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On this edition of Sightings, deep within Colorado's black forest, something is disturbing the

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solitude of Steve and Beth Lee's Rocky Mountain retreat.

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We came home and it was like the fourth of July and I lived in a room in our bedroom.

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A sightings investigation provides some answers.

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Then could this man have discovered proof of intelligent life on Mars?

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You realize how fantastic all this sounds.

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Yes.

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Beth Lee Hastelut knew that her brother's spirit would not be still until she found and buried his remains.

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Sightings goes to Vietnam searching for the spirit of a restless warrior.

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There's further proof of a dramatic UFO encounter over Iran.

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It can be any technology to be like that is only you.

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And first there were crop circles.

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Now Sightings uncovers the mystery of the sandbrings.

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Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White.

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When the Lee family of Black Forest Colorado contacted Sightings, it was their last resort.

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The Lees were exhausted, both emotionally and financially.

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They'd spent everything they had trying to cope with the terrifying haunting in their rustic mountain home.

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When Sightings saw photographs the Lees had taken of the supposed entity, an investigative team was quickly dispatched.

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With the majestic Rocky Mountains as a backdrop, Black Forest Colorado seemed like a picture-perfect destination for Steve and Beth Lee.

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For five years the Lees rented homes in the area until they decided this was the place they wanted to set down roots.

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Strangely, as soon as they made the commitment to stay, the paranormal force wanted them out.

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We came home and it was like the 4th of July in our living room and in our bedroom.

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We had all kinds of lights flashing through.

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We would hear people walking or sound like people walking across a roof.

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We would lay in bed at night and hear chains dangling.

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One night we woke up and we heard orchestra music. Just strange things started happening.

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The Lees did not immediately assume that this was the work of a ghost or a poltergeist.

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They searched for a conventional explanation.

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A sophisticated burglar alarm was installed.

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Security cameras surveilled their property.

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Beth hired private investigators, inquiring state and federal agencies.

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So far, these efforts have added up to more than $30,000.

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We basically used all of our savings. We've used all of our things we ever invested.

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We've used the college funds, the whole works, trying to figure the sound.

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The Lees have been gathering an impressive body of evidence that some strange forces have worked here.

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There are audio tapes of inexplicable noises, statements from multiple eyewitnesses,

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and bizarre photographic images.

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Things started coming out in the photographs, which I thought was a light leak and camera messing up.

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So that's when I changed cameras and started taking a lot more pictures.

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I took a picture right over against my wall and we got it back at a...had some fog in it with an image it looked like of a face.

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I'm getting the same image in the fog outside the house, in front of the house and back, no matter where I take it.

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The images contradicted the Lees' belief that the disturbances were caused by electronic interference, atmospheric conditions, or intruders.

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These photos convinced them to search in a new paranormal direction.

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When Steve Lee contacted Sightings for help, we called in longtime photographic consultant Edson Williams.

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Williams is an expert in creating special effects on film. He is trained to detect trick photography.

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Of all the pictures I saw, this is certainly one of the most curious.

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It would be difficult to recreate that dot on a single exposure.

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This dot caught my eye because this is the only instance where there's both a hazy aberration and a very sharp dot.

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And also these are indoor. This is the first and only dot I've seen that was inside the house.

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This image was probably the most interesting of all the images to me.

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It has a light beam that seems to be emanating from the ceiling. It has a slight glow around the top.

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And the light has a slight bend to it, which also I thought was very, very interesting.

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As it comes down, it gets a little thicker and has about a five or six degree bend midway through the beam.

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If this is not trick photography, what is it? Sightings offered to send an investigative team to Black Forest.

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I'm kind of at the point now where I have the best in the field saying we don't know.

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And so that's why y'all are here because we're kind of at the point now where, you know, if we have to accept it as paranormal, I guess we will.

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The investigation focuses on three areas where activity is most pronounced.

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An exterior wall adjacent to the Lee's satellite dish, the living room,

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and upstairs in the master bedroom. The sightings team brings in multiple cameras and highly sensitive wireless microphones.

