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

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

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to see is not a news broadcast.

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Recently, strange unexplained lights have been spotted and photographed in the night

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sky. Some aviation researchers believe these amateur videos contain evidence that the Air

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Force has developed a new generation of sophisticated aircraft, but the Air Force says they are

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not ours.

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In Ohio, Dave Box vanished while working the night shift at a plant that processed high

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grade uranium for nuclear weapons. Several days later, unidentifiable human remains

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were found in one of the plant furnaces. Dave Box's family believes he was murdered to prevent

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him from blowing the whistle on safety violations and illegal radioactive dumping. At a fascinating

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look at one of the mysteries of the animal world, we will follow two ordinary house

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pets, a cat and a dog, who became lost and then traveled more than 100 miles through

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unknown terrain to somehow find their owners.

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Join me for these intriguing news stories and more on another edition of Unsolved Mysteries.

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In the films, with a loyal and resourceful collie with miraculously maker way across mountains

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and through forests to find her way home, well, it might not be as implausible as you think.

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We've heard of a number of animals, common household pets, who somehow travel incredible

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distances guided by their own mysterious radar to be reunited with their owners. There is

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no scientific explanation for this remarkable phenomenon. It is truly one of nature's most

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baffling mysteries.

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Sue Anderson of Baltimore, Maryland has been an animal lover for as long as she can remember.

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In the spring of 1992, Sue packed her belongings for a cross-country move to Modesto, California.

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The last things she loaded up in the van were her most valued possessions, her five beloved

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cats.

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I had puss and Cinderella and Woolly Booger and Nova and Stardust. They're like children

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to me in a way, and I feel when I take on the responsibility of a pet, then that responsibility

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is mine until the pet dies.

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Sue caravanned with her brother, who was also moving west. The two of them, along with the

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five cats, set off in tandem for California. For Sue's feline family, who were all house

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cats, it was the first time they had been further from home than the local vet. Sue felt a special

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affinity for Nova, a black short hair.

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I got Nova about four years ago. She was left outside of my apartment. She was cold and

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frightened and hungry, and knew that she was being deserted. She just kind of clung to

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me and got very attached to me, and ever since then it's been a very, very close relationship.

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Near the end of the trip, Sue says Nova began acting strangely.

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She would climb up on the seat behind me, and she would talk in my ear. She would get up

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on the dash, and I would have to pull her down so that I could see around her. She would

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sit in my lap and get very affectionate and want to be petted. Animals that have left

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that I've had, that have run away, or got separated from me in the past, always acted

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extremely affectionate. It's like they were saying, one final farewell.

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After ten days on the road, Sue and her brother finally made it to California.

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Hi. How are you doing?

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Exhausted, they pulled into a rest stop south of Bakersfield, 200 miles from Modesto, their

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final destination. They planned to sleep until daybreak before pushing on.

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Oh, no. I felt devastated. She was in a strange place. I'd never been here before, and it

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scared me. I was worried about her survival. Sue's premonition about Nova had apparently

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come true. She and her brother searched for an hour, but in the end, Sue had to leave

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Nova behind. I was very, very anxious about her, very, very frightened. I was very, very

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anxious about her survival. I was very, very anxious about her survival. I was very, very

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anxious about her survival. In the end, Sue had to leave Nova behind.

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I was very, very anxious about her, very, very frightened for her, and very upset about the

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whole incident.

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During the next few weeks, Sue started a job in San Jose and made new friends, but Nova

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was never far from her thoughts. A sympathetic co-worker gave Sue a picture of a black cat

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as a memento.

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Every day when she got to work, Sue

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would take a few minutes to gaze at the picture

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and pray that Nova would somehow find her.

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People would stop by.

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They would always stop and say, oh, get real.

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She's never going to come back.

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You know, you're just dreaming.

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And I said, well, maybe one day she will.

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So I kept it up there the entire time I was working there.

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Who's kidding for you?

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A full year passed.

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Then on July 16, 1993, Sue came across two stray cats

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outside of work.

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Get it.

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Get it.

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Get it.

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Get it.

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Come here.

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Get it.

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Get it.

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Get it.

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Come here.

