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The human race has always been obsessed by things it can't understand.

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The more lucid the answer, the more we try to find it.

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The Society for Psychical Research has compiled hundreds of reports

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since it was founded in 1882.

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These are just some of them,

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proving the Society's members believe the existence of paranormal phenomena.

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But after more than a century, they still haven't been able to find out how or why.

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Our stories tonight are as strange as any of the Society has ever encountered.

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We'll meet a woman who works alongside doctors to practice astonishing healing powers

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and we'll hear from the patients she has apparently cured.

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First, this particular report was compiled by a group investigating ghost stories

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at the fortress which has guarded England's shores longer than any other,

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from the Iron Age to the Second World War.

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High above the famous White Cliffs on the south coast,

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Dover Castle is the kind of place you might expect to attract ghost stories.

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Staff there take them with a pinch of salt,

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but more recent events have made them take their unearthly guests much more seriously.

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Nicknamed Hellfire Corner, damp and eerie,

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there are three and a half miles of these tunnels carved through the cliffs during World War II.

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Gloomy or not, today they are the favourite tourist attraction in this busy ferry port.

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Leslie Simpson has guided thousands of people on their plunge into history,

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but there's one tour he'll never forget.

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I had a group of about 20 people.

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Ladies and gentlemen, if you'll just follow me through now please.

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We came into the repeater station. I brought the group up to the barrier.

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I was staying on a step where I can overlook the group.

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You're now in the Defence Telecommunications Network Station, DTN.

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I recall this the repeater station.

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I had to notice the lady, she was very intent and she suddenly looked very alarmed

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and she fell down and slipped down onto her knee.

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I'm okay, I'm fine, I'm fine.

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But the lady wasn't really fine, as Leslie found out at the end of the tour.

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Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed the tour. Goodbye.

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Goodbye, thanks for coming.

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Are you okay now? You didn't hurt yourself in there, did you?

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No, I'm fine, but this is going to sound very strange,

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but I think I ought to tell you what happened down there.

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She explained that she'd been watching a man,

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she had a uniform, one a naval uniform, down at the far end of the repeater station.

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And she thought he belonged here, part of the tour, tinkering with the equipment.

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She then got alarmed because he started to walk towards the group.

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He was walking quite fast, he came down the second small flight of steps

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and he just walked straight through the barrier.

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And right through her.

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This sighting is only one of many in a complex which spans three eras.

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The Hellfire Corner tunnels, the old gun rooms built to fight off Napoleon's threatened invasion

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and the ancient castle where William the Conqueror once stayed.

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All have reports of inexplicable goings on.

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Bomb proof and impregnable, the evacuation of Dunkirk was planned here.

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Hundreds of people lived and worked inside the cliff face.

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The tunnels were sealed for half a century before being opened up as a museum.

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Even now, visitors are allowed round only with supervision.

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Some would say for good reason.

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I had a tour group of about 25 to 30 people

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and the tour had been going well until we reached the repeater station.

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I noticed a father and daughter standing slightly away from the rest of the group.

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The girl appeared to be in communication with somebody who appeared invisible to me

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and her father was looking on, interestingly.

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And then all of a sudden the father disappeared out of the repeater station.

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Can you stay with the rest of the group please?

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Yes, of course. Sorry.

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Karen tried to forget the incident and carried on with her tour.

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Just before we move into the next room, ladies and gentlemen,

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a piece of light-hearted information for you.

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This room is supposed to be the most haunted room in Hellfire Corner.

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Yes, I know, and I've just seen the ghost.

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At that point I thought we got a bit of a one here and dismissed what he said.

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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, if you'd like to follow me.

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He was very casual about the whole thing,

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but the girl was very withdrawn and shaken. She looked in shock in fact.

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Karen realised something very unusual had happened, so she took down the details.

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He said his name was Bill Billings,

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and he said he was killed when he was assembling an amplifier rack or something.

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I thought that they had definitely seen someone down here.

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Despite such testimonies, some of the castle staff are quite sure

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that the reason for it all is a perfectly natural one.

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After eight years of taking groups around the castle,

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Philip Wyburn Brown thinks he knows what's behind the apparently abnormal activities.

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The building is 800 years old. It's built high on the cliff.

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It is subject to a lot of wind and air currents up here.

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So I think a lot of it is very much the natural phenomena of the building itself.

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So could it all just be a combination of natural atmospherics and overactive imaginations?

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Local investigators have done a scientific stakeout of the castle

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and its many tunnels and passages on three all-night vigils.

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We brought a team of 16 people into Dover Castle.

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Divided the team into pairs, working to a very strict shift rotor.

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We brought in very sophisticated equipment such as a high-tech computerized sensing machine

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which senses changes in temperature, movement.

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Everybody is equipped with tape recorders, thermometers, video cameras.

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Each pair were given a certain location to work on.

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Group H, Sue Nichols and Keith Acres were stationed in a passageway with their tape recorder.

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We'd been sat there about five hours when suddenly there was an on-wis bang.

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Unable to believe there is, they played back the tape.

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I knew there was no doors anywhere around.

