1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680 This program is about unsolved mysteries. 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:06,280 Whenever possible, the actual family members and police 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:09,280 officials have participated in recreating the events. 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,880 What you are about to see is not a news broadcast. 5 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,360 In 1987, withville, Virginia was deluged by an unprecedented 6 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,720 wave of UFO sightings. 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,520 For newsman Danny Gordon, the man at the site of the 8 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:29,560 storm, the sightings began a series of threatening phone 9 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:32,560 calls and break-ins which made him regret that he ever went 10 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,560 public with the story. 11 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,560 When a newspaper reporter in Ohio began researching several 12 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,560 unconnected murders, he had no idea that his investigation would 13 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,560 take him into a dark and dangerous subculture and put him on 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,600 the trail of a possible serial killer. 15 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,600 70 years ago, a man named Bill Bady, who was a man who was 16 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,640 in New Jersey, he would build a magnificent castle in the 17 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,640 rolling hills of New Jersey. 18 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,640 Today, many people believe they have seen his ghost 19 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,640 roaming the grounds, unable and unwilling to leave his 20 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,640 masterpiece. 21 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:11,640 Join me for another edition of unsolved mysteries. 22 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,640 During the past five years, unsolved mysteries has broadcast 23 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,640 a number of stories dealing with unidentified flying objects. 24 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:02,640 Viewed in retrospect, they chronicle the history of UFO 25 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,640 sightings in America and Europe. 26 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:08,640 Today, most of us take tales of UFO sightings for granted, 27 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:11,640 yet the phenomenon was virtually unheard of until just after 28 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:14,640 World War II. 29 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:17,640 The story of the man who was in the house of the man who was 30 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:20,640 in the house of the man who was in the house of the man who was 31 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,680 in the house after World War II. 32 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,680 1947, the genesis of UFO sightings unfolded in the 33 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:34,680 New Mexico Desert near Roswell Army Air Base. 34 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,680 Military investigators were called in to examine the 35 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:40,680 debris of an unknown aircraft. 36 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,680 The incident was thoroughly documented and even publicized. 37 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:46,680 Incredibly, a few eyewitnesses have been found 38 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:49,720 that alien life forms are also recovered. 39 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,720 Ultimately, the authorities denied the entire affair 40 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:55,720 and insisted the UFO was nothing more than a downed 41 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:58,720 weather balloon. 42 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:02,720 18 years later, in 1965, residents of a small 43 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,720 Pennsylvania village observed a fiery object streak through 44 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,720 the sky then fall to earth. 45 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,680 Many witnesses saw an Air Force radar and a 46 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:13,720 radio system that was used to detect UFOs. 47 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,760 Many witnesses saw an Air Force radar squadron hauling 48 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,760 the object away. 49 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,760 The military dismissed the sighting as a meteorite and 50 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:24,760 insisted that nothing was ever recovered. 51 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,760 Over the next 25 years, reports of close encounters 52 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,760 proliferated. Many of them on or near military bases. 53 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:40,760 One of the most remarkable occurred on December 26, 1980 54 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,800 at Bentwater's, an American Air Base in England. 55 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,800 There's definitely something up there. 56 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,800 A beam is coming down from an object 57 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:06,800 at the ground near our feet. 58 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,800 According to eyewitnesses, the sightings continued in 59 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,840 various forms until December 28. 60 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,840 The next day, a continent away in Texas, a woman named 61 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:21,840 Betty Cash suffered severe radiation burns. 62 00:04:21,840 --> 00:04:24,840 She claimed she had been exposed to the energy field 63 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:26,840 of a bizarre flying object. 64 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:37,840 Most recently, between 1989 and 1991, thousands 65 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,880 of people in Belgium reported literal invasion 66 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:42,880 of strange unearthly crafts. 67 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,880 Amazingly, the Belgian Air Force is able to capture 68 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,880 on radar the swift and erratic movements of an 69 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,880 unidentified craft which defy the laws of known physics. 70 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:59,920 For those of us who've never encountered a UFO, 71 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:02,920 reports of such events often sound far-fetched. 72 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,920 In fact, some eyewitnesses who go public risk becoming 73 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:07,920 the object of ridicule and scorn. 74 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:09,920 Others are simply ignored. 75 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,920 In either case, an acknowledged UFO sighting 76 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:16,920 can profoundly change a person's life in ways that he or she 77 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:18,920 never imagined possible. 78 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,920 Withville, Virginia, population 8,000, 79 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,920 is nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. 80 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:37,920 Country music station WYVE calls itself 81 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:39,920 the voice of Withville. 82 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,920 On most days, life here is peaceful, unpretentious, 83 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,920 none eventful, but that was about to change. 84 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,920 Good morning, Sheriff Danny Gordon. 85 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:54,920 On October 7th, 1987, 86 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,960 radio reporter Danny Gordon checked in, as usual, 87 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,960 with a county sheriff and heard an unbelievable tale. 88 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:04,960 Over near, um, Austinville? 89 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:06,960 Huh? 90 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:08,960 All right. Got anything else? 91 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:14,960 You're kidding me. 92 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:16,960 Three with county sheriff's deputies, 93 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:18,960 all former military men, 94 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,960 claimed they had seen a UFO. 95 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:23,960 When was that? 96 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Okay, Danny, you're on in 3, 2, 1. 97 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Unidentified flying objects have been sighted over With County 98 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,000 on Monday and Tuesday evenings. 99 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 The With County Sheriff's... 100 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 There was a filler piece that came on at the end of the news, 101 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,000 which I usually relegate to something that's maybe unusual, 102 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 like we had a one-place officer who killed five chickens once 103 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,000 with two shots, and that was a story that ran as kind of a ha-ha piece. 104 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 And this was another ha-ha piece, 105 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,000 and being a very skeptical newsman, 106 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 it was definitely not in my lead part of my news. 107 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Danny Gordon's fluff story sparked unprecedented listener reaction. 