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To Sue's amazement and against all odds,

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Nova had journeyed some 250 miles

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through completely foreign territory

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to find her way to Sue.

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She had a mole inside her ear.

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She had five or six distinguishing white hairs

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on her chest.

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And she let me look at her claws,

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and I could identify her claws.

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All these things were adding up that this was indeed my cat.

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How can we explain Nova's incredible journey?

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Noted animal behaviorist Miriam Yarden theorizes

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that owners and their pets can form a bond strong enough

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to develop a kind of mental telepathy.

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She told me that she spent 10 to 12 hours at her place of work.

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And by thinking of the cat and seeing her own surroundings

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subconsciously, she was sending the visual images to the cat.

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Come to this area.

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Come to this place.

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This is where I am.

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Can I prove it?

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Anyone can disprove it?

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We don't know.

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That's half the fun in this particular case

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that we can theorize.

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I like to think that the cat is a very, very, very

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I like to think that there is enough of a bonding

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that if you really believe in your capacity to love

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and let that love be a kind of a guiding light,

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that they will use that love to get back to us when they want to.

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Mother's Day weekend, 1992.

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John and Susan Riesgraf of the Luth, Minnesota

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and their three children arrived at a cabin

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on the edge of Bear Head Lake State Park,

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100 miles from their home.

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The Riesgrafs had brought along their dogs, Lady Akali

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and Wolfka of Belgian Shepherd.

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It was springtime.

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Ice was coming off the lake.

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Green leaves were starting to bud out.

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And it was just a good time to take a break.

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And we were real excited to be there and go for hikes

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and take the dogs out.

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Come on, come on, Lady.

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Come on, Wolfka.

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Have a good ride, dog.

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The Riesgrafs had been to the cabin on several occasions

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and felt perfectly comfortable letting

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the dogs out on their own.

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Normally, Lady and Wolfka returned within an hour.

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Lady, come on, Lady.

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But this time was different.

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Wolfka, Wolfka.

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We called for them to come in and they didn't show.

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And we thought, well, they're maybe chasing a rabbit or something.

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and they didn't show up.

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And we were looking for them on the trails, calling for them.

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And we thought they would show up.

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And they didn't.

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The next day, a forest fire erupted just a few miles

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southwest of the Riesgrafs cabin.

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The flames were headed in their direction.

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They had to evacuate immediately.

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Leaving without the dogs was especially difficult

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for seven-year-old Hannah, who had literally grown up

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with Lady and Wolfka.

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I was scared because I didn't know where they go

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and wish we could have stayed.

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When my mom told me that we were leaving, I felt sad.

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And I wish we didn't have to leave.

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The fire was devastating.

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It burned out of control for three days

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and consumed more than 9,000 acres of timberland.

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and hope for the best.

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We had called Susan's father.

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And I had asked him to go back to the cabin a few times

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because I thought they would come back to the cabin.

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I thought that would be our best hope.

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But then he had done that and had not seen anything.

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OK, honey, what do you want to pray for tonight?

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Hannah, however, refused to give in to the unthinkable,

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especially in the case of Lady, her favorite.

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Please help Lady find her way home.

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Please protect her and keep her safe.

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Please paint her home very soon, Amen.

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Every night in my bed, I would pray because I knew that the Lord,

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if it was his will, that she would come home.

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And I felt that she would.

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Almost two weeks after Lady disappeared,

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a hungry, bedraggled collie wandered up

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to a house on the outskirts of Duluth.

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Incredibly, Hannah's prayers had been answered.

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Where did you come from?

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Hello.

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Well, let me see if you get a collar.

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Wonderful.

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Oh, I got a honey.

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Hello.

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Yes, this is a rescraf family.

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Is that my mother?

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All right.

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What?

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Wait, you found Lady?

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We found Lady?

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Out of the blue, some folks that were about 15 miles from our house

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called and said, your dog is in our yard.

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And I said, what?

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And they said, your dog is a collie.

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Her name is Lady.

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Is this the telephone number?

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I said, yes.

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And I said, do you realize this dog has traveled a long way

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to get to your yard?

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Finally, after 13 days apart, Lady

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was reunited with her family.

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Lady.

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Lady.

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Lady.

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Lady.

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Lady.

