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Hidden away high above the University of London is a library that few ever get to see.

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Its books explore stories so strange they make even the most skeptical, at least wonder.

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They are stories that we can't explain. We can merely present the evidence and leave you to make up your own minds.

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There is no doubt at all however, in the minds of the people who claim to have gone through these experiences,

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they are ordinary people, they come from ordinary places. Their stories are certainly strange.

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But are they true?

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Meet Harry Price, psychic investigator.

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He spent a lifetime collecting all these books in his quest to explain the unexplained.

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When he died he left them to the University where they've continued to baffle the keenest brains around.

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Tonight we have two extraordinary stories for you told through drama reconstruction and interviews with those involved.

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One is about an Irish family separated in childhood and now reunited by a woman who says she's the reincarnation of their mother.

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But first, the naked eye can see stars hundreds of light years away.

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The most powerful telescopes can see hundreds of millions of light years away.

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In all that space is there even the remotest chance that there are life forms elsewhere in the universe which can reach us?

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And if there are, why would they choose to descend on one small town more than anywhere else?

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The town of Tobmedon, buried deep between windswept Pennine moorlands.

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Obscure, isolated and the epicenter of UFO activity in the British Isles.

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A tenth of sightings are around this town alone.

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Our story begins with the discovery in a coal yard which even now more than ten years on remains a mystery.

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He's up there.

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Alan Godfrey at the time a constable in the Tobmedon police force was called to the scene.

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He wasn't there a few hours ago.

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Lying on top of a pile of coal was a man, dead.

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He had this terrifying expression.

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I can only describe it as whatever he'd last saw really terrified him.

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There was no footprints belonging to him, disturbance on the coal.

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So how did he get up there? I couldn't work out.

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I could see that on the top of his head there were individual burn marks.

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Not the back of the neck.

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There was a rather large weeping type of burn and there'd been like an ointment smeared on it.

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The dead man was Zygmunt Adamski, a retired miner who disappeared five days earlier from a town twenty miles away.

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The coroner had to record an open verdict.

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He's still baffled by the questions surrounding the case.

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Like what was the substance on the dead man's neck?

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This is one of the most puzzling cases that I've come across in 25 years.

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If somebody proved to me that UFOs exist and that there was one around there at that time

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and that in some way we could associate it with this case, then perhaps I might say I'd only raise half an eyebrow.

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On the moors above Tobmedon, next to what's said to be the highest bus stop in Britain, is the Deer Play Inn.

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One night in 1989, the landlady awoke to see an amazing sight.

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Well I never took UFOs seriously at all.

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So one night my husband came into the bedroom and I was asleep and he came in and said,

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come on, look at this well.

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And I came into the lounge and I saw this light behind that cottage there.

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It went right across the moor.

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It went about 50 miles an hour, came on the car park and lit the car park up like it was daylight.

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Absolutely, like daylight. I can't believe it.

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I just don't know. My husband said to me, well explain that and I can't explain it.

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A few miles away, at about 7 o'clock one evening last August,

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Joanne Elidge, Sarah Wolffenden and Amy Connolly were out with friends.

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We were just walking up the road along the road and one of our friends said,

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what's that over there? It jumped on the wall.

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So we just got on the wall and had a look and it was just like behind us,

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just above the forest and it seemed to be hovering and watched it for about 10 minutes.

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I couldn't believe that there was something there that weren't an airplane or a helicopter or anything like that.

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We knew it wasn't a normal aircraft or anything.

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We just couldn't say anything, just kept watching that.

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But the most extraordinary story must be that of Alan Godfrey,

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the policeman who made the find on the coal heap.

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Five months later he was on duty early one morning when there were reports of cows loose on a council estate.

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I've been sent to investigate this herd of cows.

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So I was driving up the road here and I was going to turn right up Furnley Road there to the council estate

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when I could see in front of me up here this object.

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As I get nearer and nearer towards this object,

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I tried that several times, it just didn't work.

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So I picked my clipboard up and I started drawing a sketch of it.

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And then suddenly I was at the other side of the object and it had gone.

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It had, what, I know, the 1,500 yards of folk road driving.

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Just look, there's a plot. Somebody dropped them there, you know?

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who saw something in the same area on the same night.

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Another witness was school caretaker Leonard Smith.

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I looked up in the sky and this UFO was up in the sky,

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approximately where I later learned the area where Alan Godfrey had his experience.

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Now, the object shot across the valley four times backwards and forwards,

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and then vanished over the hills.

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Then there's John Porter, one of five other police witnesses that night.

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he was out searching moreland quarries for stolen motorbikes.

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I turned and in the sky was a very cold steel blue light.

