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Dramatic new video of a mysterious high flying disc

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It doesn't look like any conventional aircraft.

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Sighting's looks at the strange phenomena in the skies

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above Colorado's San Louis Valley.

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The ghosts of this small western mining town's past were so real,

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you could almost feel them.

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Now, you can hear them.

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That's it.

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Many people consider Maria Esperanza to be the greatest mystic

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of this century.

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Sighting's goes to Venezuela to witness a miracle at Batania.

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She knows everything about you, the present, the past, and the future.

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And Comet Halebound is heading toward Earth at the rate of 600 miles per minute.

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Are we prepared for its arrival?

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Comet Halebound

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Welcome to Sightings.

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I'm Tim White.

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After many years of reviewing home video,

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supposed UFOs, it takes a lot

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to impress the sightings investigative team.

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But what you are about to see

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is among the most intriguing UFO footage

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we've ever broadcast,

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a brilliant disc-shaped craft

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hovered over Salida, Colorado

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for more than an hour.

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Tim Edwards has spent most of his life

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He runs the cafe his dad started

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20 years ago.

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Tim's heard his whole life about

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and UFO sightings in the valley.

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He never thought it would happen to him.

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But then it did.

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On the morning of August 27, 1995,

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Tim recorded this videotape.

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See it going? Did you see it?

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Approximately 9.30 in my daughter, Brandi,

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that she looked up in the sky

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to see if it was going to rain that day.

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or lightning or something,

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we couldn't go camping,

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so I looked up and I saw it.

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I looked up again and I see

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a very intense, bright, shimmering,

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a boomerang shape too,

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or a slight arc.

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Tim called his restaurant

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to see if anyone else had sighted the UFO.

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Cook Michael Maggio told him he'd take a look.

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Come out here, about right here,

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a little beyond the door,

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and I could see the three flashes come off

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that looked like boomerangs,

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and it was bright white.

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Then a fourth witness,

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Tim's 15-year-old daughter, Lorraine,

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I was like, that's a bomb.

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I was like, couldn't believe it.

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Michael Kurta is Mufon's

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chief investigator in Colorado.

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He's been researching UFO activity

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in the San Luis Valley for several years.

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Mr. Edwards' video is some of the best

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footage that I've seen.

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Purely for the fact that, number one,

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it's a daylight sighting.

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There are multiple witnesses.

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It's a very large object,

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or appears to be a very large object,

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and we just don't get that many

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credible good daylight sightings.

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Sightings asked Chip Peterson

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to study the Edwards videotape.

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Peterson is an aerospace engineer

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in computer enhancement and stabilization.

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what you're actually seeing is 30 frames per second,

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flipping on the screen very quickly.

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that I had to stabilize by hand

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in order to keep this object in the center of the screen.

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you can see its motion much more clearly.

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it doesn't look like any conventional aircraft.

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Could it be otherworldly technology?

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Could it be military aircraft?

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Could it be some unexplained weather phenomena?

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There's an awful lot of strange things that occur

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in the mysterious valley of Colorado,

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and this is racking up to be one of them.

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The San Luis Valley is 5,000 square miles

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of fertile Colorado pastureland,

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the largest cleanest alpine meadow in the world.

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It's also a UFO hotspot.

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Recently, people here sighted huge fireballs

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we've seen the orange orbs that come down and sit

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or just race right across the mountain range.

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and it stopped instantly and started straight down.

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come clear across and go over the top of these mountains on this side.

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and no sound whatsoever.

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For ten years, researcher Chris O'Brien has studied

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more than 100 bizarre animal mutilations in the valley

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and their potential link to UFO activity.

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squadrons of blinking lights traveling too fast

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we had incredible military activity.

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the most spectacular UFO sighting to date occurred

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when an enormous arc of fiery orbs raced across the afternoon sky.

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pilot Jimmy Lloyd.

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They were extremely bright, like strobes, a green color.

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yet there was no sound wave.

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it became clear that Colonel Lloyd was not the only one

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interested in the sighting.

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In nearby Montevista, Colorado,

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the local sheriff received a phone call

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from the North American Air Defense Command.

