1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,800 The following program deals with a controversial subject. 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:06,800 The theories expressed are not the only possible interpretation. 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,800 The viewer is invited to make a judgment based on all available information. 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:17,200 Tonight on Sightings was the shocking murder of a teenage girl foretold in her own mother's mystery novel. 5 00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:22,300 I had more or less written the story of our own true life horror story. 6 00:00:22,300 --> 00:00:26,000 And psychic contact with the dead girl helped solve the crime. 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,500 Then from our UFO file, bizarre men in black stalk witnesses who have had UFO sightings. 8 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:39,500 His eyes were extremely long. They literally wrapped around his temples. 9 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:46,000 Startling new evidence and exclusive videotape reveals the sinister motives behind the Mib phenomenon. 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:52,000 And a tragic car crash left this boy in a coma until a dog brought him back to life. 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,000 He licked me, then I woke up. 12 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,000 At that point it started to appear. 13 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,000 They had large, dark eyes, small eye hands. 14 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,000 I began sensing and knowing and feeling. 15 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,000 I do believe in life after death. I mean, I've been there. 16 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,000 We have not scratched the surface of what the mind can do. 17 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,000 It's a connection with the unknown. 18 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White. 19 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Although few psychic detectives have actually solved the crime, they can provide help to law enforcement 20 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 and at least one important service to families of victims. 21 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:47,000 One good lead from a psychic can often reopen a case where the police have reached a dead end. 22 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Psychic detectives have played an important role in the still unsolved murder of 18-year-old Caitlin Arquette. 23 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:00,000 She was gunned down behind the wheel of her car in Albuquerque, New Mexico in July 1989. 24 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:07,000 At first police believed Caitlin was the victim of a random act of violence, but as investigators delved into the case, 25 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,000 they soon realized there was nothing random about this murder. 26 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Even the most seasoned detectives were stunned by the strange twists and turns in this case. 27 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Psychic detectives provided intriguing leads and, earliest of all, 28 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:26,000 what appeared to be Caitlin's own attempts to reach out from the grave with information about her murderer. 29 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:33,000 Crucial details allegedly from beyond directly paralleled those in a murder mystery written by her own mother. 30 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Under the pen named Lois Duncan, Lois Arquette is a successful mystery writer whose novels are filled with intrigue and terror, 31 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:48,000 but there was no greater horror for Lois than discovering an uncanny link between details of her daughter's death and one of her own novels. 32 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 I didn't put any connection together in the beginning at all. 33 00:02:52,000 --> 00:03:03,000 It wasn't until one thing after another began to occur that I suddenly realized that I had more or less written the story of our own true life horror story. 34 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:09,000 And don't look behind you. I based the personality of my hero in April upon Kate. 35 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:22,000 April was chased by a hitman in a Camaro. That book was published in June 1989, and in July 1989, Kate was chased down and shot to death by a trigger man in a Camaro. 36 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:30,000 The most shocking thing of all to us was that when we read in the police file the Hispanic man who was arrested, his name was Mike. 37 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:40,000 Everybody called him vamp, and don't look behind you. The hitman who chased down April was named Mike Vamp. 38 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:52,000 As police probed Caitlin's brutal killing, they discovered the young woman had a secret life centered around her boyfriend and alleged gang member believed to be involved in illegal activities. 39 00:03:53,000 --> 00:04:00,000 But investigators were unable to establish a direct link between either the boyfriend or his gang and Caitlin's murder. 40 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:08,000 With the police department at a dead end, in desperation, Caitlin's mother turned to local psychic Betty Minch. 41 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:16,000 I rang the doorbell and this middle-aged woman answered the door and I looked at her. I had an instant feeling that I knew her. 42 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:27,000 It wasn't that I'd met her. I had invented her. She was physically identical to Ann Summers, the psychic detective in my book The Third Eye. 43 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,000 Betty Minch considers herself a bridge between the living and the dead. 44 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Minch claims she can pick up messages telepathically while in a meditative trance, channeling the words of the dead through the keys of her typewriter. 45 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:48,000 Usually I get a lot of color moving in my head. Then out of that, sometimes it will come maybe an image. 46 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:56,000 And that's when the word seems to want to start pouring into my head. It was a very clear contact with Caitlin. She was right there. 47 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:07,000 We had the idea that Caitlin was in some kind of trouble, that there were other things going on that the family wasn't quite aware of. 48 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:14,000 Amazingly enough, it appeared that Caitlin was conducting her own murder investigation from beyond the grave. 49 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Some of the messages Betty Minch claimed to be receiving provided police with important new leads. 50 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:28,000 Investigators soon received an anonymous tip from someone who'd seen one of the crime stoppers' posters the Arquette family had placed around Albuquerque. 