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It moved in a sweeping arc across the sky, about 12 miles,

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sweeping away in the low arc towards Todberding,

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Despite the support, Alan Godfrey became more and more troubled

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by the most puzzling part of his experience.

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I realised that there was half an hour missing from me drawing the object

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and me turning up at the other side of where the object had been.

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I was really curious, you know, what I wanted to know,

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what had happened in that half hour.

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I persuaded him to undergo regression hypnosis,

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and two experiments were set up with two doctors who specialised in hypnosis.

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The video, the hypnotic regression sessions were videotaped,

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and during them Alan fills in the missing time, the gaps in his memory.

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Alan describes getting out of his car, looking at the object,

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then he sees a light emanating from underneath it,

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so he gets back into his car, finds his car won't go,

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and then he's engulfed in a bright white light.

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he then wakes up in a room where he sees a tall man.

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He's also surrounded by six small robots.

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He's made the subject of some sort of pseudo-medical examination.

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has got jumbled up in my mind.

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No mistake about that, I definitely saw what I saw,

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and normally on this earth I would tell many different.

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So are the people of Toppenden receiving visits from outer space?

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The town now has its own observatory, with telescopes trained on the skies.

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We recently had reports of lights moving around in the sky,

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which turned out to be nothing more than a local laser show.

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of two major airports, Heathrow and Manchester.

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And locally Manchester is a problem in as much as we have lights coming in

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on incoming aircraft, which give the impression of UFOs in the sky.

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It was not an aircraft. I got into my van, I made radio enquiries regarding this.

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I still saw the blue light in the sky. I made enquiries with the Army,

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the RAF, the Civil Aviation Authority, and nothing was in the sky at that time.

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A less conventional theory is that the geology of the area can produce strange sights.

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There are many reservoirs and quarries in the Toppenden area,

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and the local rock has a high concentration of quartz crystals.

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Scientists have found that this can produce an electrical signal,

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and on a grand scale this might turn out to be glowing masses of energy,

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as you may have seen as UFOs.

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I saw what I saw. That object was real.

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Well, I got out the car and thrown a brick at it, it would have gone bang.

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Strangely enough, even the scientists are now coming round to the view

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that the people of Toppenden are seeing something.

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Two friends and I were observing and saw an object which had a classic flying saucer shape.

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We checked to make sure that the telescope we were originally using

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didn't have optical defects, and there was no problem there.

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And much is it difficult to believe that it was of extraterrestrial origin.

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To this date we have no rational scientific explanation for what it was.

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Before his close encounter, PC Allen Godfrey had been injured on duty.

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A hospital consultant said he'd be unable to have any more children.

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After his experience, the effects were reversed, and Allen Godfrey had a son.

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Can the human personality survive death and be born again in another body?

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Not a prospect that all of us would relish, but surprising though it may seem,

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across the globe, those who believe in reincarnation probably outnumber those who don't.

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Reincarnation is one of the oldest beliefs dating back to 1000 BC in India.

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When they're close to death, some people in Alaska believe so strongly

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that they even choose their next set of parents.

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One whose story we're about to tell believes reincarnation explains the dream she's had

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ever since she can remember.

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Jenny Cockerl looks like any ordinary mother.

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Happily married with two children, she lives in the Northamptonshire town of Toaster.

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But Jenny has always believed that she is also the mother of another family.

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For as long as I can remember, I've had dreams of being married in Ireland

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and dying while the children were still young, not grown, in the 1930s.

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Terrible dreams of being alone in a room in pain, not at home,

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and knowing that there's nothing I could do to ensure the safety of the children's futures.

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During waking hours, I remember happier memories from the life as Mary.

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I remembered the children at mealtimes.

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But Jenny also sends trouble in the family.

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I didn't know quite why I should feel so uneasy and so concerned

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and what it was that I was really afraid of, something I was shutting out.

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The memories were a little bit like pieces of a jigsaw.

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Some parts were very clear, some parts were vague,

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and there were so many bits that seemed to be missing,

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it was difficult to try to get the whole picture.

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As soon as she could pick up a pencil, Jenny began drawing maps of the village she saw in her mind,

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the main roads, the station and her cottage,

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and when she got to school atlas, she could even locate where it was.

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until at last she could hold back no longer.

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She had to find out if the memories meant anything.

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She began at her local bookshop, ordering a map of the Malahide area to confirm her childhood drawings.

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The maps matched, for Jenny, a first glimmer of proof.

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Now she needed more and tried hypnosis to plumb her deeper memories.

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It sharpened up a great deal of the detail.