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The Rio Grande County Sheriff's Office got a call from NORAD

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saying that one of their satellites had picked up

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a significant burst of heat up on Greenie Mountain.

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that we needed to exhaust all efforts

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to determine what this explosion was.

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to search for the source of the explosion.

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they were waved off.

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which completely gave us probably 20 miles away,

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and couldn't come up with anything I called.

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It was no more of our concern.

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on the day in question.

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that this did not appear to be a forest fire.

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The cause of the explosion recorded by NORAD

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and confirmed through satellite data remains a mystery,

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as do the many UFO sightings

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that continue to be recorded in the San Luis Valley.

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If the military has any answers, they're not telling.

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The lack of information is particularly disturbing to Tim Edwards,

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who has the dubious distinction of owning the best footage

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of one of the area's many UFOs.

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I've been obsessed almost, my family thinks,

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with trying to get the information, the facts out of this case

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and the truth and getting this out to the public

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and bringing witnesses forward.

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One thing that sustains Tim Edwards

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and UFO researchers in the Valley

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is the knowledge that UFO activity here

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is not just a cosmic flash in the pan.

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The local paper records sightings today,

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just as it did more than 80 years ago.

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Back then, eyewitnesses asked one simple question

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and it's the same question people are still asking.

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The selected tape is consistent with a number of reports.

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Sightings is received about UFOs in the four state area

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of Colorado, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.

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We're continuing to pursue these reports

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and will bring you extended coverage

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on an upcoming edition of Sightings.

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Next, in this tiny mining town, the past and present coexist

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and it's not easy.

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Georgetown is a very haunted community,

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but this is just going beyond that.

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Driving out of Denver and into the front range of the Rocky Mountains,

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the road is dotted with small towns that seem frozen in time.

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They survived today much as they have for the past 100 years,

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perfectly preserved reminders of a simpler, kinder way of life.

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This was Georgetown, Colorado in 1895.

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This is Georgetown, Colorado in 1995.

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100 years has done little to change the silver mining boom town.

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That's what people do up here with their houses or homes and everything.

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But this is just going beyond that.

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In 1994, Bill Pentland and Becky Richardson

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traded their fast-track life in Hollywood's entertainment industry

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for the peace and quiet of Georgetown.

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They bought an old restaurant named at the Full Circle Cafe

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and began to restore it, stirring up the past in surprising ways.

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that this box had really not been touched for almost about 100 years.

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seemed to be a paranormal trigger.

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It sat here for about 100 years with nothing happening.

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that their rummage might be linked to strange happenings in the cafe.

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Anything that had to do with water was breaking down.

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It happened night after night after night after night.

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At first, everyone involved in the full circle cafe put up with the seemingly playful haunting activity.

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But then the incidents took on a more frightening, even menacing tone.

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I was by myself and something came up from behind me and grabbed the bar stool

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and like turned me around just like you would just like turn around real fast,

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you know, if something in your chair.

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One night, Kayla Blopez was remarking on the striking resemblance between Becky and a woman in this photograph.

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And the picture flew off the wall and at the end of the table.

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And that kind of spooked all of us.

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It also prompted Becky to wonder if her uncanny resemblance to the woman in the photo

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might explain the haunting in the cafe.

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She and Bill started researching their cafe's historic past.

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In the 1890s, this particular establishment was a general store.

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And there were two brothers, a William and an Albert Shower, but there was also a third brother, Edward.

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But their energy is still here.

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And I hope I haven't opened up a big can of worms with these guys.

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No sooner had Bill and Becky learned about the Shower Brothers

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than an apparition of Edward's Shower appeared to Becky in the cafe.

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I look in the kitchen and there is one of the Shower Brothers standing at the sink, you know,

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and because it's the guy in the picture, it's the guy with the mustache.

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All I could do was think, I've got to get out, I've got to get out.

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And I was so freaked out of seeing something that I know was from 1895 and he's in my cafe.

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Soon after Becky's encounter, waitress Erin Shereke saw the ghostly image of another brother.

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What I had seen was the image of a man.

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And it was a perfect image.

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He had on a long-sleeved dark shirt and his apron was dark, so to speak.

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The ghost that Erin described was a perfect match for John Shower,

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even though Erin had not seen this photograph.

