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Henceforth, their

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They say truth is stranger than fiction. Well, is it?

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We have stories to tell that are certainly strange and evidence compelling enough to

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make even the most skeptical wonder. The people who claim to have undergone these experiences

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are certainly convinced. We've reconstructed what they describe so that you can see what

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they saw and decide for yourself. Later, we shall hear a family tell how a poltergeist

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turned their lives upside down. First, is there a way that human beings can sense impending

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tragedy? Some of the worst disasters in history have been foretold by those who claim to have

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premonitions. Who would have imagined that the Titanic, the ship that couldn't sink,

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would do just that on her maiden voyage in 1912? Well, 14 years before, this book came out. It

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told of the largest ship afloat, rich and famous passengers, a collision with an iceberg, a sinking

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and not enough lifeboats. The ship was called the Titan. But if premonitions are so accurate,

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can nothing be done to stop them becoming reality? Every night, Chris Robinson, an engineer from

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Bedfordshire, dreams complex, disturbing images. Dreams that apparently come true and they've

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been so accurate that the authorities listen to his warnings. He is designated a contact and then

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really we act as a filter to see what he's saying and try and make something of it. If I'm crazy,

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they're crazy too and they're not crazy, so this is really happening. Chris Robinson makes notes

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of his dreams. The images at first are meaningless, but when he decodes them, they seem to predict

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dramatic events. Dogs mean terrorists. Fish mean terrorists about to be caught. Snow means that

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the situation that I'm looking at is imminent and it's dangerous. Chris saw danger when he had a

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series of dreams about a Royal Air Force base, Stanmore Park in Middlesex. I saw dogs in a

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graveyard and I knew that dogs meant terrorists. I saw clocks ticking. There was photographic

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equipment. There were all these strange symbols. Chris couldn't work out what the photographic

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equipment meant, but put together the other symbols predicted that terrorists were going

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to attack the airbase. The logbook there records how Chris phoned the guardroom to warn them of

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his premonition. They didn't really know what to say to me on the telephone, so I then decided

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that I wasn't going to mess about anymore. I was going to drive down there and present myself at

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the main gate. Can't really explain what it feels like to know that something is going to happen,

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but you can't possibly really know in advance. Hello, sir. Hello, my name's Chris Robinson.

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I phoned up a couple of times and I want to speak to someone about this. I was nervous,

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but on the other hand, I knew that if I didn't go there and warn them, there could be a lot of

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people killed. In the guardroom, Chris Robinson was interviewed by the duty sergeant, Brian Earl.

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You have to be very careful when this situation arises because there's hoax bomb causing such

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light. And the individual could have been a total madman for all we were concerned. It's always

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RAF stand-all when I'm going past, then I see... The RAF police were naturally suspicious. Who

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was this man and why was he making these claims? There's a couple of planes on the ground, static,

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contact to the chief inspector to be able to police, see if they knew of Chris. And in

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fact, they confirmed that he had assisted them through his dreams. But as a precaution, we did

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see to double the guard for a week after his actual visit. Just over a month after Chris

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Robinson first dreamt about the base, this was the news. Two people are being questioned by police

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after a bomb went off at an RAF administration depot at Stanmore in northwest London. I initially

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felt shock and horror, but after I heard that nobody had been hurt, I felt absolutely delighted

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because I had been proved right again. The speculation this morning that the bombers may

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have entered the base at the back where the perimeter fence adjoins a churchyard. I'd had the

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dogs, that meant the terrorists. I'd had the clock ticking, that meant the bombs. But I'd also

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had this photographic equipment. And it wasn't until after the explosion that I learned that the

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building that was destroyed was a store where the RAF kept their photographic equipment. But was

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it really such a surprise? Terrorists had attacked four military targets in just over a month. Chris

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Robinson's premonition about Stanmore Park could have been just a lucky guess or coincidence.

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It could be just one in a billion chances, for instance, plane crashes. Statistics show that

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there's one major plane crash in the world somewhere every two weeks. Coincidence can indeed

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explain away many cases. To me, I think that Chris Robinson's results are beyond coincidence.

