1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,840 Good evening. Tonight we examine the links seen and unseen between twins. 2 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:37,840 Chang and Eng were the original Siamese twins. They were born in 1811 and although they were never actually separated, they led active lives. 3 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:46,840 They married two American sisters and ran two family homes, spending a few days in each. One had 10 children, the other 12. 4 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:53,840 Chang took to drink and Eng had to share the hangovers. They were joined together by a fibrous band at the chest. 5 00:00:53,840 --> 00:01:02,840 Nowadays they could easily have been separated. But is there another link between identical twins? A telepathic link that can never be broken. 6 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:07,840 Welcome to Twinsburg 1995! 7 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:16,840 Happy Twins Day! 8 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:25,840 Once a year over 4,000 sets of twins descend on the town of Twinsburg, Ohio. It's the Twins Day Festival and they all arrive two by two. 9 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:33,840 I'm a little more outgoing and proud. I'm more quiet. I'll dress up more as human. Things like that. 10 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:43,840 To the observer, identical twins hold a particular fascination. The exact physical likeness. The same hobbies. The same tastes. 11 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:49,840 In fact, there's one restaurant owned by twins that will only employ twins as waiters. 12 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:54,840 They have to work at the same time. They have to work together. They'll screw up and blame it on the other one. 13 00:01:54,840 --> 00:02:00,840 They'll switch their name tags. Can they wear name tags? I'm Juanita, I'm not Shanita. I'm Charlene, not Darlene. 14 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,840 So our motto in the restaurant is you can only make a first impression once, we make it twice. 15 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:13,840 But do twins share more than just physical characteristics? Some twins believe they have a closeness that even conventional science can't explain. 16 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:19,840 We call it twin-ship or twin-insight. We've experienced it several times. 17 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,840 We've been tested to have a high degree of ESP among each one of us. 18 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:27,840 One of the most outstanding ones that we've had was when I was in the car accident. 19 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:30,840 I was able to direct help to her without knowing where she was, 20 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,840 and she was visualizing it in my mind as it was happening. 21 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,840 There are many times that I'll answer the telephone and say, Jeff, what do you want? 22 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:43,840 And I'm not sure it's him, but I can tell by the ring or something that it's Jeff. I mean, it's amazing. 23 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:48,840 My first baby, she was down the shore, vacationing. She wasn't due yet. I wasn't due for the baby. 24 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,840 She gets up in the morning at 7.30, which she doesn't do on vacation at all. 25 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:53,840 Never. 26 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:54,840 And she's the pain. 27 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:55,840 I couldn't walk. 28 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,840 I could not get out of bed. I got out of bed and fell on the floor. 29 00:02:58,840 --> 00:03:00,840 I was with my older sister, and she's like, what's with you? 30 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,840 And I go, what's the been a bad mattress? 31 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:03,840 Now I'm walking like this. 32 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:05,840 No! 33 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:11,840 We get, now we call. I go, something's wrong. So we call her husband, and he goes, Jill had the baby. 34 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,840 I'm like, she didn't have the baby. She's not due yet. 35 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,840 And he goes, yes, she did. 36 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,840 And she never told me the story. She was in, she felt my labor pain. 37 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:20,840 Yeah. Never told me the story. 38 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,840 Now, the second time I got pregnant, I said I'm pregnant, and she looked at me and she goes, not again. 39 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,840 For identical twins, this is the moment of creation. 40 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:31,840 The egg splits and two separate fetuses begin to form. 41 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,840 Two individuals, but with identical sets of genes. 42 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:40,840 Science maintains that at the moment of separation, all links with the other half are broken. 43 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,840 But does an invisible connection remain? 44 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,840 Dr. Susan Blackmore, who studied twin behavior, remains unconvinced by tales of twin telepathy. 45 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,840 If they're identical twins, they are genetically the same. 46 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,840 So their brains are much more similar than most people's, pairs of people's brains would be. 47 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,840 And so they think in similar ways. 48 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,840 Then there are all the things where twins are brought up together in their own background. 49 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:08,840 And all these things can lead to what appear like the most extraordinary coincidences, 50 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,840 but actually they spring from their lives together. 51 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:17,840 But what if twins had never lived together? What if they were separated at birth? 52 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:21,840 It's from this group that some of the most incredible stories have emerged. 53 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:31,840 On the 19th of August, 1939, a woman gave birth to identical twin boys in Bradford, Ohio. 54 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:37,840 Due to family pressure, she was unable to keep them, and she agreed to put them both up for adoption. 