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Just touched everybody.

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This was a miracle.

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Be grateful.

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This time on Unexplained Mysteries, the angel files.

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A four-year-old boy falls out of a tree.

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He believes an angel saved his life.

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She had a long, white night count on.

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A woman gets hit by a truck.

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Find out what she sees just before impact.

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I saw this beautiful, beautiful person.

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You'll hear the uplifting story of a drug addict

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who claims an angel changed his life.

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It was like a being that was just outlined glowing.

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It said to me, you have been chosen.

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A policeman says goodbye to his dying mother,

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but he's convinced he was in the presence of others.

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Her bed was encircled by possibly 11, 12 different beings.

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A nurse watches a strange mist float above a dying man.

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And when the cloud went away, the patient dies.

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That was the angel who came after him.

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Some doctors believe angels may visit the dying.

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It's time to go.

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It's OK.

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A woman, declared dead, says she saw her grandmother's spirit.

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She says, Rinelle.

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Rinelle's grandma.

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A little girl, kidnapped and left to die in the desert,

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feels she was guided to safety by an angel.

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She hadn't grown around her.

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She was kind of up in the air.

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And her family believes the angel was the spirit

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of her younger sister.

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She said, I feel like Jessica was the one that was in the desert

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when I needed the help.

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Crazed gunmen terrorize a grade school

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and students testify that angels saved them.

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Should have been 160 people there.

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And we'll put all the facts together for you

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in the Unexed Report, right here on Unexplained Mysteries.

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Many Americans believe in the existence of angels.

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The latest Gallup poll shows that 65% of us believe in angels.

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75% of us who are between the ages of 18 and 25 believe in angels.

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Why does the belief in angels appeal to so many people

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in this day and age?

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Aids, a troublesome economy, a high divorce rate.

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Changing sex roles.

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All of these things make for an uncertain world.

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People are turning to angels in an attempt

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to find security, power, control, meaning in their lives.

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A four-year-old boy claimed he had an angelic experience.

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One day, he was climbing a tall tree.

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Suddenly, he lost his grip.

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I didn't think I was falling as fast as I should be.

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And so I looked down for the ground,

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and I was trying to turn over.

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And I heard a voice, and she was saying, don't look down.

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Don't look down.

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And there was a girl.

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She had a long, white nightgown on,

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and she had long, flowing hair.

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She said, don't look down.

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You'll get hurt.

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Look at me.

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You'll be OK.

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Wes doesn't remember the impact and says

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that lying on the ground.

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He felt peaceful.

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I took him to the doctors, and the doctor pointed to him

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and said, he felt the safest way possible.

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He impacted his shoulder and broke his collarbone.

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He said, anything else would have done major damage.

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Years later, Wes revealed his angelic encounter.

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I could sense that there was something

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he wasn't telling me.

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There is a conspiracy of silence in this country.

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As far as paranormal phenomena is concerned,

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people keep these stories close to the vest

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for fear of ridicule.

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Angels at the time were not part of our vocabulary,

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but this certainly meets my description

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of what an angel would be.

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Some experts feel an angel experience

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has a biological explanation.

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I think that it tends to be a physiologic event,

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sort of like a hallucination, but not as vague as a hallucination

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would be.

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But that doesn't explain all the reports

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of angelic encounters.

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Tens of me as a people are claiming

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to have had these experiences.

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Are they all deluded?

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If you have people who are pathologically hallucinating,

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you get individual, random, chaotically random stories.

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You don't have stories falling into a pattern.

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I don't know that I deserve some help,

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but for some reason, I got some help from somebody.

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While playing at a pool party in normal Illinois,

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another young boy claims he came into contact with an angel.

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And we had fastened water wings on Daniel,

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because he couldn't swim.

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Somehow, we really don't know when

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he took the water wings off.

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And he ended up in the deep end of the pool.

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He was just laying down at this little ball.

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Daniel nearly drowned.

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When he was revived, he made an unusual statement.

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He said, did you know that there was an angel,

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and there was a bright light?

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And the angel and the bright light were inside a tunnel.

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A tunnel with a light inside and an angel.

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Children seem to have a natural affinity for wonder.

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And so they're very open to the kinds of things

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that apparitions bring.

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Children aren't the only ones who claim angelic episodes.

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The ice cream truck just came fast.

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And I saw him so close.

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It was so close that I could see his face.

