1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,600 I'm this edition of Sightings at the historic Black Swan Inn. 2 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,600 Memories of the past stubbornly refused to die. 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:13,760 Every step I took there was another step behind me. 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:19,000 Now a sightings investigation turns up evidence of an unsolved murder at buried treasure. 5 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,280 Is there some kind of a treasure here? 6 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:23,280 They're supposed to be. 7 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,920 Twenty years ago they saw a mysterious object in the sky. 8 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:31,400 Now a couple relives the disturbing encounter only to recover lost memories. 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:37,480 It never occurred to me that there could possibly be some missing time involved. 10 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:41,720 Scientists examine the growing belief that plants can communicate. 11 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:48,640 Plants, once they hear the sounds of another plant, they start to what appears to be a 12 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:51,360 dialogue between each other. 13 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,520 The latest dramatic video footage from the world's newest UFO hotspot. 14 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:27,720 Welcome to Sightings. 15 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,280 I'm Tim White. 16 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:33,820 For more than 5,000 years, Salado Creek in what is now Texas was a place where Native 17 00:01:33,820 --> 00:01:39,200 Americans came to trade, to fall in love, to fight and to die. 18 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:43,800 In 1867, prosperous German immigrants bought the land and they built a mansion. 19 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,840 And since then the house has been fraught with tragedy, suicide, perhaps even murder. 20 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,600 Well, not surprisingly, sightings discovered the mansion because the current owners fear 21 00:01:52,600 --> 00:02:01,040 the spirits are restless. 22 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:06,720 It was built for an immigrant family who came to San Antonio with nothing and built fortune. 23 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,320 Then it was home for the highest of Texas high society. 24 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,400 Now it's the black swan inn, an elegant and historic retreat. 25 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:20,240 This house and the very land it stands on have a darker side that began long ago when 26 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:26,840 the creek ran with the blood of Mexicans and Americans fighting to claim it as their own. 27 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:32,320 Behind this charming facade, there is a legacy of suffering, suicide, even murder. 28 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:37,680 The solemn secrets that Joanne Rivera and her family did not know until the past began to 29 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,200 invade the present. 30 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:43,200 I wasn't aware that there were spirits when I first came to the property, but shortly 31 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:48,960 thereafter I was very much aware of everything that was going on here. 32 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:53,680 From voices to doors opening and closing and footsteps. 33 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,200 It was supposed to be the Rivera's dream house, but they had only been here a week when the 34 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:00,800 haunting activity intensified. 35 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,680 The dolls would all be rearranged and it was if there were children that had been in there 36 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:05,680 playing. 37 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:11,240 The lights would turn off and on. 38 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:18,320 It sometimes sounds like the piano, like this piano, is playing all by itself. 39 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:23,280 The spirits or the energies that are here, what kind of testy? 40 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,680 They wanted to see what I was going to do. 41 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:31,480 Joanne tried to put the spirits, the ghostly music and the haunting activity behind her, 42 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,960 but then her daughter Meredith had a frightening experience of her own in the south wing of 43 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:37,760 the house. 44 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:42,160 The one time I went down there by myself, the only time, every step I took there was 45 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,400 another step behind me. 46 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:51,800 I came running back to my mom because I was real uncomfortable. 47 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:56,320 The south wing harbors a lot of animosity and a lot of anger, I feel a lot of anger 48 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,720 and a lot of negative violence. 49 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,840 There was a time when I first came here that I was working in one of the closets in the 50 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:07,400 south wing and I got the feeling that I was being watched from the attic. 51 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,640 I felt very threatened that I needed to get out and get out now. 52 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:16,840 And I ran up the hallway and was like, I can't believe that just happened to me. 53 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:21,520 According to Joanne, it was not long after she and her daughter had felt the menacing 54 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:26,800 but invisible presence that the threatening energy appeared to Joanne in human form. 55 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,320 It came unexpectedly in the middle of the night. 56 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:34,000 All of a sudden the bedroom lights came on and there was a man standing at the foot of 57 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,720 my bed with his hands on his hips. 58 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,440 At first I thought, well, it was a dream. 59 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:41,280 You know, you were just imagining things. 60 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:43,560 But then this went on every night for a good week. 61 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:48,120 At about the same time, this man would come to the room and then finally I decided to 62 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:49,640 rearrange the furniture. 63 00:04:49,640 --> 00:04:55,760 And after I moved the furniture, then he no longer came into the room. 64 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,880 Rearranging the furniture may have kept him out of Joanne's room, but it didn't mean that 65 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,880 he was gone. 66 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:08,280 During a storm, he came again, this time to Meredith's room. 67 00:05:08,280 --> 00:05:10,160 I was laying in bed and it was lightning. 68 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:11,160 So there was lots of shadows. 69 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:16,680 But a couple of times I looked and I saw an old wrinkly face man. 70 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,440 And not only, I mean, he was looking in the window at me. 71 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,960 And the first time I saw it, I was scared, but I wasn't sure if it was really there 72 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:23,960 or not. 73 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:27,800 But I looked again and three times and he was there each time just looking. 