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Citing's asked renowned psychic investigator Peter James to come to the Full Circle Cafe

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to uncover the reason behind the escalating haunting activity.

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He was told nothing about the history of the cafe or the Shower Brothers.

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In fact, Peter was not even told that his destination was Georgetown until the day he left,

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yet his first psychic impressions were on target.

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My preliminary sense of what is within the structure, not necessarily here as we speak,

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is a male entity and I pick up a name of Edward.

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When Peter was in here last night, that was the first thing he walked in and said, who is Edward?

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And it just kind of gave us big time chills.

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I get a sense that there's an energy about someone named John as well.

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The oldest brother was John. John was a baker.

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Vibrationally, he's talking about some kind of a fish, and I don't know what that means,

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but there's a fish of all things involved here.

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The fish block, Charles Fish, the builder, was a banker here in Georgetown, amongst other things.

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He built a building that we see there now all around 1890 or 1891.

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I will say that Edward does come down here.

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These vibrations like the walls, the beams, rink of his energy, because he's also angry.

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It was in the attic that Peter felt Edward's angry presence most strongly.

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Hello? Communicate with me.

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Look, look, look, look, look, look. Hello?

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See?

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Oh, he's angry. Don't be angry with me.

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He's, this is a volatile entity, by the way.

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Don't play games with me. I'm not afraid of you.

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He said, I didn't kill him. I didn't kill him, and he's angry. Don't be angry at me.

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This entity is capable of making sound, of talking.

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Moments later, Peter's contention that the spirit could speak seemed to be proven correct.

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Edward, speak to me now.

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Yes.

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What is it?

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It is important to note that 12 people witnessed these events. There are no windows in the attic.

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It was well past midnight. The full circle cafe was closed, and Peter had never seen the picture that Becky was about to show him.

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This one.

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This is, this is, this is the one I saw. This is the one that I saw upstairs. I got goosebumps myself.

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That's what I saw in the kitchen.

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This is Edward.

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We've been gone to great pains to keep him in the dark. It's like, I have to fight my time. He knew nothing.

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Peter believes that by confronting the spirit of Edward's shower, he has released his haunting energy.

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If they want Edward to move on, I think this will happen simply by the fact that the history is now being brought to light.

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And I feel that Edward is now aware of the fact that we know that he, that he was falsely accused of this murder.

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And I think that will help him move on.

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While the sightings team was in Georgetown, we heard from many other residents who had also experienced haunting reminders of the town's past.

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We'll introduce you to more of the ghosts of Georgetown on an upcoming program.

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Next, a breakthrough in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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We are going to discover something.

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And fire beware when it comes to haunted houses.

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Here are some of the stories sightings is following in the news.

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Recently, sightings brought you the story of an Ohio University project called the Big Ear.

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A giant radio telescope there is searching for sounds of intelligent life in the cosmos.

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Well, now in Columbus, Ohio, a second independent search project is underway.

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We've dubbed it the Big Eye.

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In Ohio's capital, astronomer Stuart Kingsley is conducting an independent search for visual signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.

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By updating an idea discarded in the 1960s.

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Laser communication.

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I'm looking for a regular pulsation in the optical spectrum.

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Basically a bleep bleep bleep, rather like an interstellar heartbeat.

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Traditionally, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence or ETI uses radio telescopes programmed to pick up anomalous sounds.

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But Kingsley believes that our first two-way communication without her space will be visual.

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Lasers are more for point-to-point targeting.

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It gives you a very narrow beam even over interstellar distances.

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So that's actually why I think the preferred technology for ETIs to communicate with other stars is lasers.

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And Kingsley is confident his search will not be in vain.

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We are going to discover something.

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Well, that's going to be a major news story because that means we are not alone.

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In New York, it's buyer beware.

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Home sellers here no longer have to disclose to potential buyers that the house they're trying to unload is haunted.

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26 states do require disclosure if a home has a past history of unsettling activity.

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But New York Governor George Pataki has signed a law exempting home sellers from upfront disclosure of a home's quote, psychological impact.

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A psychological impact can be anything from a haunting to a murder to a suicide to a pool leaking.

