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This program is about unsolved mysteries.

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Whenever possible, the actual family members and police

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officials have participated in recreating the events.

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What you are about to see is not a news broadcast.

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Tonight, the season premiere of Unsolved Mysteries.

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December 26, 1980, a US Air Force security patrol told

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of seeing a mysterious unearthly visitor

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near their air base in England.

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During the next two nights, a rash of sightings

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astounded even the most skeptical military men.

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For years, these sightings were cloaked in secrecy

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and till tonight, for the first time,

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former Air Force personnel go on camera

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to tell of a close encounter of what they believe were UFOs.

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Shane Stewart and Sally McNally of San Angelo, Texas

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were typical teenagers until they

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became involved with a bizarre underground cult.

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On July 4, 1988, Shane and Sally mysteriously disappeared.

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Four months later, their bodies were finally discovered,

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both at Bin Lerner.

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When Connor Downing was 16, she lost her mother

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in an automobile accident.

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25 years later, after her father passed away,

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Carla would discover a surprising secret hidden

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in her tangled family history.

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The woman she knew as her mother was not her mother

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after all.

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Join me for these fascinating new stories

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on the season premiere of Unsolved Mysteries.

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anti-Ess teas

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The first tactical fighter went to the United States Air Force,

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and operates out of southeast England.

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In a unique arrangement, the wing is housed on twin bases,

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wood bridge and bent waters.

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The two air bases border a three mile

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expansive farmland and woods known as Randallsham Forest.

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In 1980, Randallsham was a site of one of the most

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extraordinary and least publicized events

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in modern military history.

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Around 2 AM on December 26th, Airman First Class John Burroughs

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and his partner, both assigned a wood bridge base security

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were on routine patrol along the base perimeter.

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Hey, what the hell's that over there?

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The cheese, I don't know.

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What the hell is that?

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I don't know.

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I've never seen anything like it before.

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It's out in the middle of the woods.

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Now come on, let's get back to this guard station.

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Call the sergeant to see what he wants to do.

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There was definitely something out in the woods.

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It seemed like to me like a massive light show.

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I'm thinking who would come out in the middle of the woods

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outside an airport space and make a Christmas display?

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I was nervous.

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He was nervous.

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We didn't know what to expect, and we decided at that point

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time we'd better get back and let somebody know what's going

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on in case something did happen.

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Burroughs notified his immediate superior

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from a nearby sentry post.

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Yeah, we got some kind of weird activity in the woods

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off the bridge.

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Yeah, we got some kind of weird activity in the woods

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off the base.

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Hey, John.

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Yeah, sure I can see him from here.

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Still going on.

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Yeah, look, there's some kind of weird lights in the trees.

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I don't know, they're moving all up and down.

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Almost simultaneously, another security patrol arrived.

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They verified the presence of the odd lights.

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You want three men to go down off base?

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You coming with us?

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No.

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All right, look, we'll stay in radio contact.

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Going off base, leave your weapons.

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Burroughs and the second security team

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were sent off base to investigate.

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They were ordered to leave their weapons behind

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because they were moving out of American jurisdiction.

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We were intrigued, but we were also very nervous.

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We didn't know what we were getting into.

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We started to get nervous.

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We started down on foot towards the lights.

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At the same time, we could hear the animals.

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We could hear a lot of ruckus.

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At that point, we got a radio transmission.

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They had just gotten contact from Heathrow Tower in London

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that an object had been seen over our base

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and that had disappeared on radar.

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He's hiding?

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I can't tell.

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All of a sudden, in the clearing, there was an object.

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It had the bank of blue lights on it

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and it was sitting there like strobing.

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It was unbelievable.

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We all hit the ground and it went up into the trees.

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When it was happening, everything seemed to go slower.

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We seemed to be in the middle of nowhere.

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We were in the middle of nowhere.

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We seemed to be in like a, I wouldn't say a time warp,

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but like everything appeared to be happening slower to us

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and everything felt different.

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But when it disappeared, it was like everything was normal again.

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The perception of the ground, the air, the sky, the stars,

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the whole nine yards were different.

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Where'd it go?

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For more than two hours, the three men played

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an eerie game of cat and mouse with a mysterious craft.

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It appeared almost to toy with them.

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It was off the ground and in the horizon above the trees

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and it always stayed out in the distance in the horizon.

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Sometimes it appeared to get closer

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and we were going to get close to it again and then we never did.

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The events of that December night

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set in motion a chain reaction

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that would eventually result in the best documented sighting

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of a UFO in American military history.

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The United States Air Force has no official comment

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on the entire incident,

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but tonight the military personnel who actually witnessed the events

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will appear on camera for the first time.

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Just five hours after the sighting,

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John Burrell's reported to his shift commander.

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Eddie, spit it out. What did you see?

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Well, sir, after we received permission to continue into the woods,

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we saw some lights, sir, red ones and some white ones.

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And well, sir, they flew up into the trees.

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He basically said, gentlemen, you saw something.

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Heathrow Tower confirms that you saw something.

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And now let's go out into the area

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and see if we can find any physical proof of what happened.

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I was hoping when I got out there that basically I would see nothing.

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There would be no tell-tale evidence that possibly something happened.

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That would make it easier for me

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because if there's nothing proving that something happened to me,

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you can just kind of check it off.

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But when you get out there and you find damage to the trees,

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depressions in the ground and stuff,

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that makes it even more unexplainable.

