1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,360 On this edition of Sightings, in 1908, witnesses said it looked like the end of the world. 2 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:11,360 Now, Russian scientists believe an extraterrestrial craft exploded over the Siberian countryside. 3 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:16,160 Then, did a grisly supernatural force cause these bizarre deaths? 4 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:21,640 Within an inch or two of the body, there is virtually no fire damage at all. 5 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:22,640 You can't see it. 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:23,640 You can't touch it. 7 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:27,800 But a mysterious, ghostly energy has been captured on tape in an exclusive Sightings 8 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:29,200 investigation. 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:33,360 We would probably have to classify this location as a classic hunt. 10 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,440 And best-selling authors offer a wondrous vision of the afterlife. 11 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,960 The bottom line of what people can learn is to not fear death. 12 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:14,720 Welcome to Sightings. 13 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,440 I'm Tim White. 14 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:22,440 One summer day in 1908, in a remote region of Siberia called Tunguska, 800 square miles 15 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,720 of virgin forest were flattened in an instant. 16 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:30,200 The explosion had the power of 2,000 nuclear bombs and sent pressure waves around the planet 17 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:31,880 twice. 18 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:36,520 Few people outside Russia have been allowed to investigate Tunguska, but now our Sightings 19 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,760 team has been granted unprecedented access. 20 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:47,680 What they've found is evidence of an otherworldly power that could strike again. 21 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:54,840 Imagine a 10-megaton bomb with 2,000 times the power that destroyed Hiroshima. 22 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:59,680 Imagine feeling the shock waves from that explosion, halfway across the globe, and then 23 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,880 the next day feeling them again. 24 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:07,520 Imagine devastation so widespread it would have consumed all of New York City in less 25 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:08,680 than a minute. 26 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:13,960 Now know that it all happened in 1908. 27 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,320 Tsar Nicholas II ruled imperial Russia. 28 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:21,560 World War I was still to be fought, and nuclear weapons weren't even a dream. 29 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:26,720 And yet the explosion that decimated the remote Tunguska region of Siberia resembled 30 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,960 a nuclear blast in a number of uncanny ways. 31 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:34,720 Some scientists insist the nightmare of destruction was the result of a comet that exploded above 32 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:35,800 Earth. 33 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:41,320 But other experts believe that an extraterrestrial craft from an advanced civilization is somehow 34 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:42,440 responsible. 35 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,840 For 86 years the debate has continued, but there is still no consensus. 36 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,960 The theorists need a crater. 37 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,680 Upholigists need just one shred of physical evidence. 38 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:59,360 But whether the Tunguska blast was a comet, meteor, or an alien craft, scientists are 39 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:00,360 worried. 40 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:02,400 Will it happen again somewhere else? 41 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,360 How do we prepare for a cataclysmic event like this when we don't understand its origins? 42 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,560 Professor Nikolai Vasilyev is a renowned Russian scientist who has made more than 30 43 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,640 trips to the epicenter. 44 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:16,520 This isn't Russia's problem. 45 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,640 Tunguska affects the whole world and all of the mankind. 46 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:27,000 It doesn't pose a great danger only to Russia, but rather for a mankind as a whole. 47 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,240 This isn't a fictional tale nor a flight of fancy. 48 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,360 I base my opinions and facts obtained from my work on Tunguska problems. 49 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:37,600 I don't want to scare our viewing audience. 50 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:42,960 The situation is to a great extent ambiguous and highly serious. 51 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:48,640 Recently, the Shoemaker-Leaving Line comet made a crater on Jupiter the size of Earth. 52 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:53,360 50,000 years ago, a meteorite did this in Arizona. 53 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:58,000 In Tunguska, whatever happened in 1908 only did this. 54 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,880 No crater has ever been found. 55 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,480 Moscow was the first stop for our sightings investigative team. 56 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,080 There, we met the scientists who support the party line. 57 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:12,720 Although they cannot explain why there is no crater at the blast site, they still insist 58 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:16,080 it was a comet that hit Tunguska. 59 00:04:16,080 --> 00:04:21,560 I am a staunch supporter of the comet hypothesis, and I think that there is no serious proof 60 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:23,000 to refute it. 61 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,720 It does have several problems. 62 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:32,000 As a geochemist, Professor Kalysnikov is trying to solve these problems using existing theories. 63 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,960 He admits he isn't getting any closer to a definitive answer. 64 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:38,520 Instead, there are just more unanswered questions. 65 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:39,520 There was mutation. 66 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:41,560 We are researching this. 67 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:49,440 It is possible that all objects in the epicenter were exposed to a small dose of X-ray radiation. 68 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:53,560 X-ray radiation is one of the known byproducts of a nuclear explosion. 69 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,920 Did Russia have atomic bomb technology at the turn of the century? 70 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:57,920 Highly unlikely. 71 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:03,240 Who then had the technology to create this kind of devastation? 72 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:09,240 From Moscow, we flew 1,900 miles into the heart of the mystery, into Tunguska itself. 73 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,080 A journey no American television crew has ever attempted. 