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Good evening. We have two stories for you tonight about ordinary people who've unwittingly stumbled

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upon the unknown. In one instance they had to turn to an exorcist for help. I'll come to that later.

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But first, have you ever checked your watch and found you've lost a whole chunk of time? Or tried

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to find a place you remembered only to discover it doesn't exist? Well tonight we have a story of

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three families who are convinced that for a few hours they traveled back in time. Paranormal

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investigators have a name for this. They call it time slip. Reports of time slip are rare,

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but it has a well-established pedigree. The first book on the subject was written over 80 years

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ago. It does sound unlikely, but as Sherlock Holmes once said, when you've eliminated all the

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alternatives then whatever remains must be the truth, however improbable. In 1993, Alphanylene

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Roberts were on holiday in Devon. It was 730 and they were heading back to their hotel when they

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got lost and found themselves in a village they didn't recognize. We were on our way back to

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Dunstaff, found ourselves lost and we stopped by the green at the top of the village to decide

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which way to go. And we noticed on the green there's a huge wooden sign, downish, highly polished,

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saying the basket walled for the basket village or something of Benton 1976. I couldn't believe

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my eyes, it was so brilliant, the tubs of flowers and window boxes, everything, just

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one matter of the colour. Blaze of colour. It was really lovely. Alphanylene eventually found their

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way out of the village back to their hotel in Dunstaff. They hadn't planned to visit

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Benton, but they were so impressed by the flower display that they decided to return the next day

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to take some photos. As we looked through the village, everything had gone. As they headed back to the green, the centrepiece of the display, they were in for another shock.

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The sign had gone, the flower bed had gone, it was just grass. All the tubs and the flower pots and the hanging basket, everything had gone. It seems as though we'd come back or been to a village.

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The same village for another time. Unsettled by their return visit, the couple remembered other strange things that had happened. On arrival in the village the first time, dropped a cigarette onto the

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mapping that was laying on the floor in the car. Smoke was coming from it. Having checked that later on in the day, there was no naps whatsoever as if it had never happened.

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And during their journey, time appeared to stand still. As we arrived in the village, we checked our watch and it was 7.30. As we left, we checked the time again and it was still 7.30 as if we hadn't been in the village.

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It just seems as though it was the same village, but in a different time completely. It sounds unlikely and yet it turns out the best kept village in 1976 was Benton.

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Equally strange is the story of Cynthia and Len Gisby. They invited friends Pauline and Jeff Simpson to join them on a holiday in Spain. They set out to drive through France in the late summer of 1979. It was their first experience of life on the other side of the channel and it was to prove an unforgettable.

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We've been travelling from about 10 o'clock in the morning. It was getting 8 o'clock at night and we started looking for a motel, a motel, anything.

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And we talked about that looks like an audio pleasure. A very old world place it was.

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What have we got here?

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Oh, isn't this quaint.

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So do nicely.

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I'll get the luggage.

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Ah, bonjour, sire. Je peux vous aider?

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Avez-vous deux chambres, for three?

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Ah, oui, oui, oui. On a deux chambres pour qu'à ta personne, là-haut, pour dormir.

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C'est...

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Entrez-vous, s'il vous plaît.

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Oh, c'est...

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It was not a very large dining room. There was about half a dozen or seven tables with a little white cloth on.

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Et voilà votre chambre, sire. Soyez confortables.

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The bed was very tall with a big brown furry cover on it.

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And when we pulled it back, it was a feather mattress with a sheet cover and it was very hard calico type linen.

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It's a bit chilly in here, love. Would you close the window?

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See, you're not going to believe this. There's no glass in the window.

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What?

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There weren't just one opening in the wall.

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There were no glass in the windows at all. All you had to do was two shutters. You pulled in from the outside.

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That meal was for me dark.

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You won't find food like that on a motorway service station.

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Oh, cutlery like this.

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I think it was made locally.

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And the beer?

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I've never tasted anything like it before.

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Still, I couldn't let it go to waste now, could I?

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We just thought it was all rural France and had a laugh at it all.

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We thought it was all part and parcel of the holiday. It was quite funny.

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We did enjoy the food, though, didn't we?

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Yeah, we did. It was lovely. We were so hungry.

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See you.

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Come in, Pauline, love.

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Is that well, then?

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The boys want to take a photograph of us.

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Oh, fame at last.

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Smile, girls!

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The gorgeous girl to here.

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Bonjour, Albert.

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While we were at breakfast, these two John Downs came in.

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The thing that puzzled me more than anything was the uniforms of the John Downs.

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I've never seen uniforms like that at all.

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I think that must have been regular customers coming in for their cognac and coffee in the mornings.

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While we were having breakfast, a woman came in with a mauve dress on.

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She looked at her. She'd been to a dance, very old-fashioned type.

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They just said they'd been to an all-night party.

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She looked very...

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...very old-fashioned.

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OK, Geoff, if you take the bags and I'll pay the bill.

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The bill, how much, pay a single play?