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We came up through the woods to this point right about here.

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I see. We saw it hovering.

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Later that same day, Burrell's rendezvoused with a British police officer.

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Together, they explored the site where Burrell's had seen the strange object.

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We were watching for about 20 minutes.

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Indeed, there were circular impressions in the earth

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directly below the spot where the craft had appeared to hover.

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What could have made that?

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It was more of a mystery over here

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because when I first saw it, I didn't perceive it as something sitting on the ground

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with a tripod-like, a tripod-type thing.

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Now all of a sudden there's physical proof showing that something sat down in that area.

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3.4 meters.

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The British police officer dismissed the circles as a marks of burrowing forest animals.

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Nevertheless, he did order his men to measure the distance between the circles.

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3.4 here too.

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Surprisingly, the three circles were exactly the same distance apart

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and formed a perfect equilateral triangle.

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3.4 as well.

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Early the next morning, Colonel Charles Halt, deputy base commander,

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arrived at Woodbridge security headquarters.

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Rumor of the UFO sighting had spread like wildfire.

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What's going on?

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Colonel, you're not going to believe this,

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but burrows and penis-tons were running around the woods last night chasing after UFOs.

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UFOs? What are you talking about?

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Listen, I thought they were yanking me, but the guys saw something.

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They thought an aircraft went down, so they went,

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look, there were these lights in the woods.

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Why isn't that in the blotter?

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The lieutenant didn't want me to put that in, sir.

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Is anybody sure it wasn't an aircraft that went down?

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No, sir.

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Then put it in the blotter.

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I was very skeptical.

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I found what had allegedly taken place hard to believe,

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and I was really going to debunk it, quite frankly.

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And as events unfolded, I became more and more concerned that there may be something to this.

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I kept telling myself that there had to be some type of an explanation for it,

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but I certainly couldn't find one, and even to this day, I can't explain what happened.

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Straight back, straight back!

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That evening, unusual lights were spotted once again.

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In response, the base commander ordered large mobile floodlights,

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devices commonly known as lightalls, to be set up in the woods.

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Cut!

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All right, move it out!

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At 9.30 p.m., Colonel Halt received word that the lightalls were inexplicably malfunctioning.

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I don't know, sir, craziest damn things I've ever seen.

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Animals in the forests are acting weird.

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Starlight scopes going, bad radios ain't working, and lightalls ain't coming up.

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Let's get out there and see what we got.

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All right, sir.

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This is Colonel Halt's command. We're going out to rend us a report.

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During the next six hours, Colonel Charles Halt will be swept up in an unbelievable series of events,

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which had proved to be one of the most elaborate encounters of the UFO ever documented.

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When we return, the details of Colonel Halt's odyssey.

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At 1980, just after Christmas, strange lights appeared in the forest

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near two American air bases in southeast England.

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Security at both bases sprang into action.

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Large portable floodlights, like this one, commonly known as lightalls, are positioned in the woods.

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The security police hoped to catch another glimpse of the glowing object sighted two nights earlier,

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but the lightalls mysteriously malfunctioned.

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Base security was immediately ordered to dispatch a second set of lightalls.

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Simultaneously, Colonel Charles Halt, deputy commander of both bases,

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put together a special investigative team.

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I called the on duty or standby man a disaster preparedness,

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and had him get his camera, he was a professional photographer,

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and calibrate several radiac instruments to take along, and we were going to go debunk this.

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By the time Colonel Halt arrived at the site, the second set of lightalls was also malfunctioning.

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What's going on, Sergeant?

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Colonel, we're having a little problem.

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Some of the vehicles weren't working properly, and radio transmissions were limited at best.

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Okay, Lieutenant, where'd you see that light?

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It was right through there, sir.

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Armed with a Geiger collar, a starlight scoped to enhance night vision,

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and a tape recorder to record his first impressions,

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Colonel Halt led his team into the woods.

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What you were about to see is based on verbatim transcripts of the tape made that night.

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We're in the center of the triangle.

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It didn't take us long to find what I believe was a landing site of some sort.

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The trees had had branches broken off.

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One of the members of Colonel Halt's team was Sergeant Robert Ball.

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We looked up and we had high-power flashlights with us,

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and we could see branches up to two inches in diameter,

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which had either been knocked completely off or had been bent downward.

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And it was clean up to the top of the trees.

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We looked at the area through the starlight scope, and it did.

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I'll have to admit, have a dull glow that I couldn't explain.

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Over here.

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So we got the radiac instruments out, and we're taking readings.

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Four clicks, Colonel.

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While we were doing this, the police lieutenant said, look, over there.

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Colonel!

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Yes, sir.

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It was a strange glowing object that appeared to be 100, 200 meters away.

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I couldn't explain it.

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It was avoiding the pine trees, zigzagging around them.

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It kind of winked at us.

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The strangest thing I've ever seen, sir.

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Strange.

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Wow.

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Looks like an eye winking at you.

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It approached us at one time.

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We just stood there and awed.

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Watched it probably for a minute or two, maybe a little more.

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Finally, the object began to move away.

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Colonel Halton and his men followed.

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As we were pursuing this glowing object through the woods,

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we noticed a farmhouse directly in front of us.

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We've got a reading of two on the counter

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that's much higher than the background radiation.

258
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The farmhouse appeared to be glowing very brightly,

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as though it were on fire.

