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Tonight on Unsolved Mysteries

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21-year-old Angela Marr was intelligent, energetic, and spirited.

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A passionate young crusader against drinking and driving.

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When Angela climbed into her car on a summer night in 1994,

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no one could have imagined the cruel twist of fate she was about to encounter.

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Viewed from the sky, Perus Nascar Plateau is a breathtaking marble.

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Hundreds of ramrod-straight lines that converge in geometric perfection.

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Giant figures formed by single continuous strokes.

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Who created these massive artworks? And why?

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If you're looking for a good night's sleep,

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you might want a steer clear of this ranch house in West Texas.

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Those who didn't have a hair-raising story to tell.

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Paul Paulus lives in the shadow of ugly suspicion.

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The day his wife, Charlotte, disappeared,

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Paul says he was out running errands with his children.

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The Charlotte family claims Paul is lying.

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Stay with us. Perhaps you hold the key.

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Perhaps your call can help solve one of tonight's unsolved mysteries.

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The Charlotte Family

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The Charlotte Family

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I told Patricia I'd pick her up. She didn't be long just a couple hours.

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I love you, honey.

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I love you more.

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You look so pretty tonight, Angela.

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Thanks.

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21-year-old Angela Maher grew up in a close-knit family in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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On July 29, 1994, Angela was home from college to celebrate her mother's birthday.

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At 10 p.m., she left the house to pick up a friend who needed a ride.

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Around the same time, 31-year-old Gloria Schultz was leaving a local bar.

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Moments later, the paths of these two strangers,

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Gloria Schultz and Angela Maher, would collide.

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1-year-old Gloria Schultz

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There was a knock at the door.

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It was the police officers.

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They said that there had been an accident.

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And my question was, was my daughter OK?

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And they said no.

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Angel had suffered massive blunt force trauma to her head.

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By the time paramedics were able to cut her out of the car,

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it was too late.

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Gloria Schulz survived.

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Although she sustained a broken jaw,

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she was lucid enough to be questioned at the scene.

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Ma'am, have you had anything to drink tonight?

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Obviously too much.

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Tests later revealed traces of marijuana

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in Schulz's system and a blood alcohol content of 0.15,

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well above the legal limit for driving in Arizona.

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Angela Maher had apparently become one of the more

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than 16,000 Americans killed in alcohol-related accidents

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in 1994.

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But Angela Maher is more than just a statistic.

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In a cruel, tragic irony, Angela Maher

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had been an active crusader against drinking and driving.

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When she was a high school junior,

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a close friend was killed while driving drunk.

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Rather than do nothing, Angela took a stand

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and helped establish a chapter of SADD, Students

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Against Drunk Driving.

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Being involved with sad means that you just care enough

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to be a really good friend.

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If any of you ever gotten to a situation

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where you needed a ride home, you could just give me a call.

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And I would come and get you no questions asked.

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You're probably wondering why you're holding these balloons.

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Well, if everyone that has a black balloon

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could go ahead and release it, these balloons signify

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the number of people that were killed in drunk driving

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accidents in Arizona last year.

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By releasing this white balloon, it signifies hope

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that this will never happen to one of us.

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What's really an awful irony is that the night

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that my sister was hit, she was on her way

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to pick up a friend who had called from a bar here in Phoenix

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for a ride home.

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My sister felt strongly enough that if she knew

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she was going out with friends and that they were going to drink,

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she would not drink so she could drive everybody home

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and make sure that everybody got home safe and sound.

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Always.

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She always wanted to be the designated driver.

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That's why she would always take our car.

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And she'd always just answer us by saying,

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mother, I want to make sure I get home.

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Your Honor, it is the state's position

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that a bond should be set in this matter.

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On September 6, 1994, Gloria Scholes

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was arraigned on charges of manslaughter and reckless

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endangerment.

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Scholes was represented by a prominent attorney,

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experienced in handling drunk driving cases.

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Do the family's wish to be heard?

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Yes, Your Honor.

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Rose Marie Maher, the victim's mother,

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wishes to make a statement.

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Judge Ryan, we all know in this country

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that a person is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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But does that mean that the life of the accused

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continues on as if nothing had happened?

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She wasn't arraigned until four and a half weeks

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after the accident.

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She's never spent the day in jail.

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She kept her driver's license.

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She went on every day like nothing happened.