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An instant. An instant.

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Pardon, I asked the police.

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Or another exit onto the autoroute.

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Autoroute?

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Autoroute? What do you say, Autoroute?

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Autoroute? I say, Abandon.

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Ah, my real one, but no jacobron.

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They had no idea what an autoroute was.

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For my opinion, anyway. I hadn't got a clue, so we thought that was rather funny.

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Monsieur, monsieur, la descense, s'il vous plaît.

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Oh, all right.

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Hey, Geoff, you'll never believe this. It was only 19 francs.

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What, rock frost?

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I know the whole lot.

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They came back and said, yes, 19 francs.

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They said, get off, come on, let's go.

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We went.

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They were so impressed by the hotel, they decided to stay there again

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on the way back to England.

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Are you sure you're on the right road?

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I'm sure it was down this road.

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Returned right at the bridge.

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It was the right road. There's no doubt about it.

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Not in my mind. It was the right road.

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Backwards and forwards four times, and we couldn't find it.

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I'm positive it was here.

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Come on, let's go.

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We gave up after about four manoeuvres up and down the road.

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The next one cost us 247 francs

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for just a sandwich and a night.

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The next surprise came back in England

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when the two couples had their photos developed.

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I just don't understand it, Geoff.

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Those photos we took at the hotel, they haven't come out.

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Take a look.

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They were the last shots before we went to Spain, weren't they?

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Yeah.

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Hi Pauline.

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We've just got our holiday photos back.

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Oh, good. Could you check something for me?

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You definitely took those photos, didn't you?

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Of course I did.

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I knew I'd taken a photograph and I'd seen Len take two photographs.

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I knew I should have had it on the roll of film that was developed.

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It wasn't there.

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You'll never guess.

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The strangest thing that's happened.

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When Len's never come out, I was really surprised.

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Shocked.

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It was as though we hadn't taken them at all.

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Just weren't there and there was no signs of them having been there.

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The shock of the missing photographs

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spurred the gizbis to carry out their own research.

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They discovered the gendarmes uniform

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and the dress worn by the woman, dated from the 1900s.

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It's almost as if the two couples had travelled back in time.

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But why did no one comment on their car?

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And how did they pay the bill with modern money?

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With the modern currency, he accepted it.

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And that was it, I mean, it's always passed on me.

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Strangely enough, bed, breakfast and evening meal for four

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would have cost just 19 francs at the turn of the century.

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And then Gizby for one is willing to believe the impossible.

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The only thing I could think of with all the dates corresponding

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is that we went into a time lapse, we went back in time.

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Cynthia and Len and Pauline and Geoff

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did return to France a few years ago

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to search for the rustic hotel

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where they'd seen two policemen in their antiquated uniforms.

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And in the end they found the right road.

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But all the trees were much taller than they remembered.

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And tantalisingly where the hotel had stood

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they found the crumbling ruins of an old building.

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None of the locals could remember if it had ever been a hotel.

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But they did say the building next door

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had once been the village police station

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around the turn of the century.

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We may never know exactly how many exorcisms are carried out each year.

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The Church of England, which has about 250 ministers

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authorized to conduct the ritual, doesn't keep an accurate tally.

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The Roman Catholic Church does,

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but the records of their ministry of exorcisms remain strictly confidential.

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But we do know that every week, somewhere,

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an exorcist is being called out.

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This is the story behind one such call.

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It was a May afternoon in Bridlington

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when a cry for help came to the official exorcist

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to the Archbishop of York, the Reverend Tom Willis.

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It seemed to be a restless soul

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who needed to receive the peace of God.

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The circumstances were unusual.

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Tom Willis had been called out to exercise a fishing trawler.

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A mysterious catalogue of disasters

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had affected the ship for several years.

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Skipper Mick Laws was a desperate man.

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At first I was very excited about becoming the skipper of the Pickering,

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but as time went by and things were going wrong and more wrong,

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it became the worst few months of my life.

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As far as Mick Laws and his crew were concerned, the boat was jinxed.

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Oh, no, not again! This is madness!

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Skipper, what's wrong? We're going round these circles.

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It's got a minor bit of soul, and the autopilot's going on the spout again.

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I got called to the Pickering many times.

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Most of the faults were undefined.

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You couldn't really pin a fault down.

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I don't believe this.

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There's no way that this can happen. It's impossible.

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Chris Clark was used to dealing with the problems of the fishing fleet,

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but he'd never experienced difficulties like these before.

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On one occasion, I went to the automatic pilot.

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When we asked the automatic pilot to go to the starboard,

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the automatic pilot would go to the port.

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I changed wires round to correct this, and everything was OK.

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Later on in the day, the polarity going to these two wires had reversed.

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Now, this is against the laws of physics.

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I've never come across anything like this before.

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You've got the heating on me. It's freezing in here.

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Oh, I...

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I was on the Pickering six months when the cabin was very, very cold,

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and you could never get it warmed up.

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You could, no matter what, the heating was contained, and it was always cold.

