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during the years 1949 through 1970 dr. Jonathan Rankin conducted extensive

research in the field of psychic phenomena and catalogued hundreds of

events that defy rational explanation the most intriguing aspect of the

research was the discovery of an apparent relationship between many of

these events and certain cemeteries located throughout the United States

according to dr. Rankin 453 people directly involved in these strange

events were buried in only 23 separate cemeteries throughout the nation this

apparent final grouping of people who were touched by the unknown is referred

to in parapsychology as the Rankine cluster phenomena the following episodes

are based on supposedly true events described in dr. rankin's writing and

involving one of the mystery cemeteries [Music]

there are few thing is as strange as reality for reality comes to us wearing

many faces disguised as all manner of things

what is reality and what is illusion some things we think a real may be

merely wisps of smoke from our minds and some things we think illusion I'm really

cloaked in that guys so they may play their part without knowing what they

really are

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or by an unknown and unknowable calculation let's start by populating

this day's stage with some of the characters Randeep our three young men

college students all the boy next door all people we've known before brother

Taylor well meaning you know god-fearing marry blessed be the name of the Lord

and so Lord we come into the the earthly remains of John Davis

Johnny Davis the one who was the rather dubious place of honor at this gathering

and this is Camille Davis Johnny's mother the seventh daughter of a seventh

son does she have anything to do with our story perhaps that's unfolded he was cut down untimely would you and your

infinite wisdom know best take the soul of this young man Lord and may he dwell

in your hallways forever the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away blessed be the

name of the Lord amen [Music]

listen you well to my word one buy land to buy sky look to the heptagon for it

is there seven times around with go the three of you and may your reward be just

and true look to the heptagon for it is there seven times around go the three of you and may your reward be just excuse

me sir would you like a break from when you drank ah

sir would you like another drink excuse me I think she's talking to you would

you care for something oh I'm sorry yes it would sorry father

guess I was pretty deep in thought I didn't even hear and we all get that way

sometimes deep thought is sometimes a bridge way across our problems

father do you believe in the supernatural

I'm sorry well I guess it sounds pretty silly but I was wondering if you

believed in the supernatural don't you realize the supernatural is my business you might say I'm a pro I do thought of

it that way I guess you're right I'm one of those many people who have a

supernatural boss he's a good boss gentle boss one who knows all the

answers sometimes doesn't tell you what they are what made you think of the

supernatural anyway oh nothing listen do well to my word one by land two by sky

well yes something now look father I'm not a Catholic it doesn't make any

difference no I guess it doesn't

something has been bugging me for the last couple of days and I really need

somebody to talk to about it so I've got two ears told well I guess I should begin at the beginning

it all started in this pool hall Randy pal this friend of mine and I and Dave

Terrell we're all roommates at state I'm sorry

father I'm Frank Cameron good to know you Frank keep all the

Dwayne good to know you too father [Music]

well anyway we were at this pool hall just having fun and there was this guy

there Johnny Davis we were just sort of kidding him around you know we didn't

mean any harm [Music]

sure she's ready don't you think so Dave sure she is man she was ready last night

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I'll bet what you fix though Johnny I don't know man which might be a little tough for him

think Johnny who is she I don't know many girls she's the new kid just moved

it down the block she's about 17 and well you know hey

baby why don't you give her a call we didn't send ol Johnny over from right

here all right I'll just do that

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hello Tommy remember me this is Randy yeah I'm just going straight you are

look girl what are you doing tonight

yeah yeah I just bet you are hey look darling

David Frank over here we have a good friend named Johnny I'd like to have a

day with you you can that's terrific well you know what I mean don't you

Tommy yeah those long as we understand each

other well look this guy that's coming over tonight is a personal friend of

mine dig yeah so I want you take real good care okay yeah he'll be over in

about ten minutes okay yeah hey Joey

well she wants to see him what's what's address hey I forgot her name is dolly

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hey man what was that address she sent him to know know what Divis is a mate