108 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Reports of UFO sightings poured into W-Y-V-E. 109 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,000 With a switchboard jammed, 110 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Gordon finally set up a special calling program 111 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,000 for the evening of October 19th, 1987. 112 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Hello, this is Danny Gordon. You're on there. 113 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,000 Go ahead, please. 114 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,000 What follows is based on verbatim transcripts 115 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 of the actual telephone calls. 116 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 It was very, very huge. 117 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:24,040 It was long and it didn't have any sound. 118 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,040 It had a big light on the front, one in the center, and one in the back. 119 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:31,040 Well, it kind of looked something about like an egg shape to me. 120 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,040 What we could see was red, green, and white sort of flashing lights. 121 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:40,040 We saw a plane go by with, you know, red, red flashing lights. 122 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:43,040 We knew it wasn't a jet of any sort. 123 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,040 Okay, well, I appreciate that. Thanks a lot. 124 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:47,040 Being a brass-tax journalist, 125 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:50,040 I always believed there is a plausible logical explanation. 126 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:54,080 And I felt at that time that it was military of some nature 127 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:58,080 and that we would find the reason in a short period of time. 128 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:02,080 Danny Gordon thought the UFOs 129 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,080 were most likely experimental aircraft 130 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,080 being tested out of Virginia's Langley Air Force Base. 131 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,080 But he was repeatedly told by the military 132 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:12,080 that there was no testing going on. 133 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,080 As more and more residents had sightings, 134 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:18,080 the military did come up with one explanation. 135 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,080 Everybody had been telling us that what people were seeing 136 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:26,080 were planes refueling. 137 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,080 And so I said, well, I didn't know that's how they did that. 138 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,080 And then I thought, well, why aren't they doing that 139 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:34,080 down over my house? 140 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:37,080 You know, isn't this something they should be doing 141 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,080 away from populated areas? 142 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:44,080 I called the Pentagon and talked to the Air Force General there 143 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,080 who told me if they were refueling under 13,000 feet, 144 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,080 then somebody's butt's in a sling. 145 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,080 And to this day, we don't know if they were refueling 146 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:54,080 at 5,000 feet. 147 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,080 But at the same time, I have asked if it is military, 148 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:00,080 then I'll back off the story and leave it alone 149 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,080 if you tell me because I'm a patriot. 150 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,080 And each time I'm told it's not us, we're not doing it, 151 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,080 and we haven't been doing it. 152 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:13,080 On October 21st, just two weeks after the original report, 153 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,080 Danny Gordon and a friend, Roger Hall, 154 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,080 drove to the area south of Withville 155 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:19,080 where most of the sightings had occurred. 156 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,080 They brought along a 35-millimeter still camera, 157 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:26,080 as well as a video camera. 158 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,080 We were headed home after two hours of fruitless searching 159 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:32,080 about a quarter to nine on route 21 south 160 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,080 coming into Withville, and just happened to look to my left 161 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,080 and saw a very unusual object coming across the horizon. 162 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:43,080 What's that? 163 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:44,080 What? 164 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,080 Over there, some lights or something. 165 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:48,080 I'm going to pull over. 166 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,080 I pulled off to the side of the road in a hurry, 167 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,080 jumped out, he got out of the right side, 168 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,080 and as he got out, I noticed the craft was coming at me, 169 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,080 was very large, had a dome shaped to the top of it, 170 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,080 had no wings, and had what appeared to be a strobe 171 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,080 putting out multicolored lights on the right side of the craft. 172 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,080 What the hell is that? 173 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:13,080 I don't know. 174 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,080 It was probably less than a hundred feet. 175 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,120 It was probably less than a thousand feet away 176 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:23,120 and a thousand feet high at the maximum. 177 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:27,120 We guessed it would be in at least two football fields 178 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,120 in diameter. 179 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,120 You could see three huge, 180 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,120 looked like picture windows in the back of it 181 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,120 that were lit from the inside out. 182 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,120 As I watched the sky from the left came a red ball. 183 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:47,160 As a big mothership went into a small skiff of clouds, 184 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:51,160 the red ball docked with the craft. 185 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:54,160 It was like you were watching a computer game 186 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:58,160 and watching these things develop on the video screen. 187 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:03,160 Did you get a picture of that? 188 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,160 No, didn't you? 189 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,160 That's the camera on the trunk. 190 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,160 Where's your camera? 191 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,160 In the car. I was driving. 192 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,200 We looked at each other and realized no pictures. 193 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,200 The camera was not in my hand, the camera was not in his hand, 194 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,200 and we both knew we blew it. 195 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:26,200 The only thing I can say is we were just all struck by it 196 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:29,200 or just dumb, whichever one. 197 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:32,200 I'm not sure which, but we sure didn't get any pictures of it. 198 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,200 The next night, Gordon and Hall would go out again. 199 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,200 This time they would take photographs. 200 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,240 With the film still undeveloped, 201 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,240 the press conference was called for the following day, 202 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,240 October 23rd, 1987. 203 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,240 The night before the press conference, 204 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,240 I received a phone call from somebody 205 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,240 who refused to identify himself, 206 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,240 and they said that I need to be aware 207 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,240 that the CIA and the federal government 208 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,240 were very much interested in the kind of UFOs. 209 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,240 I started to wonder what I had stepped into, 210 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:06,240 and my wife was urging me to back off, 211 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,240 to leave it alone, and I also was receiving 212 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,280 some anonymous phone call saying, you know, 213 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,280 it's something you need to leave alone 214 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:16,280 because it's not your place to be missing in defense matters. 