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A second crew hired by the Lee's records our team so they can learn how to conduct follow-up investigations.

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Psychic Echo Vodim has been brought in to locate paranormal hotspots, which we will attempt to substantiate with a thermal imaging system.

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Any slight thermal changes the camera will see. We take the temperature information and convert it to color, and there's 256 different colors that we're displaying on the screen.

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Less than an hour into the investigation, unusual interference completely wipes out the team's audio system.

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It coincides with Echo Vodim's first psychic impressions of a threatening force.

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I sat down and I was trying to listen to him and I became aware of several voices over here.

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And so I turned around and there's a male spirit standing right there, right there.

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In the precise place where Echo is pointing, thermal imaging reveals an anomalous hotspot in the rafters.

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The heat reads as light blue while the rest of the ceiling aerial reads in darker, cooler blues and pinks.

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He's responsible for the things that have happened and he will continue to be responsible for the things that will continue to happen.

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He considers this to be his place, basically.

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A few minutes later, an unseen force pushes a heavy video camera off its sturdy tripod.

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What just happened with the camera?

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The camera was set up here on the tripod. It was locked in.

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It just took a header right off the tripod and landed on this light stand here and bent it.

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The camera is undamaged and the investigation continues in Stephen Beth's bedroom.

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Here Echo receives her strongest psychic impressions.

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What I'm feeling is this room is absolutely full of spirits.

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This room attracts spirits from the past.

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This is not a restful place. This is not a restful room to sleep in.

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Again, there is physical evidence of an unexplained intruder.

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A slow, hollow thumping is picked up by a police scanner in the corner of the bedroom.

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It's also picked up by the sightings audio operator and by Echo Bodine.

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It is unlike any kind of known electronic interference.

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Steve turned on his scanner and initially we heard that exact same noise,

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but now we're hearing something else and it started out really slow.

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It sounded like footsteps and now it's gotten a little faster and this is how it sounds.

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This is compelling evidence that some kind of physical disturbance is affecting the Lee Hall.

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But the force seemed to be most evident in the emotional effect it had on members of the investigator team.

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I for one would like to get out of here.

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In the living room, Echo is asking Beth to recall some of her feeling of terror and anxiety when the feelings return unannounced.

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All of a sudden I felt like something was just holding me and it was cold and I wasn't sitting.

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I was standing and I couldn't breathe and I felt just like that right now.

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It was almost like somebody opened up a winter door.

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But they're holding you and kind of going like this.

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It's growing again. It's getting bigger again.

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Unbelievable.

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I have got to move for just a second.

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It's really strong.

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I've just got to get away from here with it.

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Unbelievable.

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With the emotions, there is more electronic interference.

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There seems to be a connection and the team decides to move outside to the area between the living rooms, exterior wall and the satellite dish.

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It is here that the intersection of the physical and the emotional overtakes a member of the Lee's camera crew.

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What's wrong Sherry?

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I said the satellite didn't release her.

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I can't explain my arms. My arms feel...

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It's going inside of her.

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Is it my chest?

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My chest, my arms.

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My legs.

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Echo told her to keep saying gloomy.

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They were nailed.

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You're talking.

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I'm not clear.

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Let's get to bed again, Goni.

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Okay.

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What is this?

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All right.

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What is this?

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No, don't do this.

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It's okay, Sherry. Don't.

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Sherry.

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Sherry.

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Sherry.

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Don't.

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It's just what they want you to do.

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Stay calm.

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Don't worry about this.

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Stay calm.

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I want to go away.

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It's okay. It's okay.

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It's like it's an energy that's pulling on me.

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At the same time it's pulling on her.

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What is it?

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As soon as she left the house, the terror subsided and was completely gone less than 24 hours later.

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It's a phenomenon that Echo Bodine believes is a direct result of the more than 20 restless spirits she believes are trapped inside this house.

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On a one to ten scale, it's a ten.

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The activity is monumental.