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In fact, it was at Damsate,

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warmer down in the fish room with eight tonne of ice down there.

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As Mick Laws recalls, even stranger things were happening on board the Pickering.

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It was one night I remember when I was lading my bunk.

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He strung to my side.

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And the side of the mattress went down

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as though somebody stepped on it to climb in the bunk above.

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I thought I should have.

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Shortly after, he did it again.

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When I looked out, there was nobody there.

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I went up into the mess room to ask any of the boys

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if they'd been down the cabin.

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And they all said no, and I thought they'd been messing me about

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and playing games, but as it turned out, nobody had been down there at all, just myself.

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The most frightening incident Mick remembers happened one night

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when the crew were below deck, except for Barry Mason, who was left on watch.

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Johnny!

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Nicky!

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Something in the dark flew over and Barry with a shot look on his face

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said he'd seen somebody on the deck, but when we all went up to have a look,

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there was nobody to be seen.

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The events at sea started to affect the whole crew and their livelihood.

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I've got to see the broken trips all the time.

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I wasn't even making expenses, always getting run off to see

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and things going wrong and having to come back,

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and eventually nobody can live without money.

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What is it now?

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Sorry, skipper, it's done for. It keeps sticking.

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Well, that's it lads, we won't be going out today, not if the winch is not working.

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Come on, it's all back down the job centre.

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It was on yet another visit to the local job centre

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that the crew found an answer to their problem.

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Hello Mick, here again.

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All right, pray so.

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It's the winch that's gone now.

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If it's not one thing, it's another.

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Sorry to hear that.

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You know, if things get much worse, I might have to get an exhaust in.

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Well, if you're serious, I know someone who could help.

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No, why? Who's that then?

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The Reverend Tom Willis. He does exorcisms.

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I could contact him if you want.

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I had a talk to him and quickly established that there was something very strange going on on the boat,

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and Mike was being very serious.

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And so I offered to pass him on to the Reverend Tom Willis,

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who I knew through my connections with the church.

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I'm one of the nine advisors to the Archbishop on occult disturbances.

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We're all parish priests, and we are called out quite frequently to places and people

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which seem to have very odd things happening to them.

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We talk to the skipper and their crew and to a previous skipper,

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and they all seem to point to the fact that these phenomena were real.

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His investigations uncovered a tragic history to the boat.

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It pointed to the death of a previous crewman when it belonged to a family in Ireland,

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and it seemed to be connected with his death.

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The Reverend Willis discovered the pickering had been built in Ireland

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and originally named the family Crest.

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On the 1st of December, 1977, in rough seas, a crewman fell overboard and drowned.

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The owner was devastated and sold the boat. He never fished again.

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The new owners renamed it the Pickering.

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Having investigated the history of the boat, we felt that there was a need to exercise the boat

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and to pray for the repose of his soul.

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Reverend Willis was called to the quayside.

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Hi, Vika. Back of lift. I hear you're going down to the pickering.

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I'm on my way there again. Come on. Get in.

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You met up with the radar engineer on yet another call to the trawler.

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You might be able to do something about that boat.

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I'll have to see. I'm not believing all that myself.

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I must admit, there's a very odd atmosphere on that boat.

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It's really weird.

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Is this the pickering? Hi, Vika. Good boat.

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I hope I'm going to be able to help.

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Ah, well, thanks for coming, Reverend.

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I think we should take it out of Harvard to see.

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I don't want to attract too much attention.

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OK. OK, Roger. Cast her off.

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The priest began the exorcism with the reported cold spots.

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It's definitely wanted here.

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Well, we'll make a start with this one then.

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In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost,

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I command all evil to depart from this vessel.

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While the Vika was doing the exorcism itself,

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we were desperately hoping that the priest was going to create a positive change.

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It was costing him a lot of money.

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This is where I felt something step in and climb into this bunk here.

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Fine. OK.

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Peace be unto this ship and all who sail in her.

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Dear Lord and Father, please bless this ship.

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Dear Lord and Father, please bless this ship.

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I think I've run out of holy water.

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I'd like to finish with a short prayer.

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O Lord Jesus Christ, King of kings, Lord of lords,

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please preserve us from all evil,

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and we pray for the soul of thy dear departing.

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Amen.

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The next day, Tom Willis called the captain of the pickering.

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Hello, Reverend. I can't tell you what the difference you've made.

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But with the whole atmosphere seeing warmer, it's brilliant.

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Well, I'll tell you something.

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If you've saved my fault,

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I'm pleased to say that everything's OK.

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No problems whatsoever since that point.

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The mysterious happenings aboard the pickering disappeared overnight,

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and she's now a successful member of her fishing fleet.

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I would regard it as another example of the love of God

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coming into a disturbed situation and bringing peace to a restless soul.

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The pickering was the first boat the Reverend Tom Willis had ever been called out to,

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but he says he's now performing more exorcisms than ever before,

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40 in the past year alone.

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Good night.