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An imposing edifice that inspired a Hollywood legend.

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This institution tells of international espionage,

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mind-blowing technology, and British ingenuity.

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An iconic tavern that sparked a rebellion.

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Their response will echo throughout the city and transform the nation.

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And a romantic resort at the center of a high-stakes hustle.

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This is a story of a little guy really sticking it to the man.

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Sometimes the greatest secrets lie in plain sight.

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These are the mysteries of the monument.

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London's South Bank draws in over 3 million visitors a year.

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Among its many attractions are the London Eye, the Tate Modern,

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and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

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But there is one bank-side behemoth that is strictly out of bounds to the public.

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It's got terraces all the way up, about 60 of them, except nobody's ever seen standing on top of them.

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It's made of honey-colored stone and bulletproof glass.

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It's sprinkled with security cameras, and it's surrounded by an 8-foot fence.

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It looks a little bit like an Aztec temple.

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This fortress houses the headquarters of the British Secret Service, also known as MI6.

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As tour guide Dan Bydwell can attest, this establishment once spawned a host of amazing inventions,

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which helped save Europe from the clutches of evil.

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This institution tells the story of international espionage, mind-blowing technology, and British ingenuity.

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Who was the unlikely genius behind these creations?

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And which legendary movie character did he inspire?

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The Early 1940s

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Hitler's army occupies Western Europe, and it looks like Great Britain will be the next to fall.

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The British Secret Service suspects that the Third Reich is developing mysterious weapons intended to devastate the island nation.

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But what these weapons are, and where they might be, is a mystery.

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The only information the Secret Service has comes from low-grade aerial images.

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The photographs they have are essentially just large-scale shots which might or might not be the target.

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So the British come up with a plan.

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Equip their spies in occupied Europe with miniature secret cameras that they can use to photograph suspected German military sites.

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But to do this, the British will first have to invent a camera small enough to be inconspicuous.

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Tasked with creating the device is a civil servant named Charles Fraser Smith.

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Charles Fraser Smith is rather daunted by this, he's a very unlikely spy, he's not an especially swashbuckling man, he's rather bookish.

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So this isn't normally the sort of request that he deals with.

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The challenges involved in creating such a device are complex.

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How is the spy going to take the photograph? How is the spy then going to get that role back to this country?

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Wasting no time, Fraser Smith gets to work.

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The smallest camera available is called a Minox. The film is one-sixth the size of a postage stamp and it can take 50 pictures to a roll.

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Despite the Minox's small size, it's still clearly recognizable as a camera.

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If an agent was caught using it near a German facility, they would immediately be suspected of spying.

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Fraser Smith realizes that the only way is to disguise it as an everyday object.

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And this is the time when everybody smokes, so the perfect object is a cigarette lighter.

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Fraser Smith adapts the tiny camera so that it can fit into a cigarette lighter.

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When the spy is taking a picture, it looks like he's lighting a cigarette.

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To complete the spy kit, he also devises an ingenious way to smuggle the film back to Britain.

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Fraser Smith makes a shaving brush and the film is hidden inside the handle.

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He even uses the same hair that the Germans use on their shaving brushes.

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When Fraser Smith shows the camera to his superiors, they are delighted and they decide it's ready to see action.

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Quite impressive CT6. Let's hope it works.

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Fraser Smith is very nervous. His inventions are being put to the test and the spy's life is at risk and also millions of other people's lives are at risk.

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He's very, very apprehensive.

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Among the first to test out the spy camera is a member of the French Resistance.

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He took it to a facility he'd noticed that the Germans had been building and there he managed to take a number of photographs and get them back to Britain.

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The photos reveal that the facility is actually a German arsenal.

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Using the photographs, MSX discovered the development of a terrifying new weapon, the Doodle Bug.

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The Doodle Bug is a new type of bomb that operates like a pilotless plane.

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It detonates on impact and can wipe out almost anything within a 400-yard radius.

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Such a weapon could devastate Britain.

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To eliminate the threat, in 1943 the Royal Air Force launches a series of bombing raids over Nazi Europe and the German factories are obliterated.