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At this point, Miss Scholes, I'm going

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to release you under the supervision of the pretrial

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services agency of this court.

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And this will include drug monitoring.

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To the Mars dismay, Gloria Scholes

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was released without being required to post bond.

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The judge, however, did stipulate

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that Scholes submit to drug testing three times a week,

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and that she report to the court by phone once a week.

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Now, do you understand the conditions of your release?

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Yes, Your Honor.

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Thank you, Your Honor.

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May we be excused?

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It was the beginning of months of frustration for the Mars.

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Gloria Scholes's attorney would seek and receive

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six trial postponements.

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The prosecutor and judge originally on the case

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were reassigned.

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Gloria Scholes would also be permitted

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to leave the state on three separate occasions,

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despite the Mars and the prosecutor's objections.

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Finally, more than a year after Angela Mars' death,

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Gloria Scholes was offered a plea bargain arrangement.

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If Scholes waived her right to a trial

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and pled guilty to the reckless endangerment

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and manslaughter charges, she would serve a reduced sentence.

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A pre-trial hearing was scheduled for September 15, 1995.

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A day Rosemary Maher will always remember.

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When I didn't see her sitting in the courtroom,

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all I could think of was, where was she?

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Had she skipped.

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Let's go on the hall and talk for a second.

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I need to talk with the aunt and the home.

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Well, is anybody looking for her?

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We've issued a warrant for her arrest.

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We discovered that she had missed six drug testings.

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And then to find out, her last time that she called in

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was the end of August or the first of September,

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she could have called in from anywhere.

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The fact that Gloria Scholes ran definitely affected

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my mother and I.

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The healing that goes along with grieving and mourning

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somebody you love, it just hasn't happened.

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There's no closure.

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She was bubbly, friendly, full life and vitality,

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and always smiling.

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I had a young lady that was polished and educated,

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personal, whole, and loved life.

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And this woman took that away, not only from me,

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but from everybody else who touched Angela's life.

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At the time of her death, Angela was a senior at Creighton

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University in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Accepting this honorary degree for Angela

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is her mother, Mrs. Donald J. Macher.

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On May 13, 1995, in an unprecedented display of respect,

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Angela was granted a diploma postulately.

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Gloria Scholes has not been seen in more than seven months.

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She is wanted on manslaughter charges

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in the death of Angela Maher.

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There is also a federal warrant for her arrest.

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Scottsdale police have only two pictures of Scholes,

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her booking photo and one from her driver's license.

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Gloria Scholes is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 115 pounds.

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She is 33 years old and has red hair and green eyes.

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Next, the wondrous Nazca lines in Peru.

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Are they the calling card of an ancient lost civilization

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or guideposts for visitors from beyond the stars?

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And later, a husband stands accused in the baffling

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disappearance of his wife.

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They are like enigmatic guests from a vanished time.

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The sphinx rises inscrutable above the sands of Egypt.

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Stonehenge, somber monolith circled in silent prayer.

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The sands of Egypt are the most beautiful and most

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beautiful of all.

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The sands of Egypt are the most beautiful of all.

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The sands of Egypt are the most beautiful of all.

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Stonehenge, somber monolith circled in silent prayer.

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In the statues of Easter Island, their faces curiously

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turned away from the sea.

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In South America, another ancient mystery

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has defied all who would uncover its secrets.

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Here inexplicably, monumental drawings

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have been etched into the desert plain,

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where they created to placate angry gods,

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to map out the heavens, or perhaps to welcome visitors

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from another galaxy.

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Welcome to the Nazca Plateau, 100 square miles

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of unanswered questions in Western Peru.

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This spider prowls the eastern corner of the plateau.

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It is formed by a single winding line that

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starts and ends in the same place.

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But for what purpose?

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This gigantic monkey, as contours dim by time,

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could fill two football fields.

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But how did this jungle dweller come to be marooned

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in an empty desert?

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More than 800 ramrod straight lines

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shoot across the plateau.

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Late end to end, they total 1,000 miles.

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The lines converge at 62 different points.

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Archaeological evidence suggests that the ancient Nazcas,

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famous for their ceramic art, inscribed the giant drawings

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between 1,500 and 2,500 years ago.

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However, the Nazcas left little that tells us the meaning

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of the figures, or reveals how they were made.

