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Beyond belief, fact or fiction.

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Hosted by Jonathan Frakes.

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Tonight your challenge is to separate what is true from what is false.

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Five stories, some real, some fake.

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Can you judge which are fact and which are fiction?

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To find out you must enter a world of both truth and deception.

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A world that is beyond belief.

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Sometimes you have to check things out from all angles to understand the big picture.

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Take these photos.

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They appear to be snapshots of nature, animal and plant life, all of various species and

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families.

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But let's take a step back to view the big picture.

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Now you can see a truly endangered species.

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The television post.

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Depended for survival upon the Nielsen family.

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The lesson found in this picture within a picture can guide us in judging our stories

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tonight.

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It may seem one way to you, on first look.

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Step back, you might find a whole new perspective.

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We'll tell you which stories are true and which are false at the end of our show.

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By the way, if you missed the big picture tonight, don't despair.

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Just put on your best face.

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Ever visited a truck stop?

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Those special places along the highway that truck drivers adopt as their favorite eating

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spots on long halls.

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They're usually famous for their atmosphere, great coffee, sausage, eggs and apple pie.

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There's a lot of folklore about truckers.

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They're supposed to be experts on food, driving, life and friendship.

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Trucker Dan Weaver is about to learn a lot more about all of them.

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My driving buddy, Hal Dickey, is closer to me than my own father.

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We met once a week at our favorite truck stop.

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Hal Dickey and I had a lot of great get-togethers.

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Hey Dan.

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Henry.

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This is one I will never forget.

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Gloria, could you bring me a...

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Here you go, sugar.

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Two donuts and a cup of joe.

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After five years, you finally know what I always order.

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It's absolutely amazing.

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Well, you know, you got yourself a world-class safe food ride happening here, Dan.

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I'm not going to be the one to break that streak.

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Hey, Dan.

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What you're going to do is start without me.

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Hey, hey, hey.

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You're gonna see it, buddy.

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You okay?

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Yeah.

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See if you see.

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Thank you.

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Looked outside for your rig, Hal.

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Where the hell are you parked?

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It's up the road.

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Any trouble?

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Gloria.

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What's that guy got to do with getting a donut and his joint?

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Oh, you tipped the one or she ignored you.

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Hey.

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Dig in.

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Oh, sweetie.

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Coffee and two glaze, would you?

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What's wrong with those?

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Oh, I see.

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You think he got cheated because they got holes in him?

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Oh, funny.

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Just bring me another round.

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Okay.

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Fine with me, Gloria.

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Don't say hi.

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She's gonna move today or what?

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Boy, what's he so weird about?

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Mm-mm-mm.

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Hal, I need your help.

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I've been up half the night out of my mind.

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It's a real dilemma and I'm just torn.

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All right.

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This is that truck you've been looking at.

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So, you're wondering if you can afford it or not?

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Oh, no.

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No, I can't decide to go with the speed options or the towing package.

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And this is the limer you've been wrestling with?

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Yeah, it's a big decision.

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I mean, I've been wanting something I could tow a boat or a trailer with, but on the other

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hand, do I want to give up highway speed?

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Mm-mm.

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Then I already decided to go with the oversized tires and the chrome wheels, so that's not

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an issue for me anymore.

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Oh, that's a relief.

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Oh, are you sure our motor math today?

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What the heck is that supposed to mean?

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Why did you dance it?

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What do you think that?

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Hey, Hal, no, no, look, seriously.

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No, I needed your advice, you know.

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What the heck am I going to do?

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To be honest, I'd say it's time to get your priorities straight.

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So you're leaning towards the towing package.

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You know how a hunch would go that way?

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Save your money.

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That thing hasn't been working for a week.

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Gloria won dance for the road.

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Watch it, Buster.

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I mean, I didn't do nothing.

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I'm working on one of my mind-grain.

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You picked the wrong day to mess with me.

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Gloria, I didn't mess with you.

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That was him.

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You need to take some time off.

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And you need to keep your damn hands to yourself or else.

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Why don't you say something?

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You're getting me in trouble here.

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I'm trying to keep you out of trouble, Danny Boy.

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I better go out and come back in, because you lost me on the curve.

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You asked me how you ought to spend your money.

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I know you haven't saved a dime.

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And before you commit yourself to six years of payments,

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you ought to put a little something aside for your wife.

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What an emergency fund, like you got.

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I don't need no emergency fund.

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My wife, like you, has never been able to hold on to a dollar.

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So I set up a bank account.

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She doesn't even know about it.

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Each week I put away a little.

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Well, something ever happens, how's she even gonna know about it?

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You're a clue to him now.

