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It's time once again to cross over the boundary between the real and the unreal.

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Beyond belief.

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Fact or fiction.

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Hosted by Jonathan Frakes

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We live in a world where the real and the unreal live side by side,

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where substance is disguised as illusion and the only explanations are unexplainable.

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Can you separate truth from fantasy?

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To do so, you must break through the web of your experience

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and open your mind to things beyond belief.

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Sometimes to see the truth, we have to look at things from another angle.

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Take this portrait of a single clown.

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When viewed from a different perspective, it becomes an entire circus.

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We encourage you to view our stories tonight with an open mind.

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Examine them from a variety of angles.

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We'll tell you at the end that they're true or false.

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So, follow the clown as he turns the corner.

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Our circus is about to begin.

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What mysterious forces cause some soil to be fertile,

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while other gardens yield nothing but wilted dreams?

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What is the secret of the Green Thumb?

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Joss Myrtle doesn't possess a Green Thumb.

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In fact, lately his efforts to cause his land to bloom are mostly all thumbs.

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But Joss Myrtle loves his land, and even though he has no financial resources,

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he is determined to see it thrive again.

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No matter what the cost.

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I was just a teenager when it all happened.

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I worshiped my father, but he was putting our family through terrible times.

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Our farm was going under, nothing was growing.

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But Papa refused to admit it.

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Joss, did you hear what I said?

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I heard ya.

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Well, look at it. The land is worthless.

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It's been barren for two years. Your mortgage is about to go into receivership.

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Look, Joss, I understand what you're going through,

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but the best financial advice I can give you is to sell now,

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cut your losses, and give your family a chance.

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Paula, he's going under, he's dragging you down with him. When are you gonna wake up?

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You're my brother, Harold, and I love you.

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But I won't have you talking about my husband that way in his own home.

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Well, you're gonna lose your home, you're gonna lose everything.

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Joss, I brought the papers with me.

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We're making you the best offer you're gonna get.

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I'm gonna leave him, I urge you to take a look at him, and I urge you to accept...

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Joss, I strongly urge you to accept our offer.

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You gotta get your farm out of...

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He's hopeless. He's utterly hopeless.

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Papa!

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Papa, are you okay?

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This land means everything to me, April.

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It's been in our family for generations, it's been good to us at seeds.

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It's given us life. I owe this land my soul.

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Uncle Harold says we're gonna have to leave.

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We're not leaving. The farm stays in the family.

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It's always been handed down, and that's the way it's gonna be.

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I'm gonna make the land rich again, so it'll grow.

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How are you gonna do that, Papa?

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Don't you worry, Hal, just know we're gonna stay.

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A few nights later, I was tossing and turning, going in and out of sleep.

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I had lived on the farm all of my life, and the idea of giving it up and moving somewhere else frightened me.

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I didn't know any other life, but as scared and sad as I was, Papa was going through a lot worse.

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I'm not sure what made me get out of bed at that moment.

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Maybe it was the voices I heard downstairs.

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One voice sounded like Papa's, but the other I had never heard before.

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You got here quick. You called, I came. What can I do for you?

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Will you get my family 20 years of props?

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There's no saying exactly.

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I'm not sure what I'm gonna do.

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I'm not sure what I'm gonna do.

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I've only 20 years of props.

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There's no saying exactly what I'll do.

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I'm not the one who calls the shots here, Joss.

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Look, this means everything to me, and I don't know if I can go through with it.

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Now or never, Joss. Make up your mind.

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Do you have everything you need to do this?

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Just come with me.

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I wasn't sure who the stranger was.

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I thought maybe it was Mr. Johnson, the rich man who lived in the next county.

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I'd seen someone who looked like him hanging around the barn once, and that's who Papa told me it was.

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I couldn't help but follow them out the door to see what was going on.

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It was really cold that night that I didn't even think about getting a coat.

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Nothing could take away the chill I was feeling.

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I had no idea what they were doing, and I was too far away to hear what they were saying.