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Imagine standing on the Nazca Plateau

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without modern surveying tools, aerial photographs,

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or topographical maps.

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How would you plot out the enormous monkey?

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Where would you put its tail, its head?

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How would you make sure that the parts all fit perfectly

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together?

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Somehow, the ancient Nazca artists

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were able to do exactly that.

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All told, nearly 1,000 lines, geometric shapes and figures

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are tattooed across the Nazca Plateau.

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When they are mapped in catalog, the images

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form an astounding body of work.

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To this day, no one has fully explained the drawings,

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though many have tried.

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One of the first archaeologists to visit Nazca

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theorized that the Plateau was a giant celestial calendar.

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He observed that on the summer solstice,

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the sun set in perfect alignment with one of the markings.

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For over 40 years, a German mathematician named Maria Reike

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spent virtually every waking hour studying the Nazca Plateau.

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She concluded that dozens of the lines and animal figures

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pointed to major constellations.

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If you go out there, dawn, where you can see the sky

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and you can see the dawn glow reflecting off of those lines,

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and they really become like lighted pointers to the heavens.

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A radically different theory was proposed by Swiss author

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Eric von Daniken in the late 1960s.

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He claimed that some of the markings

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were nothing less than giant landing strips

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for alien spacecraft.

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In his book Chariots of the Gods,

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von Daniken suggested that the ancient Nazcas had regarded

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the aliens as gods and had constructed the runways

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under their direct orders.

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Von Daniken identified this 840-foot marking as a signpost

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pointing the way to the landing strip.

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And this, a portrait of one of the intergalactic voyagers

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complete with space suit.

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Scientists aren't against the idea of necessarily

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extraterrestrials per se, but we do expect some evidence

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before we then start doing a lot of research in that direction.

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Dr. Reinhard and other scientists

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believe that the plateau was an immense outdoor cathedral.

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Prayers were once whispered here in the name

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of a priceless resource, water.

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The plateau is one of the driest places on Earth.

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In five years, five good years, the plateau

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will be blessed with just one half inch of rain.

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The main concern for people living in that kind of a desert

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environment is precisely that they're

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very dependent on the rainfall in the mountains to the east.

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And they're also dependent on the water level

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that goes underground, which is also coming from the mountains.

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But how were the drawings created?

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In 1982, an attempt was made to replicate the process using

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only the simplest of tools.

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We pirated a couple of broomsticks

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from the local hotel, some pieces of string,

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laid out a line, and we proceeded to clean and sweep away

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the surface of the line.

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It took us, a group of 12, one morning, we even got back

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to the hotel for lunch, to make a line about 20 yards long,

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two yards wide, clear it completely.

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And here was a brand spanking new Nazca line.

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Dr. Avini's line certainly looked like the genuine article,

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but clearing a 60-foot curlicue was a relatively simple task.

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How did the Nazca artists accurately

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model gargantuan figures like the sprawling monkey

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by looking at them only from ground level?

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They took the tremendous leap of imagination

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to make these large models on the ground, which they themselves,

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presumably, did not see, not being able to fly.

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But perhaps they were able to fly,

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argued Jim Woodman, a British author and explorer.

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To prove his point, Woodman hired Peruvian craftsmen

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to stitch together a hot air balloon from materials

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that would have been available centuries ago.

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A raging campfire provided the requisite hot air.

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Perhaps for the first time in centuries,

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Nazca's figures were being viewed as intended,

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from a hot air balloon hundreds of feet above the desert.

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However, many scientists still believe

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that the markings are meant to be experienced

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at ground level.

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The straight lines look like roadways.

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I mean, they start from someplace, they lead to someplace.

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So the idea that the lines are meant to be walked on

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seems to me to be a much more feasible one than the notion

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that somebody had to look at them from above.

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The animals are made out of a single, sinuous, continuous line

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that begins and ends at the same point.

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I can imagine that a worshipper of a deity

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would walk around one of these animal figures

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to pray to the god or gods that had to do with that animal,

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that probably some invocation to the gods

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would have happened here.

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Maybe it's because in our culture,

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we give a very high priority to visual experience,

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that we want to think that ultimately,

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we have to be able to explain how these people saw the lines

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in order for there to be a rational explanation for them.

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And I think here that maybe we reflect more of our own interest

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and the limitations of our own point of view

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than any kind of limitation

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that might have existed for the Nazca people.

