1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Ah! 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,320 Thank you. Have a nice day. 3 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White. 4 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:39,000 According to legend, Halloween is the one night of the year when the dead are allowed to come out to play. 5 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:44,000 To keep the evil spirits away from the living, we're supposed to wear scary masks and costumes 6 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 and place a grinning jack-o'-lantern on the doorstep. 7 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,000 These are the traditional talismans of Halloween. 8 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:54,000 But in one small town in the Pacific Northwest, it's going to take more than a car pumpkin 9 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:59,000 to keep away the ghosts who ride an old steam train called the Spirit of Oregon. 10 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:13,000 For passengers, a ride through Oregon's coastal mountains on this great old train 11 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,000 is a trip through history where the rails have a story to tell. 12 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:20,000 But one chapter in the story is disturbing. 13 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:25,000 The story of a great train wreck and its victims seem to have come aboard the Spirit of Oregon, 14 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 perhaps because she is one of the very last of a dying breed. 15 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,000 The Spirit of Oregon is very much alive. 16 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Five years ago, this was the Spirit of Oregon, a great hulking piece of Americana rusting on the scrap heap. 17 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Vicki Steele took this picture before the restoration began. 18 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:48,000 My husband has refurbished railcars for the last 12 years. 19 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:54,000 And one day he decided that we should have our own dinner train, so he built it, and now it's here. 20 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,000 All aboard! 21 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 The Spirit of Oregon carries its passengers along a scenic 50-mile route, 22 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,000 then stops just short of an old bridge before returning home. 23 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:16,000 And some people have come to believe that it is this route that has caused apparitions to appear in the coaches and on this photograph. 24 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000 We were showing the before pictures that we took of the train, and one of the gentlemen said, 25 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:26,000 hey, you've got a ghost in your picture, and we kind of scuffed at it because all you could see was a blue haze. 26 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:33,000 But from its maiden voyage on, there were also personal encounters with strange forces that seemed to be targeting the train. 27 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:40,000 There was a bartender on the train that would have glasses blow up in his hand, or dishes will fly off, 28 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 or chairs will get jerked out from underneath you. 29 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:50,000 We had a lot of really strange things happen, beating on the walls, on our offices when there's nobody out here. 30 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:55,000 And we'll see people walking through the trains when we know the train's locked up and it has a security system on it. 31 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,000 When you catch something in the corner of your eye, you always look back. 32 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:07,000 When I looked back, it was like somebody had taken ice water and shot it through from my head to my toes. 33 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,000 It was just a real cold, cold feeling. 34 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,000 And some people have reported feeling an overwhelming sense of dread, 35 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:18,000 despite the train's smooth ride and hospitable interior. 36 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Back to Long Beach. 37 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:26,000 I can honestly say that that's probably the most depressed I have ever been in my life. 38 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Michael and Sharon Palmer had been invited on the train for a special anniversary dinner. 39 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,000 It was August 6, 1995, but they, Michael, will never forget. 40 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,000 I was overcome by this overwhelming depression. 41 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 It was like a despair, an emptiness. 42 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:49,000 Suddenly a realization came to me that the feeling of being in the train was so much more than just a dream. 43 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:56,000 The feelings I'd been having must be very similar to the feelings that someone has just before they're going to die. 44 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:00,000 Naturally, I broke down. I started to cry at that time. 45 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Michael Palmer did not understand why he was experiencing those unnatural emotions, 46 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:10,000 but somehow he felt it was connected to the railroads past and the photograph. 47 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:16,000 We could see it was changing. We couldn't understand it at first, and then as it kept getting clearer and clearer, 48 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,000 we happened to mention it to a gentleman by the name of Edmund Stone. 49 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I started to wonder, I know it sounds strange, if perhaps there was a reason it was happening at that time. 50 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Stone is a producer for a Portland television station. 51 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:38,000 He and director-camera operator Wade Evans produced a TV special about the strange happenings on the Spirit of Oregon. 52 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Their first trip on the train occurred on August 6, 1994, one year to the day before Michael Palmer's emotional ride. 53 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:51,000 I felt something was inside of me trying to get out, actually. Then I started feeling emotional. 54 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Tears were rolling down my eyes. I felt very sad. 55 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,000 The towel or the lavatory, you get a cold towel. 56 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:06,000 In fact, I actually threw up and got weak. I couldn't stand for a moment. 57 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Take some deep breaths. 