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On this edition of Sightings, in 1994, these school children saw a UFO land.

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Two years later, the alien visitors keep coming.

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Why would 62 children fly?

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Now their neighborhood is becoming a UFO hotspot.

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Don't you got a lot of heat?

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You feel it now?

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No, I'm struggling.

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Then, their hands have caused the lane to walk and the blind to see.

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Who are these healers among us?

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They're negligence, they're weakness.

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Later, he's a country minister and he's also England's premier exorcist.

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They always helped me form things down in the centuries.

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Also, the Air Force uses this machine to train violence.

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Those who use it say it creates out-of-body experiences.

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Except for reality itself, I don't remember anything being quite that real.

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And can anything be done to the perverse spirit that's terrorizing these three women?

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Welcome to Sightings.

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I'm Tim White.

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After our recent report on a UFO encounter and group contact in Rua Zimbabwe,

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many sightings viewers wrote in requesting additional information about this historic incident.

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And as Carl Wolk tells us in this extended report,

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the Rua encounter was only the first in a series of ongoing UFO sightings.

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Rua, it seems, is Earth's newest paranormal hotspot.

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Rua is a small agricultural community in Zimbabwe's bush country.

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Now the focus of UFO research,

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because sightings are definitely on the rise in this part of Africa.

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The sightings have increased.

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It has now come to the stage that I do not think a day goes by without some sighting.

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I'd say at least half of the sightings that we have are genuine.

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And the balance would be attributed to things like meteorites, natural phenomenon, that sort of thing.

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But at least half the sightings reports that we get are definitely genuine.

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This string of UFO activity began with a group encounter that occurred in this field

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next to the Ariel Primary School in Rua.

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In September of 1994, 62 schoolchildren claimed that a UFO had landed

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and that they saw alien beings emerge from the spacecraft.

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All I saw was a silver flash just like that.

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I saw the bigger one and the spaceship, like four or five of them, like crowding around it.

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They were very still and then I saw them also disappear.

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They went about a meter off the ground and then they just vanished.

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We ran down to the teachers and we went into the office and we started telling the teachers

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and then they said maybe there's nothing.

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But the children started drawing pictures, creating in pencil and crayon

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a disturbing portrait of extraterrestrial contact.

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Definitely not a human.

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He had a big head and big black eyes and was dressed in a black bodysuit.

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And his eyes were down here and he was like looking really, really funny.

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And these eyes the children tell us conveyed a telepathic message,

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a frightening warning about Earth's destruction.

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I think they're trying to tell us something which is going to happen

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because people don't actually believe us sometimes.

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So maybe they are trying to show us something.

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Welcome Cynthia Hind from Africa. Thank you very much.

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No one knows the story of the RUWA group citing better than researcher Cynthia Hind.

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At a recent international UFO Congress in England, Hind held ufologists spellbound

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the stories of the RUWA school children.

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I believe them. I believe they saw what they said they saw.

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Small details that I saw in the drawings which were incredible.

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Hind is a respected African journalist who covered the RUWA encounter for the BBC.

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What she finds most convincing about the story is the fact that not one of the 62 children

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has changed his or her version of what happened since the event first occurred in 1994.

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This despite the community's strict punishment for lying.

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Well I'll tell you one thing. They're afraid of the headmaster. There's no doubt about it at all.

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He's one of the people that still came, children, if they're naughty.

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He believes in discipline and he said, I'm not a believer, but he said,

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I can tell you one thing, children would never lie to me.

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But not everyone who studied the RUWA group citing believes the children's story.

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It's not a question of whether they're lying or not.

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It's a question of their distinction between reality and not reality.

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It may not be as sharp as that of an older kid or an adult person.

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discounting them all.

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Another thing which kind of struck me is here are these crafts coming down,

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presumably making lots of noise and none of the adults ventured out to see why there's such a noise taking place.

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We were all actually in the middle of a staff meeting in the staff room.

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I still don't understand how you could get 62 kids to come up with the exact same story.

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The way they drew the flying saucer and the so-called people who came out of it.

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no mommy but we did see.

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So essentially there's nothing that you could hear from the children that would convince you.

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I mean I have to admit that you know you have all these stories of flying saucers for the last 40 years.

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Her proof is a question that haunts everyone who has investigated the rua sightings.

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Why would 62 children lie?

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And because there have been hundreds of additional sightings since then throughout South Central Africa,

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more people are trusting in the children.