55 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:45,840 Four weeks later, Ernest Springer, a maintenance engineer and his wife Sarah, adopted one of the boys. 56 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:51,840 Two weeks after that, Jess Lewis, a boy-lerman and his wife Lucille took the other child away. 57 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:56,840 There was nothing unusual about the adoptions, except for one small coincidence. 58 00:04:56,840 --> 00:05:00,840 Both families decided to call their sons James. 59 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,840 The twins eventually got married. 60 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:06,840 They were their sons James. 61 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:11,840 The twins, it seemed, have been separated for good, identical in every way, 62 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:15,840 but destined to be strangers for the rest of their lives. 63 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:23,840 Over half a century later, James Lewis is now living in Lima, Ohio. 64 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:26,840 He was six before he learned he had a twin brother. 65 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:30,840 It would take over 33 years of searching to track him down. 66 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:35,840 I took the adoption papers to court where the adoption took place, 67 00:05:35,840 --> 00:05:40,840 and I told the judge what I wanted to do, and he said, 68 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:42,840 well, I'll see what I can do for you. 69 00:05:43,840 --> 00:05:49,840 Jim Lewis' twin brother, Jim Springer, was also living in Ohio when he received a letter from the adoption agency. 70 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:51,840 It gave him quite a shock. 71 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:54,840 For 39 years, he'd believed that his twin had died at birth. 72 00:05:54,840 --> 00:05:58,840 I was very surprised when he ran. I didn't know what to make of it. 73 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:02,840 Whether it was true or it was a hoax. 74 00:06:02,840 --> 00:06:10,840 I always kind of had a feeling that he wasn't dead, but yet all the proof was said that he was. 75 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:14,840 Jim Springer decided to phone Jim Lewis. 76 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:16,840 It was the first time the brothers had spoken. 77 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:20,840 Strange, very strange. We didn't know what to say. 78 00:06:20,840 --> 00:06:22,840 It was short. It was short. 79 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:29,840 He introduced himself to me, and he told me what he wanted to see me about and everything. 80 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:34,840 But I do remember one thing funny. He asked me what kind of beer I'd drink. 81 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:37,840 Of course, we both liked Miller's light. 82 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:43,840 And pretty soon, I just blew it out and asked Jim for you and my brother. 83 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:46,840 What did you say? 84 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:47,840 Yes. 85 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:54,840 It seemed a cruel twist of fate, but the twins discovered they'd spent most of their lives living only 40 miles apart. 86 00:06:54,840 --> 00:07:00,840 After the initial phone call, they arranged their first meeting. It was February 1979. 87 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:03,840 It was like staying there looking at myself. 88 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:07,840 I felt very close to him from the beginning. 89 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:12,840 He wasn't a stranger. He wasn't a stranger at all from the very moment I saw him. 90 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:18,840 It wasn't like meeting somebody, you know, for the first time. I knew him. 91 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:24,840 The story might have ended there. Two brothers separated at birth, happily reunited at middle age. 92 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:30,840 But as the two men began to discuss their lives apart, an extraordinary series of events were revealed. 93 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:38,840 For nearly 40 years, it seemed, the two men had been living parallel lives. 94 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,840 The coincidences began in childhood, at school, for example. 95 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:47,840 I never liked spelling. And I never... And I liked math. 96 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,840 Math, we liked math. We didn't like spelling. 97 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,840 Back home, both boys came up with unusual names for their dogs. 98 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:59,840 Toy. To you or why? I called it toy. 99 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:04,840 Now, why I renamed it that, I don't know. That's the name I gave the dog. 100 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:07,840 The twins left school and there were more coincidences. 101 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,840 They discovered they both enrolled as police officers. 102 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:14,840 Jim worked for Miami County, I think, police department. 103 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:16,840 I worked for Shawnee Township Police Department. 104 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,840 We were both doing the same job at the same time. 105 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,840 The two Jims went on to marry and become fathers. 106 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,840 Again, their lives seemed to be running in parallel. 107 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,840 My first wife was named Doug Linda. 108 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:31,840 And my second wife was named Betty. 109 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:34,840 Okay, first one was Linda. 110 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,840 And then my second wife was Betty. 111 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,840 Betty and I have a son. We named him James Allen. 112 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,840 When I was married to Betty, we had a first son, was named James Allen. 113 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:51,840 In their spare time, the two men continued to mirror each other's behavior. 114 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:56,840 Both men liked one wind after work by smoking the same brand of cigarettes. 