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this is Victor Finch

recording live for the ufology video cast

stay 3 of my search here in the town of Collins Falls

and I've seen no sign of the mysterious lights

reported in the sky now

although the reports aren't frequent

they are consistent which

which rules out the possibility of a freak accident

or a misunderstanding

reports only an 8 and 1 on the valley scale

that means lights with no contact

I'm hoping to catch some more of those weird

energy traces before

run Teddy

Run

run it's an invasion

run

is there a problem sweetheart

there's something out there in the woods

it's not an a M1 anymore it's a CE3

close the counter at the third

kind

I'm telling you it's aliens

or no such thing as UFOs Minotaurs

haunted houses Santa Claus

yes but UFOs

don't be silly a UFO nut goes missing

in a town where strange lights have been reported

UFO do not be deceived by any physical manifestation

you may encounter they're absolutely not UFOs

the only people I know to believe in UFOs

are the same one that think that Elvis was the shooter

on the grassy knoll look

current estimates

put the number of habitable planets in our galaxy

at 11 billion so

it is highly unlikely

that we are the only intelligent life

in this universe I tell you what

we'll just fill in the crack

you're about to make about us

an intelligent life just skip right to the job

are you sure it's quite cutting

I promise to be properly offended

I mean I probably wouldn't be understood it at first

but I'll be offended later

where's the fun in that

the ballet

scale is how we measure interplanetary contact

using the degree of fiscal evidence

remaining on your UFO geek

no it's alright

it's just that you've never really like

geeked out about anything before

I just think that if a super intelligent

powerful alien or race arrives

we should be prepared

you're planning on selling out the human race

aren't you I will absolutely sell out the human race

to our new alien overlords

don't fight them they know what's best for us

so what's the plan bear

we don't have a lot to go on here

independent journalist Victor Finch went missing

was abducted by aliens

I will break every bone in your body

I wouldn't you say this town was founded 1953

huh why

nine out of 10 homes built in the 50s

were ranch style architecture

I mean these look like Colonial Reliable

which put them in late 18

early 1900s

maybe they wanted a more old fashioned nostalgic look

that explain the gas lamps

well follow your instincts

if you think something's off about the town

you and Cassandra see you

we can learn about its history

find out if these lights are a new thing

if there's a history of disappearances

Jones and I will check out

the spot where the victim's truck was found alright

okay

excuse me ma'am ma'am

don't get a lot of mamming around here mostly just hey

Mabel Mabel

that's old fashioned name

oh well I'm an old fashioned girl

it's an old fashioned town oh

these things and I haven't worked in forever

but I like to think around with them from time to time

be a site to see them all lit up

wouldn't it is

it would look like Paris we Compelli oh well

Mezzie see Dawn colorful Mabel Collins

Jacob Jacob Stone this is Cassandra Killian

hi

listen where the

we're the librarians

now we're doing some research on uh town histories oh

that makes sense yeah

for once uh is there someone we could talk to about it

I would recommend the town archivist okay

family found the place so if they don't know it

it ain't worth knowing alright

can you point us in his direction

Amber Collins

Collins Falls heal the archivist brains too

I'm the archivist notary

volunteer fire chief and chancellor of the ex checker

technically treasurer

but since I order the business cards too

who's gonna stop me not a lot of town government huh

not a lot of town not much interesting around here

leopard on you just we want the rest

we should probably ask about that local history stuff

Japan's Civiset and Thai song or like anything at all

I was kind of hoping there'd be crop circles

this looks like where they found the truck

why park all the way back here

most hikers will park close to the road

so if they get lost someone will notice sooner

don't ask me I don't even get why people go hiking

he didn't want anyone to know he was here

or someone else moved the truck

who put a gas lamp in the middle of the woods

it's a fetch

only you people could lose the Guardian librarians yes

both of them like tissue paper

but a Guardian right

this cat right here

I prefer to think of it as she lost me

I mean one minute she's all assault and battery

in the next she's beamed up into space or you ran

you have no idea what happened

she came up this story to cover