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This mission has been very, very successful.

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Words get around other parts of the British Secret Service, but there's somebody somewhere who can make these fantastic gadgets.

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Fraser Smith goes on to create many more cunning spy gadgets that help win the war, such as a pen that conceals a map and a radio that looks like a lunchbox.

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But his story doesn't end there.

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Among his admirers is a man working for Naval Intelligence and his name is Ian Fleming.

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After the Second World War, Fleming goes on to write the phenomenally successful James Bond series of novels and Charles Fraser Smith becomes the inspiration for the Gadget Master Q in the James Bond films.

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And today, the iconic headquarters of MI6 continues to hide in plain sight an imposing reminder of the Gadget Master who helped win the Second World War.

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Founded in 1851, the waterfront city of Vallejo, California is a one-hour ferry ride from San Francisco.

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But Vallejo's most intriguing connection to the city by the bay is a turn-of-the-century structure situated in the center of town.

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It is about nine feet tall. It is beautifully decorated. The blue and gold base has four faces with Arabic numerals, four globes at the top.

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This antique street clock was once located on a busy San Francisco thoroughfare.

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But as Bay Area author John Ralston can attest, it didn't get its landmark status just for telling the time.

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This clock played a part in an explosive event that shocked the San Francisco Bay Area and the United States.

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July 22, 1916, San Francisco.

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The streets are lined with thousands of spectators excited to watch the biggest procession in the city's history.

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The Preparedness Day Parade.

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The preparedness movement was, as the term suggests, to prepare people for American entry into World War I.

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Organized by the city's pro-war contingent, the parade begins with jubilant cheers and fanfare.

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But as the marchers reach the corner of Stuart and Market, the procession suddenly comes to a screeching halt.

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About six minutes past two, there is a terrific explosion.

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In a blinding flash, a pall of smoke rose over Stuart Street.

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Bodies lay on the sidewalk.

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Blood, broken glass, were everywhere.

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The explosion kills ten people and injures 40 more.

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The size of the blast makes it clear this was an act of terrorism.

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Popular mood was one of outrage. The innocent bystanders could be killed.

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People demanded answers and they wanted a quick, questionless conviction.

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And they won't have to wait for long.

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Authorities soon arrest 34-year-old Union organizer Tom Mooney and charge him with murder.

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For the public, the arrest makes perfect sense.

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Mooney had been outspoken in his opposition to the war effort, arguing that it put innocent workers at risk.

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Tom Mooney had a reputation as a dangerous radical and so he was an obvious suspect.

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We know you did it! We got witnesses! We got put you in the place!

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A trial date is set for January 3, 1917.

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Are you sure that this is the gentleman?

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The prosecution's star witness is an Oregon cattle rancher named Frank Oxman.

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Oxman seemed like a good old boy Oregon cattle rancher. He was an artless, unaffected personality.

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The type that Westerners find appealing.

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Mr. Oxman, can you describe to the jury what you saw on that day?

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Frank Oxman said he was watching the parade when he saw a Chittany card coming east down Market Street.

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He said Mooney was in the Chittany and that he and others planted a suitcase.

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That suitcase later exploded.

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The prosecution claims this exchange occurred just before 2 p.m.

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It seems that Mooney's goose is cooked.

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But then the Union leader's defense produces a piece of evidence that turns the case on its head.

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The defense introduced photos taken by an amateur photographer showing Tom Mooney watching the parade from a rooftop.

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But in one corner could be seen a street clock several hundred feet below on Market Street.

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And when the photographs of the clock are magnified, they reveal a critical piece of evidence.

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Enlargements showed a time in several pictures as just before and just after 2 o'clock.

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That was the time that the prosecution had Tom Mooney down at Stewart and Market Street.

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The images prove that the prosecution's witness is lying.

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Mooney could not have planted the bomb.

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Based on the photographs of the Mooneys and the testimony of others, the defense had an ironclad case.

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But when the members of the jury return from their deliberation, they issue a shocking verdict.

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The foreman announced a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree.

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It was a terrible miscarriage of justice.