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But then I said, with all my heart, God, don't let me die.

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And right after that, I saw this beautiful, beautiful person.

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He was a male.

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And he was like when you see somebody in slow motion,

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just coming towards me at the same speed as the truck.

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But his hands were like this, stretched to me.

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The truck slammed into Estella.

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She suffered a number of injuries,

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including the loss of her leg.

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But surprisingly, felt no pain.

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I had no idea that I had lost my leg.

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I had broken ribs.

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I had a cut left long.

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I was conscious when I went to the hospital.

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I did not feel pain.

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I had peace with me.

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Experts believe angels appear to only certain people in need.

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My experience tells me that we have

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to get into enough pain in our lives

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before we're ready to move into healing and into transformation.

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The presence of angels is not limited to life-threatening events.

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I had a lot of hate.

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I reaped in hate.

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It radiated from me.

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My eyes were black from what I've been told by people that knew me.

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Darryl Conkren had two big problems, drugs and alcohol.

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He was a hellraiser.

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He was constantly in trouble.

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He was slowly working his way to either the prison or to be dead.

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When Darryl's younger brother, Mike, was shot dead in a drug deal

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and set on fire, Darryl went wild.

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I was on like a five-day bender, non-stop.

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And I remember sitting in my living room in the pain,

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dead and godly pain.

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And I fell on my hands and knees on the floor

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and I was puking blood.

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And all of a sudden, I felt a warmth and incredible warmth all over me.

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Darryl claims that's when he saw an incredibly brilliant light.

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There was an outline of a being.

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There was a voice.

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And it said, you have been chosen to be a light to others.

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And I knew then I'd finally fled.

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I'd lost it, gone right over the edge.

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The next thing I remember was this incredible feeling of peace.

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From that day forward, Darryl changed his life.

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He stopped drinking and taking drugs

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and he created a teenage anti-drug program.

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All this because Darryl feels he was visited by an angel.

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Whatever it was, that's been some sort of miracle.

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Darryl believes that his guardian angel or a guardian angel appeared to him.

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And with some sort of communication from the angel,

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he induced a transformation.

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Darryl felt that he'd be the last person to get angelic assistance.

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But his experience affects him to this day.

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The silhouette and this brilliance of light.

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It was like a being that was just outlined glowing.

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That said to me, you have been chosen.

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Me? I'm drunk. I've been chosen.

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I have a guardian angel in my life and it goes before me.

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Later on Unexplained Mysteries, The Angel of Death.

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The Angel of Death is a rather friendly and loving figure.

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A heart-edged policeman softens when beings appear as his mother dies.

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I believe that the figures were angels.

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A nurse tells of her frequent sightings of angelic creatures.

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I feel like you've been given a glimpse of the other side.

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And doctors report similar experiences.

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He told me that two nights before in a dream,

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he saw his mother and another figure.

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Husbands in life are burned in a plane crash.

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Both claim they saw an angel.

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I saw what was a strong muscular hand. It was transparent light.

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And he grabbed an invisible hand

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and he walked directly out of that plane across the wing tip.

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A young kidnapping victim that may have been helped by a kind spirit.

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And she saw the little spirit standing there.

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That helped her go the right way.

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Hostages say they survived a bomb blast with the help of angels.

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I saw this woman and she told me that to listen to that letter, it wouldn't be okay.

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The terrifying Angel of Death.

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The Angel of Death has been traditionally defined as any angel

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to whom God delegates the power to take a mortal's life.

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But now researchers believe that the Angel of Death is not always fearsome.

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The good news is that generally the Angel of Death

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contemplates the death of a man who is not a human being.

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And the angel of death is not always fearsome.

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The good news is that generally the Angel of Death,

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contrary to the darker legends, is a rather friendly and loving figure.

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Experts report a growing number of incidents

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where luminous beings appear at the time of death

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to ease the passage to the other side.

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I witnessed death quite often.

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Probably on the average of once a week.

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I've always been very skeptical of angels or any other claim of religious experience like that.

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Through my training as a police officer, I was trained to be skeptical of things.

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As Elman's mother lay dying, he did his best to make her comfortable.

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To know whether that is okay to die, I know that you're ready to go.

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I told her that I loved her and that she should enjoy the trip.

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It was time for her to go and that it was okay for her to go.

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And I think she was at peace when we talked about that.

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He felt the atmosphere change as if a gentle calm had enveloped the room.