74 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,840 I was so frightened because his face was there clearly. 75 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:34,000 And there was no balcony, there's no steps, there's no tree. 76 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,960 There's no way he could hold himself there to look. 77 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,320 So finally she moved out of the room. 78 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:45,520 And actually until today, no one has ever slept in that room again. 79 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:46,800 I never believed in ghosts. 80 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:51,360 And then when I moved in here and had, I guess, the opportunity to experience what I did, 81 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:57,960 I changed my mind about it because I saw it for myself and I believed it. 82 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,440 Smith and Joanne are not the only ones who have felt the eerie presences within. 83 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:05,920 Joanne's husband did not wish to appear on camera. 84 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:10,880 But just at the end of the driveway, Justin Stutz and his mother Elizabeth run a vintage 85 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,680 clothing business out of the Black Swan's original carriage house. 86 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,680 And they believe that there are many ghosts here too. 87 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:23,720 Sometimes you walk into a building and you automatically just shudder. 88 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,160 You feel that there's someone else there. 89 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:27,840 You look around, you're convinced there's someone else in the room with you and there's 90 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:29,320 no one there. 91 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,120 Unlike the main house, the ghosts here are not menacing or threatening. 92 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:38,720 There's what I call our little girl who throws little temper tantrums and throws things around, 93 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:42,960 knocks all my photos over and it's a childish temper tantrum. 94 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,640 The little girl may be their most recent sighting. 95 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:50,080 But for more than 30 years, Elizabeth and Justin have watched another apparition roam 96 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:52,040 the grounds. 97 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:59,960 There is a lady who haunts the front ports of the main house and also the front yard. 98 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:02,400 I've seen her off and on for many years. 99 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,560 She's a tall, rather tall, I would say. 100 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:11,640 Beautiful, has long dark hair, wears a long white dress like a lady would from, say, the 101 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:12,640 1920s. 102 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:18,120 The gazebo is at the foot of the hill and we have a young woman who likes that area. 103 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:19,120 It's very comforting. 104 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:23,440 It's very romantic, so maybe she's just drawn to that area. 105 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:29,000 The spirit had no name, but Joanne was haunted by the feeling that the ghost was a real person 106 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,680 trapped in time. 107 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:35,520 Then Joanne was contacted by Docia Williams, a local historian who was writing a book about 108 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:38,880 San Antonio's historic mansions. 109 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:44,840 Docia told Joanne all she knew about the home's history and its previous owners, including 110 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:49,800 Park Street, a renowned attorney who was the real life model for Perry Mason. 111 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:54,360 Street lived here in the 40s and 50s with his beautiful wife, Joleen. 112 00:07:54,360 --> 00:08:00,440 Joleen Wood Street died very, very young of cancer. 113 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:01,720 She was in her 30s. 114 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:08,080 She did have one youngster at the time of her death, but she was a very beautiful woman. 115 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,240 Had always been very, very lovely. 116 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:15,720 And I understand she is probably one of the entities or spirits that still closely watches 117 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,080 over the house because she was very possessive of it when she lived here and very protective 118 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:21,640 of it and loved it very much. 119 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:27,640 The woman who I have seen on the front lawn in the one in the white dress, I believe she 120 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,520 is Park Street's wife. 121 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:34,640 It looks like the pictures I have seen of her. 122 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,720 They were rich, famous, deeply in love. 123 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:42,800 And when Joleen died, Park followed soon after in what was reported as a suicide. 124 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:49,200 I take for granted the story that was in the Express News and on the police blotters that 125 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:54,080 from a four-poster bed with a teaster he is supposed to have hung himself. 126 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,960 Of course, it's also said that perhaps he didn't hang himself, that he was murdered, 127 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:04,800 but I have no concept of how that might have happened. 128 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:09,560 That murder was the first thing psychic Kathleen Bittner Roth sensed when Joanne invited her 129 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:11,600 to survey the house. 130 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:18,680 The moment I stepped through the door, there was a psychic vision of a man hanging. 131 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:22,280 She grabbed the throat and turned around and said someone was home here. 132 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:28,000 My sense in seeing this man was this was not a suicide. 133 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,960 But someone murdered this man. 134 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:35,800 That he was removed from here to make it look like a suicide. 135 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:41,480 On instinct, Kathleen went directly to the south wing and stopped at this closet door, 136 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:45,240 the same place where Joanne had felt threatening energy many times before. 137 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,360 I don't want to go into this closet either. 138 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:48,880 I mean, look you guys. 139 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:53,880 I have a sense that there were two men that were involved with whatever was in that closet. 140 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,840 There was something in that closet that they were after. 141 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,960 I believe huge, safe. 142 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,920 And Kathleen sensed a connection to Park Street and his murder. 