1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,520 Can one woman possess special powers to heal the sick? 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:12,840 She knows everything about you. 3 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:14,840 The present, the past, and the future. 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:17,880 Modern medicine failed to help a little boy walk. 5 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,520 His parents believed she cured him with a touch. 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,680 He was so strong. 7 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:24,680 The miracle healer then. 8 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,440 It appeared to be a boomerang shape. 9 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,240 I can't believe it. 10 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,800 There are a lot of families on explainable UFO video 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:33,800 on the next sightings. 12 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:44,440 Can one woman possess special powers to heal the sick? 13 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:45,840 She knows everything about you. 14 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:47,840 The present, the past, and the future. 15 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,000 Modern medicine failed to help a little boy walk. 16 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,160 His parents believed she cured him with a touch. 17 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,480 The miracle healer on the next sightings. 18 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:03,880 Can one woman possess special powers to heal the sick? 19 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,800 Modern medicine failed to help a little boy walk. 20 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,400 His parents believed she cured him with a touch. 21 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,360 The miracle healer on sightings. 22 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,760 She knows the present, the past, and the future. 23 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:24,320 Can one woman possess special powers to heal the sick? 24 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:28,320 On the next sightings. 25 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:30,400 On the next sightings. 26 00:01:58,400 --> 00:01:59,400 She knows everything about you. 27 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,400 The present, the past, and the future. 28 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,400 He was so strong. 29 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:14,400 It appeared to be a boomerang shape. 30 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,400 I can't believe it. 31 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,400 She knows everything about you. 32 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,400 The present, the past, and the future. 33 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,400 She knows the present, the past, and the future. 34 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,400 On this edition of Sightings. 35 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,400 You going? 36 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:35,400 You see? 37 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,400 Dramatic new video of a mysterious high-lying disc 38 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:41,400 in one of America's most active UFO hotspots. 39 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,400 It doesn't look like any conventional aircraft. 40 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,400 Sightings looks at the strange phenomena in the skies 41 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,400 above Colorado's San Louis Valley. 42 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,400 The ghosts of this small western mind 43 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:53,400 are the most powerful and powerful. 44 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,400 The world is a world of magic. 45 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:58,480 The ghosts of this small western mining town's past 46 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,480 were so real, you could almost feel them. 47 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,480 Now, you can hear them. 48 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,480 Listen. 49 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:09,480 Many people consider Maria Esperanza 50 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:12,480 to be the greatest mystic of this century. 51 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,480 Sightings goes to Venezuela to witness a miracle at Batania. 52 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,480 She knows everything about you. 53 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:19,480 The present, the past, and the future. 54 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,480 And Comet Halebond is heading toward Earth 55 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,560 at the rate of 600 miles per minute. 56 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,560 Are we prepared for its arrival? 57 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,560 Welcome to Sightings. 58 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:57,560 I'm Tim White. 59 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:59,560 After many years of reviewing home videos, 60 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,560 supposed UFOs, it takes a lot to impress 61 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,560 the Sightings investigative team. 62 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,560 But what you are about to see is among the most intriguing 63 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:07,560 UFO footage we've ever broadcast. 64 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,560 A brilliant disc-shaped craft 65 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,560 hovered over Salida, Colorado for more than an hour. 66 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:26,560 Tim Edwards has spent most of his life in Salida, Colorado. 67 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,560 He runs the cafe his dad started 20 years ago. 68 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,560 Tim's heard his whole life about fireballs, 69 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,560 mutilated cattle, and UFO sightings in the valley. 70 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:38,560 He never thought it would happen to him. 71 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,560 But then it did. 72 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:42,560 On the morning of August 27th, 1995, 73 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,560 Tim recorded this videotape. 74 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,560 See it going? Did you see it? 75 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,560 Approximately 9.30 in my daughter, Brandi, 76 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,640 came out here and she has said 77 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:55,640 that she looked up in the sky to see 78 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,640 if it was going to rain that day. 79 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:01,640 If it was going to rain or lightning or something, 80 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,640 we couldn't go camping. 81 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,640 So I looked up and I saw it. 82 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,640 I looked up again and I see 83 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,640 a very intense, bright, shimmering, 84 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,640 white light. 85 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,640 At times it appeared to be a boomerang shape, 86 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,720 a light arc. 87 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:22,720 Tim called his restaurant to see if anyone else 88 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:24,720 incited the UFO. 89 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,720 Cook Michael Maggio told him he'd take a look. 90 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,720 Come out here, about right here, 91 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,720 a little beyond the door, 92 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,720 and I could see the three flashes come off 93 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,720 that looked like boomerangs and it was bright white. 94 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,720 Then, a fourth witness, 95 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,720 Tim's 15-year-old daughter, Lorraine, 96 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:42,720 saw the UFO. 97 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:44,720 At first I thought those guys were crazy. 