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In the end, there are no answers.

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Those who created the wondrous artworks of Nazca

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have been dead now for centuries,

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buried in tombs that ring the plateau.

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Over the years, their bones have been carelessly

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scattered by grave robbers.

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However, the ancient mysteries of Nazca

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will in all likelihood remain undisturbed forever.

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Coming up, a most unusual haunting in Texas

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proves that some ghosts would rather be heard than seen.

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And when a young wife and mother vanishes,

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two families become locked in a bitter dispute.

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Hey, guys.

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What's up?

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This is Paul.

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Just wondering if Shar was over there.

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I haven't seen her all day.

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I took the kids out.

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These are the opening words of an actual phone message.

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It is left by a man named Paul Polis on March 12, 1994.

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The day his wife, Charlotte, vanished

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from their home in Gerard, Ohio.

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And I just wondered if maybe she was with you guys,

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or if she called you or something.

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And let me know.

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I'm sort of getting a little freaked out here.

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To the casual listener, a husband's message of concern.

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But Charlotte's family is convinced

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Paul Polis knows exactly what happened to his wife.

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I think Paul got in a fit of rage over something.

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And I think he got angry and he struck her.

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And he couldn't stop himself.

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And I think Paul killed my daughter.

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They can point the finger at me all they want.

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I didn't do anything wrong.

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I know I didn't do anything wrong.

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And I can't change what other people think.

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There are only two possibilities.

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Paul Polis is totally innocent, a bereaved husband

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wrongly accused.

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Or perhaps Paul Polis has gotten away with murder.

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The police can't say there's not even enough evidence

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to prove a crime was committed.

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Until solid leads develop, Paul Polis

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will very likely remain locked in an ugly dispute

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with his wife's family over just what happened back

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in March of 1994.

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About the only thing everyone agrees on

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is that Charlotte was sick on Friday, March 11th,

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the day before she vanished.

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Hey, we're back.

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Hey.

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Hey.

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That night, Paul's parents looked after the couple's

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two children while Paul took Charlotte to the hospital.

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She had an acute ear infection marked by pain and dizziness.

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I met you for hands?

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No.

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Hi, Mom.

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Yeah, we just got back from the hospital.

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After Paul's parents left, Charlotte phoned her mother.

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It would be the final moment that Charlotte Polis was

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indisputably alive.

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She said, I'll talk to you in the morning.

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And at 1.25 AM, I had hung up the phone from her.

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That's the last I ever spoke to her.

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At 10 to 9 on Saturday morning, I

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called the house to check on my daughter

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because we talked.

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Generally, we talk on the phone anywhere from 10 to 12,

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14 times a day.

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And Paul answered the phone.

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She's done a little bit better.

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She's still up in bed.

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She's still sleeping.

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Is she OK?

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Well, Doctor said the best thing now

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is just to get some rest.

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Would you have Charlotte call me when she gets up, would you?

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All right.

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Talk to you later.

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Bye.

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Shar.

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Shar.

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Yeah.

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How you feeling?

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Paul says the last time he saw Charlotte

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was shortly after that phone call.

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He was tired.

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I'm going to go out and take the kids with me for a little bit.

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I'm going to do something.

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It was about 11 o'clock.

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I took the kids out to do errands for the afternoon.

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And I told her, just stay in bed and relax.

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I'll bring the medication that you need back.

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Just stay in bed.

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Take it easy.

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According to Paul, he buckled the kids into their car seats

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and headed off for a day of errands.

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There were stops at the pharmacy, the laundromat,

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and a scrapyard.

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Then burgers at a fast food restaurant.

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And finally, a couple of hours spent looking at houses for sale.

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When you get something to eat, how does that sound?

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Good?

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I know you guys are hungry.

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However, Paul's account of that day

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is disputed by several people.

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Stop at the playground.

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For example, Charlotte's mother claims

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that she called the house several times when Paul,

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by his own account, should still have been there.

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And I called it 10.

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I called it 10 after 10.

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I called it 20 after 10.

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I just kept calling, calling.

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I thought, something's not right.

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No answering machine, nobody answering the phone, nothing.

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And I thought, well, where is she?

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Why is there nobody answering?

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One of Paul's neighbors contradicted his claim

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that he simply put the children in the car and left.

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It was 10 after 11 when I pulled out of the driveway.

