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Did this UFO enter protected airspace?

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And in doing so, compromise a top-secret facility in Ohio.

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It houses the facility that we call Ohio's Area 51.

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Diane Morrissey believes she died and came back.

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Now she says you can be taught to do the same thing.

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Nothing could ever be as good as being dead.

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A sightings investigation reveals that one of Chicago's most popular night spots

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is also one of its most haunted.

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The darker aspects of the club scene definitely hang out here

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due to the energy that's in this room.

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A mysterious power has drawn this photographer to ancient, sacred sites.

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They really seem to be meant to be seen from above.

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These were made for the gods to see.

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And how will the discovery of ice on the moon

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further our exploration of space?

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Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White.

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A lot of interesting video tapes are delivered here to the sightings' offices.

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Most record brief, distant encounters with unidentified objects.

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But a few, like the tape that you're about to see, are going to class by themselves.

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They're clear, close-up, and unexplained.

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And when we examined the area where the tape was shot,

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sightings discovered a top-secret world in a very unlikely place.

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A freak snowstorm is about as big as the news gets in quiet Chillicothe, Ohio.

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But in 1996, Terry Howard shot home video of a UFO

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that is still making news around the world.

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On the night of October 16th, I went to take the trash out behind the house.

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And I glanced up at the sky.

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I saw four bright objects that looked like stars.

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They lit up really bright into like a bright yellow light,

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kind of like a flare.

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And they moved together into one solid bright yellow object.

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Terry Howard was not the only one to have a sighting that night.

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Chillicothe's Sheriff Ron Nichols received notice that the switchboard

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was lighting up with calls about the same UFO.

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from a citizen that lived in the southern portion of Ross County

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that they had seen or witnessed some lights that were in formations in the sky.

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They didn't have any idea what they were.

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Animals in the neighborhood, as far as I could hear, was barking and howling.

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Again, we still have no idea what they were.

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I finally thought, hey, maybe I should get the camera on this.

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So I went in and I got our video camera and came back out.

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And that's when I was lucky enough to catch just the ending of them separating on tape.

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This compelling videotape is the result.

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Response to it was immediate and overwhelming

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as local news and UFO investigators like William Jones

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rushed to investigate the scene and analyze the video.

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I think it's definitely an anomalous phenomenon of some kind.

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When you first look at the tape, you think it might be flares.

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But when you find out from Terry that those objects, when he first saw them, were coming together.

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And then on the tape, when you see them spreading apart, those obviously cannot be flares.

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Jones is the Ohio director of MUFON, the world's largest UFO investigation group.

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MUFON's video and film expert is Jeff Sainio, and he has analyzed the Howard tape.

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Witness stated that what we saw here, the lights coming in and out,

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happened four or five times before he raced off to get his camera.

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An action like this is obviously not the result of some conventional objects.

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but what we're seeing here is this thing in just a few seconds moving upward and then downward again.

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Clearly a motion wouldn't be seen by a conventional object.

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and moving around in the sky for a brief 15 seconds or so before disappearing.

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So that fits in well with many sightings that have occurred in other areas.

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But Sainio could say only what it is not. No one knows where the UFO came from or why it came here.

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There have been more than an average number of UFO sightings come out of southern Ohio, it seems to me.

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You have a low population density down here. You would think it would be just the opposite.

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You'd think that where more people are living there's a better chance of seeing UFOs.

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But for some reason, a large number of reports do seem to come out of this area.

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Chillicothe may be a long car ride away from any big city, but by air it's only minutes from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

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Where many ufologists believe secret weapons based on recovered alien technology are being built and flown.

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But others feel the real answer is even closer to home.

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The triangulated convergence point of all the reported phenomena from October 16th was determined to have been in the skies above Adams County, which houses the Peach Mountain complex.

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Kenny Young is a member of TASC, Prize State Advocates for Scientific Knowledge.

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He thinks the UFOs may be coming from a remote general electric testing facility south of Chillicothe.

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It's very desolate, very remote. Very few people are there from which to see something that would be tested.

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The people's facility claims that all GE jet engines are tested on the ground, never in the air or attached to secret aircraft.

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quote, the alleged aerial phenomenon of October 16th did not result from activity remotely connected to the GE People's Facility.

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But I should note that certain airspace above the People's site is utilized by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

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And in the past, USAF aircraft maneuvers have been performed in airspace near and above the People's Facility.

