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I've there that a 20 million light years of space and that's just what we know about so far

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in fact what we don't know makes all the knowledge mankind has accumulated over the centuries and up

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to very little perhaps they'll always be more mysteries than answers but then we all love a

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mystery we have two more stories for you tonight stories of ordinary people but what they describe

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is anything but ordinary the evidence is compelling but is it convincing the woman in one of our

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stories try to convince a jury when she took her psychic powers to court we'll bring you their

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verdict later first though we've launched satellites and space stations hundreds of

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thousands of miles into orbit space probes have got more than 500 million miles away now if we've

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got all that some ask what might another civilization have figures show that a UFO an

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unidentified flying object is spotted by someone somewhere in this world every three minutes certain

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areas report many more sightings than others there have been concentrations of sightings from the

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Australian bush to the Brazilian rainforests but in the past few years nowhere has had more

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UFO reports than a certain part of Scotland in the skies around the town of Falkirk over the last

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couple of years around 800 UFOs have been sighted it's a phenomenon which has reached such proportions

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that anxious locals have called a public meeting they want to know the truth what's behind the

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sudden upsurge there's a cloud in the sky take the low down and a large revolver lights tended to

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sort of flare up and then dull down again as if a light was turning towards me and then turning

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away again suddenly it started to move away not very quickly and then suddenly collapsed in on

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itself and disappeared the fact remains however that UFOs are real of that there is no question but

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it is what they are or represent that is the question hundreds of people have informed me regarding

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strange sightings in the sky I know these people personally I mean they're not going to make stories

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out like this I mean they've actually faced a lot of ridicule and they've showed a lot of great

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courage coming forward and stating that they've seen something which nobody can define and nobody

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can give an answer for most sightings have been close by Falkirk in Bonnie Bridge once occupied

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by Romans later known for its iron foundries Bonnie Bridge now has a bizarre new claim to fame it's

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been blitzed by UFOs Ray and Kathy Prosek were driving along the motorway nearby as they approached

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a viaduct spanning the road they say they saw an object the size of a jumbo jet hovering above it

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I could see it was triangular in shape there was a light at each corner we passed underneath the

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viaduct looking back there sitting on the other side was another craft and it looked like a mirror

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image the way they were pointing towards each other it didn't look like anything I'd ever seen

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before so of course you automatically think you know UFO driving home to neighbouring Loughbert

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Neil Malcolm says he was followed by a ball of light I've got the fright of my life really I knew

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it wasn't a anybody's headlights or anything because it just let up the full interior of the car he

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rushed in to tell the rest of the family as they went to look Neil's wife Lorraine grabbed her

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video camera I zoomed in I wasn't sure what I could see when you know what a helicopter

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my plane was like it definitely wasn't anything like that and I had to stop because it disappeared

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behind the building studies of the video have been unable to explain what it shows even experts

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like Malcolm Robinson whose analyzed reports of UFOs for 25 years are baffled by the wave of

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sightings we check with the airports we also check with the local police and then you also check

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with meteorological stations to see any flights of weather balloons etc some reports are misidentifications

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obviously of aircraft and the like but this leaves us with a small residue which is highly unusual

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and which demand investigation but the most puzzling UFO case in the area must be the one

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which happened in these woods near Livingston it's a case that the police came to treat officially

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as assault by person or persons unknown it happened to a forestry worker Bob Taylor who was out on

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patrol checking for stray sheep in the forest it was a routine task when he'd done countless times

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over the years he'd worked there as usual there were no sheep but as he rounded a corner he discovered

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a huge thing with a big round dome a very dark gray color and it had a big flange going all the way

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around I could see arms sticking out of this flange with what I took to be blades on the top

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two balls came out two balls I think they'd be about three feet in diameter with about six

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spikes they came right up beside me I remember feeling a tug at that time

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Bob Taylor can't remember exactly what followed the next thing he does remember is lying on the

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ground dazed and bleeding unable to walk and in no condition to drive he set off for help

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on his hands and knees by the time he arrived home he was in a state of near total collapse

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Bob what happened to you

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he looked quite short and he was drained he was right white and his face was dirty

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was it the lorry did you have a clash it was an attack he was attacked and he said I've been

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attacked and I said what with and he said a spaceship and I said oh goodness me there's no such a thing

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as a spaceship I'm going to phone the doctor you must have failed and hurt your head

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Bob's wife called his boss Malcolm Drummond he went to the forest and he found Bob's abandoned

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truck and that wasn't all in the clearing he found impressions have been made in the ground

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there is no doubt in my mind that these maps were made by a perfectly solid heavier than air object

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they had been made by some machine which had come vertically downwards I think there's no

