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Oh my gosh.

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I can see it moving right around in front of me.

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As soon as I saw it moving really quickly, I said,

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well, this is something different.

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Yeah, there it is.

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These things are flying all over me.

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Ready? Let's go!

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Looks like it's about to crash.

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Are you seeing it on the camera right now?

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Oh my gosh. Did you see that?

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Oh my gosh.

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There's a flying saucer.

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I'm getting a series of lights right there.

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Oh my gosh.

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What the heck is happening?

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Welcome back, everyone.

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Hey, Ben. How's it going?

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How are you guys doing?

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Good.

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Excited to be here.

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Well, guys, I'm excited to see what you have today.

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But I think we'll start with something that I brought.

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The Haunted Mansion.

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It's called the McPike Mansion.

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It was built in 1869,

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and it hasn't been lived in the past 60 years.

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Now, a group of ghost hunters led by Renee Cruz

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went through and videotaped something

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very strange in the cellar.

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This is what they got.

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Hey.

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Very strange.

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This is the wine cellar.

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Now, watch this mist that appears.

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It's like shift direction.

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Well, that's really strange.

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Like the mass seems to ricochet off the wall.

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Yeah, it changes direction, and it keeps doing that.

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It appeared in one room, then went to the next room.

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I'm thinking maybe if it's a group of people,

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they could have just been kicking up some dust.

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But when you look at it, dust clouds usually form

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in a circular pattern, and then they dissipate immediately.

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This actually seemed like it ricocheted,

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and it stayed in that same formation,

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and then just bounced somewhere else.

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It could be bugs of some sort.

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I've seen those gnats that kind of congregate

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into a little group, and they just fly around.

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You could definitely replicate it with natural elements,

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but could you replicate that movement?

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That's my question.

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Can we really replicate that movement?

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I don't think that easily.

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At one point, she walked into the thing,

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and she had a thermometer.

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It dropped from them in the 70s all the way down

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to between 8 and 15 degrees.

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And a lot of people say that ghostly entities

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could manifest as energy,

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and that could really account for the temperature change.

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This is a closed basement, and if there's no air currents,

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I don't know what that mist is.

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It's reappeared on more than one occasion.

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It's been videotaped on more than one occasion.

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People believe that the place is haunted.

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People are taking photographs,

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and figures are showing up in the windows that weren't there.

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There's orbs, there's lights.

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Some people have had their clothes tugged on,

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or felt like they were being touched.

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I think a haunted mansion is a perfect setting for a ghost hunt.

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From just speaking with Renee,

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she's a professor at a university.

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I think she does seem very credible.

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I think we should put it up on the list

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of things to highly consider today,

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and look at the other videos and see what else we have.

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I agree.

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All right, guys, so we're all familiar with cross circles, correct?

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Of course. Right.

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Well, this is a little different.

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This takes place a little outside of El Paso, Texas,

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on the sandbar of the Rio Grande River.

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This is a sand circle.

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The witness says he was walking around the river,

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and he saw light,

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land on the ground, and then take off.

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He went and checked it out, and this was the result.

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You can't even see any footprints.

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I mean, we're talking about sand,

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so if someone walked over and actually put that there,

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it would be difficult to cover up the footprints later.

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And it's really, really deep in the sand,

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so it's not like someone can go out and do this in a night.

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I would always hear about these UFO sightings out in West Texas,

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and sure enough, this is in far West Texas.

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As you know, one of my interests is seriology,

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and in doing a lot of research,

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I actually know about this case.

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And a few weeks after this was reported,

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a local artist named Michael Alfred came out and said,

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it was an art project.

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What happened to the guy's story?

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He said he saw a light touchdown.

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Was it an accident, or he's building upon the legend?

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He wanted his friends to come out and see it.

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I'm kind of disappointed, I hate to say it,

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because I like the case.

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I'm hoping it was something else.

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Bill, I hear that you have a really interesting case.

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I do have a good one.

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I have a triangle UFO,

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but this isn't just like a little fuzzy image.

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This is a really clear.

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Why don't you roll it and take a look at it?

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This is a really good one.

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Oh, I love it already.