I can see how you think that

but no no one beamed her anywhere

says the guy with the teleporting door

ufos do not exist

says the guy with the teleporting door

ah look

see there

Colonel Beard is still on the planet

she's alive she's safe

she's still on the planet

magic is not an exact science

if it were it would be science okay

so we assume that this is another disappearance

that whatever happened to Colonel Beard

is the same thing that happened to Victor Finch

like a reasonable Assumption

we know that we found Victor Finch we got a witness

I'm telling you I

I don't remember anything

what's the last thing you do remember

I remember being in the woods

remember looking for the AM1

oh that means lights but no contact yeah

yeah what

what next and nothing

it feels like the whole last day is just gone

Mr Finch you've been missing for three weeks

as requested but there's UFO equipment

why are you interested in that stuff

I thought you said UFOs were a croc

they are but

the fools that chase them

can sometimes come up with something interesting

see

these goggles are some sort of aura filter

there's an energy emission

right behind him there in the woods

that's the clearing with the gas lamp

where bed disappear

we need to know more about this gas lamps

someone should go back and talk to that town archivist

oh probably be me

I can I can

I'll take no

I'll go I'll go

I can come help you guys keep your seat no

no no

okay

he's got it

hello

hi haha

what is the hell of an archive you got here

for a small town ah

well you know

small towns got help you

if you ever throw anything away

help you Mr ma'am

please tell me you've taken that first man

ah me

no I've never left town really

yeah family obligations

well family ain't easy

no it ain't

never even been on the highway to New York City

you travel

I got a new job gets me out a little bit

up to a couple months ago though

I've never been more to tank a gas

away from my parents front porch

because I was digging ditches out somewhere

so what is about the gas lamps

you want to bring Paris here

to make you feel like you're there

don't get me wrong it's a nice town

just got a whole warehouse full of

memories of this place

sure be nice to have at least one wall

memories of somewhere else

anything else I know what you mean

like having a story that doesn't start off

you remember that night at Jimmy's Bar

or remember that waitress

oh yeah you remember her

cause we go to that diner every weekend

you remember what happened at the town barbecue

which one that one

no the other one

that one no

the other one is hey

once want to be able to say

remember that waiter

that little cafe off Pontmouth

remember when the car broke down in Moscow

what was the name of that hotel we stayed at in Athens

remember the view from the Eiffel Tower

it was raining but the lights made everything glow

I I don't know how glad the imagination you do

no I made my choices and I can't pretend otherwise so

sorry this just must seem pretty silly

I didn't

I just I can't okay

but this is the reason I came

is because

we have some serving equipment

that picked up some weird readings off

one of your gas lamps in the forest

show me well

if actually if I get to see

can I see some plans my town

my archives show me

um oh

watch your step hey

Mabel you remember Cassandra

this is Jenkins

Ezekiel

you brought someone who is not a librarian to hear Yay

so this is just how you found it

bed slam the block into it and then poof

poof

someone went poof no

that's not what that's a figure of speech

he's Australian

we don't even know what he's singing half the time

you have any idea what this is doing

out here in the middle of the woods

no I've never seen this one so far it seems pretty

what the hell

optical illusion optical illusion

no that was Colonel Bed

uh dad

you're right it was an optical illusion

uh that

that's what we call them in Australia

kennel beds you know

Oi sun in my eyes

thought I thought I saw a kennel bed haha

oh wow

you really don't expect me to buy that

do you no

maybe well

it's actually worked before

yeah it does

it's weird okay

you're not librarians well no

actually we are mostly but

I really need you to trust me okay

I need you not to say anything to anyone else in town

about this look

if something's going on in my town

I need to know about it and I promise you

I promise I'll tell you everything I know

I really need you to go back to the archives right now

and dig up anything on these gas lamps

do not hold out on me

I accept all your apologies

show up there's a ghost hmm

no ghosts are ectoplasmic entities

prepared was caught in some kind of energy discharge

but what kind

we need more data to narrow it down precisely

fortunately