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This preliminary investigation confirms what the Lee family has felt for more than a year.

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But more work will have to be done to determine why their home is being targeted and what it will take to appease the spirits here.

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Mainly, I just want a normal life again and to get it past us and get on down the road.

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Since our investigation, the unseen forces inside the Lee home have turned violent.

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Steve Lee recently sent us this photograph of a large scratch across his forehead.

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There was no scratch on the negative.

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The following day, as this home video shows, Steve developed a large painful welt on his forehead.

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His doctor can't explain the cause of the injury.

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The Lees believe that this welt was caused by violent energy directed at Steve by an evil spirit within the house.

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They have agreed to update sightings if this strange phenomenon continues.

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And we will continue to update you.

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I'm absolutely convinced we're related to other beings elsewhere in our galaxy.

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There is, or was, life on Mars.

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This is the conclusion of many researchers who studied NASA photographs of Mars transmitted by the Viking spacecraft.

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Several photographs show a face staring out into the cosmos.

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It seems impossible, but as correspondent Carla Wall reports, there are clues here on Earth that add an intriguing new dimension to the face on Mars.

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Here in the countryside of South Central England, in a hamlet named Ave. Berry, stand 5,000-year-old stone structures of unknown origin.

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There are also circular mounds built for a purpose no one has deciphered.

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But now, an intriguing new theory suggests that these mysterious monuments are connected to similar formations on the surface of Mars.

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The complex on Mars is exceedingly important in my view because it's highlighted by the presence of the famous face on Mars, which acted as a beacon and probably attracted our attention to the whole area.

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David Percy is an author, filmmaker and paranormal researcher. He believes that this face is not a trick of light and shadow.

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That it's part of a vast complex of Martian structures created by intelligent life.

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This is the whole of the complex. Over here to the west, we have an area which we call the city.

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And over here to the right is a crater. And beneath it, down here, a spiral mound.

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And over to the west, a pyramid which is five-sided.

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In 1991, while researching the Ave. Berry crop circle phenomenon, Percy made a startling connection.

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I took an ordnance survey map of the area and superimposed it over the NASA photograph, the complex, in its entirety, and found that it matched.

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The most striking match was made here at the famous Ave. Berry Circle.

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It's about a quarter of a mile in diameter. And around about 5,000 years ago, they shifted approximately four million cubic feet of material.

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One would want to ask why my hypothesis is that this is a copy of the crater on Mars.

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That's a big stretch for a lot of people to believe that this is the duplicate of something or more.

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So how do you get there?

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Well, this isn't the only item that we're dealing with here. We have just a short distance away, Silbury Hill.

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It's the same relative size as the spiral mound on Mars and is the same relative distance to the crater.

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It would have taken about 700 people 10 years to build this.

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It was equivalent in effort to putting a man on the moon in the 60s.

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Ave. Berry Circle and Silbury Hill do bear an uncanny resemblance to their counterparts on Mars.

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But I found some of Percy's other theories harder to accept.

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David, I have to tell you that this, to me, looks like an ordinary country path.

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Yes, I agree with you.

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It is, in fact, an ordinary country path, but it happens to be the analogue of the top ridge of the pyramids in the city on Mars.

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But if you really want to see something, don't you think you'll see it?

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I mean, can't you be making things because you want it to fit your theory?

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Yes, of course that can be done.

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And the people who look at this information have to see for themselves.

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You've got to explain, for instance, why that crater is positioned exactly where it is on this planet.

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It isn't at a random place. It is a very accurately measured point between the north pole and the equator.

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If you draw a line from the wall down to the south to the spiral mound and then up again to that tetrahedral rim pyramid,

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you get just under 19.5 degrees.

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If you do exactly the same thing at Ave. Berry, you get precisely the same measurement.

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You cannot get such a correspondence just by wishful thinking.

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How do you think it was created? Who do you think created it and why?

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Clearly this complex on Mars that we're talking about was built by intelligent beings who went to Mars

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and built the complex because they were working on a project.