215 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:25,280 Becky? 216 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,280 After the press conference, 217 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,280 Gordon discovered that his house had been broken into. 218 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,280 Becky? 219 00:12:35,280 --> 00:12:37,280 Oddly, nothing was stolen, 220 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,320 and Gordon is convinced that someone 221 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:41,320 was looking for the photographs. 222 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:43,320 When developed, the pictures revealed 223 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,320 only vague streaks of light in the sky. 224 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,320 But Danny Gordon would soon have another opportunity 225 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:53,320 to photograph the UFOs. 226 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:59,320 Six weeks later, on December 2nd, 227 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:01,320 Danny, his wife and daughter, 228 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,320 were leaving the local mall 229 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:05,320 when they encountered some unexpected visitors. 230 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,320 And you look around! 231 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:11,320 What is that? 232 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,320 We looked very quickly and saw 233 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,320 what I thought was one large object, 234 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,320 which later appeared to be four, 235 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,320 flying disc shapes. 236 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,320 As soon as the objects were photographed, 237 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,320 they disappeared from view. 238 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,360 One of the pictures came out 239 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:35,360 and they had a lot of grain, 240 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:37,360 but they showed definite four shapes 241 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,360 of objects in the sky. 242 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:41,360 But the most impressive point 243 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:43,360 in the four photographs, 244 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,360 the objects appear to change shape 245 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,360 or light formations 246 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:49,360 within one click of the camera. 247 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,360 They go from a teardrop shape 248 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:53,360 to a round ball shape. 249 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,360 Then they go to a flying saucer 250 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,360 like disc shape, 251 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,360 and then they go to an edge shape 252 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:00,360 as they go out of sight. 253 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,360 The people of Withville 254 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:05,360 knew that something extraordinary 255 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,360 was happening in their town. 256 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:09,360 By the end of December, 257 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,360 the sightings numbered well over 1,500. 258 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,360 One of the first occurred here, 259 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,360 near Interstate 81, 260 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,360 a mile from downtown Withville. 261 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:19,360 Eyewitnesses said the craft resembled 262 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:21,360 a brilliantly lit hurling carousel. 263 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:24,360 Immediately, other sightings cropped up. 264 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,360 I'm not mistaken about what we saw. 265 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:29,360 Absolutely not, 266 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:31,400 because we had never seen this before. 267 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:34,400 We didn't have any reason to make any stories up. 268 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,400 I kept a journal. 269 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:38,400 Patricia Acres had ten sightings, 270 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,400 all of them here, 271 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,400 eight miles north of Withville. 272 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,400 The best way I can describe them 273 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,400 is that they sort of look like a cross 274 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,400 between a helicopter and an airplane 275 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,400 with no noise, 276 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,400 no or very little noise. 277 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,400 To be so large, I don't know how they stayed up. 278 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:56,400 I'd say that the educated 279 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,440 psychologists and psychiatrists 280 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,440 debunking what we've seen and everything, 281 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,440 they've never been here. 282 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,440 They've never seen it. 283 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,440 I was skeptical until I started seeing this stuff. 284 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:12,440 Rita Marie Vaught saw a UFO behind this ridge, 285 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:14,440 half a mile from her house. 286 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:16,440 I've seen the circle of 287 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,440 object in the sky, 288 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,440 all different colors that kept going around and around. 289 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,440 It would be sort of looking like a carousel, 290 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:25,440 but it didn't scare me. 291 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:27,480 None of this has scared me. 292 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:31,480 Until I see the little green men walking around, 293 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:33,480 I won't be scared. 294 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,480 You just had this feeling of something 295 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,480 really, really big 296 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:40,480 just moving, just drifting over your head 297 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:42,480 in no sound or anything. 298 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:44,480 Mellie Jean Williamson sightings 299 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,480 occurred directly above her house 300 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,480 in the center of Withville. 301 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:50,480 It had all the white lights in the front, 302 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:52,480 just a big semicircle of white lights, 303 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,480 and it was just huge. 304 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,520 But you couldn't actually see an outline 305 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,520 or anything like that. 306 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:02,520 I know it wasn't the planet Venus 307 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,520 and I know it was not atmospheric phenomena. 308 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:09,520 These were some kind of craft 309 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,520 moving over our house. 310 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:14,520 Eventually, I got around to calling the Pentagon 311 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,520 and talk with the spokesman for defense of the Pentagon, 312 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,520 and he speaks for all the defense 313 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,520 of the planet Venus. 314 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,560 I spoke for all the defense branches 315 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:27,560 and he told me, quote, twice, 316 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:29,560 we do not deny UFOs exist. 317 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,560 The government confirms they exist, 318 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:33,560 but we deny they pose a threat 319 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:35,560 to the populace of With County. 320 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:37,560 And my question was, how do you know this? 321 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:39,560 And he said, I can't tell you. 322 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:41,560 But there's no threat to you, so that's the reason 323 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:43,560 we're not sending convoys of aircraft down 324 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:45,560 or to protect With County. 325 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,560 On March 19, 1988, 326 00:16:47,560 --> 00:16:50,560 Danny Gordon was packing for a broadcasters conference 327 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,600 in Virginia Beach, where he was to speak about his UFO coverage. 