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In addition to inquiries placed with GE, I also took the step of requesting information from Wright-Patterson by fax in which they have mysteriously lost.

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Young admits his biggest enemy right now is red tape.

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GE does not deny that there is a facility there. It's just an immersed in secrecy to the point where nobody really knows exactly what is being tested.

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Is this a secret military project, a re-engineered flying saucer?

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Or is Chilicothy's proximity to Wright-Patt and GE a red herring, throwing ufologists off the extraterrestrial track?

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I think the tape that Terry took is important. It focuses for the public on the fact that we're seeing something in the skies that we can't explain.

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This has been going on for at least 50 years, at least since the mid-1940s. I think it's time that the government comes straight on what it knows.

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If they do have new equipment testing it out, I think it would be the sensitivity of it to keep it confidential and quiet would be to the security of our country. It would be of most importance.

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I don't know what it's all to be honest that night. I know it wasn't an airplane or helicopter and it wasn't fireworks and it wasn't flares, so I'm not sure what it was.

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If there is an extraterrestrial component to all of the UFO sightings that have been made over the years, then it's time for us as a species to grow up and realize we're living in a galactic neighborhood perhaps that we're going to have to join.

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Terry Howard tells us that since he shot his historic video he has become something of a local celebrity, fielding offers from a number of different programs.

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And Terry says he's no longer ambivalent about the reality of UFOs. They are out there, Terry reports, and hopefully he will catch one again.

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I saw from the moment I came out of my mother's womb until I died.

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She died and loved it. Now she says anyone can see the light.

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The biggest paranormal story of the decade may well be the near-death experience, virtually unknown until a few survivors began to come forward.

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Today, NDE is in the New Age mainstream. And now a researcher in Los Angeles is pioneering a technique which she claims will allow just about anybody, even people in perfect health, to experience the bright light and spiritual revelations of an NDE.

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And all from the comfort of their own home.

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It was a day long ago that Diane Morris, he says, she will never forget. It was the day she died.

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I was getting ready to have a party and I wanted my house to look really nice so I cleaned the fish tank.

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As she grabbed the pump inside the tank, there was a buzz, a snap, and then something horrible happened.

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Electrified water gushed out of a pump hose and sprayed Diane.

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It kind of felt like when you lick an envelope and you get a cut on your mouth or your tongue.

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The force of the electric shock was so intense, Diane was not unconscious.

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Suddenly, I knew I was outside of myself and I couldn't understand how that could possibly happen.

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I didn't know at that instant that I had been electrocuted.

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Her body lay lifeless on the floor, but Diane says it didn't matter because she was not in her body.

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I thought it peculiar that when I looked at my hand, I was transparent.

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The clothing was transparent. It glowed about three feet around my entire body.

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Diane believes that she remained unconscious for more than 25 minutes.

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Then, as she felt herself begin to separate from this life, Diane claims she was visited by a strangely familiar form.

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I was pulled through the tunnel at the beginning of my den windows.

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When I went through the tunnel, it was this huge black vastness.

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I knew I was in a place that wasn't the physical dimension, and yet I could feel somebody here waiting for me.

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I finally saw this woman about a hundred yards away and she was glowing like I was.

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She was extremely loving.

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Diane says she was afraid as she walked into the void, but suddenly, her fear melted away to nothing.

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I saw from the moment I came out of my mother's womb until I died.

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After the life review, Diane was reassured of her unique and permanent place in the cosmos.

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It just was the most unforgettable experience.

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It was like feeling every angel, every spirit, every being in the whole universe, in all galaxies, saying,

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wow, you know, you have a purpose.

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But Diane did not complete her journey to the other side. She came back to this life, completely transformed by the experience.

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Before I died, I would have never thought that I was wrong about anything.

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And after I died, I look at everything I say and I realize anybody could be wrong about everything.

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Before the experience, Diane did not draw people to her. She didn't really have any interest in, I think, drawing people to her.

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That key is Diane's younger sister. They were always close, but Diane's story of her near-death experience was hard for Pat to accept

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and nearly tore the sisters apart.

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I mean, this is somebody that we had knocked down drag-out fights. She and I, we knew each other inside and out.

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There was nothing unusual about her. There was nothing extraordinary.