98 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:46,720 I was like, that's a bum. 99 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:48,800 I can't believe it. 100 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,800 Michael Kurta is Mufon's chief investigator in Colorado. 101 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,800 He's been researching UFO activity 102 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:56,800 in the San Luis Valley for several years. 103 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:58,800 Mr. Edwards' video 104 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,800 is some of the best footies that I've seen. 105 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:03,800 Purely for the fact that, number one, 106 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,800 it's a daylight sighting. 107 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:07,800 There are multiple witnesses. 108 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,800 It's a very large object or appears to be a very large object. 109 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:12,800 And we just don't get that many 110 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:14,800 credible good daylight sightings. 111 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,880 Sightings asked Chip Peterson 112 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,880 to study the Edwards videotape. 113 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:20,880 Peterson is an aerospace engineer 114 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,880 specializing in computer enhancement and stabilization. 115 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:25,880 When you look at moving video, 116 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:27,880 what you're actually seeing is 30 frames per second, 117 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:29,880 flipping on the screen very quickly. 118 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:31,880 And that's what we've got right here. 119 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:33,880 What you're seeing here is the edge of each frame 120 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:35,880 that I had to stabilize by hand 121 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:37,880 in order to keep this object in the center of the screen. 122 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:39,880 So after you stabilize the image, 123 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,880 you can see its motion much more clearly. 124 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:45,960 Based on what I know of atmospheric flight, 125 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,960 it doesn't look like any conventional aircraft. 126 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:50,960 Could it be otherworldly technology? 127 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:52,960 Yes, it could. Could it be military aircraft? 128 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:54,960 Yes, it could. 129 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:56,960 Could it be some unexplained weather phenomena? 130 00:07:56,960 --> 00:07:58,960 That's also possible. 131 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:00,960 There's an awful lot of strange things that occur 132 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:02,960 in the mysterious valley of Colorado, 133 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:04,960 and this is racking up to be one of them. 134 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,960 The San Luis Valley is 5,000 square miles 135 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,960 of fertile Colorado pastureland, 136 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,040 the largest cleanest alpine meadow in the world. 137 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,040 It's also a UFO hotspot. 138 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,040 Recently, people here sighted huge fireballs 139 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:20,040 streaking across the sky. 140 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,040 Over on this mountain range, we've seen the orange orbs 141 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:26,040 that come down and sit or just race right across the mountain range. 142 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,040 There's bright blue oval. 143 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,040 And it's traveling at this speed you one would expect a meteor. 144 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:34,040 And it stopped instantly and started straight down. 145 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:37,040 We've saw lights come off of this side of the mountain over here, 146 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,120 come clear across and go over the top of these mountains on this side. 147 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:42,120 This light came across all the way across 148 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:44,120 and no sound whatsoever. 149 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,120 For 10 years, researcher Chris O'Brien 150 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,120 has studied more than 100 bizarre animal mutilations 151 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:52,120 in the valley and their potential link to UFO activity. 152 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,120 The activity that we experienced in November 153 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:57,120 through January was quite incredible. 154 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:59,120 We saw so much activity here. 155 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,120 We had green fireballs, blue fireballs, 156 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,120 squadrons of blinking lights, 157 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,120 and we saw a lot of light. 158 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,120 We saw a lot of light coming from the walls, 159 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,120 squadrons of blinking lights, 160 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,120 traveling too fast to be conventional aircraft. 161 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:16,120 And then soon on the heels of many of these sightings, 162 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:18,120 we had incredible military activity. 163 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,120 On January 12th, 1994, 164 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,120 the most spectacular UFO sighting to date occurred 165 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,120 when an enormous arc of fiery orbs 166 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,120 raced across the afternoon sky. 167 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:31,120 Among the eyewitnesses was a retired 30-year Air Force veteran, 168 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,120 pilot Jimmy Lloyd. 169 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:38,120 They were extremely bright, like strobes, a green color. 170 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,120 There were seven of them in a semicircular formation. 171 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:46,120 They looked as big as a battleship and very fast. 172 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,120 They were going at hypersonic speed, 173 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,120 yet there was no sound wave. 174 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,120 Within hours of the sighting, 175 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,120 it became clear that Colonel Lloyd 176 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,120 was not the only one interested in the sighting. 177 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,120 In nearby Montevista, Colorado, 178 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,120 the local sheriff received a phone call 179 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:06,120 from the North American Air Defense Command. 180 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:11,120 The Rio Grande County Sheriff's Office got a call from NORAD 181 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,120 saying that one of their satellites 182 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,120 had picked up a significant burst of heat 183 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:18,120 up on Greenie Mountain. 184 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,120 The information to us from NORAD that night 185 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,120 that we needed to exhaust all efforts 186 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,120 to determine what this explosion was. 187 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,120 At NORAD's urgent request, 188 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,120 the sheriff dispatched planes and a ground crew 189 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:34,120 to search for the source of the explosion. 