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And as I backed out, I looked over at Paul's house.

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And Paul had his car backed up to the porch.

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The trunk was open.

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All four doors were open.

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His car was completely packed with boxes and bags.

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There was no sign of the children.

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And there was no way they could be in the car.

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There was no possible way that car seats could fit in the car

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as packed as it was.

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And as I drove by, he looked at me

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with a really strange, irid look.

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He indicated that he had the children with him all this time.

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We've talked to people that he made contact with.

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No one saw the children with him.

456
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My children were with me all afternoon.

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I don't abandon my children, not for a second.

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I don't leave the house and leave them unattended.

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I don't leave them in a car unattended.

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I'm not that type of a parent.

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Never will be.

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Shaw, we're home.

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Paul says that when he returned home at around 4 PM,

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Shawlet wasn't there.

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At that time, he had no concerns for her safety.

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Shaw, are you in here?

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Really didn't think anything was wrong.

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I figured that she was feeling better and had gone out.

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Put the kids up to finish their nap in bed and just watch TV

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and finish cleaning the house.

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About 7.30, I noticed her purse up on the cabinets.

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And my wife doesn't go anywhere without her purse.

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I can't believe that she would have left without it.

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So I started calling around to see if she'd

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gone out with anybody.

476
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Hey, guys. What's up?

477
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This is Paul.

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Just calling to see if you guys had seen Shaw at all.

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When Shawlet's family learned that she was missing,

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they rushed to the house.

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After talking to Paul, Shawlet's sister,

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Amria, decided to take a look outside.

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She noticed two sets of footprints in the snow.

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They stretched from a side door towards a small shed

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and then back around the house.

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The doors were bulging into pretty much out of the shed.

487
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They just had like a regular padlock on it.

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And it kind of bothered me the way the shed was,

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because the doors weren't flush against it.

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So I had gone into the house and I had asked Paul for the keys.

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He got very angry.

492
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,520
The shed has nothing to do with Shawlet,

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and I'm not giving you the keys.

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And she'd asked him repeatedly for these keys to the shed.

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They got angrier and angrier.

496
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:15,040
It's a shed.

497
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All the normal garden tools lawnmower.

498
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,480
It's, as a matter of fact, I think at the time,

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there was a key lock.

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And there was a key on Charlotte's ring.

501
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:26,520
If they wanted it open, I would have given them a key.

502
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,520
I don't remember anything about that.

503
00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:33,920
Paul's parents were now staying at the house,

504
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and the air was thick with suspicion.

505
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There was an extremely lot of cleaning.

506
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They were cleaning everything from the attic to the basement.

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They were washing walls.

508
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,200
He had washed, he had did laundry.

509
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,760
He had scrubbed up the kitchen real good and stuff,

510
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which isn't, and it's not characteristic of Paul to do that.

511
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What was his mother cleaning and his father?

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What was all this cleaning that went on while they were there?

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The only floor I scrubbed was the kitchen floor,

514
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,720
so I wouldn't stick to it where the baby had dropped his food.

515
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I'll clean.

516
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,720
I live there.

517
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I like to live in a clean house.

518
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Did the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation

519
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,320
came in to check the house, to spray with lumen all,

520
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,480
or to find out if any crime of violence had been committed?

521
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,920
The house was spotless.

522
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,320
It was cleaned from top to bottom.

523
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:30,720
And it's very unusual that a house is cleaned this way.

524
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:33,240
Investigators did find a stain of human blood

525
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,720
in the trunk of Paul and shot his car.

526
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:39,520
The sample was too small to allow positive identification,

527
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,520
but quite enough for the family to see

528
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,920
that quite enough to fuel speculation that Charlotte's body

529
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,920
had been in the trunk.

530
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,120
Paul weighs 150 pounds.

531
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:55,640
Charlotte weighed approximately 300 pounds.

532
00:28:55,640 --> 00:29:00,480
Paul would be required to transport a body that was twice

533
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:06,400
his weight and take it out into the open and put the body

534
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,200
in the trunk of the car.

535
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,920
To me, it just does not seem possible at all.

536
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,840
The Charlotte's family, however, the pair of footprints

537
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,960
in the snow hinted at an explanation.

538
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,360
Paul had help.

539
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,040
I looked at Paul's shoe prints, and they

540
00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,080
were the same footprints that were in the snow.