143 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:09,480 That closet with that room is, I believe, was his office or study area. 144 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:15,320 It was either where he kept something valuable or it's where someone watched him, meaning 145 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:16,960 to do him harm. 146 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:21,880 And that energy, that spirit is still there in that closet. 147 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:24,800 But who or what is that energy? 148 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,520 And what was in that closet that someone was willing to kill for? 149 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,960 Joanne asked Sightings for help and we enlisted the psychic mind of Peter James. 150 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:38,400 I'm hoping that he can give us more information as to who's here and why they're here. 151 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:42,160 But I also believe that part of the reason that I'm here and that the energies and the 152 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:46,520 spirits that are putting up with me is that I'm here to resolve some of their issues. 153 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,720 And maybe that's Park's death. 154 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,920 When Sightings returns, psychic Peter James investigates the black swan. 155 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:57,640 There was a blow to the head or something to the head. 156 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:05,520 I'm feeling it. 157 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,040 The ghosts, too, are said to haunt the black swan in. 158 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,440 Read like a who's who of San Antonio society. 159 00:11:11,440 --> 00:11:15,080 Among them the spirit of a ravishing debutante cut down in her prime. 160 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:20,520 And a local attorney whose life inspired Earl Stanley Gardner to create Perry Mason. 161 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,880 And whose death was ruled a suicide but may have been murdered. 162 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:27,640 Does his spirit want to win just one more case? 163 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,080 And what do the other restless energies want? 164 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:39,080 Psychic Peter James has come to find out. 165 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,920 A beautiful spirit runs through the grounds. 166 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,960 A menacing specter appears in the window. 167 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:48,440 A restless energy penetrates every room. 168 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,400 Are they the players in a 30 year old mystery yet to be solved? 169 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:59,080 Peter James will try to find out by using what he calls his seventh sense, his psychic power. 170 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,520 Seems like the wood in the house rings a bell with a name. 171 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:05,200 I don't know what that means yet. 172 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:11,480 When I first walked into the house, I mentioned sensing some beautiful woodwork within the house. 173 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:15,520 But it rings a bell with a name, with a name. 174 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,080 The wood. 175 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:26,360 I feel like there's someone whose name began with a J or a G. I think it's a J. 176 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,120 I get a sense of something political. 177 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,000 This is, of course, preliminary. 178 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:37,000 The wood daughter, JoLene, she was given the name of her mother's maiden name. 179 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:44,240 She was an only child, met and married a very prominent local young attorney here in San Antonio. 180 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,360 Hall Park Street. 181 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:50,680 And a political figure he ran for numerous political offices. 182 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:54,320 Peter was sensing this chapter in the home's notorious history. 183 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:59,320 He was told nothing about this place and yet he was describing Park Street to a T. 184 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:08,360 Now, bear in mind when I mentioned political that I think would tie in with something legal, 185 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:14,640 like someone that also practiced some kind of law as well. 186 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:20,160 He was a very dynamic man, a very powerful sometimes, a very controversial figure. 187 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,480 This person died very tragically. 188 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:31,040 I think it was, his life was taken at the hand of another, I think. 189 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:36,480 When he made these revelations, Peter did not know that another psychic, called him by the family, 190 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:41,760 had already surveyed the house and had reached the exact same conclusion. 191 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:48,160 My sense was this was not a suicide, that someone murdered this man, 192 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:53,880 that he was removed from here to make it look like a suicide. 193 00:13:53,880 --> 00:14:00,680 In the many years that I've investigated hauntings, there's no doubt in my mind 194 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:06,000 that the nature of the circumstances as to how Parks died was in fact murder 195 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:10,160 and I would wager all of my psychic ability on that fact. 196 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:14,400 There was a blow to the head or something to the head. 197 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,520 There was an injury to the head is what I'm feeling. 198 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,880 And it was in the South Wing that Peter felt the answer would be found. 199 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:27,760 In a cold, dark room, Peter claimed to see the face of a man staring at him. 200 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:33,920 It looked like I saw the face of a man looking in a window, an older man. 201 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,840 That window back there, as a matter of fact, right there, right that window there. 202 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:48,240 The South Wing, in my opinion, is a scale of 1 to 10, is probably a 12 as far as activity. 203 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:54,720 And particularly that little bar area or the area that I wasn't able to get into. 204 00:14:54,720 --> 00:15:02,120 Peter not only visualized the strange energies, he also began to hear a haunting melody. 205 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,840 It feels like I hear someone playing the piano. 206 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:12,120 I don't know if that ever happens here in the absence of physical beings if the piano starts playing. 207 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:18,840 Joanne and the owner before her both believe that they have heard the piano play by itself. 208 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:25,400 See, I get a feeling like someone is watching me through a window. 209 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:31,400 And I think it's this male, the elderly man. 210 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:37,960 It was only after his complete investigation that Peter was allowed to meet Joanne Rafferri. 211 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:45,720 So far I find that there's at least four, maybe six entities, ghosts here. 212 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:47,240 With the name Wood, have any? 213 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,880 Wood, that's the Jolyne Woods. 