[Music] who's there it's me Jeremy Johnny you

know Randy call [Music]

who do you want oh come on Darlene Oh put me down

just open the door there's no one here by that name

this is the Wilson residence bear named Darlene [Music]

no young man you've probably got the wrong address and besides that you're liable to get hurt walking up to a

strange house in the middle of the night why I've got my husband's pintle out and

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it was just charming I I know that I shouldn't have had the gun in the house

but my husband insisted because he travels so much

Oh

it was just a job it's all right mrs. it was a tragic action now I'm sure there won't be any charges but you understand

you'll have to be at the station tomorrow I'll tell my husband

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blocks is there any reason why he might have come here girl neighbor well that's how it happened father it hadn't been

for a damn fool trick Johnny would still be alive today Frank I know it's upsetting but a lot of times without

meaning to we set into motion things we can't control then maybe if you wait a

minute father I know what you're gonna say effort it

before but that's not the end of the story tact I'm not sure it's got an end

goal well we all went to the funeral not a

big town everyone doing like Johnny we could have cut our own throats anyway

after the funeral his mother turned to us and said the

strangest thing listening well to my word one buy land to buy sky look to the

heptagon for it is there seven times around go the three of you and may your

reward they just and true that can only tell you about the tone of her voice

look in her eye all right she had just lost her only

child you can't be too angry with her anger I know but it's what she said and

I looked up heptagon that means a seven sided figure and she said seven times around go the three of us what our

Father seven days after the funeral Dave and I

were going to chemistry lab we were in kind of a hurry

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the way it happened father exactly seven days love Frank

strange things happen to all of us you're upset because of a distraught

room marketed graveside made by a woman who'd lost her only child now you're

looking for reasons that don't exist the only reason is sheer coincidence

besides time will take it away I assume it was some time ago no it wasn't it was just last Thursday today's

Thursday I know it was one week ago today that makes this the 14th day and

14 is 2 times 7 oh stop it Frank you're letting a simple coincidence jar your

entire life a god works in strange ways but he doesn't deal in hexes or

witchcraft forget it you got a life to lead my advice is just to go back to

school sure father sure thanks for letting me bend your ear what else do you think we're here for

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well prank this is where I get off hope I've helped

you believe me father you have have a nice trip

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flight 180 crash look God where they taking

Vayner baby [Music]

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it's quite all right Frank it's not bug it's the 14th day remember

nothing more you can do father [Music]

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father could I talk to you a minute something's bothering me well certainly

father doing shall we go inside no that's not necessary what I have to

ask is so strange and unreasonable that not only do I want God and you to hear

it I want the outdoors to hear it to be as

bad as that I'm probably not father but if you remember I had just gotten off of

flight 180 before that crash you recall seven

people were killed yes yes I do terrible thing was last Thursday wasn't

it yes seven days ago let me tell you the story that one of the more unfortunate people on that plane told me

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so father do you think such a series of coincidences can just happen well father

drain on our stator you know I know your heart is troubled and this would be the

21st day wouldn't it yes it would I don't know how I'm going to get this

out of my mind shall I tell you if you can father it's

really fairly simple as most things usually are you mentioned the third

boy's name and you know that he attends college at the State University why don't you just call him though I've been

afraid it's a good idea father I've been waiting for God to give me the answer

dad moves in strange ways and sometimes employs the most ridiculous messengers

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yeah Randy Randy Pausch nah let's to chose booth Holly ain't here it's sort

of important I'd like to talk to it oh I'm sorry sir I was just kidding Randy's

gone for the day but I can have him call you when he gets

in this evening no siree Scone skydiving [Music]

so Randy Powell went skydiving what was it that woman named Camille said won by

land and to my air didn't Frank say that he found a heptagon to be a seven sided

figure and didn't Dave died seven days after Johnny's funeral and Frank 14 days

after what is the reality and what is the illusion our story doesn't tell us

but I wonder if Randy knows that it's a 21st day

listen you won by land to buy sky for the hexagon for it is there

seven times around other three of you and two may your reward to be just and

true

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it is tradition that ghosts and ghouls and various other citizens of the