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Realtor Kathy Edwards believes that full disclosure of a property's haunted reputation is important whether or not it's mandated by law.

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If we were listing a property that was known to be or thought to be haunted either by a seller or by the community in general,

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I would recommend to the seller that they notify any serious buyers of the fact that it was known to be haunted.

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Even if the seller does not believe in ghosts, if a home is believed by others in the community to be a haunted house, that fact should also be disclosed.

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My partner and I listed a property in this community that we thought was haunted because every time you walked in it was extremely cold.

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I mean colder than you would normally think a closed up empty house would be and yes we did disclose.

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The buyer moved in, they've never had anything happen so you know it may have just been a cold draft you don't know.

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But anything that could potentially affect a buyer's decision to purchase a property, they absolutely should disclose it.

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In New Delhi, India, thousands of Hindus are standing in long lines to see what they believe to be a series of religious miracles.

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In fact, Hindus throughout the world are experiencing the miracle in their own temples.

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Stone carvings of the elephant god known as Ganesha have suddenly and inexplicably begun to drink milk.

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And since it happened I believed it with my own eyes, otherwise I would not have.

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From New Delhi, the milk drinking phenomenon has spread quickly to temples throughout Asia, Great Britain and the United States.

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It was amazing you know, it just sucked it up, it's just a stream just going straight up and I said how could this not be a miracle.

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It has to be something supernatural.

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You've never seen this before, it's the first time you're witnessing something, a miracle. That's what you can say it's a miracle.

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While the Hindu milk miracle spreads around the globe, religious leaders are being cautious about the significance of the phenomenon.

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But the faithful are embracing it as a positive sign from one of their gods.

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What's a good sign? It's really good for the nation, you know they're telling us that I'm here to take care of you, don't you worry.

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So this is a very good sign that God is blessing everybody, all the devotees and trying to recreate faith in their minds.

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We'll have more stories from the news next time. Now here's what's coming up on Citing's.

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Healing miracles really do happen at a place called Bhutan.

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You believe miracles can happen here?

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Oh yes indeed, actually in both trips I've been to.

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Later, it's speeding toward earth at over 36,000 miles an hour. Are you ready for a come at hillbob?

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What causes a miracle to happen? Why are some blessed while others just as deserving are passed over?

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These are questions that have gone unanswered for thousands of years but still millions of people put their faith in the possibility of miracles.

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And as Carla Wall reports many of the faithful flock to a Catholic shrine called Bhutania hoping that they will be chosen.

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An hour's drive from Caracas the city beat gives way to the tranquility of the Venezuelan countryside and a place where many believe miracles can happen.

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The waters here are said to have healing powers and there's a shrine where many prayers are answered.

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Many people come here and they see nothing but they, but you feel it.

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For most it's a feeling beyond description.

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It's a mystery and in the mystery is the wisdom.

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It's called Bhutania and people come here from around the world to pray, gain wisdom and be healed.

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They drink the water. Many even claim they've had supernatural visions at Bhutania.

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Sometimes you will see balls or colored balls and they might be blue ones, they might be rose colored.

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This blue butterfly felt this big whoosh between our heads.

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Came right between our heads and brushed our cheeks and went up in the ceiling.

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And the people went nuts.

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And as I watched them like a vapor appeared over the tops of it and when it did it went into the shape of a lake.

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People come to be healed. Miraculously many are.

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You believe miracles can happen here?

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Oh yes indeed. I've seen them. I've seen them both in trips I've been down.

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I've seen a woman was on the same program with me for 45 years. She was bent over scoliosis when she left here. She slipped straight up.

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These inscriptions in stone have been left by those who've been healed.

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The miracles have been investigated by the Catholic Church.

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And after more than 500 interviews Bishop P. Obello has concluded that miracles do occur here.

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So like lords in southern France, Bhutania has been sanctioned as an official apparition site.

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My judgment is that those apparitions are authentic and supernatural.

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But it is this woman who people most want to see when they travel to Bhutania.

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Maria Escaranza is known as the visionary of Bhutania. She discovered this shrine and believes that in this place Jesus and the Virgin Mary can speak through her.

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Believers say she has an extraordinary spiritual power.

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You're standing and walking with no wheelchair and no crutches today. How did that happen?