58 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Like Palmer, Evans felt that he was being targeted by an unseen force with an important message. 59 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Since I was trying to record the images that were happening in the train at that time, 60 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:24,000 I was more sort of a conduit for anything else that wanted to be recorded, perhaps. 61 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:31,000 But what was the message? Why had these two men been transformed by an inexplicable sense of dread, 62 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 and why did both incidents happen on August the 6th? 63 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:43,000 And the more I looked into it, the more I thought, if there's a reason that things are happening, maybe it's connected with a train crash. 64 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:53,000 In fact, on August 6th, 1935, on the same rails where the spirit of Oregon rides today, there was a devastating accident. 65 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,000 A bridge collapsed and five men died, including the father of Mary Jane Walker. 66 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Unbeknownst to them that all the support had been taken away from the trussel. 67 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:09,000 The train stopped before the bridge, but railroad workers waved the freight train on. 68 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:15,000 And they didn't even get all the way over, and it went down like a decade. 69 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:27,000 They had 112 feet to fall. They probably had something in the region of about 10 to 15 seconds of realization that they were going to die a horrible death. 70 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,000 The rails simply fell away below the wheels of the train. 71 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,000 Five men, including Mary Jane's father, died in slow motion. 72 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:45,000 The breakman was found clutching the brake in his hand, but the death grip so strong, he had to be buried with the brake in his hand. 73 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Is it possible that perhaps in that last moment they understood that sadness of death, and is it possible that that feeling is being transmitted 60 years later through my government and my friend? 74 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:05,000 I don't know. That sounds far-fetched, but it might also be an explanation. 75 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:13,000 An accident report absolved the railroad of responsibility, and the families of the victims were quietly given cash settlements. 76 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:19,000 And that's been the way it's been for 60 years, and we start to look, we're like, hey, maybe this wasn't such an accident after all. 77 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:33,000 Maybe there was negligence. Maybe if these presence is on the train, I'm trying to tell us something, then what if they were trying to tell us, hey, look at this because we shouldn't have died? 78 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:40,000 When Stone first began discussing these conclusions, the ghost image in the photo was, again, becoming more pronounced. 79 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:46,000 And not only was the original photo changing, all the copies of the photo were changing too. 80 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:54,000 You could see where they had the old-fashioned blue railroad shirt and the old-fashioned vest, and then you could actually start seeing a lantern hanging down. 81 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:03,000 As the images continued to develop, we showed the photo to Mary Jane Walker, who had ridden that very train with her father so many years ago. 82 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,000 She saw three clear images. 83 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:19,000 Oh, yes, I immediately recognized Ted Johnson, the engineer, and then there was the man holding the lantern, and I could see, well, that's got to be Adolf Boeuf, the breakman. 84 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:23,000 And the other would be my dad. 85 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:30,000 I'm a believer. I think that it had to come. Somehow they had to get it out, the men. 86 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Their spirit would not rest until the truth was known about that damn wreck. 87 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:45,000 And now, in part because of the hauntings aboard the spirit of Oregon, the message is getting out. 88 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Mary Jane recently dedicated a plaque near the scene of the accident. 89 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:58,000 It's a tribute she hopes will outlast wreckage from the accident, rusting nearby. 90 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:10,000 I do hope that the spirit of Ted Johnson, Adolf Boeuf, and my father know that we know now that it was negligence. 91 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Perhaps now that their story has been told, the five men who lost their lives on this line will be at rest. 92 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:26,000 Yes, it's haunted. It's haunted by something that wants to find peace. That's all it wants. 93 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:33,000 And I think it's heading in that direction. 94 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Although there have been a number of terrifying events on the spirit of Oregon, it seems that the ghosts on the train are selective about whom they target for vengeance. 95 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:46,000 So far, not a single paying customer has had a haunting experience. 96 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:47,000 Next. 97 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,000 He was one of the half dozen most famous men in the world. 98 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:59,000 If Nikola Tesla was so successful, why did he destroy a large part of Siberia? 99 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 Okay ladies, meet the pride. 100 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Go together. And if you've ever read it, an old black and white horror movie, you've seen the wild eyed, wild haired, mad scientist hunched over a weird contraption spewing electricity. 101 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:17,000 But did you know that that character is based on a real life American scientist? 102 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,000 His name was Nikola Tesla, and there are those who believe that he was mad. 103 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:25,000 The night he inadvertently blew up part of Siberia. 104 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:46,000 On June 30, 1908, a remote area of Siberia known as Tunguska is devastated by a mysterious force, 2,000 times greater than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 105 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:51,000 It left no crater or residue, the usual calling card of a meteor. 106 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Russian investigators who found metal fragments of the site suggested the blast had been caused by an alien spacecraft colliding with Earth. 