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You reckon there's somebody in there, sir?

261
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I don't know the time.

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The object then broke into five white objects and disappeared.

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Let's go.

264
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And there was a very strange feeling in the air.

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It made your hair bristle.

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Sort of like static electricity.

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It just had a very unusual feeling.

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And I don't think it was all psychological.

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I think there was something physiological about it.

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There was something to it.

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I don't know what it was.

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We ventured on toward the coast, trying to decide what to do next.

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We looked to the north, and about 30 degrees off the horizon,

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there were three objects in the sky.

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It started moving rapidly about in sharp angular movements,

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as though they were exercising some type of formation or search pattern.

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I'm not really sure what it was.

278
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We now have multiple sightings of three objects of a similar kind.

279
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I think there was some type of guiding force behind these objects.

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Whether it was trying to communicate with us,

281
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whether it was trying to warn us,

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or whether it was trying to do something to us, I don't know.

283
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To me, it looked like a grid search.

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Like they were boxing off an area and looking for something.

285
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And that was the thought that hit me right away,

286
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and I stayed with me over the years.

287
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It looked like a search pattern.

288
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Colonel Hulse initial skepticism eroded with each passing minute,

289
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and each bizarre sighting.

290
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There's definitely something up there.

291
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We've got an object.

292
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We could very clearly see it.

293
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It sort of danced about in the sky, and it sent down beams of light.

294
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I noticed other beams of light coming down from the same object,

295
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following different places on the base.

296
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My boss was standing in his front yard at Woodbridge,

297
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and he could see the beams of light falling down.

298
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And the people in the weapons storage area and several other places on the base

299
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also reported the lights.

300
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I woke up about 3.34 in the morning,

301
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and for whatever reason I felt like maybe something had happened again.

302
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I don't know why. I just woke up and felt like something had came back.

303
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Don't ask me why. It just was a gut feeling.

304
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So I went ahead and got up and went up to the base.

305
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All of a sudden, a couple of light blue transparent type lights appeared in the sky.

306
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They were all of a sudden in the horizon, and one of them broke towards us.

307
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The only time the light-offs were working as far as came on and off

308
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when I saw them were when the light passed them.

309
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And I have no idea what caused the light-offs to come on and off

310
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other than the fact that the blue light as it passed it, the light-offs came on.

311
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At virtually the same moment, 300 yards away,

312
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Colonel Halt's investigation was about to culminate in a remarkable close encounter.

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Hey, here. Here.

314
00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,840
The object was coming at us at a very high rate of speed.

315
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One of these beams of light fell very, very close to us,

316
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sort of a pencil beam of light.

317
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Down from the object to the ground near our feet.

318
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This is unreal.

319
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The extraordinary visitor never returned.

320
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Let's go.

321
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I drafted a memo to the police.

322
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Let's go.

323
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I drafted a memo, sent a copy to London, and it swallowed up.

324
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It became very quiet.

325
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This is a copy of Colonel Halt's memo.

326
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It was submitted to British military authorities who never acted on it.

327
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The United States Air Force did not acknowledge that the episode had occurred.

328
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Then in 1983, a private citizen invoked the Freedom of Information Act,

329
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and Halt's memo was released.

330
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Nevertheless, many remain unconvinced.

331
00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:33,840
Spacecraft from another world, although not impossible, is extraordinary.

332
00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,840
James McGayhay is an astronomer and noted UFO skeptic,

333
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who is director of two private observatories.

334
00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:44,840
And the burden of proof for any event that is extraordinary

335
00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:53,840
is upon those making the claim, not upon those who look at it from a skeptical perspective.

336
00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:55,840
Where is the evidence?

337
00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:56,840
Show me the evidence.

338
00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:58,840
And that's what science is all about.

339
00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,840
On the first night, the night of 26th December, 1980,

340
00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:06,840
at about three o'clock that morning, a bright fireball,

341
00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,840
which is a very bright meteor, came into the Earth's atmosphere.

342
00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:15,840
And this is unquestionably what John Burroughs saw that night.

343
00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,840
I've seen meteor showers come down before.

344
00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:21,840
It wasn't a meteor falling out of the sky.

345
00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:23,840
And it went up, not down.

346
00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,840
Meteors fall from the sky. They don't go back up into the sky.

347
00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:28,840
Meteors not going to go up, go back and forth,

348
00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,840
and maintain position in the sky for a long period of time.

349
00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:34,840
Meteors not going to send beams of light down.

350
00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,840
I think both of them are being honest as to what their perceptions are,

351
00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:42,840
but human perception is very, very easily fooled.

352
00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,840
And I think when they went out there to the woods,

353
00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,840
everybody was out there expecting to see a UFO.

354
00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,840
With that preconceived notion of the way you view things

355
00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,840
can be greatly influenced.

356
00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:58,840
There's definitely something up there.

357
00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,840
McGay he believes that the growing red-light kernel halt saw that night

358
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:07,840
was simply reflections from the revolving beam of a nearby lighthouse.

359
00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,840
There are too many unrelated things.

360
00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:14,840
If it were just a reflection, how does one explain two different sightings

361
00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,840
and two different places in the sky? How does one explain the object

362
00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:22,840
moving through the forest? How does one explain the sighting in the forest

363
00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:27,840
by the three airmen? There are just too many things.