74 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:18,800 After a six-kilometer hike, our team reached what is believed to be ground zero. 75 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:26,600 This rock was placed here by one of the early Tunguska expeditions in 1928. 76 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,600 Our guide in Tunguska was Vitaly Voronov, a Siberian native whose ties to the areas 77 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,600 date back three centuries. 78 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,320 He has collected an oral history of the Tunguska explosion. 79 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:42,280 Voronov is a vital link to those who actually witnessed the cataclysm that must have seemed 80 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:45,120 like the end of the world. 81 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,840 One eyewitness told me he was riding a stallion. 82 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:53,920 When he heard what sounded like cannon shots, when he looked up, he saw a body glowing like 83 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:54,920 the sun. 84 00:05:54,920 --> 00:05:59,960 It began declining towards the horizon for maybe 15 or 20 seconds. 85 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:02,440 There were many small explosions on the object. 86 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,040 It ended with one heavy explosion. 87 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,960 The force of the explosion was so strong the man and the horse were knocked to the ground 88 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,440 15 miles away. 89 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,920 Sightings also heard the retelling of a first-hand account of the explosion. 90 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:23,960 A local spiritual leader, a shaman, said, as a young boy, he was running away from the 91 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,280 blast when he saw something fly out of the epicenter. 92 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:30,080 A cylinder with sparks shooting out of it. 93 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,560 The cylinder flew over the shaman's hand and into outer space. 94 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:38,280 This cylinder had caused the blast. 95 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:42,640 Yuri Lovebin believes he has found evidence to support the theory that Tungusya was the 96 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,360 site of an alien encounter going awry. 97 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:51,280 He has unearthed masses of anomalous matter. 98 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:57,760 In the beginning, we found small fragments buried deep in the earth. 99 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,120 But there was nothing on the surface, no fragments at all. 100 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:06,480 All trees collapsed and over many years everything went underground. 101 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:11,720 Chemical analysis reveals that these rock-like fragments have a silicon coating, the same 102 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:15,920 kind of material used as heat shielding on our space shuttles. 103 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:21,200 Lovebin believes these large masses are actually exploded fragments from the exterior of a 104 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,200 UFO. 105 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:27,200 It is possible that this could be a ship from another planet, an intergalactical ship which 106 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,240 was riveted with silicon. 107 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:34,480 And we found its thick wall casing used to protect the craft from the high temperatures 108 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:35,480 of the stars. 109 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:40,960 Lovebin's most intriguing piece of evidence, however, was not found at the crash site. 110 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,200 It was discovered months later, embedded in one of the fragments. 111 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,800 I took pincers and extracted this object. 112 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:48,800 Here it is. 113 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:54,640 It was surrounded by crystallite, transparent and non-transparent particles. 114 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:59,600 Lovebin found the first physical evidence of an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 115 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:04,280 He has compared his sample with metals commonly found on earth and in meteorites. 116 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,520 So far, there is no match. 117 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,920 The fragment continues to undergo rigorous metallurgical testing. 118 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,640 When analysis is complete, sightings will report the findings to you. 119 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:18,120 There are so many theories because the Tunguska event has no precedent. 120 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:23,200 No-no natural phenomenon can adequately explain this event, so even mainstream scientists 121 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:26,080 admit they're looking in a new direction. 122 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,560 Can we hope to obtain an explanation of Tunguska using classical conceptions? 123 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:36,760 Ten years ago, I would have definitely answered yes, now, and doubtful, that it can be explained 124 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,640 without resorting to non-classical conceptions. 125 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:48,920 Next, should these people profit from the wondrous visions they say they've had on the other side? 126 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:56,840 People making money off the near-death experience are wrong. 127 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:03,320 In 1961, a controversial little book by Jessica Mitford called The American Way of Death sent 128 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,360 shockwaves across America. 129 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,360 It was the first popular book about death. 130 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:14,080 Today, nearly 35 years later, books about death are one of the fastest growing categories 131 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:16,000 in publishing. 132 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,200 My name is Daniel Brinkley. 133 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:23,160 I have a book on the New York Times bestseller list called Save by the Light. 134 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:28,280 And for people who don't know about it, it's about me going through two near-death experiences. 135 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:33,200 Author Daniel Brinkley believes he's been to heaven and back, and he's not alone. 136 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:37,920 According to a recent Gallup poll, 30% of us claim to have had, or know someone who 137 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,400 has had, a near-death experience. 138 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,840 More than 100 books have been written about NDE, and some of them are making it onto the 139 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:45,840 bestseller list. 140 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,240 I believe that it's important to get the message out about the near-death experience, because 141 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,200 there's just too many people afraid of death. 142 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,440 The near-death experience teaches us to not fear death. 143 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:00,680 And if we're not afraid to die, we're not afraid to live. 144 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:04,760 The classic pattern of a near-death experience is well documented. 