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And this project, in my view, concerned the emerging beings on this planet.

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Percy believes that the extraterrestrials came to Ave. Berry centuries ago to change the course of human evolution.

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And they conducted experiments in genetic engineering.

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I believe they constructed the complex to undertake a genetic project that concerned the emerging beings on this planet.

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And I believe that that spot marks the birthplace of human beings, Chromagnon Man.

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Percy has found an unlikely ally for his bizarre theory in evolutionary researcher Stan Gooch.

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They have concentrated on the chain of human development, which made an unexpected and unexplained leap

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from Neanderthal Man, who appears more ape-like, to Chromagnon Man, who appears more human.

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How do evolutionists explain that?

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Well, they don't. They just drop something. They say, well, we'll find the home site of Chromagnon Man one day and it doesn't really matter.

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They just brush it aside.

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What do you think of David's theory that in fact it was genetic interference from extraterrestrials that explains this?

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I think the extraterrestrial theory is more likely than any because why have we not found the home sites where Chromagnon evolved over periods of millions of years?

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That's what's required.

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Why would extraterrestrials on Mars be concerned with our development down here?

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Because they have always been concerned with our development.

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I'm absolutely convinced we're related to other beings elsewhere in our galaxy and indeed in other galaxies too.

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You realize how fantastic all this sounds.

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Yes.

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Do you worry that people will think you're crazy?

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No, because I believe we will actually be able to go to that site and see the things that they were doing.

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I predict that when we go there, we will find out a lot more that will corroborate this unfolding story.

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NASA agrees that the Viking space probe has made significant scientific contributions.

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However, they steadfastly maintain that proof of life on Mars is not one of them.

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Next, what's behind Oregon's mysterious sandbrings?

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I believe that they are non-physical, non-terrestrial intelligence.

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And who's watching for killer comments?

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Now, here are some of the stories Sightings is following in the news.

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World-renowned alien abduction expert Dr. John Mack is facing serious charges from some of his colleagues at Harvard.

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They want him out.

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At Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of psychiatry John Mack

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is embroiled in a fight for academic freedom, unprecedented in the school's 360-year history,

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all because of this book on the alien abduction experience.

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I believe one has to expand our notion of the possible and the real to even begin to take this in.

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Dr. Mack's book is a case-by-case study of his own patients and counters.

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It's a little gray being and it seemed to be female just the way it was sitting.

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As his book earned increasing publicity, a faculty committee began questioning Dr. Mack's psychiatric methods.

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Despite more than 30 years teaching at Harvard, Dr. Mack was threatened with expulsion.

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The number of the people who have gone forward to work with me with the media and connect with my book

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have in fact been threatened with lots of their jobs and people have actually lost their jobs.

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After a year-long investigation, John Mack was permitted to remain at Harvard

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with the warning that his future studies must be, in the panel's words, more scholarly.

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Our island in space, our Earth, is threatened by giant chunks of galactic debris hurtling blindly through space.

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When the shoemaker Levy Comet crashed into Jupiter in 1994, it was Earth's wake-up call.

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A congressional task force was formed to monitor the potential danger to our planet.

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But recently, the task force was disbanded.

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In a special issue of Astronomy Magazine, editor Robert Burnham warns that this means there are now more people

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working behind the counter of one fast-food restaurant than there are watching the entire cosmos for signs of impending disaster.

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The threat is real. Comets and asteroids have hit the Earth before.

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Craters range in size from just a few feet to over 5,000 square miles.

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According to Astronomy Magazine, NASA researchers believe there are over 1,000 near-Earth objects

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large enough to cause a global cataclysm if they hit. However, fewer than 10% of them have actually been discovered.

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So the next time you go to your favorite fast-food joint, count the number of people behind the counter.

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Then remember that your lunch order is getting more attention than target Earth.

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Along the rugged Oregon coastline, in this inaccessible code, someone or something has left a calling card.

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And the message is strikingly similar to the one left in crop fields worldwide.

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But instead of corn or wheat, this message is written in sand.