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doubt about that the area was fenced off and police began an intensive search they found nothing

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it was one of the most puzzling cases detective inspector Ian walk has ever come across I couldn't

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believe it at first the ground was soft and there were no signs of the tracks having come from

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somewhere or having went anywhere they just seemed to have arrived near the caterpillar type

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tracks were holes in the ground three inches deep 40 holes in all at first I thought they're

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possibly made by equipment that would be used by the forestry commission but we went to their

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premises later that day examined all the vehicles and nothing at all matched so what else could

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have caused the marks one theory begins with the laying of water pipes in the forest and goes on to

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explain what bob taylor saw a theory developed by science writer steward cambell he thought he

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saw a spacecraft because that was the only logical explanation to him sitting in a clearing but it

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was a magnified image in my opinion of a planet millions of miles away but what about bob's injuries

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the theory continues that the site of the mirage triggered an epileptic fit it caused him to be

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paralyzed he couldn't speak and of course he was unable to walk these are symptoms of that

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was it in the forest but bob hadn't suffered from epilepsy before and those who know him have no

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reason to doubt him bob taylor was straightforward a forester who had worked here for many years

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he had no illusions of any kind and he's not the sort of chap who would have invented a story

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like this then there were the rips in the trousers bob taylor was wearing rips he claims were made

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by probes from the ufo the trousers were sent to the police laboratories to be put under the

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scrutiny of forensic expert lester nip there was two sets of damage predominantly close enough to be

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considered symmetrical it's obviously been caused by a lifting action it's not the sort of action

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that's caused by a fall the tear would normally be down the trousers certainly the story could fit

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the bill that some object or objects had moved across a clearing towards him attempted to lift

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him up and and carry him off even to this day we're completely baffled of one who assaulted

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mr taylor and two what made these marks on the ground this is only one of the many local ufo cases

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which remain unsolved some witnesses say they're left with profound after effects desperate to

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find a way of coming to terms with seeing something that defies belief one of the most recent cases

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has left two local men with an obsession to find out what it was they encountered on a lonely stretch

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of road through the pentland hills we come back here quite often looking at our camera and that

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i'm just interested to find out to see if we can maybe see this again the craft was bigger than

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the road me and colin reckon that the craft was about 30 foot wide we're both very frightened

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it has sort of affected my life seeing something like this i've never seen nothing ever like it before

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since i've i've suffered from bad depression which i never used to do

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and it's just always on my mind i just want to know what happened that night

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i didn't really believe in it ufo's but this experience has sort of changed my mind

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the scottish ufo's are affecting local people in another way they're becoming a tourist attraction

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a plaque has been put up where bob taylor claimed his close encounter in the forest

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bringing visitors from near and possibly very far

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medicine has learned many ways to deal with human pain consciousness can be wiped out in an instant

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by powerful anesthetics for centuries chinese acupuncturists have inserted tiny needles into

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their patient's skin nobody knows how a needle in the ear can prevent back pain but many western

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doctors have come to accept that it can and hypnosis can be used to paralyze the nerves which

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carry pain signals without painkillers most modern surgery will be unthinkable so imagine the reaction

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of an american doctor whose patient said she wanted him to operate without anything to stop the pain

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i'm fine in almost 35 years as a physician i have never seen it like that before

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she said she didn't need anesthesia it just sure you want to go through with this

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at about age seven i discovered that i was psychic as i grew older my abilities grew not

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only stronger but as i grew they grew about 10 years ago i discovered that i was able to be pain

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and medication free never taking any kind of pain pill for anything i didn't have any pain i didn't

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have any swelling i didn't have any bleeding plus the ability that i had helped me to heal faster

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than the average person penny pelito calls it her pipeline doctors in florida where she lives

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were skeptical to say the least about her claims but she was so convincing that they agreed to

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operate to remove a cyst from her arm with anesthetic standing by when i put the knife on

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her skin i thought that she would rebel and possibly scream a bit because it was going to be painful

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and she didn't the few minutes that it took was enough for him to have his shirt ringing wet because

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he was a nervous wreck why he said penny it's logical nobody can have surgery without anesthetic

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i'm just looking forward to my vacation and it's going to be such fun we go the anesthetic standing

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by was never used to the doctor's amazement penny didn't feel a thing and she went on to have six

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more operations operations potentially even more painful you have three significant sized cysts all

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located in a very very sensitive part of the breast i can't see any reason in the world why anyone in

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their right mind would want to do this surgery without anesthesia i can do it i can't i've done

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it before i've seen many phenomenal things nothing compares to this i imagine the pain will be

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described as excruciating in another operation penny had to have a toe amputated i didn't sleep

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for a week before we did this because i didn't believe it could be done and i was very nervous