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Anything ever happens to me, you let her know it's there.

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And you ought to set something aside for your wife, just in case.

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I'm young, I'm a good driver, nothing's gonna happen.

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You never know when it's your time.

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Now you're spooking me worse than Gloria.

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And all this is off the subject, what about my truck?

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What about your family?

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That's dispatch.

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Better check in.

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Yeah, you go make your call.

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I'm wasting music here.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, no, I can make Jersey City by phone no problem.

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Yeah, I'll call you when I get in.

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Tariah, Barney, make my car ready.

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Yeah, I got it Barney.

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Pass it along.

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Well, where'd he go?

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Who?

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What do you mean, who, how?

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Dan, I don't know how to put this, but um...

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Hal's rig was in a crack up, Dan, at the I-80.

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It was real bad.

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Whoa, what are you talking about?

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He was at the table with me.

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I just got the call.

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Hal didn't make it.

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I'm really sorry, I know how close you two were.

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I'm sorry.

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Poor guy.

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He's been acting odd ever since he got here.

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At that moment, I needed to make sense out of something that made no sense at all.

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The whole afternoon, Gloria was acting like Hal was invisible.

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Maybe he was, to everyone but me.

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But just like Hal asked, I let his wife know about the money he'd put away.

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Sure enough, she had no idea it even existed, just like Hal said.

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As for me, let's just say I finally got my priorities straight,

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thanks to my weekly visit with my driving buddy.

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Was Dan actually visited by the spirit of Hal, or was it just his overtired mind playing tricks on him?

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But if Dan was only imagining things, how could he have possibly known about Hal's secret bank account?

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Was it something Hal told him years ago that became part of a hallucination?

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But if Dan was hallucinating, who ate Hal's food?

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If we're seeking the truth, should we stop here, or should we keep on trucking?

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The charm of a music box.

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These intricately crafted objects can cost anything from a few dollars to thousands.

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But in most cases, the importance of these items is found in their sentimental value.

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Music boxes are often special gifts given to us by special people.

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Ellen Lippert has an emotional attachment to a music box she's never owned.

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She's only seen it in a movie.

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The movie had a happy ending, but the ending in store for Ellen is completely unpredictable.

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Some things just can't be explained.

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Take the vacation that changed my life.

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It was my birthday week, so I decided to visit my best friend Gail in California.

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Gail and I had been close since grade school, and I hadn't seen her since she moved away several years ago.

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Eating lunch in the sunshine in February.

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Ellen, promise me you won't let this get out to the people back home.

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We'll be overrun here.

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My little secret.

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This town really is paradise.

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Yeah, I love it.

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Ladies?

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Oh, thank you.

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Hey.

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The only thing that would make it more perfect is if I was here with...

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A guy.

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Wow, how politically incorrect.

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Sad, but true.

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I love you, bye.

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I think you're still carrying the torch for Ted.

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Ted.

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It's been six months, Al.

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It's...

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It's over.

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Really?

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We've been friends since we were kids, and I gotta tell ya.

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That's about the most pathetic, least convincing denial I've ever heard.

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When we were still seeing each other, I don't think either Ted or I truly appreciated the good times we had together.

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He's really a terrific guy.

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It's just sometimes we get into these stupid arguments over nothing.

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Maybe it was me, I don't know.

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Anyway, that's why we broke up another stupid argument.

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What was it about?

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That's the really funny thing I don't even remember.

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Have you been out dating much?

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No one's serious.

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Whatever happened to old Ted?

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I wish I knew.

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He took the first out of town job he could get.

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Something in sales I heard.

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Anything to get away from me, I guess.

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Hey, if you guys argued as much as you say.

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It wasn't all like that.

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Well, still.

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You're probably better to be rid of the guy.

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I guess.

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Unbelievable!

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What?

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This music box.

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Ten-

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Ten- I looked everywhere for one just like it.

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I first saw it in this movie, a Charles Bronson film, believe it or not.

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Charles Bronson? Was there like a bomb in the music box?

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The little dancers shoot tiny machine guns?

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It was actually a romance called From Noon Till 3.

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Charles Bronson spends a few romantic hours with this young widow played by, what's her name?

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His wife?

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Jill Ireland.

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That's her.

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Anyway, they dance together in this movie and the woman owned a music box just like this one.

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With a dancing couple on it.

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A supplement?

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You get a mealtere, I'd.

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Ted and I hit probably every antique store and jewelry shop in Baltimore trying to find one of these.

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Never had me luck.

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Honey, Ted's out of your life.

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Don't torture yourself. Forget the music box, okay?

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It's all settled.

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Good.