214 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:50,600 That's the name? 215 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:51,480 Yes. 216 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:53,960 When Peter said the word Wood, it was a very good feeling. 217 00:15:54,360 --> 00:16:00,440 It's nice to know that Jolyne is here and that other people can sense her and feel her presence here too. 218 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,480 But I also get a sense like I'm being watched through a window. 219 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:05,080 What about an older gentleman? 220 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:08,680 Peter noticed that there was a man that used to stare in the bedroom. 221 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:11,720 There's two men upstairs, I think. 222 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:16,680 One is the old man that looks through the windows that my daughter experienced. 223 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,360 And also the man that comes into my bedroom and would stand at the foot of the bed. 224 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,880 Joanne took the psychic impressions and striped. 225 00:16:23,880 --> 00:16:26,680 Until Peter let her back to the South Wing. 226 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:28,040 This hallway is very active. 227 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:30,440 I really hate this hallway. 228 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:39,240 He was drawn across the room to a door, to a closet, to an event that chilled Joanne to the bone. 229 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:40,600 What's there? 230 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:41,000 What's there? 231 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,920 A death year of less than 20 years ago? 232 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:44,120 Yes. 233 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:51,080 When Peter talked about the closet that I really don't like to go into and feel very uncomfortable about, 234 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:55,000 he acknowledged that there was a lot of energy there. 235 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:55,800 I don't like the closet. 236 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:56,520 But it's active. 237 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:57,640 It's as reactive. 238 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:02,760 Now, did anyone ever tell you I'm receiving it vibrationally? 239 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:05,720 Is there some kind of a treasure here? 240 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:08,200 There's supposed to be. 241 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:09,000 I haven't found it. 242 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:13,000 There is a very aggressive spirit there. 243 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,440 And I think he's trying. 244 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:20,280 I think there are two that are still battling over a buried treasure. 245 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,320 Joanne first heard about the treasure from Kathleen Bittner Roth, 246 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:27,960 a psychic whom Peter James has never met. 247 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:30,040 She sensed a treasure trove here. 248 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,320 And without knowing it, Peter confirmed her psychic vision. 249 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,040 There was something in that closet that they were after. 250 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,640 I believe that he may have come home unexpectedly. 251 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:46,200 I have a sense that there were two men that were involved with whatever was in that closet. 252 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,760 I think the treasure is in the South Wing of the house somewhere. 253 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:55,320 And I think the ghost that's back there trying to keep Joanne 254 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,240 from finding this buried treasure. 255 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:57,960 Pay attention. 256 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:04,760 Now, there is a message that happens in this house at least once a week. 257 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:12,360 And if you pay attention to the time you hear the piano play, the time of day, 258 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:17,320 there's a key to where this thing is buried, this treasure is buried. 259 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,600 I get a number seven. 260 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,640 Peter gave me hints on how to find the treasure, 261 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:28,360 how to listen to the spirits that they're trying to tell me, 262 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:30,440 they're trying to guide me. 263 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:35,080 I think the spirits are trying to communicate with me, especially one in particular. 264 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:37,640 I think that he wants me to resolve Park's death. 265 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:43,640 I think Park's is the one that is trying to communicate with her. 266 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:47,160 I think he's the one that she finds in her bedroom. 267 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:53,800 I think he's telling her number one that he was murdered and that it wasn't suicide. 268 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:58,360 The lady that is roaming through the house, I do believe is Jillian Woods. 269 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:05,240 She's also, I don't want to say that she's protective of Joanne, 270 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:12,360 but I think she's more of a mediator, meaning that she's trying to keep peace between the two gentlemen that are battling. 271 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:18,920 I'm going to deal with the spirits, one in particular, the South Wing, a little more strongly. 272 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,000 I'm not going to be as frightened of him. 273 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,200 The spirits that's there is welcome to stay there, 274 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:29,720 but he can't always be chasing me up the hallway and making me feel afraid in my home. 275 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,480 She needs to just take charge of her home and tell him to leave. 276 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:39,320 My feature here with the spirits that are here, I think that there are still questions. 277 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:43,640 I think that they still have things to tell me and hopefully now they'll be a little more 278 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:46,920 open about communicating with me more directly. 279 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:55,640 And I hope to find the treasure and I think that when I find that treasure that that will open the door to Park staff. 280 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:57,160 I think that has the answer. 281 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,680 The Rivera family has taken Peter James' advice to heart. 282 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,320 They're trying to reach out to the spirits in their home 283 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:10,520 and they're listening for clues from the other side that will lead them to the treasure 284 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,520 that Peter believes is buried close by. 285 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,200 Next, Nazi flying saucers. 286 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,640 Mysterious remains of an ancient civilization. 287 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,960 Later, after 20 years, a couple relives of frightening alien encounter. 288 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,000 Here are some of the stories making news at Sightings. 