145 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:10,520 First, an out-of-body experience leads you through a tunnel towards a bright light. 146 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,680 Once there, you meet your God. 147 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:14,720 I wasn't breathing. 148 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:20,920 I had no pulse or known cardiac activity for between 20 minutes and an hour and a half. 149 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:21,920 You're helpless. 150 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:22,920 You feel helpless. 151 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:24,920 For the first time in your life, you're totally helpless. 152 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:31,880 Then I felt a tremendous sinking sensation, and then I came out of my chest and rose up 153 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:37,120 to the ceiling, and I could look down and see my body lying there on the bed. 154 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:45,520 And rapidly, I pulled out of my body and right into a dark, totally dark tunnel with a sensation 155 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:47,720 of speed, rapid speed. 156 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:53,640 I saw a pinpoint of light in this blackness, and I was attracted to it. 157 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:58,360 So I turned and I began to travel very rapidly towards that bright light. 158 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,800 I was part of the light, and the light was part of me. 159 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,640 It was not painful. 160 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,560 It was absolutely wonderful. 161 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:13,800 And I was able to ask thousands of questions, millions of questions, and have every one 162 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,000 of my questions answered. 163 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,560 Then to my right came a being, a being of light. 164 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:22,840 And this being was there to witness or be with me. 165 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,840 I had a panoramic review of my life. 166 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:29,120 I felt every emotion, everything I'd ever done, every word I'd ever said, and every 167 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:33,680 experience I'd ever had with anyone I'd ever come in contact with. 168 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:40,840 After I went through my life review, I was told that I had not completed my time on earth, 169 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,560 that it was really necessary for me to return in to do that. 170 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:48,840 When I re-entered my body, it was like I'd been in a car crash. 171 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:50,240 I crashed back in. 172 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,480 It was a jolt that I felt right down to the fiber of my spine. 173 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:58,480 13 million Americans have had some type of near-death experience. 174 00:11:58,480 --> 00:11:59,960 I'm just one of them. 175 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:03,120 Brinkley's cashing in on his near-death experience. 176 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:07,720 But no one approaches the success enjoyed by author Betty Eadie, whose book, Embraced 177 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,440 by the Light, has been the nation's number one bestseller for more than a year. 178 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:16,280 There is absolutely no way to fully describe the beauty that is there. 179 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:24,600 They said a good analogy would be that heaven is like the print, and earth would be much 180 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:25,600 like the negative. 181 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:33,680 All of the flowers and the trees with their movement, with their mere existence, was glorifying 182 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:35,680 God and praising Him. 183 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:40,840 The unprecedented success of Embraced by the Light speaks to our nation's hunger for reassurance 184 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,960 about life's ultimate mystery. 185 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:47,720 But Betty Eadie is drawn fire from other experiencers who believe she should not profit from her 186 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:48,720 NDE. 187 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:55,560 Look, I've experienced near-death, and I know the values that you're given in that experience. 188 00:12:55,560 --> 00:13:01,760 People making money off the near-death experience like Betty Eadie and others are wrong. 189 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,760 They're not authentic, and they're hurting the near-death experience movement. 190 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:11,440 I can't speak for all the authors out making a mint right now, but I can speak for some 191 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:19,760 of them because I've known them for such a long time that I know that they wrote books 192 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,040 to truly try to help people. 193 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:27,280 Studies and medical researchers believe the near-death experience can be explained scientifically. 194 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:32,040 To them, NDE is simply a hallucination caused by a brain cut off from oxygen. 195 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:34,360 There's nothing magical about a near-death experience. 196 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:38,280 The basic themes of the near-death experience are remarkably similar across cultures, the 197 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:43,040 reason being that the five billion brains that make up this planet are remarkably similar 198 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:44,280 in their structure. 199 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:49,000 To prove his point, Dr. Persinger believes he can duplicate a near-death experience in 200 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,720 the laboratory using a perfectly healthy subject. 201 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:58,600 What we attempt to do is to apply safe levels of complex magnetic fields through the brain. 202 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:03,400 The frequencies we use and where we place the field induce the experiences that are 203 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,120 associated with that part of the brain. 204 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:10,480 If you stimulate the brain with a different kind of pattern, you make the person feel 205 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,240 pleasurable, leaving their body. 206 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:18,980 In fact, the most common experiences in the chamber are feeling detached, feeling floating, 207 00:14:18,980 --> 00:14:21,500 feeling as if there's a sense of a presence. 208 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:27,420 I believe, along with skeptics, that our brain is related to this experience. 209 00:14:27,420 --> 00:14:33,060 But there are things that happen in a near-death experience that have yet to be explained by 210 00:14:33,060 --> 00:14:34,260 the brain. 211 00:14:34,260 --> 00:14:40,460 Even though you might get a doctor to explain to me my body, they cannot explain to me my 212 00:14:40,460 --> 00:14:41,460 spirit. 213 00:14:41,460 --> 00:14:48,260 Their explanations for what happened to a near-death experience are simply weak. 214 00:14:48,260 --> 00:14:52,180 The fact that we now understand the part of the brain that mediates the experience does 215 00:14:52,180 --> 00:14:57,980 not demean the experience and does not make it less useful or less important from the 216 00:14:57,980 --> 00:15:00,820 point of view of our species or the individual. 