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The following program deals with controversial subjects.

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The theories expressed are not the only possible interpretations.

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The viewer is invited to make a judgment based on all available information.

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Tonight on Sightings from the Russian Republic, our team of investigators captures startling videotape images

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and returns with eyewitness evidence of bizarre extraterrestrial contact.

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Then, is the ghost of Whitechapel a murder victim of London's infamous Jack the Ripper?

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And can science reanimate the Iceman by cloning the special update next?

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Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White.

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The defeat of communism in the former Soviet Union has had wide-ranging consequences.

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For our Sightings investigative team, it has met unprecedented access to secret documents

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and exclusive interviews about one of the most controversial UFO sightings in history.

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In the first of a series of reports from inside Russia,

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our search for the truth about a mysterious place known as the M Triangle.

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The Republic of Russia is the heart of the new Commonwealth of Independent States

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that was once the Soviet Union.

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On a daily basis, new information is released to the people of this country

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about the previous government's clandestine activities.

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One of the most unlikely activities was a well-organized government effort to research UFO phenomena.

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And today, that activity is spoken about openly at the Russian Space Center,

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especially by those who have been close to the Russian space program, like former Colonel Marina Popovich.

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We are presently standing at the Cosmonaut Training Center of Russia.

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It is where all the cosmonauts are still trained, even today.

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Some of the training includes the proper protocol in cosmonauts dealing with UFOs.

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As a colonel, I used to be a terrible skeptic,

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but when I see the government programs dealing with UFOs, I can't ignore this evidence.

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I've seen photos pilots have taken of saucers attacking planes.

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We're also now aware of recurring landing sites.

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I have absolutely no doubt that UFOs exist.

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It is impossible that in a universe this large, that's expanding so quickly

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with new stars and planets being formed, that we are a unique planet that sustains life.

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A team of sightings researchers set out to uncover new information about the Soviet government's UFO research efforts.

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Information that had been long suppressed was coming to light.

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Even as our investigation began, a guard involved in a routine examination of our credentials

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was eager to tell us about his own UFO experiences.

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One year and a half ago, I was standing guard here at Lenin's Tomb in Red Square

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when I got a message over the radio.

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There was a UFO flying over Spassky Tower. Come quickly.

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When I arrived, I looked, but it had gone away.

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But there was definitely an object hovering above the tower for several minutes, one militiaman said.

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In the old days, we would be frightened to talk of such things,

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but today there is an openness. In fact, there is even a TV show on now about such things.

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Once a week, Russians tune their televisions to UFO Unannounced Visit,

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one of the most popular programs in the country.

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It deals with UFO mysteries, and its host is Alexander Meechekov,

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a respected journalist and ufologist.

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It was from Alexander that we received our first information about the one UFO story

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that has captured the imagination of all Russia for the past three years.

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We have a very interesting and mysterious area around the city of Perm.

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The incidents that happened in that area are hard to believe.

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So unbelievable that it is hard to compare that area to any other area of anomaly.

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That area is called the Triangle.

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The journalist Pavel Muhartov has been there, and I'll tell you,

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he had unbelievable experiences there, and developed new, almost superhuman abilities

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after visiting the Triangle. It's absolutely fantastic.

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We visited with Pavel Muhartov, the journalist who first broke this story of the M-Triangle.

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He's a man with no formal scientific training,

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but he believes he encountered mysterious forces in the M-Triangle zone

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that gave him new abilities and knowledge,

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that would eventually lead him to the Russian space program.

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I grew up a slight man. My health was never good.

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I was even kicked out of the Russian military because I was too frail.

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This one here is proof that he was discharged from the army for health reasons.

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After I was discharged from the military, I worked for a newspaper as a reporter.

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I started reading letters about the M-Triangle zone.

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He found documents in the archives that one of the KGB agents started to write reports to his superiors

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that strange phenomena started to appear.

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There were many UFO sightings, sudden insanity, and dangerous levels of radiation.

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My editor sent me there to cover the story.

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Wild feelings came over me, strange photos were taken, and many in the group fell ill.

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These are the photos taken at night. That's what they saw.

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During the night, flying and hovering above them.

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For me, the M-Triangle story is good.

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I developed great knowledge about aerospace and about physics, and my health improved.

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I quit the newspaper and was immediately accepted into the Soviet space program.

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The M-Triangle changed my life. I am no longer slight. Now I am a cosmonaut.