289 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,760 After we aired a report about the existence of real life flying saucers, 290 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:43,880 Sightings received a fascinating letter from D. Robin Stowell of Milton Keynes, England. 291 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:48,040 Mr. Stowell was alerting this to a startling footnote in an out of print book. 292 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,560 Milton Keynes, England. 293 00:20:55,560 --> 00:21:00,840 It's not the kind of place where we expect to get new information on real life flying saucers. 294 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,520 But after our recent report on disc shaped aircraft in Canada, 295 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:09,880 top secret American saucer projects and Germany's development of craft like this during World War II, 296 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,600 a Sightings researcher received this letter from viewer D. Robin Stowell. 297 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:20,280 A type center by trade, Stowell alerted us to this book, 298 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:25,560 Brighter Than A Thousand Suns, an authoritative history of the race to build the first atomic bomb. 299 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:30,200 Stowell typeset the original manuscript nearly 40 years ago 300 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:36,520 and never forgot this brief reference to a Nazi saucer that could outmaneuver any allied aircraft. 301 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:42,840 Four decades after publication, Stowell found a copy of the out of print reference book 302 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,000 and confirmed what he had long remembered. 303 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:52,680 The footnote describes German saucers that were 45 yards across, capable of reaching speeds 304 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,600 over Mach 1 and climbing to an elevation of nearly eight miles. 305 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:02,200 Some experts believe that these Nazi saucers could have been responsible for the legendary 306 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,320 Foo Fighters sightings over Europe late in World War II. 307 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:11,320 But if they were, it still does not explain Foo Fighters spotted over the Pacific during the same period. 308 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:20,680 Near Lake Toppo, New Zealand, ancient stone blocks known as the Kaimanoa Wall 309 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,600 have long been dismissed as insignificant by mainstream archaeology. 310 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,400 But a second look now could rewrite history. 311 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:35,320 The blocks of stone that are in the Kaimanoa Wall are huge, 20 feet by six feet in some cases. 312 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,160 They must weigh many tons. 313 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:43,560 In order to have stacked and placed these blocks would have required a pretty high technology. 314 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:48,440 Nicknamed the dinosaur's barbecue, the wall doesn't go back that far. 315 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:53,480 But non-native animal bones found nearby do date back to 180 years ago. 316 00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,280 Children do date back to 100 BC. 317 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:00,280 Children believe that humans may have brought these animals here. 318 00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:04,280 And the timeline established by traditional anthropology is wrong. 319 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:10,040 Right now the official history is that no person came to New Zealand before 700 years ago. 320 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:17,720 We know that the wall needs to be at least 2,000 years old because it is covered by the volcanic ash of a known eruption. 321 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:22,120 The eruption of Lake Toppo approximately 2,000 years ago. 322 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:26,120 And ash and dense forest hide the wall's most astonishing feature. 323 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:30,600 The blocks form a pyramid shape and design found nowhere else in this part of the world. 324 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:36,040 Discoveries all over the world are showing that man has been around and traveling and building 325 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:40,040 giant ruins much earlier than originally presumed. 326 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:44,280 Children is supported by some Maori's, the indigenous people of New Zealand, 327 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,960 who believe that their ancestors came here 2,000 years ago. 328 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,840 But Maori support is a double-edged sword. 329 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:55,240 If the legends are true, this is a sacred site and must not be excavated. 330 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,600 We'll have more stories in the news next time. 331 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,480 Now here's what's coming up as sightings continues. 332 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,480 They both saw the mysterious object in the sky. 333 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,440 What they never remembered was the missing time until now. 334 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:16,360 I felt sick. 335 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:20,920 I felt, I mean, I literally felt nauseated at the thought of it. 336 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:32,440 Karen Klinger has never forgotten a bizarre experience that happened during a moonlit 337 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:37,880 walk more than 20 years ago. First time suddenly slipped away in the blink of an eye. 338 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:42,120 Then there were three bright orange lights in the sky. 339 00:24:42,120 --> 00:24:44,040 Was it a trick? A hallucination? 340 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,440 Well, the questions went unanswered until Karen saw a recent sightings report 341 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,440 on alien abduction and something about the story struck a resonant chord. 342 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:04,680 Memories of that moonlit night in 1975 were incomplete, but strangely compelling. 343 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:10,360 An engaged couple on a family vacation steal away for a quiet drive through the northwoods of 344 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:16,600 Wisconsin. There's something strange about that ride that they can't figure out yet. 345 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:23,800 Back at the cabin, the couple stroll down to the lake. The night is clear, there's a bright star, 346 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,880 but then it moves and they realize this is no star. 347 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:35,240 There was one star-like object, was a little bit brighter than a star, kind of an orangey color, 348 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:41,320 that seemed to stand out from the others a bit. Just really didn't sit, think anything of it at the 349 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:49,720 time, but my focus kept going back and forth to that particular object. And after a while, 350 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:56,600 I noticed some, some odd things about it. This bright orange star that was along the horizon 351 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:02,440 of the trees on the other side of the lake zipped right to the top of her heads and we looked up. 352 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,240 The stargazing couple were Karen Klinger and Dennis Morowska, 353 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,360 and what they saw would haunt them for more than 20 years. 