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And I didn't accept that anything had changed or that something could have changed her.

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It wasn't until years later that Pat began to accept Diane's story as truth.

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The sisters were on vacation and Diane cured Pat of a crippling headache.

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It was a turning point internally for me to say maybe there's something there that I don't understand, but it's real.

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And the person that I had grown up with would never have known where my headache was.

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Now, the person whom Diane has become not only cares for her sister, but for many others.

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A new life's work has begun and she's sharing her story and her book.

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Anyone can see the light with millions. She also leads workshops that help people cope with death

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by teaching them how to have their own out-of-body experience.

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Carol Height attended only three of Diane's workshops before she was able to achieve her first OBE.

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I was lying in bed one morning. All of a sudden I was thinking, oh, I've got to get up.

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So I walked to the kitchen and this was so absolutely real. I felt myself going to the kitchen.

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And I reached for the light switch and my hand literally went through the light switch through the wall.

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And I was thinking, well, could this be? You know, we had talked about it in class.

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All of a sudden I was thinking and I was in the shower stall.

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And I, again, was trying to touch the tiles. And again, my hand went through.

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And the most incredible message came through. And I won't say it was spoken because I don't know that,

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but I heard it in my head. And the message was, life is luxe.

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Carol was confused by the message until she learned that luxe means light.

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For her, this was a profound moment of enlightenment.

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Somewhere between 10 and 25 percent of the population, if you pull them,

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will report having had an out-of-body experience at some time during their life.

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Some out-of-body experiences start to take on transcendental mystical elements.

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Dr. Green has been studying the phenomenon for more than 15 years.

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If people are, in fact, having out-of-body experiences as a report,

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it means that human consciousness is not just a byproduct of brain functioning,

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but that it can function independent of the body and the brain.

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And if that is so, we're going to have to rethink some of our most cherished ideas

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about what it is to be a human being.

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That's just what Diane says she's working toward, to teach people that her NDE

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and their own out-of-body experiences are a gift, a spiritual preview of coming attractions.

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And Diane states with assurance, just wait until you get to the feature presentation.

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I've said and I mean it, that if you lived a billion years in anybody's body,

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nothing could ever be as good as being dead.

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Most neurologists and brain researchers insist that an NDE is not a mysterious peak into the next life,

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but an explainable response to certain stimuli.

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There is, however, one area in which both sides do agree.

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Tales of near-death experience are beneficial,

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helping many people cope with the eternal questions and fear of death.

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Next, downloading our souls in cyberspace.

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Life on Jupiter's moon.

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And later the ghosts of Chicago's greatest disaster.

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

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Innovation researchers at British Telecom headquarters report a startling theory.

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The possibility that a new device may soon put all of us on the road to immortality.

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In Ipswich, England, the research and development department at British Telecom

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has whipped up a maelstrom of controversy.

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Recently, they announced that a microchip, small enough to be placed undetected behind the human eye,

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is not only theoretically possible, it is also likely to happen soon.

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The microchip has been dubbed the Soul Catcher because it is the software and you are the hardware.

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Whatever memories you record could be transferred into a computer's memory

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so that your thoughts can live on longer than you do.

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I think it would just take a form of a record of what your mind was doing at that time.

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What impulses were coming into your mind, what you were seeing through your eyes

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and hearing through your ears and so on.

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Maybe even what you were feeling. All the different impulses into your brain.

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When Ian Pearson and the other futurists at BT Labs

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speculated that the Soul Catcher could be ready in less than 30 years, public reaction was swift.

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I'm amazed that they're doing it in the first place.

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This is serious sort of blue sky R&D as far as I could see.

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I would hope that they would all give some thought to the potential misuse of this technology.

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William Gibson is one writer whose prescience about computer technology has been uncanny.

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In his first book, Neuromancer, he coined the term cyberspace

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and in his screenplay for the movie Johnny Mnemonic, Gibson wrote of a man who implants computer chips directly into his own brain.

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If you could implant someone with one of these devices against their will as a punishment or as a surveillance device,

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Gibson is not alone in his pessimism.

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The futurist at BT also realized that the Soul Catcher will have almost unlimited potential for abuse.

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I think it's all the more important that we get discussion on these things as early as possible.

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You know, and now we're just beginning to become aware of these potential technologies.

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We have to start discussing the potential implications of those now

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because it takes a long time for society to adjust to new ideas.

