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On this edition of Sightings, it's called Blood Alley, a perilous highway that may lead to a deadly crack in time.

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I just really thought that death was around the next corner.

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Then, have extraterrestrial visitors returned to the site of a UFO crash?

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There appears to be some type of intelligence behind the phenomenon.

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Plus, our minds have the power to work miracles.

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I wanted enough of a phase to be able to blend into a crowd.

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Later, a psychic's vision provides clues to a brutal crime in North Carolina.

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I would suspect this is someone capable of becoming a serial killer.

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Finally, an update. The bizarre mutilations continue in New Mexico.

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Maybe they'll start on humans next, I hope.

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Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White.

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Many paranormal researchers believe that our thoughts and emotions don't dissipate.

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Instead, they linger and can take on the life of their own.

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In places of great upheaval or tragedy, this concentration of emotional energy can become so strong,

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it actually warps time and space, providing a window into another dimension.

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It's a theory that may explain the eerie events along a lonely stretch of road in Northern California.

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It was like all of a sudden, time became like a glass cage of horror.

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It was like I couldn't push out of it.

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There was something bad or evil that had taken possession of not just me and not just my car,

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but everybody else, the truck drivers, the car drivers.

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Everybody was being possessed by something that was driving them to destruction.

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I was so scared I just wanted to get out of there and I was actually driving uncontrolled,

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that the car was kind of swerving in different things.

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I just kept trying to get as fast as I could to get out of there.

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Pacheco Pass Highway, 42 miles of twisting mountain road,

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that traverses the line between Central and Northern California.

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Since the 1970s, there have been 169 metallities here.

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It was a nightmare.

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It had the nickname of Blood Alley due to the heavy volume of traffic twisting mountainous road.

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You had a potential there for a lot of traffic accidents,

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and we in fact did have a lot of traffic accidents on Pacheco Pass Highway.

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But many people who have driven through Pacheco Pass

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say it's more than they switch backs in narrow lanes that make this highway so dangerous.

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It was coming back from a trip.

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Coming around one of the curves, all of a sudden I was hit by such an overpowering panic.

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I began to feel that I was being invaded.

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I saw a little girl with her hands pressed up her eyes screaming,

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help me, help me.

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I saw men hanging up on a hill, like somebody put them up on a gallows.

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It was like a montage of horror.

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Sylvia Brown is not the only motorist who has been haunted by bizarre apparitions in Pacheco Pass.

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I was driving through Pacheco Pass at night,

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and I started hearing voices come from the backseat kind of low.

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And then it started growing, and at first I thought I was just tired,

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so I kind of slapped myself and I rolled down the window trying to get some cold air,

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but then the voices kept getting stronger and stronger.

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And I was just terrified.

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I kept trying to drive faster and faster, and I started hearing sounds of horses,

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like on the sides of the car.

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There were three men outside and two women inside,

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and the noise kept going and it kept getting louder and louder.

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You could hear like the wagon that they were in kept creaking and crashing,

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and it would like slam down, and things were clanking and chains against the side,

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and the women would scream each time it came down.

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It lasted maybe like ten minutes total.

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Are these echoes of the area's violent past come back to haunt modern-day visitors?

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In 1797, the indigenous tribes here were taken by force and enslaved at San Juan Batista Mission.

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They rebelled and massacred many settlers.

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In retaliation, the tribes were almost completely wiped out.

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Later, Pacheco Pass became the hideout for Joaquin Marietta and Tversio Vasquez,

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notorious desperados of the late 19th century.

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Through the years, the past has witnessed many violent deaths.

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It's been suggested that people traveling through the area today

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may be picking up visual and oral messages that have somehow been locked in time and space.

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Paranormal researchers Sylvia Brown and Larry Beck think there is a time warp,

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a rip in the fabric of time in Pacheco Pass.

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Pacheco Pass seems to have some kind of, if you will, a tornado of emotion.