328 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:56,600 I received a phone call at home 329 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,600 from a retired military intelligence officer, 330 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,600 and first he told me to make sure that I taped the conversation 331 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:05,600 so he could put the date and everyone to be aware. 332 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,600 And I said, why do you want to tape this? 333 00:17:07,600 --> 00:17:09,600 And he said, I want your friendship, though. 334 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,600 Something happens to you that I forewarned you. 335 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:13,600 What I'm telling you, Danny, 336 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:16,600 is I've been suing this link for many, many years. 337 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,600 Like I say, I saw my son dying. 338 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,640 He told me that because of his investigations 339 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:25,640 into the UFO field, that they had hit his son 340 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:27,640 and caused his son to die with some kind of virus 341 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,640 connected to leukemia. 342 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:31,640 Danny, who is it? 343 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:33,640 It's not my son. 344 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:35,640 He said that he had information to the federal government. 345 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,640 I was not very happy with my UFO investigations. 346 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:40,640 And they felt like I was too loud of a voice 347 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:43,640 to quieten by just killing me, which made me very happy. 348 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:47,640 And he said, they want to quieten you in a different fashion. 349 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,680 What I'm telling you is they will try to hit you 350 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:53,680 if they think it's possible for their purposes 351 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:56,680 to keep you from fervent investigating this thing. 352 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,680 And most of my food would be done through skin contact chemicals. 353 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,680 If there's something on the door now that you car 354 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,680 or on the steering wheel, 355 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:06,680 they could also come up with something, 356 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,680 do something to your children. 357 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,680 You know, it's one thing for someone to threaten myself. 358 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:13,680 When you threaten my family, 359 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,680 you're trading on very thin water. 360 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:18,720 So when I found out that he could be believed, 361 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:20,720 just could be, 362 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:23,720 it scared me at the same time made me mad. 363 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,720 Because I had to try to protect my family, protect myself. 364 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,720 And at the same time, because I am a, I believe in free speech, 365 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:31,720 I was refusing to allow this man 366 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,720 to stop me from going to Virginia Beach to talk. 367 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:36,720 Well, I am going to Virginia Beach. 368 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,720 Damn it, it's time you said I'm going to crack the monster. 369 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:41,720 No, I appreciate it. I appreciate it. 370 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,720 Thank you for calling. 371 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:47,720 What was that about? 372 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:49,720 Oh, nothing, honey. 373 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,720 Oddly enough, it was the same weekend 374 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,720 that there was a hepatitis epidemic in Virginia Beach. 375 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:56,720 Had I come down with hepatitis, 376 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,720 I would have believed and everyone would have believed 377 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,720 they had gotten to me. 378 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:02,720 But I came back with no problems 379 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,720 and the children were in good shape. 380 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,720 Lesson one month after the disturbing phone call, 381 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:12,720 Gordon had two surprise visitors at his home. 382 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:14,760 I associate Michael with the Richmond Gazette. 383 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,760 I'd like to ask you a few questions, 384 00:19:16,760 --> 00:19:18,760 if you don't mind about these recent UFO settings. 385 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:20,760 No, I'll be fine. 386 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:22,760 Okay, great. 387 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:24,760 They remain for approximately 45 minutes, 388 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,760 one interviewing Danny Gordon, 389 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:29,760 the other roaming through the house snapping photographs. 390 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,760 They had told me when they left, 391 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,760 they would send me a copy of the article so I could peruse it. 392 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:36,760 And when I didn't receive one, I called the newspaper 393 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:39,760 and they said, well, these two guys are not on our payroll. 394 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,760 They don't work for us. 395 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,800 But they were in my house, saw my pictures, 396 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,800 saw my negatives, talked to my family, 397 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:47,800 took pictures and then left, 398 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,800 but they were not with the newspaper. 399 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,800 I think we've got everything we need, Mr. Gordon. 400 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:53,800 Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. 401 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:08,800 A few weeks later, 402 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:10,800 Danny Gordon sat down to organize and catalogue 403 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,840 his UFO photographs. 404 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,840 When I got to the canister which had the UFO negatives, 405 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,840 I quickly opened it up and found some UFO negatives, 406 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,840 but the one negative with the shot from the shopping mall 407 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:28,840 was missing. 408 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,840 I felt like maybe there was something in those photographs 409 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,840 that I was not seeing. 410 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:34,840 So I took the photographs to some other people to look at. 411 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:36,840 We used magnifying glasses. 412 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,840 We measured angles, trying to find out 413 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:40,880 why these photographs were so important. 414 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,880 And we've yet to discover why anyone would want to steal 415 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:45,880 that one Pacific set of four 416 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:48,880 in a series of photographs of the UFOs. 417 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:52,880 Danny Gordon had nearly reached the end of his rope. 418 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:54,880 His house had been broken into. 419 00:20:54,880 --> 00:20:56,880 He had received countless late night phone calls, 420 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,880 some of them threatening. 421 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,880 Bogus reporters had visited his home. 422 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,880 Finally, his UFO negatives disappeared. 423 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,880 Two months later, the stress caught up with Danny Gordon. 424 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:20,880 Somebody help him please. 425 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:21,880 He just healed over. 426 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:22,880 He was getting room for work. 427 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:24,880 I think he's having a heart attack. 428 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:25,880 Not having, not having. 429 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:26,880 Not so well. 430 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,880 Doctors would later determine that the attack had been brought 431 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,880 on not by heart problems, but by severe exhaustion. 432 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:35,880 Danny Gordon was cautioned that continued involvement 433 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,920 with the UFO controversy could jeopardize his health. 434 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,920 I myself have not had a sighting since December 1990, 435 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:47,920 but purposely I don't go out and look 436 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,920 because it's upset my life enough 437 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:53,920 I would just assume never see a UFO again in my lifetime. 