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The M-Triangle is an area considered to be a hotbed of UFO activity.

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It is located in a remote area 600 miles east of Moscow and the Ural Mountains.

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Eyewitnesses have reported strange craft, mysterious light phenomena,

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and encounters of the third kind with translucent beings.

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There are even journals and books devoted to the ongoing sightings in the M-Triangle.

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When Muhartov first wrote about it, I was skeptical.

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It was too obvious that everyone who lived in the area saw all this extraterrestrial activity.

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Many suggest that the area is high in mercury deposits, and this is causing hallucinations.

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But could it be to the extent that people are seeing signs and letters in the sky?

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There must be something there.

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Before our own sightings investigation at the M-Triangle,

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we stopped at the Commonwealth Euphological Center,

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a government agency on the outskirts of Moscow dedicated to UFO research.

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Each day we process 15 to 20 UFO reports at our offices, including those from the M-Triangle.

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We know of the dangers of the zone, and that science has not been able to establish the truth about UFOs in the zone.

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But that doesn't rule out the health hazards.

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My advice to you is to get in and get out of that dangerous zone.

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It's just not safe.

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Working in Russia was made more difficult by the lack of provisions we found available.

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This is a typical grocery store in Russia during business hours,

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a grim reminder of the upheaval still going on in the New Republics.

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There may be a free market now, but red cabbage is still too expensive for most shoppers.

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The harsh conditions bear silent witness to the character of the Russian people who endure this hardship on a daily basis.

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After a two-and-a-half-hour jet flight into the Ural Mountains,

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the research team flew an additional 90 minutes by helicopter.

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We agreed to comply with the government's request that we remain in the M-Triangle for 24 hours only.

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The government warned us of dangers there.

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People who'd reportedly gone mad, lost their eyesight, or disappeared completely.

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We first landed in a small village just outside the M-Triangle

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to see if we could find eyewitnesses to the bizarre phenomena in the region.

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What we found was a village out of the 1890s with people who told stories right out of Star Wars.

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I was walking my grandmother home when we both saw a red flash coming from that zone.

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Lots of my friends have seen that too.

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Mysterious things that fly in the sky here are common.

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I don't even listen anymore to such old news.

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I've seen the saucers numerous times.

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To say that they are nonsense is nonsense.

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We know what we see.

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We found no one who had been adversely affected by the reported paranormal activity.

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We then proceeded on the final leg of our journey into the M-Triangle,

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accompanied by Emil Bakura, ufologist and author of the Russian bestseller UFOs,

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Explanation of the Unexplained.

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I've written a book about the zone because there have been so many strange experiences here

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by believers and skeptics alike.

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Near our tent, one group saw translucent fireballs that chased them into the woods

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and burned them seriously.

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Only 17 meters from here, a glowing object stunned a research group,

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one of them in later committed suicide.

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We often see groups of UFOs fly past this field.

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Sometimes they disappear, sometimes they land and leave radiation.

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The UFOs cited here have yet to be fully explained.

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The strange light phenomena, however, are thought to be the result of geomagnetic anomalies

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evident in the area, known to scientists as lightning balls.

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We've used very sensitive equipment that measures and reacts to electricity in a battery

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from as far as 100 meters, but the same piece of measuring equipment

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wouldn't react to those energetic balls that we've observed.

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Therefore, we conclude that the energy is not of an electromagnetic nature.

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The light phenomena are best seen at night.

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Our investigative team brought special night vision cameras,

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and after several hours, they photographed what can only be described as startling.

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George, do we see a satellite? What do you think that was?

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No, satellites cannot do this like this.

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What was it?

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I don't know. It cannot do the trajectories like this in the sky, like this, like this.

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The strange streak of light never reappeared.

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A frame-by-frame analysis offers more detail, but gives little insight into its origin.

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It may have been a shooting star or a satellite.

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However, there is little debate among the Russian UFO community

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that something beyond rational explanation is occurring in this remote region.

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And there is no better proof than Pavel Mahartov,

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the man who claims he gained secret knowledge that transformed him from journalist to cosmonaut number 152

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after visiting the M Triangle.

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Most of the people we talked with in Russia believe UFOs are operating in the M Triangle.

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However, off the record, a few scientists offered another possibility.