115 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:59,840 And drinking the same make of beer. 116 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:05,840 They both enjoyed woodwork and built basement workshops in their houses. 117 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,840 Outside, they had white benches built around the trunk of a tree in their gardens, 118 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,840 where Jim Lewis' remains to this day. 119 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,840 One of the more astonishing coincidences occurred over holiday plans. 120 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,840 There's nothing unusual in going to Florida every year, 121 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:22,840 but Florida has thousands of miles of beaches. 122 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,840 And every year, Jim Lewis and Jim Springer would go to exactly the same stretch of beach. 123 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,840 Several times I've been to St. Petersburg Beach, 124 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:32,840 at a particular spot about one mile long. 125 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,840 And it's got water around it. 126 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,840 I got a canal on one side and of course the Gulf on the other. 127 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,840 It was very amazing that we never ran across one another, 128 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:47,840 because we had vacationed there a couple of times about the same time. 129 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:54,840 Wives with the same names, same jobs, same hobbies, even the same holiday destination. 130 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,840 But one of the biggest surprises came after they met. 131 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,840 They were invited to the Minnesota Center for Twins Research, 132 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:02,840 where they took a battery of tests. 133 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:07,840 The results were so similar, the researchers made them take the tests again. 134 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,840 Some of the tests that Jim and I took on a multiple choice, 135 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,840 they had to do over again, 136 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:18,840 because Jim and I answered almost the same identical questions, the same answer. 137 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,840 The lives of the Jim twins seem so incredible, 138 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,840 because until very late in life they'd never even met. 139 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:30,840 Were the similarities coincidences or some form of telepathic communication? 140 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,840 Their identical genetic makeup would account for some of these similarities, 141 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,840 but the names of their wives, sons and even dogs? 142 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,840 Skeptics argue that it's easy to be deceived. 143 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:44,840 We start looking for certain types of coincidence. 144 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,840 What you don't do is ask, well, what sort of car have they got? 145 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:50,840 What sort of animals have they got? 146 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,840 What sort of music do they like? 147 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:55,840 You don't ask those other questions, which will come not to be coincidences. 148 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:57,840 You just conveniently forget about those. 149 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:02,840 So the process of selection produces an awful lot of amazing-looking coincidences that really aren't. 150 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:07,840 The Jim twins admit their lives aren't perfect mirrors. 151 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,840 Jim Lewis divorced Betty and is now married to Sandy, 152 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:13,840 while Jim Springer is still married to his Betty. 153 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,840 There is a joke about that. 154 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,840 My wife's very afraid of all me to woman named Sandy with these names. 155 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:25,840 But can the twins' story really be put down to a quirk of fate, a series of bizarre coincidences? 156 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:30,840 The chance happenings in the twins' lives seems so unbelievable and so numerous 157 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,840 that it's hard not to consider another possibility, 158 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,840 that the two men were never completely separated back in 1939 159 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,840 and somehow maintained a telepathic link for the rest of their lives. 160 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:47,840 Researchers have now studied the lives of hundreds of identical twins 161 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:52,840 who were separated at birth, but none of them can match the astonishing series of coincidences 162 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:54,840 shown by the Jim twins. 163 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:10,840 According to a recent survey, nearly half the people in this country believe in ghosts 164 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:13,840 and one in seven actually claims to have seen one. 165 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:18,840 If you're among that number, then you may not find tonight's eye-witness accounts all that surprising. 166 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:25,840 But reports of independent witnesses all seeing the same ghost over a short period of time are rare 167 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:27,840 and a further mystery remains. 168 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:31,840 Why was this ghost more upset than the people who spotted her? 169 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,840 Flittic Manor has stood in the heart of the Bedfordshire countryside for 300 years. 170 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,840 For over half its life, it was the ancestral home of the Brooks family. 171 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,840 But at the end of last year, builders moved in to renovate the manor. 172 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:48,840 It's now a hotel. 