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So why has the jury convicted an apparently innocent man in the face of such incontrovertible evidence?

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It's 1917 in San Francisco.

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Pro-labor activist Thomas Mooney has just been found guilty of planting a terrorist bomb at a city parade.

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But there's one problem.

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Irrefutable photographic evidence proves his innocence.

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In the wake of the shocking verdict, Mooney and his defense are determined that justice be done.

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This is a tragedy!

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This is a tragedy!

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Convinced the prosecution is somehow in cahoots with the jury. They hire an investigator.

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An investigator had operatives posing as telephone repairmen plant microphones in the district attorney's office.

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For several months, the secret microphones taped the DA's conversations. And what the tapes expose is stunning.

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We have incontrovertible evidence.

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The recordings revealed the trial was an obvious fake.

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Desperate to close the case, the prosecution saw Mooney as a likely suspect and arrested him.

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Then, to ensure a conviction, they rigged the jury.

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The jury foreman had been a friend of the prosecutor and they were secretly meeting to discuss ways of convincing the jury to vote a guilty verdict against Tom Mooney.

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We put that union scum away for a very long time.

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With proof of the prosecution's undeniable wrongdoing, Mooney's legal advocates battle to free him.

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But the corruption runs so deep that it takes more than two decades and the help of a sympathetic governor to overturn the conviction.

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Finally, in January 1939, the labor leader is pardoned and released from jail.

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To announce his newfound freedom, he holds a fitting celebration.

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A day after his pardon, he let a triumphal parade up Market Street to Civic Center following the route of the Piratistae Parade.

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The actual bombers are never caught and to this day, the case remains unsolved.

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And although it was moved from its original San Francisco location to the Bay Area City of Alejo,

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the Halibai Clock that proved Tom Mooney's innocence remains a timeless reminder that for one man, justice eventually prevailed.

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Located on the Eel River in Indiana is the small town of Cherubusco.

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For more than half a century, this agricultural community has boasted a peculiar nickname, Turtle Town, USA.

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And at the entrance to the city park sits a quirky figure that speaks to the origins of this bizarre moniker.

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It's around 10 feet high. It's green and yellow. It's made of fiberglass and it depicts a giant turtle.

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He's guarding the town park.

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As longtime resident Rusty Reed knows, this gridding green statue pays tribute to an infamous beast whose story captivated the country.

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Thousands of people a day came to this small town to try to catch a glimpse of this creature with their own two eyes.

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What tale of naked obsession lies behind this amphibious enigma?

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July 1948, Indiana.

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38-year-old Gail Harris has just purchased 120 acres in the sleepy farming community of Cherubusco.

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You drive through town waving at people you know and people take care of one another. It's just your typical small town USA.

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Harris believes his property will be the ideal place to grow grain.

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The site boasts its own water source, a seven-acre lake that has long served as a local fishing hole.

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One afternoon, the farmer is working behind his barn when two neighbors approach him with a wild story.

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They told Gail that while they were fishing on his pond, they saw a turtle that was so big.

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His head was on one side of the boat and its tail was on the other.

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You're pulling my leg. I'm not.

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Harris is unsure what to make of the bizarre claim.

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But later that day, he is gazing down at the very same lake when he sees something astounding.

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Gail thought he saw a turtle as big as a small submarine.

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Reports of a sighting spread and the national media grabs ahold of the story.

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Gail Harris' story of him sighting that turtle went out on the wire and it was publicized nationwide.

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Reporters dubbed it the Beast of Busco. People start coming to the lake by the thousands trying to see this turtle.

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It turned into a three-ring circus.

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Yet the big top is missing its main attraction. The beast itself never reappears.

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And despite Gail's protestations, by early 1949, many think his turtle tail is just another story about one that got away.

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The skepticism was really growing. Obviously, Gail didn't like it that people didn't believe what he said.

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He was a man of honor and he wanted to prove that he wasn't a liar.

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Farmer Harris devises a shocking plan to nab the beast.

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Harris attaches electrical conductors of 2,500 volts to two iron pipes and lowers them into the lake.