438 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,920 If I had my choice, I'd not report the UFO story again. 439 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:01,920 It's just been too hard on my life 440 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:03,920 and created too many problems. 441 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,920 I don't look up because once you look up 442 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,920 and you tell somebody what you saw, 443 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:12,920 your life has changed forever. 444 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,920 In late 1987, Danny Gordon received an average 445 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,920 of 500 telephone calls about UFOs each month. 446 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,920 Today, the calls that dwindled to approximately 50 per month. 447 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,920 The UFO heyday in Withville is apparently drawn to a close. 448 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,960 Danny Gordon's health and life are back to normal. 449 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,960 But if history is any indicator, 450 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,960 sometime soon in another small town, 451 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:42,960 someone else will look up 452 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,960 and his or her life will never be the same. 453 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,960 Next, in Ohio, a reporter's curiosity 454 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:54,960 leads to a statewide hunt for a possible serial killer. 455 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,960 On April 19, 1990, 456 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:08,960 the partially nude body of a woman 457 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,960 was found behind a truck stop in Licking County, Ohio. 458 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,960 She had been beaten to death. 459 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,960 All of her jewelry and some articles of clothing were missing. 460 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,960 About the bruise on the eye. 461 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,960 Despite an extensive investigation by County Sheriff's, 462 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,960 the victim was never identified. 463 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:28,960 No one was aware that her murder 464 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,960 was not an accident. 465 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Four years earlier, the body of this woman, 466 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,000 23-year-old Shirley Dean Taylor, 467 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 was found behind a traffic barrier 468 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,000 on Interstate 71 in nearby Medina County. 469 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Taylor, a known prostitute, had also been beaten to death. 470 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,000 Let's go down to the county more. 471 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,000 As in the case of the Jane Doe, 472 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,000 all jewelry and several pieces of clothing 473 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,000 had been removed from the body. 474 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,040 No one would connect the nearly identical murders 475 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,040 until 1990. 476 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,040 In November of that year, 477 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,040 Michael Barron, a reporter for the Columbus Dispatch, 478 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,040 began preliminary research 479 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:19,040 for a possible story on serial killers. 480 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,040 I had remembered a statement 481 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,040 that an FBI agent had once said 482 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,040 that prostitutes make the ideal serial killer victim 483 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,040 because they're trans, 484 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,080 and often their disappearances 485 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,080 aren't reported immediately. 486 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,080 So I started looking at prostitute deaths 487 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,080 all across Ohio, primarily using newspaper stories 488 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,080 as the way to track those deaths. 489 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,080 Barron's began to cross-reference 490 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,080 unsolved murder cases in Ohio. 491 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,080 A sinister pattern soon emerged. 492 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:49,080 Eight women in eight different counties 493 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,080 had been beaten or strangled to death. 494 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,080 Each was found alongside a major interstate. 495 00:24:55,120 --> 00:24:59,120 Each was a known or suspected prostitute. 496 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:02,120 All these women who were killed in Ohio 497 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:04,120 also worked at truck stops 498 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:07,120 or were last believed to have been working at a truck stop. 499 00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:09,120 And that was the third major factor 500 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:11,120 that started tying these deaths together. 501 00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:19,120 Michael Barron's began an investigation 502 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:21,120 that took him into a little-known subculture 503 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:24,120 of Ohio's interstate truck stops. 504 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,160 You drive by him 505 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:30,160 and you see these restaurants and these trucks, 506 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,160 but until you sit there, you don't see with the underbelly, 507 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,160 the underworld of these little mini cities 508 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,160 that form each night and then break apart 509 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,160 each morning and come together. 510 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:42,160 See you next time, sweetie. 511 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,160 Yeah, you take care. 512 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:47,160 Barron's discovered a flourishing sex-for-sale industry 513 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,160 at truck stops throughout the state. 514 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,160 On any given night, any number of women were available. 515 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,160 The prostitutes work off a CB radio, 516 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,160 and it's all done anonymously. 517 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,160 The prostitute will get on the radio and give her handle 518 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:04,160 in some little catchphrase that she's developed as her trademark, 519 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,160 and the truck will answer back and say, 520 00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:09,160 yeah, this is the Blue Peter built in row three. 521 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,160 Come meet me. And she goes off to the truck, 522 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,160 and then usually, when she gets in the truck, 523 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:17,160 she'll use the truck or CB to radio to her next customer. 524 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:23,160 27-year-old Anna Marie Patterson was a sixth known victim. 525 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:26,160 In reviewing the investigation of her murder, 526 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:29,160 Michael Barron's uncovered several possible clues 527 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,160 to the killer's identity. 528 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:35,160 Hey there, guys. This is Sleeping Beauty. 529 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,160 If you're looking for a good time, come back. 530 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,160 On February 8th, 1987, Anna Marie was working 531 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,160 at a truck stop in Austin Town, Ohio, 532 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,160 150 miles north of Columbus. 533 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:49,160 According to witnesses, just after midnight, 534 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,160 Anna Marie answered a call from a driver of a black 535 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,160 or dark blue Peter built truck. 536 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,160 The man used the CB handle, Dr. No. 537 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:58,160 Hey, how you doing? 538 00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,160 Sleeping Beauty. 539 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:00,160 Hi, it's your dad. 540 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,160 Come on up. 541 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:02,160 How you doing today? 542 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:03,160 Great. 543 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:04,160 God, it's funny. 544 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,160 Get out there. 545 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,160 Don't you worry. 