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This program is about unsolved mysteries. Whenever possible, the actual family members

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and police officials have participated in recreating the events. What you are about

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to see is not a news broadcast.

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Today near England's ancient monolith at Stonehenge, an extraordinary phenomenon is

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occurring that defies all explanation. Bizarre perfectly formed circles are appearing overnight

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in scores of wheat fields across the country. Experts have no idea how they have been formed,

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only that they seem to have no human or natural origin. Who or what is responsible for their

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creation?

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In a small town in Colorado, two friends vanished without a trace under the same bizarre circumstances

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and oddly, these same events were foretold in a novel one was writing about the other.

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On a North Carolina highway, four men were stalked and driven off the road in a savage

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high-speed chase. What could have been the motive for this vicious, hit-and-run killing?

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Also tonight, the heartwarming story of a reunion between a young woman and the loving family

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that she was separated from 13 years ago. On the very night of our broadcast, Sharon Stevens

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found her long lost foster parents.

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Stonehenge, the great megalithic monument in Southern England. Stonehenge is only one

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of hundreds of such monuments scattered throughout Britain. For centuries, his puzzling formations

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have baffled scientists and laymen alike, but recently scientists have identified another

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phenomenon that may relate to the mysterious British monuments.

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Stonehenge is the largest and most important monument in the world. It is the largest

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monument in the world, and it is the largest monument in the world.

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Wheat circles.

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This photograph was taken recently in England. It shows circles and wheat fields seem simple

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enough, but in fact they are not simple at all. No one knows how these enigmatic circles

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got there. Molded gently from unbroken stalks of wheat and corn, they may just represent

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one of the most intriguing unsolved mysteries of the century. Nearly 95% of the circles

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occur within 30 miles of Stonehenge, and all the rest are near other stone monuments

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similar to Stonehenge. Are the circles caused by something we can explain like whirlwinds,

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or are they caused by something we cannot even begin to understand?

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Charity Down, a farm two hours drive from London, England. In the early morning hours

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of June 15, 1988, 37-year-old farmer Chris Wood slowly drove a tractor through one of

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his wheat fields. Just after sunrise, he saw something in the field that he had never

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seen before. He couldn't explain it. A huge circle had appeared in the wheat.

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It was really, really amazing, you know, how the actual crop was laying on the ground,

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and it was so perfect, really. The circle Chris Wood found that morning has never been

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explained. During the last 12 years, more than 750 large, perfectly symmetrical circles,

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some of them as big as 100 yards in diameter, have formed overnight in seemingly random

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fields of wheat, corn and other crops. The question no one can answer is, how did the

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circles get there? The first circle I found was in 1985, August

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the 3rd, at about 7 o'clock in the evening. It was the last sort of flight of the night,

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and we were flying around, and as the aircraft banked around to the right, I looked into

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the wingtip, and there below me was this beautiful quintuplet set, a large circle with full smaller

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ones around it. I marveled at this sight, and I questioned myself then, what on earth

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did that? We were harvesting, it was the last day of harvest. We went out there with the

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combines in the morning to cut our last field, and we come across this circle. There was

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no real damage as such, the corn was flattened down. It was just odd, strange.

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Well I've been here since October 1957, and the first circles we saw were, I would say

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72, 73. That was a small circle, about 4 yards across, and then we saw another one the following

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year, about the same size, and as the years have gone on, we've seen them 12 yards across,

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with the small ones either side of them. They vary in diameter, the smallest we've had

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would be about 5 metres, the largest would be, I suppose, 15 perhaps. They have a neat,

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perfect pattern from a centre where it's flattened. The edges are very distinct.

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The most wonderful thing about it is when you actually go out the night before to look for

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a circle, and there's nothing there, it's just a lovely field of growing corn, and then the

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following morning, when you get up early in the morning in the first light of day, and

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suddenly there is the circle, you just can't believe it.