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Who the circle makers are, I believe that they are non-physical, non-terrestrial, very high-order intelligence.

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Eilis is the national coordinator of the Center for Crop Circle Studies U.S. Network.

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She has investigated dozens of inexplicable formations in farmers' fields throughout North America

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and has found a strong connection between crop circles and sightings of UFOs.

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In Hunk Point, Oregon, the formation of the sand circle was also connected to a UFO sighting.

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This is the first time that we've ever had sand rains.

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Certainly on the beach, it's the first time in sand at all.

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There was a light scene offshore the night before the sand rings were discovered in the area here.

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This area is under the high water line twice a day.

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Further study and more photographic evidence is impossible,

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as quickly as it appeared the Hunk Point sand ring was gone, washed away by the tide.

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We'll have more stories from the news next time.

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Now, here's what's coming up on Sightings.

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Lately, Aislep's book inspired Oliver Stone to make heaven and earth.

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Now, Sightings investigates the frightening story of a restless spirit that taunts her family.

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Later, Iran's top military command speaks out about a dramatic UFO encounter.

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In 1992, when Lately Aislep returned to Vietnam after 20 years in the United States,

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it was as a technical advisor to director Oliver Stone.

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He was making heaven and earth through story of Lately's coming of age during the Vietnam War.

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As Lately watched her past unfold in front of the camera,

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it seemed strange paranormal forces were at work behind the scenes.

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She was a young woman when she left Vietnam as the bride of an American.

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Now, Lately Aislep returns to her homeland with director Oliver Stone.

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This house here is not supposed to be there on the...

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Lately's story will become the movie Heaven and Earth,

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and it will be the first movie to be played in the movie.

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The movie will be played in the movie,

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and it will be played in the movie,

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and Lately's story will become the movie Heaven and Earth,

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and on this trip, she is guiding the cast and crew through her childhood village

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and introducing them to her family.

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They are here to learn the details of Lately's girlhood,

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that will bring the film to life.

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It is a rare opportunity for actress Joan Chen to meet Lately's mother,

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whom she will portray in the film.

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But another family member is conspicuously absent.

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His picture graces the family's altar.

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Offerings and prayers to him, the traditional Vietnamese rituals for honoring the dead,

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are performed regularly.

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The rituals are carried out despite the fact that no one in the family

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knows how Lately's younger brother, Sao Ban, died, or where his body can be found.

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Drafted by the Viet Cong, Sao Ban vanished in 1963.

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He's not been heard from since,

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except in the supernatural visions of Lately's mother.

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Nearly 30 years after her son's disappearance,

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Lately's 84-year-old mother tells her daughter that Sao Ban has returned, in spirit.

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She describes an eerie visit from a snake that followed her around the house.

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Then there was a sickness in the family that could not be treated

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to traditional Vietnamese signs that a restless spirit is present.

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Snake to us is a very symbolic, something is powerful,

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something that represents on the other side.

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Lately is unsettled by the possibility that Sao Ban is not at rest.

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This trip is no longer just about making a movie.

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It's my mother's faithful son.

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We always feel like he's so there with us.

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Which is my mother very much aware that he's not happy with where he is right now.

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He has come many times at an experience,

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but just like a human body, just like a shadow,

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and has come to her many times.

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And sometimes let her know that he's in prison,

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and sometimes he didn't allow her to know that he's there,

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but he's there very often.

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No, no, no.

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He met him so much, and so he came.

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A proper burial in the family plot is essential if a spirit is to truly be put to rest.

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But Sao Ban cannot be put to rest until his body is found.

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The Vietnamese government has never contacted the family.

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Sao Ban is just one of the nameless, faceless dead labeled missing in action.

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And forgotten by the Viet Cong.

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The possibility that he met with a violent end is inevitable,

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and has serious implications for the family who survives him.

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In the traditional Vietnamese worldview,

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if someone dies a violent death,

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then they become an unhappy spirit,

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and they can roam the earth forever.