546 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:07,160 I'll warm you up. 547 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:12,160 25 days later, Anna Marie's body was found alongside 548 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:16,160 Interstate 71 north of Cincinnati. 549 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:21,160 Anna Marie was found about 250 miles from where she was last seen 550 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:27,160 in a field in a drainage ditch in about four to six inches 551 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:28,160 of water. 552 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,160 Her head had been bashed in and she was brutally beaten. 553 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:32,160 She wasn't just killed. 554 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,160 She was mutilated. 555 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,160 Sleeping bag has a body of a white female. 556 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,160 Anna Marie had a rule of only staying in the truck stop 557 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,160 and would not allow a trucker to take her off the stop. 558 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,160 That's why it's believed that she was probably killed 559 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,160 or at least knocked unconscious at the stop. 560 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,160 At the time of her death, Anna Marie Patterson 561 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:55,160 was six months pregnant. 562 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:59,160 An autopsy revealed that she had been killed within 48 hours 563 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,160 of her disappearance. 564 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,160 The condition of her body clearly indicated that the killer 565 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:08,160 had kept it refrigerated for nearly a month. 566 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:11,160 There has been some speculation that some of these victims 567 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,160 have been driven many more miles than the actual distance 568 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,160 from last seen to found. 569 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,160 There may be an indication that the killer is doing something 570 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,160 with these victims, either verbally, physically, 571 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,160 or otherwise, after death. 572 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,160 According to Barron's, the killing spree began with a murder 573 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:34,160 of an unidentified woman in April of 1981. 574 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,160 Over the next nine years, the bodies of seven other victims 575 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,160 were dumped along interstates in different counties. 576 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:44,160 Each woman was viciously beaten or strangled to death. 577 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,160 Each had jewelry and clothing removed from her body. 578 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,160 The conclusion we reached is that there was overwhelming evidence 579 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,160 of the murder of a woman. 580 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,160 The fact is that there was overwhelming evidence 581 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,160 that a potential serial killer was trolling Ohio interstates 582 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,160 in search of victims, and not only Ohio, 583 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:06,160 but many different Midwest states and even going to the East Coast. 584 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,160 We thought the evidence was overwhelming to present that 585 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,160 to the public. 586 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:17,160 On March 10, 1991, the Columbus dispatch ran Michael Barron's story. 587 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,160 It detailed compelling evidence which suggested the murders 588 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:24,160 of the eight women were the work of one killer. 589 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,160 Ten days later, the Ohio Attorney General 590 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,160 and the Buckeye State Sheriff's Association 591 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,160 formed a special task force. 592 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:35,160 They established a 24-hour toll-free hotline 593 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:39,160 as part of an unprecedented statewide investigation. 594 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:44,160 We were finding that what was happening in one county 595 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,160 was not necessarily being told to another county, 596 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,160 but a clue in one county that may have meant nothing, 597 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:56,160 may have meant a great deal in just the adjacent county. 598 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,160 But maybe the most significant clue in this case 599 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,160 is also the most perplexing. 600 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,160 Killers tend to dump in places that they feel comfortable with. 601 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,160 That's why you'll find a grouping of bodies in a river or such. 602 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,160 This killer scatters these bodies, 603 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,160 and that's the big question, why? 604 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,160 There have been great speculation among the officers themselves 605 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,160 as, do we really have an intelligent killer out there 606 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,160 who knows enough about law enforcement 607 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:26,160 to have dumped the bodies in these different jurisdictions? 608 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:30,160 There's even been speculation that the killer could be a security guard 609 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,160 or even a former police officer 610 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:36,160 who knows enough about police investigative techniques to do that. 611 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:43,160 Michael Bairns is convinced that one killer is responsible for the eight murders. 612 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:48,160 He is equally convinced that the victims were all doomed by their occupation. 613 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,160 I think the killer no doubt picked prostitutes 614 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,160 because he knows that it does affect the quality of investigation. 615 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,160 Prostitutes aren't going to be pursued as aggressively 616 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,160 as if it was a child or a suburban housewife. 617 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,160 That's a fact. 618 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:07,160 I think that the public has compassion for anybody who was innocently murdered. 619 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,160 No matter what their profession, no matter how they live their life, 620 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:15,160 when someone's life is snuffed out for absolutely no reason, 621 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,160 I think people get angry. 622 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:24,160 The last known victim in Ohio was discovered in November of 1990. 623 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:28,160 The victim was found in a hospital in the city of San Francisco. 624 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,160 The last known victim in Ohio was discovered in November of 1990. 625 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,160 However, authorities have been stunned to learn of as many as 150 other homicides 626 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,160 nationwide that fit the same basic pattern. 627 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:44,160 Recently, truck drivers have been arrested in three separate murder investigations. 628 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,160 In each case, the victims were prostitutes. 629 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:50,160 But none of these suspects have been connected to any of the Ohio murders. 630 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:57,160 At least two of the victims are last seen getting into a black or dark blue Peterbill tractor. 631 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,160 Possibly pulling a refrigerated trailer. 632 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:06,160 The driver may use a CB Handel's Dr. No, Stargazer or Dragon. 633 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,160 I'd like to be able to say that we know now whether it's one person 634 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,160 and whether it's a serial murder. 635 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,160 The truth is that we don't. 636 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,160 And while that is certainly a plausible theory, 637 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,160 at this point it's nothing more than that. 638 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,160 Stay tuned. 639 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:35,160 An elegant mansion in New Jersey is said to be haunted by the ghost of its builder. 640 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,160 Do ghosts really exist? 641 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:52,160 The fact is that 25% of all Americans today believe they do. 642 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,160 Perhaps ghosts are no more than our own need 643 00:32:55,160 --> 00:33:00,160 for something beyond the world we can touch and feel and logically comprehend. 644 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:05,160 Or perhaps as one family in New Jersey believes, they're really out there. 