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Are you ready to begin?
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Are there spirits
present in this home?
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We wish to converse
with you tonight.
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Do you wish to converse with us?
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Please knock once for yes
and twice for no.
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(BANG)
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We are grateful for your presence
and we ask for your patience.
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We desire contact
with someone we've lost.
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Jane, this is the f...
Silence!
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One for yes, two for no,
are you in Heaven?
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(LOW HOWL)
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One for yes, two for no,
are you in Heaven?
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(WHISPERED VOICES)
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One for yes, two for no.
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(BONES CRACKING)
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There have been a lot
of interesting occult things
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that have happened
in the White House,
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spiritualism and seances.
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The property was
a perfect breeding ground
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for these demons
to feed off of this chaos.
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The White House is truly
a house of secrets.
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The White House has to be haunted.
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Standing over his shoulder
is this creature
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who is obviously Satan.
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She is covered in his blood.
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Presidents have had
ghostly experiences,
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first ladies,
military aides.
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When those folks say
they've seen a ghost,
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that's the most credible witness
you will ever find.
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What frightens me is that we may
have things in the White House
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that are practically demonic,
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and this can lead
to mass, mass tragedy.
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When you see the White House,
you look at it with the same
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kind of regality that the British do,
looking at Buckingham Palace.
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It's our royalty.
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Knowing its place in history
and the fact that it had been
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razed before, destroyed
and burned to the ground,
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instead of backing off
and going somewhere else,
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we rebuilt on those spots,
claiming and showing our enemies
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we will not be deterred.
It's a stronghold of power,
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it's a stronghold of strength
that shows
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who we are and what our country
stands for.
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Decisions have been made inside
this building
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that have affected everyone
in the United States.
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Billions of lives around the world
that started wars,
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that dropped nuclear bombs
on countries,
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that have just changed
the very fabric of society.
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But it's also a home.
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When you look at the outside
of the White House,
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it's this grand mansion. In fact,
it's called the President's mansion.
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And we know about the West Wing,
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and we know what the Oval Office
looks like.
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We've seen press conferences.
But there are so many rooms
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in this building that
we've never had access to.
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There's secret tunnels
that can get people in and out
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of this building
without ever being seen.
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Who knows what else is in there?
Depending on the administration,
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and the first family.
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If you are a demonic entity
and you want to bring about mischief
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on a vast scale, what better place
to do it than the White House?
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When you think about that location,
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it's an epicentre
of American political power.
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Through history, the White House
has been the focal point,
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the place that the world
turns to for answers.
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With that focus
from the entire world,
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I would think that would be
just feeding the battery
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that would make
the ultimate haunted house.
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Of course, it was
a swamp at one point.
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And then they brought in
these magnificent architects,
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and they built
around architectural designs
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that were somewhat
occult influenced,
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so it definitely has
this odd side
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that a lot of Americans
may not be aware of.
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Ghost stories at the White House
have been happening over 150 years.
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And, that haunting appears
to continue today.
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Barbara and I, we haven't...
I don't know if we see a ghost,
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but we felt something.
You did? Where?
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We were at the White House.
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(GASPS) Scary!
It's scary.
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If we have the President
of the United States
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sitting on the
nuclear codes,
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the idea that some kind of
a dark, devilish entity
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could be coming in there
and making them behave erratically,
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that is scary to me.
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As a paranormal investigator,
I question is it a spirit?
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Is it a ghost? Is it a demon?
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And what is their purpose
for still remaining there?
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How does this energy,
these spirits of the past,
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affect the people
that run this home?
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If I got in there to investigate,
the first thing I'd wanna ask is,
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when did you first notice something
was off in the building?
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What was your first experience
that didn't seem quite right?
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The White House hauntings
really start around 1853.
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They seem to have started during,
ah, Franklin Pierce's presidency.
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He was the president
from 1853 to 1857.
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Tragedy followed him
wherever he went.
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Franklin Pierce
was born in New Hampshire
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and was a pretty quick-rising star
in the political scene.