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Then with grim resolve, he flips the power switch.

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Gail hopes that he can shock the turtle and raise him to the surface.

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The results are just a bit less dramatic than anticipated.

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Once again, the heavy hard-shelled monster fails to surface.

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But the determined turtle wrangler has one more trick up his sleeve.

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It was Gail Harris' Moby Dick. Life wasn't going to be good for him until he proved that he's seen that turtle.

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It's 1949 in Cherubusco, Indiana.

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38-year-old farmer Gail Harris is determined to find a massive turtle dubbed the Beast of Busco in his 7-acre lake,

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but with the town watching, the pressure's on.

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So can Harris somehow snag this terrible terrapin?

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Determined to silence his doubters, farmer Harris formulates a foolproof battle plan.

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Gail was going to drain the lake.

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By depriving the devious turtle of his deep water sanctuary, the farmer feels confident he can expose his prey for all to see.

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So he buys pipe, builds it down, and transforms his tractor into a pump.

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The rudimentary system drains the water away from his lake into another one five miles away.

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He pumps night and day.

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Gail had no doubt at that point this is going to have to produce that turtle.

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But seven weeks later, just before the lake is fully drained, disaster strikes.

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The dam gives way, sending a tidal wave of water back into Harris's lake, along with his tractor, pipes, and dreams of prosperity.

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It was over for Gail. He spent so much money trying to bring the Beast of Busco into town that he was basically broke from it.

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The humiliated Harris auctions his farm and heads off into the sunset.

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But the question remains, what was the behemoth that neighbors swear they saw in the depths of Gail Harris' pond?

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According to biologists, only one species of freshwater turtle in the world can grow as big as the one purportedly seen there.

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The dreaded alligator snapping turtle.

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Alligator snapping turtles can grow up to 250 pounds.

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But these are hard-shelled monsters native to the South.

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So could one have ended up in Harris' lake so far to the North?

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The answer may lie in the keen appetites of southern tradesmen who routinely ventured North in the early 1900s to sell their wares.

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Traveling salesmen would stockpile alligator snapping turtles in their wagons as a source of fresh meat while they traveled.

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Some speculate that one of them might have released such a creature into Harris' lake, where it grew to titanic proportions.

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We may never know if the Beast of Busco truly existed.

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However, in the wake of Harris' campaign, the town adopts the epic monster as its official mascot.

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Today, this quirky figure looms over what is now known as Turtle Town USA,

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hearkening back to the enigmatic creature whose tail still has people snapping to attention.

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Awa'hu.

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Hawaii's most populous island is home to a third of the state's best surf spots.

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Among them are the legendary white sands of Waikiki Beach.

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This stretch of shore attracts more than 70,000 visitors a day.

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And rising majestically above the waterfront is an ornate tribute to the island's most famous island.

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It's a coral pink stucco complex that raises out of a tropical garden.

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It sits on 10 acres of prime Waikiki Beachfront.

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And it looks like this beautiful Spanish palace coming out from the ground.

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This is the Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

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Built in 1927, it is one of the state's oldest and grandest resorts.

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But after the war, the island was once the largest in the world.

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The oldest and grandest resorts.

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But as local historian Kalani Sousa can attest,

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the dazzling edifice was also at the center of a masterful hoax that left the nation stunned.

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This is a story of a little guy really sticking it to the map.

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1962, Awa'hu.

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Hotels are springing up all along the prized Waikiki shore.

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Hawaiian locals watch as their beachfronts are transformed.

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But it's the large hotel corporations that reap most of the benefits.

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And it seems one group of hoteliers is about to get even richer.

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In May, the owners of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel are summoned to a meeting by three guests,

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staying in their most lavish suite.

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The guests, two men and a woman, would like to discuss a business proposition.

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The younger man introduces himself as D. Franklin Carson

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and says he represents a Swiss investment company with an impressive array of clients.

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Carson tells him that his company represents the King of Saudi Arabia,

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the President of Egypt, some large companies in London, Hong Kong and Singapore.

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His older partner, who goes by the name Albert Wilcox, then makes an astonishing offer.