645 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:11,160 In 1923, a man named Bill Batey had a dream. 646 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:15,160 He imagined a 17th century Norman castle, 647 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:21,160 rising stone by stone on 150 acres of woodland in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. 648 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,160 Yeah, everything's coming along just fine. 649 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,160 He's completed work on the kitchen and the basement. 650 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,160 Bill Batey had the means to make his dream come true. 651 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:35,160 As an advertising executive in New York City, he had a master's sizable fortune. 652 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,160 His wife, Sarah, was wealthy in her own right. 653 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,160 Anything with the window until the oak comes in. 654 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,160 Well, when's the oak coming? 655 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,160 It's going to take two or three days. 656 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,160 This is the window I was talking about. 657 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:48,160 The Bateys envisioned their castle as a center of an artist's colony 658 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,160 surrounded by bungalows fronting a man-made lake. 659 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,160 How far up are we going to go? 660 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,160 We're going to go up another foot, OK? 661 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,160 And you're going to have five, you're going to have 11 by five. 662 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,160 In 1930, before construction was complete, 663 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:04,160 the Bateys moved into the castle with their four children. 664 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,160 But Bill Batey would never see the completion of his dream. 665 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:15,160 Just one year later, he died at the age of 45, a victim of influenza. 666 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:19,160 His castle would not be finished for another five years. 667 00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,160 Sarah Batey never remarried. 668 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:28,160 She raised all four children in the castle and lived there until 1941. 669 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:37,160 From 1945 to 1971, the castle was occupied by two different boys' schools. 670 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:42,160 From the start, students and teachers reported eerie organ music 671 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,160 echoing through the corridors. 672 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,160 Oddly, the school owned no pipe organ. 673 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,160 However, the long-dead Bill Batey had owned one. 674 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,160 Was it possible that Bill Batey loved his castle so much 675 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,160 that he refused to leave even in death? 676 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,160 Old-timers remember that Sarah Batey often held seance 677 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,160 and was trying to communicate with Bill. 678 00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,160 When the second boy's school moved out of the castle, 679 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:12,160 many of the faculty and students remain convinced the premises were haunted. 680 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:19,160 In 1972, Don and Carol Berlingame bought the castle and began to remodel. 681 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:23,160 They would soon learn about the ghost in residence firsthand. 682 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:28,160 Carol was really the first one to feel some sort of present. 683 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:32,160 And she had a friend that was sort of an amateur parapsychologist. 684 00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,160 And we brought her in and she said, 685 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,160 well, there definitely is a presence here. 686 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,160 He's definitely friendly and he's male. 687 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:43,160 And Carol said, well, maybe we should try to get rid of him. 688 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,160 Shouldn't we have a seance? 689 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:49,160 And she said, no, you better leave things exactly the way they are. 690 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,160 He's friendly, he's happy, let it go at that. 691 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,160 After the building games moved in, 692 00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:00,160 hammering noises resounded through the hallways 693 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:03,160 and disembodied footsteps trod the stairs. 694 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:08,160 Before long, the ghost made his presence known in other, more high tech ways. 695 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,160 What's going on? 696 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:19,160 I don't know. 697 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,160 Let me see if I can fix it. 698 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,160 You just get into a movie, just the really interesting part, 699 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,160 and all of a sudden the station would change. 700 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,160 It would go from two to three to four, 701 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:34,160 to five, and it happened more than one time. 702 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,160 I knew that there was a presence here. 703 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,160 What I couldn't figure out was, why was he here? 704 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,160 Who was he? 705 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,160 When was he going to leave? 706 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,160 If in fact, was he ever going to leave? 707 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:51,160 I just, it was something I couldn't figure out. 708 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,160 The building games began to delve into the history of the castle. 709 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,160 Soon you just realized that you were in the castle. 710 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:03,160 Soon Eugene Melville, who is now 78 years old, turned up. 711 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:07,160 He had worked for Sarah Bailey from 1933 to 1937 712 00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:11,160 and had his own remarkable tale of encountering the ghost. 713 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,160 I said to him, what I see in there, 714 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:18,160 and they said they've sensed something themselves, 715 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,160 but they never seen him. 716 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,160 But I have felt him there a lot, 717 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,160 even though I've only seen him that once. 718 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,160 I can truthfully say that was the only time 719 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,160 I ever laid eyes on him, was at once. 720 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,160 It doesn't seem to be under here, Mrs. D. 721 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,160 It was 1934, three years after Bill Beatty's death. 722 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,160 Eugene Melville was helping Sarah search for a bracelet 723 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:44,160 which had been lost during a family gathering. 724 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,160 It's Bill, my husband. 725 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,160 But he's dead, Mrs. D. 726 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,160 But it was a figure of a man standing there. 727 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:03,160 It didn't stay long before me to examine it very good. 728 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,160 It was just going shh, just like that. 729 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,160 It was scary. 730 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,160 I don't know about this. 731 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:11,160 It frightened the daylights out of me. 732 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,160 And I never seen him again. 733 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,160 I just never wanted to go in that balcony. 734 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,160 I never went in there again. 735 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:18,160 It bothered me. 736 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,160 I passed by it. 737 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,160 To get me in there, to stand there, I'll forget it. 738 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,160 I wouldn't go in there. 739 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,160 Don and Carol Berlingame finally understood 740 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,160 that they shared their home with a ghost of Bill Beatty. 741 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,160 They believed that on one occasion, 742 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:38,160 Bill demonstrated how much he cared about the castle. 743 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:40,160 We decided we were going to go off for a little ride. 744 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:43,160 And Carol was sort of a fresh air fiend. 745 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:45,160 So she had all the windows open in the servants' wing 746 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,160 where we were living. 