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Currently Peer is producing an in-depth documentary on the rua sightings.

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Next, the mystery of healing hands.

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What it looked like a split of prior actually went up an hour.

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Strange phenomenon in the skies above Idaho.

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Psychic healing has a bad name in this country.

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Most people associating it with psychic surgery, the carnival sideshow version of holistic medicine.

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But at a recent medical conference sponsored by Harvard University,

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validating the belief that the mind-body connection plays an essential role in curing illness.

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I think it's any question that some people seem to have a natural talent or ability to heal others.

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Dr. C. Norman Shealy is a Harvard-trained physician and medical researcher

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who has spent the last 25 years investigating the claims of alternative healers.

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who recognize the value that so-called spiritual healers can have in modern healthcare.

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And most healers will tell you that they don't heal.

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They are channels for healing energy, which all of the ones I've talked to believe is the power of God,

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our divine power coming through them in order to assist people in healing.

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I start by, of course, asking for the help from the Spirit,

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because I believe it all comes from the God for us,

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and we open up to it and let that energy flow and that whatever the problem is, it is taken care of.

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Douglas Johnson is a spiritual healer who has a sterling reputation among physicians and his clients,

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who include a number of Hollywood celebrities.

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He has an astonishing and well-documented healing track record.

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I had a cyst. They were going to operate, and I told the doctor I'd be back,

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and the doctor was screaming, that can turn, and we can have peritonitis.

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And I went to Doug for two treatments. I went back. There was no cyst.

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I don't even know what it is, but I've seen cancerous tumors instantly disappear.

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I've seen blind people practically instantly, see?

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and that's about 25 feet.

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But now after Douglas Johnson and the healing, I can see all those buildings all the way back.

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Josephine Hauke was diagnosed with irreversible glaucoma by a world renowned ophthalmologist.

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But after a single healing session with Douglas Johnson, her vision was restored,

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and her daily headaches disappeared.

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I said, later on, I said, doctor, do I have glaucoma?

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I said, no. I said, doctor, why?

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The first time I came here, I said, you told me it was glaucoma,

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and he says, I don't know what happened.

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And he checked me out because he didn't believe in it.

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See if he couldn't find nothing.

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Did you get a lot of heat?

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Johnson believes that healing energy flows through him and into his clients,

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who report a distinct sensation of heat emanating from his hands.

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And when a sightings investigative team trained a thermal sensitive camera on the healer,

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his fingertip shown here in red hit the top of the temperature scale.

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It's like when you're on a hot, hot day, you see, like, waves coming up off the pavement,

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or that's what I feel is coming out of my hand.

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divine healing energy that also flows through his hands.

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Jeff Bouldwood of Glastonbury, England, claims that this energy sometimes materializes

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in the form of ash, minerals, or oil, a phenomenon that sightings captured in this unedited videotape.

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All of a sudden, from nowhere, from Jeff's stroking of my hand, it's a divine oil, divine oil coming through.

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And the smell, the smell was amazing.

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The smell filled the room just from Jeff manifesting his oil on my hand.

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Two years ago, Colin Hides was working under his car when the jack slipped and the car crushed his skull.

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He suffered a massive brain hemorrhage and was in a coma for more than two weeks.

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After he regained consciousness, he was partially paralyzed with blurred vision, slurred speech,

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and vital CSF, cerebral fluid, was leaking out of his brain.

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As a last resort, Colin's wife, Jenny, brought him to Jeff Bouldwood.

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I had no CSF leak. There was completely clear.

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And I was, wow, something had happened. Something had happened.

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Within a month, Colin's other disabilities began to disappear. His vision returned, and he was able to take off his neck brace.

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I noticed that he became very much more upright and he was very much more fortified with life.

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The question of why I have certain gifts, it comes up a great deal.

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Philosophically, I often say to people, there's no such thing as why.

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I don't ever question it in that way. I do it because that's what I'm here to do.

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Just as there are very few Mozart's in the world, there are very few really genius healers, if you will.

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And I don't think anyone can define why a given person happens to be that kind of healer.

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And yet, the few healers who have gained the respect of traditional health professionals like Johnson and Bouldwood

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do share some unusual personal characteristics.

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Dr. Anthony Scofield of London University has made a comparative study of healers past and present.

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Many healers seem to have had some serious illness in the past.

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And it seems to me as if they've loosened their ties with this material world

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and seem to have one foot in this world and one foot in the other world.