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Karen Fugellstad is a cultural anthropologist at Cabrio College in Santa Cruz County.

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She specializes in Vietnamese spirit lore.

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Upon death, the most important thing to become is an ancestor.

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But if someone is not taken care of in the afterlife,

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or if they've died a violent or very traumatic or young death,

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then they can't really become an ancestor.

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They wander around the earth as a spirit.

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Spirits possess living people

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if they're not taken care of in their afterlife.

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The family believes their mother's recent illness is evidence of a spirit possession.

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When a medical doctor fails to diagnose her mother's illness,

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Le Le agrees to the traditional Vietnamese approach.

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The family goes to a psychic.

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The psychic says that he so has to tell us that he wants to remove

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where it's right now, usually it's not having a good time.

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The practice of communicating with the dead is a long-standing mainstream tradition in Vietnam.

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Westerners looking at this landscape the Vietnamese warned

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can only see a fraction of the forces at work here.

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If you could actually see what the universe was comprised of in the countryside,

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then you would see living people.

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You'd see spirits everywhere.

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You'd see spirits in the water.

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You'd see spirits in trees.

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You'd see spirits by beautiful rocks.

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You'd see ancestors hovering around every single house.

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And you'd see goddesses and gods and, you know, the spirit of the world.

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You'd see spirits in the water.

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You'd see spirits in the water.

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And you'd see goddesses and gods and, you know, the spirits of ancient kings and queens.

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The countryside would just be an amazing thing.

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You'd see spirits everywhere.

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To help the earthbound see this full picture,

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psychics are an important part of every peasant community.

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Surprisingly, the psychic in Le Le's village tells her that there are two family members

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who must be found and put to rest, her brother Saoban

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and a female cousin who also disappeared during the war.

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He proposes finding both.

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The search begins the next morning.

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An hour outside of Da Nang, the psychic leads the family to a spot where he believes

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Le Le's cousin was raped and murdered 30 years ago.

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This man is believed to be a wizard.

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He uses divining rods to determine where the remains will be found.

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Le Le and friends dig into the soft earth until the wizard instructs them to stop.

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The psychic determines that these are the remains of Le Le's cousin

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and instructs the family to take them back home for buried.

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At sunset, the remains are buried in the family plot.

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Sticks of incense are lighted and prayers of thanksgiving are offered.

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The family is filled with a great sense of inner peace.

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It's very grateful that helped him to relocate his sister.

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To him, she's very happy now. At least he has a piece of mind.

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Without all his help, he wouldn't know where it's going to happen.

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But it happened today and now it's over.

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A storm is brewing, as if to remind the family that there is still a restless spirit among them.

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The following day, the family accompanies the psychic on a longer, more difficult journey into the past.

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They hope this road will lead to the remains, both earthly and spiritual, of their beloved sauban.

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Although no tangible remains of Le Le's cousin were found,

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the family believes her essence was clinging to the soil and rock the psychic instructed them to take home.

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Le Le knew that her brother's remains might be found in the same way,

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but after 20 years of living in the West, she secretly hoped they might find something more.

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Next.

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I have high hope to come here and find my brother's remains.

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Dramatic new information brings Le Le a step closer to finding her brother's remains.

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Le Le Hase Lüb's supernatural odyssey began when she returned to Vietnam as technical advisor for Oliver Stone's movie Heaven and Earth.

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Le Le's mother felt that she was receiving disturbing visitations from the spirit of her son and Le Le's brother, Sauban.

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He'd been missing in action since the 1960s.

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With the Vietnamese psychic, the family traveled across the country in search of the remains.

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It is a difficult journey over unmapped roads, across unnamed rivers,

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and deep into the Vietnamese countryside, where Viet Cong casualties were known to be very high.

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It is a route predetermined by the psychic's vision,

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and the route leads to an area where local studies have been conducted.

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The area is a place where the people of the Viet Cong were found.

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It is a route predetermined by the psychic's vision,

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and the route leads to an area where locals tell the family many Viet Cong were killed.