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On an upcoming edition of Sightings, we'll bring you more with Gibson, Pearson and other futurists

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who have contemplated the horrors and benefits of the Soul Catcher

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and will show you their visions of the future.

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In Pasadena, California, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is analyzing brand new images from Europa,

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Jupiter's largest and closest moon,

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and they found an hospitable environment where some kind of alien life form may exist right now.

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Jupiter has an amazing moon called Europa.

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What's amazing about it is that it probably has a liquid ocean inside of it.

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This is very unusual because the temperatures in the outer solar system are so cold

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that ice normally is what you get with water. You don't get liquid water.

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Galileo was just 430 miles away when it sent back this picture of Europa.

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It is the first time earthlings have seen ice flows anywhere in the outer solar system.

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The flows indicate that there may be warm water below the icy crust.

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Images of Io, the next nearest Jovian moon, show volcanoes,

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so there is speculation by McDonough and others that weird creatures are thriving near underwater volcanic vents,

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just as they do on earth.

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If you look at Europa, you see the features on the surface are different from those of the other similar moons of Jupiter.

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We are now combined with the Galileo pictures now that we have of areas of Europa

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that look a lot like the ice flows in the Arctic regions of the earth.

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There could be something like continents drifting on the earth on Europa.

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Only these would be continents of ice floating like giant icebergs on a liquid ocean.

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McDonough goes further, hypothesizing that the icy areas of Europa are not necessarily solid.

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There could be breaks where other kinds of animals rising to the surface could be photographed.

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There are interesting places on the earth that remind us of Europa.

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There is the bottom of the Arctic and the Antarctic.

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We find, for example, that when we go under the ice in the Arctic regions,

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there is an abundance of life there, which was once thought to be unlikely,

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because light doesn't get through very well and because it's so cold,

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it was thought that life would not exist in the Arctic regions.

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But we find there's lots of life there.

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All of this makes us think that there's a possibility that you could have life living inside of Europa today.

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

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Now, here's what's coming up as sightings continues.

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A sightings investigation captures an anomalous presence on film.

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This photograph, I did not take it. I heard the camera click.

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Is it the spirit of Chicago's most deadly disaster?

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Not too long ago, sightings contacted the Excalibur Club in Chicago

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to confirm some stories that we'd heard about ghosts roaming around that popular night spot.

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We found out that not only are the stories true, they're only the tip of the paranormal iceberg at the Excalibur.

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When our investigative team arrived on this site, they learned that the place was soaked with the blood of Chicago's two greatest disasters.

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And when they began snapping pictures, something strange happened.

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Psychic investigators on site believe this photograph is evidence of paranormal activity.

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There are two clear presences on that photograph. Detectable energetic presences, which means that something strange happened.

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The activity is happening inside this historic building, now called the Excalibur Night Club in downtown Chicago.

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The club's dome room seems to be the focus of intense and persistent haunting,

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an eerie energy that seems to attract a certain kind of customer.

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It's a very underground club. A lot of the people that hang out in the club, they're into the occult,

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the darker aspects of the club scene definitely hang out here.

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And I'm sure a lot of that is due to the energy that's in this room.

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But it is the club's employees who seem to bear the brunt of the haunting in the dome room.

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Tom Newbauer is the club's creative director.

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Many shaken employees have confided in him about their ghostly encounters after closing time.

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At the end of the night, if everybody's left and we're closing up the club, there's candles lit, set throughout the club.

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The waitress is old, the bartender whoever's breaking down the room will go throughout the room, blow all the candles out.

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And they've walked in five, ten minutes after they've blown all this stuff out and the candles will all be relit.

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And we're talking like 30, 40, 50 candles.

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I became a believer when I first saw the candles.

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The first time, and then the second time, and then the third time.

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And then I thought maybe somebody's playing tricks.

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But when I locked down the room myself and I have the key, I truly believe there is something going on here, what it is I don't know.

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What we do before the club opens at night is just kind of run upstairs and do a bathroom check.

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And I ran up there and I ran in there and I actually thought I was like, haha, I'm all alone, maybe I'll see a ghost.

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And went to wash my hands and I had heard a crying.

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And at first I was like, what is that?

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And I stopped for a moment and I just, this really small voice just crying.

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I was just, get out of here as fast as possible.