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I felt really happy that she was back,

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and that she would be with our family again.

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I was happy.

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Lady's amazing adventure made headlines in Duluth.

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Before long, several people contacted the rescraps,

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and they learned just how far Lady had traveled

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to make her way back home.

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A few days after Lady's disappearance,

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a railroad worker spotted a collie 30 miles from the cabin.

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The dog was following a set of tracks leading east.

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What's a dog like that doing out here?

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The eyewitness said that when he tried to approach the dog,

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she avoided him and remained steadfast on her course.

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About a week later, another eyewitness

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spotted a collie near an old logging trail,

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approximately 15 miles from Duluth.

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Lady's incredible journey had begun here at the cabin.

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The rescraps now believe that as a fire spread,

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she may have traveled east into the superior national forest.

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She then swung south towards the city of Isabella.

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Over the next few days, Lady was spotted by the railroad worker

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and later along the old logging trail.

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Eventually, Lady ended up on the outskirts of Duluth.

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All together, she had traveled more than 150 miles.

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The rescraps have no doubt that Lady

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would have made her way to their house

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if she had not been taken in by the kindly couple.

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She's found her home and she's there to stay.

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Since this long walk home, she stays home.

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It's like she realized, too, this is my family.

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And we just appreciate her whole lot more.

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Unfortunately, the rescraps still do not

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know what happened to their other dog, Wolfka.

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They can only hope that he is safe,

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perhaps adopted by a caring stranger.

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While Lady was successful in her journey,

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and Wolfka was not, is one of life's mysteries.

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Perhaps, just perhaps, Lady's success

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can be attributed to the powerful force she had guiding her,

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the love of a small child.

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When we return, strange lights in the night sky,

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UFOs, a secret aircraft developed by our military.

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At one time or another, we have all looked up at the night sky

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and seen something which we just cannot explain.

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Recently, there's been a rash of such sightings,

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unidentifiable lights and objects

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that seem to move like nothing known to man.

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Some say they are UFOs, others speculate

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that they are a new generation of sophisticated military

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aircraft.

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This video was shot by a camera crew hired

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by Aviation Week magazine.

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Eyewitnesses say it shows a pencil-thin aircraft

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trailing balls of golden light.

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Some believe it is evidence of an exotic new propulsion system.

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In this footage, a conventional airplane

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seen here was being filmed when a mysterious object suddenly

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appeared.

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The object traveled at a high rate of speed

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and exhibited pinpoint maneuverability.

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In this haunting image, several eyewitnesses

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observed an unusual light source, possibly an aircraft,

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hovering over the Nevada desert.

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And here, an unknown wedge-shaped object

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which made no noise flies over Roswell, New Mexico.

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The footage was shot by a man named Stephen

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Douglas of Amarillo, Texas.

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People have been siding and witnessing aircraft

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that can do fantastic, amazing things.

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I mean, high speed, stop on a dime,

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turn like a ballet dancer, or move incredibly slow.

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The mystery behind this is there seems

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to be some aircraft that have some fantastic flying

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abilities that seem to be a quantum leap over anything

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that's previously known.

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Stephen Douglas spends much of his time

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trying to unravel the mystery of these unidentified aircraft.

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Douglas is an aviation enthusiast and journalist

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who publishes a newsletter called Intercepts.

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Douglas believes that the mysterious lights are, in fact,

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experimental military jets, which are being kept under wraps,

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just as the legendary stealth fighter was for nearly a decade.

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Until it was publicly unveiled in 1988,

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the Air Force for National Security reasons

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would not confirm rumors that the stealth was being tested.

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Recently, there's been similar speculation

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about a new spy plane reputed to travel espies

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exceeding Mach 6.

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In 1992, Stephen Douglas obtained

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what he believes is evidence that the plane may actually

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exist.

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It was probably about 11 AM.

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And the house began to rattle.

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Let me call you back.

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This house just really shook.

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I'm going to find out what it is, and I'll give you a call back.

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It was more of a vibration that was felt and not heard.

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So I went outside, and there was this aircraft flying by

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over the house incredibly fast.

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I've seen a lot of aircraft crisscross the skies around here,

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but this thing, I couldn't believe how fast it was moving.