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The circles are never cut, they are pressed down in a swirling pattern that runs both clockwise

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and counterclockwise. The crop is not damaged, it continues to grow and can be harvested

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normally. Strangely, no unusual footprints or tire tracks leading up to the circles have

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ever been found. Some circles occur with a smaller satellite circle, others appear in

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groups of three or four. Intricate symmetrical patterns like this one have five small circles

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arranged around the larger one in a cross pattern. Other circles are surrounded by concentric

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rings. Most amazing of all are the circles with both satellites and rings.

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We've got a flare here, a radial flare here, and of course by moving the axis you've got

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the opposite coming in from the other end. That's right, and that seems to be the heart

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of all these spirals, whether it's... Pat Delgado, an electromechanical design engineer,

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has written a book about the circles along with Colin Andrews. The two men have spent

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over a decade studying the phenomenon. The number of circles are increasing dramatically.

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We were receiving reports in the order of two or three a year in the late 70s, 10, 11,

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12, 15 or so in the early 80s. Then last year we saw a dramatic increase, 98 circles in

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five months of last summer. This year we have now got in Southern England 270 formations

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and we have fields in which we don't have five or six, but 28 of these circles have

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appeared in a period of four or five weeks. They occur in all weather conditions. We have

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found no correlation in meteorological data at all to connect them with any particular

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meteorological weather condition or weather phenomenon.

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We have invited many professional scientists of various disciplines to help us in this

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investigation and quite rightly so, they start off with considering that it could be a hoax.

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One of the scientists, respected astronomer Dr. Archibald Roy of Glasgow University in

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Scotland, began studying the circles in 1980. No one really knows why these circles are

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appearing. I think that the interesting thing is that no one theory so far seems to fit the

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bill. There are quite a number of them. There is the frankly unacceptable one of circles

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being formed by hundreds of hedgehogs all marching around in circles. Another one is

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that they are the foot pad marks of flying saucers. Another is that they are due to the

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downdrafts of helicopters or that they are caused by whirlwinds or that they are hoaxes

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by human beings. There are so many of them. I think that it is very reasonable for a person

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to say, look, these are hoaxes because they look so artificial. But I don't think that

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the hoax theory can be held very strongly because there are so many of these circles.

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Now in eight or nine years, it has logged about 700, 250 this year, this summer alone.

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The amount of time that has to be spent by a very big team of people making those circles

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is getting quite enormous. I simply don't see the hoax theory as a very strong contender.

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As part of a televised experiment, British military personnel attempted to create an

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artificial crop circle. In all instances where something mechanical is used to flatten the

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crop, you will damage it. And we can walk into a circle and very, very quickly determine

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whether it's hoaxed, that is mechanically made, or it is a naturally created one.

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When we examine a naturally made circle, the portion of plant that just comes out of the

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ground must be softened, bent over, and then hardened up again. So not only is a mystery

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in the circle itself, but what is it that is softening the plants, bending it over,

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and then hardening up again? This is a real mystery.

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If the circles are not a hoax, what is creating them? Several theories have been put forward

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and discarded. There is no evidence of a fungus or other natural organic cause. Aerial infrared

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photography has shown that there are no underground formations, neither sinkholes nor rocks nor

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foundations of ancient buildings that might create the patterns. Some scientists have theorized

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that whirlwind vortexes might create the circles, but other scientists as well as farmers believe

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that whirlwinds could not create such neat punched out shapes.

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Regardless of what causes a circle, they all seem to form overnight. Their appearance is

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often linked after the fact to sightings of bright lights in the night sky. One such

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sighting occurred on July 6th, 1985, when Pat and Jack Collins were driving through

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a stretch of farmland near Stonehenge.

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We'd been out the evening and on our way back about 11 o'clock at night, we saw this

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circle with lights all the way around the edge. He said, cool, look at that. I said,

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good gracious, I said, whatever can it be? And so we said it couldn't be, you know, a

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flying saucer or anything, because, well, not knowing what one would look like, but

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I mean, it was, you know, our feelings that it could have been one.

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Colin Andrews believes that the colored lights Jack and Pat saw in the night sky were related

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to two different sets of crop circles.

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The same night as they saw this extraordinary clustering of lights over that side, a quintuplet

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set appeared in a field just a few miles to the east near Oldsford, and the same kind

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of formation was found just a few days later in a very remote spot south of Andover, and

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the alignment of those two sides took us directly over the top of the Collins's particular

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sighting.