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There was one of the churches I saw the outside fairly clearly,

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clearly enough to make a little drawing afterwards of it,

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and standing at the end of a jetty wrapped in a dark shawl,

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it was dusk, and I remembered waiting for a boat,

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but I had no idea who was on the boat or why I was waiting for a boat.

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But were these real memories or just an overactive imagination?

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It gets difficult to believe that when you see the consistency of the facts

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and the findings of the memories between one session and the next,

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and Jenny's been through several sessions of this at different times,

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and each time she's been consistent in what she's been telling me.

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It was enough for Jenny to invest in a trip to Malahide.

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This was the first time she'd been to Ireland,

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and yet she felt certain she'd been there before.

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I didn't need a map. I knew my way around.

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I tried to find somebody who might remember the family,

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who might remember the children.

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Back in England, Jenny received a letter from an old man in Malahide.

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Relating to the mother who died in the 1930s, she was Mrs. Sutton.

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After her death, the children were sent to orphanages.

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It was the breakthrough Jenny needed.

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She was able to get a copy of Mary Sutton's death certificate,

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and from an orphanage came the first names of her children.

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An appeal in an Irish newspaper then produced a telephone number for the oldest boy, Sunny.

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Hello. My name is Jenny Cockale.

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I've been trying to trace members of your family.

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I've been trying to trace members of your family.

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I've been looking for Mrs. Sutton weird here.

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I don't know who this person is,

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and I said, how did she come to know so much about the family?

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You said that she remembers about the jetty.

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Well, I explained to her that I used to have a little job as a caddy,

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and we used to row over to the island.

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And in the evening, we'd row back again.

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And she'd read me at the top of the steps.

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And you'd just have to choose accordingly.

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With Sunny's help, the picture has finally become clear.

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The pieces of the jigsaw were going in and making things a lot easier to understand.

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And most of all, he was able to explain to me what I had been afraid of.

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My mother was a loving person.

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She loved her husband and she loved her family.

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But my father was the opposite.

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My mother was only there for the convenience.

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He was cruel to my mother. He was cruel to his children.

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He'd come home from the... sort of drunk, then start messing around.

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And the money and money at home, I used to get between him and my mother.

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But the same with my mother.

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Mary Sutton died at the age of 32.

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Her children were taken away, all except Sunny, who had to keep house for his father.

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It was very painful because I'd lost my mother.

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I was going to lose my brothers and sisters.

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And under what taken away, it was very, very hurtful and very painful.

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I knew that I couldn't settle until the family were reunited.

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That part of me that was Mary, needed to see the children happy.

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One by one, Jenny tracked down not only Sunny, but all the surviving Sutton children.

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And a few weeks ago, at the home of youngest sister Betty, they were reunited.

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All together again for the first time in 61 years.

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How's Christie? She's Betty, is it?

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Yes, indeed. Great in yourself.

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Brothers Frank and Christie.

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Phyllis and Sunny.

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Unknown to Phyllis, she and Betty had lived within 15 minutes of each other for 40 years.

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And it's Phyllis who appears in the only photo of their mother, Mary.

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They're all about to meet the woman who believes she is Mary, back from the dead.

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Hi Jenny.

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So Jenny Coquelle has reunited a lost family.

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But are they convinced she's the reincarnation of their mother?

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The priest only lives across from us, Father McCarty.

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And I said, Father, send me to the E.

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I want a truth, though, I said, do you believe in reincarnation?

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He said, that is all I can answer, Christie, that is, that you and Mother are scarring from heaven.

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And just coming through you.

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Jenny's dreams are mommy's thoughts.

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Basically, my opinion is that mum wants us all together again.

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And Jenny was the lucky one that she chose and put her soul into Jenny.

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That's the way I look at it.

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I want to avoid a step-sale there.

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And to complete the reunion, a homecoming.

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Back to the remains of the humble cottage in Malahide that the family left after the death of their beloved mother.

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She is back again.

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I believe that my mother is not passed on. She hasn't passed over, as we say.

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The wounds of the years of separation.

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The wounds of not knowing where my brothers and sisters were.

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Those wounds, Jenny, is healed now.

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Because now I know where they are.

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I know them real life, and well.

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And those are our stories.

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I don't think you'd argue about their strangeness, but whether we believe them is for each of us to decide.

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Harry Price spent most of his 67 years on this earth trying to find the answers to such mysteries.

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But he didn't gain much public recognition, and he died in 1948, a disappointed man.

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If he'd lived until today, he'd have seen more and more people following in his footsteps,

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visiting psychics, experimenting with hypnosis, trying to communicate with the spirits,

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or simply just reading their horoscopes.

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Yet whatever we do, the truth remains as elusive and as tantalising as ever.

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For now, goodnight.