190 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:36,120 But as the team neared Greenie Mountain, 191 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:37,120 they were waved off. 192 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,120 When they called us in originally, they gave us coordinates. 193 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,120 Explosion took place here. 194 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:44,120 So many degrees of attitude, so many years of knowledge, too. 195 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:46,120 Then we called them back and they said, 196 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,120 well, it happened on these coordinates, 197 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:50,120 which completely gave us probably 20 miles away, 198 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,120 15 miles without a whole time. 199 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,120 At NORAD really bent off by more than 20 miles. 200 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,120 Or did they want the search team out of the area? 201 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,120 We did our extensive search 202 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,120 and couldn't come up with anything I called. 203 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,120 NORAD directly and was in contact with a major macauch. 204 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:08,120 He kind of blew it off. 205 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,120 He said, if we can't find it, don't worry about it. 206 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,120 If we can't find it, it never happened. 207 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:14,120 It was no more of our concern. 208 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,120 In an effort to determine what really happened, 209 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,120 sightings asked aerospace analyst Ron Rieger 210 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,120 to access satellite data collected in the area 211 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,120 on the day in question. 212 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,120 Rieger has concluded that there was a significant heat flash 213 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,120 on January 12, 1994. 214 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:35,120 I did talk with one of the analysts at work 215 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:42,120 and they confirmed both the event, the time, and the location 216 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:47,120 and added the comment that this did not appear to be a forest fire. 217 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:51,120 The cause of the explosion recorded by NORAD 218 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:54,120 and confirmed through satellite data remains a mystery, 219 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,120 as do the many UFO sightings that continue to be recorded 220 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,120 in the San Luis Valley. 221 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,120 If the military has any answers, they're not telling. 222 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:05,120 The lack of information is particularly disturbing to Tim Edwards, 223 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:08,120 who has the dubious distinction of owning the best footage 224 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,120 of one of the area's many UFOs. 225 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,120 I've been obsessed almost. 226 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:19,120 My family thinks with trying to get the information, 227 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:23,120 the facts out of this case and the truth 228 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:27,120 and getting this out to the public and bringing witnesses forward. 229 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:32,120 One thing that sustains Tim Edwards and UFO researchers in the valley 230 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:37,120 is the knowledge that UFO activity here is not just a cosmic flash in the pan. 231 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:39,120 The local paper records sightings today, 232 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,120 just as it did more than 80 years ago. 233 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:46,120 Back then, eyewitnesses asked one simple question 234 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:50,120 and it's the same question people are still asking. 235 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,120 The selected tape is consistent with a number of reports. 236 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,120 Sightings is received about UFOs in the four state area 237 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:58,120 of Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. 238 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:00,120 We're continuing to pursue these reports 239 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:05,120 and will bring you extended coverage on an upcoming edition of Sightings. 240 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,120 Next, in this tiny mining town, the past and present coexist, 241 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,120 and it's not easy. 242 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:13,120 Georgetown is a very haunted community, 243 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,120 this is just going beyond that. 244 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:24,120 Driving out of Denver and into the front range of the Rocky Mountains, 245 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:28,120 the road is dotted with small towns that seem frozen in time. 246 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,120 They survived today much as they have for the past 100 years, 247 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:35,120 perfectly preserved reminders of a simpler, kinder way of life. 248 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:39,120 Perhaps that's why so many people who move here never want to leave, 249 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,120 even after they're dead. 250 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:56,120 This was Georgetown, Colorado in 1895. 251 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:00,120 This is Georgetown, Colorado in 1995. 252 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,120 100 years has done little to change the silver mining boom town. 253 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:07,120 Most of the buildings from the previous century are still around 254 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:12,120 and to hear locals talk, some are the people who lived here back then. 255 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,120 Georgetown is a very haunted community, 256 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,120 so I just thought we have to coexist. 257 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:19,120 These are like parallel universes or something like that. 258 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,120 So I just thought let's live together. 259 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,120 That's what people do up here with their houses, their homes and everything. 260 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:28,120 But this is just going beyond that. 261 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:32,120 In 1994, Bill Pentland and Becky Richardson 262 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:35,120 traded their fast-track life in Hollywood's entertainment industry 263 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,120 for the peace and quiet of Georgetown. 264 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,120 They bought an old restaurant named at the Full Circle Cafe 265 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:46,120 and began to restore it, stirring up the past in surprising ways. 266 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,120 When we first bought the cafe, we had to do a lot of remodeling 267 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,120 and a lot of renovation. 268 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:56,120 We had to go down into the basement and it has a lot of really neat types of things down there. 269 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,120 And we found all these receipts, newspapers. 270 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:02,120 And obviously at that point we had realized too that this box had really not been touched 271 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,120 for almost about 100 years. 272 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:08,120 Opening that box and using its contents to decorate the cafe 273 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:11,120 seemed to be a paranormal trigger. 