51 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:33,000 Arrests were made that proved psychic Betty Minch had been dead right. 52 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,000 She told us that the people who were arrested would have been driving a lowrider car. 53 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:47,000 There would be two men in the front seat, one in the back seat. That there would be no eyewitnesses, but that arrest would be made because the men would be heard bragging. 54 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:53,000 That our best help might come from somebody in the media, and she identified who that person would be. 55 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 An investigative reporter named Mike Gallagher. 56 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:01,000 But there was insufficient evidence to hold the three suspects, and they were released. 57 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:08,000 Desperate for more evidence, Lois contacted Noreen Rainier, a well-respected psychic detective from Maitland, Florida. 58 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Working with a police sketch artist, Rainier attempted to create a drawing based on impressions she claimed to be receiving from Caitlin. 59 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:25,000 I have to get their scent. I have to pick up their vibes, and somehow something personal that was on at the time of the crime gives me more information. 60 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 I can pick up the scent of Katie psychically. 61 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,000 During Noreen's session, Lois listened in on the phone from 900 miles away. 62 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:41,000 I was sitting in Albuquerque knowing that Noreen was doing this, and I knew what the alleged trigger man looked like because he'd been arrested. 63 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:46,000 I was trying to concentrate on Kate, and I was saying, tell mother why you were killed. 64 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Was it a random shooting, as the police think, or was it something else? 65 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:56,000 Send me a symbol, send me a message through Noreen Rainier. 66 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:09,000 And the picture Noreen sent me was a sketch of Mike Phampe, the hit man in Don't Look Behind You, exactly as he appeared on the jacket of the British edition of that book. 67 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Everything was there, even the little scar between the eyebrows. 68 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:20,000 I'd like seeing something have been copying from the jacket, and I just started to shake. I couldn't stop shaking. 69 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Lois was shocked. 70 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Caitlin had been the only member of the Arquette family to see the new book jacket of the British edition. 71 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:33,000 I just was very confused when she was telling me I got some man on a book jacket. 72 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:38,000 I'm saying, what are you talking about? But then it made sense. Kate was telling us it was a hit. 73 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:46,000 It wasn't a random shooting. It was planned killing. It wasn't random, and that's what we needed to know. 74 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:54,000 Even more startling is a tape recording Noreen made as she supposedly channeled Caitlin's own description of her final hours. 75 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,000 It's Noreen's voice, but Caitlin's words. 76 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:12,000 I'm meeting somebody at a shopping center with a C in it. I went up the hill towards the north to that big place up there, to this, I want to call it the desert castle. 77 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:17,000 There's just an important person there that I'm not supposed to know is there. 78 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:25,000 I saw things that I shouldn't have seen. They had to make sure that there was no way I would ever talk, and this was a way of silencing me. 79 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:30,000 My crime that was committed against me was to silence me. 80 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:40,000 I'll never be silenced. I'm not a bad person. I'm just young, and I just was curious. 81 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:48,000 I was a good daughter to your mother. I told you almost everything, almost. 82 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:54,000 The incredible revelations from Psychex Mention Reineer prompted Lois to write, Who Killed My Daughter? 83 00:08:54,000 --> 00:09:02,000 And while the police have not yet solved Caitlin's homicide, Lois is encouraged by one psychic message that he mensch-believes she received. 84 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:18,000 She said that Kate was sending a symbol, that the symbol was a wolf with a collar around its neck, its head jerked back, and the message was that Kate was very sure that the wolf would have been after her was soon to be caught and collared. 85 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:25,000 The message was particularly significant to Lois, who originally entitled her book, One to the Wolves. 86 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:32,000 I couldn't explain any of this. All I could say to myself was, it's happening. Somehow it's happening. 87 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:48,000 I have now come to believe that there must be some kind of transition point where it is possible for the dead to communicate with the living, perhaps, when they have some very, very strong message to get across. 88 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:56,000 I think Kate was killed because she was getting ready to tell the truth, and she couldn't do it herself, and now she wanted me to do it for her. 89 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Lois, our cat, is hoping police or psychic detectives will soon find out what horrible facts Caitlin knew and who stopped her from telling the truth. 90 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Coming up next, the frightening men in black phenomenon surrounding UFO contact. 91 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:19,000 I'm not afraid of them because they haven't done anything to us yet. 92 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 But what are their motives? 93 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:27,000 There have been a few cases where individuals have died under mysterious circumstances. 94 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:34,000 And later, what miraculous power brought this boy back to life? Some believe it was this dog. 95 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:41,000 UFO insiders call them MIBS. That's an acronym for man in black. 96 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:47,000 These men in black are one of the least known and yet most disturbing elements of the UFO experience. 97 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:53,000 The phenomenon is reported worldwide, and the stories that witnesses tell are remarkably similar. 