364
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:32,840
I have a lot of unresolved questions that I'm not sure I'll ever have answered.

365
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:34,840
I've had people suggest all sorts of things,

366
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,840
everything from I've seen the Second Coming of Christ to the Devils after us.

367
00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,840
I can't explain it. I really can't.

368
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,840
I know it was beyond the realm of anything that we experienced in ordinary life.

369
00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:54,840
According to Colonel Halt, two other unconfirmed sightings have been reported

370
00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,840
in the vicinity of Woodbridge Air Base.

371
00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,840
The first in January of 1981, the second nine months later,

372
00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:07,840
in the initial sightings of 1980, at least 15 men, all of them U.S. Air Force personnel

373
00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,840
witnessed the strange lights and objects firsthand.

374
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,840
The Air Force continues to have no official comment on the entire series of events.

375
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,840
Next, the murder of two teenage sweethearts.

376
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:26,840
Some say they were the victims of a bizarre cult.

377
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,840
Shane was a very lively, energetic kid.

378
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:45,840
To me, he was like Beaver Cleaver, the all-around boy, always having fun,

379
00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,840
always making sure that everybody else had fun.

380
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:54,840
He had a lot of dreams, a lot of goals, and he was a very lovable kid.

381
00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:00,840
When Shane and Sally met, it was just like two people clicked on.

382
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:04,840
There was a bond there that was almost inserparable.

383
00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,840
It was like the two kids were made for each other.

384
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:13,840
Sally loved people. She would do anything for a friend.

385
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:19,840
Sally tried hard to please people. She wanted people to like her.

386
00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,840
She wanted people to respond to her and love her.

387
00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:30,840
Shane Stewart and Sally McNally grew up around San Angelo, Texas,

388
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,840
a peaceful, bucolic ranching community.

389
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,840
But like so many other small towns, there was more to San Angelo

390
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,840
than meets the eye.

391
00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:46,840
Independence Day 1988 was a reunion of sorts for Shane and Sally.

392
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:51,840
Each had recently returned to town, and it was their first date in more than four months.

393
00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,840
It was also the last time they would ever be seen.

394
00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:00,840
The next morning, a ranger discovered Shane's car abandoned near O.C. Fisher Lake.

395
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,840
Fast food wrappers lay strewn across the front seat.

396
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:08,840
The keys were on the dashboard. Shane and Sally were nowhere to be found.

397
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:16,840
Marshall Stewart felt his son would not leave his car unlocked with the keys in it

398
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,840
and just merely walk off.

399
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:23,840
However, there were no signs of a struggle, and so consequently, we looked at it

400
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:28,840
at first from the standpoint of two kids, ran off and got married.

401
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,840
Knowing how much he loved that car and that he wouldn't leave it,

402
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:40,840
I was very, very concerned that something tragic had happened.

403
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,840
NBA's first ever game of the year was the first time

404
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,840
that something tragic had happened.

405
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,840
NBA Justice is in this location.

406
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,840
Four months later, two skeletons were found near Twin Buttes Lake,

407
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,840
17 miles from where Shane's car was abandoned.

408
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:03,840
Marshall Stewart was monitoring his police scanner and immediately rushed to the scene.

409
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,840
I got out of the pickup and walked over to the area.

410
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,840
The gut feeling is apparent. I knew they had found Shane.

411
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:15,840
Hi Marshall.

412
00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:16,840
Hello, Liz.

413
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:17,840
How are you?

414
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:18,840
How you doing?

415
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:19,840
Y'all find Shane's body?

416
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:23,840
Yeah, we sure did, and it's pretty gruesome in there.

417
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:24,840
I wouldn't say.

418
00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,840
Well, we just want to let you know that there's not a whole lot left.

419
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:28,840
I want to see him.

420
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:29,840
Okay.

421
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:36,840
It was Shane, dressed exactly like he'd left the house that night.

422
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:44,840
And I knelt down beside him and told him that I had found him,

423
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:47,840
and we would take him home.

424
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,840
The forces of nature had washed away all four of his belongings.

425
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,840
The forces of nature had washed away all forensic clues,

426
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:05,840
but detectives were able to determine that both victims had been killed by shotgun blasts.

427
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:13,840
The discovery of Shane and Sally's bodies was a culmination of a four-month search,

428
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,840
which had introduced their paths to a strange and frightening subculture.

429
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:21,840
Marshall Stewart and Pat Wade discovered that their children who were engaged in activities

430
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:24,840
which many believe were linked to a satanic cult.

431
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,840
In Sally's case, it appeared to be part of a desperate search for acceptance

432
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,840
in the wake of a painful and troubled childhood.

433
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,840
I married and had Sally when I was very young,

434
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:42,840
so Sally and I spent a lot of our time growing up together.

435
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,840
We were like sisters when she was small,

436
00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:49,840
and as Sally became a teenager, she became more and more rebellious,

437
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,840
and I had less and less role in her life.

438
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,840
I don't think I ever heard her call her mother-mother.

439
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,840
It was always Pat.

440
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,840
She was real resentful towards the fact that her dad wasn't around,

441
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:07,840
and she blamed it on Pat a lot when we were kids.

442
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,840
Sally began sneaking out late at night,

443
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,840
and on one occasion Pat stayed up to confront her.

444
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:16,840
Sally.

445
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:17,840
Pat.

446
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:18,840
Where have you been?

447
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:20,840
You scared me.