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Having said that, we haven't actually seen one of these this year.

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In an attempt to find out how, in fact, a crop circle does form, 50 British scientists

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convened last summer for a surveillance operation.

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We've been told so many times that all these circles are hoaxes, and so all we had to do

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was to find one circle created in circumstances where no human beings were around to disprove

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that theory.

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And so we set up a watch with electronic equipment, video cameras, light and densification, and

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so on for eight days and nights on a field where circles had appeared most years out

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of the past eight or nine.

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And we hoped that a circle would appear under those circumstances.

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It didn't, and the fascinating thing to me is that during the eight days of the watch

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on that field, not only did no circle appear in that field, but as far as we know, no circles

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appeared elsewhere in the south of England, although the 91 had appeared before the watch

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was set up, and since the watch has been set up, something like 150 have appeared.

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I think it's almost certain that whatever is creating the circles was aware of the

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watch, and that means that there must be some sort of intelligence at work.

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And of course, then you say, well, what is it?

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And I haven't the faintest idea.

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That's a terrible noise, this is you standing in the centre.

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You're getting a noise here.

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Very, very bad.

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No, no crop circles formed.

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The project did produce one significant finding.

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Well, what happened was that Pat and myself were being interviewed in the largest circle

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we'd ever seen when the sound man detected an electronic warbling noise which came onto

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the sound equipment.

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I know what it did.

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I could feel it.

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It's like a ball around the edge.

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And Pat, who was stood just off of the centre of the formation inside the circle, could

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actually physically feel an energy field right alongside him.

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When he stepped into that energy field, the noise picked right up and when Pat stood out

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of the barrier, it diminished.

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It was very extraordinary.

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It is very significant.

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We do now have a noise component associated with this extraordinary phenomenon.

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Logic seems to yield no explanation for the crop circles.

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Is it possible the Stonehenge and the other concentric ring monuments scattered across

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Britain are related to an ancient appearance of the circles?

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A lot of the circles appear in the vicinity of the great megalithic monuments of southern

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England.

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Now, if these circles have been appearing for, let's say, 5,000 years, then they would

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have been appearing in the wheat fields and corn fields of the megalithic farmers.

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What would they have made of them?

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Would they have said, these are signs from the gods?

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Perhaps we should build monuments which mimic these circles and so they would build things

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like Stonehenge.

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It's an intriguing possibility.

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And so we badly need to know if these circles have been appearing earlier than, let's say,

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10 years ago.

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So far, 700 circles have appeared here in a triangle with Stonehenge roughly in the

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center.

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None of these circles is more than 30 miles from Stonehenge itself and all of the British

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circles appear somewhere near a stone ring monument.

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There has to date been no photographic evidence of circles occurring outside Britain, but

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experts speculate that there might be crop circles in other countries.

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We would ask any farmer, any landowner, any member of the public, military or otherwise,

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in America to report sightings of these extraordinary ground markings back to us.

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It is most important.

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It is most significant.

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There's got to be an intelligently manipulated inexplicable energy used here and we don't

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know the first thing about it, but it's there.

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I haven't the faintest idea what is causing these circles.

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I find them a most intriguing and entertaining mystery.

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If we don't know something, then it means that our model of reality, our model of the

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world is inadequate.

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And so as a scientist, I feel that they should be studied.

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In elucidating what is causing them, we must learn something.

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If only about the psychology of human beings, for example.

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Since we originally broadcast this story, over 500 new circles have been discovered,

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not only in English wheat fields, but in crop fields in several other countries, including

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the United States.

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In some cases, the formations have grown more elaborate in design.

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One of the most interesting of the new formations was found last May in Wiltshire County in

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Central England.

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For the first time, the mysterious circles were accompanied by large, deeply furrowed

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rectangles, creating a symmetrical design.

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We're told by the British Museum that pictogram is the term that we should be using, and that

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was the first pictogram ever.

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Last June, an even more elaborate formation appeared overnight in a field, which witnesses

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say was completely untouched the day before.