grotesque wrapped themselves in malevolent mists and deep darkness

horror is a condition existing most often when morning seems farthest away

so it would seem unlikely that this bright spring day in nineteen six would

begin a horror that to this day wants a small community in southern Missouri a

boy and his dog chased dreams and butterflies back and forth across

Saturday

observe one man child and one man child's dog on their way to a uniquely

soul-shattering rendezvous with darkness a terrifying encounter with the unknown

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jebel where is that boy he goes fishing plumb forgets about the time he's got

that dog with him so I guess it's alright I'm doing wish he'd hurry though

worried the pot liquor and the stews don't be thick as molasses gotta get

colder tonight

hey weather for this time of year fog will be second season

oh baby that pot vigor you better water down again ball sometimes that boys a

caution oh goodness give me a star anyplace and don't say

ain't Parkin finder we help me look songs here come home probably I'm tasting the Coon a rabbit

mom maybe the old girl found herself a new lover get your hands washed up

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hey lady pilly pilly

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son it's me son what the world are you doing out here it's alright son it's alright beside you to come out here son

Jamal and I was worried son when you weren't home in bed

let your dog down in that hole I agree with you there

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anyway boy lost his dog yeah you remember lady

yeah we've used it rotten that seems the boy was fishing fell asleep the Dern dog

plumb disappeared and she ain't come back man kid after Potter help find the

dog but act yo he's it dog will come back and didn't pay it no more mine so

the boy went out looking for his dog in the middle of the night he's fine heck no that ain't the whole story come

on dr. Joe went out looking for her son found him near out of his mind at the

edge of a big hole in the ground what : about I don't know this some big

hole somewhere near Joe's place I'd imagine with all you heavy rains we've

been having it worse than opening the cave you know this count is full yeah

that's true underground rivers and places it fell into man you'd never get

out yeah the craziest thing was the sounds

coming out of that hole in the ground Joe and the boy both are crazy sounds

weird like like someone was in trouble in their first maybe an animal down in

there hmm I said it was problem doesn't know yeah they don't think so anyway Joe

is going up some constables trying to get him to go out there and check up on

keeping any your boys wanna go with us out the jealous place seems like there's

a new cave opening maybe anyway Joe seems to think there's something down in it moaning and groaning that's right

yeah we're her she'll go you know we haven't had as much excitement around here since what a joke got it in trouble

that poop sale all right let's go wouldn't want to miss this back later

I don't want them to leave me alright it is the constable and some other men gone

out to investigate a new cave where someone something's falling on it now go

on home

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what are you gonna do Paul somebody going down the hole don't know yet John

we haven't decided Constable's gonna look it open

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[Music] my wife didn't leave it

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Joe here let's try these

[Music] I don't think it could be the dogs

I never heard of noise monkey so one thing that we don't leave we're gonna

get soaked yeah you may be right Joe nothing we can do around here at least

why it's not about a robot boys [Music]

what about my dog paw you think it might be her down there

no don't give me the sound like that come on

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[Music] I don't know I think we should have stayed out there

let's stop raining a few minutes besides there might be somebody down there who

well how in the hell do I know anybody old boom but if there is someone down

there and I think we ought to go now and try to get him out you know a little

Christian attitude wouldn't hurt any of us around here oh no Richard the mayor about the toll could be she's flipped no

well I think the other guy got there tomorrow whatever's out there in that hole ain't human or animal it's a work

of that devil [Music]

maybe it's ER it's a warning

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[Music] son go settle the man ride into town and

get the constable ask him to get Hank and Ned and anybody else you can find

and meet me at the hole it's time we settle this thing [Music]