107 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:09,000 But a new compelling theory about the Tunguska incident suggests that a highly concentrated beam of electrical energy caused the total devastation in this region. 108 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:14,000 And that only one man had the scientific knowledge to pull it off. 109 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Nikola Tesla, I feel he's the greatest inventor of the past 500 years. 110 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,000 He is a Michelangelo. He is a Leonardo da Vinci of science. 111 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:28,000 He gave us AC Power, the fluorescent light, radio, robotics. 112 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:38,000 By 1900, he was the emperor of invention. He had eclipsed Edison. He was one of the half-dozen most famous men in the world. 113 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,000 And he prays for a man we seem to know so little about. 114 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:50,000 When Tesla emigrated to the United States from Croatia in 1884, his dream of working for his hero Thomas Edison became a reality. 115 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:56,000 But Tesla's development of a more efficient form of electricity called AC, alternating current, 116 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:02,000 didn't sit well with his new boss who had already developed the more cumbersome direct current, or DC. 117 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Edison just shut him down. He said, it's DC here. 118 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:15,000 America, Washington, DC. Forget this AC stuff. You're working for me. I don't want to hear another word of it. 119 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:20,000 But AC was superior as Tesla's biographer Ted Wise points out. 120 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:25,000 DC is like a fine wine that doesn't travel well. 121 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,000 It's a power that cannot be stepped up to extremely high frequencies, 122 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:42,000 whereas AC can be transported in these extremely high voltages and then stepped down very safely to be used in a home or school or a factory. 123 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:52,000 Tesla's brilliant discovery so impressed industrialist George Westinghouse that he enlisted Tesla in his bid to harness the hydroelectric power of Niagara Falls. 124 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:57,000 Finally, the movers and shakers of the day were noticing Tesla. 125 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:05,000 He met Kipling, became a good friend of Mark Twain's, and he met all the millionaires. He made a point of meeting all the millionaires. 126 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,000 One of those millionaires was J.P. Morgan. 127 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:18,000 And J.P. Morgan was the fellow that gave him $150,000, probably the equivalent of $10 million or better today, to build Wharton Cliff. 128 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:32,000 Wharton Cliff was the name Tesla chose for what he believed would be his greatest contribution, a huge transmitter that would provide electrical power to the world without the use of wires. 129 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:41,000 What he didn't tell, Mort, was that he wanted to send power to the world for free. 130 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Journalist Ellen Sherman believes this was the beginning of the end for Wharton Cliff. 131 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:57,000 J.P. Morgan did not want to back something that was going to give free energy to people who he could put no meter on. He could not get any money from it whatsoever. 132 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:14,000 When Morgan pulled his support, he not only ended Tesla's career as the major scientist of his day, but he made laughing stock of it in the eyes of his scientific peers. 133 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:21,000 When that was all pulled away from him, he was a desperate man on any number of fronts. 134 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:30,000 And that desperation may have led him to use the partially constructed tower to conduct a fateful experiment in the summer of 1908. 135 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:36,000 Tesla was something of a showman. He had lost the backing of his principal financial supporters. 136 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:45,000 And he was the kind of person who might try a large public event that would bring attention to his work. 137 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:59,000 Oliver Nicholson has found evidence that Nicola Tesla may have been planning to aim his electrical beam at the North Pole in order to put on a dramatic light show for Admiral Perry, who is in the midst of his historic expedition. 138 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:04,000 A small miscalculation in distance could have had devastating results. 139 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:11,000 There was Tesla's research station in Long Island, and I drew the line to Tunguska in Russia. 140 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:23,000 Then interestingly enough, that line crossed right near the North Pole and came very close to Ellesmere Island, where Perry would be camping over for the winter. 141 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:32,000 Nicholson and others theorized that Tesla's aim was true, but he grossly underestimated the effect gravity would have on his electrical energy beam. 142 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Instead of this operating as he thought it was going to, there is a tremendous explosion in the Siberian region. 143 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Four star-laid flat, reindeer herds disappeared, small towns completely gone. 144 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:55,000 J.W. McGinnis of the International Tesla Society is convinced that the Tunguska tragedy is linked to Tesla. 145 00:15:55,000 --> 00:16:03,000 He disagrees with those who believe Tesla was purposely building a weapon of mass destruction on a global scale. 146 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:12,000 Of all of the great scientists of this country that went to work for the Manhattan Project, there was one scientist that refused to do that, and that was Nicola Tesla. 147 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:24,000 He did not believe in a general destructive weapon and wanted to introduce something that was a lot more incisive and certainly indefensible, and that was his death ray. 148 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:33,000 This thing was so powerful, it would deliver 50 million volts into an area that was one-tenth of a millionth of an inch in diameter. 149 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:40,000 If you put that much pressure in that smallest space, there is nothing that can stand up to it. You could cut a ship in half. 150 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:51,000 While the U.S. government went ahead with its atomic bomb strategy, a secretive interest in Tesla's work seemed to be at work shortly after his death in 1943. 