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I saw something right behind this bar.

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I walked in to shut the lights off.

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And the next thing I see is a white tuxedo feature with reddish hair glowing beyond the bar.

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I looked one more time to make sure and it was gone.

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It was just, there was nothing there.

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I had one experience.

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I smelled the most horrible stench of just death rotting flesh that I've ever experienced in my life.

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It almost made me pass out.

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It was so, so intense.

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There's no other place in the entire room that you could smell it just in this one little spot.

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We looked around.

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There's no explanation whatsoever.

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A possible explanation for that foul stench was revealed when a sightings investigative team began to research Chicago's project past and its connection to this landmark.

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In the 19th century, this was the site of the Chicago Historical Society.

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It burned down during the famous Chicago fire of 1871.

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There's one account by the librarian in the Chicago Historical Society who claims that as he was trying to save items from this building,

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the building was here in 1871 when it was burning and had to jump for his life,

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that there were some women who had come inside the building to escape the fire.

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There's a possibility that those women perished in this building.

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Although not as famous as the Chicago fire, a pleasure boat disaster in 1915 claimed nearly 10 times as many lives.

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The Eastland disaster occurred on July 24th, 1915 when the Eastland, which was a excursion boat capsized in Chicago River,

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and 2,500 people on board, about between 800 and 900 people died.

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And there were women, children, and it had a terrible impact on people in the city.

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It was a tragedy.

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Nothing like that had ever happened.

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There's also been some speculation that after the Eastland disaster in 1915,

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that this building we're in now was one of the temporary morgues that had been set up for the victims.

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Because the building was intimately connected to the two most deadly disasters in Chicago history,

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Sightings asked two renowned investigators to evaluate the site.

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Jorian De Frey, working psychically, and Peter Mosco, hunting for scientific evidence.

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They were not told the building had been a morgue, but Jorian senses it right away.

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In this area, my chest is actually feeling pretty heavy, and I had heard a sense of watching out for the bodies before.

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Would this at one time have been a place where there would have been bodies or something?

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Well, when they had the big naval disaster in the Chicago River, the Eastman.

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The cruise ship capsized, and there were hundreds of people that had died.

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This room was used as a temporary morgue.

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Oh, this room was? Oh, great. Okay.

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I just heard something like, stop and watch me. Stop and watch me.

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Okay, and that's actually up in this area.

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Somebody like wanting to be watched. I don't know if it was along. The catwalk.

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And I had picked up the sense of like a child.

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One of the very significant presence that I felt here was a little child running around,

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and it appeared as though this child was running around, looking for its mommy, wanting to find its mother.

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Jorian may have sensed one of the Eastman's tiniest victims, a child who was never claimed because his entire family died in the disaster.

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Okay, right here. I get a sense that somebody was behind the emperor.

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And I'm just like, I don't know, doing some kind of serving or something else,

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just somebody else that's out here. And it kind of feels like they are not alive.

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One of the managers had an experience where he saw a bartender in a white tuxedo with reddish colored hair.

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You got it, Peter? Got something?

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It flashed just as I turned around here right into this area.

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Oh, good deal.

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As I turned around, it went from about a four and a half to five all the way up to the 15 on the dial there.

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So right in this area here, I believe you're going to find who you're looking for.

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It was a tremendous burst of energy.

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It was in this same bar area that Peter's camera went off by itself.

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Our cameras didn't catch the event, but here is the end result.

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This photograph I took of the bar after we had picked up the information about the barman standing there behind the bar.

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This photograph I did not take. I heard the camera click.

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Clearly there are some abnormally strange streaks of light in this, which I cannot account for.

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I think it's the barman that triggered this abnormal photography.

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I thought it was fantastic that the camera had gone off by itself and that we had actually picked up energy on the photograph.

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Anything that happens with a camera doesn't prove the point 100%.

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But I think that it is spiritual evidence of what we're looking for.

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When Jorian and Peter completed their evaluation, it was clear to them that the haunting is being caused by spirits from Chicago's painful past.

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This has given the employees a poignant new outlook.

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Finally, they can put names and faces to the spirits here.

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Peter Moskow and Jorian De Frey were brought in only to help identify the source of the haunting.

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Having done so, it's now up to the people who work in the building to decide whether they should ask a psychic investigator to perform a cleansing,

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or instead to respect the spirits and their otherworldly claim to that property.