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And it hovers and wiggles slightly, but it moves in and around the Pacheco Pass area.

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And it's like traumatic events all concentrated into a ball or a whirling mass or a vortex of some kind.

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It's almost like there was layers of time upon time.

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There was fighting, there was Indians, there was covered dragons.

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where pain has occurred, and they build upon one another until they leave the normal timeline

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but she believes that the activity in Pacheco Pass is unique in its intensity and deserves further investigation.

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It's not necessarily a haunting, but it's where a lot of activity, usually of a negative nature, has gone on.

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Physicists concede that we know very little about the cosmic relationship between time and space.

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But for the California Highway Patrol, the problems in the past are completely down to earth.

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Of all the accidents I've worked on for Pacheco Pass, I can never attribute any of them to any type of psychic phenomenon.

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The Highway Patrol has found a reason for every accident we've ever worked out there, and it's always been that way.

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But no one can ever know what, if anything, those motorists saw in the moments before their fatal accidents.

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I don't know that I can put my finger on it because I've never delved into the psychic all that much and hadn't thought that much about ghosts and things like that.

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Does imagination run wild along these dangerous curves?

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Or is there a mysterious energy from the past imprinting on the present?

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Research into time warps, or time implants as they are now being called, is in its infancy.

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So far, the human mind is the only instrument that seems to be capable of measuring this bizarre phenomenon.

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Caltrans, the California Department of Transportation, admits that they have considered rerouting Highway 152 away from the so-called Blood Alley.

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But those plans are still on the drawing board.

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In the meantime, area residents have launched a private campaign to get the job done.

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The estimated price tag is $150 million.

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Coming up next, a woman uses the power of her mind to come back from a disfiguring accident.

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I wanted enough of a phase to be able to blend in and not scare people.

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Psychosomatic illness is a medical fact.

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Mainstream medicine accepts without question that some people can make themselves sick through the power of the mind.

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So could the reverse be true? Are we capable of psychosomatic wellness?

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Can the same mind that creates illness also be used to heal?

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All I remember thinking was, my son has to be alright. I don't care what happens to me as long as he's not hurt.

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So I got out of the car. Well, first I looked at my mom and I was just like totally shocked.

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You know, I just didn't expect it.

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I lost consciousness at the time of the impact and I had a very intense near-death experience at that time.

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I went through the standard phases of going through the tunnel of light and I went into a beautiful garden.

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I was just like, what do I do? What do I do?

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And I just yelled my mom's name to her. I was just shaking her. Just wake up. Wake up.

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And then suddenly my father was there and he had been dead for about ten years.

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And I said, oh, I'm so glad to see you.

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And he said, well, I'm glad to see you too, but you can't stay.

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And I said, no, I've gotten here. I'm not leaving.

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And he said, no, you have to go back because there's a purpose you haven't fulfilled.

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And as he was saying that, my son was reviving me and I could feel myself being pulled back into my body.

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That was in 1982.

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And from that day to this, Gary Carter has felt that her near-death experience was a turning point.

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She was being allowed to come back for a reason, a reason that she could barely know as she clung to life.

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I kept demanding to see my mother and my father finally said no, that she didn't have a face anymore.

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On a scale of one to ten, I would say her injuries were probably nine to ten in severity.

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So certainly very high levels of injury.

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My eyes were zoned shut because I had a lot of cuts there.

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I couldn't talk because I had a tracheotomy.

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I couldn't smell because I didn't have a nose.

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This patient, like many others who have facial injuries, no matter how well the surgeons repair them,

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they never regained exactly their original normal appearance.

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Before that, I had been a model and people always looked at me with admiration.

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And after the accident, without a nose and without a mouth and without a face, people looked at me with looks of horror.

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And I felt very guilty for upsetting them.

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And I wanted enough of a face to be able to blend into a crowd again and not scare people.

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Her surgeons warned that the reconstruction process would be long and arduous, requiring at least ten separate surgeries.

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After the first operation, the pain was unbearable.