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Look at this thing.

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Five lights on that?

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Yeah, it's going pretty fast.

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This was shot by Pablo Mejia,

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December 5th, 2008,

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in his backyard in Fremont, California.

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he's able to identify a lot of crafts,

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and he wasn't about to identify this.

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Did he hear any noise coming from the craft?

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but did I see a commercial airliner also in the video?

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That's four to the pier speed.

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Fremont is a very busy airspace.

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is nearby as well.

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which I find really interesting,

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is the NASA Ames Research Center.

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Do you want to see something even more compelling?

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Take a look at the next clip.

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The video has now been clarified.

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The speed on this thing is incredible.

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Pass all those markers.

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Those are stars.

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They're still.

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Guys, I'm hyped about this one.

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I really like it.

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It's got good video.

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It's got an available witness.

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I say we put this one up there also on the list.

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Jai-Yel, that leaves us with you.

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You have the final case today?

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I have a really fun case.

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It comes from Virginia.

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It happened in 09, so it's pretty fresh.

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And I am bringing Bigfoot back.

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A guy named Eric Cunningham was out in the woods,

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and he caught sight of something that actually turned

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a lot of the heads in the cryptozoology world

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and was believed to be genuine.

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Oh, look, look, look.

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Oh, you can see it in the back?

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where there's a lot of folklore that actually speaks

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about a creature like Bigfoot being in the area

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for hundreds and hundreds of years.

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because usually the Bigfoot sightings

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and lately, you know, people have been talking

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I'm curious about this video,

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because it's so far back.

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You can't really see any detail.

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I actually have a clarified version,

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so I think we should take a look at that

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Let's go any further.

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That seems too staged to me.

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It doesn't seem to be scared by the ATV at all.

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I'd like to pursue a Bigfoot case.

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I'm not sure if this is the one though.

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How does this stack up with those other cases

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This doesn't even compare.

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so many elements to it.

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I would love to go.

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McPike's my favorite today.

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I like chroma.

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This video is really compelling.

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We can't explain it, and there's a possibility

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of it being a hoax, it being military,

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being a weather balloon,

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or it actually being extraterrestrial.

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We've never had a video that had all of those factors

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and an incredible witness.

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Yeah, I would love to go to Fremont.

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Obviously, I want to do that case.

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So McPike and Fremont.

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So Gael, Larry, and Bill,

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you guys want to do Fremont?

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Yes, indeed.

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And she lawned myself into Austin

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and will go to McPike, Mike.

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Yeah, let's do this.

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Okay, let's get to it.

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Out in Illinois, guys.

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It's one of the most haunted cities in America.

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Not only that, but one of the most haunted spots

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in America is located right here.

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McPike mansion.

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Henry McPike raised his family there.

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He had at least two wives, a few children.

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And it sounds like a lot of strange things are going on now.

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When I think of a haunted mansion,

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this is exactly how I pictured it.

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Definitely.

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I mean, the architecture is phenomenal.

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It has three floors.

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Welcome to McPike mansion.

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Ben, nice to meet you.

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Hi, I'm Cheela.

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Thanks for having us.

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Pleasure.

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Nice to meet you too, Austin.

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So is Henry at home?

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I think he is.

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Do you mind giving us a tour?

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I don't mind at all.

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Excellent.

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I'm going to take you guys into the room that's known as the Sad Room.

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This was Henry's room.

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Are you all right?

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You doing OK?

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Yeah, I'm fine.

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I just got my head.

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I kind of like everything.

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What kind of day glow?

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Kind of real quick.

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What Austin's feeling right now with a dizzy-like headedness?

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Has anyone else come into this room and felt that way?

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My friend Sue Brown, when she comes in here,

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that happens frequently for her when she comes up here.

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You all right to finish the tour?

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Good.

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All right, cool.

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Come on, we'll go into this room way in the back.

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As far as the deja vu, once my friend Sue and I were standing at that window

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kind of looking out, talking.

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And I just felt like I had done that with her before.

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Are you guys ready to go to the cellar?

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Coming up on Fact or Faked Paranormal Files.

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They are flying and crawling all over me.