173 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,840 They stumbled upon a new house, 174 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:54,840 and they found a new house in the middle of the city. 175 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,840 The house was built in the year of the late 19th century, 176 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,840 and it was the first manor. 177 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:01,840 It's now a hotel. 178 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,840 They stumbled upon a secret room in the roof, 179 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,840 which had lain undisturbed for decades. 180 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:13,840 We came up to start work on the roof and removed the tiles and then removed the brickwork. 181 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,840 We found a small doorway. 182 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,840 Then we found the evidence of a frame in the end of the roof, 183 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,840 and at one time there was some sort of attic room here. 184 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:33,840 After that, things started to happen at Flittic Manor. 185 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:38,840 Just three days later, the hotel received an odd complaint from a departing guest. 186 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:44,840 As a hotel receptionist, I have had some odd complaints, 187 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,840 but I have to say that I've never had a complaint like this before. 188 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:53,840 Everything all right for you, sir? 189 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:55,840 Why? What happened? 190 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,840 I think I had a visitor during the night. 191 00:13:57,840 --> 00:13:59,840 Something or someone. 192 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:01,840 I don't know what happened. 193 00:14:01,840 --> 00:14:03,840 I just know I never want to stay in that room again. 194 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:05,840 I'm sorry I had a comfortable night. 195 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,840 Can I get someone to help you with that? 196 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:09,840 No, it's all right. Thank you very much. Bye-bye. 197 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:13,840 He seemed slightly nervous then. 198 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:16,840 I didn't really know quite what to say, 199 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,840 and basically didn't really take a lot of notice of it. 200 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:23,840 But from then on, various members of staff began to notice 201 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:26,840 that something had changed at Flittic Manor. 202 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:34,840 Sonja Banks, the hotel manager, was staying on the second floor one night. 203 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,840 I had just locked up the hotel, and I was retiring to roommate. 204 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,840 Then I heard footsteps walking across the ceiling, 205 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,840 and a door slam towards the front of the house, 206 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:57,840 where the little room had been discovered. 207 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:00,840 I must say I was a bit taken aback and surprised at this, 208 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:03,840 because I was the only person in the hotel that night. 209 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,840 Sonja is not the only person to have experienced a presence of fear. 210 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:11,840 She was the only person in the hotel that night. 211 00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:13,840 I know, isn't she? 212 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,840 Sonja is not the only person to have experienced a presence of some kind. 213 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,840 Chef Duncan Poiser also had to sleep at the hotel one night. 214 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,840 His bedroom was also on the second floor. 215 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:30,840 I retired to bed at about one o'clock, 216 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,840 to lay on my back, gently drifting. 217 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:39,840 When I tried to turn, I couldn't move the bottoms of my legs. 218 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,840 It was as if someone or something was sitting on them, 219 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:45,840 but there was no one there. 220 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:47,840 I tried again a second time. 221 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:51,840 The third time, as if the weight lifted up, 222 00:15:51,840 --> 00:15:53,840 I was a little bit shocked and startled. 223 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,840 It was just a really strange experience, a really strange feeling. 224 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,840 So what could possibly be happening at Flittick Manor? 225 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:08,840 The first paranormal activity came with the help of a man, 226 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,840 who had been in the hotel for a long time. 227 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:16,840 The first paranormal activity came within days of the opening up of the hidden attic room. 228 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,840 Had the builders released something, some spirit, 229 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,840 which was now returning to its old haunting ground. 230 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:34,840 One clue may lie with this man. 231 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:36,840 He's now retired to his farm in Wiltshire, 232 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:40,840 but 50 years ago, John spent his childhood at the Manor. 233 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,840 My mother used to tell us when we were children, 234 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,840 that when she lay in bed at night, 235 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:54,840 she would hear a ghost knocking on the bedroom door. 236 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,840 There was also quite a few stories in the village 237 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:02,840 about the fact that Flittick Manor was haunted. 238 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:11,840 Those stories have been forgotten in recent times, 239 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:15,840 until the hurried departure of that hotel guest. 