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And behind it, it left a contrail that was unique,

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what they call a donuts on a rope contrail.

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Stephen Douglas took this photograph of the contrail.

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Some aviation researchers believe it

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might have been made by what is known as a pulse detonation

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wave engine, an experimental technology allegedly used

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in the spy plane.

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The Air Force was unable to identify the source of the contrail

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in the photograph, which raises an intriguing question.

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If it is not one of our planes, whose is it?

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A year later, Douglas had another unusual sighting.

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He and his father-in-law, Elwood, were in Roswell, New Mexico

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to videotape military airplanes that were participating

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in mock war games.

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Shortly after a group of B-1 bombers took off,

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an unidentified aircraft entered the area.

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Can you tell what that is?

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Elwood noticed an aircraft coming towards us

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from the southwest.

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As soon as I started shooting tape,

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the battery light in the camera told me

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that the batteries were about exhausted.

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I got approximately seven to 10 seconds

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before the batteries quit in the camera.

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We couldn't hear any sound at all.

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This aircraft made no sound at all.

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It was just super quiet.

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It looked like a flying triangle.

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And immediately, I knew it must have been TR-3A Black Manta.

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The TR-3A Black Manta is another high-tech aircraft

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that is widely rumored to exist.

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The matter is thought to be a reconnaissance

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plane, which operates in tandem with a stealth fighter.

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But in a statement issued to Unsolved Mysteries,

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the Air Force said of the Manta, quote,

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it has no basis in reality.

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When the Air Force analyzed Douglas's footage,

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they believed the aircraft might be a Navy EA-6B Prouler.

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However, the Navy could not identify the plane,

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citing the poor quality of the videotape.

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A computer enhancement of a frame from the videotape

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appears to show a triangular-shaped wedge.

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Douglas claims the object was virtually silent

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and moves slower than conventional military aircraft.

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But if the aircraft does not belong to the Air Force

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and cannot be identified by the Navy,

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the same question remains, whose is it?

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One of the intriguing aspects of this story

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is that the airport where Douglas shot his footage

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is in the same area where one of the most controversial UFO

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episodes took place more than 40 years ago.

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In 1947, Army investigators from Roswell Air Base

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went public with the shocking news

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that a flying saucer had crashed on a ranch in rural New Mexico.

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A few days later, the Army reversed itself

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and claimed that what had actually been found

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was a downed weather balloon.

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Nevertheless, many people are convinced

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that the Army did recover the wreckage

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and the aircraft was able to move forward.

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However, the Army was not able to do so.

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It was convinced that the Army did recover the wreckage

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of a craft from somewhere other than Earth

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and that now, even more incredibly,

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the military has somehow managed to glean the secrets

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of the UFO to achieve a breakthrough

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in aviation technology.

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These aircraft are doing things which a lot of physicists

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have generally said are not possible.

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They're maneuvers.

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They're the way they fly, how fast they are.

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One of the mysteries is how they made the leap.

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There are some that speculate that maybe this technology was

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gleaned from alien technology that somehow either we have

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recovered or has been here for a while.

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UFO technology to power the next generation

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of military aircraft, at best it is difficult to accept.

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Stephen Douglas believes the planes he has seen were developed

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by our military using conventional technology.

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Yet the military says such aircraft do not exist.

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Is there another explanation?

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If the Pentagon has the answer, they are not saying.

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And perhaps, just perhaps, it is better that way.

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On a prior broadcast, we explored one of the great mysteries

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of religion, the Shroud of Turin.

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According to the Bible, after Jesus was crucified,

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he was wrapped in a linen shroud.

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More than 1,000 years later, a 3 1⁄2 by 14-foot linen cloth

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mysteriously turned up in France.

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It showed the faint image of a man's body, front and back.

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Ever since, believers have hailed this cloth as a marvelous relic.

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They claim that Christ was buried in the shroud

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and that his image was miraculously imprinted on the cloth

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at the moment of resurrection.

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When I first began to study the Shroud of Turin,

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I was convinced it was a crock

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and that it would take me probably less than two hours

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to put away this pious fraud.

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After all, anyone with an IQ of 100 or over

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knows that all relics by definition are frauds.