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I was blessed to get in front of her and when we locked eyes I went down on the ground.

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I got up, I took my cane at the tour guide, jumped off the porch, ran up this hill to the chapel, grabbed my luggage, ran up another hill to the bus.

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Maria Escaranza makes no claims herself but others believe she's been given the power to see the future.

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When you meet her she knows everything about you, the present, the past and the future.

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She is able to see things and know things before they ever occur.

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It's the power of this tiny woman and this tiny waterfall that makes Bhutania the place of last resort for so many desperate people.

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Well, the only thing I knew about Spine Abifit was that it was devastating.

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Little Ryan Hewlett was born with a gaping hole at the base of his spine.

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I'd never seen anything like it before and I really didn't understand what I was looking at.

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This diagnosis of Spine Abifit is something that involves the brain, it involves the spinal cord and because it involves your nervous system, it involves anything from the head down.

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The prognosis for Ryan was not good. He might be walking by age five but there was no guarantee that he would ever survive into adulthood.

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I sort of felt like I had a baby with a time bomb so I didn't sleep well. I was always listening for him to see if this is going to be the night.

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It was after one particularly bad episode that Pat Hewlett decided to seek the help of Maria Esperanza. Pat and her husband Casey met Maria in Lowell, Massachusetts during a tour of the United States.

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She finished speaking with the family and she just turned around and walked right up to us and she says through the interpreter, here this is the place and she's touching her lower spine.

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And we said yes, we'd never give her any details about this child or the condition.

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She looked at us and she said he's being healed in three parts and the first part is happening right now.

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The Hewlux didn't immediately notice a change in Ryan's condition but then when Maria returned for another visit to the United States, this time to Valley Forge, Maria met Ryan in person.

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She turned right around and she took Ryan out of my arms and sat right down.

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And on the video you can see her hand going right down over where the shunt and down along the shunt line of his little chest and then on the spine and the back and the whole thing.

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Almost instantly the Hewlux say Ryan was stronger. They took him to the Westchester Spina Bifida Clinic where Ryan's doctors were baffled by his sudden improvement.

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The neurologist came in and he was doing his exam and writing down his comments and so forth and he just got up and got his colleague because he wanted to check and make sure it was the right kid and the right records and the right everything because it was so dramatic.

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A few months later the Hewlux took Ryan to the Tanya, to Maria's house for the third and final part of his healing.

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Suddenly Ryan woke up and he was screaming like a very very strong cry as if he were in pain and she said he's crying because that which was a part has just come together.

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She said this is the third part. He's going to begin to become completely healed.

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On that bus ride back from Caracas after he received the third part we noticed an immediate dramatic change in Ryan. He was so strong and just trying to get up and to move and just so bouncy.

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The Hewlux returned to their home in New York and Ryan began making dramatic improvements, much to the surprise of the neurosurgeon who had made the original diagnosis.

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I think he's excelled in some ways beyond what his objective analysis such as pictures, x-rays, CAT scans, MRIs might have led us to think he could do.

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The art of medicine 100 years ago was holistic and that was we didn't have the technology and the capability to correct anatomical abnormalities that we do now.

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We forgot about faith and we forgot about hope and positive thinking.

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Faith and positive thinking are all that Anne Jones believes she has left.

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Yeah!

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Anne's daughter Amanda has epilepsy. She has a seizure nearly every day.

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Doctors said she would improve with age but her progress has been unexpectedly slow.

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At age 5 Amanda is still a toddler in many ways.

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Language-wise I thought she'd be talking more. They have expected her to. They really can't explain why the language isn't coming in.

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Anne heard about Ryan Hewlux' miraculous recovery so now she too is making the pilgrimage to Batania.

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I'm going to pray for a miracle for her health to get over her epilepsy, to talk. Even if she could just talk, I'd be happy.

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Anne Jones invited Carla Wall and her sightings team to travel with her on her pilgrimage to Batania.

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It was to be a journey of faith. She hoped would have a miraculous ending.

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When sightings returns, Carla Wall meets Maria Esperanza and Anne Jones hopes for answered prayers.

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It's my daughter, Amanda's.