217 00:15:00,820 --> 00:15:07,020 Whether near-death experience is physical or metaphysical may be beside the point. 218 00:15:07,020 --> 00:15:11,940 People who claim to have seen what's behind death's door are finding an audience. 219 00:15:11,940 --> 00:15:18,140 They tell us there is light at the end of a dark journey we must all take one day. 220 00:15:18,140 --> 00:15:23,780 We are buying these books because these are the substitutes, powerful substitutes for traditional 221 00:15:23,780 --> 00:15:26,620 religious beliefs that no longer work. 222 00:15:26,620 --> 00:15:29,260 Death is the last great mystery. 223 00:15:29,260 --> 00:15:34,860 And as we start to look at the near-death experience, we have at least a basis by which to view 224 00:15:34,860 --> 00:15:36,980 the way we leave this earth. 225 00:15:36,980 --> 00:15:41,140 For one thing that most of us come back with is we're not afraid to die. 226 00:15:41,140 --> 00:15:46,860 And more importantly, we're not afraid to live. 227 00:15:46,860 --> 00:15:50,940 The author of Embracing the Light, Betty Eadie, has not been forthcoming about the 228 00:15:50,940 --> 00:15:54,260 medical details of her near-death experience. 229 00:15:54,260 --> 00:15:58,940 Her secrecy frustrates researchers who are looking for cases of near-death experience 230 00:15:58,940 --> 00:16:01,460 that can be scientifically substantiated. 231 00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:06,940 Next, a bizarre phenomenon defies explanation, yet people continue to die. 232 00:16:06,940 --> 00:16:15,020 Skin, muscle and bone had been turned into a fine white ash. 233 00:16:15,020 --> 00:16:20,700 For more than 300 years, there have been strange reports of people who were found dead. 234 00:16:20,700 --> 00:16:25,780 Reduced ash, while everything around them remains unburned. 235 00:16:25,780 --> 00:16:30,780 It's called spontaneous human combustion, but that popular term is kind of a misnomer. 236 00:16:30,780 --> 00:16:34,300 In this phenomenon, people don't suddenly burst into flame. 237 00:16:34,300 --> 00:16:43,020 Instead, they appear to have been slowly devoured by intense heat from the inside out. 238 00:16:43,020 --> 00:16:47,260 Some researchers and fire officials believe that these are the victims of the strange, 239 00:16:47,260 --> 00:16:52,140 misunderstood phenomenon known as spontaneous human combustion, or SHC. 240 00:16:52,140 --> 00:16:58,060 No one knows how or even if SHC occurs, but mysterious deaths by fire like these have 241 00:16:58,060 --> 00:17:00,380 been reported throughout history. 242 00:17:00,380 --> 00:17:05,500 Authors Jenny Randalls and Peter Huff have documented over 70 possible cases of SHC in 243 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:08,340 the 20th century alone. 244 00:17:08,340 --> 00:17:12,140 We're talking about a situation where the fire is so localized that within an inch 245 00:17:12,140 --> 00:17:18,180 or two of the body, which has turned to ash, apart from a few extremities perhaps, there 246 00:17:18,180 --> 00:17:20,900 is virtually no fire damage at all. 247 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:23,620 So this is a self-contained fire. 248 00:17:23,620 --> 00:17:27,860 And the implication from that, although of course it's not proven, is that the fire begins 249 00:17:27,860 --> 00:17:32,820 internally and spreads outward from the body and therefore never goes very far beyond the 250 00:17:32,820 --> 00:17:37,660 extremities of the body, consequently does defect the room itself. 251 00:17:37,660 --> 00:17:43,300 Basically speaking, there is no way the human body, which is largely water, can spontaneously 252 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:44,300 combust. 253 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:46,740 There is no mechanism by which it can happen. 254 00:17:46,740 --> 00:17:49,260 But there are fire experts who disagree. 255 00:17:49,260 --> 00:17:53,860 They maintain that the same kind of spontaneous combustion that occurs in nature can also 256 00:17:53,860 --> 00:17:57,580 occur in humans if conditions are right. 257 00:17:57,580 --> 00:18:02,980 If you take the human being as just a bulk substance made up of a whole range of materials, 258 00:18:02,980 --> 00:18:07,260 from water to highly combustible chemicals. 259 00:18:07,260 --> 00:18:12,380 Heat it sufficiently, give it sufficient oxygen and use the fuel that's within the 260 00:18:12,380 --> 00:18:15,060 body, then it will burst into flame. 261 00:18:15,060 --> 00:18:18,740 The same as any other bulk material. 262 00:18:18,740 --> 00:18:23,380 In this working class district of Chorley in Lancashire, England, Peter Huff has been 263 00:18:23,380 --> 00:18:27,300 investigating a grisly case of suspected SHC. 264 00:18:27,300 --> 00:18:34,060 The incident happened on the night of the 4th of March, 1980, in this house here. 265 00:18:34,060 --> 00:18:38,700 An elderly lady lived in the house at the time alone, and it was the previous evening 266 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:42,220 that neighbours last saw her alive. 267 00:18:42,220 --> 00:18:47,900 Later that night, at around 9.30, they noticed black smoke coming from the chimney but thought 268 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:49,260 no more of it. 269 00:18:49,260 --> 00:18:55,140 And the following morning, when two men called at the house, they got no reply. 270 00:18:55,140 --> 00:18:59,660 Neighbours forced the way into the house, and what they discovered was grisly to say the 271 00:18:59,660 --> 00:19:00,740 least. 272 00:19:00,740 --> 00:19:07,100 From the waist upwards, everything including skin, muscle and bone had been turned into 273 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:09,900 a fine white ash. 274 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:15,900 SHC investigators point out that turning a body to ash is beyond the scientific possibility 275 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:19,980 of even the most sophisticated crematorium. 276 00:19:19,980 --> 00:19:25,740 In my time working here as a cremationist, I've never seen a body that has been cremated 277 00:19:25,740 --> 00:19:27,020 to nothing. 278 00:19:27,020 --> 00:19:31,620 There has always been skeletal remains left over. 279 00:19:31,620 --> 00:19:37,060 Even at 1100 degrees Fahrenheit, human bones cannot be reduced to ash. 280 00:19:37,060 --> 00:19:41,620 They have to be pulverized with heavy grinding stones before they can be placed inside and 281 00:19:41,620 --> 00:19:42,620 urn. 282 00:19:42,620 --> 00:19:50,300 So if a body was reduced to ash in a fire, it would be a mystery to me in how that occurred. 283 00:19:50,300 --> 00:19:53,300 Comparisons to crematorium are false comparisons. 284 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:58,100 It's like comparing a piece of wood that you've set on fire with a match to a piece of wood 285 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:00,060 that you put in the oven and baked. 286 00:20:00,060 --> 00:20:04,100 You may have to bake it at a very high temperature to have any effect on that wood. 287 00:20:04,100 --> 00:20:11,060 But baking and actual fire burning are very different phenomena, and so there is no comparison. 288 00:20:11,060 --> 00:20:16,260 Another baffling element common to most cases is the fact that highly flammable objects like 289 00:20:16,260 --> 00:20:20,340 furnishings, pillows and carpets near the body don't burn. 290 00:20:20,340 --> 00:20:22,340 This is really remarkable. 291 00:20:22,340 --> 00:20:26,900 One would think that a fire, a normal fire of the order which would be necessary to burn 292 00:20:26,900 --> 00:20:32,020 a human body at all would have also set the rumor blaze. 293 00:20:32,020 --> 00:20:37,140 Anyone who's had any experience, I think, with a simple thing like a campfire knows 294 00:20:37,140 --> 00:20:42,940 that you can get quite close and put things quite close to a fire, laterally, but place 295 00:20:42,940 --> 00:20:45,540 them over the fire and they burn readily. 296 00:20:45,540 --> 00:20:48,140 So again, these are not mysteries. 297 00:20:48,140 --> 00:20:53,620 These while unusual that the body burns that way without the house burning down, while 298 00:20:53,620 --> 00:20:59,460 these may be relatively unusual deaths, they're not unexplainable. 299 00:20:59,460 --> 00:21:05,380 To date, no coroner has ever written spontaneous human combustion on a death certificate. 300 00:21:05,380 --> 00:21:09,060 They prefer cause unknown or simply by fire. 301 00:21:09,060 --> 00:21:14,020 Despite skepticism from the medical establishment, Jenny Randalls and Peter Huff continue to 302 00:21:14,020 --> 00:21:19,500 document mysterious fire related deaths that they believe may be the result of spontaneous 303 00:21:19,500 --> 00:21:22,740 human combustion. 