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And it's this wounded healer phenomenon that seems to allow them to channel these healing energies.

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Well, first of all, I had to fight to survive.

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Both my mother and I almost died when I was born. And she had a very serious heart condition.

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Douglas Johnson inherited his mother's condition.

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And as a young boy, had several brushes with death.

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Before he claims, a spirit visited him and bestowed the gift of healing.

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Bouldwood, too, had a near-death experience at age five after serious bout with rheumatic fever.

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The little light came around the bed and it got very intense and a voice said

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that I would have to go back because I had work to do.

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And the light entered me with a rush of energy.

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I later discovered that my heart had stopped for a short while.

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Dr. Scofield has found that many healers believe their power comes from their ability

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to transcend the physical and absorb the spiritual.

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And in an attempt to provide a more scientific basis for this mystical theory,

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Dr. Scofield is performing experiments with Jeff Bouldwood.

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In one, damaged plant seeds treated by Bouldwood improved significantly over an untreated control group.

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And an increasing number of scientists believe that healing is a result of tapping into

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some universal subconscious and harnessing healing energies in this way.

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Ultimately, I don't suppose we'll know this side of the grave, quite frankly, what the true answer is.

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But all we do know is that healing works.

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Although there are signs alternative healing will have a permanent place in many hospitals and clinics,

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the field is rife with fraud and disreputable people looking for a fast buck from a vulnerable patient.

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Use your common sense and never undertake any alternative therapies without first checking with your doctor.

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Next, documented sightings and official denials in Idaho.

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Looking for microscopic life in space.

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And a monk is reborn in Seattle.

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UFO sightings concentrated along the Idaho-Oregon border continue to make headlines.

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And the area where they are being sighted is widening, with the appearance of a new flap

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observed by multiple eyewitnesses over Idaho's state capitol.

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ufologists are investigating the appearance of a brilliant orb and it's linked to similar sightings in the northwestern United States.

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I saw a tremendous flash of light.

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I was preceded by what I thought was a loudest sonic boom I'd ever heard.

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People that live in the area have been talking about it for years.

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I was coming up from the barn about 6.40 in the morning from feeding my horses

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when I spotted a brilliant white light in the south.

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There wasn't no sparks off of it or tails. It was just a big bright light.

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The last impression I had of it when it looked like it split apart was it actually went up and out.

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It didn't go out of sight as far as my view goes, it just stopped being there.

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The Earth Shaking UFO actually triggered the seismograph at Boise State University.

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We personally feel like this was something that was extraterrestrial.

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What the answer is, we hope that we will find that.

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But that answer is not forthcoming and local residents are growing increasingly frustrated with official lack of interest.

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We are the taxpayers. They are our people and yet they have the nerve, the audacity to stand light to us about telling us we're crazy.

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They owe us truth, don't they?

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At Cape Canaveral, NASA has announced plans to gather comet dust for analysis back on Earth.

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But what they'll find inside that cosmic exhaust is anybody's guess.

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In 2003, an unmanned probe called Stardust will intercept the comet Wild 2,

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carried its orbit around the sun.

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As the comet flies past, Stardust will deploy a grid to catch samples from the comet's tail.

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Dust as old as the universe that may contain extraterrestrial organisms.

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The astronauts of Apollo 11 gathered our first and only space dust,

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and NASA acknowledged the possibility that they had brought back alien life forms by quarantining the astronauts.

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This time, Stardust will jettison its canister of samples into the Utah Desert.

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It will then be transported to a secret military weapon space, identified only as the Utah Test and Training Range.

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Some Maverick scientists believe that within the dust they may find complex organic molecules,

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or even germs or spores that will prove their theory that the universe is alive.

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In Seattle, Washington, an American-Buddhist congregation has recognized one of its own,

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as the reincarnation of a long-dead Tibetan lama.

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Four-year-old Sunam Wong-Doo was chosen as the lama's tukulam, a reincarnation,

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even before his birth, according to his mother.

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There's hundreds of reincarnated tukus, all through Tibet, India, Nepal, Bhutan, and stuff.

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This happens all the time.

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He's different because he's a sapient in America.

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Reincarnation is a central precept of Tibetan Buddhism.

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In this faith, llamas, or holy men, are reborn again and again.

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When a child is advanced as a reincarnated lama, secret rituals and tests are performed

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to determine if the child really is the old lama in a new body.