151 00:16:51,000 --> 00:17:06,000 The day following his death, the FBI under the auspices of the OAP, which is the Office of Alien Protection, broke into his apartment, broke into his safe, and stole, or confiscated, all of his papers and effects. 152 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Now, the OAP had no business being there. He had been a citizen of the United States since the previous century. So this was a ruse. They needed to get in there sometime. 153 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:24,000 Recently, declassified documents only hinted at the great discoveries that may have been hidden in Tesla's safe. 154 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:37,000 He had developed a sophisticated particle beam death ray, and he had the know-how to successfully transmit an enormously powerful wave of electrical current through the atmosphere at halfway across the world. 155 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:47,000 Could it be that through his perloined papers, our government gained knowledge that should, by rights, make Nikola Tesla the father of Star Wars technology? 156 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:52,000 They realized that Tesla was always ahead of his time. 157 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:59,000 What amazing discoveries did the FBI find inside Tesla's safe at the Hotel New Yorker? We may never know. 158 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Shortly after their retrieval, the files disappeared, and have not been seen, at least not publicly, since then. 159 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:17,000 Next, dramatic new evidence that our government is covering up the truth about Roswell. And what Americans really believe about UFOs, you might be surprised. 160 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Here are some of the stories that Sightings is following in the news. After more than 45 years, the federal government's general accounting office has finally started auditing government records to determine what really happened in Roswell, New Mexico. 161 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:45,000 In Washington, D.C., America's auditor, the general accounting office, has finally released the results of their full-scale Roswell investigation. 162 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:55,000 The investigation was prompted by citizen protest, and by demands by New Mexico Congressman Stephen Schiff, who insisted that all documents relating to Roswell be released. 163 00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:02,000 I have confidence the GAO will bring forward anything they find with respect to the Roswell incident. 164 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:08,000 The result is a terse report nearly as inconclusive as the famous saucer crash itself. 165 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:16,000 15 government agencies complied, including the FBI, CIA, Army, Air Force and Navy. However, few documents were turned over. 166 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:26,000 The GAO report states that nearly every relevant record from Roswell Army airfield has been destroyed, and that it is not known who destroyed the records or under what authority. 167 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:41,000 While the U.S. Air Force has explained the Roswell incident as the crash of a classified balloon project aimed at the Soviet Union, the National Security Council, the CIA and the Office of Science and Technology have no record of such an operation. 168 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:49,000 The report concludes that the GAO's findings are inconclusive, fueling, rather than dispelling, the Roswell mystery. 169 00:19:50,000 --> 00:20:04,000 In a related news story from Ohio, a statewide survey by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University has founded a majority of Americans believe in UFOs. 170 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:17,000 We interviewed 1,006 people. We had people in every area code in terms of age, education, income. So it does represent the entire country. 171 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:23,000 UFOs were a new topic for this biannual poll, which is designed to survey our attitudes about government. 172 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:33,000 We put the question about flying saucers in as another kind of dimension of how people feel about what government does and says. 173 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:40,000 The question posed was this. Do you believe that UFOs are real and that the government is hiding what it knows? 174 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:49,000 50% of the people said it was very likely or likely that flying saucers are real and the government was hiding the truth from us. 175 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:56,000 43% said that it was not likely that saucers are real and the government was hiding the truth. 176 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:05,000 That means that half of all Americans not only believe in UFOs, they also believe that the government is covering up the truth of their existence. 177 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:11,000 And it's an opinion that crosses all age, gender, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. 178 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:21,000 There is some evidence after all of the government hides things from us. You can dismiss a lot of these, but there are some of them you can't explain. 179 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:33,000 In Tibet, China's inner kingdom is considered one of the most spiritual places on earth. 180 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:39,000 The leaders for life in this autonomous region are called Lamas, the holiest of all Buddhist monks. 181 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Although the exiled Dalai Lama is perhaps more famous to Westerners, since 1959 the people of Tibet have been led by the Pung Chin Lama. 182 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:53,000 But recently the 10th Pung Chin Lama passed on and the search for his successor began. 183 00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Because Tibetan Buddhists believe in rebirth and reincarnation, the new Pung Chin Lama had to be the reincarnated spirit of the old Pung Chin Lama. 184 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:09,000 What happens is the Tibetan government sends out word that they're looking for reincarnation. 185 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:23,000 And they're asking whether there are any unusual children who have been born recently, ones having unusual knowledge, or ones who are born in the midst of miraculous activities. 186 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:32,000 Dr. Jeffrey Hopkins is a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. He has written over 20 books on Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism. 187 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Once they've narrowed down the candidates somewhat, they'll test those candidates by asking the child to choose, for instance, a rosary used by the Lama in the last lifetime as opposed to another one. 188 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:57,000 Monks from the Pung Chin Lama's monastery believe they have recognized the spirit of their former leader and spiritual teacher reincarnated in the body of a young boy. 189 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:04,000 But Tibet is part of China and the secular Chinese government is demanding a role in choosing and educating the new Lama. 190 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:13,000 The decision has outraged Tibetans because the care of its most spiritual leader is a task that has been left mostly to Tibetan monks since the 18th century. 