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It was just horrible to see my mom just sitting there in agony, just unable to do anything, and just absolutely in pain.

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Intense pain, like a symphony, I remember. It was always there, always intense.

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It was just horrible. It was a dreadful, dreadful time.

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The second surgery was even more excruciating.

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On the eve of her third surgery, Gary's dread intensified.

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And I was scared. I was really scared of the pain.

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And this very pushy friend called me up and said,

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I've heard about these wonderful pain control tapes you might like to use since you have all these years of surgery out of you.

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The tapes came from the non-profit Monroe Institute, an education and research facility in Virginia.

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Here, sound waves are used to affect brain waves, often with amazing results.

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We teach people how to use the power of their mind, how to use this power to promote healing processes,

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to promote optimal learning, to gain control of their life and their perceptions as they move through life.

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The Institute was founded on the principle that focused states of consciousness can be achieved

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by listening to combinations of sounds that alter brainwave patterns.

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In this focused state, pain can be eliminated. It's called the hemisync method.

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We put one sound in one ear and another sound in the other ear.

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And when these sounds work together inside the brain, they alter your state of consciousness.

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They actually change the brain waves inside your head.

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It's not subliminal. The tones are a part either of music or of ocean waves depending on the different tapes.

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For Gary, the tapes had an amazing effect. Her pain threshold changed so dramatically,

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she asked if she could listen to a tape in the operating room.

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I took the tapes in with me for the surgery to make my nose and I told Dr. Edgerton,

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if the tapes worked fine but if not, I'd like my codeine right away please.

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And he smiled and he said he thought it would be an interesting experiment

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and all the doctors and nurses were quite interested as well.

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Some of these operations of course can be very painful for a time,

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but with the aid of the tapes, even going down to the operating room area with the tapes playing,

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she really seemed to deal with the anxiety issues and the post-operative pain issues very well.

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And I think a lot of the staff were very impressed by how much these tapes helped her.

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I was relaxed and happy going down into the operating room.

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It was like going to a fun party instead of the shakes and the queasiness I would have had before.

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In Gary's case, it was very clear she did not request very much anesthetic when she was using the Monroe tapes.

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The feeling when somebody is cutting on you when you use these tapes is one of being disassociated.

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You feel the touching and the pulling or pushing as they're cutting or stitching,

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but there's no pain associated with it. It's just like a very gentle touch.

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Where you hypnotize somebody and you tell them you're going to burn them,

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but you actually reach out and just lightly touch them, the body believes so strongly that it's going to be burned,

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that it will be blistered.

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that it's going to get healthy and it's going to have less pain,

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that it actually kicks in and provides all those things that are necessary for that to happen.

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I had no pain after that surgery whatsoever. I used the Monroe audio tapes and there was minimal swelling and bruising,

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and I went home from the hospital in two days instead of ten.

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The whole theory opens a lot of interesting possibilities.

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We are just in the very early stages of understanding brain function.

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Gary continued to use her tapes through seven more operations.

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Today she looks forward to a pain-free life and feels her purpose now is to help others through lectures and her book, Healing Myself.

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We truly are all one and we're all here to help each other, and that's what I want this book to do for other people.

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I've been blessed to have the face that I have, but I think in a way, mommy's more blessed to have what's happened to her

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because it's changed her and it's given her a whole new outlook.

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And this is only a skin for me now.

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It used to be an identity and now my identity is in here. It's not here.

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I guess what really had an effect on me was seeing my mother utilizing these tapes

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and utilizing the potential within herself to heal.

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I thought, wow, if that's possible, it really opens the door for so many more things.

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The meaning of life to me before the accident was totally based on outer appearances.

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Now in my second life, I look at the light bulbs. I don't look at the lampshades as I did in my first life.

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The Monroe Institute is not suggesting that every patient should forego anesthesia in the operating room,

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but they do believe that as long as conventional medicine is standing by,

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alternative therapy should be given a chance to work first.