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Recently, these tests were performed in Seattle, and as a result,

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this child is now accepted by Tibetan Buddhist worldwide as the reborn lama,

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De Shung Rinpoche, who died in 1987, a man who foretold his own rebirth.

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He lived in Seattle all together about 20 years, and he even told two of his very faithful students,

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one's American and one's Tibetan man.

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He told he was going to be born in Seattle.

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Strangely, the 1993 film Little Buddha also foretold the llamas' rebirth in Seattle in much the same way.

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In real life, the new tukala will now claim his place as a holy man.

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He'll be given up voluntarily by his mother to be raised in a Kathmandu monastery.

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Of course, you know, to have that kind of education is just an incredible, incredible opportunity.

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So, I'm very happy about that.

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But of course, I'm going to be extremely sad and, you know, probably cry, oceans, you know.

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In January, the littlest lama left the United States for his new life in Kathmandu.

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When he's a teenager, Sunab will return to his congregation in Seattle,

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living proof to his followers of the eternal circle of life.

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

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

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For 30 years, Reverend Tom Willis has been the vicar of Holy Trinity Church

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in the tiny seaside town of Bridellington, England.

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He performs mass, baptisms and exorcisms.

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In fact, Reverend Willis has gained a national reputation as the man to call when someone or something

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is haunting your house, your business, or even your soul.

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Almighty God, our heavenly Father, we have sinned against you and against our fellow men.

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Even before I became a priest, I was interested and fascinated by the whole problem

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of whether ghosts existed or not.

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And I used to collect newspaper cuttings and talk to people who claim to see ghosts.

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And it was just a hobby examining the evidence for and against ghosts.

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Then one day, after I was fairly newly ordained, I was asked to give a talk on this subject.

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And one of the women afterwards who had been listening to the talk came to me and said,

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Look, can you tell me, am I heading for a nervous breakdown, or is my house haunted?

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And I had my first case.

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The vicar determined that it was not a nervous breakdown, but a tragic suicide in the home years before

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that was somehow creating the haunting activity.

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His successful exorcism of that home and the relief he brought to its owner 35 years ago

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set Reverend Tom Willis on a unique career path.

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He estimates that since 1962 he has taken on nearly 500 haunting cases.

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Usually what happens a telephone rings and somebody rather diffidently says,

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Are you the vicar that deals with hauntings?

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And I say yes.

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And they say, well, we think we've got something in our house or in our office or in our factory.

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And I wonder if you could come and investigate.

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We've been called to trawlers and aerodromes and prefabricated buildings,

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Stakely Homes, ordinary houses.

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Do you name it?

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We get called hospitals, schools, any sort of building really.

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We get called.

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We're not psychic investigators or ghostbusters.

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We're dancing in a Samaritan type way.

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People who are very distressed, who want help and want relief from what's happening to them.

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And so we're responding to a request for help.

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If you'd have seen Nathan's face when you saw these ghosts, you'd understand that it was no way in the world was, you know, joking.

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And I don't think people realise, you know, the distress that, you know, Nathan went through.

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In November 1995, Reverend Willis received a panicked call from Catherine Bridge after she was awakened by the terrifying screams of her six-year-old son Nathan.

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It was the last straw for Catherine, who had already felt an evil presence, but had, until then, kept it to herself.

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It was just hysterical screaming, no, go away, no, go away.

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And we brought him downstairs into the living room and he was really crying, he was sobbing.

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And he just said that there was somebody in his bedroom.

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And I said to him, no, Nathan, nobody can get in the door's locked, you know.

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But there's no way I could convince him.

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And then, obviously, he started screaming.

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And like me and my mum were sort of like looking around and just saying, well, you know, what's going on?

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And he said, it's there, it's there, it's coming, call the police.

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When you're having a dream, you can't talk, can you?

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You can only open your mouth, can't you?

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Without coming out of it.

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So it wasn't a dream, was it?

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I wanted to see Nathan myself and think, well, is this just a child getting disturbed and having nightmares?

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Or is it really happening?

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I went to the house and talked to them.

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And there seemed to be, you know, their mother and sister also,

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the mother and sister also seemed to have had experiences in the house.

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And it seemed to me to be objective.

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When Tom arrived, he explained to Nathan that it was just going to go through each of the rooms and just say a prayer.

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You know, I mean, he put like a cross of holy water above Nathan's bed

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and explained that, you know, this will make them go away.

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I think Tom put Nathan's mind at ease a lot, you know, just actually going round with him.