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Are you seeing anything on the camera right now?

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Oh my gosh, did you see that?

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Yeah, there it is.

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Hey, it looks like it's about to crash.

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Alton, Illinois.

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Home of the famous McPike mansion.

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We're really hoping that we can get out there

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and replicate something like we saw in the video.

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Are you guys ready to go to the cellar?

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This is the Baltic Wine Cellar.

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Wow, so this is where Renee Cruz's video was shot.

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The mist started out there in the hallway.

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Oh my gosh, okay. I'm recording. I am on record.

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I was in the hall. She walked into it and I'm thinking in my head.

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Wow, this is a hatch of my day. It's very humid. It's 100 degrees.

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What are we all excited about here?

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But this mist moved from place to place.

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Disappointed, reappeared.

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It wasn't just a little bitty mist.

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It was a big mist.

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It was really something else.

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We got a lot to cover and you gave us a whole lot of information.

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Alright, thank you, Mike.

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Thank you.

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Sharon is a really nice lady and she took a lot of time explaining to us

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the history of this mansion.

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We're hoping that while we're here, we can actually find some scientific proof

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or evidence of our own to go along with those stories.

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I brought the anemometer.

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Because you guys know one of the prevalent theories was that there perhaps was some air current

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or something was picking up the dust and stuff here.

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So I think I'm just going to do a quick reading and see if we're getting any air flow currents.

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Sounds good.

336
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Okay, I'm not seeing any air current flow as of yet,

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but what I'm thinking is that if you look on the walls here,

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this masonry work is really old.

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I mean, look at that stuff. It crumbles right off.

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These little fine granules.

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Plus the dirt that we're standing on, I think we have our dust.

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Well, I think us trying to replicate it on our own, using perfect conditions,

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lets us know with the elements that are here if it could have been a natural occurrence.

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Alright, let's do it.

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Alright guys, let's get this dust cloud experiment started.

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Well, you've got the camera and stuff.

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And Austin, I think good place for you is to set up with our shop vac.

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This shop vac will help give us the ideal air flow.

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We can take this fuller's earth and lay it right across the top.

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The reason we're using fuller's earth is because it's very dry.

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We're trying to create the most ideal conditions to see if we can create a dust cloud.

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See how close we can get to the actual video.

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Well, I'm down here guys with the camera.

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I'm ready to go.

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I double checked the footage and the framing that I have right here is exactly what I see in the footage from Renee Cruz.

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Okay, lights off.

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Then three, two, one.

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Oh, there it is. I see the sword.

359
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Wow, that is really starting to look like the video, isn't it?

360
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Okay, lights shut off for a second. Come down here.

361
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How did it look?

362
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I didn't honestly expect that much movement.

363
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I didn't either.

364
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I really didn't expect it to be able to come in and almost make a circular pattern very similar to what we saw in the video.

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You already did notice also in the original video there were five different people.

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And they're all moving around.

367
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Exactly.

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The one thing that really is still bothering me about this though is look, we just shut that off.

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It's been a little while now and it's still hanging in the air.

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And what we saw in the video was more concentrated.

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And it moves somewhat like a living organism would.

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And I know that we talked about one of the big theories being that it's a swarm of insects.

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So what I've gone ahead and done is scheduled a studio offsite so that we can have a controlled experiment in a controlled environment

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and see if we can recreate what that video looks like using living organisms.

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So the way that we've designed the insect test is that we've got 10,000 insects.

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We've set up a plexiglass environment that is 8 feet by 6 feet by 6 feet.

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I've gone ahead and thrown in a background that looks very similar to the brick cellar background.

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I have my IR camera set up.

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We're going to throw the insects in there, shut off the lights, and then we're going to stimulate their movement with a flashlight.

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That will also give us that same flashlight ery movement just like we missed in the video did.

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Alright Ben, you ready?

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Yep.

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Alright, in three, two, one, release.

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Oh my gosh, look at them.

385
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That is insane.

386
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This is crazy guys.

387
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I mean they're really swarming.

388
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You know what, they are swarming.

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But in the video it all moves one direction at the same time and then changes direction at the same time.

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And these are more of like a side fan kind of a tornado effect.