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I'm gonna buy it.

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What do you think?

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A little birthday gift from me to me.

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If you've sunk to buying yourself birthday presents, you definitely need a boyfriend.

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Charming piece, isn't it?

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Unfortunately, it doesn't work.

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The figurines, they don't dance anymore.

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Take my advice on this one, hun.

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You buy a broken music box, it's only gonna remind you of a broken romance.

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Probably right.

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Thanks.

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I know just what somebody in your frame of mind needs right now.

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What?

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There's an ice cream parlor in the next vlog.

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Ellen, you have to admit I was right.

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Didn't you feel like a new woman?

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Gotta be the double-punch mocha.

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00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:30,440
Gotta be.

261
00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,440
I'm about to do something really stupid.

262
00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:36,440
Does this have some connection with Ted by any chance?

263
00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:43,440
Ellen, I don't know if you've noticed, but whenever Ted comes into the conversation, the word stupid pops up a lot.

264
00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,440
I'm gonna buy the music box.

265
00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,440
Well, maybe not.

266
00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:55,440
Oh, I'm so, so sorry, dear.

267
00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:58,440
The music box was just sold.

268
00:14:58,440 --> 00:14:59,440
You're kidding.

269
00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,440
I told the young man it didn't work.

270
00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,440
And I told her it didn't matter.

271
00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:09,440
Hello, Ellen.

272
00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,440
Hello, Ted.

273
00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,440
Hello, Ted.

274
00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,440
Gail, I don't think you've met...

275
00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,440
This is unbelievable.

276
00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,440
I'm sorry to have a chance to get a gift for Aunt.

277
00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,440
That birthday.

278
00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:43,440
It's perfect. It's the best present I've ever gotten.

279
00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,440
I'm so sorry.

280
00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:02,440
Like I always say, some things just can't be explained.

281
00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,440
Is this a romance rekindled by the fates?

282
00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,440
Or is there a more cynical explanation?

283
00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:19,440
Perhaps Ellen's girlfriend Gail set up the entire chance encounter with Ted.

284
00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,440
But did she plant the music box too?

285
00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,440
And how do you explain the broken music box suddenly playing?

286
00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:30,440
Does this story have a couple reunited by the waltzing figures on a music box real?

287
00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,440
Or are we just dancing around the truth?

288
00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:39,440
We'll tell you whether this story is true or false at the end of our show.

289
00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:45,440
Next, a pawn shop becomes the scene of a nightmare on Beyond Belief, fact or fiction.

290
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Storefront symbols. The barbershop.

291
00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,440
A drugstore. A pawn shop.

292
00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:58,440
Now while the first two are familiar to most of us, the pawn shop is less widely understood.

293
00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:03,440
Here's how it works. If you need a quick cash loan, you take something of value, say your $300 watch.

294
00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:07,440
A pawn broker might give you, say, $100 cash for your watch.

295
00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,440
He keeps the watch, you get a claim ticket.

296
00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:17,440
To get your watch back, you must come back in the agreed upon time, pay back the $100 plus an additional finance charge.

297
00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:23,440
If you fail to return in the agreed upon time limit, the pawn broker is free to sell your watch to someone else.

298
00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,440
This whole exchange process is very important to our next story.

299
00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:31,440
A story in which a young man named Ron Morrison finds he's holding a ticket with fate.

300
00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:40,440
I never thought I'd be doing business with a pawn shop, but I got myself into bad money trouble.

301
00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:46,440
So I pawned the watch my folks gave me for college graduation. Probably cost them $1,000.

302
00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,440
All I got for it was $150 cash.

303
00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:53,440
Lucky for me, my buddy Jerry came through with the money so I could get the watch out of Hawk.

304
00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:58,440
Here you go. $150. Still hot from the ATM machine.

305
00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:00,440
You saved my butt man.

306
00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,440
Gee, here I thought I was saving your watch.

307
00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:06,440
Come on, let's get this over with.

308
00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:13,440
Hi, how are ya?

309
00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:16,440
Um, I'm here for a pickup.

310
00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,440
There you go.

311
00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:23,440
Yeah, nice watch. I remember it.

312
00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:25,440
You do remember it, come on, what are you talking about?

313
00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:29,440
Fella came in and bought it. Yesterday it says here.

314
00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:33,440
What? No, there must be some kind of mistake.

315
00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,440
Can you check the number again? See, I called two days ago for an extension.

316
00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,440
Hey kid, you can have all the extensions you want as long as the item isn't sold.

317
00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,440
But that's not what you told me over the phone.

318
00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,440
Look at the back of your ticket, it shows you how we operate.