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What we were looking at here was three pictograms, giving us the largest formation ever seen

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anywhere in the world.

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Due to the sheer size and elaborate design of this formation, Andrews is convinced that

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it is not man-made.

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We were looking at a marking which was about one-eighth of a mile long.

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Now, if you consider that under controlled conditions, it takes a team of 12 people to

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create something like a hundred foot diameter circle.

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A straightforward, simple circle takes something like six hours for them to construct this.

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We were looking at a huge team of people working that night in the hours of darkness, which

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are only seven hours at this time of the year, in a location which can be seen from vantage

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points all around.

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We had gamekeepers covering that area over on four farms.

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Nobody saw anything.

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In an attempt to capture the creation of a circle on film, a surveillance project known

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as Operation Blackbird was organized this past July.

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For three weeks, scientists and other experts monitored one of the most active locations.

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Amazingly, four circles did form while cameras were rolling.

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Although two of the formations were dismissed as hooks, the other two appeared to be legitimate.

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We had two genuine circles appeared in front of the monitoring equipment, and the footage

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secured during those events are now being enhanced and are being analyzed.

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This footage will not be released until the analysis is complete.

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Botanists recently studied the cellular structure of plant samples removed from inside the circles

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with plant samples found outside the formations.

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When scientists compared the samples, they were amazed at the difference.

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Samples taken from outside the circles had cloudy crystals in an erratic pattern.

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Plant samples taken from inside the formations had distinctively clearer crystals and a much

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more deliberate pattern.

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I think the discrepancies are caused by some supernatural force which has been applied

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to that particular part of the ground which produces these patterns.

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We have here a structure of a plant which has changed.

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Human feet cannot do that.

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The downwash from a helicopter cannot do that, and nor can a stationary whirlwind.

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So we're looking here at major clues in the last few months of this year.

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Perhaps the most amazing development in this case is the discovery of these mysterious

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circles outside of England.

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We're picking up increases in the states, in Australia in particular, even one or two

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more in the Arctic Circle.

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It's most important now that researchers around the world group, regroup and coordinate our

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approach to this extraordinary but very exciting mystery.

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Often an unexplained phenomenon is simply dismissed as a hoax for the product of someone's

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overactive imagination.

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But in the case of these crop circles, there is irrefutable physical evidence which suggests

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that some intelligence is at work.

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But who and why remains an unsolved mystery?

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In a moment the story of a high speed chase has left one man dead and three others badly

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injured.

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This accident was no accident.

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During the Christmas season of 1988, four men were driven off the road in a hit and

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run incident that occurred near Greensboro, North Carolina.

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One young man was dead, another maimed for life.

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Could this shocking incident have been motivated by racism?

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The victims were black, and the assailant was white.

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No matter what the motive, police want to find the man responsible.

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It all began in the quiet afternoon of December 23, 1988.

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The time was 2 p.m. in a suburban neighborhood in Greensboro.

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19-year-old Ken Dungey was picked up by three of his friends on route to do some last-minute

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Christmas shopping.

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The four young men planned on driving the hour-and-a-half trip to Raleigh on the I-40

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highway.

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Behind the wheel of his father's Plymouth Duster was 17-year-old Laverne Allen.

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Allen had just received a scholarship to the Air Force Academy, fulfilling a lifelong

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dream.

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Ken Dungey was a drafting and engineering student bound for college in the fall.

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17-year-old Kenneth Newkirk was in the back seat.

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Kenneth had recently received a scholarship to a local college.

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Kenneth's cousin, 17-year-old Darius Bannerman, was a high school basketball star.

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On their way to the shopping mall, the four passed a car driven by Grady Alexander.

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When they went by me, they were doing about 60-65.

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They were carrying all that kids do.

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High school kids, they were just in a lot of movement in the car.

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I looked over and one of the boys saw me looking at him.

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He'd grin and wave and the car kept on going.

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After that, another car came off of me very fast.

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As he got by me, I happened to look down at the license plate and I saw the red neck

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from Georgia because his hair looked like it was dirty and greasy and stringy.

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He was probably doing 25-80.