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He blessed the wall and he blessed right up in the attic on the bed on my bed.

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According to Church of England Archdeacon Hugh Buckingham,

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exorcism has been an accepted and practiced religious right for centuries.

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It is quite usual for each darsis in the Church of England to have at least one person

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who oversees the paranormal and does exorcisms and that kind of thing.

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The fact is that an awful lot of people have experiences of this nature.

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Because for two or three hundred years the Church has not met a lot of need for this ministry,

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the colleges have not been geared up to teaching the clergy how to deal with the phenomena.

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But now because more and more clergy are meeting complaints and requests for dealing with this kind of phenomena,

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the colleges are beginning to get organized and get some training.

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Over the years the vicar has found that his most disturbing cases have come from people who experimented with the occult,

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stirring up unexpected evil energies.

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There always have been hauntings down the centuries,

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but we haven't had the amount of dabbling in the occult that we've had in recent years.

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There's been traditional teaching of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith and the Muslim faith

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that people should not dabble because if you start dabbling you begin to pull in all sorts of strange intelligences and phenomena.

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Reverend Willis feels that it is his duty to administer to the spiritual needs of his flock,

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no matter how unearthly their request.

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It's part really of the healing ministry of the Church,

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in the same way as we lay hands for the healing of someone and asking God to remove the illness,

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so you're asking God to remove evil.

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The bridge case is another success story for the vicar and little Nathan is once again having sweet dreams in his own bed.

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At least if anything does happen again, at least we know we've got the phone number

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and we know that it's going to take us seriously and it will come down.

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After 30 years with the decidedly unconventional specialty,

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Reverend Willis finds that kind of appreciation is the best reward.

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My wife is a psychologist and she asked me her in question the other day and said,

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describe your life in one sentence.

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And I thought, good grief, how could you answer a question like that?

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And suddenly the words came and I was surprised.

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I've seen the glory and been part of it.

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After 30 years, Reverend Willis is finally hanging up his paranormal hat.

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But before he does, England's premier exorcist has scheduled a series of seminars

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that teach young priests the knowledge and lessons that he's learned over the past three decades.

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Next.

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Three, two, one, mark.

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Can this machine artificially induce out-of-body experiences?

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Later, driving out of while you're a ghost.

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For many years, the military has conducted studies on just how much G-Force pilots and astronauts

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can withstand during flight.

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Recently, a study was conducted to determine just what happens before G-Lock,

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the moment a pilot loses consciousness.

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During these G-Lock experiments, pilots reported visions and feelings

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that mimic what parapsychologists call the out-of-body experience.

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I was totally conscious.

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That's what was so startling is that I was fully conscious.

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It was not a dream.

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It was not some type of hallucination.

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In 1972, William Buhlman took a long trip without ever leaving his house.

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He wasn't using drugs or alcohol.

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He was having an out-of-body experience.

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I sat up and literally stepped away from my physical body.

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And at that point, what was really shocking is that I looked down,

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and it struck me that that was my physical body.

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But I was totally real.

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I could consciously think.

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Since then, Buhlman has taken hundreds of such trips

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and now teaches others how to induce the out-of-body experience.

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He uses a meditative technique that begins with visualization of a specific place.

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No one knows why it works, but it's been used for centuries.

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That if you focus enough, your consciousness has a tendency

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to go to the location that you've concentrated upon.

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Anyone can learn how to have an out-of-body experience.

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Every religion in the world has a central theme that we are a non-physical being,

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and at death we exit our physical body.

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If that's true, then why can't we do the same right now?

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New age hocus pocus, just another fad, courtesy of a crazy bunch of Californians.

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The United States Navy doesn't think so.

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Okay, we're all set out here, Lieutenant.

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Let's rock and roll.

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All right, subject is Lieutenant Shmorrow.

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Okay, on my mark, five, four, three, two, one, mark.

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This is no joy ride for Lieutenant Shmorrow.

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He is strapped inside a dynamic flight simulator,

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a spherical gondola perched at the end of a 50-foot centrifuge.

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It duplicates the extreme forces of gravity that pilots must endure

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inside high-altitude jet fighters.

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Scientists at the Naval Air Warfare Center in Warmanstier, Pennsylvania

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are studying the potentially life-threatening effects of a condition called G-lock,

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gravity-induced loss of consciousness.

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In fire-reviation medicine, loss of consciousness is not just a symptom.