541
00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:30,160
And the other footprints were fairly large with a shoe boot

542
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,160
who I can suspect would have been his father's,

543
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:38,160
but they, you know, I can't be definite on that.

544
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,120
Either his parents were brought in after the fact

545
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,240
to help him, or they were there at the time it happened.

546
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,040
Oh, I think that's positively ludicrous.

547
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,520
To think that anyone would think that of us,

548
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:59,800
we have lived in this area for 40 years.

549
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,280
We're not that type of people.

550
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:06,280
I can't imagine why they would think that.

551
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,280
It gives them an outlet to vent their anger.

552
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:21,280
I can only explain me and my actions.

553
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,280
And I've been very straightforward,

554
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:28,280
explaining where I was and what we did that day.

555
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,280
Paul even agreed to take a polygraph test.

556
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,280
He made an appointment for Tuesday,

557
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,280
three days after his wife disappeared,

558
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:41,280
but Paul Polis did not show up.

559
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:47,280
Paul.

560
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:48,280
Paul.

561
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,280
Paul wasn't at home either.

562
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:57,280
He had left a note on the bureau, which read in part,

563
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,280
I love my wife and would never do anything

564
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:01,280
to harm her intentionally.

565
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,280
Paul stayed out of sight for three months.

566
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,280
Then he resurfaced with an explanation.

567
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,280
I had a lot of mental anguish I was going through,

568
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,280
and I wanted some time alone.

569
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:21,280
People were driving in front of the house nonstop.

570
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,280
They didn't come by to give me a hug or a pat on the back

571
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:26,280
and say, we're with you.

572
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,280
They just came by to look.

573
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,280
For more than two years, Paul Polis has proclaimed his innocence.

574
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,280
But according to Chata's family, there

575
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:39,280
is at least one eyewitness to the alleged crime.

576
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:44,280
Paul and Chata's daughter, now four years old.

577
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,280
Since her mother vanished, the child

578
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,280
has lived with Chata's parents.

579
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,280
They claim the little girl has volunteered

580
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,280
several disturbing comments, some of which they recorded.

581
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,280
I feel that my granddaughter witnessed the violence

582
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,280
and that it's locked into her memory.

583
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,280
We had to get rid of all dark trash bags in our home

584
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,280
and go with light-colored trash bags.

585
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,280
She's paranoid of a dark trash bag.

586
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:15,280
She screams and she cries because mommy was put in a dark trash bag.

587
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,280
I think the child is being coached,

588
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:24,280
and the tapes are being made with this coached,

589
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,280
information that's being given to her,

590
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:31,280
and the sad part about it is, it's very detrimental to the child.

591
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:34,280
They're destroying this child.

592
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:39,280
I didn't kill my wife, and I don't know where she is.

593
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,280
I didn't have anything to do with it,

594
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:46,280
nor did my family have anything to do with it, as far as I know.

595
00:32:55,280 --> 00:33:01,280
In a moment, we'll take you to a remote ranch in Texas

596
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,280
where three cowboys claim that a noisy ghost

597
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,280
is making their lives miserable.

598
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,280
Everybody loves a good ghost story,

599
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:25,280
a spooky tall tale about things that go bump in the night.

600
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,280
The three Texas cowboys you're about to meet have a great one,

601
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:32,280
but their ghost isn't satisfied with a little old bump.

602
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:34,280
Quite frankly, this noisy entity

603
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,280
scares the daylights out of everyone in earshot.

604
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:45,280
It started out as a simple business venture.

605
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:50,280
In June of 1995, three partners took over a 3,000-acre ranch

606
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,280
in the Texas Hill Country.

607
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,280
Right, it looks like a little furniture.

608
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,280
They planned to sublease the game-rich land to hunters.

609
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:58,280
A little paint?

610
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:02,280
It's not too bad.

611
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:03,280
While they got things rolling,

612
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,280
the three cowboys moved into the main building.

613
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,280
It was a four-bedroom wood frame house

614
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,280
constructed in the 1950s.

615
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:14,280
Could any house be more ordinary?

616
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,280
Well, from the very first night,

617
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,280
the three men discovered they had company,

618
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,280
a heavy-footed company.

619
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,280
It sounded as if, when it started,

620
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,280
it was, like, off in a distance,

621
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,280
and each time it would make a step.