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Grady noticed that there were two people in this Monte Carlo.

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A few moments later, the occupants of the Plymouth noticed the blue car closing in at

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a high rate of speed.

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When I looked in the rearview mirror, I saw a car and he was so close to me, I could

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not see his front bumper.

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That's how close he was to me.

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At first I just thought of his, somebody just tailgating, just riding close.

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We're here from basketball practice.

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Darius was napping in the front seat.

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I was sleeping and everyone in there was talking about this guy is following us.

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At first, I didn't think anything of it, but the guy was extremely close to the point

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where it was like right on our bumper.

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He bumped us and it didn't seem as though this was all happening.

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It just seemed, it was like horror.

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Traffic was moving fast and we speeded up to get away from the guy.

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The man driving the Monte Carlo, he had a look of, you know, like we had done something

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personal to him.

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It was just the real, just crazy like look, like mad.

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It just looked like he wanted to hurt us.

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Hey!

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A few minutes later, at 3.30, police and paramedics arrived at the accident site.

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They found a horrific scene.

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Laverne Allen was trapped in the car for half an hour.

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After being airlifted to a trauma center, his leg was amputated at the thigh.

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Ken Newkirk had suffered a fractured skull and a broken leg.

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Darius Bannon had a broken wrist and facial injuries.

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Ken Dungey was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Beth Villaquette was the first reporter on the scene.

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She spoke with witnesses who described the assault.

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Both of the eyewitnesses said that after the car, black car went off the road, the Monte

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Carlo did pull over to the side.

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The man and a woman got out, just for a moment and looked back and then they just got back

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in the car and drove off.

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I believe he said they sped off as, you know, not to get help or anything.

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He felt that they had left to get away.

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I swear he laughed when he got in the car and left.

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I thought.

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I swear he did.

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Georgia Plates.

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Georgia Plates.

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Real greasy blonde hair.

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Ugly.

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Ugly dude.

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Yeah.

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Because of a lack of evidence, the police were reluctant to treat the incident as a crime,

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although the victims believed that it was a murder.

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Well when I think about the accident, it's a lot of different feelings.

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It's mainly anger because it shouldn't have happened, you know.

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It's frustration because the guy that was driving the Monte Carlo has not been found.

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Unsolved mysteries commissioned this composite of the suspect.

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The driver of the Monte Carlo appeared to be in his late 20s with a mustache and brown

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stringy hair.

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He was traveling with a woman in her mid-20s with blonde hair.

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The watered vehicle is described as a light blue Monte Carlo with Georgia license plates.

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I know how it happened.

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I know when it happened, but I don't know why it happened.

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Until I understand that, it would never be too bad.

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In a moment of heartwarming update and family reunion.

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For Sharon Stevens, childhood was a vicious cycle of loneliness and abuse.

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Her mother died when Sharon was just three months old, and Sharon continually suffered

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severe beatings at the hands of her alcoholic father.

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In 1959, Sharon was taken away from her father and later sent to live with foster parents

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Bill and Cynthia Zelinski.

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You've had a big day, and I know it's...

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But the Zelinski's home, Sharon experienced love and kindness for the first time.

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They really knew how to parent, and they went all out, you know, to make me happy.

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I felt very special for one of the first times in my whole life.

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So I started to change in the right, respectful way.

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They taught me respect.

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They taught me how to, you know, respect other people and myself, and that they brought myself

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a steam up, and because I had a very low self-esteem about myself.

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But just one year after she arrived, Sharon's happy life with the Zelinski's came to an

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end.

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A court ordered that she be returned to her father.

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Sharon never lived with the Zelinski's again, but she will never forget how their love and

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understanding inspired her.

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I know if it hadn't been for them, I probably would have been a child abuser, a drug addict,

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a prostitute.

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I feel I would have turned out very bad if it hadn't been for them.

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I would like to be reunited with the Zelinski's to tell them how much I appreciate what they've

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done for me in the past, and it's a dream, a hope, a fantasy, whatever you want to call

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it, but I've got to find these people and I've got to say thank you.

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For 13 years, Sharon tried to find the Zelinski's, but was unable to locate them.