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All of a sudden I was aware that her bed was encircled by

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possibly 11, 12 different beings completely encircling her bed.

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And these beings were dressed in a coarsely woven burlap-like cloak.

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And there was a very warm golden glow bathing the entire area.

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They were standing as a human being would stand.

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They were just very quiet and very still.

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And I could actually see through the beings that was on my left.

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Then his mother died.

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I've heard that the soul departs from the body before the body actually dies.

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So this may very well have been what I saw.

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The experience affected him profoundly.

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I believe that the figures were angels.

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And I believe that they came to escort my mother's soul to heaven.

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That's what I believe.

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People who work in the medical profession have numerous accounts of angels.

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They claim angels don't always appear in human form.

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Sometimes they appear as animals or other entities.

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A nurse saw a cloud floating above a dying man.

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And when the cloud went away, the patient died.

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And it's just always been my belief that that was the angel who came after him.

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Researchers insist that the cloud was the spirit of the man as he passed away.

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You just feel awe when you see something like that because you feel like you've been given a glimpse.

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A little bit of a glimpse of the other side.

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Many of Linda's patients have told her of angelic visions before they died.

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I've had them tell me that the angel came and took me and showed me heaven.

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Showed me where I was going.

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This is very common.

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In fact, it's more common for it to happen than for it not to happen.

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Other medical professionals are certain they've witnessed some kind of angelic event.

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I have seen patients reach moments of peace, not resignation with their death,

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but just acceptance about it and readiness to go on to the next phase.

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There's no medicine that's made them feel like that.

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It's just a spiritual something that's gone on inside of them.

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After observing so many of these encounters, Dr. Alexander is a firm believer.

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Every angel story I hear makes me believe more in angels.

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I mean, I believe when these people say they see something, I believe them.

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I wouldn't mind seeing an angel myself.

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Dr. Alexander's husband is also an internist.

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He had a strange visit from a patient.

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He told me that two nights before in a dream, he saw his mother and another figure.

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And they told him he was going to be dying on Sunday morning.

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But the patient was in perfect health.

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I just don't normally put people in the hospital unless they're very, very sick.

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And this is just the most unusual experience I have ever had.

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Making his rounds that Saturday night, Dr. Alexander confirmed his patient was doing well.

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And at 5 o'clock on Sunday morning, he took his last breath and he died.

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There was no explanation other than something supernatural having intervened.

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The doctors realize that the medical community doesn't share their opinion of angels,

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but they are firm believers.

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I believe that angels exist.

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I believe that there is a guardian angel for each of us, whether we see it or not.

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And I believe that there is another figure that can be interpreted as the angel of death

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that does come at the time of death, a very peaceful spirit.

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To let that person know it's time to go and it's okay.

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Next on Unexplained Mysteries, a short plane trip turns into a journey to the other side.

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She says, Rinal.

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Rinal, it's grandma.

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She had died two years before, am I dead?

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More doctors are convinced patients often get otherworldly help.

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We have guardian angels that watch over us and help us out whenever we are in need of help.

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A child in danger says she found safety through a spiritual guide.

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She had blonde hair and blue eyes and she had a glow around her.

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And her family believes the spirit was her unborn sister.

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I think it was me.

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I believe my sister, I was her angel.

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The amazing tale of the angels who saved schoolchildren from deranged gunmen.

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It was just like this total peace and this comforting feeling just touched everybody.

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It was just a feeling just to be relaxed and not to worry that you'll make it through it.

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And we'll get to the bottom of all the facts with the Unex Report on Unexplained Mysteries.

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Explore the world's greatest mysteries.

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From the classified government documents that claim UFOs exist to spontaneous human combustion.

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The smoke just started pouring out of my arm.

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Plus, madmen are werewolf.

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The ears began to point and he howled.

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On the next Unexplained Mysteries, the signs are everywhere.

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With Monarchy's All Changed Plus, you'll get an All Change.

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Plus a Tower Rotation.

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Plus a Break Inspection.

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Monarchy, Right Service, Right Price.

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Unexplained Mysteries, the Angel Files.

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Many people claim angels saved their lives.

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A husband and wife were in a horrific plane crash.

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Both say they experienced visitations from angels.

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It was to be a short flight of 15 minutes.

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It became a nightmare.

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I had had a vision the night before.

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It was real clear.

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It was what was going to happen the very next day.