274 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:16,120 We found a lot of papers in the basement that had the writings of the people, their receipts. 275 00:15:16,120 --> 00:15:18,120 It sat here for about 100 years with nothing happening. 276 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:25,120 And once we brought up the vibrations or the essence or the actual touch of these people, 277 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:29,120 these things just very quickly began to happen. 278 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:33,120 But it took a while for Bill and Becky to realize that their rummageings 279 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,120 might be linked to strange happenings in the cafe. 280 00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:44,120 Little subtle things started happening, just noises and just some things rattling and things like that. 281 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:48,120 We turned the TV off, it's on, they'll turn the lights off, they're on. 282 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:52,120 I would be tolling out the calculator trying to add up the daily registers and stuff 283 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,120 and right when I get to the end of the total, the whole thing would just like clear out. 284 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,120 Anything that had to do with water was breaking down. 285 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:03,120 Ice machines, sinks, toilets, pipes under the ground. 286 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:07,120 It happened night after night after night after night. 287 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:13,120 At first, everyone involved in the full circle cafe put up with the seemingly playful haunting activity. 288 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:18,120 But then the incidents took on a more frightening, even menacing tone. 289 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:23,120 I was by myself and something came up from behind me and grabbed the bar stool 290 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:27,120 and like turned me around just like you would just like turn around real fast, you know, 291 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,120 or something in your chair. 292 00:16:29,120 --> 00:16:35,120 One night, Caleb Lopez was remarking on the striking resemblance between Becky and a woman in this photograph. 293 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:40,120 And the picture flew off the wall and at the end of the table. 294 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:43,120 And that kind of spooked all of us. 295 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:48,120 It also prompted Becky to wonder if her uncanny resemblance to the woman in the photo 296 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,120 might explain the haunting in the cafe. 297 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:55,120 She and Bill started researching their cafe's historic past. 298 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:59,120 In the 1890s, this particular establishment was a general store. 299 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:04,120 And there were two brothers, a William and an Albert Shower. 300 00:17:04,120 --> 00:17:06,120 There's also a third brother, Edward. 301 00:17:06,120 --> 00:17:08,120 But their energy is still here. 302 00:17:08,120 --> 00:17:13,120 And I hope I haven't opened up a big can of worms with these guys. 303 00:17:13,120 --> 00:17:16,120 No sooner had Bill and Becky learned about the Shower Brothers 304 00:17:16,120 --> 00:17:21,120 than an apparition of Edward's Shower appeared to Becky in the cafe. 305 00:17:21,120 --> 00:17:26,120 I look in the kitchen and there is one of the Shower Brothers standing at the sink, you know, 306 00:17:26,120 --> 00:17:29,120 and because it's the guy in the picture, it's the guy with the mustache. 307 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:32,120 All I could do was think, I've got to get out, I've got to get out. 308 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:38,120 And I was so freaked out of seeing something that I know was from 1895 and he's in my cafe. 309 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:45,120 Soon after Becky's encounter, waitress Erin Shereke saw the ghostly image of another brother. 310 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:47,120 What I had seen was the image of a man. 311 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:49,120 And it was a perfect image. 312 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:53,120 He had on a long-sleeved dark shirt and his apron was dark, so to speak. 313 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:57,120 The ghost that Erin described was a perfect match for John Shower, 314 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:00,120 even though Erin had not seen this photograph. 315 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:05,120 Citing's asked renowned psychic investigator Peter James to come to the Full Circle Cafe 316 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:09,120 to uncover the reason behind the escalating haunting activity. 317 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:13,120 He was told nothing about the history of the cafe or the Shower Brothers. 318 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:18,120 In fact, Peter was not even told that his destination was Georgetown until the day he left, 319 00:18:18,120 --> 00:18:21,120 yet his first psychic impressions were on target. 320 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:29,120 My preliminary sense of what is within the structure, not necessarily here as we speak, 321 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:33,120 is a male entity and I pick up the name of Edward. 322 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:38,120 When Peter was in here last night, that was the first thing he walked in and said, who is Edward? 323 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:43,120 And it just kind of gave us big time chills. 324 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:49,120 I get a sense that there's an energy about someone named John as well. 325 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:53,120 The oldest brother was John. John was a baker. 326 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:59,120 Vibrationally, he's talking about some kind of a fish, and I don't know what that means, 327 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:03,120 but there's a fish of all things involved here. 328 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:09,120 The fish block, Charles Fish, the builder, was a banker here in Georgetown, amongst other things. 329 00:19:09,120 --> 00:19:16,120 He built the building that we see there now all around 1890 or 1891. 330 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:21,120 I will say that Edward does come down here. 331 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:31,120 These vibrations like the walls, the beams, rick of his energy, because he's also angry. 332 00:19:31,120 --> 00:19:37,120 It was in the attic that Peter felt Edward's angry presence most strongly. 333 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:43,120 Hello? Communicate with me. 334 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:51,120 Look, look, look, look, look, look. Hello? See? 335 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:55,120 Oh, he's angry. Don't be angry with me. 336 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:58,120 He's, this is a volatile entity, by the way. 337 00:19:58,120 --> 00:20:03,120 Don't play games with me. I'm not afraid of you. 338 00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:11,120 He said, I didn't kill him. I didn't kill him, and he's angry. Don't be angry at me. 339 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:16,120 This entity is capable of making sound, of talking. 340 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:23,120 Moments later, Peter's contention that the spirit could speak seemed to be proven correct. 341 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:28,120 Edward, speak to me now. 342 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:46,120 It is important to note that 12 people witnessed these events. 343 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:49,120 There are no windows in the attic. It was well past midnight. 344 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:55,120 The full circle cafe was closed, and Peter had never seen the picture that Becky was about to show him. 345 00:20:55,120 --> 00:21:04,120 This one. This is the one I saw. This is the one that I saw upstairs. I got goosebumps myself. 346 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:07,120 That's what I saw in the kitchen. This is Edward. 347 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:14,120 We've been gone to great pains to keep him in the dark. It's like, I've to fight my time, he knew nothing. 348 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:21,120 Peter believes that by confronting the spirit of Edward's shower, he has released his haunting energy. 349 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:30,120 If they want Edward to move on, I think this will happen simply by the fact that the history is now being brought to light. 