sure I wish you wouldn't go not tonight

anyways why don't you wait till tomorrow when you have more light what difference

does it make

have a worry about it Joe now look here woman you and your 4 warnings in

premonitions nonsense while the boy still thinks it has something to do with

this dog now I really don't think the dog is down there but we always suggest

to at least try don't you agree and that that wailing noise is getting serious

it could be danger you too there's no stopping you you be careful now year

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scary sound

well I'll say it again there ain't nothing neither human or animal in that

hole you may be right you know I say we're gonna drop the stick of dynamite

down that hole and blow it to kingdom come oh no the dog might be down there

[Music] what's what I'm here nothing I must have walked I guess yeah I remember reading

about a cave like that most of these big room went back for miles

I mean miles all on the ground mind you like a city almost room after room of

these crazy pillars of rocks a million different colors some different some

crazy some of the pillows even upside down hanging from the ceiling somebody

ought to go down there hell no you bust the rope what I think we all do it Joe

he might be hurt too and how'd you ever get out

I don't likely to have anything to do with the gold well if it means so much

to you I'll go down here leastways to take a look I'm sure not

gonna let you do it bill so you can throw that rope over that limb let her

hang down right here

I gave me a million dollar and I wouldn't want you to go down that hole in the end of Monroe I went down there I

wouldn't want you on the top end neither do you man hold on tight to the end of

that rope it's plenty deep maybe water down there too all right let's get it

over with shut that lantern ready

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ciao thank you so tom we're in the hell have you been

I got here as soon as I could well Cole got the handle this rope we're letting Joe down in the hole

why didn't you say something I think it's mom gotta lay them down there

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he like something heavy is y'all y'all be on the end of this broke we're ready

to pull Joe

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[Music] he's still breathing help my mother

here put this under his hand he's still breathing

God look at his eyes

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place they'll settle the man right into town and get to console it's time we

settle this thing what do you think we ought to do a job I'll do it pop it just might be lady I

don't want to get her back it means so much to you

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agent out eating

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no one knows what happened down in that cave Joe is a strong intelligent man who

had lived his entire life close to the earth never before had he intruded upon

the affairs of that godless society that dwells deep within the buck but he did

leave him after a manner of speaking somehow through this wild experience he

had lost his mind he was insane and spent the rest of his life in the state

insane asylum

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[Music] there is a bridge in our mind that leads

through time and memory from what we know - sure is beyond knowing it sways

high in tightly dangerous above the canyons of our disbelief like some

spectral spans spun by Devils for us to tread to walk this bridge is to accept

all kinds of possibilities especially the most exciting possibility of all the

possibility of impossibility some tales of the impossible so capture the

imagination that they quickly spread over much of the country the girl in the

bridge is such a tale countless variations of this story are told and

retold in North Carolina it is the Lydia story in Illinois it's the specter of

the mists and in Texas it's called the White Rock lady dozens of interviews and

hours of newspaper research traced the story's origin and consequence spread

across the country from Central Arkansas beginning in 1929 come now and explore

the possibility of the impossible come stand beside the girl on the bridge

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best messy all right you're hurt

are you okay

are you hurt [Music]

No I'm not hurt

would you take me home of course I'll take you home

like but what happened to you are you here all alone

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I don't know

I'm afraid so are you sure you were all right

please just take me home of course I will where do you live

[Music] 3802 Cavanaugh near the park now come on

let me help you into the car I'll see that you get home

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what happened are you sure you're all right I have to go home my father

worried about me huh I want to talk to you sit down again

father

Susan I told you to stay away from that boy and I mean it but I'm not him that

isn't true know what love is don't I Father no you don't and I want

you to get rid of that boy or I will I love and I want to marry him don't talk like a fool Susan I never