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When sightings continues, startling UFO activity captured on home video.

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There's an excitement for builds and it's just like incredible. I've never seen anything like this in my life.

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Jose Escamilla used to be like a lot of other amateur sky watchers.

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Take his video camera outside and hope for the best.

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But in March of this year, Jose got something, a UFO streaking across the sky.

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And since then, he has shot more than 500 hours of what he believes is UFO footage.

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Where does Jose Escamilla live? 12 miles outside of Roswell, New Mexico.

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We began taping UFOs on March 5th.

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I got a call and they said, come out to midway. There's UFOs out here.

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Midway, New Mexico is easy to miss if you're speeding by on the interstate.

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To the casual observer, it's just another small southwestern town.

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But look up. There in broad daylight, strange craft are flying over the town.

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Sightings contacted local residents who have startling home videos of UFOs they just can't explain.

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New Mexico as a whole has had a lot of sightings.

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And I think that there is a tremendous interest by our visitors, should we say,

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as to the activities that have taken place here in the past.

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Here, just as stones throw from midway near Roswell, New Mexico,

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a suspicious crash landing in 1947 launched modern interest in ufology.

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The Air Force insisted it was a downed weather balloon.

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And despite persistent rumors, continue to deny any knowledge of alien craft or life forms.

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But many people who live and work here believe otherwise,

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that this new flap of UFOs is connected to the original Roswell incident.

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Jose Escamilla owns a videotape facility in New Mexico

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and has shot hundreds of hours of beautiful southwestern scenery.

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But on March 5th, 1994, Escamilla saw his first UFOs.

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He immediately began videotaping.

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We have a piece of film of a jet, I think it was a citation that flew right over the property.

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I guess it must have been about five or six hundred feet.

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And we captured an object that comes from upper screen right on TV.

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And it goes right up behind the jet and it seems to tag it on the tail or bump it.

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And you can see the object taken off away from the jet.

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Because of his video background, some people were suspicious of Escamilla's footage.

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Local news reporter LaShelle Yates launched an investigation.

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Given the history of Roswell and the crash,

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we thought it was interesting that here is a man who is capturing something unexplained on videotape.

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So we went out and videotaped in the same place that he videotapes.

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And we got identical objects on our video.

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So we feel that he's not tricking us with any video scam or anything.

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What he has captured on tape, we feel is authentic.

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To date, Jose Escamilla has logged more than five hundred hours of UFO videotape.

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Every time we get a new tape and we find some new kind of object in there,

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there's an excitement that builds and it's just like incredible.

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I've never seen anything like this in my life.

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From the film footage I have seen, there appears to be some type of intelligence behind the phenomena.

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They represent a true enigma deserving of scientific scrutiny.

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The Escamilla video is an excellent cross-section of the kinds of things that I see on videotapes.

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Jim DeLotosa specializes in computer-assisted analysis of film and videotape.

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Sightings asked him to examine a large sampling from Escamilla's footage.

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He has found a number of unnatural flight patterns.

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What we find, you'll see, is that the object comes right in front of this telephone pole

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and then moves right up here and over top of the wires and out of the frame.

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Now in calculating this distance from where it comes in over the trees

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and by analyzing the edges and going up over the poles, it's about nine hundred yards.

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And in that period of time, it's moving well over three thousand miles an hour.

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There are at least four military bases that are known to use the airspace over this part of New Mexico.

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And Area 51, the supposedly non-existent Air Force testing facility,

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would be only ten minutes away for a stealth fighter.

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Are unidentified craft like these government built and run?

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The Pentagon isn't talking.

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When it comes to trying to get this information, the Air Force will come back on an initial generic request

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stating that they have no information. This is a lie.

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The proximity to military bases in New Mexico and Eskimea making these videotapes is not just a coincidence.

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It follows a pattern.

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Skeptics offer this as proof that UFOs are actually military aircraft.