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The only thing I do know is the one thing I'll never forget.

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That was the last time I ever saw my Papa alive.

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Papa!

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Papa!

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Papa!

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Papa!

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Papa!

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I'm telling you, I went outside and I saw it. He wasn't there, I think he went away, but he disappeared.

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What do you mean he disappeared? It had to have been a nightmare.

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It wasn't a nightmare, I know what I saw, he's gone.

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Mama said she didn't believe my story.

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She said Papa had just up and left, and I was making the whole thing up to ease her pain.

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But I knew deep down she didn't believe her story either.

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When she thought I had gone back to sleep, she went out to the part of the field where I had seen Papa and the man in black go.

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And that's where she found it. The pile of Papa's clothing. The wind took care of the rest.

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Stay. Stay. Stay on the land.

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Papa!

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The winds never stopped howling for the rest of that night. Mama and I kept hearing what we thought was a voice.

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A voice that sounded like Papa's.

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Finally we fell asleep in each other's arms. Exhausted, scared, and strangely at peace.

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In the morning the wind had died down and when I opened my eyes I knew something was different.

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I could feel Papa all around me. In fact, I was sure that if I opened the door, I would see him standing outside in the field.

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Mama! Mama! Mama, wake up!

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But what is it? Is something wrong?

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Nothing's wrong. Come on.

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Why did you come on?

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It was the most beautiful sight we had ever seen. The fields were green and the crops were growing.

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I wanted Papa to see it too, but I had the feeling he knew all about it.

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Did Joss Myrtle really disappear and become part of his land? Or did he simply go away one night, never to return?

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Was his daughter dreaming when she saw him hit by lightning that night?

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Then how do you explain the sudden greening of the Myrtle farm?

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And what about that pile of clothes and who was the mysterious stranger?

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Is there truth blossoming here or is it just another homegrown lie?

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We'll find out whether this story is true or false at the end of our show.

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Next, a luxury liner hits an iceberg on the unbelief, fact or fiction.

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The luxury liner very much in our thoughts these days.

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The image of a giant ship cutting through the waters combines our fantasies of opulence with the undeniable romance of the open seas.

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No wonder these miracles of the waves have a way of capturing our imagination.

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This next story of a seafaring disaster is set in a time earlier than most of our tales, but the inspiration for its telling is as fresh as tomorrow.

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It was a cold winter's morning when Harris Fisher, an author who hadn't had a bestseller in much too long, met with his publisher.

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It's a good idea, Harris, but it's just not what people are reading.

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True stories are where interests lie nowadays.

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Jack the Ripper, that's what's selling.

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I'm a writer, I'm not a newspaper reporter. The stories come from my imagination.

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And the tide will change until it does. Pick up a paper, look at the headlines.

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It's not me, Zachary.

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Fiction is still greater than anything you could read in a newspaper. You'll see.

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Back in his apartment, Fisher struggled once again with the writer's block that was crippling his creative process.

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Story after story would start in his head, only to go nowhere.

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He knew his publisher's suggestion of stealing a plot from the headlines was a good one, especially for a writer with no ideas.

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But Fisher was determined to come up with an original plot.

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But then an article caught his eye.

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A grand story took shape in front of him, a story as rich as the day's headlines.

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That's it.

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Suddenly, it was all so easy. The chains around his imagination seemed to be breaking off, link by link.

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If it was a story that came from the headlines that people would buy, then that was what Fisher was going to give them.

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Always one who worked better from a visual concept, he began to draw on a sketch pad.

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Fisher could see the ship in front of him. Like the Titanic, it would be a giant luxury cruiser.

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Like the Titanic, it would have huge smokestacks that would tower above its decks.

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There was no stopping the direction that his mind was heading now, so he let it go.

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Yes, and like the Titanic, the massive ship would set sail from England.

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This was the story Fisher knew he could sell, and so this was the story he would write.

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Soon Fisher's apartment was filled with a sound it had not heard in months, the furious clacking of typewriter keys.