want to see that boy around here again

and besides he could never support you and Wesley Carver could it's that it

father yes he could give you everything you've

always wanted everything you've always wanted

I'd rather see you dead and married to that boy

John

John yes wait why do you have to talk to her like that because she's my daughter

and I love her because I don't want to see her ruin her life

can you think that loving and marrying Paul will ruin her life Emma you know

what that boys family's like you always before you know that boy works very hard

at making something of himself he reminds me of someone I used to know

when did money start to be more than your family

it doesn't really you're willing to sacrifice your daughter's happiness for

it you're breaking her heart and I am ashamed for you she'll get over it good

time I think I know what's best for her

she's not to see Paul again I don't understand why she doesn't like that

Carver boy like him John she does like him he just happens to believe you

should love somebody in order to marry them

to them I never want to see that boy around here again

I love

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remember the first time we came I mean the time I forgot the lunch

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I want to go swim

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I don't

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party anyway you know father worries about us

breaking my date with Rachel um help and neither will being life we better go

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you shouldn't have said you'd go with him anyway you know I had nothing to say

about that [Music]

I told you I need you in the gazebo [Music]

they're comin with Westwick Harvard so I thought she was in love with Paul she is but her father's published the cars were

murdered he's not Monday Wesley nation our Father tried to keep it from daily

tall but just changing the gazebo

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I love you

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what are we gonna do I know what we could do we could run away you don't

even know what love is don't worry thing I'll take care of you

he could never support you [Music]

maybe we could talk to father again and he could give me some eyes we tried that

you know it our only chance is to go away together

you love me [Music]

do you really really love me you work it out we might not have much we will have

each other we would happy wouldn't you know you

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there's no other way is there what other way is there

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let's get married today yesterday let's get married now right now alright you

mean it you really mean it [Music]

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hey where you going [Applause]

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good evening sir yes I hate to do bother you like this sir but my name is Senator

Brooks plan I have a young lady in the car who says she listed this address now

she's quite upset seems to have been of an accident just made a mistake

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daughter's happiness for it you're breaking her heart I am shaped for you must never long at

first she's gone I don't know I'm sure going to find out

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[Applause] I don't want my wife button set again I don't understand any of this

I'd often was in the back on wood

by the old bringing right that's where we found her but how

did you know let me try to me

she was standing there you stopped to help

and she asked you to bring her for this address

well it's right yes there's only one thing wrong senator that accident

happened many years ago

what to

ah

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you can we could go back to yesterday

I know that if we had the time things changed

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wish I still had the kind of [Music]

before the lights were like the car

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if there were only something I could do it say

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understood

you had to

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it has been said that our lives are merely bridges through time but what a

death we know where death begins but across what does it spend where does it

lead these are questions Susan could easily answer if we could but find her

and this too is possible for dozens of people including the senator say she

still stands upon the bridge waiting perhaps Ryu the passer away once more

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do we make these memorials to the dead to help us remember surely we would

never forget those we once loved then is there some other reason some obscure force buried deep in the racial memory

of man that makes us create a ceremony whenever one of us crosses over to the

next portion of eternity can we measure that force the force released by a death

and do we know what form it may take we know what energy is released by a

birth by the start of a life in this plane we celebrate it joyously at every anniversary but what about its opposite

the energy released in this plane of existence when a life comes to an end doesn't some portion of it pass for

those who loved him haven't you noticed that the ones left behind

seems somehow stronger even in the midst of their grief

look at the dead boy's mother her occult powers never manifested before our

almost irresistible listen.you well - my word one by land

two by sky look to the heptagon for it is there seven times around go the three of you and may reward be just now what

about Johnny's death the accident that set in motion this whole train of events

was it an accident was his death the climax of some unfathomable plan rather

than a mindless happy his mother remember was the seventh

daughter of a seventh son her powers were real even if unknown to her until

Johnny's death before you dismiss this as an unfortunate accident consider for

a moment the incredible chain of coincidental conditions that had to be

met an address to send Johnny to chosen at random a woman at home alone who

opened her door to a stranger at night a careful husband who left his wife a

loaded automatic with the safety off who's there it's me Johnny Johnny you

know Randy call

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who do you want oh come on Darlene no put me down