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But much of Eskimea's footage reveals silhouettes and velocities that are not only unidentified by eyewitnesses

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but also unimaginable by current standards of technology.

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I'd like to find out what they are, period.

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If they're top secret military aircraft that the military is testing,

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I want an answer why they're doing such dangerous things out there, like bumping their own jets.

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That's number one, but if they are not, I'd like to know what they may be.

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Jose Eskimea knows that not everything he's capturing on videotape can be an alien spacecraft,

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but he believes that his video journal of the skies above Roswell is an important research tool for ufologists.

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It is the only comprehensive catalog of rare daytime activity anywhere in the world.

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Coming up next, a psychic detective goes in search of a brutal killer.

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I would suspect that he's a real killer.

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Detective goes in search of a brutal killer.

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I would suspect that this is someone capable of becoming a serial killer.

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Then what do these people see and feel that you can't?

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And a sightings update, the bizarre cattle mutilations continue.

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The growing number of psychic phone services and storefront card readers is calling into question the integrity of professional psychics.

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But on sightings, we've found that there are a few gifted individuals who do make important psychic contributions,

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especially when it comes to providing new leads in an unsolved crime.

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This has been a very frustrating case.

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Potential suspects that we had early on in this case have been eliminated.

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I believe in what I can feel and touch and smell in here, but at this point in investigation,

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I'm not going to rule out anything that might provide a lead.

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I believe that Nancy Meyers will come up with something.

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I truly believe in my heart.

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By her own description, Nancy Meyers is a wife and a mother.

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But to the Nags Hen Police Department, she is a ray of hope.

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They've never worked with a psychic detective before,

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but one murder has remained unsolved for more than a year and the trail is growing cold.

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It happened here on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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Nags Head is a popular resort area, and in August of 1993, the town was crowded with vacationers,

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enjoying the last warm weekend of the summer.

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But there was trouble ahead.

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A hurricane had made landfall down the coast and was heading north toward Nags Head.

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That night, everyone was talking about the impending hurricane.

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But just a few hours later, that would change.

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They'd all be talking about the young woman from New Jersey they'd met in the bar,

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the young woman who was now dead, brutally stabbed.

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My sister Janet was one of the kindest, sweetest people you'd ever want to meet.

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She had so many friends and was liked by everyone.

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She was a very, very strong person, very fragile, very loving, that's for sure.

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She had such wisdom about her that I loved.

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That evening after dinner, Janet and two of her friends went to the Porticole restaurant

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and stayed there for several hours.

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Her two girlfriends left an hour or so earlier.

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Janet stayed until closing.

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Janet was staying with her brother at the Hotel Carolinian.

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She got back around 2.30 in the morning, went up to her room,

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and told her brother that she was going down to the beach to have a cigarette.

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Once she left the room, we really don't know what happened.

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Between that time and shortly after 6 o'clock in the morning,

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she was brutally murdered on the beach just a short distance to each of the motels.

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I ran out the door onto the deck.

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There were police everywhere restraining me, not letting me up to the beach.

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And I said, my sister hasn't come home. She hasn't come home.

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And they wouldn't let me up on the beach.

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And in my heart, I knew that poor Janet was gone.

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It was the grizzliest murder Nagshan had ever seen.

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And the police department was immediately hampered by two factors that were out of their control.

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Vacationers and seasonal employees were leaving in droves.

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Summer was over. And by day's end, the entire town was being evacuated.

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Hurricane Emily was on the way.

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On August the 28th, Saturday morning, we completed the crime scene investigation

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and started interviewing potential witnesses.

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But on Sunday morning, we were put on a hurricane stand by and watch

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and started evacuating the area.

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Hurricane Emily not only swept the murderer out of town,

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it swept away any trace of his heinous crime.

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The blood soaked sand in front of the hotel washed out to sea.

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And with it, valuable clues the police would never recover.

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The hurricane left a clean slate, a detective's worst enemy.

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It's been a very frustrating case.