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They're moving as a mass but at different angles all the time.

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Check it out.

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Look at this.

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Look at that.

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There is someone walking through this form of insects.

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So that probably has an effect on their movement.

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We need some human interaction.

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I think so.

399
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Yep.

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One of us has to go inside the box.

401
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Austin?

402
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Austin?

403
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Oh my god, okay.

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I'm recording.

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I am on record.

406
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Yeah, oh boy, you can really see it now.

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In the original video, amongst the mist, there was human interaction.

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So, in the name of science, I'm about to take one for the team.

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Alright Austin.

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Oh yeah.

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Oh my god.

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Let's hit the lights.

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Ready?

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Lights off.

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Okay, are you seeing any swarms right in front of you there?

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No.

417
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The footage I'm getting from my angle looks absolutely nothing like the original footage.

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Definitely not swarming in the same way.

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Not following the same flight pattern.

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The human interaction does not really affect how they're moving.

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You can tell these things are flying and crawling all over me.

422
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As much fun as this is, I think it's time to move on to the next experiment.

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I'm out.

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Austin just came out of the box that we built and for a second there, when he got in there,

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there was a movement where we thought insects might form a mass very similar to the mist,

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but then they just started landing on him.

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And once we shut off the lights in the environment, they just clung to the walls.

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They just stopped moving.

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So we have to head back to the mansion and see what else we can figure out.

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So one of the prevalent theories is that this phenomenon is caused by a fog or mist.

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Fogs are generally created when the ambient temperature is brought to within four or five degrees of what's called the dew point.

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In order to help us get there, we're going to use the air conditioner to bring down the temperature and at some point kick in a humidifier.

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And hopefully we'll see a concentrated fog that will look something like we saw in the video.

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The air conditioner is set up, ready to pump this baby full of cold air.

435
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I have the humidifier over here and that's going to give us our warm air.

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Okay, three, two, one, go.

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All right.

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That is misty looking.

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Okay, we're definitely getting some.

440
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I see why someone would say this thing moved in an organic matter and followed someone.

441
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Ben, why don't you walk through it and see what happens to the fog?

442
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How's it looking?

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It doesn't look anything like the video.

444
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Look at it, it just lingers in here.

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In the video, it dissipates and almost goes.

446
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So the movement, I think we could actually do a fairly decent job replicating.

447
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It's the fact that it just lingers afterwards that that's what confuses me.

448
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I think that's the major shortcoming of this experiment is that we're getting a movement, we're getting a swirl,

449
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but it's just not disappearing, it's lingering in the air and it's not quite like a video.

450
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I think it's probably time we start looking to see if this could be something paranormal.

451
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Would you guys be interested in staying overnight here and doing a little investigating?

452
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Let's clear this place out.

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According to what Renee said, there seems to be activity on every single level of this house,

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so it's important that we set up our cameras on every single level as well, just in case.

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I think most importantly we got to get camera one in the cellar.

456
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Sounds good. Stay safe out there.

457
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We've gone ahead and set up cameras on every single floor of the house.

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Right here is the cellar.

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This is the hotspot of the entire house. A lot of activity has been recorded right here.

460
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Here's the first floor. This is covering the parlor and the rest of the home.

461
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This is the second floor.

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And this is the third floor.

463
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Okay Austin, we're on the first floor. How about you go up to the fourth?

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Perfect.

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And work your way down and work my way up.

466
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Yep.

467
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Meet in the middle.

468
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Perfect.

469
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Call me, you should find anything.

470
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Alright.

471
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Alright.

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Wow.

473
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This place is just on the verge of falling apart.

474
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Alright, I'm at the top floor of the McPike mansion.

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What I'm going to be doing, I'm going to be a visual and audible check in every room as I sweep.

476
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I'm going to be checking any spikes in the magnetic field.

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I'm going to be looking for any fluctuations in temperature as well as I'm going to be taking a picture in every room

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because I want to see if I can capture anything that I possibly missed or couldn't see with the naked eye.

479
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This is device that measures electromagnetic fields and temperatures.

480
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Now, if somebody's here, but being on this wood, can you replicate the sound to let us know that you're here?