747 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:48,160 And Don said, you better close all the windows 748 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:49,160 as opposed to rain. 749 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:50,160 I said, no, it's not going to rain. 750 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:51,160 Don't worry about them. 751 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:52,160 Leave them all open. 752 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:53,160 So I left them open. 753 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:55,160 We went out and it rained. 754 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,160 We came home and all of the casement windows, 755 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:13,160 which opened from the inside and opened to the inside, 756 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,160 were all closed and latched. 757 00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:16,160 Oh, I did it good. 758 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:17,160 You didn't. 759 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,160 There's no water on the floors. 760 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:19,160 Everything's fine. 761 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:20,160 And the windows are closed. 762 00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:21,160 Well, how's that possible? 763 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:22,160 I don't know. 764 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,160 So there wasn't a drop of rain in the house. 765 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,160 So our only conclusion was, because there's 766 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,160 no other way for them to have been closed, 767 00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:31,160 is that Bill helped us out when he saw the rain coming. 768 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:36,160 He closed all the windows and gave us a hand. 769 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,160 From that day on, Bill Beatty's ghost 770 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:43,160 was a constant presence in the Berlingame's lives. 771 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,160 Bill and I have an agreement. 772 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,160 I chatted with him one day, because I didn't see him, 773 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:50,160 but I chatted with him anyhow. 774 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:55,160 And I said, Bill, you can stay here for as long as you want. 775 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:57,160 I enjoy having you around. 776 00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,160 You don't bother me. 777 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:03,160 Just don't ever let me see you, because if I do see you, 778 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,160 I'll probably wind up in a padded cell somewhere. 779 00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,160 So you're welcome to stay. 780 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:09,160 Just don't materialize. 781 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,160 And he never has. 782 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:15,160 We've had several experiences in the house, 783 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,160 one of which was I have a habit of leaving the bread out, 784 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,160 because it's handy. 785 00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:22,160 And I'd leave it out somewhere, 786 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:27,160 and the next thing I'd turn around, it would be on the floor. 787 00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,160 I was alone in the kitchen. 788 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,160 The bread was on the counter. 789 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:35,160 There was no way that it could have fallen off by itself. 790 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,160 And when it did fall off, or fly off, 791 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,160 it went a considerable distance, 792 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,160 so I know that someone had to have moved it. 793 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,160 There was no one else there with me at all, no animals. 794 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,160 Don wasn't around. 795 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:55,160 And there was no way the bread could have fallen off the counter, 796 00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,160 because it was set square. 797 00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,160 Okay, Bill, that's enough. Knock it off. 798 00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,160 And that led me to believe that Bill had to be there, 799 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,160 saying, hi, I'm here. 800 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,160 There was just no way that that bread 801 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:10,160 could have fallen off the counter by itself. 802 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:17,160 In 1986, the Berlin Games invited Dr. Michaeline Mayer, 803 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,160 a noted parapsychologist, to visit the castle. 804 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,160 Mayer, along with an assistant, 805 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:26,160 conducted a series of tests for paranormal activity. 806 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:30,160 Our physical instruments were not able to detect anything unusual, 807 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:35,160 but in this particular case, the sheer volume of the reports 808 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,160 adds to the credibility of the case. 809 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,160 People have experienced similar phenomena 810 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,160 when living at the castle, 811 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,160 even though these are people who may never have spoken to each other. 812 00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,160 One of our witnesses in this case, 813 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:51,160 a particularly credible witness, in fact, 814 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,160 a professional person of some stature, 815 00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:58,160 reported seeing in the driveway in front of the castle 816 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:03,160 a person who dissipated right in front of his eyes. 817 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,160 Can I help you? 818 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,160 Who are you? 819 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:18,160 I think the big news here is that human persons can act as sensors, 820 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:22,160 and when we quantitatively evaluate their responses, 821 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:26,160 we find that we cannot dismiss this evidence 822 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,160 as caused by coincidence. 823 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,160 The stair-trades are going up on that second floor. 824 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,160 The key to existing with a ghost is, 825 00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,160 if you can accept it, you can enjoy it. 826 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,160 And when things happen, you just write them off as, 827 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,160 oh, it must be the ghost, or it must be Bill, 828 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,160 if you know who it happened to know who it is, 829 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,160 as in our case we do. 830 00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,160 And you can have fun with it. 831 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:53,160 I firmly believe you'll never leave the castle. 832 00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:58,160 The love of the thing maybe got the better of his soul, 833 00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,160 and I think that's the thing that got such power, you know, 834 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:02,160 is the soul. 835 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,160 It's eternal. 836 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,160 It's been said that the spirits of those who die with unfinished business 837 00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,160 are destined to wander for eternity. 838 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,160 This would seem to be the case with Bill Beatty. 839 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:19,160 In 1991, after nearly two decades in the castle, 840 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,160 the Berlin games moved away. 841 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,160 As far as they know, the ghost of Bill Beatty stayed behind. 842 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:29,160 The Berlin games hope that when the castle is next sold, 843 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:33,160 his new owners will enjoy the ghost's presence as much as they did. 844 00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:38,160 The World of the Ghosts 845 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:42,160 The World of the Ghosts 846 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:48,160 The World of the Ghosts 847 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:54,160 Join me next time for an all-new edition of Unsolved Mysteries. 848 00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:08,160 The World of the Ghosts 849 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:13,160 The World of the Ghosts 850 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:18,160 The World of the Ghosts 851 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:23,160 The World of the Ghosts 852 00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:28,160 The World of the Ghosts 853 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:33,160 The World of the Ghosts 854 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:38,160 The World of the Ghosts 855 00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:42,160 The World of the Ghosts