319
00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:51,440
Obviously there's been a misunderstanding on your part.

320
00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,440
Wait, are we talking about the same watch? Can you just check the number one more time?

321
00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:58,440
Look, here's all the watches I got. You see your watch anyway?

322
00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:04,440
My gosh.

323
00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:09,440
You lied to me, man. You know, I called and I asked you very specifically about my watch.

324
00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:12,440
Hey, his phone rings all day long. Maybe I talked with you, maybe I didn't.

325
00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,440
So now you're calling me a liar, huh?

326
00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:16,440
How would we settle this like gentlemen?

327
00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,440
But I'll handle this guy, Jer.

328
00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:22,440
Look, you were late with your payment, the watch got sold, that's the way the business works.

329
00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:23,440
End of story.

330
00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,440
This is not the end of the story and you better believe that.

331
00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:32,440
Kid, all I have to do is push three little numbers, 911 and the cops are hauling you downtown.

332
00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:35,440
Right. Come on, man, forget this jerk, let's get out of here.

333
00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,440
Listen to your friend, he's giving you good advice. He's right.

334
00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,440
Yeah, he's right about you being a jerk.

335
00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,440
This isn't over, old man.

336
00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:49,440
How am I going to explain this to my parents?

337
00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,440
I think you were just ripped off, man.

338
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:53,440
Yeah, well, I need to get that watch.

339
00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:57,440
See that sign? You know what those mean?

340
00:19:57,440 --> 00:19:59,440
Two to one, you won't get it back.

341
00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:01,440
Yeah, well, you know what? We'll see about that.

342
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,440
The next day, I went back to the pawn shop.

343
00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,440
There was a guy with a red cap checking out a gun.

344
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,440
You again. I told you, kid, I ain't got your watch.

345
00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,440
Yeah, well, let's have a look. Why don't you open the safe?

346
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:20,440
That's a good idea.

347
00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,440
I probably got lots of other goodies in there, too.

348
00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,440
Do what the man says. Open the safe!

349
00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,440
All right, the one that's the watch you got, you can have anything you want.

350
00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,440
Just don't use that thing.

351
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,440
Must really be something. I could use me a fancy watch.

352
00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:36,440
Watch.

353
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,440
Whoa! Man, then what happened?

354
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,440
What happened? What happened is I woke up.

355
00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:54,440
I was sweating like a pig.

356
00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,440
Your dream was so real, man.

357
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,440
What do you think it means?

358
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:00,440
Your dream?

359
00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,440
Yeah, I don't know.

360
00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,440
Don't eat spicy food before you go to bed.

361
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,440
It was just a dream. It doesn't have to mean anything.

362
00:21:10,440 --> 00:21:12,440
This was more than a dream.

363
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,440
It was too real.

364
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,440
I mean, you know what I think?

365
00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:20,440
I think that pawnbrook lied to me.

366
00:21:21,440 --> 00:21:24,440
I think it's some kind of scam. I think he never sold my watch.

367
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:28,440
Because of your dream? Sounds like a long chat to me.

368
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:29,440
Maybe.

369
00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,440
But if it's a long shot, it's the only shot I got, right?

370
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,440
I'll be right back.

371
00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,440
It was exactly like my dream.

372
00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,440
Well, it's good to see you.

373
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,440
What's this?

374
00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,440
Open the safe and get my watch.

375
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,440
And I still got it.

376
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:10,440
When you get the safe open, give me the watch and all the other goodies you got in there.

377
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,440
Back out of here! You're not stealing my watch!

378
00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,440
I'll bet that thing ain't even loaded.

379
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,440
Two to one, you're wrong.

380
00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,440
I'll be right back.

381
00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,440
Thanks, pal.

382
00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:08,440
But you know, there's no shells in this shotgun.

383
00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,440
I know.

384
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,440
I know.

385
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,440
Just like I know you still got my watch.

386
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:29,440
Even though I was right about the watch, I'd never done anything as stupid as grabbing that shotgun.

387
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,440
I was lucky. Very lucky.

388
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:38,440
From now on, I'm gonna keep out of money trouble during the day, and try not to dream at night.

389
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,440
I'm not.

390
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,440
From Adam and Eve to today's best-selling novels, the world's oldest story is Boy Meets Girl.

391
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:18,440
That's why papers are always filled with personal listings and people seeking relationships.

392
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,440
In addition, video cassettes where you can meet potential mates on tape,

393
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:27,440
and of course the internet, where you can now surf for a partner on a hop and a motor.