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I woke up in a cold sweat and I sat up and Terry was sound asleep.

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I started getting very panicky and I woke him up and said,

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promise me no matter what happens tomorrow,

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we're not going to get back in that plane, right?

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When they checked out of the hotel, the front desk clerk also gave them a warning.

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She says, you're not going to fly today, are you?

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Yeah, we're just making a short flight.

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And she said, I really don't like the thought of you guys getting in that plane.

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Despite the clerk's apprehension, Rinal and Terry took off.

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Suddenly, the clear blue sky filled with clouds.

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It was though someone had taken a white sheet and just wrapped it tightly around the cockpit.

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Like fingers of clouds just came down and total, almost zero visibility.

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And I said, Terry, the ground, it's coming up.

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The whole horizon was coming right up at us.

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And then all of a sudden the mountain was there

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and that's why I just pulled back up and she started swimming in the ground.

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Quickly, Terry pulled up on the steering column,

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which caused us to belly flop against the mountain.

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As we did, parts of the plane started flying all over the place.

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The sparks were coming out on the wingtips.

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And I got sucked out onto the wingtip.

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I was completely involved in flames.

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My whole body was completely on fire.

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The burning planes skidded to a halt.

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Rinal was alive, but badly burned.

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Terry was more fortunate with injuries only to his hands.

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And he had seen something during the crash.

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I saw what was like a strong muscular hand.

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It was translucent, whitish, goldish, transparent like.

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Come like this.

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And I just felt peace and comfort from here that it wasn't going to get smashed.

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As I looked over at the flame, Terry stood up inside the flame

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and he grabbed an invisible hand

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and he walked directly out of that flame across the wingtip.

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I looked up at him amazed because he was unscathed.

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He says, where's the man that pulled me out, Rinal?

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Rinal and Terry now had to hike nearly six miles through snow to safety.

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The skin on my hands were causing me a lot of pain.

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At one point, I just couldn't take it anymore.

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And I just yanked both of them off.

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And I left them on the ground.

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Rinal had peeled the charred skin from her burnt hands.

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So we had to climb the barbed wire fences,

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basically bare hand, burnt, bare-handed and ripped,

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which was very difficult to do.

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And that's what was amazing to me is I just, I felt lead.

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I felt guided which way to go.

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They made it to a highway where a truck driver radiated paramedics.

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But in the ambulance, Rinal's body finally gave up.

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Her heart stopped.

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And all of a sudden, I just let go.

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And at that moment, I felt peace and it was quiet.

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And then in a quick moment, I was standing up.

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And as I looked, I could see these nurses all crowded around the skirny.

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I saw a hand fall off the gurney.

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And it was black and charcoal.

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And I realized whose hand that was.

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Rinal saw her life pass before her eyes.

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And as I started to look around, I saw a woman coming from the distance

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moving toward me.

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She had white hair.

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She was wearing a white dress.

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And she called out my name.

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She says, Rinal.

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Rinal is Grandma.

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Grandma?

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Yes, Rinal.

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It's me.

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She reached out her hand.

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Well, now wait a minute.

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It hit me.

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She had died two years before.

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Am I dead?

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Was this vision an angel?

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In the emergency room, a doctor was

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pronouncing Rinal legally dead.

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Rinal says her grandmother taught her vital lessons.

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I learned that love was not just this emotion

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that you feel in your body.

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It is an actual power that empowers your own soul

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and your own life.

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Rinal claims she then saw an image from the future,

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perhaps another angel.

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I saw a young man come from the distance.

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And he said, Mom, why are you here?

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Mom?

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Nathaniel.

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He says, I need you, Mom.

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You have to go back.

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At that moment, as I looked into his eyes,

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I realized I needed to set my own selfish needs aside.

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I said, I promise you, Nathaniel,

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I'll give you your chance.

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I promise.

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Then she let go of Rinal's hand.

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And just before I came into it, I

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could see my hand off to the side of the bed.

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And then when my spirit had come into it,

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I absolutely couldn't stand it.

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It was an instant pain.

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Rinal relied on the memory of Nathaniel

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to get her through the numerous surgeries

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and grueling physical therapy.

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She was a very motivated person.

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He became very goal-oriented and was sure

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that she was going to beat this.

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We have guardian angels that watch over us and help us out

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whenever we are in need of help.