481
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Take a look at this.

482
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Look at the temperature readings.

483
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It was going from a constant 76 to a thousand 100 degrees.

484
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I've never had that problem with this meter before.

485
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Awesome.

486
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Awesome to see you.

487
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Go for a cheelan.

488
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I just heard something in the back room.

489
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It's not like a whisper.

490
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I couldn't make anything out.

491
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Are you seeing anything on the camera right now?

492
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Oh my gosh.

493
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Did you see that?

494
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I'll just let you know.

495
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Okay.

496
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They've gone ahead and set up cameras on every single floor of the house.

497
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000
This is the hotspot of the entire house.

498
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000
A lot of activity has been recorded right here.

499
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000
I just heard something in the back room.

500
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Are you seeing anything on the camera right now?

501
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:36,000
Oh my gosh, did you see that?

502
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,000
So guys, how's Fremont?

503
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Fremont was great.

504
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Fremont looked really good.

505
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Yeah.

506
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What about McPike?

507
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Well, McPike, if you remember in the video...

508
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I can see it changing directions.

509
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This mass seemed to have a certain motion about the engine.

510
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That's what we really tried to focus our experiments on.

511
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It's an old, dusty, condemned house, so we decided to see if this mass could have been swirling dust.

512
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We actually had to use a shop back and put it in reverse to blow things.

513
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So it's very noisy.

514
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And it actually dissipated equally throughout the whole room.

515
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It was very noisy.

516
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So it's very noisy.

517
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But speaking with the eyewitness, she actually said that she saw the fog appear as one entity, not dissipate through a room.

518
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So in order to test the next theory, I had the privilege of getting in a giant box filled with gnats and flies by the thousands.

519
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And believe me, it looked absolutely nothing like the video.

520
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They just don't swarm. All they really do is land on you and annoy the heck out of you.

521
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,000
So you couldn't get them to move in any unified direction?

522
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,000
I had no control over the X-X at all.

523
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:59,000
So the next thing that we thought about was what if it's another natural occurrence? What if it's mist?

524
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:06,000
The big issue was, again, we couldn't keep it as one entity. We couldn't keep it as one ball of mass.

525
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:15,000
So that left us wanting to explore more the paranormal explanation.

526
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,000
So we did a night investigation.

527
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,000
We put an IR cam in the cellar, and that's where the activity took place.

528
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000
And it actually caught some really interesting activity.

529
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:38,000
So of course I went in and investigated, see what was there, and the entire cellar was empty, guys. Completely empty.

530
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,000
So there was nothing that could have gone in front of that lens.

531
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:46,000
But again, this is an old, dilapidated mansion. It could have possibly have been just an insect.

532
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:54,000
After we had our own kind of strange experiences, Austin and I went back to EVPs.

533
00:28:54,000 --> 00:29:01,000
During the EVP, I asked the question, if someone is here, can you replicate the sound?

534
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:06,000
And I give three taps. Now listen very closely what you hear afterward.

535
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:16,000
If I bang on this wood, this table that was sitting here, can you replicate the sound?

536
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,000
Yeah? Yeah? Wow.

537
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:26,000
You hear it very faintly?

538
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,000
No, it was clear.

539
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,000
And in the end there was two, possibly three taps.

540
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,000
That's really good. That is cool.

541
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:39,000
I think you guys got great EVPs. As for the experiments, I mean you weren't able to replicate it exactly, but it was very similar.

542
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:45,000
I gotta tell you, I was there, and I saw the dust in the cellar. I think it was really dust.

543
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:54,000
We couldn't replicate the video, so I'm not saying it is not paranormal fog, but I do think with the perfect conditions it still could have been dust.

544
00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:01,000
Even if it was, I think we were really pretty successful in picking up at least some type of possible paranormal evidence.

545
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:06,000
The fact that I walked in, I felt like I was gonna pass out, Chilan's seeing stuff.

546
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:17,000
Others have been through the mansion on tours and investigations and have their own evidence, which leads me to believe it's quite possible that McPike Mansion does have paranormal activity.

547
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,000
Well done, guys.