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But I must admit, here I am some 17 years later,

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I who came to Scalf have stayed to pray.

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My personal belief is that the Shroud is probably authentic.

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Skeptics regard this Shroud as a masterful painting,

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a work of an unknown Renaissance artist.

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However, those who believe the Shroud was painted

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are hard pressed to explain two distinct attributes.

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First, the total absence of brushstrokes.

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Also, when the Shroud's image is analyzed by computer,

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it projects a remarkable three-dimensional picture

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almost like a sculpture.

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Virtually no other work of art has this characteristic.

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When all was said and done,

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it seemed like the Shroud would remain a tantalizing mystery,

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the source of endless speculation.

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It was certainly the last story we ever expected to update.

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But for every mystery, there is someone, somewhere,

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who never gives up trying to find a solution.

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Dr. Emily Craig, a forensic anthropologist

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and medical illustrator, claims that she has figured out the secret.

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Using dry paint pigments, ground into a fine powder.

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Dr. Craig has created an image on cloth

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that she believes replicates the distinct qualities of the Shroud.

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It is an ancient technique known as dust drawing.

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I think it goes back to cave paintings.

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It goes back thousands of years.

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They've used carbon dust and ochres

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and different natural occurring pigments for centuries.

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Working first on paper, Dr. Craig applies the dust more heavily

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for the raised features of the face, the forehead, nose, lips and chin.

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The lower areas receive less pigment.

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Once it's done to my satisfaction,

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I'm going to take a piece of linen, you lay the linen down

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and then taking a wooden spoon or any flat, flexible object.

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We're just going to rub the entire image and make a direct transfer.

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The image, now on linen, satisfies one of the Shroud's main attributes.

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There are no brush strokes.

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Dr. Randy Brzee, a textile scientist, is Dr. Craig's partner.

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He put the dust drawing to his most important test,

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the same computer analysis that revealed the Shroud's hidden 3D properties.

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The tests show that Dr. Craig's method

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can produce the singular 3D attribute of the Shroud.

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What we have accomplished, I believe, is that we have demonstrated

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that a miracle is not required to produce the image on the Shroud of Turin.

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And it can be drawn on there in a simple, straightforward manner.

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For half a millennium, the image on the Shroud of Turin

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has challenged believers and skeptics alike.

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Have its secrets finally been revealed?

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Emily Craig and Randy Brzee believe that they have discovered how the Shroud was created.

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However, not everyone in the art world or the religious community is convinced.

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Perhaps the mystery of the Shroud will and should remain forever unsolved.

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The small community of Fernald, Ohio lies in the midst of farm country, 20 miles from Cincinnati.

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For many years, the town's main employer was this factory,

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the Feed Materials Production Center, also known as NLO.

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The casual observer would never guess that NLO was in fact

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owned by the Department of Energy.

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From 1953 to 1989, it was one of the few plants in the United States

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which processed high-grade uranium for use in nuclear weapons.

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When I was hired in there, they said that it was a low-level radiation plant.

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And that you didn't have anything to worry about.

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And I was told that it was a low-level radiation plant.

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And that you didn't have anything to worry about.

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There was nothing back there that would bother you.

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And just, you know, go on about your business,

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not to tell anybody what you were doing.

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And everything would be fine.

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However, conditions in the factory were anything but fine.

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In the fall of 1984, NLO was rocked by a scandal of major proportions

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when an accident allowed a massive dose of radioactive sodium

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to escape into the atmosphere.

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An investigation later revealed that over the years,

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NLO had released more than 200 tons of radioactive dust particles

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into the air and local water sources.

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Some said that NLO was in essence

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the third largest nuclear waste dump in the country.

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The effect it has on the environment is one thing.

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We have an environmental disaster.

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But I think if you did a survey around the Fernog community,

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you will find very few people who trust the government now.

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For the people of Fernog, the disastrous accident

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followed on the heels of another disturbing controversy involving NLO.

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A few months earlier, in June of 1984,

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an employee named Dave Box had disappeared while on the job.

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Though his body was never found,

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some of his personal effects were and Box was presumed dead.

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After the accident, the case of Dave Box

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took on a sinister new dimension.

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Dave Box worked at NLO for three years,

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and all evidence indicates that he died a horrible, gruesome death

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inside the factory.