350 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:38,120 And I feel that Edward is now aware of the fact that we know that he was falsely accused of this murder. 351 00:21:38,120 --> 00:21:42,120 And I think that will help him move on. 352 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:50,120 While the sightings team was in Georgetown, we heard from many other residents who had also experienced haunting reminders of the town's past. 353 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:55,120 We'll introduce you to more of the ghosts of Georgetown on an upcoming program. 354 00:21:55,120 --> 00:22:00,120 Next, a breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. 355 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:02,120 We are going to discover something. 356 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:06,120 And fire beware when it comes to haunted houses. 357 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:16,120 Here are some of the stories sightings is following in the news. 358 00:22:16,120 --> 00:22:21,120 Recently, sightings brought you the story of an Ohio University project called the Big Ear. 359 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:26,120 A giant radio telescope there is searching for sounds of intelligent life in the cosmos. 360 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:31,120 Well, now in Columbus, Ohio, a second independent search project is underway. 361 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:33,120 We've dubbed it the Big Eye. 362 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:47,120 In Ohio's capital, astronomer Stuart Kingsley is conducting an independent search for visual signs of extraterrestrial intelligence by updating an idea discarded in the 1960s. 363 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:49,120 Laser communication. 364 00:22:49,120 --> 00:22:54,120 I'm looking for a regular pulsation in the optical spectrum. 365 00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:58,120 Basically a bleep, bleep, bleep, rather like an interstellar heartbeat. 366 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:07,120 Traditionally, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence or ETI uses radio telescopes programmed to pick up anomalous sounds. 367 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:12,120 But Kingsley believes that our first two-way communication without her space will be visual. 368 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:15,120 Lasers are more for point-to-point targeting. 369 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:18,120 It gives you a very narrow beam even over interstellar distances. 370 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:27,120 So that's actually why I think the preferred technology for ETIs to communicate with other stars is lasers. 371 00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:31,120 And Kingsley is confident his search will not be in vain. 372 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:33,120 We are going to discover something. 373 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:38,120 Well, that's going to be a major news story because that means we are not alone. 374 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:44,120 In New York, it's buyer beware. 375 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:51,120 Home sellers here no longer have to disclose to potential buyers that the house they're trying to unload is haunted. 376 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:56,120 26 states do require disclosure if a home has a past history of unsettling activity. 377 00:23:56,120 --> 00:24:05,120 But New York Governor George Pataki has signed a law exempting home sellers from upfront disclosure of a home's quote, psychological impact. 378 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:13,120 A psychological impact can be anything from a haunting to a murder to a suicide to a pool leaking. 379 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:21,120 Realtor Kathy Edwards believes that full disclosure of a property's haunted reputation is important whether or not it's mandated by law. 380 00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:29,120 If we were listing a property that was known to be or thought to be haunted either by a seller or by the community in general, 381 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:38,120 I would recommend to the seller that they notify any serious buyers of the fact that it was known to be haunted. 382 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:48,120 Even if the seller does not believe in ghosts, if a home is believed by others in the community to be a haunted house, that fact should also be disclosed. 383 00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:59,120 My partner and I listed a property in this community that we thought was haunted because every time you walked in, it was extremely cold. 384 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:03,120 I mean colder than you would normally think a closed up empty house would be. 385 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:05,120 And yes, we did disclose. 386 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:08,120 The buyer moved in, they've never had anything happen. 387 00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:21,120 So, you know, it may have just been a cold draft, you don't know, but anything that could potentially affect a buyer's decision to purchase a property, they absolutely should disclose it. 388 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:34,120 In New Delhi, India, thousands of Hindus are standing in long lines to see what they believe to be a series of religious miracles. 389 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:39,120 In fact, Hindus throughout the world are experiencing the miracle in their own temples. 390 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:46,120 Stone carvings of the elephant god known as Ganesha have suddenly and inexplicably begun to drink milk. 391 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:52,120 And since it happened, I believed it with my own eyes. Otherwise, I would not have. 392 00:25:52,120 --> 00:26:00,120 From New Delhi, the milk drinking phenomenon has spread quickly to temples throughout Asia, Great Britain and the United States. 393 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:05,120 It was amazing, you know, it just sucked it up. It's just a stream just going straight up. 394 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:13,120 And I said, how could this not be a miracle? It has to be something supernatural. 395 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:19,120 You've never seen this before. So, it's the first time, you know, you're witnessing something, a miracle. 396 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:22,120 That's what you can say it's a miracle. 397 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:29,120 While the Hindu milk miracle spreads around the globe, religious leaders are being cautious about the significance of the phenomenon. 398 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:34,120 But the faithful are embracing it as a positive sign from one of their gods. 399 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:42,120 What's a good sign? It's really good for the nation. You know, they're telling us that I'm here to take care of you. Don't you worry. 400 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:52,120 So this is a sign, very good sign, that God is blessing everybody, all the devotees and trying to recreate faith in their minds. 401 00:26:52,120 --> 00:27:01,120 We'll have more stories from the news next time. Now, here's what's coming up on Citing's. 402 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:29,120 What causes a miracle to happen? Why are some blessed while others, just as deserving, are passed over? 403 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:36,120 These are questions that have gone unanswered for thousands of years, but still, millions of people put their faith in the possibility of miracles. 404 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:43,120 And as Carla Wall reports, many of the faithful flock to a Catholic shrine called Batania, hoping that they will be chosen. 405 00:27:53,120 --> 00:28:04,120 An hour's drive from Caracas, the city beat gives way to the tranquility of the Venezuelan countryside and a place where many believe miracles can happen. 406 00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:13,120 The waters here are said to have healing powers, and there's a shrine where many prayers are answered. 407 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:18,120 Many people come here and they see nothing, but they, but you feel it. 408 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,120 For most, it's a feeling beyond description. 409 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:26,120 It's a mystery, and in the mystery is the wisdom. 410 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:34,120 It's called Batania, and people come here from around the world to pray, gain wisdom, and be healed. 411 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:40,120 They drink the water. Many even claim they've had supernatural visions at Batania. 