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They claim that the Soviet government has been secretly testing a new breed of weapons

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called psychotronic weapons that immobilize an enemy by creating realistic mass hallucinations.

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They suggest that eyewitnesses in the M Triangle may have actually seen something that wasn't really there,

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because they were unwitting participants in a top-secret military experiment.

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Coming up, our ghost investigators uncover an apparition haunting Whitechapel, London.

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It was just something I couldn't explain, but it was frightening.

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Was she a victim of Jack the Ripper?

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The Ten Bells is a pub in Whitechapel at the east end of London.

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Haunting phenomena have been reported there for the past hundred years.

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During our own investigation at the Ten Bells,

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we uncovered evidence that the paranormal activity there may very well be related to a notorious murderer,

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who has never been found.

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The Ten Bells has been a favorite meeting place in London's Whitechapel district since 1754,

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and for the past 100 years, it has also been a favorite haunt for ghostly apparitions,

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spotted by owners and customers alike.

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It was just something I couldn't explain, but it was frightening.

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Haunting is a form of communication.

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We first brought our investigation into the pub's dank cellar,

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where many people have experienced haunting phenomena and apparitions.

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Siding's asked renowned psychic investigator Marion Dapier-Jeans

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There's quite, if you like, a bit of a tragic sort of place,

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but spirit are definitely in here.

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This is the door that we can hear banging during the night,

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and you can get a funny feeling of presence.

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And I know that spirit have showed himself to landlords who've been here.

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On a number of occasions, we heard footsteps.

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We come upstairs here and we find nothing.

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And this will totally, completely disappear.

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The whole atmosphere here is very different. It's very disturbing, if you like.

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After about eight or nine days here, I went down to the cellar.

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When I got down to the bottom of the stairs, I went over to the right.

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Very briefly, I got a glimpse of a woman in sort of old-style clothes.

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I think she comes to what is known as the old grounds,

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where she might have been, where she might have existed.

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It gave me just as much a fright, you know, really.

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Frightened, I've got to be honest.

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I would say she's from about 1856, 1860, whatever, it's around that era, I mean.

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She's been spotted downstairs on numerous occasions by previous managers.

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I still feel that there was a murder committed.

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or why the murder was taken shape or place.

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This place was used to be frequently used by the ladies of the night,

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going back to Jack the Ripper's time.

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A young lady, five foot too tall, she said, lives.

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It's been proved that Elizabeth Stride did drink care.

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Marion had provided an important clue to the identity of at least one apparition,

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the name Liz, and indeed, Elizabeth Stride, a prostitute,

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was a frequent customer here in the late 1800s.

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On September the 30th, 1888, Stride, known as Long Liz,

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was the third victim of Jack the Ripper.

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Could it be her restless spirit that haunts the ten bells today?

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Our psychic investigator believed so.

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But we also called in scientific investigator Tony Cornell for his opinion.

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I mean, people in poltergeist cases and hauntings, they see things and hear things.

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Now, that's okay for them. It's real to them.

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But for us, for it to be real to us, we want it on film.

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We set out to try to film the haunting phenomena,

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but our camera operator was stymied.

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As we came into this little room we are in now,

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the recording fault in the viewfinder was going berserk,

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and we had to find the best way to describe it.

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And so we've now come in here again to play it back,

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and we just started up.

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And yes, it's still showing strangely the viewfinder.

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Psychic investigator Nella Jones has worked with Scotland Yard on a number of cases.

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We asked her to walk through Whitechapel to see if she felt a psychic connection

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between the hauntings and Jack the Ripper.

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We also brought in Don Rumbolo, Ripper historian,

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and the owner of one of the alleged murder weapons.

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I'm pleased to have possession of it, but I don't know about Proud.

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I mean, it's such a macabre weapon.

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This is definitely the place. I would stake my reputation on that.

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It has a thumb grip on the blade for cutting upwards.

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This is how you can tell that it's different from other knives of the period.

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Well, if Nella felt something here, there's a very good reason for it,

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because this is where the body of the first of Jack the Ripper's victims

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was found on the night of the 31st of August, 1888.

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Claiming no knowledge of where the murders had occurred,

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Nella led us to this site but would not work with Rumbolo's knife.

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Take it back, please. I don't want to know.

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I don't know about that.

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If they could feel what I feel when I touch that,

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they wouldn't even want to look at it.

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Documents, letters at the time, contemporary memoirs, this is evidence.