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He was in the State House
of Representatives
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in New Hampshire
for three terms.
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He was a general
in the Mexican-American War.
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So this guy is clearly
on a meteoric path.
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He meets Jane Appleton.
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And when they say opposites attract,
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this really was
the ultimate, ultimate example.
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She hated politics with a passion,
hated drinking,
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which her husband happened to be
very fond of.
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Jane Pierce was born to the
Reverend Doctor Jessie Appleton
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and her father is, ah,
this Calvinist preacher.
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It's a very strict religion.
It's about learning about your sins.
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She has a tendency to be,
as they called it in the day,
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melancholy.
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She was always just kind of sick.
It's very sad.
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Though Pierce's success
is fast-moving,
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in his personal life,
there's trouble.
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Their first-born child dies
after just a few days.
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That threw her into this terrible
depression, to lose a child.
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And then the guilt that he,
as a husband has,
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he doesn't want that to happen
again, so he leaves Congress.
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And then their second child
dies at age four.
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And so finally
they're down to one kid, Bennie.
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She turns all of her affection
on Bennie, her youngest,
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almost, to the point
of obsession.
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So, Jane is constantly begging her
husband to get out of politics
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and stop drinking, but once again,
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the political draw brings him back.
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So in 1852, the Democratic
National Convention,
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Pierce allowed his name
to kinda quietly circulate.
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Somehow he managed
to keep secret from Jane
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for a while that he had
become the nominee,
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and when she finally found out,
she apparently fainted immediately.
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Her son wrote her, "I hope father
doesn't become president.
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"I know you would hate it
and I would hate it too."
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But he's elected in 1852.
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He's elected President,
and it's very exciting.
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And the Democrats are thrilled,
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but the country's
in this strange time.
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The big elephant in the room
is slavery.
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The Northern states,
they don't believe in slavery
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and the Southern
states that do.
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Franklin Pierce
is considered a "doughface,"
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which basically means a Northerner
with Southern sympathies.
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Wanted to make slavery work
in the south,
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keep it out of the north,
and keep everybody happy.
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The reality is, on some issues,
there's just no compromise.
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Slavery is absolute pure evil.
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January 6th, just right
before the inauguration,
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the Pierces take a train
up to Massachusetts.
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The passenger car that they're
riding in comes unhooked.
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The train rolls down an embankment.
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Franklin reaches out,
he grabs a hold of Jane,
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and he tries to grab
a hold of Bennie.
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But Bennie slips out of his reach.
And he's thrown.
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Their son Bennie
is lying unconscious
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with his cap over his face,
and as they go to shake him
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to see if he's OK, they,
they pull the cap from his face
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and they see that his face
had been crushed.
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Um, uh...
What do you say?
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I mean, there's their son.
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Before their eyes.
Killed tragically.
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I can't even begin to imagine
what kind of impact
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that would have on your psyche,
on your soul and in your heart.
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She felt that it
was against God's will
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Franklin get involved
in politics.
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She absolutely did blame him
in part for Bennie's death.
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I think she felt like he had gone
back on a promise to her.
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Franklin Pierce's inauguration
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is one of the saddest,
sobering inaugurations.
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Everyone in the country knows that
he's lost his son very tragically.
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My countrymen,
it is a relief to feel
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that no heart but my own
can know the personal regret
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and bitter sorrow over which
I have been born to a position.
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You have summoned me in my weakness.
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You must sustain me
by your strength.
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It was not this joyous occasion
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that you would imagine
when a new President moves in.
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Franklin Pierce
should be celebrating,
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revelling in this moment in history
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when he is elected to the
prime element of our country...
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..and there's just this black cloud
that hangs over their family.
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Here, you've gotta have a leader
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who's looking forward
to the future,
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to a brighter new way
to lead the country,
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but yet being pulled
into this darkness.
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The unfortunate nickname
that the press
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started calling Mrs. Pierce
was the Phantom of the White House.
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She isolated herself,
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literally doesn't come out
of the bedroom for weeks...