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Rinal's difficult rehabilitation seemed

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to solidify the Wallace's marriage.

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Somehow it fused us together.

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It's like the hands were both burnt.

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They're both fused together.

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See, so we had the same matching mittens where people

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had their wedding rings and all that.

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We are, they match.

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And so what's happened was we kind of got fused.

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Years after she was declared dead,

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Rinal has survived to give birth to a son, his name, Nathaniel.

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Rinal and Terry now share her grandmother's words

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with others by visiting hospitals to comfort burn victims.

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Remember, I'm hearing my children's echoes down

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in the valley of thinking, that's why I lived.

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But this is the reason.

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Coming up on Unexplained Mysteries,

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a kidnapped young girl finds her way to safety

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with the help of a kindly spirit.

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She was telling me I'd be all right and that I'd be OK.

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Schoolchildren held at gunpoint believed

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that angels helped them overcome their fear.

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I guess you can explain it as peace.

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You know that nothing could happen to us.

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A mother is amazed by her daughter's story.

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I embraced her and she, at that point,

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stood in and told me, why did the angels say this?

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And a boy who is afraid of the truth.

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He just looked at me and said, Dad, you would believe me.

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I will tie it all up for you in our Unex reports.

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Here on Unexplained Mysteries.

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Unexplained Mysteries, the angel files.

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Angels are often credited with extraordinary rescues.

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A three-year-old girl is kidnapped.

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She was kind of a bouncy little kid, always into trouble,

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and always jumping on, always wanting hugs and kisses

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and jumping on you and mauling you.

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And she was always fun.

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The day that she was kidnapped, everything changed.

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Everything was different.

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It was just so imaginable.

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Mesa, Arizona.

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Rhonda Skidmore rushed to her son's school.

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I had to go to the school to help Robert.

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And so I took some things into the school

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and I left my little kids in the car.

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That's when a kidnapper made his move.

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When I came back, the little boy in the car that had been

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babysitting, I said, a man took her out of the car.

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And I looked around and she was nowhere.

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Over the next two days, police searched for the girl

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and her abductor.

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Back home, her brothers and sisters were desperate.

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Robert went to the front door and just screamed,

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trying to call her home.

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And he did that until his voice was totally spent.

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This incident occurred in fall time,

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which in Arizona, we see our greatest extremes,

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the extreme heat, the extreme cold.

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Children lose heat and become dehydrated very quickly.

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And it could even progress to a point of unconsciousness,

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what we call heat stroke.

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And a large percent of those patients could die.

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A thunderstorm forced the police to stop the search.

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Hope was fading.

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We actually had one of those reporters say,

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how will you feel when they find her dead body?

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But three days after her abduction,

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a hunter made a startling discovery.

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I was a honey quail.

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I hit one.

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Upon retrieving it, walking up to where it was laying,

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picked it up, looked across the wash to the left.

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And upon doing so, I saw her in the wash

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She had lots of scratches all over her legs, her arms and her knees.

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She wasn't walking very good because she was barefooted.

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Her feet were tore up.

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And I asked her if she wanted me to carry her.

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She replied, yes.

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It amazed me that she wasn't crying or whining about nothing.

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Not at all.

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Bingham took her to the police, who rushed her to the hospital.

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The young girl had been in the desert for three days and nights

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without food or water.

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They were very amazed that she survived that Thursday night

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because it was so cold and it was so windy.

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And they said that the exposure should have put her in a coma.

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Because of her weakened condition,

506
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,200
she should not have been able to survive it.

507
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,040
Doctors felt her survival was miraculous.

508
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,280
But that might not have been the only miracle.

509
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,360
She didn't really react to it.

510
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,680
She recognized this and just kind of stared at it.

511
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,880
And finally she said, I saw Heather playing.

512
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,960
Heather's a two-year-old young sister.

513
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:09,840
I'm done.

514
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,680
And that's all she said really so far.

515
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:13,480
She said, what?

516
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,560
Anything about the man that I'm playing?

517
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:21,480
She hasn't said anything other than I saw Heather playing.

518
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:22,240
We don't know.

519
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:24,480
There was no way Heather could have been there.

520
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,560
Gradually, the abducted girl began

521
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,400
to talk of her time in the desert.

522
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:30,800
She mentioned that she was really, really hungry,

523
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,520
really, really thirsty.

524
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,560
And her feet hurt because of all the cactus thorns.