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The official ruling was that no foul play was involved.

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The representatives from the Department of Energy

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and the current Hamilton County Sheriff's Administration

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have refused to speak with us.

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Dave Box, friends and family, are convinced that he was murdered,

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and they will not rest until they learn how he died

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and who was responsible.

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David Box grew up in Staten Island, New York.

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00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:45,440
In 1981, he was hired at NLO as a pipefetter

508
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,440
and quickly earned the trust and respect of his coworkers.

509
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,440
Box was a father of two sons and a daughter.

510
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,440
In 1979, he divorced,

511
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,440
yet he remained devoted to his ex-wife and children.

512
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,440
He was great. He would do anything for us.

513
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:04,440
Kindness can be.

514
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:08,440
He loved his children, you know, did his job.

515
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,440
He was just a very kind person.

516
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:17,440
Sunday, June 18th, 1984, began like any other evening for Dave Box.

517
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:20,440
He worked the graveyard shift at NLO.

518
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:24,440
At 11 p.m., Box met his rideshare partner, Harry Easterling,

519
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,440
in a local restaurant parking lot.

520
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,440
Hey, Harry. Hi, Dave.

521
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,440
Dave got into my truck. We left.

522
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,440
Had a little conversation on the way to work.

523
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:35,440
He had talked about vacation with his kids

524
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,440
and bought a new lunch box for work,

525
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,440
and everything seemed to be normal.

526
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,440
Dave Box's primary responsibilities at NLO

527
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,440
were to inspect and maintain equipment

528
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,440
in all of the plants throughout the factory.

529
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,440
This included making sure that the safety pumps and dust collectors

530
00:32:56,440 --> 00:33:00,440
used in the uranium processing were in proper working order.

531
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,440
Dave was a fairly quiet guy,

532
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,440
but if you worked on a job and say it was high radiation level,

533
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,440
Dave would tell you, say, you know,

534
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,440
that particular dust collector is fairly radioactive,

535
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,440
so watch yourself, or that pump has a certain kind of acid in it,

536
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,440
so be careful when you work on it.

537
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,440
But he would, you know, try to help you out as much as you could,

538
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,440
because he'd been there longer than I had.

539
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:25,440
Morning, gentlemen.

540
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,440
Only the maintenance crew and security personnel

541
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,440
were on duty during the graveyard shift.

542
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,440
The production lines were shut down.

543
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,440
At midnight, Box reported to the maintenance room

544
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,440
for his work assignment.

545
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,440
Box, yeah, I need you to look at the pump building A.

546
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:41,440
Which pump?

547
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,440
Herb knows which one. See him. All right.

548
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,440
It was sort of just like any other night.

549
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,440
He would open this toolbox, leave his keys in his lock,

550
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,440
and lay the lock in the keys on top of the toolbox.

551
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:52,440
You know what you're doing?

552
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,440
Dave went to one area,

553
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,440
and I worked on a job in another plant.

554
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,440
At around 4 a.m.,

555
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,440
Box and a supervisor were seen in a parked pickup truck

556
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,440
by an NLO employee.

557
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,440
The witness spoke to unsolved mysteries on the phone,

558
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,440
but declined to appear on camera.

559
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,440
The witness said that Box appeared to be having a serious discussion

560
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,440
with the supervisor,

561
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:19,440
but he could not determine what they were talking about.

562
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,440
Oddly, the windows of the truck rolled up,

563
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,440
despite the fact that it was a hot, humid night.

564
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,440
An hour later, at 5 a.m.,

565
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,440
the same witness ran into Box on the factory grounds.

566
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,440
Hey, Dave, can you help with that?

567
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,440
I'm just putting my tools away. All right.

568
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,440
The witness was struck by the fact that Box was walking towards

569
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,440
Plant 4, not Plant 8, where he had been assigned.

570
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,440
It was the last time Dave Box was seen alive.

571
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,440
Later that morning, his friend and fellow employee,

572
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:54,440
Harry Easterling, became suspicious about Dave's absence.

573
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,440
Approximately 7 o'clock that morning, we had a safety meeting.

574
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,440
In a conference room in Plant 4.