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There have been claims of miraculous healing and apparitions of the Virgin Mary from every corner of the globe.

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Currently the Catholic Church recognizes only four locations as sites where miracles do happen.

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They are Lord's, Fatima, Garbondle and Batania.

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The Hewlux are traveling from New York. Anne Jones from Michigan. Wendy Benedict from Missouri.

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It's a poignant mix of faith and desperation that's brought them thousands of miles from home to Venezuela.

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From Caracas, we board a bus and drive out into the country to Batania and its resident visionary Maria Esperanza.

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Pat and Kasey Hewlek are convinced that their son Ryan was able to overcome the crippling disease Spina Bifida because of the healing gift of Maria Esperanza.

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So is it a trip to say thank you for you?

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It sure is. It's a trip to say thank you and it's a trip for me. It's a total trip of joy.

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But for every miraculous recovery, there are thousands still waiting to be healed.

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Anne Jones has come in search of a miracle for her daughter.

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What kind of healing are you hoping for, dear daughter?

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Any really?

466
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I'd like to see her.

467
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Well, I have no more seizures.

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I think that this is a possibility here.

469
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I really do.

470
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Okay, this is Finca Batania. This is the entrance to Batania.

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Wendy Benedict is the leader of the group. She brings pilgrims to Batania every other month.

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People from many different faiths come to bathe in the healing waters and to pray.

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And sometimes, Benedict says, the faithful are rewarded with amazing supernatural sights at the shrine.

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Sometimes the sun will spin. Sometimes it'll turn colors.

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Many times when you're in the grotto, you will see people looking at the palms of their hands.

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And what's happened, there's a very fine gold dust that falls all over them.

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There are no glowing apparitions on this day, but a vision in white does appear.

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Viva Maria!

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Maria always says, I am a simple person, but she's far from being simple.

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I don't know why she was chosen, but I don't know that anyone knows why they receive special graces or special gifts.

481
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Maria says that everyone who comes to Batania receives graces.

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And those graces are believed to be strongest when given personally by Maria Esperanza.

483
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So the crowd pushes in, reaching, pleading, hoping she'll share with them her vision of their future.

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Do you understand me? I understand you. I understand you.

485
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I'm happy. I'm very joyful because from today...

486
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Hallelujah!

487
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As she works her way through the crowd, she is continually asked to do the seemingly impossible,

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to make the crippled stand up and walk, to heal the terminally ill.

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Help me, sir. I want to live.

490
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Many times when I have seen her do healings, for instance, she assumes the illness on herself.

491
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And until she's able to expel it from her body, she's physically ill.

492
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I'm hurting my heart.

493
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,000
Today my heart is hurting. Sometimes it comes out of here.

494
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,000
Maria Esperanza rarely grants interviews to the media,

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but she agreed to sit down with me after one of her healing sessions.

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What do you see and what do you feel when you look at these people, when you look at me, when you look at anyone?

497
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It's something so natural.

498
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To make me feel like it was my test to make them feel that I already know them.

499
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Why Maria, are you able to help and heal some people, like little Ryan Hewlett and others you can't help?

500
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:51,000
For Ann Jones, the wait to see Maria Esperanza has been agonizing.

501
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,000
She douses herself and Amanda's picture with water from the spring.

502
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Then finally she meets Maria.

503
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This is my daughter, Amanda. She has seizures every day.

504
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:12,000
When she was four months old, something happened. This is very important.

505
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Four months.

506
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She had her DPT shot.

507
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This was a vaccine.

508
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There it is.

509
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Exactly.

510
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It's here.

511
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Maria told Ann that she sees Amanda improving, but progress will be slow.

512
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Thank you.

513
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Thank you.

514
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Go happy.

515
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Live happy.

516
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Live happy.

517
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It's not the promise of a complete cure that Ann had wished for, but she is at peace, because Maria has injected her with hope that Amanda will improve in her own time, just as Ryan Hewlett did.

518
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Is Ryan a miracle child?

519
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,000
Is Batania a place where miracles happen?

520
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Or is he simply proof that when medicine falls short, faith can make up the difference?

521
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:20,000
In Spanish, Esperanza means hope, and that is what Ann Jones has received from the prophet of Batania.