525
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,000
And then she started talking about the little girl

526
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,520
that she saw in the desert.

527
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,120
But who was that little girl?

528
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:48,880
She had blonde hair and blue eyes.

529
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,880
And she was in white clothes.

530
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,400
And her hair was about shoulder length a little longer.

531
00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,000
And she hadn't glow around her.

532
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,080
And she wasn't standing on the ground.

533
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,320
She was kind of up in the air.

534
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,920
I felt like she was telling me it'd be all right.

535
00:30:08,920 --> 00:30:11,240
And that I'd be OK.

536
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,200
She believes the girl guided her to safety.

537
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,760
She was walking.

538
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,920
And she saw the little spirit standing there.

539
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,960
And it caused her to turn and walk a different direction.

540
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,560
And when she walked the other direction,

541
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,480
then that's when she found the hunter.

542
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:33,880
And she felt like that that helped her go the right way.

543
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,320
A year later, the Skidmore family got a new member,

544
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,000
a baby named Jessica.

545
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:45,400
Eventually, her older sister made a remarkable connection.

546
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,840
And she said, I feel like Jessica

547
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:53,680
was the one that was in the desert when I needed the help.

548
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,680
I think it was me.

549
00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:01,000
I believe my sister, I was her angel.

550
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,560
Did this little girl see an angel?

551
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,240
Did her sister's spirit guide her to safety?

552
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:11,360
I still think Jessica is my angel because I think

553
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,280
that she must love me.

554
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:20,120
And I think I love her more just because of what has happened.

555
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:23,200
Coming up on Unexplained Mysteries,

556
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,040
students are taken hostage.

557
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,920
Did angels come to the rescue?

558
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,280
Yes, this was a miracle.

559
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:30,160
It was a great fall.

560
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,400
There was an angel for everybody watching over that day.

561
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,680
Video evidence might prove the presence of angels.

562
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:40,280
I think there were angels in the room and the farm went on.

563
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,080
And we'll cap it off with our Unex report,

564
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,280
right here on Unexplained Mysteries.

565
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,640
Unexplained Mysteries, the angel files.

566
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,640
Angels seem to appear in desperate situations.

567
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:14,000
Children are taken hostage in a Wyoming school.

568
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,880
David and Doris Young walked into Cokeville Elementary School

569
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,360
with a deadly mission.

570
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:20,960
I said to them, is there something

571
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,240
I could do to help you, sir?

572
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,000
And he said, yes, ma'am, there certainly is.

573
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:26,200
This is a revolution.

574
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,120
Your school's being taken hostage.

575
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,160
Consider yourself a hostage.

576
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,760
If you'd looked in David Young's eyes, you knew it was no joke.

577
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,800
They're heavily armed, and a bomb is wired to David Young's body.

578
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,760
He said the bomb was capable of blowing up the entire building.

579
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,760
He said it will level this whole building and everyone in it.

580
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,600
The hardest part of the whole thing.

581
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:46,600
I'm so sorry.

582
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:47,600
I'm so sorry.

583
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:48,600
I'm so sorry.

584
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:49,600
I'm so sorry.

585
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:50,600
I'm so sorry.

586
00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,360
It was that I started out in this thing alone,

587
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:55,880
and I couldn't warn anyone.

588
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,280
The Young's took Christine to the first grade classroom

589
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:00,680
at gunpoint.

590
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:04,920
They forced the school's 153 students and teachers

591
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,720
into the tiny room.

592
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:08,320
He said, this is a revolution.

593
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,160
I'm holding you hostage.

594
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:15,960
And one of the girls in my class just went hysterical.

595
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:19,720
He demanded a ransom of $2 million for each hostage.

596
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,960
With police and parents waiting helplessly outside the school,

597
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,160
the tension inside the classroom increased.

598
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,880
We had children sick to their stomach, crying,

599
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,880
and asking their teachers, why can't we go home?

600
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,000
I want to go home.

601
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,680
Young put down tape in the shape of a square.

602
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,960
He and Doris sat inside it.

603
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,800
He said if anyone else stepped into the square,

604
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,680
he would set off the bomb.

605
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:47,880
Although he was acting more disturbed,

606
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,120
the children became calmer.

607
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,760
It was just like this total peace and this comforting

608
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:54,760
feeling just touched everybody.

609
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,760
I guess you could explain it as peace.

610
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:03,560
Always, you know, that nothing could happen to us.