304 00:21:22,740 --> 00:21:25,060 Does that warrant a real scientific investigation? 305 00:21:25,060 --> 00:21:26,560 I think it does. 306 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:31,380 If we had a hundred deaths of a particular unknown disease, I'm sure the medical profession 307 00:21:31,380 --> 00:21:33,740 would like to find out why. 308 00:21:33,740 --> 00:21:38,540 Next is an alien intelligence trying to communicate through these newly discovered crop circles. 309 00:21:38,540 --> 00:21:43,060 There seems to be in some of the better cases a definite UFO connection. 310 00:21:43,060 --> 00:21:51,940 A super natural phenomenon is captured on tape during an exclusive sightings investigation. 311 00:21:51,940 --> 00:21:56,740 Crop circles are generally associated with the fields and grasslands of Great Britain. 312 00:21:56,740 --> 00:22:01,780 The formations discovered outside the British Isles have almost all been ruled out as hoaxes. 313 00:22:01,780 --> 00:22:06,940 But in the past year, an intriguing new series of crop circles has been studied along the 314 00:22:06,940 --> 00:22:08,420 U.S.-Canadian border. 315 00:22:09,420 --> 00:22:13,340 Well, the first day I saw it and the blood pressure went up. 316 00:22:13,340 --> 00:22:16,100 It's very difficult to describe. 317 00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:18,340 The air is full of electricity. 318 00:22:18,340 --> 00:22:25,020 There was something out there that was watching me that I didn't know about. 319 00:22:25,020 --> 00:22:27,220 They appear at first light. 320 00:22:27,220 --> 00:22:32,900 An American icon, amber waves of grain, crushed by an unseen force. 321 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:34,020 Is it a hoax? 322 00:22:34,020 --> 00:22:35,180 Sometimes. 323 00:22:35,180 --> 00:22:40,580 But here there are no footprints, no tire tracks, no obvious sign of a human hand at work. 324 00:22:40,580 --> 00:22:45,020 I believe it's an alien intelligence of some sort. 325 00:22:45,020 --> 00:22:50,940 It was just a very eerie, eerie force around me. 326 00:22:50,940 --> 00:22:54,300 Nobody has actually seen a transmission of the formation. 327 00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:58,900 The scientific term is agri-glyph, literally crop picture. 328 00:22:58,900 --> 00:23:03,540 Once a predominantly European phenomenon, three new North American agri-glyphs are being 329 00:23:03,540 --> 00:23:04,540 studied. 330 00:23:04,540 --> 00:23:08,180 This one appeared near Portland, Oregon in June 1994. 331 00:23:08,180 --> 00:23:13,900 Then in July, two separate designs appeared in the same wheat field in Chahalus, Washington. 332 00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:18,820 Two weeks later and 2,000 miles away, this classic pattern was discovered in Windsor, 333 00:23:18,820 --> 00:23:20,260 Ontario, Canada. 334 00:23:20,260 --> 00:23:25,100 Farmer John Parks was on a routine inspection when he discovered the formation in his neighbor's 335 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:26,100 wheat field. 336 00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:29,500 The straw was just bent, just laid over right from the ground. 337 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:36,860 The stalk was still one big long piece of straw, but it was just tipped and laying right 338 00:23:36,860 --> 00:23:38,220 flat on the ground. 339 00:23:38,220 --> 00:23:42,780 I find it hard to believe that a human being actually could really go in there and do that 340 00:23:42,780 --> 00:23:45,220 without disturbing any straw. 341 00:23:45,220 --> 00:23:50,340 If you went in and pushed it with your foot, the straw would kink, would bend somewhere 342 00:23:50,340 --> 00:23:51,940 in the middle and be broken. 343 00:23:51,940 --> 00:23:53,820 And this straw wasn't broken. 344 00:23:53,820 --> 00:23:58,860 The evening before the crop circle appeared, animals in a kennel less than one mile away 345 00:23:58,860 --> 00:24:00,580 were acting strangely. 346 00:24:00,580 --> 00:24:02,820 The guard dog was barking incessantly. 347 00:24:02,820 --> 00:24:06,620 The owner of the boarding kennel was puzzled by his dog's erratic behavior. 348 00:24:06,620 --> 00:24:08,300 I don't met night on Sunday night. 349 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:11,620 She started to make a racket, barking, whining. 350 00:24:11,620 --> 00:24:14,180 And we told her to be quiet and she just wouldn't respond. 351 00:24:14,180 --> 00:24:17,580 An animal sends a lot of things, which we don't. 352 00:24:17,580 --> 00:24:20,060 You know, so what turned it on like that? 353 00:24:20,060 --> 00:24:21,500 I don't know. 354 00:24:21,500 --> 00:24:25,900 Did the same force that affected the wheat affect local animals as well? 355 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:27,660 He was actually putting up quite a fuss. 356 00:24:27,660 --> 00:24:31,780 He didn't want to go past the circle whatsoever. 357 00:24:31,780 --> 00:24:35,540 And so I just, I, you know, settled him down. 358 00:24:35,540 --> 00:24:37,460 He was his eyes were this big. 359 00:24:37,460 --> 00:24:39,220 He had the white was showing around his eyes. 360 00:24:39,220 --> 00:24:41,220 He was really nervous. 361 00:24:41,220 --> 00:24:46,100 Is there a connection between the nervous energy exhibited by animals and the anomalous 362 00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:48,500 energy that flattened this wheat? 363 00:24:48,500 --> 00:24:53,100 That's a possibility being explored by the United States Center for Crop Circle Studies. 364 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:55,900 There are certain features that you can, you develop an eye for. 365 00:24:55,900 --> 00:25:02,500 And if you keep an open, open mind and not coming in with an expectation of finding this 366 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:05,820 or not finding, if you stay open, you'll see all kinds of things. 367 00:25:05,820 --> 00:25:07,260 The clues are all over. 368 00:25:07,260 --> 00:25:16,980 The obvious first thing to do is try to see if there's any entry or exit marks, possible 369 00:25:16,980 --> 00:25:20,140 signs of maybe something mechanical being brought in there. 370 00:25:20,140 --> 00:25:22,780 Then I use my eyes and my camera. 371 00:25:22,780 --> 00:25:27,740 Before I touch things or lift things or move things or before things get another couple 372 00:25:27,740 --> 00:25:29,980 of seconds older, I photograph it. 373 00:25:29,980 --> 00:25:36,500 Then grain samples from the affected areas are isolated and undergo microscopic evaluation. 374 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:41,380 Among those studying the samples, biophysicist Dr. W.C. Levin could and research associate 375 00:25:41,380 --> 00:25:47,660 John Burke, they hypothesize that the crop circles are caused by unusual but natural 376 00:25:47,660 --> 00:25:49,180 atmospheric forces. 377 00:25:49,180 --> 00:25:58,020 John and I came up with a concept based on very unusual natural phenomenon in the atmosphere. 378 00:25:58,020 --> 00:26:02,740 At his laboratory in Grasslake, Michigan, Dr. Levin Goode is currently conducting a 379 00:26:02,740 --> 00:26:06,100 comprehensive biomolecular study of crop circles. 380 00:26:06,100 --> 00:26:11,180 He has discovered that wheat from certain formations have actually become magnetized. 381 00:26:11,180 --> 00:26:14,500 They go through biochemical changes. 382 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:17,420 They go through cellular changes. 383 00:26:17,420 --> 00:26:26,140 This is a control node here showing you the normal node, very symmetrical. 384 00:26:26,140 --> 00:26:34,700 What we find here is that there are very drastic changes in the formation samples, which cannot 385 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:40,220 be explained by ordinary trampling or hoaxing or any of that. 386 00:26:40,220 --> 00:26:46,020 In the formation, what we find is that this energy is so intense and so rapid. 387 00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:51,020 The heat is so high that it literally blows expulsion cavities. 388 00:26:51,020 --> 00:26:57,740 We have an enormous amount of evidence that indicates that the causes of crop circle formations 389 00:26:57,740 --> 00:27:01,820 are quite likely ion plasma vortices. 390 00:27:01,820 --> 00:27:07,220 And while this may sound exotic, you could picture a slow speed electrified tornado, 391 00:27:07,220 --> 00:27:11,900 if you will, because plasma is nothing more than electrified air particles. 