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He declares that for the Royal Hawaiian and the chain's other Waikiki properties,

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his syndicate will pay a sum of $35 million.

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This would be the largest real estate deal in Hawaiian history.

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The executives, who purchased the properties just three years earlier for a mere $18 million,

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see a deal they can't refuse.

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They're able to become filthy rich.

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As the hotel executives begin to negotiate the sale,

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news of the record-breaking offer spreads across the country.

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It explodes in the press. It goes nationwide. Time, Newsweek magazine, Wall Street Journal.

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Although no money has yet changed hands, the celebrations begin.

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And the trio of investors is treated to an extended stay in their lavish suite.

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Whatever they wanted, they could get.

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So they start racking up a bunch of hotel charges,

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living large.

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Finally, the hotel owners call Wilcox to close the deal.

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They send him and his assistant to New York to finalize the paperwork.

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What they don't know is that the three deal-makers are not who they see.

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It's 1962 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Three investors have approached the owners of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel with a stunning offer.

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$35 million for properties worth half that price.

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Now they're on their way to New York to close the deal.

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But the potential hotel buyers are not who they seem.

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While en route to the East Coast, the businessman calling himself Albert Wilcox

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is detained by police at Seattle's airport for trying to pass two bad checks.

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Drawn on the accounts of the supposed Swiss investors.

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Then Wilcox confesses, the whole multi-million dollar hotel offer is an elaborate hoax.

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And he is, in fact, Hawaiian con man extraordinaire, Sammy Amalu.

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Sammy Amalu is a very talented, but is a peckable smile.

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He knew how to talk people into having it put his way.

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Amalu recruited his fiance to pose as his real estate agent

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while he himself took on the part of investor Albert Wilcox.

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He dresses in an expensive suit and starts greasing his hair back.

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He puts on a dark pair of sunglasses and he talks to the British accent.

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His partner, D. Franklin Carson, was no Swiss investor.

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He was a 19-year-old Swiss investor.

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He was a 19-year-old surfer from California, who Amalu had randomly picked up at the airport.

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To help him out with the deal, Sammy offered Carson an all-expense paid summer in Hawaii.

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And of course, being a 19-year-old California surfer, he said yes.

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Sammy Amalu transformed the surfer into a powerful business executive.

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He got him an expensive suit, a nice little tie, got him all prepped up to look at the easy representative of the Swiss Financial Trust.

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It emerges that Amalu's previous scams included successfully impersonating a Hawaiian prince and an Indian Maharaja.

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But this scam was not really about money. This one, he says, was for Hawaii.

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A hotel for $35.5 million.

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Amalu was angry that the real estate boom on Oahu had priced Hawaiian locals out of their homes,

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leaving them feeling like second-class citizens in their own land.

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So, to wreak his revenge, he decided to publicly humiliate the hotel barons, who were taking over the Waikiki beachfront.

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He wanted to make them look foolish, thereby giving down-trodden Hawaiians something to cheer about.

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Though his bad checks end up landing him in prison for seven years,

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Amalu succeeds in showing his fellow Hawaiians that even local nobodies can bamboozle the big guys at the beach.

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When the press picks up on the scam, they lap it up.

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He dengratiated himself with his fellow Hawaiians, and Sammy became a bit of a folklore hero.

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Today, the Royal Hawaiian remains one of the state's most iconic resorts.

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Yet this majestic pink palace also endures as a reminder of the swindler,

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who masterminded one of Hawaii's most elaborate practical jokes.

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Washington, DC.

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There are 160 monuments and memorials in America's capital.

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That's at least two for every square mile of the city.

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And on a small patch of grass at the intersection of Columbia and California avenues,

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stands the likeness of a man who helped protect the nation during its most divided hour.

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At the base are six granite steps that lead to four fierce-looking eagles that overlook and watch over the nation's capital.

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Around the rim of a massive pedestal are medallions marked with the names of famous battles.

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And on top, way above the average eye line is a 14-foot bronze statue.

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This is a sculpture of Civil War general George B. McClellan.