394
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:30,440
Sandy Boatman, the author of The World's Oldest Story,

395
00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,440
is the director of the film, and the director of the film,

396
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,440
and the director of the film, and the director of the film,

397
00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,440
and the motor. Sandy Boatman is running out of hope.

398
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,440
She's tried every method of finding the right guy,

399
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,440
and now she's prepared to seek him out in ways that are beyond belief.

400
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,440
I don't know how I get myself in these situations.

401
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,440
It's not that I'm desperate.

402
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,440
Well, okay. I guess I am a little desperate.

403
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,440
Man trouble.

404
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,440
Here's the deal. Relationships just don't seem to work for me.

405
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,440
At least not for very long.

406
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,440
I've read all the self-help stuff, done couples counseling,

407
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:31,440
worked on my inner child, meditated, and prayed in every religion known to man.

408
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,440
All without a bit of luck.

409
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:37,440
Then my friend Marcia had a strange suggestion.

410
00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,440
She recommended this woman.

411
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:44,440
Sort of a, now don't laugh, a gypsy fortune teller.

412
00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,440
Her name was the strangest thing of all.

413
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,440
Mrs. Hatchigan.

414
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:50,440
Hello.

415
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:51,440
Hi.

416
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,440
You've come a long way.

417
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,440
Yes. Yes, I have. How did you know?

418
00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,440
Out of state license plates.

419
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,440
Mum.

420
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,440
You were the youngest in your family.

421
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,440
All sisters.

422
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:11,440
That's right.

423
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,440
All married.

424
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,440
Except you.

425
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:21,440
No ring.

426
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:22,440
No ring.

427
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,440
You were engaged last year.

428
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:31,440
It didn't work.

429
00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:33,440
It never seems to work.

430
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:35,440
I'm starting to believe.

431
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,440
I'm afraid really, that I'm never going to find the right guy.

432
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:43,440
That's why I came here.

433
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,440
To have you see what you can see.

434
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:50,440
Will I find him?

435
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:52,440
No.

436
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:56,440
Wow.

437
00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,440
That is because he is destined to find you.

438
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:05,440
You've been too busy looking to be found.

439
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,440
When she said that, so much seemed to make sense.

440
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,440
My own desperate search for the right man.

441
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:14,440
Forcing relationships.

442
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,440
Trying so hard to make something work.

443
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,440
It wasn't the answer I was hoping to get.

444
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,440
But it put everything into focus.

445
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,440
I was too intent on finding love.

446
00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,440
Instead of keeping my heart open.

447
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,440
And allowing love to find me.

448
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:30,440
Several days later, I was driving out to the country

449
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,440
to visit my friend Marsha.

450
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,440
To tell her all the details of my talk with Mrs. Hatchigan.

451
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,440
Including the best news of all.

452
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:40,440
That Mrs. Hatchigan saw someone special coming in.

453
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,440
And that Mrs. Hatchigan was the one who was going to find me.

454
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:47,440
That Mrs. Hatchigan saw someone special coming into my life very soon.

455
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,440
I didn't realize just how soon.

456
00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,440
I'd never picked up a hitchhiker in my life.

457
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,440
Sorry, but this guy was gorgeous.

458
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,440
Besides, here was a fella trying to find someone for a ride.

459
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,440
Maybe I was the one he was looking to find.

460
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,440
You saved my life.

461
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,440
I borrowed my buddy's car.

462
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,440
Can't change the flat.

463
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,440
There's no tire iron for the jack.

464
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:21,440
I'm Chad.

465
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,440
Sandy.

466
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,440
How you doing?

467
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:25,440
Hi.

468
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,440
I could check the trunk.

469
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,440
That'd be great.

470
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,440
Let me just park.

471
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,440
Really appreciate it.

472
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,440
Thanks.

473
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,440
I think it's under the mat here.

474
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:13,440
What are you doing?

475
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,440
Just checking to see if you got a cell phone so I can call my friend.

476
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:18,440
I'm really late.

477
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,440
You don't mind, do you?

478
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,440
Give me my purse back.

479
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,440
I'd like to go now.

480
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,440
I can't do that.

481
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,440
You're ruining all my plans.

482
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,440
Get in the trunk.

483
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,440
I'm gonna take a little ride.

484
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,440
Where you going?

485
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,440
I'm gonna take a little ride.

486
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,440
Shouldn't have done that.

487
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,440
Now I'm gonna have to punish you.

488
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:57,440
No, it's this way.

489
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,440
Hey!

490
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,440
Hey!

491
00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,440
Don't worry.

492
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,440
We got a cell phone. Call 911.

493
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,440
I'm sorry.

494
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,440
You sure you're gonna be okay?

495
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,440
Yeah, I'll be fine.