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And just minutes after her story aired, Sharon's search came to an end.

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Bill and Cynthia Zelinski were watching our broadcast and called our telecenter.

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We immediately put Sharon in contact with Bill and Cynthia and they made arrangements

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for a reunion.

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On November 25, Sharon arrived at the Zelinski home in Laguna Niguel, California and met Bill

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and Cynthia for the first time in almost 30 years.

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Hi, Sharon.

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Hi.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Bill and Cynthia, who are now retired, were shocked when they saw Sharon's story.

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Nice to see you.

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When you see your own life, part of your life history unfolding on national television,

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your mind goes blank.

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You don't hear anything else that's going on, but your mind goes back to 30 years ago

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and all the memories that it brings back.

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I was very optimistic that someone out there, their friends, relatives, neighbors, someone,

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if not their self, would see it.

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And I was very surprised that they themselves called him.

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And this got goosebumps when I found out, and I still get goosebumps.

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OK, everybody smile and give me a pretty pose.

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For Sharon, the reunion with the Zelinski's was a long-awaited chance to say thank you

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for the inspiration and courage they gave her as a young girl.

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Making a difference in somebody's life is nice.

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It's the only way to describe it.

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You feel like there was a reason for what happened.

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At the time, you don't know it, but now you realize there was a reason for what happened.

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10 more minutes, right?

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It's the only dream that I've ever had is to find the Zelinski.

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And it feels great.

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And it's like a dream come true.

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In a moment, the bizarre case of a riot last night,

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they have foretold his own disappearance.

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In the heart of the steep majestic Colorado Rockies lies the tiny village of Silver Plume,

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population 130.

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On September the 7th, 1987, Tom Young closed up his bookshop on Silver Plume's main street,

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and along with his dog Gus, disappeared.

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Nine months later, a newcomer to Silver Plume, Keith Reinhart,

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opened an antique shop at exactly the same main street location.

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On August the 7th, 1988, Keith Reinhart closed up his shop for the day.

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Less than two hours later, Keith Reinhart also disappeared.

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Not only had Tom Young and Keith Reinhart rented the exact same space to run their shops,

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there were also other startling coincidences.

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Both men were in their late 40s going through a sort of midlife crisis.

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Both firmly established an alibi before they disappeared,

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and one of them was writing a novel about the other.

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Could these two mysterious disappearances, less than a year apart, be connected?

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For 23 years, Keith Reinhart worked as a sports reporter for a suburban Chicago newspaper.

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In 1988, Keith Reinhart grew long hair and a beard.

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In June, he began a three-month sabbatical in Silver Plume.

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Keith's goals were to get in shape by mountain climbing,

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to overcome his fear of heights, and to begin writing a novel.

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Keith's old friend Ted Parker ran a café in Silver Plume.

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During his sabbatical, Keith wanted to try running an antique shop geared towards summer tourists.

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If it was successful, he hoped that he and his wife could relocate their premises.

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Hey, Keith, you turkey. I was wondering when you'd show up.

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Hey, everybody, how you doing?

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Aw, man, it's good to see you. You're looking great.

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Keith Reinhart and I grew up across the street from each other.

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We'd known each other about 40 years, and I would say that our relationship was similar to that of brothers.

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Keith was apprehensive and excited, both about turning 50.

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He was here to finish out the last of his forties in the way that he'd dreamed of.

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He felt that very soon he would be starting to get old.

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He felt he was still young, but he didn't have much time for being young left.

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He didn't want to be sitting in a rocking chair 10 years, 20 years from now,

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saying, I should have done this, I should have done that.

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He wanted to do some things that he could do before he was too old to do them.

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Nine months earlier, a Keith's antique shop had been a bookstore.

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The proprietor was Tom Young.

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Tom had been renting the space for nearly a year when he and his dog Gus mysteriously disappeared.

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Tom Young had told people he was going on a European vacation,

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so three weeks went by before anyone suspected that Tom's absence was suspicious.

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Yeah, but he wouldn't be in Europe after a year, would he? I think somebody could have done that.

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Keith Reinhardt became obsessed by the unexplained disappearance.