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..and she really did almost seem
like a ghost in her own home.
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No, thank you, I think I am
retiring today. Has my wife..?
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Upstairs, Sir.
Of course.
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That will be all, thank you.
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(FLOORBOARDS CREAKING)
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My precious child,
I must write to you,
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although you are never
to see it or know it.
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How I long to see you
and say something to you,
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as if you were near me.
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Oh, had you but been within reach
of your dear father.
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A moment changed
my dear boy's bright form
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into a lifeless one,
insensible to your parents' agony.
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As a parent, I don't know
that I wouldn't have gone
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to any lengths to have
one more moment with my child,
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to have one more conversation,
one more moment to hear their voice.
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When she was sequestered away,
she wrote letters to Bennie,
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endlessly long letters
that are really sad,
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and she seemed to have
a somewhat conflicted faith.
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On the one hand,
she came to believe that God
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may have taken Bennie to try
and send a message
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to Franklin about
being president.
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But on the other hand, she was also
willing to put aside her religion
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in attempts to contact Bennie,
and that was probably due
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to the influence
of what was going on
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at the time in both the US
and the UK.
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(WHISPERED VOICES)
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And now this Sabbath evening,
you will come in fancy before me
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and I sit close by you,
with your hand in mine perhaps?
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Spiritualism was a belief
that the spirits of the departed
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could be contacted.
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Spiritualism began
in a little farmhouse
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in Hydesville, New York
back in 1848.
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The Fox family would hear
strange knocks on the wall.
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And the Fox Sisters begin to
realise that they can communicate
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with whatever is making
these rappings...
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..in a circle around a table,
that's where we get the form
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of the seance,
which did not exist before that.
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What began back in 1848,
the Ouija board is a by-product,
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ghost hunting,
paranormal investigation.
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Astrology, spirit photography.
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Spirit photography was the idea
that you would take a photo
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of someone, and there would be
a spirit
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that would appear behind them.
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OK, if the dead can stick around,
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we should be able
to investigate that.
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And you can tie it all back
to the Fox family.
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By 1853, when Jane Pierce
came to live
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in the White House,
the Fox Sisters were world-renowned.
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Everybody knew who they were.
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It does seem that Jane
called on the Fox Sisters,
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brought them to the White House
for a seance,
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trying to contact Bennie.
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When you decide you're going
to mentally open a window,
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you can't necessarily control
who is going to come through.
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The old occult grimoires
and the texts
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are full of terrible things
that can happen.
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If the White House
were using these practices,
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could demons or bad spirits
actually decide to come through
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during one of these seances?
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(THUNDER RUMBLES)
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Mother?
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May we speak with the spirit
of young Benjamin Pierce,
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son of Jane and Franklin?
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One for yes, and two...
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(BOOM)
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Is it my boy?
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Is Benjamin with us?
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(BOOM!)
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Spirit, wrap the number of years
you lived on this earth.
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(BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!)
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(BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!)
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(BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!)
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Jane Pierce was desperate
to reconnect
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with their 11-year-old son.
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But when they start
pursuing these methods,
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and they don't know exactly
what they're doing,
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I believe they can let
terrible things
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into the White House.
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Mother?
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This seance,
it's one of those things
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that's a little bit shrouded
in the mist of history
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that we would love
to know more about.
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There is evidence that Mrs. Pierce
met with Maggie Fox.
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There is a letter from her husband,
Arctic Explorer Elisha Kane.
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He said, "You have to stop
meeting with Mrs. Pierce.
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"I know you've done it
and more than once."
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He just didn't want her to be
involved in this stuff anymore.
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(OMINOUS MUSIC)
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I missed you.
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After these seances
happened at the White House,
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Jane Pierce seems to believe
that it actually worked.
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She reports that
she's actually seen her son.
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For Jane, to finally
make that connection,
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it had to be such a relief to get
that sense that her son was OK.
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My precious child,
you spirit yourself, my dear one.