548
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,000
Bill, tell us about Fremont. How'd it go for you guys?

549
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,000
Well, the Fremont UFO case was great. I have a triangle UFO.

550
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,000
But instead of like a little fuzzy image, this thing's pretty clear.

551
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,000
We got some really good results. Check this out.

552
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:59,000
Alright, guys, so we've made it to Fremont. We're in Northern California, and this is the exact area where this UFO was seen.

553
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:05,000
Pablo Mejia, who was filming in his backyard, captured it on video.

554
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:13,000
Pablo's really into UFOs. He's been trying to catch one for a while. On this particular night, he was able to find something.

555
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:20,000
We've got a lot of experiments that we can run, but first we have an eyewitness that really believes in the footage that he's captured.

556
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,000
Pablo, hey, how you doing on Bill?

557
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,000
Good, hi.

558
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,000
Nice to meet you.

559
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,000
Nice to meet you.

560
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:39,000
Piss. Quite a video you got there. We're really excited to talk to you about it.

561
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,000
Can you show us where you shot this video?

562
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Sure. Come on back.

563
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,000
So tell us about the night you shot the video.

564
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:59,000
Sure. I went out about ten minutes, and then I saw a commercial airplane over there, and I kind of zoomed in on it, and then I saw the craft flying above it, going straight that way.

565
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:06,000
And what you saw definitely looked very different than a normal airplane.

566
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,000
That's right. As soon as I saw it moving really quickly, I said, well, this is something different.

567
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,000
It was going a lot faster than a commercial plane and a private plane too.

568
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,000
Did you hear anything when you saw it?

569
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:23,000
Nope. I only heard the commercial plane, and then as it passed, I saw that other craft, and it didn't make any sounds.

570
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,000
Do you think that this is very well could be a UFO from extraterrestrial?

571
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000
No, it's a possibility.

572
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,000
So tell us about the setup this rig that you got on your camera.

573
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:43,000
It's just a regular consumer camcorder, and then I attached a night vision molecular to it, and I have a third generation which lets you see the stars pretty well.

574
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,000
Do you mind if we borrow the gear you use, your rig?

575
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,000
Sure.

576
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:51,000
Well, thank you so much, Pablo. We're going to go do some experiments right now.

577
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000
You're welcome.

578
00:32:54,000 --> 00:33:01,000
So we've got Pablo's camera, and so now we're going to head over to the testing location, and we're going to put some of these things we have into motion.

579
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:04,000
Alright, guys, well...

580
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:05,000
Looks like a good spot.

581
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,000
Yeah, it is a good spot.

582
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,000
Open field, away from everything.

583
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,000
That's right. Let's get to it.

584
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,000
Alright.

585
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000
So guys, we're at the first experiment.

586
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,000
The popular theory is that maybe it's a delta wing shaped kite.

587
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,000
Really?

588
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,000
It says five LEDs attached to it.

589
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,000
Okay.

590
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:38,000
So it seems simple enough to attach them to the five points, run it up, shoot it with the video, and see what it looks like.

591
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:45,000
You know what's interesting, guys, is that we're not going to have any reference point to employ force perspective.

592
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:52,000
So can we take something this small and make it look like something really large that's high up in the sky the way Pablo's video did?

593
00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:01,000
It could be something very large and far away, but who's to say that it's not something smaller and really close?

594
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:06,000
We've only got 30,000 feet, but maybe had a couple of dozen feet. We'll see what it looks like then.

595
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:09,000
So why don't we start our LEDs?

596
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,000
There you go, Larry. That's for you.

597
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000
Looking good, guys.

598
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,000
How far back do you want me to go?

599
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000
Oh, I'll tell you when. Just keep going.

600
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,000
Okay.

601
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:27,000
Alright, Bill, you stay right there. Me and Gael are going to walk back a little bit, let some string out, and I'll let you know when to let go.

602
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,000
Okay.

603
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,000
You better hurry.

604
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:33,000
It wants to fly.

605
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,000
Alright, ready? Let's go.

606
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,000
Oh my gosh.

607
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:55,000
The popular theory is that maybe it's a delta wing shaped kite. It wants to fly.