448
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:22,840
Scared you? I've been waiting here all night.

449
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:26,840
I just went out for a walk.

450
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:27,840
Sally, you snuck through the window.

451
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:28,840
So what?

452
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,840
So I've been worried about you.

453
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,840
Look, you don't know anything about this, okay?

454
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:35,840
So just leave me alone.

455
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,840
That was the only explanation she would give me.

456
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,840
So I called one friend of Sally's.

457
00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,840
The boy's mother answered the phone,

458
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,840
and she told me that the kids were mixed up in, um,

459
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:51,840
uh, Satan worship.

460
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,840
And she said that a group of kids had been at her house one night

461
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,840
and said they had a demon in a bottle.

462
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:01,840
Sally really got to a point to where she thought,

463
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,840
nobody loves me.

464
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,840
These people come along and they say,

465
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:06,840
okay, we'll give you that love.

466
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,840
We'll give you that companionship that you need.

467
00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,840
You just come with us and do what we ask.

468
00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:13,840
You know what I mean? You know what I mean?

469
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,840
Anyway, I'm glad in here.

470
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,840
Sally began to attend ritualistic parties on a regular basis.

471
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,840
One evening, she invited Helen to join her.

472
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,840
And she said, it's Ouija time.

473
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,840
Turn out the lights.

474
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:31,840
I'm going to do this. You want to?

475
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,840
No, thanks.

476
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,840
I need some hands on the oracle.

477
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,840
In the name of our Father, the great Satan.

478
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:47,840
We humbly bow to you now and turn over our will to your great wisdom.

479
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:52,840
Spirit of the oracle, we call on you tonight to guide us.

480
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,840
Sally?

481
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,840
Sally went into a trance.

482
00:27:57,840 --> 00:27:59,840
Sally, are you all right?

483
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:00,840
And it really scared me.

484
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,840
What?

485
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,840
I'm leaving.

486
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:07,840
Okay.

487
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,840
Half of me said, Sally's pulling a stunt.

488
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,840
Just ignore it.

489
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:17,840
And half of me said, well, maybe it's their kind of having fun.

490
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,840
In the fall of 1987, Sally began dating Shane Stewart.

491
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,840
She introduced him to her new friends.

492
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:31,840
According to Shane's father, his behavior began to change as well.

493
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:34,840
Come on, boys. Come on. What's wrong with you?

494
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,840
Shane started getting into fights.

495
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,840
Come on.

496
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,840
One day, Shane's getting the better of this guy.

497
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:45,840
His two friends jumped in and then he was thrown into the river.

498
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,840
So I told him, I said, you should have learned a lesson.

499
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:54,840
One, not to fight.

500
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,840
And two, be aware of where you are and what you're doing.

501
00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,840
Because people can always gang up on you.

502
00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:07,840
In March of 1988, Sally called Sheriff's Deputy Larry Counts.

503
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,840
She and Shane had grown disillusioned when some members of the cult

504
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,840
began engaging in criminal activities.

505
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,840
She and her boyfriend, Shane, were members of this group

506
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,840
and they were trying to get away from it.

507
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,840
She said there was a lot of drugs involved.

508
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,840
There was a lot of group sex.

509
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:29,840
She also expressed that she had a weapon that had been given to her

510
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:31,840
by another member of the cult.

511
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:34,840
And when he gave it to her, he told her and Shane

512
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,840
that the gun had been used in a murder robbery.

513
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,840
Two months earlier, Shane and Sally had moved in together.

514
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,840
They agreed to meet with Deputy Counts in their apartment

515
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,840
to hand over the gun.

516
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:50,840
Shane, he's here.

517
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:51,840
OK.

518
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,840
He's trying to find the gun.

519
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:56,840
Well, during this meeting when I first met them, face to face,

520
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,840
you really think that they were making this stuff up.

521
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,840
But they seem sincere.

522
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,840
This is the gun that I gave us that I told you about.

523
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,840
Does he have any other weapons?

524
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,840
Yeah, he's got a whole toolbox full of guns.

525
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,840
I mean, it's scary because you know these guys are crazy.

526
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,840
Actually, they gave me this weapon and we did some checking on it.

527
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:18,840
It turned out to be a stolen gun.

528
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,840
Then their story became a little bit more credible.

529
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,840
He's not going to find out about this, is he?

530
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,840
I can't promise you anything, but I will do my best.

531
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,840
I appreciate it.

532
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,840
They did express fears that they might be hurt.

533
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,840
She and her boyfriend might be in some danger

534
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:39,840
because it's a very secretive type group and they knew the ends.

535
00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:40,840
They knew the secrets.

536
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,840
And when they broke away, they realized that they were in some danger.

537
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,840
Six weeks later, Shane and Sally moved out of their apartment

538
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,840
and left town separately.

539
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,840
But by early summer, both returned to San Angelo.

540
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:02,840
Sally, what's wrong?

541
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:04,840
I've got a problem.

542
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,840
What kind of problem?

543
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,840
I think they're going to try to kill me.

544
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,840
Two weeks prior to her disappearance,

545
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,840
Sally made a desperate telephone call to Helen.

546
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,840
You just don't cross.

547
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,840
I said, don't visit me and come and shoot you.

548
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,840
I said, what did you do?

549
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:21,840
She said, well, I really can't tell you.

550
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:22,840
I've got to go.