191 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Dr. Hopkins believes the government's motivation is obvious. 192 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:27,000 As British spies used to say, there's no way of controlling Tibet without controlling or having a Lama on your side. 193 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 We'll have more stories from the news next time. 194 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Now, here's what's coming up on Sightings. 195 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Why Mercy Brown's final resting place was anything but restful. 196 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:48,000 There was a vague power of spirit that was in the grave that was draining the life of the living. 197 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,000 And the man behind the alien autopsy film speaks out. 198 00:23:54,000 --> 00:24:02,000 On Halloween, tens of thousands of make-believe counter-acculars roamed the countryside, blood dripping from their plastic fangs, 199 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,000 impersonating the fictional vampires a popular and harmless tradition. 200 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:11,000 But 100 years ago, there was a real cult of vampires who roamed the New England countryside. 201 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:16,000 They performed grizzly acts, digging up gravesites, and defiling the remains. 202 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:28,000 One biographer of Count Dracula referred to Rhode Island as the Transylvania of America, 203 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:36,000 meaning that more vampire incidents have happened here than anywhere else in the country, which is probably true. 204 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:42,000 In an old cemetery just outside of extra Rhode Island is the grave of Mercy Brown. 205 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:48,000 You would never know by looking at it, but this is perhaps the most famous site in the history of American vampirism. 206 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Mercy Brown was just the farmer's daughter. 207 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:57,000 Nothing remarkable about her apart from the fact that her body was exhumed and her heart was cut out. 208 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000 What do you think of when someone mentions the term vampire? 209 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,000 Michael Bell is a folklorist who specializes in the study of New England's vampires. 210 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:13,000 He's lecturing on the life story of Mercy Brown and how her own brother came to consume her blood-drenched heart. 211 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Mercy Brown probably is in the forefront of importance in terms of the vampire practice in America 212 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:25,000 because she's the most well-known and as far as I can determine the very last case. 213 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:36,000 Mercy Brown was born in Exeter in 1873, a town some of her descendants including Louis Peck still called home. 214 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:48,000 Exeter was a farming, log-cutting, wood-cutting town, timber. Timber and farming. That's what extra people were. 215 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:54,000 Mercy attended a one-room schoolhouse and led a typical New England farm wife. 216 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:01,000 But as she grew up, her family grew ill. She watched helplessly as her mother and sister died from consumption. 217 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:04,000 What we know today is tuberculosis. 218 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:11,000 In the meantime, Mercy Brown became ill with consumption and it was a kind called galloping consumption. 219 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,000 And so it progressed very rapidly. 220 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:18,000 In January of 1892, at the age of 19, Mercy died. 221 00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:22,000 Her surviving family feared Mercy's brother would be the next to go. 222 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:33,000 The general belief was there was a vague force or power or spirit that was in the grave that was draining the life of the living. 223 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:39,000 In an effort to stop the inexorable march of the disease, the bodies of the Brown family were unearthed 224 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,000 to determine which corpse was draining the life from the living. 225 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:49,000 If you knew nothing else to do, what would you do? Try anything. 226 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:55,000 Well, the mother and the first daughter were basically decomposed the way they thought they should be. 227 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:00,000 But when they came to Mercy, she looked too fresh. 228 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:05,000 They come back here, dug her up, found her turn on her side. 229 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:11,000 Which, how do you turn on your side if you bear it? 230 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,000 The 19th century grave diggers knew nothing of forensic science. 231 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:21,000 They saw what they believed to be unnatural hair growth, nail growth, and a heart still full of blood. 232 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,000 Mercy was considered to be one of the undead. 233 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:29,000 Well, she'd only been dead a few months before they exhumed the body and these were winter months. 234 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,000 So the rate of decomposition would have been quite slow to begin with. 235 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:38,000 Paul Sledzik is a forensic anthropologist with the National Museum of Health and Medicine, 236 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,000 who has also studied the Mercy Brown case. 237 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,000 They would be looking for things like lengthening of the fingernails, which is actually not lengthening the fingernails, 238 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,000 but just receding of the tissues underneath so it appears as though the fingernails have grown. 239 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:56,000 They also look for evidence of new skin, like a whitish skin appearing over the reddish old skin. 240 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,000 That's also just a byproduct of decomposition, it's called skin slippage. 