611
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:08,160
It was just a feeling just to be relaxed and not to worry

612
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,160
that you'll make it through it.

613
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,160
Then the bomb went off.

614
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:17,000
The room was almost instantaneous black.

615
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,200
And we had teachers over there that were grabbing kids,

616
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,200
trying to get them out through the classroom windows.

617
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,200
I was letting her grab my hand,

618
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,200
and she pushed me out the window.

619
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:33,200
And I don't know if I would have made it out

620
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,200
because I was too afraid to move.

621
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:41,200
That was the most finding experience.

622
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,400
Not knowing how many had left,

623
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,400
if any, of my classmates.

624
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,400
Somehow, the bombers were the only ones to die.

625
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,400
And I heard Mr. Moore hoping to people start yelling,

626
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:57,400
you know, we're all here and we all counted well here.

627
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,400
It was a great moment.

628
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,400
We were very happy we were all alive.

629
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,400
Then the children started to tell strange accounts

630
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,400
of how they survived.

631
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:08,400
And I thought,

632
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,600
I just kind of looked out and I saw this woman

633
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,600
and she told me that to listen to my brother

634
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,600
and everything would be okay.

635
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,600
And I looked at her again and she wasn't there anymore.

636
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:21,600
And then my brother came over

637
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,600
and he told me to stay by the window

638
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,600
and everything would be okay.

639
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:27,600
And he walked back across the room

640
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:29,600
and that's when the bomb went off.

641
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,600
And I was like,

642
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,600
I'm gonna go get my kids.

643
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,600
I was like,

644
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:37,800
I'm gonna stay and he walked back across the room

645
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,800
and that's when the bomb went off.

646
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,800
Several weeks later, Katie was surprised

647
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,800
when she opened her mother's old locket

648
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,800
inside a photograph of her grandmother.

649
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,800
My mother had passed away when I was 15 and a half years old.

650
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,800
And I had very few pictures of her.

651
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,800
She looked at this woman in the locket

652
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,800
and said that's her, she is.

653
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,800
That's the woman that held me.

654
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,800
But Katie had never seen her grandmother.

655
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,000
When I saw the photo,

656
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,000
they told me that she died and I came to realization

657
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,000
that she had been sent to help me

658
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:12,000
and that she was my guardian angel.

659
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000
Other children started to come forward

660
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000
with similar accounts.

661
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,000
I did not want my own son

662
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,000
flesh and blood going around

663
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,000
saying that he's an angel.

664
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,000
To get to the truth,

665
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Hartley applied police techniques

666
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000
to his son Nathan.

667
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000
He said that

668
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000
he was sitting there

669
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,200
and all of a sudden these angels

670
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,200
came down through the

671
00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:38,200
ceiling

672
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,200
and one of them

673
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,200
came up to him

674
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,200
and just basically said

675
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:46,200
Nathan, I'm your

676
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,200
great-grandmother

677
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:50,200
and what David and Doris

678
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,200
are doing

679
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:54,200
is wrong.

680
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,200
And

681
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,200
he said the bomb's gonna go off.

682
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,200
He said the bomb's gonna go off.

683
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,400
Hartley showed his son

684
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,400
a picture of his great-grandmothers.

685
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,400
He says that's her.

686
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:08,400
He says that's my guardian angel.

687
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:10,400
He pointed to my grandma, Elliot.

688
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,400
I says

689
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,400
Nathan, I says,

690
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,400
why didn't you tell us this before?

691
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,400
And

692
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,400
he just looked at me

693
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,400
and he says, dad,

694
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,400
you would believe me.

695
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,400
Bom experts said the explosion

696
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,400
should have destroyed the entire

697
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:30,600
classroom and everyone in it.

698
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,600
It should have been

699
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,600
160 people dead.

700
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,600
But someone or something

701
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,600
saved the hostages' lives.

702
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,600
A videotape made

703
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,600
after the blast

704
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,600
reveals a strange image burned into the wall.

705
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,600
The children

706
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,600
said it is the exact spot

707
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:50,600
where one of the angels was standing.

708
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:52,600
They're convinced they had help.

709
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:54,600
It was a sign

710
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:56,600
showing us, you know, that, yes,

711
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:58,800
this was a miracle.

712
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,800
Be grateful.

713
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,800
I think there were angels in the room

714
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:04,800
when the bomb went off

715
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,800
until the image was impacted on the wall.