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Fisher's imagination was sailing as fast as any ship. His story would follow the same plot as the Titanic.

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His ship would also be traveling to the United States. In fact, its destination was New York.

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Crowds would gather on the docks to wish it bon voyage. This wondrous, unsinkable legend.

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There were periods when Fisher questioned his project. Could he really get away with this idea?

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Wouldn't readers reject the concept? Yet it all seemed so clear.

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Why not give in to the words that were crying to be let out?

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After several hours of inner struggle, Fisher knew he had no choice.

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He must go ahead with his book.

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The similarities to the Titanic were an intrinsic part of Fisher's story.

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Right down to the name he chose for his ship. The Titan.

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To the captain!

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To the captain! To the captain!

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To the captain! To the captain!

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To the captain! To the captain!

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To the captain! To the captain! To the captain!

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There was no stopping Fisher now. The world outside his apartment ceased to exist.

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All right, I'm coming, coming!

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I'm sorry to disturb you, Mr. Fisher, but I thought you'd want your food brought up to you again.

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Oh, thank you, Mrs. Clark.

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There's going to be a big storm coming in tonight. Do you have enough wood?

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Yes, yes, I'm fine.

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You know my husband and I marvel at your talent. Your stories are always so original.

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Thank you, Mrs. Clark. Goodbye.

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Goodbye.

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Back to his typewriter. The parallels would continue.

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Both the Titan and the Titanic were the same approximate length and width.

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Each ship had three propellers and each carried over 2,000 passengers.

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Both ships were the most expensive, luxurious, sea-going structures of their time.

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And the creme de la creme of society spent fortunes to book passage.

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And then Fisher added his most outrageous touch of all.

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His ship, the Titan, would be hit by an iceberg.

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And like the Titanic, great numbers would die of exposure in the icy walkers of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Harris, come in, come in.

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I just wanted to stop by to see if you read my story yet.

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Please, sit down.

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Harris, a 70,000-ton ship on its maiden voyage carrying over 2,200 passengers,

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and it hits an iceberg and sinks?

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Over 1,500 people die?

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Come on, Harris, it's not going to happen.

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I told you, people aren't interested in fiction.

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The only difference between fiction and non-fiction is that fiction hasn't happened yet.

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And this never will.

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Go ahead, Harris, give it another try, and in the meantime, I'll give this another look.

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Harris Fisher's story was written in 1898.

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The Titanic went down in 1912.

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An amazing story, especially when you consider the Titan was written 14 years before the Titanic ever sailed.

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Could Harris Fisher really have imagined all those parallels to the Titanic?

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Was there some newspaper article about plans to build the Titanic that he lifted his ideas from?

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Or was it another example of art foreshadowing life?

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The same way Jules Verne wrote of submarines long before their invention?

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Or Da Vinci's sketched flying machines centuries before the Wright Brothers?

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Is our story of the ship that hit an iceberg the truth?

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Or is it simply a Titanic hoax?

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We'll find out whether this story is true or false at the end of our show.

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Next, a diary predicts disaster on Beyond Belief, in fact, or fiction?

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Once private thoughts were kept in locked diaries hidden away from prying eyes,

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today's high-tech generation are more than likely to record their deepest secrets on a computer.

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Kim Maddox is a lonely girl who feels safe recording her thoughts on a computer,

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but what happens when outsiders invade the private sanctuary of her innermost feelings?

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We are about to see the frightening consequences.

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I never fit in. People think I'm weird because I see things before they happen.

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Can you believe that little geek actually had the nerve to talk to me?

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What did she say?

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Something about Brad's party.

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This is it. Let's go.

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Hey Kim! Hey Kim! We've got something for you.

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I wasn't popular, and Rasha and Dailey were, so I loved it when they paid attention to me.

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Loser!

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Did you see the look on her face?

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We got her. So good.

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I didn't hate them. I hated myself. I decided to take a walk.