241 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:04,000 On a bitter cold night, Mercy's heart was torn from her body, burned, 242 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000 and the ashes mixed with water for her sick brother to drink. 243 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:12,000 Although he died soon after, he was the last member of the family to succumb to the disease. 244 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:21,000 So they thought for sure that they had got the vampire, and all the time it was tuberculosis. 245 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,000 Mercy was not alone. 246 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:31,000 Researchers have uncovered more than 15 incidents in which corpses were exhumed and then consumed. 247 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:39,000 In 1990, Paul Sledzik discovered this defiled burial site in rural Connecticut. 248 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Upon starting to excavate the graves, they found one particular burial that intrigued them 249 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,000 because the bones had been rearranged after death. 250 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,000 The skeleton had been tampered with years after his death. 251 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:55,000 The bones had been separated and rearranged in a skull and crossbones configuration, 252 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,000 a ritual designed to keep the undead in their graves. 253 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:03,000 You look generally at the New England folklore about how to kill a vampire, 254 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,000 they're essentially causing disruption to the corpse, 255 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:08,000 in the Mercy Brown case they're removing the heart and burning it. 256 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:13,000 They're just trying to cause some disruption to the normal appearance of a body within the grave. 257 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,000 But did the ritual performed on Mercy Brown work? 258 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000 This is where we were told not to play. 259 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,000 According to Peck, Paul is still not quiet at the Brown family plot. 260 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:31,000 He recalls a night many years ago when he saw an unnatural force rise up from the grave of Mercy Brown. 261 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:36,000 I'm in my 20s and it's in the wintertime. 262 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:43,000 So we pull in here and in this same direction to where I'm sitting now, 263 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:51,000 about three feet off the ground was a ball of bright light, so bright it was blue. 264 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:56,000 I don't know where it come from and I don't know where it went to. 265 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:03,000 And we went to the corner to where another relative of mine lived. 266 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:08,000 We told him what we just seen and he laughed and he said, 267 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,000 what's been seen before what? 268 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:15,000 The gruesome acts performed by the vampire cult of the last century 269 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:19,000 were the natural result of ignorance, fear and superstition. 270 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:26,000 But they were also based on a belief in supernatural forces that continue to be cited in this century. 271 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:32,000 In that field, I guess she's made quite a history without a heart. 272 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:42,000 Bram Stoker, the creator of the original Dracula, is believed to have based his character on a 15th century barbarian called Vlad the Impaler. 273 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:48,000 But among Bram Stoker's original notes for his novel, researchers recently found a newspaper clipping from 1892. 274 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:53,000 It was a report on the bizarre case of Mercy Brown. 275 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:58,000 Next, an elaborate hoax or the real thing, sightings goes to the source. 276 00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:03,000 Once the film is deemed to be real or not, we can then decide how we're going to move forward. 277 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:13,000 Sawed after Man in Ufology today, Santilli claims that he has found film footage of a government autopsy of an extraterrestrial. 278 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:20,000 His supporters believe Santilli has uncovered the conspiracy of the century. His critics cry foul. 279 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,000 Now, in a rare interview with sightings correspondent Carla Wall, 280 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:29,000 Ray Santilli answers charges that he is closer to P.T. Barnum than to Woodward and Bernstoke. 281 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:39,000 Ray Santilli claims he's just a businessman with absolutely no interest in UFOs. 282 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:44,000 Yet we have only this man's word for the UFO story of the decade. 283 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,000 Santilli claims he's blown the lid off the Roswell saucer crash mystery. 284 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:56,000 In 1993, Santilli says he was researching a music documentary, searching for footage of Elvis Presley, 285 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:02,000 when a former U.S. military cameraman sold him some footage that is out of this world. 286 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:08,000 This, according to Santilli, is film of an autopsy being performed on an extraterrestrial life form 287 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:12,000 which died following the impact at the Roswell crash site. 288 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:18,000 Santilli bought it, marketed it, and sold the rights to television producers around the world. 289 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,000 It's already aired twice here in the United States. 290 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:26,000 Stills taken from the film can be found on nearly 200 websites on the Internet, 291 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,000 usually accompanied by a lively debate about their authenticity. 292 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:37,000 Is the film proof that aliens have in fact landed on planet Earth, or is it an elaborate hoax? 293 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,000 As we sit here talking, I don't mean there's a shred of evidence that suggests that the film is a hoax. 294 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:46,000 In a rare interview, Ray Santilli agreed to talk to sightings about his motives, the film, 295 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,000 and what some critics are saying about it. 296 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,000 First, let's talk about what some special effects people are saying. 