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but in spite of dr willens's fears penny still refused anesthetic i asked her did she feel pain

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she always told me no i feel nothing we cut the skin we cut deeper into tissue and we cut the bone

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and remove it after i got the bone out she says i want to see what other people feel like she says

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i'm going to pipe out for a minute and she says oh my god that's terrible so could penny palito really

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have been using psychic power to block her pain a leading psychiatrist who examined her thinks not

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when i examined her i discovered very quickly that this lady was very gifted and she was using

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self hypnosis she would go into a trance or hypnotic state quickly and spontaneously as a result

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turned off sensation to that part of her body but those who've operated on her disagree most people

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in a hypnotic state are quieter they lay back and they don't ask too many questions but she was

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lively she was wide awake she was trying to sit up she was joking with the staff she was joking

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with me she was telling stories if not hypnosis could she have taken something she showed absolutely

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no signs of clinical use of any kind of drug or could she have a medical condition which made

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unable to feel pain i don't know of any medical condition that blocks out pain and it's my

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understanding that she has the ability to block it out and if she didn't do that she'd feel pain

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penny palito claims to have other psychic powers too to thank dr willens for agreeing to operate

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she decided to make him a gift i told him that i would make him a winner at last vegas at the

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gaming tables and i would share the knowledge that i had with him telepathically it's like the

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bets were placed for me and whatever i did was absolutely correct if i needed an eight the next

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card was an eight it was like magic hey blackjack blackjack dr willens won several thousand dollars

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but surely it was just luck and i figured i finally figured out how to win money so the following week

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i went over the bahamas and tried the same thing but just i didn't win give me one more here if penny

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had such powers though surely they had much greater potential it would have benefited all mankind if

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we could have found out the how and the why then burn victims and cancer patients could have been

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pain-free just like me would have been my gift to mankind but that wasn't to be one day she was

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shopping in a do-it-yourself store three boards came down and struck me on the head are you okay are

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you all right penny palito says she felt pain for the first time in years it was a shock but she

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seemed to recover she forgot about the accident and went ahead with another operation but this time

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her powers were to fail her towards the end of the surgery i began to experience feelings i shouldn't

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have and that was the first indication to me something was wrong by this time i realized

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that the ability was lost and it never came back it was then that penny took a step which would

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make legal history she took the diy store to court claiming damages not just for physical injury

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but also for loss of psychic pain-blocking powers

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a few days before the trial the store offered her 17 thousand dollars to drop the case but money

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wasn't all penny wanted i wanted to legally prove that something what no matter what anybody

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wants to call it did exist court is now in session our reconstruction is based on reports of the court

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case which began with the diy store's lawyer making an astonishing request i do not believe

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that miss palito has paranormal powers but if indeed she does we would ask that she refrain from using

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them to mentally invade the minds of the jury no mr. slok the judge refused but ruled that the jury

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should reach a verdict on both the physical and psychic injuries claimed by penny palito's lawyer

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on both physical and psychic injuries mr. duvinsky while i understand that what i am asking you to

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accept to some of you may even sound crazy we will present evidence that mrs palito does

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indeed have abilities that go beyond the comprehension of most of us the doctors who

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performed all seven operations backed penny palito's claims this woman has some very strange and

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unreal abilities he brought in the sword that was used to cut the bone out of my foot this is a

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markup of the human foot this is the left foot which i operated on then using this cut entirely

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through the bone and he saw it through the bones to demonstrate what i must have been

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feeling and experiencing during the surgery things started to go wrong however when the

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diy store's lawyer told the court about her operation a fortnight after the accident as far as

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we're concerned if she had that ability she still has it she's simply choosing not to use it in his

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closing statement he called her claims bizarre absurd and ridiculous and there is no such thing

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as paranormal activity as she describes it and defines it thank you the jury may now retire to

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consider the evidence and reach a verdict we have your honor we the jury found that the

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plaintiff mrs palito did indeed suffer physical injury as a result of an accident at home depot

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however we do not feel that she lost has suffered any loss of her psychic powers

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i read that the jurors believed that the power existed i realized that the case wasn't totally

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lost that the jurors believe me i myself was truly convinced that she had some amazing abilities

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she wasn't awarded damages for the loss of her psychic abilities because she really didn't prove

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that she had lost the abilities due to the accident that part for me was a victory because at least

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then i knew that jurors were convinced a power was real it happened it existed pain blocking powers

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were tested as long ago as 1935 by a group from london university they carried out an experiment

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in which an indian man walked across hot coals at a temperature of 800 degrees celsius he should

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have suffered agonizing burns but he didn't if we could find out how such things can happen

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medical science could be on the verge of a major breakthrough until next week goodbye