412 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:46,120 Sometimes you will see balls, or colored balls, and they might be blue ones, they might be rose colored. 413 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:52,120 This blue butterfly felt this big whoosh between our heads, touched both of our cheeks, and brushed our cheeks. 414 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,120 Right up to the ceiling of the chapel. 415 00:28:54,120 --> 00:29:04,120 And the people went nuts, and as I watched them, like a vapor appeared over the top of it, and when it did, it went into the shape of a lake. 416 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,120 People come to be healed. Miraculously, many are. 417 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,120 You believe miracles can happen here? 418 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:13,120 Oh, yes indeed. I've seen them. I've seen them both in trips I've been down. 419 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:20,120 I've seen a woman who was on the same program with me for 45 years. She was bent over scoliosis when she left here. She slipped straight up. 420 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:24,120 These inscriptions in stone have been left by those who've been healed. 421 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:30,120 The miracles have been investigated by the Catholic Church, and after more than 500 interviews, 422 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:34,120 Bishop P. O'Bello has concluded that miracles do occur here. 423 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:40,120 So like lords in southern France, Batania has been sanctioned as an official apparition site. 424 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:49,120 My judgment is that those apparitions are authentic and supernatural. 425 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:54,120 But it is this woman who people most want to see when they travel to Batania. 426 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,120 Good morning. Good morning. 427 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:01,120 Maria Esperanza is known as the visionary of Batania. 428 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:08,120 She discovered this shrine and believes that in this place, Jesus and the Virgin Mary can speak through her. 429 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:15,120 Believers say she has an extraordinary spiritual power. 430 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:20,120 You're standing and walking with no wheelchair and no crutches today. How did that happen? 431 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:25,120 I was blessed to get in front of her, and when we locked eyes, I went down on the ground. 432 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:31,120 I got up, I took my cane as a tour guide, jumped off a porch, ran up this hill to the chapel, 433 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,120 grabbed my luggage, ran up another hill to the bus. 434 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:41,120 Maria Esperanza makes no claims herself, but others believe she's been given the power to see the future. 435 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:45,120 When you meet her, she knows everything about you, the present, the past and the future. 436 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:50,120 She is able to see things and know things before they ever occur. 437 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:59,120 It's the power of this tiny woman and this tiny waterfall that makes Batania the place of last resort for so many desperate people. 438 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:05,120 Well, the only thing I knew about Spina Bifida was that it was devastating. 439 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:10,120 Little Ryan Hewlett was born with a gaping hole at the base of his spine. 440 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,120 I'd never seen anything like it before, and I really didn't understand what I was looking at. 441 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:18,120 This diagnosis of Spina Bifida is something that involves the brain. 442 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:23,120 It involves the spinal cord, and because it involves your nervous system, it involves anything from the head down. 443 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:32,120 The prognosis for Ryan was not good. He might be walking by age five, but there was no guarantee that he would ever survive into adulthood. 444 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:36,120 I sort of felt like I had a baby with a time bomb, so I didn't sleep well. 445 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,120 I was always listening for him to see if this is going to be the night. 446 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:47,120 It was after one particularly bad episode that Pat Hewlett decided to seek the help of Maria Esperanza. 447 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:54,120 Pat and her husband Casey met Maria in Lowell, Massachusetts during a tour of the United States. 448 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:59,120 She finished speaking with the family, and she just turned around and walked right up to us. 449 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:05,120 And she says through the interpreter, here, this is the place, and she's touching her lower spine. 450 00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:12,120 And we said, yes, we'd never give it her any details about this child or the condition. 451 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:17,120 She looked at us, and she said he's being healed in three parts, and the first part is happening right now. 452 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:22,120 The Hewlux didn't immediately notice a change in Ryan's condition. 453 00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:30,120 But then, when Maria returned for another visit to the United States, this time to Valley Forge, Maria met Ryan in person. 454 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:36,120 She turned right around, and she took Ryan out of my arms and sat right down. 455 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:43,120 And on the video, you can see her hand going right down over where the shunt and down along the shunt line, this little chest. 456 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,120 And then on the spine and the back and the whole thing. 457 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:50,120 Almost instantly, the Hewlux say Ryan was stronger. 458 00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:57,120 They took him to the Westchester Spina Bifida Clinic, where Ryan's doctors were baffled by his sudden improvement. 459 00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:03,120 The neurologist came in, and he was doing his exam and writing down his comments and so forth. 460 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:11,120 And he just, well, he got up and got his colleague, because he wanted to check and make sure it was the right kid and the right records and the right everything, because it was so dramatic. 461 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:19,120 A few months later, the Hewlux took Ryan to the Tanya, to Maria's house for the third and final part of his healing. 462 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:26,120 Suddenly, Ryan woke up, and he was screaming, like a very, very strong cry, as if he were in pain. 463 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:30,120 She said he's crying, because that which was a part has just come together. 464 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:36,120 She said this is the third part. He's going to begin to become completely healed. 465 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:42,120 On that bus ride back from Caracas, after he received the third part, we noticed an immediate dramatic change in Ryan. 466 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:48,120 He was so strong and just trying to get up and to move and just so bouncy. 467 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:58,120 The Hewlux returned to their home in New York, and Ryan began making dramatic improvements, much to the surprise of the neurosurgeon who had made the original diagnosis. 468 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:11,120 I think he's excelled in some ways beyond what his objective analyses, such as pictures, x-rays, CAT scans, MRIs, might have led us to think he could do. 469 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:21,120 The art of medicine 100 years ago was holistic, and that was we didn't have the technology and the capability to correct anatomical abnormalities that we do now. 470 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,120 We forgot about faith, and we forgot about hope and positive thinking. 