297 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:57,000 We've talked to two highly respected people, one here in England, one in the United States, 298 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:03,000 and both say that's a fake body, not a bad fake body, but nevertheless a fake body. 299 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:09,000 Well, that's the opinion of the special effects company that you visited and saw. 300 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:15,000 However, a special effects company can have you and I sitting in the car with John F. Kennedy driving Dan Deely Plaza. 301 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:22,000 That's the job they're in. They can recreate anything, I mean, recreating something, and the event itself are two separate issues. 302 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:31,000 Amid the hype and promotion surrounding the release of this film were claims that then-President Harry Truman was among the witnesses at the autopsy. 303 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000 No one has yet seen that footage. 304 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:40,000 And in fact, President Truman Library says that there's no record of him being in that area during that time. 305 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:45,000 Firstly, President Truman is listed on one of the canisters as being there at the autopsy. 306 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,000 Cameron Moon confirms quite categorically that he was there. 307 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:53,000 The Truman Library states that he couldn't have been there if he was somewhere else. 308 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:56,000 Now, I don't know, you know, if- 309 00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,000 Have you seen him on the film? 310 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:02,000 No. But if the event occurred, as we believe it did, then, you know, quite a few people have kept quiet. 311 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:09,000 Would the Truman Library actually have information that we could rely upon if it was such a secret operation? 312 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000 I don't know. But it is a discrepancy. 313 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:21,000 If this was such a top-secret thing, how could a cameraman get 22 reels of film and it never be investigated and then not track it down? 314 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:22,000 How is that possible? 315 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:28,000 That's an incredible story itself. He shot hundreds of canisters of film during the event itself. 316 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:37,000 Each of the canisters or reels of film were three minutes in duration, and he separated during the filming reels that he felt were problem reels. 317 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:45,000 He'd sent the remainder straight on to Washington, and he spent more time on the 22 reels of film, which he'd processed or whatever. 318 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:53,000 And once he'd got to the stage where he felt he could send them on, he called Washington and asked them to pick up the film, collect the film, 319 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:56,000 and he tried on numerous occasions, but he just failed to do so. 320 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:01,000 Who is this mysterious cameraman and why did he wait 45 years to sell his film? 321 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000 Santilli says we may never know the answer. 322 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:13,000 Whether he decides to talk and give his story to the public is something that's in his control. 323 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,000 Why not? I mean, wouldn't it clear everything up if he came... 324 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:24,000 In your mind and in the mind of the world and people that are interested in the subject, but this guy is in his mid-80s, he's not interested in the subject. 325 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:30,000 That's the first point. Secondly, he's got his family to consider, and his family are his only consideration. 326 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,000 He doesn't want to lose his pension, he doesn't want to lose his... 327 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000 Why would he lose his position in society? 328 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,000 Why would he? Why would he... 329 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,000 Because... 330 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,000 What's at risk by coming out? 331 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:44,000 Because your media, I'm media, and as far as the media is concerned, this is a great story, and wouldn't it be wonderful if he came out, 332 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,000 because it would really then be a really fantastic story. 333 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:56,000 I have a letter right here from Congressman Steve Schiff, and he says that he offered to take the film to the U.S. government to see if they could authenticate it, 334 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:00,000 and that I'm quoting now, the Santilli group has not accepted my offer. 335 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000 I've never seen an offer, I've never seen that letter before. 336 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,000 Will you give it to Congressman Schiff though? 337 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000 Directly, why not? I mean, why not try and authenticate it at this point? 338 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:14,000 Because we have a contractual relationship with Kivgette Green and Fox, and it's up to them what they do with it. 339 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000 Does that contractual relationship... 340 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:24,000 Let me just make one point very clear. I have no interest in the subject of UFOs or the paranormal. 341 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:29,000 I do not have the ability to research or investigate the footage. 342 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:34,000 Therefore, we appointed broadcasters in various territories, and the responsibility is with them. 343 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:39,000 Well, you have made no bones about the fact that you are a businessman, and that your business is marketing, 344 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:44,000 and you've done a heck of a job marketing this film. I think you've probably made a bundle from it. 345 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:49,000 Haven't made, in terms of profit, we haven't made our money back by any stretch of the imagination. 346 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,000 The ultimate aim is commerciality, but we still have to get past that first hurdle. 347 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:58,000 We have to satisfy broadcasters, we have to satisfy the world of ufology, and the general public. 