496
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,440
I am fine. Thanks to you.

497
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,440
I'm just glad I found you in time.

498
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,440
What did you just say?

499
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,440
I'm glad I found you.

500
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,440
Yeah, you did find me, didn't you?

501
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:50,440
I'm sorry. I think...

502
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,440
Am I missing something here?

503
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,440
No, no. I, um...

504
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:55,440
It's nothing.

505
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:56,440
I don't know your name.

506
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:57,440
Oh, Steve.

507
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:58,440
Sandy.

508
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,440
Steve Hatchigan.

509
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,440
Hatchigan. Really?

510
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,440
No, it's a...

511
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,440
It's a pretty unusual name.

512
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,440
Actually, I've heard it before.

513
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,440
No kidding.

514
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,440
No kidding.

515
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,440
Do you want...

516
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:20,440
Want to get a cup of coffee?

517
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,440
I'd love to get a cup of coffee.

518
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:23,440
Yeah?

519
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:24,440
Yeah.

520
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,440
This experience went way beyond coincidence.

521
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:31,440
It was Steve's mother who had predicted I would find the perfect man.

522
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,440
I mean that he would find me.

523
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,440
Thank you, Mrs. Hatchigan.

524
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,440
Was this just a chance meeting?

525
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:45,440
Or is it possible that the hiker had seen Sandy getting a reading from his mother?

526
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,440
Maybe he was waiting for the right moment to introduce himself,

527
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:52,440
but then how could he have known exactly where Sandy was going to be?

528
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,440
It wasn't her idea to go into the woods.

529
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,440
Now, it's your job to judge this tale.

530
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,440
Is it a story of boy meets girl?

531
00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,440
Or fact meets fiction?

532
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:13,440
The events are contained in the Horn of Death on Beyond Belief, fact or fiction.

533
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:19,440
It's not always easy to guess exactly what certain items are used for.

534
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:21,440
Take this device.

535
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:26,440
Looks like a miniature space capsule, or perhaps a small torpedo.

536
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:30,440
But it's actually an early air conditioning unit for automobiles.

537
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:36,440
This part would fit into your open window while the fan unit would circulate the air inside your car.

538
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,440
How about this?

539
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,440
Could be a stapler, a hole puncher.

540
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,440
In fact, it's a cherry pitter.

541
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,440
One easy step and you can eat a cherry that's both pit and worry free.

542
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:51,440
The object in our next story is a bit more exotic.

543
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,440
It's used a bit more unusual.

544
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,440
It's about to enter the world of antique dealer Hugh Santelli,

545
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:02,440
and exactly what this piece is used for is about to be discovered by both Mr. Santelli and you.

546
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,440
I had thought I'd given up all belief in the supernatural as a young lad.

547
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,440
And as an adult, the profession I've chosen doesn't allow the indulgence of such things.

548
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,440
I am forced to deal in cold reality.

549
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,440
You see, I'm a mortician.

550
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,440
Hugh Santelli, dear fellow, ran an antique shop next door.

551
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:28,440
A boisterous gentleman perhaps, but I was pleased to call this colorful man my friend.

552
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,440
I clearly remember the day and exact manner our little wager began.

553
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:35,440
You got it?

554
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:36,440
I got it.

555
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:37,440
You got it?

556
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:38,440
I got it.

557
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:39,440
Don't say you got it.

558
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:40,440
I got it already.

559
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:42,440
A number of new pieces I see.

560
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,440
Hey, how you doing?

561
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:45,440
Very well, thank you.

562
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:46,440
Good.

563
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,440
Yeah, yeah, the Peterson estate.

564
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,440
I bought everything that was unlocked down.

565
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:51,440
Peterson?

566
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,440
Oh yes, I handle the funeral arrangements.

567
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,440
We make a good partnership, huh?

568
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,440
You bury them and I pick up all the pieces.

569
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:02,440
And I just don't make pieces of this quality anymore, huh?

570
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,440
Hey, I picked up an item you might be interested in.

571
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:06,440
A carved umbrella stand.

572
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:07,440
Oh, there!

573
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,440
Well, how's that for luck, huh?

574
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,440
One of the items I'm about to toss out almost does me in.

575
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,440
You have no idea what this is, do you?

576
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,440
No, not the foggy list.

577
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,440
I've got the shade over there.

578
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:22,440
Here.

579
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:27,440
It still works.

580
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,440
But I don't have an orchestra in the country that could use one.

581
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,440
This is not a musical instrument, Santelli.

582
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,440
This is a death horn.

583
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,440
Once commonly used in my profession.

584
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,440
Run that by me again?