622
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,280
You could hear the individual steps that they would make.

623
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,280
But in my mind, you know, I didn't want to...

624
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,280
I didn't want to...

625
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,280
consider the fact it might be a ghost

626
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,280
or something of that nature.

627
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,280
Almost every night there was something new.

628
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:04,280
Crashing footsteps,

629
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,280
thunderous blows on the walls or ceilings.

630
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:08,280
The men never saw ghosts,

631
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,280
but they heard plenty.

632
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,280
One of the cowboys, Bobby,

633
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:16,280
was the most unnerving experience,

634
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:18,280
which his partner slept through.

635
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,280
I immediately picked the pistol up,

636
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,280
and I jumped to my feet.

637
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,280
It was so loud.

638
00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:32,280
It sounded just like wooden chairs

639
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,280
been kicked just plumb across the floor.

640
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,280
There wasn't a cheer moved.

641
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,280
All the cheers were right in place.

642
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,280
There was nothing turned over anywhere.

643
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,280
This thing, whatever it is,

644
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,280
it was almost as if it would not let you rest.

645
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,280
It was almost as if they wanted to keep you awake all night.

646
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,280
Just about the time they were going to wake you up

647
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,280
was when you were going to wake up.

648
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,280
I was so nervous.

649
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:01,280
I was so nervous.

650
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,280
I was so nervous.

651
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,280
Every time you would doze off,

652
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:08,280
it would hit the wall.

653
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,280
I mean, when I say hit it,

654
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,280
it would clobber it.

655
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,280
The unearthly racket continued

656
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,280
every night in the dark hours before dawn.

657
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,280
Pounding footsteps had threatened

658
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,280
to break the floorboards or crash through the ceiling.

659
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,280
Sledgehammer blows that smashed at the wall.

660
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,280
Sometimes everyone heard it.

661
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,280
Other times, the entity chose to torment the cowboys

662
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:37,280
one by one.

663
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,280
This was the night that I was hurt by myself.

664
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,280
Johnny.

665
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,280
It didn't say Johnny.

666
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,280
It said Johnny.

667
00:36:57,280 --> 00:36:59,280
And I looked around.

668
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,280
My room was ice and cold.

669
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,280
I mean, that room was cold as ice.

670
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,280
Cold chills running down me.

671
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,280
And I was just shivering under the sheets,

672
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,280
you know, looking around.

673
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,280
You know, I'm thinking to myself, man.

674
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,280
Another night, Bobby woke up,

675
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,280
sensing someone next to him.

676
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,280
I don't know, it was probably 2, 3 o'clock in the morning.

677
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,280
The side of my bed just smashed plum down.

678
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,280
I mean, it really went down like someone had stepped on the side

679
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,280
of it with their foot or sat on the side of it,

680
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,280
which really scared me because he had never done it before.

681
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:46,280
Mike Richards had a similar experience, equally terrifying.

682
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,280
Approximately 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning.

683
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,280
My right knee, it woke me up.

684
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,280
I mean, it was pain like I've never felt before.

685
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,280
It was actually like somebody was sitting on my knee.

686
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,280
I went to roll off the bed,

687
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,280
but my right leg stayed in the same position it was.

688
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,280
And I couldn't see nobody sitting on it

689
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,280
because you can't roll off the bed, you know,

690
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,280
because somebody's got your pen down.

691
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:20,280
So all I could do was, you know, I raised my other leg up

692
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,280
and started waving it across my leg, you know,

693
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:26,280
like, you know, get off whatever it is, you know.

694
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,280
It stopped and I could get off the bed, you know.

695
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:32,280
The minute I got up and walked around, it felt fine.

696
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,280
Don't eat anything. You let me know, okay?

697
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:39,280
Okay.

698
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,280
Finally, Mike's sisters paid a visit to the ranch house

699
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,280
to check out the noises for themselves.

700
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:44,280
Yeah, right.

701
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:48,280
I guess I don't know what I really expected.

702
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:52,280
I guess I expected to just hear a little bump

703
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,280
and that there'd be some logical explanation for it.

704
00:38:55,280 --> 00:39:00,280
But when I heard that night, no man or animal could have made.

705
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,280
Before we went to bed, Susie and I decided that

706
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,280
if I heard something, I was to nudge her.

707
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,280
And if she heard something, she was going to nudge me.