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Next, Egypt's antiquities as you've never seen them before.

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What's interesting for me is how these were made for the gods to see.

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The first time sightings introduced you to photographer Marilyn Bridges, she was in the midst of an ambitious project.

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She was taking aerial photographs of sacred and mysterious places like the giant pictographs in Peru known as the Nazca lines.

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Well, for Bridges and many who have seen her photos, the project was an artistic and spiritual revelation.

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Now we find Bridges in the air again, destination Egypt.

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The Great Pyramid and Spinks of Giza tantalizes with dreams about what Egypt must have been like more than 4,000 years ago.

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These ancient monuments are heralded as marvels of design and engineering.

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But it is their awesome grandeur and overpowering sense of mystery that draw people from every corner of the globe,

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like the sirens of old. Once Egypt calls, you must follow.

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I always wanted to go to Egypt. Somehow I've been naturally drawn to the areas of photographing ancient sites.

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I mean, it's almost been a calling.

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Marilyn Bridges has taken aerial photographs of ancient sites for most of her professional career.

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From the air, she has captured the Nazca lines of Peru, the power of Stonehenge,

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the isolated temples of the Maya and Inca civilizations.

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I'm attracted to these monuments because of the mystery behind them.

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The mystery as to why the scale was so large. They really seem to be meant to be seen from above.

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And that's why I felt that it was so important to photograph them from the air.

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But getting permission to photograph the world's most celebrated antiquities in Egypt

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was a political chess game Bridges almost lost.

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It's illegal. The military is extremely paranoid of having their sites photographed.

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And all along the Nile, along with the pyramids and temples are military installations.

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So it's really a no-go area for photography.

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Marilyn Bridges persisted and eventually prevailed.

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The results can be found in her new book, Egypt Antiquities from Above.

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It's a point of view that has the power to transcend space and time.

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The pyramids are magical. They're spiritual.

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I almost feel God-like when I'm flying above these monuments.

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And what's interesting for me is how these were made for the gods to see.

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So I feel extremely fortunate to be at that perspective.

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Her perspective and passion have convinced Bridges that as far as these sites are concerned,

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there are no accidents.

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And that the people who created the monuments here were tuned into a powerful earth energy that we have since paved over.

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When I'm up in the sky, I can see the placement of the monuments within the landscape.

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And I think it was extremely important to ancient men that these were put in certain areas

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according to different energy pathways that might have been discovered.

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Ancient man was in touch with knowledge that we don't have any longer.

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We think with time that we progress.

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But I wonder how much we really have progressed.

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But in every place that Marilyn Bridges photographed,

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her spiritual revelations were tempered by the irreparable damage she saw, turning the antiquities to dust.

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I feel kind of sad to see that many of the sites are in jeopardy of being destroyed.

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You can see, for instance, in one of the photographs in the book of The Three Pyramids,

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you can see Cairo coming right up to the edge of the plateau.

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These gigantic colossi of Memnon were used to guard a gateway to a huge mortuary that's no longer there.

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And so they look kind of lonely in the landscape.

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So I think it's important through the vehicle of photography to help preserve what is seen

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and what's there now for future study.

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And also to make people more aware of what we have so that we might take care of it.

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Bridges hopes her pictures will inspire new restoration and new discoveries.

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After all, it was aerial photography from the Space Shuttle in Lattice that found Ubar,

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a city lost for thousands of years.

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And from her tiny plane, Marilyn Bridges sees hints of greatness waiting to be found.

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It was wonderful flying over the desert in Egypt because I could see the potential for many, many pyramids

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to appear and many temples because the sand had covered them.

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You could see areas in the desert that were raised and had contour

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and you knew that underneath was just something waiting to be seen again.

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On her next project, Marilyn Bridges will be working with a partner.

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While Marilyn's taking pictures from above, her husband is talking for Don McCullen's going to be working from the ground.

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And it is something of a departure for Don, whose world famous as a photojournalist and combat photographer.

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But this is one that he says he can't pass up, to capture the mystery and spirituality of India.

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Next, the discovery of ice on the moon and what it means.

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And if you have a discovery that seems a little strange, it makes you rethink your fundamental assumptions.

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The last time photographs of the lunar surface were taken was during Russia's Lunar 24 mission.