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We're going to do it. We'll dump him down one of these mineshafts up here.

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You think so? Yeah.

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He began talking to everyone in Silver Plume who had known Tom.

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People do it every day.

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Yeah, but he's a nice guy.

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He decided to base the novel he was planning to write on Tom Young.

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When he began the novel, Keith created a character named Guy Gypsum,

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who was a composite of himself and Tom Young.

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Sometimes it seemed hard for Keith to tell the difference.

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The disappearance of Tom Young.

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My father, he was very, very into it.

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He was talking about it all the time.

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Writers like to live the story they're writing about,

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get a feel of it so it's easier for them to write about it.

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Maybe my father, it's always possible,

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wanted to feel what it's like to, you know, to disappear

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so he could write about it.

451
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Hey, Vic, come on down here. I found something.

452
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,880
Yeah, what do you got?

453
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:19,880
Looks like a backpack.

454
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,880
On July 31, 1988, ten months after Tom Young had disappeared,

455
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,880
two hunters on Republican Mountain just one and a half miles

456
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,880
outside Silver Plume found the remains of Tom and his dog.

457
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,880
Each had died from a bullet wound to the head.

458
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:39,880
They were up there exploring some territory for the bow hunting season,

459
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:42,880
which was coming up and they found his remains.

460
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,880
Also found at the scene was a revolver.

461
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:51,880
In subsequent investigation, we found out that Tom had purchased a gun

462
00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:57,880
approximately four days before he was last known to be in Silver Plume.

463
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:02,880
The Tom Young case is closed and it has been ruled a suicide,

464
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:07,880
both by the coroner's office and by the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Department.

465
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,880
One week after Tom's body was found, Keith Reinhart walked through Silver Plume

466
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,880
in the middle of the afternoon, telling everyone he saw that he was going to

467
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,880
climb to the top of nearby Pendleton Mountain.

468
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,880
Most did not take him seriously.

469
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,880
They knew he had a fear of heights and dislike climbing alone.

470
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,880
At 4 p.m. Keith went to Ted Parker's Cafe.

471
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:47,880
The day Keith disappeared, he was in the cafe and told me

472
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,880
that he was going to make it to the top of the mountain.

473
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,880
If I don't come back, call on the rescue.

474
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:58,880
And he said that in jest I felt.

475
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:04,880
I had this picture of him pointing to the mountain and saying goodbye.

476
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:07,880
That was the last time I saw him.

477
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:14,880
Keith Reinhart was last sighted walking toward Pendleton Mountain.

478
00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:18,880
It was 4.30 in the afternoon, much too late to begin a difficult hike

479
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:22,880
that would normally take six hours.

480
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:26,880
Keith had no jacket, only a flannel shirt.

481
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,880
He carried absolutely no supplies.

482
00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:35,880
That night, Keith Reinhart did not return.

483
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:45,880
The next day helicopters were called out to search Pendleton Mountain.

484
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:51,880
On the ground, more than 125 men and a dozen trained dogs

485
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,880
combed the difficult terrain for seven days.

486
00:41:55,880 --> 00:42:00,880
The Reinhart search was like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack.

487
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:05,880
This haystack is 3,000 vertical feet of 60 degree slope.

488
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,880
This was about as difficult to search terrain as we cover.

489
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:13,880
We were at a real disadvantage because Keith went into the mountains

490
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,880
wearing no more than blue jeans and a flannel shirt and tennis shoes.

491
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:18,880
He had no backpack, he had no equipment.

492
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:24,880
A typical subject of a search will leave lots of clues for us to trace.

493
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:29,880
Keith didn't leave many clues, he didn't have many with him to leave behind.

494
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:33,880
In 30 years of operation, the Colorado Alpine Rescue teams have found

495
00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,880
every single person they searched for.

496
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,880
Yet they could find no trace of Keith Reinhart.

497
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:44,880
Friends found a newspaper next to Keith's computer.

498
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,880
The headline, Tom Young's Body Found.

499
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:53,880
Still in the computer were these words, part of Keith's unfinished novel.