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I realize now they must have been hiding.

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The freak left her computer behind.

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Well, she must be going someplace special.

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Who cares where she's going? I have a better idea. Let's take a trip into Kim World.

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My mind was so preoccupied, I never remembered to lock up. I can only guess what happened next.

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Dailey, do you think anybody saw us?

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No, no one saw us. Come on. Let's show the back door.

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They really should lock their doors.

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There it is, her computer.

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Let's see what we have.

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Go to diary.

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Yeah, let's see what's on the little freak's mind.

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Look, she's got stuff about all the kids in school.

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No way, how does she know that?

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Wait, are we in there?

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On March 13th, I saw Dailey and her boyfriend Travis in the school hallway today.

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I'm afraid they'll be breaking up soon, poor Dailey.

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That is so not true.

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Rasha is going to fail civics and spend the summer in school. Too bad she'd really rather go to Europe with her parents.

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Her teacher is so mean. Please.

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Just ignore it. She's so weird.

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She's coming. Let's go.

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Come on in.

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When I came back, I didn't know they had been there.

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When I saw that the computer was turned on, I thought maybe I had forgotten to turn it off.

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But I wasn't sure.

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It was a creepy moment that I didn't like.

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It's dumb luck. Everyone knows I hate civics.

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Hello. Hi Travis.

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What? What do you mean we need space?

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The only reason why I went out with you in the first place was because I felt sorry for you, jerk.

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That's stupid idiot.

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Dailey.

251
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Leave it.

252
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What?

253
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It's coming true. Everything she wrote in the diary.

254
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Oh yeah? Well, let's find out what else she knows.

255
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I can't believe we're just breaking in.

256
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Shh.

257
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Look, we're just going to find out what the little witch is predicting this week.

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That feeling is coming over me again. Something bad is going to happen. Smoke.

259
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Lots of smoke at Dailey's house?

260
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What?

261
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Oh my god. They're at my house.

262
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My predictions were just for me to read. I couldn't control them. They just came over me.

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I was starting to feel something really terrible was going to happen to Rasha and Dailey.

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I didn't know if I could stop it from happening, but I had to find a way to warn them.

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Hi Kim.

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Hi.

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We just wanted to come over and say hi.

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Look, I know we haven't always gotten along. We just wanted to say that we're sorry.

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And that all is forgiven, right?

270
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Yeah.

271
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Yeah, sure. Do you want to come in?

272
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Sure.

273
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I'm glad you guys stopped over.

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My parents are going away for the night and I was going to see a movie. Would you like to come? I really need to talk to you.

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Okay, okay, yeah. We will, um, meet you there.

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Okay.

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I'll see you later.

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Okay.

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I'll see you later.

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Okay.

281
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Okay, okay, yeah. We will, um, meet you there.

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Okay. Eight o'clock show?

283
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Sure. We'll see you there.

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That's if, freak.

285
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I never told them what I wanted to say. Then they'd never want to be my friends.

286
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But I guessed if they were reading my diary, they would find out on their own.

287
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But maybe we shouldn't do this. Come on, let's just leave her alone.

288
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We will, we will.

289
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She just can't trust these computers. They can get really sick.

290
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Wait. We should look and see what she wrote first.

291
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I can't believe this. We are going to Brad's party anyway.

292
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I knew they would never make it to the movies to be with me.

293
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Brad's party was going on at the same time.

294
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The sad part was, I knew they'd never make it there either.

295
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I didn't wish anything bad on Rasha and Daley.

296
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It wasn't their fault they were mean to me.

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And it's not my fault that I always end up the same way.

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Alone.

299
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Our story ends before we find out the exact fates of Rasha and Daley.

300
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Sad to say that shortly after reading Kim's diary, they were involved in a fatal traffic accident.

301
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Was their untimely end really predicted by Kim?

302
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Or were they so frightened upon reading the diary entry,

303
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that they were driving in a state of blind panic, bringing about their own demise?