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He's certainly come up with many interesting cases of things that are most unlikely to occur.

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And these interest me because they're not trivial things.

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Dan Elden was only 22 but already a brilliant news photographer. He'd grown up in Africa.

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Covering the war in Somalia, he was taking pictures of an attack by American helicopter

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gunships when a Somali mob turned on him and killed him. What wasn't known at the time of his death

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was that a few weeks earlier, Dan's mother, Kathy, had been warned by Chris Robinson

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that her son was in grave danger. Chris was very concerned and came over to my house

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with a dream that he had had about a swarm of bees around my family. She then told me that her

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son was in Africa and I said to Kathy, I feel that the problem could be him. So please tell him to

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be careful. Up to that point, no journalist had been killed and I believe that Dan with his street

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wise aspect in Africa and the fact that he was friends with so many people that he would somehow

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make it through. The images Chris Robinson saw made his fears for the young photographer grow

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but he couldn't see enough to prevent what was about to happen. Chris talked with a close friend

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of mine on the weekend before Dan was killed. He had a number of images that he couldn't make

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sense of. Four dead photographers in seaside place. Salt water will damage the lens. F4,

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rescue me, Kathy. Afterwards it just makes so much sense. That's frightening. Talking about

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cameras, telescopic lenses, four dead photographers. There were indeed four who were killed. Salt water

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affecting the lens. They were in Mogadishu which is a seaside town and Dan the day before he was

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killed was photographing women marines and bikinis on the beach in Mogadishu. The F4 is the kind

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of lens that Dan was using. Rescue me, rescue me and Kathy. That all makes sense to me.

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Some would say Chris Robinson's dreams make sense only with hindsight but the premonition of Dan

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Elden's death turned out to be uncannily accurate. Chris didn't need hindsight for his next premonition.

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He was so sure it would happen he was there when it did. I'd had a series of dreams about an air

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field and I wondered why this was because I had no plans to visit an air base or anything and in

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the dreams there was rockets, there was aeroplanes, there was explosions in the sky.

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What did it all mean this time? Chris called his contact at Bedfordshire Police.

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He then described seeing these rockets going up in the sky and then colliding and these crowns coming

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down. In Chris's next dream the crowns became parachutes. Suddenly he knew what was about to

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happen. All these dreams made me realise that there was going to be a plane crash.

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But where and when? The following morning he phoned a friend, National Newspaper Astrologer

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Penny Thornton. He'd just heard about an event taking place that day.

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Chris was very enthusiastic about going to an air show simply because it somehow confirmed or

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affirmed to him the imagery of two planes crashing and fireworks and the parachutes

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descending which he'd had in his dream. I decided to go. I had to go really. There was nothing else

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you could do. I mean I'd seen it all happen in advance and I had to go there and know whether

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it was going to be real. Chris immediately set off for Fairford in Gloucestershire and the world's

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largest military aviation display, the International Air Tattoo. One of his premonitions was about to

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become reality in front of his own eyes. I was absolutely convinced that this was going to happen.

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I wasn't sad or upset because I knew that the pilots of the planes came down safely on their parachutes.

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The people that were with me said, my god, you know, nobody can survive that. And I said, oh,

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well, I don't worry. In my dream they come out on their parachutes. There's no problem.

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Two Russian fighter planes collided today above tens of thousands of people at an

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international air show in Gloucestershire. Both pilots ejected and were only slightly injured.

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I was at the right place at the right time, but how did I know in advance? The pilots didn't.

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Those who've heard Chris Robinson's premonitions are ready to believe that he can foretell the future.

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Tragically, the clues to photographer Dan Elden's death didn't add up in time. But since then,

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Chris has been able to help Dan's mother in another way. Kathy Elden is a former journalist herself

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and wary of believing what she knows she wants to believe. But she's been astonished by the

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messages Chris has relayed through his dreams, messages only her son could have sent. He said

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he wanted money raised for the charity which was going to be named after him.

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He talked about film in his camera, where to find negatives that we had lost.