551
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,840
All right.

552
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:25,840
Bye.

553
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,840
She just tended to exaggerate things,

554
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:29,840
so I really didn't think much of it.

555
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,840
And I really didn't think to call Pat and say,

556
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,840
Pat, Sally's in trouble.

557
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:34,840
There's something wrong.

558
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,840
I mean, I didn't think anything about it.

559
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:39,840
Shane, it's for you.

560
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,840
On July the 3rd, around noon, we received a phone call.

561
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,840
There was a man on the phone asking for Shane.

562
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,840
And as I walked away, I heard Shane mention money.

563
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,840
I'll have the money for you tomorrow.

564
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,840
Just lighten up, will you?

565
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,840
Goodbye.

566
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,840
And so when Shane came out of the room, I asked him,

567
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,840
I said, is there a problem?

568
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:00,840
He said, no.

569
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,840
I told him if there was a problem, I was his dad,

570
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,840
and I could help him handle it.

571
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:07,840
He said, no.

572
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:08,840
He said, everything's fine.

573
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:10,840
He said, I've taken care of it.

574
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:11,840
Thanks, dad.

575
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,840
On July the 4th, Shane told me that he was going to go out

576
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,840
and watch the fireworks.

577
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,840
So I gave Shane a hug, told him that I loved him,

578
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,840
take care of himself, and don't get in a bind.

579
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,840
And he said, no problem.

580
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:32,840
He said, he'd see me later and left the house.

581
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,840
That was the last time I saw him alive.

582
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:42,840
Police have reconstructed the events which

583
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,840
preceded the disappearance.

584
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,840
At 9 PM, Shane and Sally watched the annual fireworks

585
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,840
display at Lake Nasworthy.

586
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,840
Four hours later, a fisherman, anchored off shore,

587
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,840
spotted them at OC Fisher Lake, six miles away.

588
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,840
He could see the young couple standing by a car.

589
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,840
Then he saw a pickup truck approach.

590
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,840
All right, go and get the ride, man.

591
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:14,840
No.

592
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:15,840
Shane, get the truck.

593
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:17,840
No, we're not going to come with you.

594
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,840
Hey, listen, I said we're not into that anymore, OK?

595
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:21,840
Just leave us alone.

596
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,840
I heard them talking about, you

597
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:25,840
don't want to be with them people anymore.

598
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,840
I listened a little bit more, and they continued

599
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:29,840
all the way getting the first.

600
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:30,840
And then I got to thinking, well, there's

601
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,840
just a bunch of kids out there drinking party.

602
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,840
And I turned my boat around and I lay off.

603
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,840
It was the last time anyone saw Shane Stewart

604
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,840
and Sally McNally alive.

605
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,840
Marshall Stewart refused to believe that the children had

606
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:49,840
run away.

607
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,840
For four months, he scoured the lake area

608
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:53,840
and began questioning people whom he believed

609
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:55,840
might know something about his son's disappearance.

610
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:04,840
One of the youth he talked to was allegedly involved in the cult.

611
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:05,840
Hi, I'm Shane's dad.

612
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:06,840
Do you remember me?

613
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:07,840
Mr. Stewart.

614
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,840
Shane told me if he and his friend ever got together,

615
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:13,840
there was going to be bad trouble.

616
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:15,840
He said, we're enemies.

617
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:17,840
We hate each other.

618
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,840
If there's ever a confrontation, he said,

619
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,840
there's really going to be a fight.

620
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:22,840
What's wrong with your face?

621
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:23,840
It looks like you've been in a fight.

622
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,840
It's just a cut.

623
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:27,840
I ain't been in a fight.

624
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:30,840
OK.

625
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,840
Good luck.

626
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,840
And I walked away from the door, convinced he had

627
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,840
confronted Shane somewhere and there had been a fight.

628
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,840
And he just wasn't telling me the truth.

629
00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:47,840
I felt like Shane and Sally had gone to the lake

630
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,840
and were probably sitting out there on the table

631
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,840
listening to music and been approached by probably

632
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,840
some of their friends or enemies.

633
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,840
We don't have any suspects from the standpoint of something

634
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,840
that we could bring to the grand jury.

635
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,840
We have investigated it with the people that have been

636
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:18,840
referred to us by as having been in the cult activity.

637
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,840
And consequently, there are suspects until we

638
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,840
solve the murder.

639
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:30,840
Most of my life, I was fearful of dying and leaving Sally

640
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,840
before she was grown.

641
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:37,840
And then for the tables to be turned and for Sally to leave me,

642
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:43,840
this is the worst nightmare that any parent can have.

643
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:45,840
And it never goes away.

644
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,840
There's no words to describe what you feel when you find

645
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,840
your child murdered.

646
00:35:55,840 --> 00:36:01,840
Nothing that you can do to console them during their last hours.

647
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,840
These people need to be caught and brought in and punished

648
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,840
for what they've done.

649
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:11,840
And to prevent something like this from happening again,

650
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,840
I'd like to sit through the trial and make sure that justice

651
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,840
has been served.

652
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,840
When Sally's body was discovered,

653
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,840
a fortune from a Chinese cookie was found in her pocket.

654
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,840
It read, you'll always be surrounded by friends.

655
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:32,840
Authorities believe that Shane Stewart and Sally McNally

656
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,840
were murdered by their friends as a direct result

657
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:36,840
of their cult activities.