354 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,880 I think the best way I could describe the flight is like that of a dragonfly. It was just, 355 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:23,080 it would zip here, stop, zip here, stop, zip, zip, zip, zip really fast and I'm like, what are we 356 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:29,000 watching? I had, I was fascinated by it. I just, I didn't want to stop looking at it. I was just 357 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:34,920 glued to it and we finally started calling my folks down from the cabin so they could watch 358 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:41,880 and my mother was a little scared. The whole family got down to the lake in time to see the 359 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:48,600 single light split into three, then rejoin as one. It was a fascinating spectacle that drove one 360 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:54,600 family member to try something illogical. Dennis' sister's boyfriend went into the house and got 361 00:26:54,600 --> 00:27:01,320 a large beam flashlight and flashed at the UFOs three times. Suddenly they just completely 362 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:07,640 disappeared and about maybe a couple of seconds later they flashed back at us the same amount of 363 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:13,560 times as we had flashed at it. After a few minutes of this strange communication, everyone reached 364 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:21,080 the same impossible conclusion. By this time we knew we were watching something that we had no 365 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:27,160 explanation for was really strange and definitely appeared to be intelligently controlled. The 366 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:33,240 bizarre communication went on for half an hour. Then in less than the blink of an eye the UFO was 367 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:38,920 gone. The encounter had a profound effect but Karen and Dennis wouldn't know just how profound 368 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:44,360 were another two decades. By then they had married, had a son and an acrimonious divorce. 369 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:51,080 In fact in 1994 they were barely speaking when Dennis and Karen met to exchange custody of their 370 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:56,360 son. While this particular evening he got out of the car probably for the first time that he'd 371 00:27:56,360 --> 00:28:01,800 talked to me face to face in a year and he knocks on the window of the car and the first thing that 372 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:07,880 comes out of his mouth was have you ever considered hypnosis and I said to him I said you saw that 373 00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:15,320 program. The program was sightings and our report on the abduction experience of four men camping 374 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:22,040 in the Allagash wilderness of northern Maine. They too had seen a UFO in the sky. Like Karen and Dennis 375 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:27,880 they had used a flashlight to signal the spacecraft and most importantly of all the Allagash four 376 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:35,000 had missing time. A roaring fire they had left just minutes before was now nearly out. Karen and 377 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:40,520 Dennis divorced and barely speaking watched the reporting different homes but had the same revelation 378 00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:46,840 at the same moment they too had had missing time. Both Karen and I remembered the night of this 379 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:53,560 incident that as we were driving around the lake which is exactly a four mile radius doesn't take 380 00:28:53,560 --> 00:29:01,000 very long to cover it all that at one point we looked up and the moon was directly in line with 381 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:09,080 the rearview mirror of the car and by the time we got back to the lake which shouldn't have been 382 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:18,680 very long the moon was setting. It never occurred to me until that moment that there could possibly be 383 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:26,120 some missing time involved. I felt sick. I felt I mean I literally felt nauseated at the thought of it. 384 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:32,280 But what happened during that missing time? Dennis asked Karen if she would consider hypnotherapy 385 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:37,800 as a way to find the answer. I think that the nature of a repressed memory is that there is no 386 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:43,960 conscious access to this memory. It's not something that somebody remembers once or occasionally and 387 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:50,680 then sticks back and a locked vault someplace in their mind. Dr. David Clayton agreed to hypnotize 388 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:56,520 Karen. He had no faith in the abduction experience but as he worked with Karen he realized that she 389 00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:03,640 was not unlike other patients who he'd seen relive past trauma under hypnosis. Karen was calling a 390 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:11,000 very intense white light that approached the vehicle that she and her former husband were in at the 391 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:17,080 time and when this white light approached the side of the vehicle it was so intense I think Karen 392 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:23,800 at that point felt that she had fainted. Under Dr. Clayton's watchful eye Karen revealed traumatic 393 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:29,560 contact with extraterrestrial beings something Dennis couldn't or wouldn't recall but their 394 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:35,960 descriptions of the craft were nearly identical. We compared notes later they corroborated very 395 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:41,480 closely with some of the points that Karen had brought up under hers. We both got these images 396 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:47,320 of a grid-like pattern almost a primitive type structure almost like a dirigible or something. 397 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:52,600 Independently Karen and Dennis insisted that the purpose of the abduction was not to hurt them 398 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:59,400 but to help all humankind. They each felt compelled to deliver the same message. The fate of earth is 399 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:05,720 intertwined with alien worlds throughout the cosmos and earthlings are not doing a good job of taking 400 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:11,400 care of our part of the universe. It's a message that abduction support group leader Mary Kerfoot 401 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:18,360 hears a lot. As far as the phenomenon in general some people's experiences can truly be described 402 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:26,360 as abductions. They are taken kicking and screaming struggling against their will. Others evolve over 403 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:35,880 time as they understand what is happening to come very cooperatively and become associated with 404 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:42,200 the beings that they're working with in a participatory role. The Chicago Center for Encounters 405 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:49,240 support group was formed in 1993 so abductees and experiencers would know that they are not alone. 406 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:56,120 It's enormously exciting for the members of our support group to to compare experiences because 407 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:03,240 as soon as you find someone who has some aspect that is similar or exactly like yours you feel 408 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:10,120 much more validated. At first abductees were pariahs, oddballs, inventing a new mythology. 