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There was just this sense of tremendous life and joy that radiated out of this character and

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made us all very happy to think that he was still around in such a positive way.

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After Dan Elden's death, those remarkable pictures were gathered together and published as a tribute

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and proceeds from the book go to the charity which his mother had sent to him.

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There are probably more reported sightings of ghosts in the British Isles than anywhere else in the world.

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According to those who claim to have seen them, they come in all shapes and sizes.

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Most of them haunt all the characters and characters of the film.

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But the most important thing is that they are not just the characters that we see in the film.

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They are the characters that we see in the film. They are the characters that we see in the film.

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According to those who claim to have seen them, they come in all shapes and sizes.

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Most of them haunt old buildings, repeating the same action over and over again,

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trapped in time and oblivious to what surrounds them now.

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Poltergeists are something else. They haunt people.

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The word poltergeist means noisy spirit and they make their presence felt.

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Behind a street in Cardiff,

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down an alley,

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a quiet life was about to be shattered.

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We started in this building about 15 years ago,

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repairing all sorts of grass cutting equipment and later on we started to sell mowers.

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John and Pat Matthews, helped by Pat's brother Fred, ran a thriving business here.

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No real worries, just ordinary, everyday irritations.

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Two fellows hanging off of him.

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They had steam coming out of his ears.

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You know, that must have been...

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Well, of course, as much as I've ever seen, those blasted kids throwing stones.

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I'll come see to them.

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Tell them I'll throw them on the roof if they do it again.

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John went to catch the young vandals red-handed.

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But there weren't any vandals. The stones seemed to be coming from nowhere.

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Pathetic John. Haven't you got any control over them?

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There's no pretty out there.

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From the other one.

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How much of thin air did they?

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Baffled. We were baffled that there weren't any kids around here.

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And nobody that could throw stones.

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We just couldn't understand it.

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We just couldn't understand where they were coming from.

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I thought he was a nutter, to be honest. I thought he was mad.

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I thought people throwing stones, there's got to be.

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Can't be anything else.

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And I started to get worried that there was something strange here in this building.

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Whatever it was, it was about to move in at Moa Services.

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I would see little things flying across the room.

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Just to just throw stones and things like ball bearings.

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Then suddenly, in this one corner of the shop, it got ice, ice cold.

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And then there's the terrible smell of burning.

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Somebody or something seemed to be playing childish tricks, like hiding keys.

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We searched how he went over these keys.

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He went on for five, ten minutes or so.

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Then all of a sudden, these keys came shooting across the floor.

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Then money began appearing.

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Every morning, we were having it in turns.

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Each had a five or ten pound note and then stuck in the ceiling tile.

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Unable to believe that one of them wasn't responsible, the family set up a test.

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They said, close the doors, both sides, and we'll see what's happening.

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Right. Come on then.

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We're going to settle this once and for all.

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Hands on the bench.

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Fingers touching.

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Right. Come on then.

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Throw us a stone.

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There was no chance of anybody being in our shop except us three.

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Hang on. If we're going to do this as a proper test,

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well, I think we should be writing everything down.

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With that, a pen dropped and then I started saying things like engine parts.

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What about a plug?

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We knew then that it wasn't one of us.

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We were looking at each other. Our hands were still on the bench.

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We were there two hours and I went home and told my wife,

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I just spent the most fascinating couple of hours in my life.

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I couldn't believe it.

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We were never really afraid of it. It became part of the family.

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We decided that we'd name him and we called him Pete the Port.

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Pete the Portaghost.

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A poltergeist called Pete? Could there be such a thing?

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And why was it favoring Moa services for its attentions?

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The family needed expert help.

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They called in David Fontana, a university professor with an interest in the paranormal.

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Most of my visits were unannounced, so they didn't know that I was coming at any particular time.

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With the element of surprise, the professor would surely get to the bottom of what was really happening.

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As I entered the workshop at that very moment, a stone was thrown across the room and bounced off a piece of machinery.

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John was sitting there talking to one of the sales representatives,

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but there was no question that either of them was involved in this.