471 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:29,120 Faith and positive thinking are all that Anne Jones believes she has left. 472 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,120 Yeah! 473 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:37,120 Anne's daughter Amanda has epilepsy. She has a seizure nearly every day. 474 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:42,120 Doctors said she would improve with age, but her progress has been unexpectedly slow. 475 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:46,120 At age five, Amanda is still a toddler in many ways. 476 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:55,120 Language-wise, I thought she'd be talking more. They have expected her to. They really can't explain why the language isn't coming in. 477 00:34:55,120 --> 00:35:01,120 Anne heard about Ryan Hewlux' miraculous recovery, so now she too is making the pilgrimage to Batania. 478 00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:17,120 I'm going to pray for a miracle, for her health to get over her epilepsy, to talk. Even if she could just talk, I'd be happy. 479 00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:22,120 Anne Jones invited Carla Wall and her sightings team to travel with her on her pilgrimage to Batania. 480 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:27,120 It was to be a journey of faith. She hoped would have a miraculous ending. 481 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:34,120 When sightings returns, Carla Wall meets Maria Esperanza, and Anne Jones hopes for answered prayers. 482 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:37,120 It's my daughter, Amanda. 483 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:49,120 There have been claims of miraculous healing and apparitions of the Virgin Mary from every corner of the globe. 484 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:55,120 Currently, the Catholic Church recognizes only four locations as sites where miracles do happen. 485 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:59,120 They are Lord's, Fatima, Garbondle, and Batania. 486 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:15,120 The Hewlux are traveling from New York. Anne Jones from Michigan. Wendy Benedict from Missouri. 487 00:36:15,120 --> 00:36:22,120 It's a poignant mix of faith and desperation that's brought them thousands of miles from home to Venezuela. 488 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:32,120 From Caracas, we board a bus and drive out into the country to Batania, and it's resident visionary Maria Esperanza. 489 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:42,120 Pat and Kasey Hewlek are convinced that their son Ryan was able to overcome the crippling disease Spina Bifida because of the healing gift of Maria Esperanza. 490 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:46,120 So is it a trip to say thank you for you? Is it a healing? 491 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:52,120 It sure is. It's a trip to say thank you, and it's a trip, for me, it's a total trip of joy. 492 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:57,120 But for every miraculous recovery, there are thousands still waiting to be healed. 493 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,120 Anne Jones has come in search of a miracle for her daughter. 494 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:03,120 What kind of healing are you hoping for for your daughter? 495 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:07,120 I don't know. 496 00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:10,120 I'd like to see her. 497 00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,120 Wow. 498 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,120 I have no more seizures. 499 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:26,120 I don't have any. I think that this is a possibility here. 500 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,120 I really do. 501 00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:32,120 Okay, this is Finca Batania. This is the entrance to Batania. 502 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:38,120 Wendy Benedict is the leader of the group. She brings pilgrims to Batania every other month. 503 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:43,120 People from many different faiths come to bathe in the healing waters and to pray. 504 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:50,120 And sometimes, Benedict says, the faithful are rewarded with amazing supernatural sights at the shrine. 505 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:54,120 Sometimes the sun will spin. Sometimes it'll turn colors. 506 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:58,120 Many times when you're in the grotto, you will see people looking at the palms of their hands. 507 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:03,120 And what's happened, there's a very fine gold dust that falls all over them. 508 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:08,120 There are no glowing apparitions on this day, but a vision in white does appear. 509 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:13,120 Viva Maria! 510 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:19,120 Maria always says, I am a simple person, but she's far from being simple. 511 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:27,120 I don't know why she was chosen, but I don't know that anyone knows why they receive special graces or special gifts. 512 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:31,120 Maria says that everyone who comes to Batania receives graces. 513 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:36,120 And those graces are believed to be strongest when given personally by Maria Esperanza. 514 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:43,120 So the crowd pushes in, reaching, pleading, hoping she'll share with them her vision of their future. 515 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,120 Do you understand me? I understand you. I understand you. 516 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,120 I understand you. I'm very joyful because from today... 517 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,120 Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 518 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:59,120 As she works her way through the crowd, she is continually asked to do the seemingly impossible, 519 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:03,120 to make the cripple stand up and walk, to heal the terminally ill. 520 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:07,120 Help me, sir. I want to live. 521 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:14,120 Many times when I have seen her do healings, for instance, she assumes the illness on herself. 522 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:20,120 And until she's able to expel it from her body, she's physically ill. 523 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:27,120 I'm hurting my heart. 524 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:31,120 I feel it here. 525 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:39,120 Maria Esperanza rarely grants interviews to the media, but she agreed to sit down with me after one of her healing sessions. 526 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:46,120 What do you see and what do you feel when you look at these people, when you look at me, when you look at anyone? 527 00:39:46,120 --> 00:40:01,120 It is something so natural to make them feel like it was my test to make them feel that I already know them. 528 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:13,120 Why, Maria, are you able to help and heal some people, like little Ryan Hewlett and others you can't help? 529 00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:20,120 I don't know. Only the Lord knows why. 530 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:25,120 For Ann Jones, the wait to see Maria Esperanza has been agonizing. 531 00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:29,120 She douses herself and Amanda's picture with water from the spring. 532 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:32,120 Then finally, she meets Maria. 533 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:39,120 This is my daughter, Amanda. She has seizures every day. 534 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:46,120 When she was four months old, something happened. This is very important. 535 00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:48,120 Four months, no point. 536 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,120 Well, she had her DPT shot. 537 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:53,120 Was it a DPT shot? 538 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,120 This was a vaccine. 539 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,120 There it is. 540 00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,120 Exactly. 541 00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,120 There. 542 00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:06,120 Maria told Ann that she sees Amanda improving, but progress will be slow. 543 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,120 Thank you. 544 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,120 Thank you. 545 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,120 Be happy. 546 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,120 Be happy. 547 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,120 Be happy. 