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Was not your redeeming Saviour
ready to receive you?
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So, essentially,
Jane Pierce seeing her own son
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was the first reported
ghost sighting at the White House.
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There were sightings and reports
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in almost every administration
from 1852 on.
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Truman. Carter. And Reagan.
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The Bushs. Even the Obamas.
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These stories just keep
coming up, again and again.
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When you consider
this veil of secrecy
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that's over the whole building,
it's no surprise at all
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that the White House is so haunted.
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So you have to question,
why would the spirit be here?
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Why would it continue
to stay in this location?
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Jane claimed that Bennie
visited her in her dreams
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for several nights, and that was
a tremendous beacon of hope,
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but obviously may have led
to some darker things as well.
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We don't know
who we're reaching out to.
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We don't have the ability
to see that spirit
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communicating
back-and-forth, right?
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Are we getting advice
from the real spirit world,
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or are we getting advice
from something far darker?
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We don't know.
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In 1853, a Seventh-day
Adventist preacher
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wrote a book
and brought up the fact
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that the Pierces had buried
their son under a granite tombstone
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that quoted scripture
and this scripture said,
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"Go thy way, thy son liveth."
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He writes in his book,
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"Does President Pierce believe
what is stated in the last clause
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"of the above...?"
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"That his son liveth?
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"If he does, then why may
he not expect a visit
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"now and then
from his only son?
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"But suppose
some accomplished demon
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"should visit the abode of the chief
magistrate of this nation.
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"Would those parents be likely
to resist that visitor?"
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Demons have a long history
in terms of what are they exactly.
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Sometimes it was believed that
the demon was an actual creature
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that had been created
apparently to serve Lucifer
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and Satan down in hell.
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The demon is basically
a spiritual parasite.
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They will start working
on that person's psyche.
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Now, if we have the president
of the United States,
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then the idea that something
could be coming in there
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and making them behave erratically
or irrationally
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is a big, big problem for all of us.
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I'm sorry. I need a moment.
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Leave this with me. The Secretary
will have my signature.
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You can assure him.
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About a year
into his administration,
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this bill comes to his desk
that will help expand
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American territories, but it's
going to also expand slavery.
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Northern states hate it.
They think it's, it's wrong.
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It's evil.
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It should be completely abolished.
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Southern states need it in order
for their economy to survive.
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(OMINOUS MUSIC)
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(BANG!)
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Hello?!
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(GROWL)
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The parasite can begin
to physically manifest,
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and that's why you start
having the raps on the walls...
349
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..the dark forms looming
in the corner,
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they're creeping up behind you,
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and it becomes
more and more physical.
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The person starts to become
self-destructive and depressed,
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until finally it sucks
everything out of that person.
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This can lead, for a politician,
to mass, mass tragedy.
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When the Kansas Nebraska Act
was first proposed, he opposed it.
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He was not in favour of it.
357
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And then all of a sudden,
his opinion was turned around.
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The Kansas Nebraska Act
suddenly takes our country,
359
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which is already kind of
on this friction tipping point,
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and breaks it.
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(BANG, SCREECH)
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If you are a demonic entity,
and you want to bring about mischief
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on a vast scale, what better place
to do it than the White House?
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When dealing with darker forces,
their energy can override yours
365
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if you're in a weak
or vulnerable position.
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(GASPS)
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I've read newspaper articles
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that some of the staff
in the White House,
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they'd pass her door and they could
hear her saying her son's name,
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giggling and laughing,
almost as if she was playing
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on the floor with a child.
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He was distraught.
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He clearly worried about his wife's
physical and mental health.
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It was just definitely
a gloomy period,
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and the politics of the time,
also, were difficult.
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The, the big thing
for the Pierce administration
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really was the passage
of the Kansas-Nebraska Act...
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..and this was gonna end
around of the Compromise of 1850,
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which had settled
the question of slave states
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and free states
and the balance of power,
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by saying,
"That doesn't matter anymore,
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"we're gonna let the people decide."