304
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But then, how do you explain the accuracy of all those other prophecies on Kim's computer?

305
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This story may be fact, then again, it may be fancy.

306
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What's your prediction?

307
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We'll find out whether this story is true or false at the end of our show.

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Next, a woman explores the hidden secrets of her past, of the unbelief, fact or fiction.

309
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The human brain. Much too complicated to be understood by the human brain.

310
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Repressed memory, total recall, deja vu, all found here.

311
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And all basically unexplainable.

312
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Jane Doe has no recollections of her past, yet on the blank wall of her memory, images appear that she seems to remember.

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You are about to enter her world to experience a tale of amnesia. You will never forget.

314
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After the accident, I had completely lost my memory.

315
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I hated the name Jane Doe, but that's all they could call me.

316
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Nobody knew who I was or where I came from.

317
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I had no identification or records.

318
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All I had were these flashes in my brain, and I was beginning to get one now.

319
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Stop. Stop. Stop the car, Susan, please.

320
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Susan was an attendant in the hospital where I was staying.

321
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She was assigned to drive me to a specialist several hundred miles away.

322
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But what I was starting to experience was more important than any help a doctor could give me.

323
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I was starting to experience my past.

324
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All of a sudden, I have this funny feeling that I've been in this town before.

325
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And I think I've even been in this diner.

326
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Well, it certainly is quaint.

327
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Something told me there was a counter area upstairs that I had visited many times.

328
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Good afternoon, ladies. What'll it be?

329
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I'd like a gardenia float.

330
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A what, please?

331
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,000
A gardenia float, please. With extra whipped cream.

332
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Kind of fancy for this place.

333
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Two scoops of ice cream, root beer, and some nuts sprinkled on the top, and it's served in a dish that looks like a flower.

334
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,000
Now, in all the years I've been here, I've never heard anybody order a gardenia float.

335
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Would you settle for a piece of Bud's special pie?

336
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Sure, why not?

337
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,000
It's gonna be all right, Jane.

338
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Stop calling me Jane.

339
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My name isn't Jane Doe.

340
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:36,000
She's suffering from post-traumatic memory loss.

341
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,000
That's just a fancy way of saying I've got amnesia.

342
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Gosh, I'd really like to help you out, but I've never seen you before.

343
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,000
Now, Annie here might know more than I do.

344
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After all, she's been delivering mail in these parts for about a hundred years now.

345
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Why don't you talk to her while I go freshen up in the ladies room?

346
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:09,000
Oh, it's just, uh, pass those two booths, take a right and a left, and it's across from the jukebox.

347
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,000
It's exactly right.

348
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,000
I think I'll have my usual.

349
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Lemonade with two sugars.

350
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How'd you know that?

351
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Did you use...

352
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,000
Did you use to buy lemonade from a little girl on Spring Street?

353
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I don't know.

354
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,000
I think I'll have my usual.

355
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000
I think I'll have my usual.

356
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000
Lemonade with two sugars.

357
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,000
How'd you know that?

358
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000
Did you use...

359
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,000
Did you use to buy lemonade from a little girl on Spring Street?

360
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000
Spring Street, that...

361
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,000
That's...

362
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,000
That's part of the I-90 interstate.

363
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,000
That's been gone for years.

364
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,000
Are you okay, Han?

365
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,000
I don't know. My head is splitting open.

366
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,000
I see flashes and they just disappear.

367
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,000
What is it?

368
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,000
This table.

369
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,000
There's something special about it.

370
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,000
A.W. loves BP.

371
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,000
What does that mean?

372
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,000
Do you know those people?

373
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:35,000
I don't know, but it sounds familiar.

374
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,000
BP is Billy Palmer.

375
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,000
They said he was in here all the time.

376
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Poor kid.

377
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:46,000
He was killed in a bad crash.

378
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Years ago.

379
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,000
He was on his way to a loop.

380
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,000
What had happened on the bridge outside of town?

381
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,000
Maybe around midnight?