585
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:40,440
A death horn.

586
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,440
Decades ago, before sophisticated medical procedures were widely known,

587
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:48,440
it was not unheard of for people to be mistakenly buried.

588
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:53,440
Often they were comatose patients who simply showed no signs of life.

589
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,440
Where does the horn sit?

590
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,440
Many people had a fear of premature burial.

591
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,440
So they had one of these installed in the casket,

592
00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:02,440
reaching from the burial vault to the surface of the ground.

593
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:03,440
You're kidding.

594
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,440
The theory went, if you wake up in your coffin,

595
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,440
you give one of these a toot and keep tooting till help arrives.

596
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,440
Of course, modern medicine has made these items as useless as a buggy whip.

597
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,440
Still, as an oddity of my profession,

598
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,440
I could take it off your hands and say, uh...

599
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:21,440
$25.

600
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,440
You gotta be kidding.

601
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,440
This little baby's off the wall enough for me to sell to one of my...

602
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,440
How shall I say this, eccentric buyers?

603
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,440
Oh, good theory, perhaps.

604
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,440
But if you tell them what this item was really used for,

605
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,440
I'm afraid it'll be a hard sell indeed.

606
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,440
You forget who you're talking to.

607
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,440
I know only too well the curse of all things associated with the death trade.

608
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,440
I needn't remind you of my dating history.

609
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:49,440
Hey, if I could sell antique bed warmers to rich old ladies with central heating,

610
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,440
I could sell this puppy.

611
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,440
A foolhardy boast, I assure you.

612
00:35:57,440 --> 00:35:59,440
Perhaps you'd care to back it up with a little wager.

613
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,440
Wager?

614
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:02,440
Happy to.

615
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:06,440
I'll tell you what, if I don't sell this by the end of the week, it's yours.

616
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,440
Let's toss in dinner just to make it interesting.

617
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:10,440
Deal.

618
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,440
One week from tonight.

619
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,440
Dinner at...

620
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,440
Piatis.

621
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,440
I trust you like Italian food.

622
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,440
Don't eat your noodles before they're cooked.

623
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,440
So I'm telling you, it went about the business of trying to win our wager.

624
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:39,440
Mr Yamaguchi, good to see you.

625
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:46,440
I have this very special unique item that was used here in America years ago in the funeral trade.

626
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,440
What about this nice stagecoach?

627
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,440
But this is one of a kind.

628
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:56,440
The clients will adore it.

629
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:57,440
Solid brass.

630
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,440
It's called a death horn.

631
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,440
This is beautiful.

632
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:11,440
See, in olden days, these were installed in caskets when people were sometimes buried prematurely.

633
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:15,440
And if you woke up, buried alive, all you did was...

634
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:18,440
What do you think?

635
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,440
Hey, price is not a factor.

636
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,440
I'm willing to accept any reasonable offer, anything.

637
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:28,440
No sale?

638
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:30,440
See you tomorrow.

639
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:31,440
Night.

640
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:33,440
Night.

641
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:37,440
Hi, hon.

642
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,440
I'm afraid you're on your own tonight.

643
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:41,440
Yeah, I lost a bet.

644
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,440
Gotta take a lock with the dinner.

645
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,440
Well, how do you think I feel?

646
00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:48,440
Hey, it'll be fun.

647
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,440
Yeah, I'll be home as soon as I can.

648
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:52,440
I love you.

649
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:53,440
I love you.

650
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:20,440
Santé?

651
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:24,440
Santéli?

652
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:28,440
It was odd.

653
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:31,440
I had talked to Santéli not half an hour before.

654
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,440
I proposed meeting him at the restaurant.

655
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,440
He suggested we meet here at the store and drive together.

656
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:42,440
If he had changed his mind, why wasn't the door locked?

657
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:48,440
Santéli.

658
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:50,440
Santéli.

659
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:52,440
Is that you?

660
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:04,440
You!

661
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:09,440
Dear God, though he still had a pulse, I felt I was looking into the face of a dead man.

662
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,440
Yes, I need an ambulance.

663
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,440
1800 river side, Santéli's antiques.

664
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:17,440
I couldn't figure it out.

665
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,440
He was Santéli in the middle of the floor, but unmistakably I'd heard the sound of...

666
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,440
The paramedics arrived just in time.

667
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,440
Somehow, the death horn had done its job.

668
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:43,440
If the horn hadn't blown, Hugh Santéli would surely have died on the floor of his shop.

669
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,440
But what made the horn sound when nobody was around to blow it?

670
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,440
Is it possible that some air current from a vent caused the sound?

671
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,440
If so, how could it have been so loud and so strong?