608
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,000
Alright, ready?

609
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,000
Flick up.

610
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:16,000
It looks good here. I can see all the lights in the triangular formation, but I can also see the kite.

611
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:25,000
The other thing is that it's just floating in one area, and we kind of need it to go from one end of frame to the other.

612
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,000
That's true.

613
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:35,000
In the original footage, we had an object that was zooming through the sky, and it was going from one side of the frame to the other.

614
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,000
With the kite, we're just not getting that.

615
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Larry, can you run a bit?

616
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,000
Okay.

617
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000
One, two, three, go, Larry.

618
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:51,000
It's kind of unstable. It's not rigid enough.

619
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Yeah, it looks like it's about to crash.

620
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,000
Yeah, I lost control of the wind gusts. They're unpredictable.

621
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000
Well, there goes our delta wing.

622
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000
I mean, when I got it up, there was a consistent wind.

623
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:16,000
After I got it up in the air, the wind would just disappear, and it would start to fall, and I would have to run with it.

624
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,000
And so I just couldn't keep running, and finally I stopped, and when there was no wind, it would fall.

625
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,000
I wish it would have worked, but it was just flying too erratic.

626
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000
It's just so susceptible to the winds.

627
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,000
I agree. I think it's time we bust out the big guns. You guys wait here.

628
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,000
The big guns.

629
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,000
The big guns.

630
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:39,000
I think this is going to do the trick.

631
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,000
I've been really excited about this one, actually.

632
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000
It's going to go a lot faster.

633
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:47,000
It's not going to be as erratic.

634
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,000
This thing can go up to 80 miles an hour.

635
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,000
Wow.

636
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,000
Really?

637
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Really 80?

638
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000
80 miles an hour. It has a distance of about five miles.

639
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,000
What's the altitude?

640
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:02,000
We can get it to about 400 feet, but we're not going to have to go that high because the lights are so close together.

641
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000
We're not going to have to take it that high.

642
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,000
I think the biggest advantage of this is just going to be able to have that control.

643
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,000
Can we generate a launch?

644
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Yeah, let's get it ready.

645
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,000
All right, guys, here we are to launch pad.

646
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,000
So, Bill, I'm actually going to have you toss it in the air for me.

647
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,000
You know, I'm not too comfortable with it.

648
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,000
One shot to get this right.

649
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,000
Yeah, if it drops, it could break and our experiment's over.

650
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,000
There's no back-back.

651
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,000
Why don't you guys step back and I'm going to do my best here.

652
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,000
I'm going to get a vantage point for all of this.

653
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,000
Over there? Okay.

654
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,000
Are you ready?

655
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:38,000
Three, two, one.

656
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:45,000
It worked.

657
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,000
It's looking pretty good, guys.

658
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,000
It could break out some of the definition.

659
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Look at it. You can see the lights.

660
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,000
The only difficult thing is actually keeping it in frame.

661
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,000
Well, and you know what? You can also hear it.

662
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,000
But in the Pablo's video, there is no sound.

663
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000
What if you got it to a higher altitude?

664
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:13,000
All right, I'm going to bring it back around.

665
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,000
Hey, Larry, can you do me a favor and take it further out in the field?

666
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,000
Okay, yeah.

667
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,000
I'm going to go further.

668
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,000
In Pablo's video, it didn't seem to have that size variation.

669
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:26,000
I just moved it closer and further.

670
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,000
You make me think that the object in Pablo's video is actually a lot larger than this.

671
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Nice job.

672
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,000
That was pretty good.

673
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,000
Yeah, yeah.

674
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:42,000
You did a great job keeping it in frame.

675
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,000
Thanks.

676
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,000
I thought that looked pretty good.

677
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:50,000
The only problem with the RC is that when it was dipping left and right,

678
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,000
we would lose the triangular formation that we were looking for.

679
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,000
Now, the kite maintained the delta shape.

680
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,000
But the problem was it was just being buffeted by the wind.

681
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,000
So the LEDs were just sort of bouncing around.

682
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:14,000
With the airplane, it's hard to keep in frame of the camera because it's so low, moving so fast.