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The fact that nobody that we've contacted or we've spoken to has seen anything.

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Nobody's heard anything.

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Anxious for new leads, Nagshan police put their skepticism aside

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and allowed psychic Nancy Meyer to take a look at the case.

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I started working and police worked 19 years ago.

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There's energy in every murder scene.

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When I look at stacks of photos of a murder scene,

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I am not trying to look at this poor, battered body.

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What I'm looking for is somewhere when that photographer moved all the way around the body,

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he stood exactly where the killer was at a moment when the killer was open.

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Bam, I'm in there.

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That's why I need those photos.

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He has a long-standing hatred of women.

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If Dale comes over his face, there's no expression, the eyes are wooden.

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Nothing will stop him.

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I would say you are dealing with a very disturbed man.

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I would suspect this is someone capable of becoming a serial killer if he is not already.

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Nancy Meyer has worked on over 300 police investigations.

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Unlike other psychic detectives, she does not become the victim or the killer.

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Rather, she draws psychic pictures from crime scene photos.

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She told sightings these photos were the most brutal she'd ever seen.

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Photo after photo after photo.

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There was a personal connection.

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She has known him for a while.

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You said that this was a planned event on his part?

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Yes.

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He seems to have been watching her earlier in the evening,

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but at a good enough distance so that no one,

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because some of the people she was with, might have recognized him.

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So he's watching at a distance.

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So he had parked his car in the parking lot there at the hotel.

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He seems to have walked a little bit to get to where she died.

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Nancy Meyer worked with a police sketch artist to create the portrait of a killer.

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He has like light brown hair, grayish eyes.

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They look kind of like a cross between gray blue and hazel.

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In addition to this sketch,

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police detectives believe that Nancy Meyer has provided important new leads.

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Mrs. Meyer's involvement in this case today is the first opportunity

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that I've had to work one-on-one with the psychic.

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And quite frankly, I didn't know what to expect.

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She was able to tell us a great deal more information

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than I'd ever hoped for personally.

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The person responsible for this crime,

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I think the state of North Carolina should make good use of his death penalty.

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She said with me every day,

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I see her spirit as I know and as nobdats.

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I feel her. She's with me.

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And I know she keeps on telling me,

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Mom, don't worry, I'm in a better place.

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And I know she's with the young John Sanota.

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As in any profession, there are a few unscrupulous psychics out there

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who prey on emotionally vulnerable victims and their families.

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If you're thinking about consulting a psychic detective,

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it's important to choose wisely.

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Don't pay any money up front

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and work hand-in-hand with local law enforcement.

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Next, they hear colors and taste shapes.

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It's being called the seventh sense.

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It's not imagination.

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It's a different type of person.

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Imagination is a different type of reality.

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Imagine experiencing your five senses all mixed up.

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Suddenly you feel colors.

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You hear shapes.

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A friend's voice tastes like buttered toast.

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These are all real-life experiences

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of a rare group of people called synesthetes.

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They have a rare brain condition that mixes up all five senses

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and in some cases, reportedly, heightens a sixth psychic sense.

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It was a beautiful, clear night, and I heard a warbler off in the tree,

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and it was sending little blue bubbles off into the air.

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I was seeing these flashing images and pictures

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and all of this thing in my mind.

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If I'm introduced to someone, I can usually recall the name

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because I get an aura of color.

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These people are experiencing the world differently

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from the other 99.996% of us.

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They're not hallucinating, imagining, or pretending.

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They have synesthesia.

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Synesthesia is an involuntary joining of the senses.

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Now you know the word anesthesia, okay, which means no sensation.

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Synesthesia means joined sensation.

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It's not imagination. It's a different type of reality.

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When Harry Gilbert hears sounds, he sees colors and shapes.

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It's called colored hearing and is the most common type

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of this most uncommon condition.

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If I heard something like a dog barking, it would depend on the dog.

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It would depend on the bark because there...

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a woof-woof sound would be kind of a big smoky gray, like pepper.