392 00:27:11,900 --> 00:27:14,580 It's very similar to trying to deal with the weather. 393 00:27:14,580 --> 00:27:18,580 It's on a bigger scale and so complex and chaotic. 394 00:27:18,580 --> 00:27:23,180 With all the resources at the command of our weather bureaus, we can't do an accurate 395 00:27:23,180 --> 00:27:24,540 five-day forecast. 396 00:27:24,540 --> 00:27:28,260 That doesn't mean we don't understand the principles of meteorology. 397 00:27:28,260 --> 00:27:30,300 And the same thing is true of crop circles. 398 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:35,900 Theoretically, a spiraling ion plasma vortex could create circles in standing crop, but 399 00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:39,740 could a force of nature create these intricate patterns? 400 00:27:39,740 --> 00:27:45,580 I believe that the circle makers are non-terrestrial entities and probably non-physical, non-terrestrial 401 00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:47,940 entities who don't need UFOs. 402 00:27:47,940 --> 00:27:51,940 I don't believe that these are craft landings or pod marks. 403 00:27:51,940 --> 00:27:58,020 The National Director of MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network Canada, is investigating the suspicious 404 00:27:58,020 --> 00:28:00,420 origin of the Ontario Crop Circle. 405 00:28:00,420 --> 00:28:05,060 There seems to be in some of the better cases a definite UFO connection. 406 00:28:05,060 --> 00:28:11,260 There's also evidence of paranormal activity like psychic effects, physical effects. 407 00:28:11,260 --> 00:28:16,660 Straynick's theory is bolstered by reports of UFOs cited the night before a crop circle 408 00:28:16,660 --> 00:28:17,660 discovery. 409 00:28:17,660 --> 00:28:21,780 They are amber lights that are seen coming to the ground and extinguished when they 410 00:28:21,780 --> 00:28:22,780 touch the ground. 411 00:28:22,780 --> 00:28:27,900 If an alien force is creating these circles, is it random, a cosmic prank, or are they 412 00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:29,660 trying to tell us something? 413 00:28:29,660 --> 00:28:36,500 This could be the message as well, that we are in trouble here on planet Earth. 414 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:44,500 Things have to be changed and we are slowly being told and shown through crop circles 415 00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:52,860 and various other phenomena that we are not alone and we may need some outside help. 416 00:28:52,860 --> 00:28:57,020 All scientists, I think, have a love of the unknown, of the mystery of the unknown, and 417 00:28:57,020 --> 00:29:05,340 there's a beauty in crop formations as well that is rather compelling. 418 00:29:05,340 --> 00:29:09,540 Crop circle investigations are becoming more and more scientific. 419 00:29:09,540 --> 00:29:14,460 Advanced technology is helping researchers gather extensive amounts of data. 420 00:29:14,460 --> 00:29:19,740 Unfortunately, all this new data still hasn't solved the mystery of how and why crop circles 421 00:29:19,740 --> 00:29:24,260 are being created, or by whom. 422 00:29:24,260 --> 00:29:28,300 Coming up next, haunting sounds captured on tape have experts baffled at San Diego's 423 00:29:28,300 --> 00:29:29,300 Whaley House. 424 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:30,300 I'm not skeptical. 425 00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:36,980 It's kind of eerie to me. 426 00:29:36,980 --> 00:29:42,940 There is an invisible energy that exists between magnet and metal. 427 00:29:42,940 --> 00:29:47,700 You can't see it or touch it, but you know that it's there. 428 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:52,380 Some paranormal investigators believe that people generate a similar kind of energy, 429 00:29:52,380 --> 00:29:55,900 which remains in the environment even after death. 430 00:29:55,900 --> 00:29:57,580 They call it residue. 431 00:29:57,580 --> 00:30:01,700 These investigators suggest that what many people experience as a haunting may actually 432 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:10,060 be their ability to feel, hear, or even see the existence of this spiritual residue. 433 00:30:10,060 --> 00:30:15,260 California, 1850, a stagecoach stopped with good food and clean beds. 434 00:30:15,260 --> 00:30:19,660 Today, it's an historic landmark with a different kind of reputation. 435 00:30:19,660 --> 00:30:23,740 The Whaley House is considered one of the most haunted places in the West. 436 00:30:23,740 --> 00:30:27,980 Sandy Stokes was a reporter for the San Diego Press Enterprise when she investigated the 437 00:30:27,980 --> 00:30:30,940 Whaley House for a special Halloween story. 438 00:30:30,940 --> 00:30:36,180 So to do a little bit of research to make sure that it was really haunted, I called up some 439 00:30:36,180 --> 00:30:39,500 ghost hunters, and one of the people I called was Richard Sennett. 440 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:40,980 So I sort of challenged her. 441 00:30:40,980 --> 00:30:42,980 I said, well, go ahead. 442 00:30:42,980 --> 00:30:44,980 Go down to the Whaley House. 443 00:30:44,980 --> 00:30:46,300 Use a tape recorder. 444 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:48,780 Use brand new music quality tape. 445 00:30:48,780 --> 00:30:50,220 Go from room to room. 446 00:30:50,220 --> 00:30:55,540 And when you're done, play it back and see if there isn't something that shouldn't be 447 00:30:55,540 --> 00:30:56,620 there. 448 00:30:56,620 --> 00:31:03,060 So I took his advice, and I came down here, and June Redding gave me a tour. 449 00:31:03,060 --> 00:31:08,340 In her 34 years as director of the Whaley House, June Redding has experienced all kinds 450 00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:10,020 of haunting phenomena. 451 00:31:10,020 --> 00:31:14,820 She's convinced that Mrs. Whaley, a professional musician at the turn of the century, is still 452 00:31:14,820 --> 00:31:17,020 demonstrating her talents. 453 00:31:17,020 --> 00:31:22,660 And we think perhaps she, her spirit isn't strong enough to return, but we have music 454 00:31:22,660 --> 00:31:27,500 coming from the music room, piano and violin music at times. 455 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:30,340 We have the sound of a music box. 456 00:31:30,340 --> 00:31:33,620 A strain of a music box is not one of ours here. 457 00:31:33,620 --> 00:31:36,860 Would Sandy's tape recorder pick up this anomalous music? 458 00:31:36,860 --> 00:31:42,020 When I got back and played the tape, it was very interesting. 459 00:31:42,020 --> 00:31:45,620 I heard some sounds on it that hadn't, we hadn't heard while we were walking through 460 00:31:45,620 --> 00:31:47,660 the house, and I was interviewing her. 461 00:31:47,660 --> 00:31:50,900 EVP's electronic voice phenomenon. 462 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:58,100 And this first began in the 1970s, when people using tape recorders began to get extra sounds 463 00:31:58,100 --> 00:31:59,820 that shouldn't be there. 464 00:31:59,820 --> 00:32:04,380 The tape was digitally analyzed by EVP expert Brian Black. 465 00:32:04,380 --> 00:32:09,340 He discovered background sounds like clacking billiard balls, while June was giving Sandy 466 00:32:09,340 --> 00:32:10,340 a tour. 467 00:32:10,340 --> 00:32:14,340 So was that, was that on there when it was a court one? 468 00:32:14,340 --> 00:32:15,340 Yeah. 469 00:32:15,340 --> 00:32:16,340 Oh. 470 00:32:16,340 --> 00:32:17,340 These are ghosts? 471 00:32:17,340 --> 00:32:18,340 Or are they the ghosts? 472 00:32:18,340 --> 00:32:19,340 This is an interesting one. 473 00:32:19,340 --> 00:32:20,340 The fifth one's ghost. 474 00:32:20,340 --> 00:32:21,340 Do you feel ghosts? 475 00:32:21,340 --> 00:32:22,340 Oh yeah. 476 00:32:22,340 --> 00:32:23,340 What is it doing? 477 00:32:23,340 --> 00:32:24,340 Hi. 478 00:32:24,340 --> 00:32:32,380 Brian recorded billiard sounds and compared them to the sounds on the tape, but it wasn't 479 00:32:32,380 --> 00:32:33,380 a match. 480 00:32:33,380 --> 00:32:39,940 I did some research on the history of billiards and discovered that what they used for billiard 481 00:32:40,380 --> 00:32:42,300 balls has changed considerably. 482 00:32:42,300 --> 00:32:46,180 Brian consulted with Terry Muldenau, an expert on antique billiards. 483 00:32:46,180 --> 00:32:53,660 The ivory balls were used from the early 1800s on up until about the 1930s, 40s, just recently 484 00:32:53,660 --> 00:32:55,620 when we went into the plastics. 