98 00:10:53,000 --> 00:11:01,000 Seeing a UFO can be an exhilarating experience, but for some, that excitement soon turns into desperate paranoia. 99 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:11,000 After a sighting, some witnesses report that they're threatened and harassed by mysterious thugs known to UFO investigators as MIBS, men in black. 100 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:19,000 Just who are these men in black? Where do they come from and why do they seem to be tracking and spying on those who've had a close encounter? 101 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:26,000 There it was. It's a long, lit up, cigar shaped object heading just over the rooftop. 102 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Then it moved out of sight and I went back home. And when I got home, my wife said, you just got a phone call. 103 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:37,000 I said, a phone call? And it said that if you talk to the media about this, that your daughter will die. 104 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,000 Immediately following a UFO sighting, the strange encounters with MIBS begin. 105 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:49,000 They would walk in seemingly from nowhere, be driving a car that may be as old as 25 years. 106 00:11:49,000 --> 00:12:00,000 It would be immaculate, shiny without a mark on it. The individual in several cases drove down to the end of the street, turned, the guy ran down after them and they were completely gone. 107 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:07,000 Men dressed in black, driving black cars, reportedly follow and sometimes even threaten UFO witnesses. 108 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,000 And their motives appear to be strangely sinister. 109 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Witnesses driving home from having lunch at a restaurant have reported seeing a UFO. 110 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Before they could get home, they had cars waiting for them, warning them not to talk about the case. 111 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,000 An investigator was approached by a very saturn looking man. 112 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,000 He said, you know, people that look for UFOs sometimes find problems. 113 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:35,000 There have been a few cases where individuals have died under mysterious circumstances. 114 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Reports of contact with MIBS seem to follow a definite pattern and occur throughout the world. 115 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:47,000 One horrified witness was harassed by MIBS after sighting a UFO near Toronto, Canada. 116 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:59,000 And it was about three o'clock in the afternoon. There was a knock on the door. I opened the door and there was this very odd looking man standing there. 117 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:07,000 He had a photograph album in his left arm and he didn't say anything for a full minute. 118 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:15,000 He was about five foot six. He was extremely thin. He had a slightly enlarged head. 119 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,000 His face was a very strange olive hue. 120 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:25,000 He wore a black turtleneck. He wore black pants. He was dressed entirely in black. 121 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:31,000 His eyes were not oriental looking. They were extremely long. 122 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:39,000 They literally wrapped around his temples. I have never seen eyes like that. Those eyes held me. 123 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:49,000 They held my attention. They seemed to be boring into me. I felt very intruded upon on a mental level by those eyes. 124 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:55,000 The men in black cases for the most part have stirred up great amounts of paranoia. 125 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:03,000 In many cases these people have attempted to pass themselves off either as government agents or in some cases Air Force officers. 126 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:11,000 At one point the FBI was very heavily involved in tracking these cases down and attempting to arrest someone but no one was ever caught. 127 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Composite drawings created from witness testimony lead researchers to believe that MIBS could be aliens who have come to earth to silence people who know too much about UFOs. 128 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:28,000 In Russia one witness reported being harassed and physically transformed by a Mib. 129 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Professor Paul Stonehill translated the Russian newspaper story about the woman's Mib experience. 130 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:40,000 His touch was paralyzing and left effects upon the body of those whom he touched. 131 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:45,000 The daughter, she became magnetic and she would attract metals. 132 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:54,000 And like her hands became sort of electric conductors, her touch caused electric shock. 133 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:59,000 This is taking place now because the article is from April of 1992. 134 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:09,000 Mib encounters are so disturbing. Investigators fear many valuable witnesses might never come forward. 135 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Those who do believe their lives are in danger and claim Mib's surveillance intensifies when they contact the media. 136 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:21,000 I think what has happened is they've gone to the black helicopters. 137 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:29,000 So I think that the men in black have just left their black Cadillacs behind and taken up black helicopters. 138 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:36,000 These helicopters which have been described almost as a black, Huey type army helicopter with no numbers visible, 139 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:43,000 have appeared almost silently with no helicopter noise that you associate with it. 140 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Shirley and George Coyne are the Midwest directors of the Mutual UFO Network, MUFON, a UFO research organization. 141 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:01,000 The coins claim that they are being tailed by this silent black helicopter devoid of the necessary FAA identification numbers. 142 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:07,000 This video shot by Shirley Coyne is the only footage of an alleged Mib encounter. 143 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Well this is the day we had a meeting and the copter met us about halfway between Flint and Flushing and followed us all the way to our meeting place. 144 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:28,000 I'm not afraid of them because they haven't done anything to us yet and I feel the more vocal I am the less they're going to do. 145 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Is it possible that aliens with a secret agenda are harassing UFO witnesses? 