548 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,120 Be joyful. 549 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:31,120 It's not the promise of a complete cure that Ann had wished for, but she is at peace, because Maria has injected her with hope that Amanda will improve in her own time, just as Ryan Hewlett did. 550 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:36,120 Is Ryan a miracle child? Is Botania a place where miracles happen? 551 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:46,120 Or is he simply proof that when medicine falls short, faith can make up the difference? 552 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:53,120 In Spanish, Esperanza means hope, and that is what Ann Jones has received from the prophet of Botania. 553 00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:58,120 Since her return from Venezuela, Ann feels that her daughter Amanda is making small steps forward. 554 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:04,120 And she hopes these signs of improvement will one day add up to a miracle. 555 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:11,120 Next are Comet's bad omens of things to come. 556 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:21,120 What will happen when Hail Bob arrives? 557 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:26,120 Comets are enormous balls of ice hurtling through space, destroying everything in their path. 558 00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:30,120 And for centuries, Comets have been seen as harbingers of doom. 559 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:36,120 The mother of all Comets is thought to be Halley's Comet, not due back over Earth until the year 2060. 560 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:42,120 But in the spring of 1997, we will be visited by the less famous comet, Hail Bob. 561 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:46,120 And in cosmic terms, this one will miss us only by a whisker. 562 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:52,120 From Earth, we can see only a tiny fraction of the vast uncharted expanse of outer space. 563 00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,120 Its vastness has inspired wonder and fear. 564 00:42:55,120 --> 00:43:01,120 Now, that fear of the unknown is being challenged by frightening new discoveries in outer space. 565 00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:05,120 We think the solar system is surrounded by something like 10 trillion comets. 566 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:11,120 With numbers like these, it's not surprising that scientists like NASA astronomer Paul Weissman 567 00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:15,120 are keeping tabs on the paths of these supersonic celestial bodies. 568 00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:19,120 Especially those that will come perilously close to our planet. 569 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,120 Among them, the recently discovered comet, Hail Bob. 570 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:27,120 It's in our planetary system already. It's out a little bit beyond the orbit of Jupiter at this point. 571 00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:33,120 And we'll pass just inside the Earth's orbit in March of 1997. 572 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:38,120 While astronomers reassure us that comet Hail Bob will not impact on Earth, 573 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:42,120 there are many people who believe that even a visit from a comet is a bad omen. 574 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,120 People have many, many beliefs about comets. 575 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:49,120 For example, if you see a comet, you'll die soon after. 576 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:53,120 Or if you see a comet and you don't cross yourself and tell someone, then you'll lose a finger. 577 00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,120 All sorts of peculiar things like that. 578 00:43:55,120 --> 00:44:02,120 UCLA Folkloreist Heather Joseph Witham notes that historical events are often tied to a passing comet. 579 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:08,120 For example, in 1066, there was a comet, and just afterwards the Normans invaded England 580 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,120 and the Battle of Hastings took place and England became a Norman country. 581 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:15,120 People who see this, the belief is reinforced, something happened. 582 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:22,120 But it's not for URI necessarily to say that the comet didn't predict the event, because we don't really know. 583 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:30,120 What we do know is that the comet discovered in July 1995 by amateur astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bob is huge. 584 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:32,120 And it's rapidly heading this way. 585 00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:37,120 We're thinking the nucleus of the comet may be something between 20 and 50 kilometers in diameter. 586 00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:40,120 So it's something like the size of a city. 587 00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:46,120 It's falling towards the sun at about 15 kilometers a second, about 10 miles per second. 588 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:50,120 But it's still about 600 million miles from the sun, so it has a long way to go. 589 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,120 It will actually pick up speed as it comes in. 590 00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:58,120 And according to the mythology of many cultures, comets like the one expected here in 1997 591 00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,120 are the most likely to cause troubling events as they pass over Earth. 592 00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:05,120 There are some connections between comets and catastrophic Earth events. 593 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:11,120 There was a really long, hot summer and drought in the eastern United States in 1762. 594 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,120 It was thought a comet predicted this. 595 00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:21,120 And once again, there was a comet just before an incredible earthquake in 1811 that actually sank New Madrid, Mississippi. 596 00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:27,120 In fact, that same 1811 comet coincided with Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. 597 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:34,120 Civilizations have looked to the sky for centuries, and the ancient Greeks even established guidelines for how comets would affect our planet. 598 00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:42,120 Ptolemy in the second century wrote that the size of the comet will tell the comet's meaning. 599 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:48,120 The color of the comet will tell what kind of problem it will bring, wind, rain, drought, whatever. 600 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:54,120 And where in the zodiac the comet was tells which country is going to be affected. 601 00:45:54,120 --> 00:46:00,120 Although scientists have yet to determine the color of Hale-Bopp or its place in the zodiac, 602 00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,120 there is no question that its size is colossal. 603 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:11,120 A fact that Ptolemy would say spells disaster for those who would cross the comet's path. 604 00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:15,120 Once comet Hale-Bopp passes over the Earth, those with cometophobia, 605 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:19,120 that's the clinical term for the fear of comets, can breathe a long sigh of relief. 606 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:27,120 The comet is not expected back for another 3,000 years. 607 00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:31,120 If you've had a paranormal experience, please write to us at Sightings. 608 00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:36,120 Sightings can also be contacted at America Online at keyword Sightings. 609 00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:40,120 At the Sightings Forum, download images, sounds, and quick time clips. 610 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:45,120 Also, join us daily in our chat room, live on AOL. 611 00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:51,120 Until next time, remember, no mystery is closed to an open mind. 612 00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,120 For Sightings, I'm Tim White. 613 00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:05,120 Next on Sci-Fi Dark Shadows. 614 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:29,120 All this is real. 615 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:30,120 Peanut ready for the truth? 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