672
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:59,440
Could it be that Hugh Santéli telepathically willed the sound to save his own life?

673
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:06,440
Or did the horn itself summon some human-like spirit to perform the job it was built to do?

674
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,440
Is this story of the possessed antique based on fact?

675
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,440
Or are writers just blowing their own horn?

676
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:24,440
Next, you'll find out which of our stories are true and which are false when beyond belief, fact or fiction returns.

677
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:31,440
Now it's time to find out which of our stories tonight are inspired by actual events and which are totally made up.

678
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,440
How about the truck stop that was visited by the invisible spirit?

679
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:37,440
Was this true or false?

680
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,440
I'd say it's time to get your priorities straight.

681
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:44,440
So you're leaning towards a towing package. You know how a hunch would go that way?

682
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,440
Save your money, that thing hasn't been working for a week.

683
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:49,440
Gloria won dance for the road.

684
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:51,440
Watch it, Buster!

685
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:53,440
I didn't do nothing.

686
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,440
I'm working on one of my mind-grain. You picked the wrong day to mess with me.

687
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,440
Gloria, I didn't mess with you. That was him.

688
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:02,440
Him?

689
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:07,440
You need to take some time off. And you need to keep your damn hands to yourself.

690
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,440
You think we created this story? You're right, it never happened.

691
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:21,440
What about the romantic story of the couple brought together by the mystical music box? Fact or fiction?

692
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:29,440
What do you think? A little birthday gift from me to me?

693
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:34,440
If you've sunk to buying yourself birthday presents, you definitely need a boyfriend.

694
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,440
Charming piece, isn't it?

695
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:43,440
Unfortunately, it doesn't work. The figurines, they don't dance anymore.

696
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:51,440
Take my advice on this one, hun. You buy a broken music box, it's only going to remind you of a broken romance.

697
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,440
Does this sound like one we made up? Not this time.

698
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,440
Our research shows it happened on the West Coast in 1995.

699
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:08,440
Let's take another look at the story of the young man in the pawn shop incident. True or false?

700
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:11,440
What's this?

701
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,440
Open the safe and get my watch. I know you still got it.

702
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:21,440
When you get the safe open, give me the watch and all the other goodies you got in there.

703
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,440
Back out of here! You're not stealing my watch!

704
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:36,440
I'll bet that thing ain't even a little bit.

705
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:38,440
Two to one, you're wrong.

706
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:43,440
Was this story of a man trapped in his own premonition based on a real happening?

707
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:48,440
According to our research, it happened in the Midwest around 1990. It's fact.

708
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:54,440
How did you judge the story of the young woman who found her prince charming in the most unexpected way?

709
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:56,440
Fact or fancy?

710
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:05,440
What are you doing?

711
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,440
Just checking to see if you got a cell phone so I can call my friend. I'm really late.

712
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:11,440
You don't mind, do you?

713
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:15,440
Give me my purse.

714
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:20,440
Give me my purse back. I'd like to go now.

715
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:23,440
I can't do that. It'll ruin all my plans.

716
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,440
Get in the truck. I'm gonna take a little ride.

717
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:29,440
What are you doing?

718
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:35,440
This story is based on a real event discovered by our research staff. It happened in Miami, Florida.

719
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:37,440
It's fact.

720
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:45,440
Let's take another look at the story of the antique dealer whose life was saved by an unusual object.

721
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,440
This is a death horn. Once commonly used in my profession.

722
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:51,440
Run that by me again?

723
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:56,440
A death horn. Decades ago, before sophisticated medical procedures were widely known,

724
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,440
it was not unheard of for people to be mistakenly buried.

725
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,440
Often they were comatose patients who simply showed no signs of life.

726
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:06,440
Where does the horn fit in?

727
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:11,440
Many people had a fear of premature burial, so they had one of these installed in the casket,

728
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:13,440
reaching from the burial vault to the surface of the ground.

729
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:15,440
Did you think this one really happened?

730
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:20,440
If you did, we whistled one right past you. It never happened. It's false.

731
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:29,440
Once again, we've demonstrated that fact and fiction are like two colors side by side in the same palette.

732
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,440
Dip the brush in one color at a time, and the result is a basic color.

733
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:39,440
Mix them together, and you end up with a combination whose color can only be described as beyond belief.

734
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:41,440
I'm Jonathan Frakes.

735
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:48,440
The stories entitled The Music Box, 2 to 1, and Damsel are true, based on firsthand research conducted by author Robert Traylans.

736
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,440
For Beyond Belief, Fact or Fiction, this is Don LaFontaine.

737
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:33,440
The Music Box