500
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:58,880
Guy Gypsum changed into some hiking boots and donned a heavy flannel shirt.

501
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:02,880
He understood Tom now and his motivation.

502
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:09,880
Guy closed the door then walked off towards the lush, shadowless Colorado forest above.

503
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:16,880
Could these words imply that Keith Reinhart, like Tom Young, had decided to take his own life?

504
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,880
I don't think Keith would have considered suicide as a solution to anything.

505
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,880
He was a very optimistic, upbeat person.

506
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:28,880
His advice to me was always positive mental attitude.

507
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:33,880
So with that type of personality, the way I knew him to be,

508
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,880
I do not think he would have committed suicide.

509
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:42,880
Another theory suggests that neither Tom Young nor Keith Reinhart committed suicide,

510
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,880
but instead were victims of foul play.

511
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:53,880
First, ballistics could never prove that the bullet-killing Tom Young came from his own gun.

512
00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:57,880
Second, both men rented exactly the same space to run their shops.

513
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:03,880
They might both have come across information someone did not want them to have.

514
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:08,880
I think there's foul play involved. I do. I definitely think something's going on.

515
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:10,880
He stumbled upon something.

516
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:14,880
They didn't know what happened to Tom until they found his body.

517
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:19,880
They didn't know that he disappeared in the mountains. Same with my father.

518
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:24,880
He's disappeared mysteriously. They have no idea what happened to him.

519
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:31,880
A final theory is that Keith Reinhart planned his own disappearance.

520
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,880
I don't think that he would have left at four o'clock in the afternoon

521
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,880
for a long distance hike with a fire destination in mind.

522
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,880
At that time of the day, he would have gone for a walk up the mountain

523
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:48,880
as far as he felt comfortable and then turn around and come back down the mountain.

524
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:53,880
What I find to be odd is that he did not take either one of his cameras with him,

525
00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:58,880
and he was in the habit of usually carrying a camera, especially in that scenery.

526
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:08,880
The little things that bother me are the facts that he was possibly at a midlife crisis.

527
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,880
He was, at that particular moment in time, somewhat frustrated that he couldn't make it

528
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,880
off his antique shop in Silver Plume.

529
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:21,880
And he told so darn many people that he was going for a hike.

530
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:26,880
And why somebody would go around town trying to make this point with so many people

531
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:29,880
that he was going for a hike to the south of town, to the north of town,

532
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,880
wherever I'm going for a hike up the mountain.

533
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:35,880
Why he made that point, I'm not sure. That doesn't set right.

534
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,880
Apparently he had vertigo, some fear of heights,

535
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:45,880
and now suddenly this man is talking about climbing to the top of a mountain all by himself.

536
00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:47,880
That isn't consistent.

537
00:45:48,880 --> 00:45:52,880
This is one week after Tom Young's remains were found.

538
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:59,880
He knows now, as everybody in Silver Plume knew, that Tom Young laid out a bit of a false trail.

539
00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:03,880
And I just have to wonder in the back of my mind if Keith did the same.

540
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:09,880
I don't think that Keith would be the type of person to walk away from his whole entire life

541
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:11,880
and leave it behind him.

542
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,880
He loved the people in his life. He loved keeping in touch with them.

543
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,880
And I don't think he could have left them all behind him.

544
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:25,880
I would like to hope he's still alive and that whatever reasons he may have had

545
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,880
for disappearing, we could work that out.

546
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,880
I'd like to think that he would still be alive somewhere.

547
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:40,880
But realistically, I'm not sure I have to also be prepared for the eventuality that he's not.

548
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,880
Keith Reinhardt turned 51 on September 10th, 1989.

549
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,880
He is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 210 pounds.

550
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:55,880
Keith Reinhardt wears glasses only for reading and has blue eyes.

551
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:04,880
The End

552
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,880
Tonight we have seen four stories without endings.

553
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:13,880
Four stories in which ordinary people have been thrust into the center of an unsolved mystery.

554
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:15,880
Perhaps someone tonight can help them.

555
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:17,880
Perhaps they were watching.

556
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:19,880
Perhaps it's you.

557
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:33,880
The End

558
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:03,880
The End