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As author Gary Janssen knows, the Union commander saved his country from a crippling loss.

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But some people say his greatest victory can be traced to a mysterious source.

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Some believe that supernatural intervention turned the tide of the Civil War.

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March, 1862.

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The Civil War is in full swing, and Northerners live in constant fear of Confederate attack.

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The Confederates were won a number of decisive battles against the Union Army,

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and with each success, they inched closer and closer to the Northern Territory.

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The people were panicked.

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Many blame the Union Army's failures on the man charged with defending Washington, DC.

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35-year-old General George McClellan.

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McClellan was very slow to make decisions.

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Worst of all, the general misjudges the rebel army's every move.

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McClellan had no idea where the Confederates are going to be, and this meant many people lost their lives.

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But just when public faith in the general has all but disappeared,

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a surprising report gives Northerners hope.

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In March, the Daily Evening Courier says McClellan has received secret information

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that could turn the tide of the war.

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But according to the article, this information didn't come from a spy or a traitor.

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It came from beyond the grave.

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The report explains that the general was up late studying maps at his desk

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when an enemy was shot down by a man.

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He was up late studying maps at his desk when an unexpected visitor appeared.

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Standing in front of him is General George Washington.

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Which makes absolutely no sense because Washington has been dead for nearly 70 years.

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According to the Courier's story, Washington pointed to McClellan's map and suddenly it came to life.

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Right before his eyes are the Confederate plans for moving their troops into Northern Territory.

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And then, boom! A big thunder clap fills the room, Washington disappears, and McClellan wakes up.

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The tale seems incredible.

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Yet after its publication, McClellan makes an extraordinary announcement.

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He tells his men he's received intelligence that the Confederates are about to invade Maryland.

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But luckily, the general says he can foil the Southern Army because he knows exactly where they will attack.

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On September 13th, he and his men trek to a place called South Mountain, near the border of Maryland and Pennsylvania.

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The troops end up encountering the Confederates exactly where he thought they were going to be.

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He was on canny.

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McClellan's army launches a surprise attack on the Confederates.

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By dusk, Union forces have pushed the rebels into retreat.

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The Union had won the day. This was a game changer.

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McClellan has redeemed himself.

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So did the newspaper article get it right?

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Was the source of McClellan's mysterious intelligence really George Washington's ghost?

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It's 1862 in Maryland.

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Union General George McClellan has claimed victory over the Confederates during a surprise attack.

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But according to an article published in the paper, McClellan had a supernatural informant, the ghost of George Washington.

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So could this be true, or is there a less spiritual explanation?

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While McClellan never denies the ghost story, historians later uncover a more rational source for the information he received.

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It seems that just before the Battle of South Mountain, one of McClellan's troops stumbled across a mislaid Confederate battle plan.

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The document lays out where each of the southern units is headed.

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The soldier passes the letter to his Union superiors, who turn it over to General McClellan.

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Within 18 hours, McClellan sets his troops in motion, sending three wings to take on the Confederates in Maryland, starting at South Mountain.

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But if that's the case, what about the report of McClellan's dreamlike visit from George Washington?

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The extraordinary story is attributed to Wesley Shaw, pen name of a pro-Union writer named Charles Wesley Alexander.

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During the Civil War, Alexander was known to publish inspiring fictional stories, in which supernatural forces aid the northern cause.

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Most readers of the day assumed McClellan's dream to be one such story.

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But some took Alexander's words as fact and refused to let the tale die.

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The story is reprinted in American periodicals, and eventually the story takes on a life of its own. It becomes the stuff of legend.

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And today, this statue of General George McClellan in Washington, D.C., stands in homage to a warrior whose visions of victory came true.

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Greenwich Village, New York City.

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Once a bastion of artistic talent, creativity, and progressive ideas, this neighborhood is now a popular destination for tourists.

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But tucked among the brownstones is a landmark that stands as a defiant reminder of those Bohemian glory days.

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This unassuming building has a red brick facade, two arched doorways, and an iconic red neon sign hangs in the window.

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This is the Stone Wall Inn, a local tavern that first opened its doors in 1967.