708
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,280
Well, we were nudging each other pretty quick.

709
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:13,280
Kelly.

710
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:14,280
Yeah.

711
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:15,280
Did you hear that?

712
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:16,280
Yeah.

713
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,280
It sounds like a stupid old scene.

714
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:24,280
Oh, my God.

715
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,280
It's like a crazy old scene.

716
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:27,280
It's a...

717
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,280
Oh, it's just a wall.

718
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:30,280
It's just a wall.

719
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,280
No, it's not.

720
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:32,280
No, it's not.

721
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:33,280
This went on for hours.

722
00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,280
We heard whistling that was started off very faint,

723
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,280
grew to very, very loud.

724
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:44,280
You could hear the air, you know, like a person whistling.

725
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,280
And then bam, bam, bam, banging in the walls

726
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,280
like something caught up in the walls.

727
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,280
I mean, I thought the feelings were going to cave in.

728
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:53,280
It was so loud.

729
00:39:56,280 --> 00:40:00,280
We just laid there and whined and breaded all night.

730
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,280
I don't know what you call it.

731
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:09,280
It was so unreal that getting up or calling for my brother

732
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:10,280
was not an option.

733
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,280
It was almost like I was trapped there.

734
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,280
Basically, all I kept thinking is pretty soon the sun's going

735
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:18,280
to come up and I'm going to get out of here.

736
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,280
That night, I didn't hear anything,

737
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:25,280
but there was no doubt by the expression on their face,

738
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:29,280
they had definitely been put through something, you know,

739
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:30,280
that night.

740
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,280
And they just said, it's time to go.

741
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:33,280
I said, well, you want me to cook breakfast?

742
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,280
No, it's time to go.

743
00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:36,280
Let's go, you know.

744
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:40,280
We was out here pretty quick, you know.

745
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,280
We decided to try to find out just what was happening

746
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:49,280
at the ranch house.

747
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,280
We brought in noted parapsychologist Dr. William Roll.

748
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:57,280
He and his assistants set up equipment inside and outside.

749
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:00,280
Video cameras and monitoring devices are used to measure

750
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:04,280
sudden temperature changes, evidence of radioactivity,

751
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:09,280
and fluctuation in the electromagnetic fields in the area.

752
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:14,280
First of all, we recorded a number of sonic effects

753
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,280
from bangs to booms to a milder sound.

754
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:24,280
And the most striking of these was associated with a sudden

755
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:29,280
increase in the magnetic fields in the house.

756
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,280
Dr. Roll believes the noises can be attributed to a physical

757
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,280
phenomenon called the Paltier effect.

758
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,280
According to Dr. Roll, this can occur when water seeps

759
00:41:39,280 --> 00:41:42,280
between underground slabs of limestone.

760
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,280
The resulting reaction not only produces real noises,

761
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,280
but also creates an electromagnetic field that may affect

762
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:53,280
human brains, making people imagine all kinds of experiences.

763
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:58,280
These magnetic fields affect the human brain

764
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,280
because the human brain is a conductor.

765
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,280
And this electrocurrent produces striking psychological

766
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:07,280
experiences that only happen in the mind.

767
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,280
A trick of the mind, not to those who've heard it,

768
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,280
not by a long shot.

769
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:24,280
I was the most frightened I've ever been in my whole entire life.

770
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,280
I mean, I've been robbed and had a gun sticking in my back,

771
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:30,280
but that wasn't anything like what this was

772
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,280
because you're in such shock.

773
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:37,280
I believe, I've come up with a thousand different excuses

774
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,280
that I would like to blame it on and none of them work, you know.

775
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:46,280
All I can say is come on over and we'll fix you up.

776
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:50,280
You're more than welcome if that's what you want to do.

777
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,280
It won't take long.

778
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,280
It made a believer out of me quick.

779
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,280
It won't make a believer of me.

780
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:13,280
On our next Unsolved Mysteries, they call it chupacabras,

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a strange reptile-like creature who roams the countryside in Puerto Rico,

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preying on livestock and small animals.

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It may sound fantastic, but eyewitnesses have no doubts.

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The beast is real.

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When she passed away in 1993,

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tobacco-arist Doris Duke was one of the wealthiest women in America.

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Now a bitter dispute over control of a billion-dollar estate

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has boiled over with accusations of treachery and foul play.

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Join me again next week.

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Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

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