658
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,840
Police are convinced that there were witnesses to the crime

659
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:41,840
who were afraid to come forward.

660
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:44,840
If you have any information, please contact the Tom Green

661
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,840
County Sheriff's Department in San Angelo, Texas.

662
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:52,840
When we return, a woman needs your help to find her real mother,

663
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:54,840
whom she has met only once.

664
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,840
Imagine growing up as an outsider in your own home,

665
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,840
feeling somehow separate from your family.

666
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,840
This is how a young woman named Carla Dowling

667
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:13,840
felt her entire life.

668
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,840
Carla's feelings of alienation were compounded

669
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:20,840
by the tragic death of her mother when Carla was just 16.

670
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,840
In June of 1965, shortly after her mother's death,

671
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,840
Carla and her younger brother went to live with their grandparents

672
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,840
in Alexandria, Virginia.

673
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:39,840
Carla's father was in the army and stationed overseas.

674
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:41,840
Shortly after my mother's funeral,

675
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,840
a woman came to my grandmother's house where I was living.

676
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:46,840
At that time, I was 16.

677
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,840
I had a little bit of money in my pocket.

678
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,840
My grandmother was going to turn me loose that day

679
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,840
to go do some shopping.

680
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,840
I'm going to give you $20.

681
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:58,840
I want you to get me a quart of milk,

682
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,840
so you can use the rest for a dress or anything else you want.

683
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:01,840
Thank you.

684
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:02,840
You're welcome.

685
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:03,840
Carla?

686
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:04,840
Carla, this is Mary.

687
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,840
Mary was a friend of your mom's in high school.

688
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:08,840
Hi.

689
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:10,840
You look very familiar.

690
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:14,840
I saw you when you were just a little baby.

691
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,840
And I do remember thinking, well,

692
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:18,840
gosh, this woman needs to sit down.

693
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,840
You know, she just looked kind of, I don't know,

694
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,840
shook up or something.

695
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:23,840
And, you know, I just kind of assumed

696
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,840
that it was over my mother's death.

697
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:35,840
And looking back, you know, I can remember what she wore,

698
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,840
where she sat, what I was doing at the time,

699
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:43,840
what I had on, you know, just it did come back to me.

700
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,840
And I really wished I would have paid more attention

701
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,840
at that moment.

702
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:55,840
Carla was born in December 1948.

703
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:01,840
Her father, Chester Libby, was an army sergeant.

704
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,840
Her mother, Mildred, a secretary.

705
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:12,840
In 1951, Carla's brother, Ronnie, was born.

706
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,840
But within a few short years, Carla began to feel

707
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,840
that she somehow didn't fit in.

708
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,840
The whole time I was growing up, I always knew that,

709
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:24,840
you know, there was just something not right,

710
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,840
mainly because of the difference between my brother and I.

711
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:32,840
He had blue eyes and blonde hair, and it was curly.

712
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,840
You know, I had straight, dark hair, dark eyes,

713
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,840
olive complexion.

714
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:45,840
It was just obvious to me, even, that we just weren't alike.

715
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:50,840
Carla kept her troubling suspicions to herself.

716
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:53,840
After the death of her mother, Carla's father moved back

717
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,840
to the US and remarried.

718
00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:01,840
Carla graduated from high school, married and had a son.

719
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,840
But even as a grown woman, Carla never stopped feeling

720
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,840
out of place in her own family.

721
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:13,840
In 1990, Carla's father died, and she traveled

722
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,840
to Ortington, Virginia for his funeral.

723
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,840
Oh, wait a minute.

724
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:19,840
Bob, would you take that please?

725
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:20,840
I'll sure will.

726
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:22,840
Honey, I've got something in the trunk of the car.

727
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:23,840
I'll get you to have it.

728
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,840
OK.

729
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:30,840
Mel, Carla, this belonged to your dad,

730
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:32,840
and he wanted you to have it.

731
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,840
All his military papers are in here and a few more.

732
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:41,840
When I got the briefcase, I just wanted to go over each and every paper,

733
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,840
you know, and remember all of the different places that we lived together

734
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,840
and that sort of thing, and in the back of my mind,

735
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:49,840
I knew there was something I was looking for.

736
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:51,840
I just knew there was something in there.

737
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:58,840
That night, when she was finally alone, Carla began to sift through

738
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:00,840
the contents of her father's briefcase.

739
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:05,840
Two documents in particular caught her attention.

740
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:11,840
The first, dated November 1945, listed Carla's father as married.

741
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:18,840
The second document filed in November 1948, listed him as divorced.

742
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,840
Carla was shocked to find that her father had been married before he met her mother

743
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:28,840
and had been divorced just one month prior to Carla's own birth.

744
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:34,840
The discrepancy between the two documents heightened all of Carla's suspicions from childhood.

745
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:35,840
Well, that's good.

746
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:42,840
Listen, the reason I'm calling, do you know anything about daddy being married before?

747
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:47,840
Two days later, Carla called her uncle Norman, her father's only living brother.

748
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:52,840
She asked him to tell her the truth, and a surprising saga began to emerge.

749
00:41:55,840 --> 00:42:01,840
Norman made me feel really good because I got my initial straight answer from him.

750
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,840
Somebody finally said, no, you aren't his daughter.

751
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:09,840
You were already there when he met your mother.

752
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:16,840
So, at that point, I felt a sense of relief because at least I knew something.