716
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:08,800
There's

717
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:10,800
absolutely no way that we could have made

718
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,800
it through that

719
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,800
without some kind of help.

720
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,800
Next on Unexplained Mysteries,

721
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,800
we summon all up

722
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,800
in our Unexed Report.

723
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,800
The angels that might have saved children in peril.

724
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,000
The spirit that turned a drug addict's life around.

725
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,000
The beings that a policeman claims he saw

726
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,000
when his mother died.

727
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,000
The plane crash victim who may have

728
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,000
glimpsed the other side.

729
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:41,000
And the little girl who could have been

730
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,000
saved by an angel.

731
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,000
This and more

732
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
when Unexplained Mysteries returns.

733
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,000
The Unexed Report are their angels.

734
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000
People from all ages and backgrounds

735
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000
claim that angels have saved their lives.

736
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,000
A child fell out of a tree.

737
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,000
He says an angel helped him.

738
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,000
She had a long white night down on

739
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000
and she had long flowing hair.

740
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000
She said, don't look down.

741
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,000
You'll get hurt.

742
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,000
Look at me. You'll be okay.

743
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000
When another child nearly drowned

744
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,000
she said,

745
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,400
a woman was crushed by a runaway truck

746
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,400
but not before she saw a beautiful figure

747
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:30,400
moving towards her.

748
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,400
His hands were like this.

749
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,400
Stretched to me.

750
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,400
When a drug addict hit rock bottom

751
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,400
he says he was visited by a benevolent creature

752
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:40,400
who changed his life.

753
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,400
There was a outline

754
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,400
of a being.

755
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,400
All of a sudden there was a image

756
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,400
of a human being.

757
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,400
He said,

758
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:52,400
he was a human being.

759
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,800
All of a sudden there was a voice

760
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,800
and it said you have been chosen

761
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,800
to be a light to others.

762
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,800
A police officer claims

763
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,800
he saw angels when his mother died.

764
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,800
All of a sudden

765
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,800
I was aware that her man

766
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,800
was encircled by

767
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,800
possibly 11,

768
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:12,800
12 different beings.

769
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,800
A nurse maintains

770
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,800
she saw a cloud hovering over a dying man.

771
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,800
He's just always been my belief

772
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,800
that that was the angel who came after him.

773
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,200
Doctors familiar with death

774
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,200
are convinced that angels exist.

775
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,200
I mean, I believe

776
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,200
when these people say they see something

777
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,200
I believe them.

778
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,200
A Utah woman had a nightmarish premonition.

779
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,200
I had had a vision the night before

780
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,200
and I said Terry, wake up.

781
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,200
Promise me no matter what happens tomorrow

782
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,200
we're not going to get back in that plane, right?

783
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,200
After being declared dead

784
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,200
the woman had a vision.

785
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,200
She had white hair

786
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,200
she was wearing a white dress.

787
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,600
It hit me she had died two years before.

788
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:53,600
Am I dead?

789
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:55,600
An innocent child was kidnapped.

790
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,600
She insists that a beatific little girl

791
00:40:57,600 --> 00:40:59,600
saved her life.

792
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:01,600
She hadn't glow around her

793
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,600
and she wasn't standing on the ground.

794
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:05,600
She was kind of up in the air.

795
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,600
When a pair of gunmen

796
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,600
took a school hostage

797
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:11,600
several students reported that

798
00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:13,600
angels helped them survive a bomb blast.

799
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,600
There's absolutely no way

800
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,600
that we could have made

801
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,000
it through that without

802
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,000
some kind of help.

803
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000
But some scientists believe there is a human

804
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,000
explanation for angelic visions.

805
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
I think that it tends to be

806
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000
a physiologic event

807
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,000
sort of like a hallucination

808
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000
but not as vague

809
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000
as a hallucination would be.

810
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:38,000
Witnesses describe all sorts of encounters

811
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,000
with angels

812
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,000
at terrible accidents

813
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,000
while working with the dying

814
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,000
and during near-death experiences.

815
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,400
Or do angels really exist?

816
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:50,400
For now, those answers must remain

817
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,400
an unexplained mystery.

818
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,400
I believe that angels exist.

819
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:56,400
I believe that

820
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,400
there is a guardian angel for each of us

821
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,400
whether we see it

822
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,400
or not.

823
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,400
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