Mr Fitch provided us with the right tool for the job

mostly he was in the ballpark

I've made a few adjustments and behold

these lenses

should allow you to perceive a range of energy

frequencies

hopefully in better focus than their predecessors

once we track the energies down to their source

we should be able to piece together what happened

and hopefully reverse it Ezekiel will take these wait

magic energy is more Cassandra's thing okay

I see enough psychedelic visions on my own

so no thank you yes

and you're the one that lost her

I'm gonna go down the archive

I'm gonna see if I can dig up anything I can

on these gas lamps

see if I can tell where they came from but

is there a problem sweetheart

this is not what it looks like

looks like you broke into my archives

hope we didn't break the lock

because I'm also the maintenance department yeah

you don't trust me listen

whatever is going on with these gas lamps

it could be dangerous

if I can't stop you we can work together

early town records are this way it goes

energy flow is

that way how strong a strong girlish okay

energy differentials positives growing tulips roses

pansies

it's not random

there's a design to it it's all channels and flows

it's a circuit

the energy is flowing through the gas lamps

across the town

where is it coming from and why

your guess is as good as mine

pretty sure my guess is actually way better than yours

but I think I can try and get it back to the source

pretty sure you need me to

wait what

so we're just like screaming whenever the mood takes us

bad bad she's here here where it I mean she okay

she's annoyed with me so yeah

she's fine um

she wants us to go that way Colonel Baird

the source of the circuit is that way

so I think

that's where we can find out what's causing this

I think she wants you to go on ahead and

and for me to follow her this way

good plan I can take care of myself

are you implying I can't no bear did

yeah yeah

right behind you this isn't weird at all

in the original proposed layout

Town Hall was on this side of Main Street

they moved why

don't know maybe they changed their minds

I don't know okay

so there's a gas lamp where they were gonna build it

they moved it to put a gas lamp there

and as it doesn't make sense to me

unless the gas lamps were there

and they built the town around it

yeah someone built a bunch of gas lamps

in the middle of nowhere before the town was here haha

I think you're reading just a little bit too much

into this

files kind of files clink no

no there's

Wanna

tell me what you're really doing with those gas lamps

morning Cliff Falls

this was Collins Falls town I've already been to town

that's not good if I show you

you have to promise to help

I promise you that I will do the right thing

gas comes already here

because there was another town here

built by

Nicola Tesla

they're possessing people their body snatching

the lamp post it's screwed with Victor

let's see what it does with you guys

wait

oh

Mr Finch you scared me

what are you doing out here

there are problems sweetheart

you're not Finch are you

ah oh

sorry

oh what

hey guys I've heard backyard

pack of Body Snatch is coming in hot no listen

I know what's going on okay

there's another town before this one

it was on the same site

it was called Warden Cliff Falls huh

okay yeah

I'll just back here by myself then

it was built 100 years ago

it was an experimental site created by

and you're not gonna believe this

Nicola Tesla genius and mentor

rival of medicine I'm pretty

much the reason why we have electricity in our homes

also get the hell away from her what

she's trying to help us are you

uh no she's not body snatched body what

but I definitely are

Norman don't uh Norman thought your name is Victor

why don't we start with her

cause this photo was dated 1915

I told you I had family commitments

this is it

in 1915 Tesla was doing experiments

and wireless power transmission

that was Tesla's dream like Wi-Fi only for electricity

not just the internet the gas lamps

they're wireless power transmitters prototypes

but something went wrong

we activated the system and everyone got zapped

out of sink out of sink with what universe

we were stuck in some interdimensional border

we could see the world we were aware of it

but we couldn't interact with it

that's what happened to bear

how many of you are there

87 souls sort of flux is inherently unstable

I was Atlantic this long

once he realized what had happened

Tesla modified his transmitters

the gas lamps

to create an energy field that would keep us stable

without them we cease to exist

what about you

I mean you're still in your original body

I was in the main control room when it happened

insulated

most of the people were knocked entirely out of phase