382
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:57,000
Yeah.

383
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:03,000
Is the cemetery still across the road in St. Mary's Church?

384
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000
I haven't moved.

385
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,000
Come on, Susan.

386
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,000
Thank you.

387
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:18,000
There in the cemetery, I was sure I would discover the link to my past.

388
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,000
I stared at the headstone of Billy Palmer,

389
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000
praying that it would open some closed door.

390
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,000
Who was he?

391
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:32,000
I felt if I stood there long enough, it would become clear.

392
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,000
I had a few false hopes.

393
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,000
But in the end,

394
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:40,000
Elise Grave gave me absolutely no answers at all.

395
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,000
I felt I was so close to finding myself.

396
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,000
And?

397
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Nothing.

398
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000
Just a blank.

399
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000
I was so sure this was going to lead somewhere.

400
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,000
Our Jane Doe never knew the possible truth.

401
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:12,000
For only a few feet from Billy's grave was the grave of the girl who died with him that same night.

402
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,000
Her photo, a dead ringer for our Jane Doe.

403
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:20,000
Angela Wright, born 1930, died 1950.

404
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,000
Did our Jane Doe actually live a past life in the town she was visiting?

405
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:33,000
Was it really her who died in that accident years ago?

406
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Or was that photograph in the cemetery just someone who looked like her?

407
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:40,000
Is this the first time you are being asked to judge the truthfulness of this tale?

408
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,000
Or is that great philosopher, Yogi Berra, once said,

409
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is this deja vu all over again?

410
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,000
We'll find out whether this story is true or false at the end of our show.

411
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,000
Next, spontaneous fires invade a home on Beyond Belief,

412
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fact or fiction.

413
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,000
Many say that fire is man's first great discovery.

414
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,000
For centuries, it has allowed us to cook our food,

415
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,000
eat our dwellings, and light our pathways.

416
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:15,000
And everything that has been invented since either relies on fire or imitates it.

417
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,000
But fire is inspiring something else in the lives of Stuart and Laura Freeland,

418
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the destruction of their security.

419
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,000
And when we cannot control our own safety,

420
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,000
then all we have left are the fires of fear.

421
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,000
Detective Harold Peters had been a cop for over 20 years.

422
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,000
He has seen more than he cares to remember,

423
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:45,000
but the only cases that keep him up at night are cases like this one.

424
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,000
That's why he's here today, searching through the rubble for answers.

425
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:54,000
And remembering when this was a dream house whose dreams kept going up in smoke.

426
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,000
Stuart, help!

427
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000
Honey, honey, get back!

428
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000
Hey, stay back!

429
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000
What the heck? Turn off the electricity!

430
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,000
Do you folks have somewhere to stay tonight?

431
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,000
Yeah, yeah. I don't understand it.

432
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,000
We just bought the house. They said everything checked out fine.

433
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,000
Well, I've never seen flames shoot out from an outlet before.

434
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:30,000
I'm sure an electrician will be able to figure it out. Good luck.

435
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000
You sure this is the right one?

436
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,000
Yes, of course.

437
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,000
I can't figure it out. I mean, it looks brand new. Not even scorched.

438
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,000
I don't understand.

439
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,000
I don't know. The insurance company wants me to change it and check out the wiring.

440
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:47,000
There's a problem with the electrical. I'll find it.

441
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,000
God. Stuart!

442
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,000
Honey, what's that smell?

443
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000
I don't know, but it just started getting really bad.

444
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,000
I'm sorry.

445
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,000
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

446
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

447
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

448
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

449
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,000
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

450
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,000
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

451
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

452
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

453
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,000
I'll leave it here.

454
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000
I'll be right back.

455
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
We'll come back.

456
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,000
I'll be right back.

457
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,000
I'll be right back.

458
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,000
You sure this is the right one?

459
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,000
I haven't thought about it.

460
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,000
a?​

461
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000
I've thought about it, too.

462
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,000
I've thought about it, too.