409 00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:17,000 But after three decades the phenomenon is not going away because abductees insist alien contact is a 410 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:23,560 reality. If you feel that this has happened to you by all means do whatever it takes to uncover the 411 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:32,200 information because it's worth the risk. Just as she was reassured after watching our Allagash 412 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:37,160 abduction report Karen Klinger hopes that her personal story will encourage more people to come 413 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:42,120 forward or at least to seek help from a certified professional hypnotherapist or from one of the 414 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:49,080 hundreds of support groups forming around the world. Next I personally don't believe that plants 415 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:55,320 have a nervous system. The changing beliefs about plant consciousness. They communicate through images. 416 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:09,080 In the short story The Sound Machine author Raul Dahl weaves a tale about a man who invents a 417 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:15,720 listening device so sensitive he hears a rose cry out as it's cut for a bouquet and he hears a tree 418 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:21,960 scream in agony at the first blow from an axe. It's an imaginative story written in the late 40s 419 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:26,760 and in the late 90s as it turns out the sound machine isn't just science fiction anymore. 420 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:38,840 From the Amazon rainforest teeming with life to the old growth redwoods of America 421 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:45,080 to the humblest vegetable garden earth is sustained by plant life. They give us food, 422 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:52,680 shelter and the very air we breathe. Plants live so we may live but there is evidence that they 423 00:33:52,680 --> 00:34:00,600 have a secret life of their own. I think that fundamentally any thing that we see in nature 424 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:08,920 has a life force and energy. Frank Lapina is a wind-tuned tribal elder and a professor of 425 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:14,440 art and ethnic studies. He has studied traditional beliefs about the symbiotic relationship between 426 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:25,320 people and plants. All plants have a purpose they have a consciousness. It is called animism the 427 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:32,360 foundation of many ancient belief systems. Plants carry an eternal life force a soul that transcends 428 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:38,360 their lifespan. Some modern researchers have attempted to prove this scientifically but mainstream 429 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:43,880 botanists scoff at even the suggestion that plants have a consciousness. I personally don't believe 430 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:50,360 that plants have a nervous system. I don't believe that they have feelings. Dr. Jim Lovelace a botanist 431 00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:56,520 at Humboldt State University in California wasn't always so sure. 23 years ago he was inspired by 432 00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:02,520 the work of Cleave Baxter and a groundbreaking book called The Secret Life of Plants. He tried to 433 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:09,960 find a soul in the greenhouse and couldn't. We set up the polygraph and we had experiments on this for 434 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:18,360 two years. We in all of that time did not get a single response that we could attribute to 435 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:25,160 the communication of plants. Michael Thoreau director of the Borderland Sciences 436 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:31,160 Research Foundation says he is having better luck. For the past two years Thoreau and his 437 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:36,360 colleagues have designed new machines that do seem to measure some kind of plant communication. 438 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:44,120 Based on our research plants once they hear the sounds of another plant they start to 439 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:50,520 what appears to be a dialogue between each other. Thoreau believes that he has devised a way for 440 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:55,720 humans to listen in on what the plants are saying. Using a novel system he calls the 441 00:35:55,720 --> 00:36:01,080 poor man's polygraph Thoreau is translating the inaudible pulses of plant language into something 442 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:08,600 humans can hear but not yet understand. We have the plant hooked up to some tiny electrodes which 443 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:18,840 goes into a biosensing unit and through this audio board we can adjust the tone so that we can 444 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:25,080 actually hear what's going on with the plant. According to Thoreau what sounds like noise to 445 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:33,160 us now is a plant language scientists must learn to translate. Orthodox science might have a problem 446 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:43,960 with the fact that plants respond. I believe that the results that he is getting can be attributed 447 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:50,920 to damage to the cells themselves the flow of ions out of the cells and with the proper sensors 448 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:57,160 perhaps he is detecting that. I don't believe it's the plant talking. But Thoreau's early findings 449 00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:02,120 support what professor at tribal elder Lapinas says Native Americans have known all along. 450 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:11,480 What scientists have done by making experiments is reinforce the idea that we are dealing with a 451 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:19,960 life force. We already know they're alive. Now let's see how that relates to the kind of responses 452 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:27,720 that they're getting and then have a cross species communication process beginning to be developed. 453 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:33,080 It's a linguistic problem. Michael Thoreau is already trying to bridge this linguistic gap. 454 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:38,520 The research center has developed a way to convert plant noise into a visual image. 455 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:45,320 The picture of plant thought is called a biograph. Plants communicate via what we would call 456 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:53,400 idetic imagery. They communicate strictly through images, pure images. I believe the more sensitive 457 00:37:53,400 --> 00:38:00,040 the plant is the more interesting the pictures become. If it is such an obvious phenomenon 458 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:06,360 why isn't it generalized throughout the scientific community? I mean all a plant is is a whole bundle 459 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:11,240 of adaptations to environmental conditions that exist now or did exist in the past. 460 00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:17,720 That's why the plant's here. You have a philosophical gap in what the world is about 461 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:23,480 and what its purpose and meaning can be because we would say not only plants but the earth, 462 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:33,240 stones are also alive. The water is alive. The debate will only be over Thoreau says when someone 463 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:39,160 can finally prove that plants are more than chlorophyll factories. Once that is accomplished 464 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:47,800 we will hear an earth-shattering message. Life is valuable in whatever form or shape that it is. 465 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:56,680 Plants are only the first step for Michael Thoreau. His ultimate goal is to use his sensors on people 466 00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:01,800 to listen for subtle signs of illness. Thoreau hopes that one day doctors will be able to give 467 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:10,360 very early diagnosis and save many more lives. In 1995 they came in force. Now have UFOs return 468 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:15,400 to South Korea? If earth is being visited they're speeding up the process. 