turned to horror
00:36:53
the target turned out to be an Iranian
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passenger plane carrying 290 innocent
00:36:59
civilians it was a terrible tragedy but
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it did occur what was essentially
00:37:06
considered a war zone certainly could
00:37:08
never happen in peacetime certainly
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could never happen here or couldn't
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July 17th 1996 TWA flight 800 crashed
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into the Atlantic off the coast of Long
00:37:23
Island killing 230 passengers and crew I
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have found some people who have other
00:37:31
information that I four months later
00:37:33
Pere Salinger a former press secretary
00:37:35
to President John Kennedy made a
00:37:37
stunning allegation he claimed TWA 800
00:37:41
had been shut down by our own Navy and
00:37:43
that the Navy was attempting to conceal
00:37:46
the truth
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it's the rumor that refuses to go away
00:37:51
but as such a scenario even possible and
00:37:55
if it did happen why of hundreds of
00:37:57
people not said a word today authorities
00:38:00
are still trying to determine what
00:38:02
caused the crash
00:38:03
the longer it takes the greater the pain
00:38:05
for those who lost family and friends
00:38:07
and the more whispered innuendo turns
00:38:10
into public speculation the
00:38:16
investigation has been painstaking and
00:38:18
tedious since the night of the tragedy
00:38:20
tons of debris have been scraped off the
00:38:22
ocean floor in an attempt to piece the
00:38:25
plane back together
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officials of naradhama caused to three
00:38:31
possibilities a bomb mechanical
00:38:34
malfunction or a shoulder-launched
00:38:36
terrorist missile the missile scenario
00:38:40
is largely supported by more than 30
00:38:41
credible eyewitness accounts of the
00:38:43
unusual streak of life seen in the sky
00:38:46
just before the explosion
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however physicist and missile expert bud
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su says those accounts could just as
00:38:55
likely support a bomb scenario a
00:39:00
terrorist bomb if properly designed
00:39:02
would indeed give you a very bright
00:39:05
luminous streak out from the aircraft so
00:39:10
that it be very possible to have a
00:39:12
design which could produce what the
00:39:16
eyewitnesses said they saw but
00:39:20
eyewitness testimony no matter how
00:39:22
credible cannot stand alone as far as
00:39:25
anyone knew there was no physical
00:39:27
evidence of a missile hit much less one
00:39:29
fired by the u.s. Navy
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unless you believe pierre salinger and
00:39:35
despite navy statements that they had
00:39:37
nothing to do with the TWA 800 crash we
00:39:40
have strong evidence that they are wrong
00:39:42
just last month Salinger was back again
00:39:44
at a press conference in Paris he
00:39:47
produced still frames of radar sweeps
00:39:49
that he claimed were recorded in the
00:39:51
Tower of New York's Kennedy Airport on
00:39:53
the night of the tragedy
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according to Paris match magazine TWA
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flight 800 is represented by this
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written designation circled on the right
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is a navy plane a p3 Orion circled in
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the center is US Air flight 217 the
00:40:12
object circled on the left is
00:40:14
unidentified the conspiracy camp
00:40:16
believes it is a Navy surface-to-air
00:40:18
missile in this frame reportedly
00:40:23
recorded a second before the crash the
00:40:26
unidentified object has disappeared the
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p3 Orion TWA 800 and US Air 217 are all
00:40:33
in close proximity but flying at
00:40:35
different altitudes in later frames the
00:40:41
TWA 800 designation has vanished from
00:40:44
the scope but if the plane was brought
00:40:48
down by a missile and where is the
00:40:50
evidence the government has said they
00:40:53
found nothing conclusive to indicate a
00:40:55
missile hit pierre salinger disagrees