463
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000
I've thought about it, too.

464
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,000
Another fire and another dead end.

465
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,000
That's when police detective Harold Peters

466
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,000
was assigned to the case.

467
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Freeland.

468
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000
Nice to meet you.

469
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:50,000
Might have asked you a few questions.

470
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:51,000
No.

471
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Your name was, uh, Stuart Freeland, you said?

472
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:54,000
Yes.

473
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,000
And your name?

474
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,000
Laura Sloan Freeland.

475
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,000
Is there an E at the end of Sloan?

476
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:00,000
No.

477
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,000
Detective, what's this all about?

478
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,000
Why the police?

479
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000
Well, we're trying to figure that out, Mr. Freeland.

480
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000
I mean, the fire department can't keep coming out here.

481
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000
I will tell you what's baffling here, though.

482
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000
There are no scorch marks on this wall here.

483
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000
The fire has touched the wall.

484
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,000
You figure you've got to leave a mark, but, uh...

485
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,000
Nothing.

486
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000
Right.

487
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000
The insurance company has sent inspectors,

488
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
electricians, even soil specialists.

489
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000
No one can figure it out.

490
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000
Shame.

491
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000
What do you work, Mr. Freeland?

492
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000
Tech aerospace.

493
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:37,000
And, uh...

494
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,000
Business good?

495
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000
Yeah, it's good.

496
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,000
What are you saying, detective?

497
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,000
That we have something to do with this?

498
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,000
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

499
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,000
Let me be honest with you.

500
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,000
I can't figure this out.

501
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000
I mean, there are no scorch marks on the floor or the walls.

502
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000
I mean, it's the damnedest fire I've ever seen.

503
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:56,000
For the fire department, too.

504
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,000
What do you think we should do?

505
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Damn, if I know.

506
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,000
Maybe I ought to get yourself psychic.

507
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000
The next day, the Freeland's called Dr. Lloyd Cameron,

508
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:11,000
a man with an incredible success record in spirit depossessions.

509
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:15,000
Well, there are no fluctuations in temperature or energy levels.

510
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000
What does that mean?

511
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,000
It means that I don't see anything in this house.

512
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Well, there's another answer.

513
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Maybe the energy has attached itself to one of you.

514
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000
Come on, that's crazy.

515
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,000
How... how could that happen?

516
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,000
Something somebody's done. Something bad.

517
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,000
Oh, God.

518
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,000
What?

519
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
It's me.

520
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:59,000
When I was nine,

521
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:04,000
my brother Scott and I set fire to the woods next to our house.

522
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,000
It got out of control and it burned the whole lot.

523
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:14,000
My father said that whoever did it would be followed by fire.

524
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,000
I mean, he scared us so bad we never said anything.

525
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000
I never told anyone.

526
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,000
Now you have.

527
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,000
What does that do?

528
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:33,000
Well, it clears the conscience and it releases the spirits.

529
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:39,000
Repression and denial are the fountain head of paranormal activity.

530
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,000
It's over, Mr. Freeland.

531
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
But it wasn't over.

532
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,000
The fires continued to burn inside the house.

533
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:55,000
Finally, the insurance company determined that the blazes were caused by undetectable gases

534
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,000
and ordered the house torn down.

535
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,000
On the same day, Stuart and Laura Freeland moved to another town.

536
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,000
But something was left behind.

537
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:08,000
A member of the wrecking crew found it and handed it over to Detective Peters.

538
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:13,000
At first, it seemed like a useless memento, but it turned out to be much more.

539
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,000
It was an old scrapbook filled with memories.

540
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,000
Memories that should have been discarded long ago,

541
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,000
but were saved like some horrible lesson you don't want to remember,

542
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000
yet are afraid to forget.

543
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,000
The book showed that Laura Sloan Freeland, as a little girl,

544
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000
was involved in an incident of criminal arson.

545
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,000
The fire she started killed several people.

546
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:38,000
So the psychic was right, only it wasn't the husband that the evil energy had attached itself to.