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That was in 1976. After that, maps were drawn and well, we thought we'd seen everything there was to see on the moon.

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Then, nearly 20 years later, the U.S. launched a ballistic missile defense spacecraft

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that casually snapped a few pictures on its way to a top secret mission.

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And those pictures show us something impossible.

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Earth's stark, lifeless moon has kept her secrets well, until now.

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Recently, the Department of Defense announced the, I think, rather exciting discovery of finding possible ice in the south polar region of the moon.

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An ice formation the size of four football fields was found almost as an afterthought by Clementine,

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a military spacecraft testing Star Wars technology. Clementine detected ice where the sun doesn't reach at the lunar south pole.

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Astronomer Ronald Angione has been studying the new discovery.

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Water, which is hydrogen oxygen H2O, is made up of the most common stuff there is around.

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So, we expect to find water a lot of places.

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Scientists believe that a comet loaded with ice created a massive polar crater deeper than Mount Everest is tall.

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And some of that ancient ice still remains deep inside the moon.

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If you compare the moon to the Earth, it is a desert. But if you compare the moon to space, which is completely empty,

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the moon is a treasure trove of materials and energy.

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Dr. Paul Sputus of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston believes that the discovery will fundamentally change all of science.

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The discovery of ice in the moon is having quite a significant impact in that it's making people rethink what we really know about the various planets.

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Anytime you find a discovery on, say, the moon or Mars, these are both objects that we think we understand pretty well.

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And if you have a discovery that seems a little strange, it makes you rethink your fundamental assumptions.

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It has already changed the thinking of the Department of Defense.

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DoD is planning a new mission devoted exclusively to the moon.

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Next year, there's a probe that's going to be launched in the moon called Lunar Prospector.

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A Lunar Prospector like Clementine will be a polar orbiter. It'll orbit the moon for about a year.

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And it will carry an instrument that will directly detect the presence of hydrogen on the moon.

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Now, since water is basically H2O, two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom,

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the neutron spectrometer experiment should detect the presence of any ice that's near the salt pole.

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If this new mission confirms that the frigid mass is frozen water, space exploration will never be the same.

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There are two very important implications of the ice on the moon.

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One is more academic in a way, in that it may be very, very old.

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And studying that ice can tell us, give us clues maybe to how the solar system formed.

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The other is what it would mean for the future of space exploration.

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Having a source of water and then by converting it into its elements, hydrogen, oxygen, oxygen to breathe

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would really open the door to colonizing the moon, moon bases, and the moon is a stepping stone to exploring all of space.

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From a historical perspective, we are essentially on the edge of this great adventure.

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As a planetary scientist for NASA, Dr. Mendel has reason to be excited.

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He and his colleagues believe that ice on the moon will accelerate and revolutionize the U.S. space program,

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and colonization may not be far behind.

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It's always been my belief that human beings will diversify off of the Earth.

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What I don't know is exactly when and how it will occur.

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We who live in the space age have great dreams because we saw how much could be accomplished when the astronauts walked on the surface of the moon.

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We may find ourselves in a very different kind of environment where we will depend on a dramatic lowering of costs of launching rockets

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to where ordinary individuals can go into space and then be the frontiersman on the surface of the moon rather than government astronauts being the explorers.

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Finding water on the moon is a step in that direction. It's a step into cutting the cord with the Earth.

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If people are going to live in space, they have to learn to live off the land.

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So living off lunar water is the first step in that regard.

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The moon may very well become home sweet home for a few space age pioneers,

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but ultimately it could be a safe haven for all of us.

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I think that the human species may not be on this Earth forever.

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The dinosaurs lasted 150 million years. We were only four or five million years old.

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And so we have the ability to diversify, to find new places in which to establish life and to expand intelligence and understanding throughout the solar system.

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I think ultimately that that will occur because it's in our genes.

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Our ancestors watch the stars and the planets and so there's been before recorded history a fascination with what is out there.

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I think is really the fundamental driving force for exploring it.

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And we are by nature as a species, I think, explorers.

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You always want to know, well, what's over the next hill is the popular phrase.

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And so the next hill in this case is the next planet or the next star.

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Finding frozen water on the moon has fired the imagination of long-range planners in the space industry.

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The discovery means that the moon could become a kind of a rest stop and refueling station for future deep space travel.

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

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In a place where time stands still, their time is running out.

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