00:40:59
moreover we have discovered that certain
00:41:01
bodies on the plane were crushed by
00:41:04
something which went through the plane
00:41:06
the missile let us suppose for the sake
00:41:09
of argument but the conspiracists are
00:41:11
right there is some circumstantial
00:41:14
evidence to support their claims the
00:41:18
Navy has admitted that military
00:41:20
exercises were being conducted off the
00:41:22
Long Island Coast the night of the crash
00:41:24
in fact TWA 800 diverted from its
00:41:27
original flight path to avoid a
00:41:29
restricted area the Navy will almost
00:41:33
certainly try to conduct exercises where
00:41:35
they're not going to get in the way of
00:41:36
shipping and they don't really fire many
00:41:40
missiles because the darn things cost a
00:41:41
million dollars each so they really
00:41:46
don't do exercises they they assume that
00:41:48
if they get a radar lock on with the
00:41:50
ship they will get a hit and they just
00:41:53
can't afford to shoot that many missiles
00:41:56
but suppose the Navy did shoot a live
00:41:58
missile that night either accidentally
00:42:00
or intentionally then where could it
00:42:03
have come from according to the Navy the
00:42:08
USS Normandy was the only ship with
00:42:10
standard missile capability in the area
00:42:12
the Normandy was reportedly on maneuvers
00:42:15
in the Atlantic 180 miles south of the
00:42:18
crash site the main problem is that the
00:42:23
maximum range of the standard missile is
00:42:26
80 month and the Normandy was alleged to
00:42:29
be a hundred and eighty miles away from
00:42:31
the incident so you just it just doesn't
00:42:35
make sense if a missile ship had been
00:42:39
within the 80 mile radius to shoot it
00:42:43
the eyewitnesses would have seen a
00:42:45
tremendous flash of light because the
00:42:48
initial launch of standard missile
00:42:50
essentially lights up the night sky but
00:42:55
regardless of what they say we have now
00:42:58
reached the point where we are totally
00:43:00
sure that what we are saying is true
00:43:03
assume again that the conspiracy
00:43:05
theorists are right and the Normandy or
00:43:07
some other ship was in fact within range
00:43:09
and did accidentally shoot down the
00:43:12
airliner is it conceivable that the Navy
00:43:15
brass could successfully engineer a
00:43:17
cover-up if it were a friendly fire
00:43:20
incident it would take approximately one
00:43:23
day for everybody in the countries in
00:43:25
the water you had what several hundred
00:43:28
people on that ship on the unanimity
00:43:31
how can you cover anything up and
00:43:36
sailors would write home to their the
00:43:38
sweethearts or their parents and say my
00:43:40
god we did this you couldn't there's no
00:43:42
way you could cover it up because
00:43:44
sailors love to talk
00:43:48
but the conspiracy camp points out that
00:43:50
the Navy has been less than forthcoming
00:43:51
in the past when the Vincennes shut down
00:43:54
the Iranian airliner in 1988
00:43:57
Navy officials initially tried to
00:43:59
justify the action with false
00:44:00
information they claimed the plane had
00:44:05
been emitting military codes
00:44:07
they have since admitted that this was
00:44:08
not true could the same thing have
00:44:11
happened with TWA 800 I did contact a
00:44:16
high-ranking person in the Navy and and
00:44:18
you know for what it's worth the Navy
00:44:21
after this incident did a thorough
00:44:23
inventory I mean they should with him
00:44:24
things that cost a million dollars and
00:44:27
they can account for every ordinate of
00:44:29
missile in the Atlantic Fleet by serial
00:44:32
number of course you know the the
00:44:35
doubters would say sure that's what
00:44:37
certainly what they say but I have known
00:44:39
this person and I thought that I talked
00:44:41
to 40 years and have fun very reliable
00:44:44
as you know in the press yesterday and
00:44:48
this morning the FBI has been renewing
00:44:51
its attack on us pierre salinger and his
00:44:54
associates continue to insist that the
00:44:56
government is lying but critics of the
00:44:59
conspiracy theory are quick to point out
00:45:01
that a cover-up would have to include
00:45:02
not just hundreds of Navy personnel but
00:45:05
also hundreds of civilians involved with
00:45:07
the investigation
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join me next time for another compelling
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our unsolved mysteries
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