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But as current owner Stacy Lentz recalls,

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over 45 years ago, this venue was thrust into the national spotlight and became one of the most famous bars in America.

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This event was a turning point for millions of people around the world.

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1969, New York City.

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The free-spirited neighborhood of Greenwich Village is a progressive hub of painters, musicians, and activists who challenge the established order.

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And among these non-conformist groups are the emerging lesbian, gay, bi, and transgender communities.

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They come from all over the country because they want to surround themselves by other people that are gay.

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They've heard about this almost mythical place, which is the village.

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But the community faces a serious roadblock.

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The police are using public indecency laws to harass and target homosexuals.

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For example, the police would take you into jail if you did not dress with three pieces of garments matching your gender.

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But there is a growing nonviolent movement to eradicate police discrimination.

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And one of its most outspoken activists is bookshop owner Craig Rodwell.

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Craig Rodwell was very, very well known in the village and knew a lot of other gay activists and was vocal about wanting to make the community stand up.

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And on June 28th, his cause is about to take a giant leap forward.

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Craig is on his way home after a night out when something catches his eye outside the stone wall in.

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He spots a police car and also a crowd that started to swell and swell and swell.

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Rodwell realizes that he has just stumbled across a police raid.

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The police started to line up people and not let the patrons out of the bar.

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What they wanted to do was see everyone's ID, and arrest those people who were not obeying the gender dress laws.

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At that moment, a woman who has been arrested complains that her handcuffs are too tight.

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She was adamant about standing up and not being arrested.

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Allegedly, she was beaten by the police.

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I had no idea.

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Then she turns to the crowd and shouts, What did you do something?

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Rodwell and the crowd are stunned, but what they do next will change everything.

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What are you waiting for?

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They're responsible, echo throughout the city and transform the nation.

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Answering her call, Craig and the crowd realize that this is the moment they've been waiting for.

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It's 1969 in New York City.

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Civil rights activist Craig Rodwell looks on as police raid a popular gay bar called the Stonewall Inn.

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But as officers begin handcuffing the patrons, one woman resists and pleads for help.

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What are you waiting for?

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So how will Rodwell and the crowd respond?

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What did you do something?

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Stay back.

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They felt like it was their turn to fight back and stand up.

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They started throwing bottles at the police, pennies or anything they had in their pockets.

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Seizing the moment, Craig Rodwell lets out an era-defining battle cry.

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Gay power!

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He starts chanting out gay power at the top of his lungs.

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Gay power!

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Gay power!

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Rodwell's electrifying chant becomes the crowd's mantra and the riot continues for hours.

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Gay power!

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Gay power!

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Finally, around 4 a.m., the police subdue the protesters.

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13 people have been arrested and dozens injured.

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And the Stonewall Inn is in disarray.

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But the quiet doesn't last for long.

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Still exhilarated by the previous night's outcry, Rodwell takes action.

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Rodwell made leaflets when she passed out throughout the village.

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And he also notified the media because he knew that it was the opportune moment for the gay rights movement to move in a different direction and start the true revolution.

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That night, people gather in the thousands outside the Stonewall Inn to show their support for the gay community.

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For a week, demonstrations continue throughout the city.

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And a new generation of civil rights activists is spawned.

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It really did ignite all these different voices stand up and say, we are who we are.

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Following the Stonewall riots, the community gradually sees significant changes in the laws that once targeted them.

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Restrictions on cross-dressing are abolished.

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Bars are permitted to serve any individual regardless of their sexuality.

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And every year, gay pride parades take place all over the country around the anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

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The Stonewall riots really did spark all these different voices to come together and really stand up and say, we're just not going to take this anymore.

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It's profoundly affected civil rights and human rights for the rest of history.

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Today, the Stonewall Inn, now on the National Register of Historic Places, honors a pivotal civil rights battle that changed countless lives.

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From a clever gadget to a fateful clock, a pink palace to an iconic inn, a city that is a place of great history.

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A pink palace to an iconic inn.

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I'm Don Wildman and these are the Mysteries at the Monument.