I was winking in and out

Tesla was able to anchor me in my body

by turning me into sort of a

grounding wire I guess

I've got a question yeah

what's with the body snatching

it's necessary

it's possible for us to interact with the world

through others

interface with the nervous system just yeah

I'm not so concerned with how you do it

as to whether or not

the bodies you're riding are okay with it

we only use them for a couple of hours at a time

our energy field just interferes with their memories

they just lose a couple of hours here and there

like everyone does

and what about that skin you're riding right now

you've been in there three weeks

how much time is he losing

alright easy

easy

I made a good living

walking the line between snatching and borrowing

but this

these people have gone too far it was necessary

Norman we need their help

she won't tell us what's going on

we needed a body that we could hold on to

for a little longer

a stranger

someone in town that no one would notice was missing

it's the only way that we could fix things

and we are so so close to fixing things

and do you have a plan young lady

let me show you

please

Tesla cut a deal with the government

they could have some of his patents

if they never touched the old facility

they erased the records built over the town

but they had to leave this dam

Tesla spent the rest of his life trying to

figure out how to bring us back

but he was never able to in his lifetime

oh how could he

I mean dimensional reintegration

takes an enormous amount of energy

particularly for people who have been in flux

as long as you have this is a capacitor

Tesla built a capacitor to store the energy

the turbines out of the dam

have been charging it for the past hundred years

this way

you see there

the other casings on the turbines are shot

but the mechanism still work

hundred years worth of charge

that might just do it

but we need everything to be ready fast

the capacitors old it's failing

so all of the work you've been doing

is to keep this running yes

Norman's been doing his best

that's why he needed a longer term body

but even with that

we need to activate it in the next day or two

or it will break down completely

the energy gets discharged and will be stuck

we've been running tests

which have caused atmosphere disturbances

the lights yeah

all the UFO sightings is from your apparatus

told you no such thing as UFOs

this may work but there's only so much we can do

mean we're engineers but we're not Tesla

now that you know will you help us

will you bring an entire lost town back into the world

please

you said you'd do the right thing

please

I say no they're taking over bodies instead of asking

for help you just don't do that

they're asking for help now yeah

only cause they got caught

they're people and they're trapped

can you imagine being stuck for 100 years

watching the world go by

one that do things one that the go places

look all of this is assuming that we can help

based on Tesla's plans

I give it a fifty fifty shot at working

and if it done work then what if it doesn't work

the excess energy gets dispersed

through the gas lamp circuit

they'll destroy the lamps

which is the only thing keeping them stable

don't the lamps go they go yeah

that's if they're telling the truth

this isn't a choice right

wrong true false

none of that matters

like it or not

it's the only way to rescue Colonel Baird

how do you promise to do the right thing so well

they'll need someone at the controls

to process the math and adapt on the fly

at least kennel better lie me one

to make Tesla's plan work

we need to get creative

first we need to rebuild the relay point up on the roof

Tesla's blueprints call for copper wiring

but carbon composites will handle the voltage better

the capacitor is falling apart

so it's harmonic resonance may fluctuate unpredictably

which means bigger is better

and we need the gas lamps all clean and refurbished

spit shined like fresh from the factory guys

we only got one shot at this

let's not take chances so what's the deal I mean

you're in your own body

why'd you stick around for 100 years

the gas lamp stabilize me too

if I cross the border of the circuit

I'd be as lost as anyone

that's why you didn't travel yeah

what's your excuse

what do you mean

I saw that look in your eye

you looked at my postcards

you like art architecture

to see the Taj Mahal

the Sphinx the Sistine Chapel

I can't go

I never could

you just didn't

why

my great granddad

started an all Reagan outfit in the 1800s

and I did well

pride and joy my father's life

and then

there was a day when the company started going on

and he was in no condition around the place

so sick

sick yeah

a little bit of that lot of the drink