485 00:32:55,620 --> 00:33:00,100 When Brian repeated the test with ivory balls, the results were remarkable. 486 00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:06,820 If you put the anomaly as a 10, something that would compare to it, I'd say an ivory 487 00:33:06,820 --> 00:33:09,620 comes in about the seven or an eight. 488 00:33:09,620 --> 00:33:13,620 Phenolic resin, the plastic that they use today, is too sharp and crisp. 489 00:33:13,620 --> 00:33:22,140 When Brian told me that he had proved that it was the actual sound of a billiard game 490 00:33:22,140 --> 00:33:27,900 with balls that had not been in use since the turn of the century, I was really surprised. 491 00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:29,700 I was shocked. 492 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:33,820 Why were billiard sounds recorded in a part of the house that was once a county court 493 00:33:33,820 --> 00:33:34,820 room? 494 00:33:34,820 --> 00:33:38,660 Soon, Reddiem's historical research turned up a startling answer. 495 00:33:38,660 --> 00:33:42,820 Frank Whaley, who was the oldest boy in the family, organized what he called the Clavel 496 00:33:42,820 --> 00:33:43,900 Social Club. 497 00:33:43,900 --> 00:33:44,900 We have all the records. 498 00:33:44,900 --> 00:33:49,380 As a matter of fact, I think I still have some invitation somewhere. 499 00:33:49,380 --> 00:34:01,220 My ultimate conclusion is that somehow, Sandy picked up a sound of someone practicing billiards 500 00:34:01,220 --> 00:34:03,220 apparently from 1905. 501 00:34:03,220 --> 00:34:10,740 Recital hunting is sort of like a shadow imprinted on the fabric of time. 502 00:34:10,740 --> 00:34:16,740 Somehow leaves an impression, a photograph, if you will, in an environment that replays 503 00:34:16,740 --> 00:34:20,260 and replays over and over again. 504 00:34:20,260 --> 00:34:26,340 And this is perhaps one of the best examples we have of retrocognitive sounds. 505 00:34:26,340 --> 00:34:33,260 It's from the past somehow impressed on the environment to be recorded a century later. 506 00:34:33,260 --> 00:34:41,820 With his results of Brian's study that I'm not skeptical, and it's kind of eerie to 507 00:34:41,820 --> 00:34:43,820 me. 508 00:34:43,820 --> 00:34:50,860 Next, a Florida investigation uncovers a spirited phenomenon known as residue haunting. 509 00:34:50,860 --> 00:34:57,540 The spirit of St. Petersburg High is definitely living here among us. 510 00:34:57,540 --> 00:35:03,300 EVP, electronic voice phenomenon, is believed to be audio residue from the past. 511 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:08,340 Researchers are also finding evidence of visual residue in the form of ghost-like apparitions 512 00:35:08,340 --> 00:35:10,460 and moving objects. 513 00:35:10,460 --> 00:35:15,260 This kind of residue haunting seems to occur most often in a place of high energy, an emotion, 514 00:35:15,260 --> 00:35:22,500 a hospital, a church, or even a school. 515 00:35:22,500 --> 00:35:26,740 Schools in session at St. Petersburg High, kids still run in the halls. 516 00:35:26,740 --> 00:35:29,780 The principal still rules with an iron fist. 517 00:35:29,780 --> 00:35:35,860 Only trouble is St. Petersburg High has been closed since 1926. 518 00:35:35,860 --> 00:35:40,420 The spirit of St. Petersburg High is definitely living here among us. 519 00:35:41,180 --> 00:35:46,220 Today, St. Petersburg High School has been converted into luxury condominiums. 520 00:35:46,220 --> 00:35:51,260 The old school rooms and hallways where teenagers of a distant past once dreamed of the future 521 00:35:51,260 --> 00:35:52,260 are gone. 522 00:35:52,260 --> 00:35:57,020 The people who live here now still see, hear, and feel echoes from the past. 523 00:35:57,020 --> 00:36:02,140 A lot of people here giggling and laughing in the hallways. 524 00:36:02,140 --> 00:36:07,940 People here kids running down the hallways. 525 00:36:07,940 --> 00:36:14,900 I witnessed probably the most spectacular, brightest white light I have ever seen in 526 00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:16,420 my entire life. 527 00:36:16,420 --> 00:36:20,260 We've had lights go on and off in the middle of the night for no reason. 528 00:36:20,260 --> 00:36:24,180 We've had a couple nights where we're here in a big band music. 529 00:36:24,180 --> 00:36:29,020 Have the students and teachers of yesteryear left an indelible metaphysical imprint on 530 00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:31,140 this historic building. 531 00:36:31,140 --> 00:36:35,220 Sightings called in Christopher Chacon and a team from the Office of Scientific Investigation 532 00:36:35,220 --> 00:36:40,220 and Research to interview the witnesses and stake out the interior with an array of state 533 00:36:40,220 --> 00:36:41,940 of the art technology. 534 00:36:41,940 --> 00:36:45,940 The goal was to determine if old St. Pete High is the site of what ghost experts refer 535 00:36:45,940 --> 00:36:48,940 to as residue haunting. 536 00:36:48,940 --> 00:36:53,700 It would be possible that the children who went to school here may have in fact left 537 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:55,820 some type of impression behind. 538 00:36:55,820 --> 00:37:00,800 Among their instruments, this heat sensitive imaging system called thermo vision. 539 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:05,560 It was this equipment that Chacon believes enabled his team to capture ghostly footprints 540 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,080 on an earlier expedition. 541 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:12,760 Certainly the possibility is there that the experiences people are having are in connection 542 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,760 to the students in class that were taking place back in the 1920s. 543 00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:22,760 In 1920, St. Petersburg, Florida dedicated a new high school. 544 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,520 The first yearbook had a prophetic dedication. 545 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:32,120 That the soul and spirit of the whole school could perhaps stay on for years to come. 546 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,520 And which is in fact what could have happened here. 547 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,040 St. Petersburg High was a jewel in the city's crown. 548 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:42,560 In 1920, St. Pete's first class president was A.B. Fogarty. 549 00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,920 Today he's one of the school's oldest living graduates. 550 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:54,560 When I picture the school, well I see a large, airy, well-lit building with wide halls, a 551 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,560 nice auditorium. 552 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:02,760 People busy going to and fro to their different duties. 553 00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:08,360 And they had time to talk and talk to each other in those days. 554 00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:14,080 St. Petersburg boomed so quickly that by 1926 the charming Brick High School was too small. 555 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,640 A larger school was built and old St. Pete was abandoned. 556 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:22,880 It had a variety of tenants over the next 60 years until it was converted into condos. 557 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:27,320 When the new residents moved in, they felt an eerie sense that they were not alone. 558 00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:31,760 You feel like you're living in someone else's space and you have the feeling that you should 559 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,160 respect it. 560 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:38,240 Bobby Brown had just moved into her apartment in the former science wing. 561 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:44,520 She was watching television when she had her first paranormal encounter. 562 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:52,680 All of a sudden this huge shining disc that was gigantic, probably six feet across, came 563 00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,960 rolling through these windows. 564 00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,880 And when it hit the wall, it exploded into this millions of fragments of light and the 565 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,880 light was so bright it nearly blinded me. 566 00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,240 I believe there are spirits. 