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And then the investigators say they didn't just hear what they claimed to be poltergeist activity.

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They saw it.

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At approximately two o'clock in the morning, my partner and myself had allowed bang in this room

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and we investigated this door here.

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I found it was to be locked and moved away approximately 10 feet.

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There was this huge bang behind us which made us both jump out of our skins.

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We turned around, quite petrified, and see the door still vibrating manly.

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The next time it happened, the investigators were determined to get proof.

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Chris Cherry, a master at the University of Kent, trained a video camera on the door.

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The noise was quite tremendous and all those tapestries above our heads started swaying.

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And this was rather extraordinary.

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We thought we got a paranormal phenomenon and I very stupidly yelled out,

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we've got it and of course that screwed the whole thing up and it ceased.

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Each team who were working in the keep thoroughly checked the area around

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and we could find no apparent natural reason for the door to run at all.

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So what could be the cause of the events at Dover Castle?

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Michael Brumley is a psychic who claims he can tune into departed spirits.

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He's never been here before so what will he find in Hellfire Corner?

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This area is very powerful, very strong.

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I would expect that at different times people walk through here.

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In the repeater station, Michael came up with a name.

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I just think of name Helen for what reason.

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But the castle official watching Michael Brumley wasn't impressed.

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He started talking about Helen and there just wouldn't have been women in that area

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so I became very skeptical and just didn't believe what he was saying.

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It was just, just didn't gel, just wasn't right.

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However, a few days after we filmed Michael Brumley,

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another visitor, an Australian tourist who'd only just arrived in Britain,

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astonished everyone.

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I told the tour guide what I'd seen while I was in this room,

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how a ghostly figure had come running up towards me.

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He was blonde, he was wearing navy blue.

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He said his name was Samuel and he was asking me questions about a woman called Helen.

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He was very agitated and wanting to find out about where Helen was.

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When she came to me and told me about Helen,

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you really could have just knocked me down with a feather.

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It was amazing really.

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It's sort of changed my attitude really to the place.

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Well, I imagine it would.

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And it's not the first time that Michael Brumley's psychic information has made an impact.

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He's previously been employed as official psychic to the Olympic Games,

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helping police to sniff out security loopholes.

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Strange but true.

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Think of the world's greatest discoveries and inventions.

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Whatever you come up with, you have to admit that none is nearly as fantastic as the human body.

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Our eyes can take in more than the largest telescope.

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Our brains are more complex than the most powerful computer.

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And all the information in this bookcase would just fit into the genetic blueprint of a single human cell.

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And all that from something that's about 70% water.

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Even now, scientists don't really understand what it is that gives us the spark we call life.

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And there are still many conditions where conventional medicine has unfortunately had to admit defeat.

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But there are those who claim they can perform the most amazing cures without drugs or surgery.

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And some doctors are coming to believe it too.

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All the doctors refer patients to Lorraine.

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We don't think that what she does is really any different to what we do.

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Hello.

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Even if you can't understand something, if for some people it does seem to be effective, then why not use it?

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I thought it would be akin to a religious experience with people standing around a font or something like that,

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dunking people into religious water and healing them that way.

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I can have a look in that here.

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A doctor's surgery in Otley, a Yorkshire town where people aren't given to exaggerated claims, especially the doctors.

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But when their medical powers can do no more, they've come to accept the more unorthodox methods of Lorraine Ham.

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So much so that Lorraine now works at the surgery.

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I'll often start at the head.

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And what's happening then is I'm just sensing a little bit deeper as to what the problem is.

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Lorraine says that without even touching, she feels energies in the body and the healing begins.

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There are energy centres throughout the body.

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I can usually sense where there's a depletion or if it's overcharged.

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And so really it's a matter of balancing and unblocking energies that may be causing the problem in the first place.

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Even a local vicar describes Lorraine's powers with the word he doesn't use lightly.

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If you'd asked me to describe a miracle, I couldn't perhaps describe it in any other way.

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The Reverend Allen Kitchen had a severe neck injury. One morning he woke up in agony.

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I need a doctor, dear. I can't move.

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The pain came all down my arm and into my fingers and it really was agonied.

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The doctor came in and consigned me to this hospital for 10 days' traction.

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Although on the face of it it's only once more part of the body which is affected, the pain is so severe that individuals can sometimes hardly move.

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They sent me home.

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All they'd given me was bottles of painkillers really and just told me to rest in bed.

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It seemed to be in a lot of pain. You could see by his face it was distorted.

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The vicar's wife called in Lorraine.

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Hello, how are you today?

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My neck and my arm hurt. In fact, all the time.

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I've never known nothing about it.

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I sat at the bottom of the bed and I watched her.

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Right then. Let's see.

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She never actually touched me as such. She never once put a hand on me in any way at all.

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But to begin with, it only seemed to hurt more.

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After a while the pain began to build up and it built up so much that a doctor said to her, give it a rest for a minute. It's hurting too much.

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Just try a moment longer.

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Then all three, the vicar, his wife and Lorraine, noticed a remarkable change.

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Suddenly something happened in the wrong. There was a brand new atmosphere in the wrong. A tremendous sense of peace.