348 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:05,000 But they haven't been satisfied in terms of the authenticity, so don't you have some obligation to try and do that? 349 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:11,000 You're at the very start of it. It will go on, and once the film is deemed to be real or not, 350 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:17,000 we can then decide how we're going to move forward, but we're still at those very early stages. 351 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:23,000 Despite Ray Santilli's claim that he has exposed the UFO scandal of the century, 352 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,000 most Roswell researchers are distancing themselves from the film. 353 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,000 They believe that if, and when, the footage is proven to be a hoax, 354 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:38,000 the serious strides that they have made in unraveling the Roswell mystery may also be called into question. 355 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:42,000 Next, does this man have the final word about the Loch Ness monster? 356 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:48,000 But a lot of people don't realize that the familiar Nessie image is only cropped close up. 357 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:57,000 That Christian Sperling had gone to his grave claiming that he had faked the world's most famous photograph of the Loch Ness monster. 358 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:02,000 But now, New Jersey researcher Richard Smith believes that he has found evidence 359 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,000 that Sperling's deathbed confession may have been the biggest hopes of all. 360 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:12,000 On the morning of April the 19th, 1934, Lieutenant Colonel R. Kenneth Wilson, 361 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:17,000 who was also a practicing physician in London, was on a vacation in the Highlands of Scotland. 362 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:22,000 And he claimed to have stopped his car along one of the shores of this immense lake, Loch Ness, 363 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:28,000 and seen the disturbance in the water and seen the head and neck of a large animal emerge, 364 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:33,000 made some exposures of plates, went up to the city of Inverness and had them developed. 365 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:37,000 And one of the results was, of course, the most famous of all Nessie images. 366 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,000 You could say it's the face that launched a thousand ships. 367 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,000 This is the most enduring image we have of the elusive Loch Ness monster. 368 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000 The photo was judged authentic until last year. 369 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,000 The newspapers reported it was a hoax. 370 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:56,000 But Richard Smith believes he has new evidence that proves this photo is real. 371 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:05,000 Recently there have been widely publicized allegations that Colonel Wilson was actually part of a conspiracy 372 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:12,000 and that the object in the photograph is a modified toy submarine which has a plastic neck on it. 373 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:17,000 And these sensational claims were made by a man by the name of Christian Sperling. 374 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:23,000 Frankly, Christian Sperling's story is full of holes that are big enough for a Nessie to swim through. 375 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:29,000 Christian Sperling was a confidant of M.A. Weatherall, who first gained fame in 1934 376 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:34,000 during his highly publicized but futile attempt to capture the Loch Ness monster. 377 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:41,000 After this failure, according to Sperling, he and Weatherall concocted a plan to take fake photos of Nessie 378 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:47,000 and then switch them with photos their unsuspecting friend, Colonel Wilson, was about to develop. 379 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:54,000 The major claim is made that this alleged toy submarine with the neck on it was floated in a small bay. 380 00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:02,000 What a lot of people don't realize is that the familiar Nessie image is only a cropped close-up taken from the original picture. 381 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:10,000 The original picture clearly shows a wide central expanse of this immense lake with the opposite shoreline clearly visible. 382 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,000 It's not a small bay. 383 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,000 There's also something which is extremely interesting and the public is not generally aware of, 384 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:22,000 which is that Colonel Wilson was able to get two exposures of this object. 385 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:27,000 This second photo has rarely been seen by anyone except a handful of Nessie experts. 386 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:33,000 It's very important because the head and neck in this picture are now rather straightened out 387 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,000 unlike the first photo where they're at a right angle. 388 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:41,000 And this shows that this object, whatever it is, is not made of unbending plastic wood, as Christian Sperling claimed. 389 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:48,000 But what's even more significant is the fact that Christian Sperling apparently did not know about this photograph. 390 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:56,000 Is this photo real? It's an interesting puzzle, but according to Nessie investigator Adrian Schein, in the end the photo is immaterial. 391 00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:01,000 The Loch Ness Monster lives in people's minds and cannot be dislodged from there. 392 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:06,000 It doesn't matter how many photographs are disproved, it doesn't matter what the scientific implications are. 393 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:13,000 The Loch Ness Monster is something which does exist and will always exist because people want it to exist. 394 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:21,000 In recent months the only sightings of the Loch Ness Monster have been on t-shirts and coffee mugs. 395 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:28,000 Scientific research on the existence of real-life lake monsters has now moved west to the freshwater lakes of North America. 396 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,000 Unlike Loch Ness, sightings on this side of the Atlantic are up. 397 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,000 Join runners from all over the country at the Marathon of... 398 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:44,000 Let's lock down to something big and then tapes reveal air traffic controllers knew something was there. 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