547
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000
It was the wife all along.

548
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,000
Detective Peters had his answers.

549
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,000
The question was, did he believe them?

550
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,000
Could this story have actually taken place?

551
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:57,000
Can spontaneous combustion occur with no scientific explanation?

552
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,000
Or could the fires have been caused by some repressed spirit

553
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:04,000
sent to punish a woman who had crossed the gods of flame in the past?

554
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,000
Is this story real or unreal?

555
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,000
That is the burning question.

556
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Coming up, we'll find out which of our stories tonight were fact and which were fiction

557
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:18,000
when Beyond Belief returns.

558
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,000
And now let's find out if you were able to separate fact from fiction tonight.

559
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,000
And how about the farmer who vanished into thin air

560
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,000
and then seemed to use his spirit to replenish his land?

561
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,000
How do you judge this one?

562
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,000
No.

563
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,000
If you guessed this was a work of fiction, you guessed right.

564
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,000
We made this one up.

565
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:13,000
What about the author who foretold the tragedy of the Titanic 14 years before it sailed?

566
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:27,000
A 70,000 ton ship on its maiden voyage carrying over 2200 passengers

567
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:30,000
and it hits an iceberg and sinks?

568
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,000
Over 1500 people die?

569
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,000
Come on, Harris, it's not going to happen.

570
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,000
I told you, people aren't interested in fiction.

571
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:43,000
If you guessed this was a story based on reality, you were correct.

572
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,000
It's fact.

573
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:54,000
Let's take another look at the story of the student whose electronic diary seemed to predict the future.

574
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,000
But maybe we shouldn't do this.

575
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,000
Come on, let's just leave her alone.

576
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,000
We will, we will.

577
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000
We just can't trust these computers.

578
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000
They can get really sick.

579
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000
Well, wait.

580
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000
We should look and see what she wrote first.

581
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,000
Okay.

582
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,000
I can't believe this.

583
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,000
We are going to Brad's party anyway.

584
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,000
I knew they would never make it to the movies to be with me.

585
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,000
Brad's party was going on at the same time.

586
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,000
I didn't wish anything bad on Rasha and Daly.

587
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:37,000
It wasn't their fault they were mean to me.

588
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,000
And it's not my fault that I always end up the same way.

589
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,000
Alone.

590
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,000
Was this story based on an actual incident?

591
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,000
Yes, it was. It happened.

592
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,000
And now it's time to decide the honesty of the tale of amnesia.

593
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:58,000
And a life lived before. Let's see a brief reprise.

594
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,000
I think I'll have my usual.

595
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,000
Lemonade with two sugars.

596
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,000
How'd you know that?

597
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:14,000
Did you use, did you used to buy lemonade from a little girl on Spring Street?

598
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:21,000
Spring Street, that, that's, that's part of the I-90 interstate.

599
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,000
That's been gone for years.

600
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,000
Are you okay, hon?

601
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,000
I don't know. My head is splitting open.

602
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000
I see flashes and they just disappear.

603
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,000
Was this story of a woman whose memory was based on a past life true?

604
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,000
Not this time. It's fiction.

605
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:47,000
Let's look at the strange story of the house invaded by flames. Real or not?

606
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:54,000
My father said that whoever did it would be followed by fire.

607
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,000
I mean, he scared us so bad we never said anything.

608
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,000
I never told anyone.

609
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,000
Now you have.

610
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,000
What does that do?

611
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,000
Well, it clears the conscience and it releases the spirits.

612
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:19,000
Repression and denial are the fountain head of paranormal activity.

613
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,000
It's over, Mr. Freeland.

614
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:29,000
The story of fire that couldn't be controlled or explained is inspired by a similar incident.

615
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,000
So where is the line between fact and fiction?

616
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,000
Who among us can see it so clearly that there is never a question of what is true

617
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,000
and what is beyond belief?

618
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,000
I'm Jonathan Frakes.

619
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:51,000
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