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Again, the psychic determines that spirit remains will be found here,

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and the wizard defines their exact location.

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The family begins to dig.

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Temperatures climb to over 100 degrees.

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A crowd gathers to watch the dig, but there is nothing to see.

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Again and again, the psychic and the wizard are drawn to this spot,

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but the earth yields nothing that can be named Sauban.

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The family is devastated.

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They had hoped to discover the remains of Sauban.

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They had hoped this was the end of the road.

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Hope to come back here again and find him.

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I have high hope to come here and find my brother, remain.

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Again, the heavens seem to send a message.

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Don't give up. Push on.

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This is the message the family hears in the wind.

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Back in Da Nang, the family turns to a different kind of spiritual intermediary,

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a man who claims that he is the medium for an ancient Vietnamese queen.

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In a trance state, the medium speaks with the voice of an old woman.

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The voice many people believe is coming directly from the spirit world.

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But just as Lely begins asking about her brother, the session comes to an abrupt end.

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The local police are upset by the presence of a camera crew and arrest the medium.

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The family is frustrated once again.

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Lely's first trip home ends with tears.

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She must return to the United States before she completes the task ordained by tradition.

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There's no doubt that Vietnam is full of unhappy souls.

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I think because Cao died during war, because he died of violent death,

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the place where he was killed would be a negative place,

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a place full of terrible feelings and a place full of horror.

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It would be much more comforting both to Cao and to his mother

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if he was buried near the family.

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That would be much more comforting, it would be a much more secure place

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and be associated with all of those wonderful feelings that people have about home and their family.

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Was Sao Bon doomed to roam the earth forever a restless spirit?

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Two months after her return home, Lely received an encouraging message from Da Nang.

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Local officials had heard about the failed search for Sao Bon's remains.

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It inspired them to search old war records that had been locked away for more than 25 years.

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Would the government be high as?

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And they go back to the records, it's all old piece of paper.

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It's almost rotten.

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And they found that my brother bought certificates the day he joined the army

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and the day he was killed.

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And they'd back up and bring it out to prove it.

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The authorities also found an eyewitness to Sao Bon's death.

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The Viet Cong doctor who signed the death certificate.

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Encouraged, Lely returns to meet the doctor and he leads the family to the same area the psychic had led them before.

446
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:10,680
He found the play that the bloodshed, that is when he was wounded.

447
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:17,680
So the psychic, he not 100% correct with the remains, but 50% correct.

448
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:22,680
The psychic apparently led them to the spot where Sao Bon was wounded.

449
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:27,680
The doctor leads them to the spot where he last saw the body of Lely's brother.

450
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:36,680
The doctor takes the family a pretreaturous overgrown mountain path to a cave.

451
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,680
The Viet Cong had a makeshift hospital here.

452
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:45,680
This is where many wounded soldiers were taken to recover or to die.

453
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,680
This is where the doctor buried Sao Bon.

454
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,680
This time the remains are not ambiguous.

455
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,680
Human bones are found.

456
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:05,680
A military official certifies that these are the remains of Sao Bon.

457
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:12,680
Lely, the bereaved sister of a Viet Cong soldier and the wife of an American is overcome with grief.

458
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:19,680
The whole time I was thinking who was the person that killed him.

459
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,680
Perhaps I might have loved that person, far and low with that person.

460
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:31,680
I love that person, I hate that person.

461
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:40,680
And yes, me and my sister, we make a living by the dollars of the US.

462
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:50,680
In the same time my brother, Wun, and Kiel, by the US.

463
00:37:50,680 --> 00:38:00,680
I just so, so unfair.

464
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,680
Sao Bon is buried the same day in the family plot.

465
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,680
His mother collapses at the graveside.

466
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,680
Her son had finally come home.

467
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:20,680
Sometimes I have questions that is maybe somebody I'll remain and not my brother.

468
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:28,680
If in that case, then we'll be haunted by my brother and haunted by the person removed.

469
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:34,680
It's still very peaceful with everything so it's his remains.