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It's a problem because at the speeds that we're going,

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you can imagine within seconds you can impact the ground.

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During the earliest experiments in the 1970s,

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Dr. Winneray was chief scientist at Warmanstier.

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He became fascinated with the strange, unexpected side effect of G-lock.

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We decided to try to understand what the neurophysiology of unconsciousness was,

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which was truly something that was really new.

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And what they got was an out-of-body experience.

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During the loss of consciousness episode,

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sensory input is deprived.

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The ability for the brain to output to the body is deprived.

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And so, in essence, the nervous system or the brain interprets that

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as being separated from its body.

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Being separated from a body may be interpreted as an out-of-body experience.

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Some of the G-lock experiences that I had were very memorable.

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Aerospace engineer Rob McConnell has taken more than 40 test rides in the Plank Simulator.

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I grew up in New Jersey, and I had this feeling of being at the Jersey Shore

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on a warm summer evening at an amusement park.

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And it was dark, but there were these lights flashing around,

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and I could hear a Callio Pena background and see a Ferris wheel

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and a smell of cotton candy as if I was there.

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Except for reality itself, I don't remember anything being quite that real.

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A fully conscious out-of-body experience is as real as us talking nail.

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It's that dramatic.

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Lieutenant Dylan Schmuro is a Navy research psychologist

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who experienced all the sights and sounds of a real disco on this ride in the Simulator.

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I very much felt that I was in an incredibly large warehouse-type setting

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that was completely dark with many colorful lights,

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in addition to the strobe lights going on and off.

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I was mingling, dancing.

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I can still now remember the sounds, the echoey, the reverberations,

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the feeling. I still remember I could feel the sweat on my body.

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I could feel the... I felt like I had a drink in my hand.

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I could feel the coldness of the drink.

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I completely felt as if I was truly and utterly there.

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We can certainly simulate out-of-body experiences,

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but we don't have all the answers yet.

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A lot of people look at there being a mind-body duality that exists.

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There's really not a separation.

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That mind is something that is an extension of the physical body

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that we're just not able to describe at the present time.

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Billman suggests an alternative theory.

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He believes that consciousness may not depend on the physical body.

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What if consciousness is a separate entity independent of the biological body?

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That would explain a lot.

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There is no proof, by the way, that the biological brain,

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a three-pound hunk of gray matter, is the source of consciousness.

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It is all assumption at this point.

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He sees these experiments as an important first step.

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I believe the most effective way to discover these answers

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are through self-initiated and controlled out-of-body experiences.

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Think of it. Why can't scientists be taught to have fully conscious out-of-body experiences

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and begin to consciously explore the substructure of our physical universe?

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It's an exciting prospect.

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The ability to recreate the out-of-body experience in a laboratory

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helps broaden our understanding of the phenomenon.

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But figuring out how to duplicate an OBE only proves that an OBE can be duplicated.

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Not why it occurs outside the laboratory.

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Next.

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Did a 19th century spiritualist open the door to this modern-day haunting?

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I could still feel like something was next to me.

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I was giving me the creeps.

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Recently, sightings explored the effectiveness of an ancient Chinese method

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for ridding one Northern California home of ghosts,

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a cleansing ritual based on the spiritual principle of Feng Shui.

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Well, now a group in Wisconsin is using another ancient method a little closer to home,

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a centuries-old Native American ritual for dispelling evil spirits.

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Sightings was contacted by Jeff Seelman,

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a vanguard psychic investigations about his company's unique approach to ghost busting.

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He offered to show us his methods during his work inside a Milwaukee area home.

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The three women who share the home are being terrorized by what they feel is a malicious spirit.

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I'd be sitting in a living room and we'd hear kind of a creaky down the stairs.

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You'd actually hear it progressing down the stairs,

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almost as if someone was walking up and down the stairs.

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The presence has a strange voyeuristic quality.

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Windows are found open after they've been closed,

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doors wide open after they've been locked.

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Each roommate has had the feeling of being watched in her most private moments,

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and Kathy believes she was confronted by the entity in her own bed.

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When I felt the presence come into the bed with me,

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it felt like the covers had lifted off my body.

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I kept turning around thinking maybe it was just my imagination.

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I fluffed the covers out, but I could still feel like something was next to me.

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I was given a creeps.

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Kathy didn't want to sleep in her room and she didn't want to sleep on the couch

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and she didn't want to sleep in my bedroom.