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Like pepper that you pour out of a peppermint.

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Whereas a little yipping dog might have small, isolated,

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little white shapes that come out.

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Dr. Richard Sitoic is a neurologist

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and the world's leading authority on synesthesia.

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Synesthesia's memories are extraordinary.

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Sometimes they're even photographic.

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As a group, synesthetes have a higher incidence of unusual experiences.

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Clear voyants, precognitive dreams, empathic healing, deja vu.

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But these are not crazy people running around the street hearing voices.

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These are very bright people who, for all the world, appear normal,

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except for this very peculiar and fascinating way of perceiving the world.

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Synesthete Jane Gossage-Bauerman tries to translate her experience through painting.

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This is what the classical music she's listening to looks like.

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I can do a painting and look at it, and I don't have a clue how I did it.

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Because I don't know anything about painting.

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I couldn't possibly draw anything my little three-year-old grandchild can draw.

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I don't know how to do it, but I do know how to draw what I see.

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The doorbell rings and she sees a series of triangles.

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Here's a screech makes a stack of colored lines,

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like a stack of pancakes in a way.

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And based on what synesthetes see are elementary geometric things here.

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You know, dots, triangles.

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They're seeing sort of the building blocks of perception.

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Dr. Sitoic first began studying synesthesia in earnest after a chance meeting with a neighbor.

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My neighbor, my new neighbor, invited me to dinner in North Carolina

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and delayed us sitting down to the table with the apology

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that there aren't enough points on the chicken.

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Now, most of the guests just thought he was being silly, but I questioned him a bit,

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and after a while I said, oh, you've got synesthesia, you know, taste and touch.

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And his response was, you mean there's a name for this?

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This incident inspired the title of Dr. Sitoic's definitive book on the subject.

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In it, he chronicles the way the brain can create its own separate reality.

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Now, Michael Watson, who is literally the man who tasted shapes of my book's title,

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for him, the taste of mint was a cool, smooth, curved sensation

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as if reaching out to feel the backside of a glass column.

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Dr. Sitoic was surprised to find that most synesthetes don't realize that their perceptions are extraordinary

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until someone who doesn't have it tells them so.

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I first realized I had synesthesia from when I was 28, and a friend and I were trying to recall someone's name,

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and I said, well, it has sort of a green cast, and she said, what are you talking about?

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And that was the realization that I was seeing something different from what she was seeing,

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or she didn't have that sensibility.

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Gwen Glogy also expresses her experience through painting.

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When I'm reading or when I see words or when I am spoken to, I get a fabric of many different colors,

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and I think I would be devastated if I woke up tomorrow morning and everything were in black and white.

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And people ask me, they say, well, you know, synesthesia is real.

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My response is, well, real to whom? To you or to the people who have it?

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And you see this insistence on a third-person technological verification of any experience

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before accepting it as real really gets to the heart of how addicted we are to the external and the rational,

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and that really sweeps aside all of the kinds of knowing.

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Synesthesia helps me play music because partly it is a way I remember things.

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Once in a while, I'll hear a sound in a song that will make a vivid color that stands right out,

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and it makes me want to play it over and over again.

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Dr. Sitoic estimates that as many as one in 25,000 people may have synesthesia and not know it,

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and those that do feel blessed.

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Far from being some esoteric curiosity that's really unimportant,

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synesthesia turns out to be a peephole on a huge amount of the mind and the brain.

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What does it feel like to have synesthesia?

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Well, we can never experience what they experience,

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but we can glimpse it through the work of some famous synesthetes,

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visual artists David Hockney and Vasily Kondinsky, and composers Sergei Rachmaninov and Franz Liszt.

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Next, a sightings update. The mutilations continue in New Mexico and ranchers want answers.

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You know, it's a crime. They're taking my living away from me. It's just outright thievery.

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Eli Hornick is a rancher in northern New Mexico who has experienced the horror of cattle mutilation firsthand.