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Using it with due respect to Nella, using a psychic is not proof.

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What's new in this case is really what's old.

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It was author and historian Paul Begg,

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who was finally able to shed some new light on this dark subject.

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30th of September, 1888 was the night of the double event

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when Jack the Ripper killed two women within an hour.

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The first of those murders took place along this street.

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In fact, a street not far from the Ten Bells pub.

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It's an interesting case because it's the one instance

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where we probably have a witness to Jack the Ripper in action.

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A man named Israel Schwartz was walking down the road.

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In front of him was another man,

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and ahead of both of them standing in the entrance to a yard was a woman.

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And as the second man approached,

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he attacked and assaulted the woman and threw her to the ground.

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Israel Schwartz probably saw Jack the Ripper committing his crime,

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murdering Elizabeth Stride,

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who was found dead in the alleyway about 15 minutes later.

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Because there was a witness,

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the murder of Elizabeth Stride was key to Scotland Yards investigation.

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The most important piece of information that's come to light

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in the last couple of years is what we call the Swanson Marginalia.

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These notes were written by a man called Swanson

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who had overall responsibility for the investigation of the crimes.

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And in those penciled notes, he names Jack the Ripper.

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He says that the Ripper was a man called Kosminski.

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If the police at the time were right,

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and if we've understood the information that we've got correctly,

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Aaron Kosminski was Jack the Ripper.

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Our ghost investigation at the Ten Bells,

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near the site of Elizabeth Stride's murder,

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poses intriguing new questions about the identity of Jack the Ripper.

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Foremost, he's the ghost of Long Liz trying to communicate some important clues.

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Is she trying to add her voice to those who believe Eric Kosminski

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is the bloody murderer known as Jack the Ripper?

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And if police believed Kosminski was the Ripper,

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why wasn't he arrested?

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Now, because Aaron Kosminski had never been tried, had never been convicted,

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they were not able to release that information to the public.

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And that's why this has always remained a mystery.

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While Eric Kosminski is considered a prime suspect,

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Scotland Yard still holds files on two additional men

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they believe could be the real Jack the Ripper.

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But will we ever know for sure?

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Some psychics answer yes,

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and suggest we listen more carefully to the ghostly presence in London's East End.

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Coming up, can science bring the Iceman back to life through cloning?

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The idea of cloning human beings is an interesting one.

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A special update, next.

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The discovery in 1991 of a remarkably preserved human

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thought to be more than 5,000 years old

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has captured the attention of scientists around the world.

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Dubbed the Iceman, archaeologists are studying his remains.

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Anthropologists are learning more about his behavior,

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and genetic engineers want the Iceman for experiments in cloning.

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He is considered by many to be the most important archaeological discovery of all time,

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a unique window to what we were like a thousand years before the pyramids were built.

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He's called the Iceman,

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a miraculously preserved human specimen who froze to death over 5,000 years ago

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and literally remained on ice until his discovery last year in the Italian Alps.

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Unlike mummies and other bodies found after burial,

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the Iceman was flash frozen as he lived,

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resulting in a kind of ancient snapshot of the late Stone Age.

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He doesn't look quite so dead. He's got, he's still got the flesh on him.

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The pores of the skin are there, the fingernails are there.

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Even his eyes are there. He happened to freeze with his eyelid open,

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and you can see this cloudy eyeball kind of glistening just inside his head.

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Actually seeing this frozen man from the distant past

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has inspired many to consider what science could do to bring him back to life

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through cloning techniques which have proven successful in frogs.

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Frogs were cloned, and they were all identical, excellent.

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They were ex-tuplets of the original frog that was cloned,

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but that frog was a tadpole, and when you try to clone the adult stage of that same frog,

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nobody could do it.

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Something happens to the cells, to the DNA, that makes them unclonable.

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The idea of cloning human beings is an interesting one,

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but it's a largely theoretical concept at this juncture.

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But theoretical concepts, science fiction to some, often become science fact.

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So what could we expect if cloning experiments with the Iceman are successful?

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You could take those genes, put them in the ovum from a woman, implant that in her uterus,

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and it would grow up and it would be essentially the identical twin of the Iceman.

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Unfortunately, he would not know a thing about life in the late Neolithic.

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Cloning the Iceman's body may become a future reality,

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but cloning his mind and the memories it contains is likely to remain the ultimate scientific puzzle.

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