470
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,680
It's no question, it's no doubt.

471
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:44,680
Since the burial of Sao Bon's remains in the family plot, Lely's mother has stopped having her disturbing visions.

472
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,680
For her family, decades of waiting and wondering are finally over.

473
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:50,680
They're the lucky ones.

474
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:57,680
It's estimated that more than 300,000 civilians and soldiers on both sides are still missing in Vietnam.

475
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:03,680
Next, one of Iran's most powerful generals breaks his silence about UFOs.

476
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:08,680
UFOs exist and they're trying to get contacted all the time.

477
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:20,680
Sightings recently reported on a 1976 confrontation between the Iranian military and a UFO.

478
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:26,680
Since that report, two new witnesses have come forward to describe their roles in the historic event.

479
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:35,680
After 20 years of silence, the former deputy commander and a lieutenant general in the Imperial Iranian Air Force are finally speaking out.

480
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:48,680
As recreated in this Iranian television documentary, on September 19, 1976 an enormous UFO was tracked across Iran by the Imperial Air Force.

481
00:39:48,680 --> 00:40:04,680
In an exclusive sightings interview, former Imperial Air Force Generals Nader Yusefie and Mahmoud Sabahat describe the tense scramble mission in which an F-4 fighter jet chased and attempted to engage the UFO.

482
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:17,680
Now, for the first time in nearly 20 years, General Amir Kamyabipur, the second highest ranking officer in the Shah's Imperial Air Force and his deputy commander, General Abdullah Azarbazin,

483
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:24,680
spoke exclusively to sightings about what they believe happened on that historic night in 1976.

484
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:39,680
I had a statement from the pilots, I had a statement from General Yusefie and also from the control tower and having those calls from civilians around the town, I was convinced that was a UFO.

485
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,680
So this is how we went into investigation.

486
00:40:43,680 --> 00:41:03,680
As far as my experience is concerned, it can be American airplane, it can be Russian, it can be any technology to be like that, except some super technology, which is only UFO.

487
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:10,680
General Azarbazin conducted a thorough investigation into the bizarre events of September 19th.

488
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:19,680
He sent his report to the Shah's military liaison and to Iran's US military advisors. For the first time, he reveals what he told the US military.

489
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:35,680
The highlight of the information that we gave to the US government was, number one, we told them that the high rate of climate and high rate of acceleration that we saw from the UFO was something which was not existing those days.

490
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:42,680
Number two, this jamming capability to jam such a wide range of frequencies.

491
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:51,680
Only a few government documents related to this incident have been declassified, but independent data corroborating Azarbazin's account have been uncovered.

492
00:41:51,680 --> 00:42:02,680
A United States reconnaissance satellite was monitoring the skies over Iran on September 19th, 1976 and recorded the movement of an unidentified flying object.

493
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:13,680
Sightings has learned that the top secret notation 238 scans indicates that the UFO event lasted more than an hour. The meaning of possible SR is still classified.

494
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:30,680
I don't have any doubt about UFO. UFO exists and they're trying to find some way to get contact with our world. That is my feeling and I am positive.

495
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:46,680
Important information about the Iranian UFO incident may be found in military files in Tehran, but since the ouster of the Shah, the military personnel in this report have been stripped of any privileges or access they were entitled to in Imperial Iraq.

496
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:50,680
Until further notice, the door to this case is closed.

497
00:42:51,680 --> 00:43:03,680
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498
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499
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Until next time, remember, no mystery is closed to an open mind. For Sightings, I'm Tim White.

500
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,680
Next on Sci-Fi, Dark Shadows.

501
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,680
Are we dealing with an epidemic?

502
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,680
A polled experiment.

503
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:41,680
We recombine termite and mantid DNA to create a biological counter agent.

504
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,680
It becomes a deadly mistake.

505
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,680
They were designed to die. They are breeding.

506
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,680
But how do you destroy it?

507
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,680
When you've created it?

508
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,680
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509
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:00,680
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510
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,680
Sci-Fi.