522
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Since her return from Venezuela, Ann feels that her daughter Amanda is making small steps forward, and she hopes these signs of improvement will one day add up to a miracle.

523
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:37,000
Next are Comet's bad omens of things to come.

524
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What will happen when Hale Bob arrives?

525
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Comets are enormous balls of ice hurtling through space, destroying everything in their path, and for centuries, Comets have been seen as harbingers of doom.

526
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The mother of all Comets is thought to be Halley's Comet, not due back over Earth until the year 2060.

527
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But in the spring of 1997, we will be visited by the less famous Comet, Hale Bob.

528
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And in cosmic terms, this one will miss us only by a whisker.

529
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From Earth, we can see only a tiny fraction of the vast uncharted expanse of outer space.

530
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,000
Its vastness has inspired wonder and fear.

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Now, that fear of the unknown is being challenged by frightening new discoveries in outer space.

532
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,000
We think the solar system is surrounded by something like 10 trillion comets.

533
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With numbers like these, it's not surprising that scientists like NASA astronomer Paul Weisman are keeping tabs on the paths of these supersonic celestial bodies,

534
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especially those that will come perilously close to our planet, among them the recently discovered comet Hale Bob.

535
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It's in our planetary system already. It's out a little bit beyond the orbit of Jupiter at this point.

536
00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:00,000
And we'll pass just inside the Earth's orbit in March of 1997.

537
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,000
While astronomers reassure us that comet Hale Bob will not impact on Earth,

538
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:09,000
there are many people who believe that even a visit from a comet is a bad omen.

539
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:12,000
People have many, many beliefs about comets.

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For example, if you see a comet, you'll die soon after.

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Or if you see a comet and you don't cross yourself and tell someone, then you'll lose a finger, all sorts of peculiar things like that.

542
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:28,000
UCLA Folkloreist Heather Joseph Witham notes that historical events are often tied to a passing comet.

543
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:36,000
For example, in 1066, there was a comet, and just afterwards the Normans invaded England and the Battle of Hastings took place,

544
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,000
and England became a Norman country.

545
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:42,000
People who see this, the belief is reinforced. Something happened.

546
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:49,000
But it's not for you or I necessarily to say that the comet didn't predict the event, because we don't really know.

547
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:59,000
What we do know is that the comet discovered in July 1995 by amateur astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bob is huge, and it's rapidly heading this way.

548
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:06,000
We're thinking the nucleus of the comet may be something between 20 and 50 kilometers in diameter, so it's something like the size of the city.

549
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:16,000
It's falling towards the sun at about 15 kilometers a second, about 10 miles per second, but it's still about 600 million miles from the sun, so it has a long way to go.

550
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,000
It will actually pick up speed as it comes in.

551
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:28,000
And according to the mythology of many cultures, comets like the one expected here in 1997 are the most likely to cause troubling events as they pass over Earth.

552
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,000
There are some connections between comets and catastrophic Earth events.

553
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:37,000
There was a really long, hot summer and drought in the eastern United States in 1762.

554
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:47,000
It was thought a comet predicted this, and once again there was a comet just before an incredible earthquake in 1811 that actually sank New Madrid, Mississippi.

555
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:53,000
In fact, that same 1811 comet coincided with Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.

556
00:41:54,000 --> 00:42:01,000
Civilizations have looked to the sky for centuries, and the ancient Greeks even established guidelines for how comets would affect our planet.

557
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:09,000
Ptolemy in the second century wrote that the size of the comet will tell the comet's meaning.

558
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:20,000
The color of the comet will tell what kind of problem it will bring, wind, rain, drought, whatever, and where in the zodiac the comet was tells which country is going to be affected.

559
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:29,000
Although scientists have yet to determine the color of Halepop or its place in the zodiac, there is no question that its size is colossal.

560
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A fact that Ptolemy would say spells disaster for those who will cross the comet's path.

561
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:45,000
Once comet Halepop passes over the Earth, those with cometophobia, that's the clinical term for the fear of comets, can breathe a long sigh of relief.

562
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,000
The comet is not expected back for another 3,000 years.

563
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:57,000
If you've had a paranormal experience, please write to us at Sightings.

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

568
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