146 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:40,000 Or could Mib's be cleverly disguised humans trying to silence those who've had close encounters? 147 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Investigators continue to search for answers. 148 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:54,000 It's just something that there is no explanation for and by working on these cases and trying to use a scientific and investigative formula, 149 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:58,000 we try to get to the bottom of them but sometimes there doesn't seem to be a bottom. 150 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Coming up next, do animals have miraculous healing powers? Some say a dog brought this boy out of a near fatal coma. 151 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:12,000 He licked me, then I woke up. 152 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:19,000 Researchers are just beginning to understand the complex nature of psychic ability. 153 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:26,000 In their efforts to prove that ESP exists, the most startling evidence has come not from human subjects but from animals. 154 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:33,000 They found that family pets possess mystifying talents which conventional science can't explain. 155 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:39,000 July 19th, 1989. I'll never forget the date. 156 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:46,000 We were in a car accident. My daughter Lauren was killed in the car accident. 157 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:58,000 I broke my neck and Neil sustained a traumatic head injury and it put him in a coma for three months. 158 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:07,000 Lucky is not a word Amelia Stortz would use to describe her son Neil on that tragic night three years ago, but Neil was lucky, lucky to be alive. 159 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:14,000 He had suffered a very severe brain injury and he was in a very deep coma when he came to us. 160 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,000 Neil survived but doctors did not know if he would ever regain consciousness. 161 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,000 He could have been in it forever, that would be a vegetative state. 162 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:31,000 What happens in a vegetative state is that their brainstem kind of kicks in and takes over their heart and lungs and their gastrointestinal system. 163 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:38,000 And their eyes are open and they have sleep wake cycles but they don't have the ability to follow commands and they're not aware of their environment. 164 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:46,000 In a seemingly hopeless case where modern medicine can't provide all the answers, alternative forms of treatment may be called for. 165 00:18:46,000 --> 00:19:00,000 Since 1982, the Animal Assisted Therapy Program has been providing Houston area hospitals with animal companionship for patients who may not be responding to more traditional methods of health care. 166 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:12,000 When patients have had brain injuries, they're often times either comatose or very disoriented and having animals around we know from studies causes people's blood pressure to lessen and they become calmer. 167 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:18,000 It kind of pushes the right button so to speak and makes it more likely that the patient's going to wake up. 168 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:24,000 There are magical and miraculous things that happen all the time that defy medical science. 169 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:33,000 I don't think that animals and humans working together is very explainable and when you see something like this it really is kind of magical. 170 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Neal had been in a coma for three months so animal assisted therapy was one long shot his family felt was definitely worth trying. 171 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:49,000 When your child is laying there in a coma you resort to just about anything, you know, you try anything. 172 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:57,000 With all conventional treatments exhausted the one remaining hope was to consult a rather unique specialist by the name of Rex. 173 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:16,000 Rex was part of a regular visitation team as part of our Animal Assisted Therapy Program and he happened to get up on Neal's bed and lick his face and within several hours after that Neal began to speak. 174 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:21,000 He licked me then I woke up. 175 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:32,000 It's pretty amazing but if you're going to credit anything or anybody why not credit Rex the Wonder Dog. 176 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Was Neal's recovery a miracle or could it have been the result of a power animals possess that we do not fully understand yet? 177 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:56,000 I mean this was a really big tragedy you know to have a little boy that's in a coma and his little sister was killed and his mother was also injured in the accident and it was just too much for most of us to even conceive. 178 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:14,000 Neal had a lot of previous experiences with animals and really loved animals and there's at least a hunch that it was a very normalizing experience for Neal and something that he could relate to instead of saying open your eyes, close your hands, you know, yelling commands at him. 179 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:19,000 It was really kind of neat that an animal kind of brought him around. 180 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:37,000 The extraordinary and inexplicable bond between humans and animals. Researchers are just beginning to study it but Neal Stortz has already found his proof in a magical friend named Rex. 181 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Rex is a hero because he woke me up. 182 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Thanks for joining us for Sightings. I'm Tim White. Good night. 183 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Next time on Sightings. 184 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,000 There were 15 who died. 185 00:21:56,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Has a New Jersey highway been cursed and bizarre hauntings in California. 186 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,000 And all of a sudden the CDs started flipping by themselves. 187 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,000 On the next Sightings. 188 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:12,000 Get ready for the summer season premiere of 90210. 189 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:17,000 New episodes on a new night beginning this Wednesday followed by an all new Melrose Place. 190 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,000 And tomorrow real drama, real danger, real excitement. 191 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:25,000 You can find it all on COPS and Code 3. 192 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Coming up next, hidden video.