469 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:27,080 When a fascinating string of unidentified flying objects appeared in the sky over South Korea 470 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:31,560 sightings was the first report on the UFO's connection to other strange craft spotted in 471 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:38,280 Mexico and the United States. Well now almost a year to the day later a new UFO over South Korea has 472 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:47,160 been caught on tape. It was a little over a year ago when this astonishing amateur video captured a 473 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:53,640 UFO being sighted all over Seoul South Korea. The craft was either breaking apart or replicating 474 00:39:53,640 --> 00:40:01,800 itself a rare phenomenon known to urologists as a cluster UFO. Right now each ball seems to be about 475 00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:12,600 a hundred feet in diameter and 10,000 feet in the air moving at seven, eight, nine hundred miles an hour. 476 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:20,600 We think it's probably not a weather balloon that's become untethered. We think it is probably not 477 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:29,240 a military project. Computer analysis seemed to indicate that this was the brainchild of advanced 478 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:35,720 technology not a freak of nature. It was only the third time in history that a cluster UFO could 479 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:43,320 be analyzed. Sightings found rare tape of a cluster over Utah in 1952 and over Mexico City in 1992. 480 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:49,800 Ufologists Lee and Brett Elders began studying the clusters after they witnessed the Mexico City 481 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:57,880 UFO. We've seen this before this is not new to us. In October of 1992 we saw our first cluster. 482 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:05,160 Almost a year to the day after sightings initial report we received a new video and a warning 483 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:11,720 that Korea was on edge. Many citizens are reporting in with sightings of a new unidentified craft 484 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:17,240 and the general consensus is that this is the beginning of a new flap. The latest videotape 485 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:22,760 shows a UFO very different from the cluster of last year. It streaks above Seoul flying 486 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:29,480 perilously close to the city skyline. While the original Korean cluster UFO is generally 487 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:36,040 recognized by ufologists as a true unknown, the new UFO has met with much skepticism even within 488 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:44,360 the UFO community. Sightings obtained the new video for an exclusive US analysis. Jeff Signew is chief 489 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:50,600 video analyst for MUFON, the world's largest UFO research group. He looks at thousands of supposed 490 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:58,760 UFO photographs and videotapes every year. Typically a majority of both photos and videos I get are 491 00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:05,480 of ordinary objects from sincere people. So in analyzing it the first thing to do is eliminate 492 00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:13,160 ordinary objects as possibilities. Signew spent more than three days examining the new Korean UFO. 493 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:18,920 What we see in this footage from Korea is a very distant shot. You do have a reference 494 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:24,680 object in there. It's a cable hanging off of a construction crane. Fairly out of focus. 495 00:42:25,240 --> 00:42:30,760 And also you can see the UFO here. So you can assume that it's also out of focus. It's really 496 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:37,640 hard to make out there. And so you roll this. You can make out a contrail shape there. And if you 497 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:43,720 watch here you can see fairly well defined head on it. You can see right here it's moved a little 498 00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:50,040 bit further out, typical of an airplane. Straight ordinary motion. But right here you can see a 499 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:55,240 little glint of light. It's probably a reflection of the sun off of a window. So you see really no 500 00:42:55,240 --> 00:43:01,960 anomalous motion. This is a good example of how you can see a well-intentioned person here with a 501 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:09,080 very high zoom camera. Unable to see it by eye is mistaking an ordinary object for something 502 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:15,320 unusual. Despite Mufan's official dismissal of the videotape thousands of Koreans remain 503 00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:22,200 unconvinced. They see the UFO as an omen. A new generation of UFOs that will follow in the footsteps 504 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:28,840 of last year's spectacular cluster. There will be more Korean ufologists are saying and contact 505 00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:35,400 is inevitable. If Earth is being visited by people from other places, from other worlds, 506 00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:41,560 from other dimensions, they're speeding up the process right now. Something major is happening. 507 00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:51,080 Why Korea and why now? Veteran ufologists suggest that the answer can be found by studying the past 508 00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:56,920 in an unusual number of reported flaps. Major UFO events are followed by a period of momentous 509 00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:02,840 geological or political change in the same area. That is why some people in South Korea believe 510 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:12,520 that their UFOs pretend peace with North Korea. Sightings UFOs. A new book from author Susan 511 00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:18,120 Michaels drawn from the files of sightings. Sightings UFOs is a comprehensive survey of 512 00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:24,920 compelling UFO encounters. Was Washington DC the object of extraterrestrial surveillance in 1952? 513 00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:31,320 Have our nuclear facilities been invaded by silent intruders? What really happens at 39,000 feet? 514 00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:37,320 Commercial pilots speak out. These are only a few of the stories contained in sightings UFOs from 515 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:45,560 fireside books. Until next time, remember no mystery is closed to an open mind. For sightings, 516 00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:52,280 I'm Tim White. Next on Sci-Fi Dark Shadows. 517 00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:59,960 I got two more bogies coming in hot. Let's make them bleed. 518 00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:05,480 Matthew Lillard. Freddie Prinze Jr. I love this baby. 519 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:11,320 Wing Commander. Thursday at 9. On Sci-Fi. 520 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,560 What are they supposed to look like? You mean who are they supposed to look like? 521 00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:23,560 Peter Weller. Screamers. Sunday at 9. On Sci-Fi.