753
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:17,840
I had a direction.

754
00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:18,840
Hello.

755
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:19,840
Hi, Carla.

756
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:20,840
This is Ronnie.

757
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:21,840
How you doing, honey?

758
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:22,840
I'm doing fine.

759
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:23,840
How you doing?

760
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,840
An hour later, Carla's brother Ronnie called with more unsettling news.

761
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:26,840
She and her mom were married once before.

762
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:31,840
Well, I knew that dad was married before, you know, because of the papers and what uncle

763
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:32,840
Norman told me.

764
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:36,840
Well, I found out from Uncle Ed that mom was married also.

765
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:42,840
Well, then that would mean I was probably her daughter by a previous marriage then, right?

766
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:43,840
Well, here's the thing.

767
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:48,840
I noticed something peculiar on my birth certificate a couple of years ago, and I looked at it

768
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:53,840
again last night, and it states the number of children born to mom before me, if any,

769
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,840
and it lists this figure as none.

770
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:06,840
If his birth certificate is correct, that means that he and I are not brother and sister or so.

771
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:15,840
Now I have a father who wasn't my father, a brother who isn't my brother, and I'm not

772
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:18,840
real sure about my mother at this point.

773
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,840
Carla Downing's tangled family history finally began to unravel.

774
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:27,840
Carla learned from her uncles that her mother Mildred had suffered a series of miscarriages

775
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:29,840
during her first marriage.

776
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:36,840
In 1948, Mildred met a recent immigrant named Mary who was pregnant and unmarried.

777
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,840
In that time and place, Mary knew that she would be unable to keep her baby.

778
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:46,840
According to Mildred's brothers, the two women concocted a scheme to switch ID cards in the hospital.

779
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:48,840
What's her name?

780
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,840
Her name is Mildred Graham.

781
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,840
She doesn't speak any English.

782
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:59,840
In doing so, Mildred would be listed on the birth certificate as a child's mother.

783
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:07,840
From the very beginning, even as a kid, because I was about 12 when I think this occurred,

784
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:11,840
I always had the feeling that, you know, that Carla really should know.

785
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:19,840
I don't know why I felt that way even at that age, but I almost had a sense that someday it was going to come out.

786
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:21,840
She's beautiful.

787
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:23,840
Beautiful.

788
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:25,840
May I hold her?

789
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:31,840
It's my thinking that this must have really been hard on Mary, because, you know,

790
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:36,840
at that time she felt like she could not have a child for whatever reason.

791
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:45,840
I mean, she was concerned enough that she went to this extreme with my mother to see that I was in a good family.

792
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:49,840
I just have this need to find Mary.

793
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,840
I want to be in the same room with someone I resemble.

794
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:55,840
I want my mother.

795
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,840
I want somebody that I've been looking for for a long time.

796
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,840
On the night of our broadcast, Carla Downing's prayers are finally answered.

797
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:10,840
Her natural mother, Mary Maxwell, was still very much alive and very anxious to see her daughter.

798
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,840
Carla was also overjoyed to discover she had two half sisters.

799
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:21,840
Eight days later, Carla traveled from her home in Tennessee to Maryland,

800
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,840
where she was finally reunited with her mother.

801
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,840
I saw her come.

802
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:29,840
I knew it was her.

803
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:31,840
I couldn't believe it.

804
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,840
And all I could say was, Carla, come.

805
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:39,840
And I ran out the door and she almost fell out of the car, I think.

806
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:43,840
And we couldn't do nothing else but hold her.

807
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:45,840
I was so anxious.

808
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:47,840
I was so anxious.

809
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:49,840
I was so anxious.

810
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:51,840
I was so anxious.

811
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:56,840
And we couldn't do nothing else but hold each other and cry.

812
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,840
When I saw her for the first time, I just can't describe that feeling.

813
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,840
It's a home at last.

814
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:07,840
Oh, golly.

815
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,840
I can breathe again.

816
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:13,840
It's just the happiest moment in my whole life, you know?

817
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,840
Just the happiest moment in my whole life.

818
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,840
This is your grandfather and your grandmother,

819
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,840
and this is your grandfather and grandmother when they got married.

820
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:26,840
It's like a miracle.

821
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:28,840
I couldn't believe it.

822
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,840
I couldn't believe it for the longest time.

823
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,840
I said, this is not happening to us.

824
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,840
It only happens to other people that they find somebody they're looking for,

825
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,840
not us, but yet it happened to us.

826
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:44,840
When I found out that my mom was alive and healthy and okay,

827
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,840
that was just the best news in the world.

828
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:53,840
But then the extra bonus was I have two sisters and a nephew.

829
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,840
So it's a happy ending.

830
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,840
It's a fairytale come true.

831
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:14,840
On our next Unsolved Mysteries, history records a 26-year-old John Wilkes Booth,

832
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:19,840
the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was killed by Union troops in 1865.

833
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:24,840
Now some historians claim that Booth actually managed to escape and flee to freedom.

834
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:31,840
While researching this story, we were surprised to discover that even the encyclopedia Britannica

835
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,840
is not sure of what happened to John Wilkes Booth.

836
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:38,840
Join me for this fascinating and controversial journey into the past,

837
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,840
next time on Unsolved Mysteries.

838
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:29,840
Unolved Mysteries

839
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,840
Unolved Mysteries