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Thank you.

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And then he relaxed and his pain had gone. It was very emotional, very special.

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It was very difficult to put into words a feeling like that.

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It was just lovely to see him walking around again and not in any pain anymore. It was really tremendous.

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We have no scientific explanation why that should happen.

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After such a long period on traction and then two weeks bed rest to suddenly get off and walk, it sounds almost like the stuff miracles are made of.

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So what are the healing powers which Lorraine Hamm apparently possesses?

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Her family is originally from New Zealand, where her great-great-grandfather was a Maori chief and master of medicines and bush plants.

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There is always a possibility that there is a link between a great-great-grandfather's healing abilities and mine.

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She's been far more successful than I had anticipated. Approximately 80% of all people who go and see her feel that they've benefited.

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And many people have been greatly improved by her treatment.

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But how is Lorraine Hamm so successful? Does she really bring about physical changes?

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I think that faith healing does work, but there's no special physical process taking place. This is a psychological process.

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They make the patient believe they're going to get better in the way that a convincing doctor might do.

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And it is this mind-over-matter influenced by the faith healer that makes the patient get better.

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But Lorraine insists those she treats don't have to believe in her powers. Speedway rider Gary Havlock certainly didn't.

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It was really frightening crash actually because I was going very fast.

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Gary had a serious accident during a race in Poland.

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It's my hand. My hand.

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My hand was hurting the most. I tried to move it and I could feel something clicking away inside there. I knew I'd done something straight away really.

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When Gary got to hospital, X-ray showed his hand was broken and there was even worse to come.

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You'll have complete fracture.

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The doctor told him it would be six weeks before he could ride a bike again.

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There's no way I can be out of action for that long.

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I've got a big race inside today.

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The big race was the Commonwealth Speedway final. Only if he took part would Gary qualify for the World Championships. The usual experts couldn't help.

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The first obvious thing was this fracture which you can see here which would have caused an awful lot of pain particularly on a speedway bike with a vibration.

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I couldn't grip the handlebars of the bike properly and I knew that if I couldn't grip them enough then I certainly wouldn't be winning any races.

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Would you like to come and take a seat?

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I was pricks but I would have given anything a try really.

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I've never done anything like this before.

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That's alright.

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Although Gary was skeptical of Lorraine, his girlfriend had been treated by her before. He decided he had nothing to lose.

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She put one hand underneath my hand and one hand over it. It was a real hot sensation as if somebody had had a low touch on my hand.

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As I held Gary's hand, I had the sensation that the bones were actually knitting together.

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Afterwards when she finished, when she finally touched me her fingers were icy cold.

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Four days later Gary raced in the Commonwealth Final.

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He won and went on to win the World Championships too.

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I must say that I was very surprised to find that he did so well in the final.

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It was that dream come true of me. It's all I ever wanted to do. I'll be a world champion.

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Perhaps the best of Lorraine's cases and the one which leaves the people involved with no doubt of her powers is out of Margaret and Peter Lupton.

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When we first got married we really did want to have children. After a couple of years of trying nothing happened so we went to our doctor who referred it to a consultant.

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But the consultant could find nothing wrong.

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I have to say there is no reason why you can't have children.

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So what do we do?

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Well let's keep an eye on things to begin with. We'll start off with you checking your temperature on these charts every day.

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For five years I went through every test imaginable, keeping regular appointments at the hospital.

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And the doctors really just seemed to be doing the same tests over and over again. There didn't seem to be any progression in the treatment.

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Nothing seemed to work. The couple became more and more disheartened.

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I'm alright. I'll be sleeping a minute. I just want to sit up for a while.

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In the end I just had quite enough. We decided to just get off the merry-go-round and leave it. We'd had enough of all the tests.

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The Luptons built themselves a life without children. They enjoyed holidays around the world and Margaret worked hard at her career.

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Then a couple of years later she went to Lorraine for relaxation and the subject of children came up.

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Is there anything to do with children?

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I didn't tell Peter about it initially. I was clinging to a hope that I didn't want to awaken in Peter again after we decided to give up.

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I would do the healing generally around her body, over her body, and then I would concentrate on the abdominal area.

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The sessions finished after six months just before Margaret and Peter set off for a holiday. But something felt different.

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Although she had none of the normal signs of pregnancy, Margaret took a test. The results came in a phone call.

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Could you say that again?

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I asked him to repeat it about three times when I told him it was positive.

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What's this? Are you sure?

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I was just so over the moon. It was incredible.

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First of all, I was absolutely stunned about it then. I was really elated. I couldn't wait.

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The first postcard Margaret sent from her holiday was to Lorraine Ham.

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Thanks, Lorraine.

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Margaret had a little boy, Joshua, and her second son, Rhys, is now one year old.

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I think if I hadn't been for Lorraine, we probably would be a childless couple now.

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But having better holidays now with the kids than we had before without them.

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There's one for the family album they thought they'd never have.

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Even doctors who don't believe in any special powers are baffled by the success of healers.

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They argue that people are getting better because they think they're going to get better.

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But if the human mind can cure physical conditions, all bites.