575
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,440
We showed up for the meeting, but Dave wasn't there.

576
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,440
Walked back over to the maintenance building,

577
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,440
put my tools away, and noticed that Dave's toolbox was still open.

578
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,440
So I thought, well, he's probably working overtime.

579
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:24,440
So I went in and made a few phone calls, but I couldn't locate him.

580
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:27,440
So I went back out and told the security guard at the desk

581
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,440
that Dave hadn't come out.

582
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:34,440
I was going home, and I would meet him the next night at the restaurant.

583
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:42,440
At around 7.30 that morning, a furnace operator in Plant 6

584
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,440
notified his supervisor that the casings in his oven

585
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,440
were covered with a strange, sticky residue.

586
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,440
Hey, Larry.

587
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,440
The worker also detected an unusual odor.

588
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:54,440
Yeah, what's up?

589
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,440
There's something strange in here.

590
00:35:56,440 --> 00:36:00,440
There's all kind of big, firm crust all over the saw.

591
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:01,440
Crust?

592
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,440
Yeah, I dipped a couple of ingots in.

593
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,440
There's got a slick thymol of them.

594
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,440
That's OK. Just go ahead and keep digging.

595
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:09,440
Larry.

596
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:10,440
Yeah, what?

597
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,440
Listen, man, I don't want to be the one to start a problem,

598
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,440
but there's something in there.

599
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,440
Kind of looks like a leg.

600
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,440
A leg?

601
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:21,440
Take a look.

602
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,440
The supervisor apparently found nothing wrong

603
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,440
and told the furnace operator to go back to work.

604
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,440
At 11 that night, Harry Easterling arrived at the restaurant

605
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,440
to meet Dave Box as usual.

606
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,440
He had not heard about what happened in Plant 6.

607
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,440
It was Dave's turn to drive, and his car was already there.

608
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,440
It wasn't anything out of the ordinary,

609
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,440
because he would pull his car in and go get something to eat

610
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,440
and then come back to the car or get something to take for lunch.

611
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,440
And I leaned up against Dave's car,

612
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,440
and I noticed the fender was still cold.

613
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,440
So I reached over, touched the hood,

614
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,440
and the hood was still cold.

615
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:15,440
Harry began to suspect that something was wrong.

616
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,440
When he arrived at the factory, he reported Dave Box missing

617
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,440
and had a security guard pry open Box's locker.

618
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:24,440
Are these the clothes he was wearing?

619
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:25,440
That's what he was wearing.

620
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,440
And you haven't seen him since you left?

621
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:28,440
No.

622
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:36,440
On Sunday night, he was missing.

623
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,440
We were informed of the fact on Tuesday.

624
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:44,440
On Wednesday, my mother tried to contact the plant

625
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,440
to find out more information.

626
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,440
They told her they couldn't give her any information.

627
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,440
They didn't know anything, and that was that.

628
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:58,440
But inside the plant, an investigation was confirming the worst.

629
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,440
It was learned that at 5.15 on the morning of Dave Box's disappearance,

630
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,440
the temperature in the furnace in Plant 6,

631
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,440
which was kept at a constant 1,300 degree temperature,

632
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,440
at momentarily dipped 28 degrees,

633
00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,440
suggesting that something foreign had been dumped into it.

634
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,440
A worker had also found what appeared to be a piece of bone

635
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,440
on the lip of the furnace.

636
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,440
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Department was called in,

637
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,440
and the furnace was shut down.

638
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,440
Investigators had to wait three days for the molten liquid

639
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,440
inside the furnace to cool.

640
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:38,440
Then employees sifted through the waste material,

641
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,440
searching for some kind of evidence.

642
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:42,440
Lieutenant.

643
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:48,440
My God.

644
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,440
Those keys belong to the victim's car.

645
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:56,440
They also belong to three padlocks of his,

646
00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:00,440
and one key we believed went into his residence,

647
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,440
but we couldn't prove that because it was bent

648
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:05,440
and not in very good shape.

649
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,440
The conclusion was inescapable.

650
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,440
Dave Box was almost certainly dead,

651
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,440
but the news left Harry Easterling dumbfounded.