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John looked up at me and said, there, see what I mean? He's greeting you.

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I think I was very pleased, actually, because it's so rare for investigators to be there when things actually happen.

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That made me take things very much more seriously than perhaps I otherwise would.

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Professor Fontana was so convinced that he filed reports on what he called the responsive poltergeist.

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He said it possessed both intent and the rudimentary intelligence necessary to accomplish this intent.

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And he drew diagrams showing how, when objects were thrown into a corner he called the focus of activity,

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some force catapulted them back.

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You don't see the things in midair. You hear them hit the wall and clatter to the ground.

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You look ground and the stone is there, but you don't actually see it in flight.

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Which, in a sense, rather strengthens the idea that nobody's playing tricks, because if they were, you would see the thing in flight.

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With Professor Fontana's reports, the case began to attract attention across Wales.

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I wouldn't like people, you know, to get the wrong idea.

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And I would be afraid if we started advertising about it, you know, we would frighten customers away.

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But the customers kept coming, and so many people were eyewitnesses that this became one of the biggest poltergeist cases ever.

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I was just as skeptical as everybody else. I'd heard all about this poltergeist, but I was in the shop one day and little nuts and bolts sort of were just flying around,

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dropping from nowhere. It was quite incredible and quite scary.

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After thieves broke into Moa's services one night, the insurance assessor who came witnessed it too.

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When I was there, I heard the stones or noises coming from the back of the shop.

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When I asked them what it was about, I was told, oh, that's Peter Poltergeist.

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I didn't really believe him. So, I'd opened the door and looked through and I could see a stone whizzing around on the floor.

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There was nobody else out there.

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When Gareth Lucas went back to the office and told his story, the other insurance staff not surprisingly laughed, until a colleague went and the same happened to him.

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Quite to my amazement, small stones and things were flying around and pinging off shells and I was able then to go back to the office and confirm his story.

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Even the Baptist Church, one of two chapels either side of Moa's services, began to experience a lot of this.

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Before I knew anyone else had problems, one evening I was working up here in the office and stones started hitting the window.

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I did everything I could to find out what it was. There were no people down there. I went down and looked around.

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There was nobody there that could throw stones. When I came back upstairs, the whole business continued.

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But the minister believes he has an explanation.

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As a Christian, I believe we live in a visible and seen world which has a supernatural dimension wrapped around it.

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So, what might that supernatural dimension be? Maurice Gross is a leading poltergeist expert. He's been investigating cases for 17 years.

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There are two main theories of poltergeist phenomena. One is that some people have the ability to exteriorise a form of a spiritual or spiritual,

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to exteriorise a force which affects their physical surroundings without physical means.

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And the second theory is interference by outside entities. Now, we don't know what these entities are, but sometimes they appear to be spirits of dead people.

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Nobody knew what the Moa's services poltergeist might be until one day, if Fred says, he saw it.

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We were fixing this Moa on the floor. And I looked up and it was a tiny boy.

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John, don't do anything too violent.

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What are you talking about? I'll have to be violent to get this thing off.

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No, I don't mean that. Now, do as I say. Don't turn around quickly, but look up gently at the shelf behind you, okay?

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What are you talking about?

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He was up there, on the shelf. A little boy. It must be Pete.

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Ah!

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After housebreak came, hurled it down and we both panicked with amazement.

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As you can imagine, he was all grey. No face, but the face was there. It's hard to explain.

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And all you could see was his hand waving.

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From then on, the poltergeist never left Fred alone.

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Last year, Moa's services outgrew its old premises and moved to a new industrial estate.

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Pete the poltergeist didn't follow. He moved in with Fred instead.

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And there's countless things that happened at home. Pictures turning in the frames.

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Spooned being thrown at the stairs. Home coins.

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Oh, it's amazing.

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Fred Cook and his wife have moved home to escape their unwanted guests.

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They took the precaution of breaking a piece of pottery which had kept appearing and disappearing.

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So far, there's been no sign of anything happening again.

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And those are our stories tonight. Strange, I'm sure you'll agree.

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But true. Until next week, good night.

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