240 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:19,840 John Hines will never forget his stay at Flittick Manor. 241 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,840 I detected that there was something in the room with me. 242 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:36,840 I got a feeling that there was a presence there. 243 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:38,840 I can't describe it. 244 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,840 John Hines had checked into his room at Flittick, 245 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,840 following a business conference. 246 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:49,840 He went to bed around 1am. 247 00:17:55,840 --> 00:18:00,840 Five minutes later, something very heavy landed on the foot of the bed. 248 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:04,840 Fumbled around trying to find the light switch. 249 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,840 And there was nothing there, nothing there at all. 250 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:18,840 All these are crazy, John. You know, I could go back to sleep. 251 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:23,840 I've tried to settle down again. 252 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:38,840 A few minutes later, there was a shuffling at the bottom of the bed. 253 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:43,840 There was a silhouette of a person actually sitting at the foot of the bed. 254 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:45,840 I froze. I was petrified. 255 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:48,840 Who are you? What do you want? 256 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:53,840 No response from her. She just sat there gazing out towards the window. 257 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:56,840 I thought she was a little bit of a fool. 258 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,840 I consider myself to be a very skeptical person. 259 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:05,840 And I really can't believe that it was a ghost that I saw. 260 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:07,840 But I've no other explanation for it. 261 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:11,840 Is there anything in the history of Flittick Manor 262 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:14,840 which might explain why he was so scared to turn the lights off? 263 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,840 I consider myself to be a very skeptical person. 264 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,840 And I really can't believe that it was a ghost that I saw. 265 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:22,840 But I've no other explanation for it. 266 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:25,840 Is there anything in the history of Flittick Manor 267 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,840 which might explain the apparition? 268 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:35,840 Richard Morgan is another descendant of the Brooks family 269 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:38,840 who lived there throughout the 19th century. 270 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,840 He has made a detailed study of his family's history. 271 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,840 The first of the family to live here, John Thomas Brooks, kept a diary. 272 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,840 And that describes the life here. 273 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:55,840 It's quite clear that the most important event, as far as their diarist was concerned, 274 00:19:55,840 --> 00:20:01,840 was the death of a much-loved only daughter, Mary Ann Brooks, who was only 26. 275 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,840 This is the entry for the 20th of September, 1848. 276 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:12,840 I sat by her dying bed, watching her with the most intense earnestness and misery. 277 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:17,840 And at seven o'clock, her breathing having gradually become weaker and weaker, 278 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,840 she gently drew her last breath on earth. 279 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:24,840 They were all very shocked when the daughter died. 280 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,840 It was clearly a terrible shock to them all. 281 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,840 And I think the mother in particular, when was picked out as being a tragic figure, 282 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:33,840 she outlived her husband by 20 years. 283 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,840 She died aged 86 of senile decay. 284 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,840 And I think one has to say that she is rather a sad figure. 285 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,840 Could this woman's personal tragedy be linked to John Hein's ghostly sighting? 286 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,840 Or the events which happened the very next night? 287 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:58,840 Hotel receptionist Lydia Dawson had a night she'll never forget. 288 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,840 My heart was just beating so fast. 289 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:22,840 And I was just begging that she'd go away. 290 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,840 My heart was thumping the whole time. 291 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,840 I'd just never seen anything like it. 292 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,840 I came back into the room and I found that all the lights were on. 293 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,840 And I know I hadn't actually put them on myself. 294 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:05,840 I think the reason that I was actually so upset was I sensed that she was crying. 295 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,840 So she was upset, which was then causing me to feel upset. 296 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:15,840 And at Flittic Manor, the unexplained happenings continue even today. 297 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:22,840 Whoever she is, she's totally harmless and we've just got used to having her around. 298 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,840 Perhaps, but the staff don't like to stay over anymore. 299 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:30,840 Things have now quietened down at the Manor, but it just goes to show. 300 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,840 You ought to think twice before getting the builders in. 301 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,840 I'll be back next week with a special edition of Strange but True. 302 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:39,840 Until then, good night.