652
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,440
He claims that Dave's keys were still in his toolbox at 7.30 AM,

653
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,440
more than two hours after the gauge in Plant 6

654
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,440
registered the temperature drop.

655
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,440
When I left the plant to go over to the maintenance shop,

656
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,440
his keys were in the box.

657
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,440
When I left there to go home, they were still in the box.

658
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,440
I went home when I came back that night.

659
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,440
His keys were still in the top of his toolbox.

660
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:45,440
The supervisor closed his box, put the lock on his toolbox,

661
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,440
and took his keys out of the lock.

662
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,440
And from there on, I do not know what happened to the keys.

663
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,440
In addition to the keys, investigators uncovered

664
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,440
a steel toe from a boot,

665
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,440
part of what they thought was an eyeglass frame.

666
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:05,440
Fragments of what they believed was Dave Box's walkie-talkie

667
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,440
and a piece of stainless steel wire

668
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:11,440
that was looped together in three oddly connecting circles.

669
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,440
Also recovered were several pieces of human bone.

670
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,440
The official police investigation

671
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:24,440
was unable to determine conclusively how Dave Box died.

672
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,440
However, suicide was a distinct possibility.

673
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,440
Box had a history of psychological problems,

674
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,440
and around the time of his divorce,

675
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,440
he had apparently tried to take his own life.

676
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:40,440
I know my father did not commit suicide.

677
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,440
There was no reason for him to commit suicide.

678
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:47,440
He had purchased groceries for the week.

679
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:51,440
He was planning a vacation with me and my younger brother

680
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,440
for the following summer to Florida.

681
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,440
He paid all of his bills for the month.

682
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,440
There was no reason for him to commit suicide.

683
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,440
From everything I know about the circumstances

684
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,440
that occurred back then,

685
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,440
I would have to say that he was probably lowered into the furnace,

686
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,440
that he was probably murdered.

687
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:14,440
I can't think of any other way that it could have happened.

688
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,440
I don't believe that it could have been suicide

689
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,440
or that it could have been an accident.

690
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:25,440
On the night that Dave Box died,

691
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,440
he had been working in plant 8.

692
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,440
Plant 8 had released four times more radioactive contaminants

693
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:35,440
into the environment than any other plant at the plant site.

694
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:40,440
Why he was killed, I think he knew something.

695
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:44,440
And I think he had to deal with plant 8.

696
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,440
I think he had to deal with the releases,

697
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:52,440
the threat to the public health and the environment.

698
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,440
It's possible he was a whistleblower,

699
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,440
or was going to be a whistleblower.

700
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:06,440
I believe that they could have either shot him

701
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,440
or they could have hit him with something.

702
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:13,440
Dr. Minkonsious took the body back to plant 6,

703
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,440
where the furnace is.

704
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:21,440
The question I have is whether or not Dave Box was alive

705
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:25,440
at the time that they threw him into that furnace.

706
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,440
I would hate to think that he was conscious.

707
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,440
I can't imagine a more horrible death than that.

708
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:54,440
We never developed any information indicating foul play.

709
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,440
We had that in the back of our minds,

710
00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:02,440
but no one ever gave us any indication or reason to believe

711
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,440
that foul play may have occurred.

712
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,440
There are probably people out there that know what happened,

713
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:12,440
and there may not be people that know what happened either,

714
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:17,440
because if they knew, I doubt that anybody would tell you.

715
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,440
Fear may be fear of their life.

716
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:29,440
I still have days where I can't believe he's gone.

717
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,440
I am very angry.

718
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,440
I mean, we loved him, he loved us,

719
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:37,440
and there was no reason for this to happen.

720
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,440
We just want somebody to please come forward

721
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,440
and tell us any information, anything at all.

722
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,440
There's a final bitter footnote to the death of Dave Box.

723
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:50,440
Nine years after the fact,

724
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,440
his family is still waiting to lay him to rest.

725
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:57,440
In 1989, Ann Ella was shut down,

726
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,440
and Box's remains, a few bone fragments,

727
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,440
are presently in a sealed drum on the closed plant site,

728
00:44:04,440 --> 00:44:07,440
too toxic to be buried in the ground.

729
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,440
Join me next time for another intriguing edition

730
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,440
of Unsolved Mysteries.

731
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