just open the door there's no one here by that name this is the Wilton residence they're

named Darlene [Music] no young man you've probably got the

wrong address and besides that you're liable to get hurt

walking up to a strange house in the middle of the night why I've got my

husband's pistol out and I certainly don't want to hurt anybody death sudden

violent this is the trauma that will reinforce the thrust of the mind turn loose the death force that strange

parallel to the life force where will that force go do you know and are you

all together sure you would want to know let us consider witchcraft for a moment

genuine witches are difficult to identify they operate without a license

they're not required to register anywhere but witchcraft is booming in

America and England thousands of people are dabbling in black or white magic

surely then witches must reveal themselves from time to time if only to

keep the faith of the coven fresh and strong witchcraft began

apparently with earliest mankind once it was called the old religion probably

tribal fertility rites forced underground by religious persecution

experts in occult matters claimed to trace the origins of black magic to

migrations from a lost continent of Atlantis the last of which reached Egypt

where the powerful secret diagrams were recorded in the Egyptian Book of the Dead

the Egyptian Book of the Dead famous is the source of most of today's rituals in

the occult in a matter of magic whether white or black the key ingredient is

belief and who can measure the power of suggestion which is where belief begins

remember this suggestion by Johnny's mother was reinforced by the boy's death if a victim is at all susceptible to

suggestion and knows a curse was put on him

the knowledge alone may be enough to do him in one way or another

whatever is out there in that hole ain't human or animal work of the devil what

do you believe because belief will make itself the power of man's mind the power

of his belief is only now beginning to be understood be careful above all of what you decide

you want the wise man said because you will probably get it

these men are making ready to explore an unknown but they have already convinced

themselves of the nature and quality of what they will find there they are

expecting evil anticipating enemy rather than friend danger rather than promise I

ask you what did you expect them to find because they did

if I gave you a million dollars I wouldn't want you to go down that hole

in the end of Monroe when I went down there I wouldn't want you on the top end

either do you man hold on tight to the end of that rope it's plenty deep I may

be water down there too all right let's get it over with got

that linen ready what was the exact moment when Joe decided to say goodbye

to his wife by dropping the photograph from the wall or was that something Joe

decided was it a voluntary thought powered by the extreme fear that gripped

him or involuntary the last lucid flash before his sanity went

we remain baffled by the power of rational thought by the hidden sources of creativity by the marvels the human

mind can conceive and achieve we have attacked the brain with scalpel drugs

electricity but the suspicion grows that its secrets are beyond us is the mind

more than the brain it is beginning to appear that there is almost nothing the

mind cannot do from controlling the subtle nuances of our own bodies to

hurling unlikely technical complexities across the galaxies may it not then preside over its own death in some

peculiar fashion we may never understand some fashion we may never want to

understand what understanding bring greater fear but we must work our way

past fear if mankind is to go on the next great step in the evolution of man

is to learn about his mind his brain not only where it came from

we make educated guesses about that but more important where can it possibly go

given the courage to overcome fear what can we learn about ourselves the girl on

the bridge is a classic ghost story classic because it is a keystone of our culture the dear departed who do not

quite depart why can't they let go is it because we can't let go of them is our love the anchor that holds some part of

them Lear [Music]

miss Missy warrant maybe it is something even stronger than love more enduring

like obligation the belief that there is something you must do and remember in

the enchanted room in the unique miracle of the mind what you believe to be true

either is true or your mind will make it so Randy Powell when sky died

what was it that woman named Camille said won by land and to my air didn't

Frank say that he found a heptagon to be a seven sided figure and didn't Dave die

seven days after Johnny's funeral and Frank 14 days after what is the reality

and what is the illusion our story doesn't tell us but I wonder if Randy

knows that it's a 21st day

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hexagon for it is there seven times around other three of you and to may

your reward to be just and true [Music]