683
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,000
So we've got to think bigger, more control, higher altitude.

684
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,000
No noise.

685
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,000
No noise.

686
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:30,000
All right, guys.

687
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:35,000
What we're going to do is we're going to attach these LED clusters, one at the nose,

688
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:39,000
two on the crossbar, and two on the back of the ribs of this hang glider.

689
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,000
This is going to create the V-formation that we're seeing in the video.

690
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:48,000
You know what I'm excited about is that these hang gliders are really smooth when they fly in the sky,

691
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:52,000
and they're silent, which are two key things that we're looking for.

692
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:54,000
It's going to be smooth.

693
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,000
It's bigger.

694
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:01,000
And I think we're going to be able to get it up to altitude in which we were able to get the kite in the airplane.

695
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,000
All right, guys.

696
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,000
I think all we have to do now is just get this baby airborne.

697
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,000
Yeah.

698
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:09,000
Actually, we're not going to be able to launch it from here.

699
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,000
So I'm going to go with our pilot Dave and launch from down here with a tow line.

700
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,000
And you guys stay back here with Pablo's camera and shoot in the air,

701
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,000
and we can see what it finally looks like.

702
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,000
All right, just radio us and let us know when he's ready.

703
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,000
Awesome.

704
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,000
All right, let's go.

705
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,000
All right, Bill, Jial.

706
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,000
We are ready when you are.

707
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,000
We're in position.

708
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,000
All set, ready to go.

709
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:39,000
Okay, we're going to be rolling.

710
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,000
All right, we're ready to launch.

711
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:48,000
Five, four, three, two, one.

712
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,000
All right, he's up there.

713
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:58,000
Look at that.

714
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Is it showing up?

715
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,000
Yeah, there it is.

716
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:01,000
Wow.

717
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,000
Look at that.

718
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,000
Let go.

719
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:11,000
After the kite.

720
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,000
It looks like it's about to crash.

721
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:20,000
And after the motorized airplane, honestly, I think the hang wider is going to be the closest.

722
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000
It's going to be smooth.

723
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,000
It's bigger.

724
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,000
All right, we're ready to launch.

725
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:32,000
Five, four, three, two, one.

726
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:41,000
All right, he's up there.

727
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,000
Look at it.

728
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,000
Is it showing up?

729
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,000
Yeah, there it is.

730
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:52,000
So there were a lot of ideas on how we could replicate Pablo's video.

731
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,000
One of them was to simply attach LEDs to the bottom of a kite.

732
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:00,000
But once Larry started to move with it, the wind became a problem.

733
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,000
The wind was so crazy that night.

734
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,000
It was shaking the kite everywhere.

735
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,000
It was hard to keep up.

736
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000
And eventually it crashed and fell into the ground.

737
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000
Obviously the kite has no propulsion system of its own.

738
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,000
So it's really just wind driven.

739
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:16,000
But despite the fact that we have a lot of wind, you still couldn't get the kite to move fast enough.

740
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:25,000
So after having done this experiment, we decided we need something with a little more speed, which actually led to our RC jet.

741
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:29,000
Thinking about the jet, we certainly had the speed, but almost too much speed.

742
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,000
So every time it would tilt, it would lose the delta formation that you see.

743
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,000
The other problem we have with the RC jet is that it was loud.

744
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,000
And Pablo stated that when he shot the original video, he heard nothing.

745
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,000
It was completely silent.

746
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,000
So we had to have a silent craft.

747
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:47,000
So that led to a human piloted hand glider experiment.

748
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,000
Oh, that's exact.

749
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,000
Look at that, yeah.

750
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,000
That looks like smooth.

751
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,000
It was matching fairly close to the original video.

752
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,000
We're quite happy with that.

753
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:08,000
It's my opinion that this is likely what we're seeing in Pablo's original video.

754
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:12,000
And there are nighttime hand gliders that do this very thing.

755
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,000
They go hand gliding at night.

756
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They do attach LEDs to their kite.

757
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And that is for safety reasons.

758
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So they're like anti-collision lights, basically.

759
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You guys nailed it.

760
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Yeah, this is a hand glider.

761
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Great job, guys.