567 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:13,640 I believe that there's an energy source that comes from an unexplained place and that probably 568 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,880 that energy is here in this building. 569 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:23,120 The individuals are very credible witnesses and the situations are very simple situations 570 00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:30,000 that suddenly become very extraordinary because of phenomena which cannot be classified. 571 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:34,840 More than 15 different people who live here have experienced strange haunting phenomena 572 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:36,280 that they simply can't explain. 573 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:41,800 At first they just heard voices, laughing, giggling, childish shouts and murmurs. 574 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:48,120 And Rick Caesar, who lives in what was once the science lab, insists he saw a ghost. 575 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:55,840 I was in the bedroom one morning getting dressed and I saw a tall man with a white shirt and 576 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,640 a thin tie. 577 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,520 He was kind of looking off into the conservatory just kind of like he was looking. 578 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:07,440 And then I said, whoa, and I backed up to look again and he wasn't there. 579 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:13,160 They may not in fact be individuals who are dead or are passed away coming back to Haunthus 580 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:14,160 location. 581 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:18,040 They could in fact be nothing more than impressions that have been left behind in the environment 582 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:23,960 that certain people are perceiving and sensing under certain extraordinary circumstances. 583 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:24,960 That sound you hear right now? 584 00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:25,960 Those are your brain. 585 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:31,360 Shaccon's investigation here begins with physical and psychological testing of the eyewitnesses. 586 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:36,120 He monitors their sleep to determine if what they are experiencing could be a dream. 587 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:41,040 Then he uses highly sensitive equipment to monitor the entire building over a 24 hour 588 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:44,680 period. 589 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:49,960 Thermal vision allows us to visually record and document an environment in temperature 590 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:51,120 variations. 591 00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:56,320 The night vision technology allows us to move around under complete darkness. 592 00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:03,000 All of these instruments work together and then we're able to look at any types of abnormal 593 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,480 phenomena or artifacts that we can correlate if something should take place. 594 00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:13,360 While OSIR conducted its scientific investigation, Sightings walked the halls with A.B. Fogarty. 595 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:17,640 It had been more than 70 years since the former class president had been here. 596 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:22,640 We hoped he could help us understand why his long departed classmates might still roam 597 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:23,640 the building. 598 00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:28,960 It's lost its area and its architectural creation. 599 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:30,600 It's changed. 600 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,480 It's a totally different thing. 601 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:34,480 Totally different. 602 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:39,640 There's no reason why if in fact someone had demolished or changed the structure that 603 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,720 they wouldn't have come back and actually become more active because of the fact that 604 00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:43,720 someone altered it. 605 00:41:43,720 --> 00:41:49,040 The spirit can roam anywhere but anybody's can. 606 00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:54,880 The spirit is the thing who we really are. 607 00:41:54,880 --> 00:42:00,960 The OSIR investigation turned up some unusual electromagnetic activity and cold spots in 608 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:01,960 the walls. 609 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,480 Sightings consistent with other reported residue hauntings. 610 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:10,920 We would probably have to classify this location as a classic haunt and as all the characteristics 611 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:18,960 as far as its past history and also in regards to the experiences people continue to have. 612 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:23,760 The current residents of Old St. Petersburg High School take pride in their building's 613 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:28,040 historic stature and live in peace with the building's past. 614 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:32,760 Not everyone has experienced the voices and visions but those who have believe that no 615 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:37,280 matter what happens to this building in the future it will always be filled with school 616 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,920 spirit. 617 00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:45,960 During our investigation in St. Petersburg we had access to some of the most sophisticated 618 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:51,880 technology currently available but this equipment is still in its infancy. 619 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:56,840 Sightings have yet to devise some sort of machine to objectively measure a subjective 620 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:03,960 experience like feeling the presence of a ghost. 621 00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:09,440 If you've had a paranormal experience call the sightings hotline at 190933 site that's 622 00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:12,760 1909337444. 623 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,560 Each call 65 cents a minute, average call last three minutes. 624 00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:17,920 Sightings is also online. 625 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:23,600 Our email addresses sightings at aol.com. 626 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,160 Next week on Sightings. 627 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,440 We had 200 rescuers, we had dive teams, dog teams. 628 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,880 But the dead man called out to her. 629 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,600 Come get me, the yellow boy, come get me. 630 00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:39,920 Then what if this man's prediction for the year 2000 comes true and new evidence in this 631 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,760 UFO sighting is it real? 632 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:47,080 And this boy's remarkable story of a miracle in medicine. 633 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:52,760 Until next time remember no mystery is closed to an open mind. 634 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,760 For Sightings I'm Tim White. 635 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:22,280 Stephen King's The Stand continues tonight at Nine Eastern and Pacific on Sci-Fi.