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Recently, Hornick participated in a sightings investigation of animal mutilation in the southwest.

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Since his participation, Hornick informs us that the mutilations have not only continued, but seem to be increasing.

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The tongue was missing. The meat, after it cut it open, looked like it had been cooked or something.

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When we found the animal, it couldn't have been there no longer than 12, 13 hours,

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because I was there at 6.30 in the evening. I was back there at 7 o'clock the next morning.

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It wasn't maybe 600 yards from the ranch house, and this animal was all...it had been mutilated.

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There's no blood, no tracks, no sign of nothing. And this animal was already decomposing,

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like it had been dead for four or five days.

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If it was satanic cults, you'd have blood all over everything. If it was predators, you'd have blood all over.

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These cuts are very uniform, very smooth. The eye looks like it has just been sucked out.

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It's a pattern that continues to be all too familiar for many ranchers in the southwest, and now there's a strange new development.

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We've had a disturbing new trend where ranchers inadvertently are touching these carcasses,

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and they're developing what could be, I guess, likened to a chemical-like burn.

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I stuck my thumb in the animal's mouth. When I stuck that thumb in there, well, it burned for about two weeks.

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I mean, like a...I would say it would be like a battery acid burn or something, you know, like that.

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Since our last report, the border area between New Mexico and Colorado has been hit hard.

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Ranchers there tell sightings that animals are decomposing at an unnaturally rapid rate, and the body count is up.

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We're having mutilations that are occurring on almost a weekly basis.

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They seem to be expanding outwards from this area. About a week and a half after the sighting segment aired,

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we had two cases in Swatch County, Colorado, which is about 80 miles north of here.

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I think they're coming down out of the air with some kind of air equipment, picking them up, taking them, bringing them back and laying them down.

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Eli Hornick is fed up with the seeming lack of interest in his and other ranchers' plight.

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Mutilation reports gathered dust on government desks, while animals continue to die.

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And even as the number of dead cattle rises, official interest in the mystery is declining.

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Somebody somewhere in this country knows what's going on.

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I mean, it just seems like every time we try to do an investigation, try to get something started, it comes to a dead end.

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We can't get senators, congressmen, you know, it just gets a lot of publicity, but it just dies.

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You know, it doesn't seem like, you know, it's a crime. You know, this is real monetary value.

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This is my living. You know, it's cost me thousands of dollars already.

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They're taking my living away from me. It's just outright thievery.

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Why isn't somebody doing it? Something about it.

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Our government has the capacity to monitor any square acre of ground in this country if they want to.

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If they are not part of the problem and they are truly as baffled about this as the ranchers and investigators like myself are,

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let's catch whoever or whatever is mutilating cattle.

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Ranchers and private investigators say they smell a rat.

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They are beginning to believe that there is a government conspiracy of silence at the heart of the mutilation phenomenon.

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We was caught in hay in one of the meadows, and this helicopter was right there.

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It looked to me like a big military-type helicopter. No numbers. And that night we had a mutilation.

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I think people are scared to pay attention. They're scared. This is something of the unknown.

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And they just don't want to get involved. And it's a very frightening thing, especially when you see these things.

524
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You know, my God, they could come after me. Maybe they'll start on humans next. I hope not.

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Finally, someone in Washington is taking the cattle mutilation problem seriously.

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This is a letter written by New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, requesting that the livestock board provide him with a detailed status report on the progress of their cattle mutilation investigation.

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For ranchers like Eli Hornick, it's the first sign of official support for a phenomenon that has plagued them since 1967.

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If you've had a paranormal experience, call the Sightings Hotline at 1-900-933-SITE. That's 1-900-933-7444.

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Each call 65 cents a minute. Average call last three minutes.

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Sightings is also online. Our email address is sightings at aol.com.

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Until next time, remember, no mystery is closed to an open mind.

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For Sightings, I'm Tim White.

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I'm Tim on Sci-Fi.