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So she was going to leave and I was not going to stay here by myself,

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so I was going to be with her.

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They have moved out until the house can be cleared of its invasive energy.

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To rule out an earthly explanation for the phenomenon,

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Sightings has two local researchers to survey the site

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and monitor environmental conditions in the home.

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This camera is of the type that is made to see extreme low light level conditions.

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If there is any type of movement or disturbance to the normal temperatures in the room,

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the infrared lighting should highlight it and make it recordable for us.

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The 24-hour surveillance yielded no evidence of a physical disturbance,

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so the investigation turned to the metaphysical.

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Together, Jeffrey Seelman and Mary Ellen Pride

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have more than 25 years experience investigating haughty activity.

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They employ a mix of psychic contact and spiritual cleansing

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to rid Midwestern homes of disturbing energies and entities.

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Seelman believes he knows who is haughty in this house.

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I think it's a very powerful spirit, very evil, negative, obnoxious, parasitical,

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a feeder that feeds off of energy from others.

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In this case, the three women who live here.

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Unknown to vanguard investigations,

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members of the Sightings team had independently researched the history of the area.

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In 1844, John Wagner bought 170 acres of land in Waukesha, Wisconsin,

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including the land where the house in our investigation sits today.

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Wagner was a wealthy entrepreneur who had dabbled in mysticism,

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conducting seances to entertain his friends.

528
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Did John Wagner unwittingly open up a dark pathway from the other side

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that has never been closed?

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When Jeff enters the empty house, he instantly feels that he is not alone.

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My feeling is this particular stairway is well traversed by the spirit.

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In here, it washes one or more of the women, take a shower or a bath.

533
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It has some boilistic tendencies.

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Both investigators feel the presence in every room upstairs.

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But in Kathy's room, Mary Ellen believes that she has made physical contact.

536
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I felt something felt real hard in this area kind of corresponds.

537
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There's a lot of trapped energy in this room.

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There's a lot of agitation too.

539
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So I can feel that because my heart rate is going.

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Jeff and Mary Ellen agree that there is a single entity here, definitely male,

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and potentially more violent than he has shown himself to be.

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Jeff and Mary Ellen psychically search for the vortex of his energy,

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the place they term the nest.

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The nest is in the basement and I think Mary is very close to it.

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Could predate the time that the house was built actually is what my thought would be.

546
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Could be.

547
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This is a pretty intense energy and it's pretty much directed at women as opposed to men.

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Once the nest is identified, Jeff begins to perform a ritual of his own design

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that he believes has greater power and effectiveness than exorcism.

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In Kathy's bedroom, he uses symbolic gestures drawn from many faiths

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to force the entity from this location, replacing its negativity with healing energy.

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Then in the basement at the supposed source of the haunting,

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Jeff performs a final ritual to drive the dark force out completely

554
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and close the spirit portal, ensuring the entity will not return.

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I cleanse the atmosphere of all of the house.

556
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A lot of perverse, averted energy.

557
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:10,000
I think if the problem would have continued for a while longer,

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that some really bad things would have probably happened here far worse than have already happened.

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After the ritual cleansing, the three women who had lived in the home agree to return for a visit.

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There is trepidation, but all three feel that the house has a new benevolent energy.

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There's no way of predicting what could happen, and they said it would have been worse,

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and I have no desire for that to happen.

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I'm just relieved because whatever it was is gone.

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Since our investigation, Kathy, Erica, and Jen have moved back into their rented home.

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So far, the haunting activity that drove them from the site has not returned.

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We now are able to reach a worldwide audience of sightings fans,

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which enables them to give us feedback on what we're producing and how we're showing stories to people.

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We have features from some of our stories on a weekly basis.

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We have downloadable images and quick time clips.

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When I make contact with this entity, I will become a little confrontational.

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Hello?

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Hello?

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Since its inception, Dominion has become the home of all things science fiction on the World Wide Web.

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Now with the addition of sightings online, the hope is that it will become a clearing house for all things paranormal as well.

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Already on the Dominion site, they have access to all the major paranormal links on the Internet.

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We're hoping to reach a worldwide audience of sightings fans,

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and provide state of the art information and news about the paranormal world.

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If you've had a paranormal experience, contact sightings on the World Wide Web at sci-fi.com.

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Sightings can also be contacted at America Online at keyword sightings.

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Or write to us, care of Paramount Television.

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

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For Sightings, I'm Tim White.

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