stayed to run the family company

that's a good reason

it's an excuse

I mean every year I spent not leaving

easier was to stay

none of my folks none of my friends

and then we got 50 miles from home

that's where they liked it

you spend time with people who

don't do something

and you start feeling like you can't do it

that's how it goes

and now that you know better

now I know better

so how was your first kiss with 130 year old woman huh

take longer than used to

all set here we're good to go

now if everything works correctly

Colonel Bear should be the first one restored

she's not been in flux very long

so it will not take as much energy

to reintegrate her into this reality

last in first out huh

oh yes

without a doubt

well assuming that

Miss Gillian

and I have successfully implemented

the theoretical scribblings of a mad genius

using abandoned equipment

that's been in water for 100 years

good Pep talk

Norman

let's do it

I can feel it

wow that's a big surge

did you do that no

I think it's just a oh no

the capacitor

it's amplifying the harmonics exponentially

what does that mean will it still work I don't know

if this doesn't work

the energy won't just blow out the gas lamps

it's gonna blow out everything around

for how far

miles

hundreds of miles we need to shut it down if

if it works will it still blow up

no but as near as I can tell

we only have a 50 50 shot at it working

there are 87 people trapped here

and there are 10 times as many people living in town

more in the greater blast area

we did not factor that into the risk

I'll take that risk

I won't

no shutting down no turning back

I can't go on like this

we can't go on like this we deserve to live

no

no

no no

think think

think think think

intertwining into weaving music melodies

the key change

is it supposed to be making that noise what noise

hey are you guys hearing some kind of high pitched beat

like E E E e one short

one long too short it's Morse code

it's all for librarians hey something's wrong

court

you heard me well

I did what was that

mosquito tone it's a high pitched sound

that only young people can hear

no offense I adjusted the frequencies of the turbines

to send you a message why

what what's wrong

we were

if this doesn't work it's gonna blow big

tongasco big yeah but it might not blow

it might work I'm so so sorry

I don't think we can take this risk

if we stop it now if we pull the plug

the energy will discharge safely guaranteed

everyone will be trapped including Colonel Bear

I think she'd be the first one to make that call

I promised I'd do the right thing

the yeah

the relay on the rooftop has an override switch

we can turn it off from there

and I will endeavor to stabilize the energy flow

with Miss Killee the rest of you go

you alright yeah

alright

well we can't get through that

maybe I can

I'm stabilized I'm a grounding wire

the energy would discharge through me

with that much juice

even a grounding wire can burn out

you have a better idea

I hold on to you is it gonna drown me too

no clue

alright

guys company just take care of it

you okay yeah

yeah are you

how about we just talk about this

you can just wait there

I don't think I can laugh

this wire will help me bleed off even more of the power

what's the name of that waiter

what one little cafe up upon north we were in Paris

oh my God

okay short legs good to know

I was thinking of Budapest

Budapest was where you lost your life

hers was the ring

man you back

it's working it's working remember the view from

the Eiffel Tower it was raining

but the lights made everything glow start it's working

oi

it's you miss you

up there

oh wow ma'am

it was working it was gonna work

we don't know that

Colonel Beared was trapped for a day

the rest of them have been in there for a century

we just

we just don't know that

it would have held together long enough to help them

it'll really take another hundred years

for the capacitor to power up

and try again there's no capacitor

the discharge fried it

the only thing that still works are the gas lamps

which means they're all still trapped

there isn't enough energy for them to even communicate

with us it wasn't your fault

sometimes you just lose you did good all of you

but sometimes

you just lose

this bite

turtle I thought you might want this

what is this the appointment book

the library by

its nature works on time scales

beyond the normal human lifespan

if librarian for example

built a new capacitor in a dam

with a few stabilizing design features

and let it charge for a century or so

they wanna make a note of it

so future librarians know

there's an appointment to keep

chop chop

hey

we were gonna grab a drink

wanna join oh

not tonight

I got somewhere I gotta be