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It's a broken promise,
and this is the earliest action
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that will lead to
the bloodiest conflict on our soil.
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Pierce's effort to settle
the slavery issue
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did exactly the opposite.
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It incited rebellion,
fake voters, riots, murders.
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And it turns into what they now
refer to as Bleeding Kansas.
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Riots all across the country.
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Many historians believe
that was the greatest failure
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of his presidency.
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And one of the greatest failures
of any president, quite frankly.
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There have been
countless events
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in almost every single presidency
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that changed the world forever.
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00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,280
President Truman
and his decision
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to drop the atom bomb.
398
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,080
JFK and the Cuban missile crisis.
399
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:01,400
Vietnam.
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00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,080
President Reagan
and the Cold War.
401
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,080
9/11.
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00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,680
There's so much that took place
inside of that building,
403
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,320
we can only scratch the surface.
404
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,640
Within paranormal research,
there's a theory
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00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,840
called "Stone Tape Theory,"
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00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,640
which is that certain
powerful places or things
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00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,680
may record traumatic or dramatic
events that happen around them.
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00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:37,440
Stone Tape Theory comes, amazingly,
from a British TV movie.
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00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:43,600
The idea can explain both
the existence of a haunted house
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and a haunted, for example, doll,
like Annabelle.
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Certainly, a house can be that.
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This is similar to the idea
of a residual haunting.
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This is a haunting that keeps
replaying the same things
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over and over, and that
certainly ties in
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to if these things
were recorded by a building.
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Or by an object. It makes sense
that they would just
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play the same scenes over and over.
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Is the White House a Stone Tape
Theory recorder? It's possible.
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If you think about
the fact that the White House
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is the focal point
of the world.
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And that anytime there's conflict,
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a lot of negativity
is channelled there.
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That alone helps you to understand
why there may be dark forces
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that have been
unleashed there.
425
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,040
(CHILD LAUGHING)
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00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:42,000
Bennie. Is that you, Bennie?
427
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,880
My boy!
428
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:57,520
Bennie!
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00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:58,960
(GASPS)
430
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:14,120
(WHISPERED VOICES)
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00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,960
Franklin, I have something
wonderful to show you.
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00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,000
What ungodly..!
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00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:45,440
It's our son, Franklin.
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00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,120
It's Bennie.
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00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,520
Jane, who's so desperate,
she didn't know if her son Bennie
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00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,040
actually came back
or if it was just something
437
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,480
that appeared to be Bennie.
438
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,680
It's pretty obvious to you
when you have something
439
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,360
like a demonic spirit because
it's always, always negative.
440
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,200
It's biologically,
it's physiologically,
441
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,480
mentally, it's wearing
that person down.
442
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:48,240
The demon is very powerful
and probably very dangerous.
443
00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:50,640
It's here to create mischief.
444
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,800
It's here to lure people into acts
445
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,240
that they probably
would not commit otherwise.
446
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,120
Mother?
447
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,000
It could be as subtle
as giving you dreams
448
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,720
of that dead
loved one that you lost.
449
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,760
That you are desperate
to connect with.
450
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:04,920
Mother!
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So, Jane started having seances
in the White House.
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There was a fear that
if the White House
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were using these practices,
could demons or bad spirits
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actually imitate
the President's dead child?
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As a parent, would be able
to resist that influence?
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That is when it's time
to bring in an expert.
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00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,280
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
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There are people out there
trying to rid people
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00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,760
of these dark spirits
and energies.
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00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,400
Getting to the root cause,
and then helping them
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00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,400
to purge that cause
out of them.
462
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,640
It's, it's basically a battle
between good and evil.
463
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,200
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
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You, you have to wonder if Jane
decided it was time to live again,
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maybe she had done all the
mourning she could do for Bennie.
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You exorcise a demon that's
attached itself to a human being.
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With a building,
you could say a blessing.
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I can't imagine that blessings
have not been done
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on the White House, repeatedly.
470
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It's just not something that
has been publicly talked about.
471
00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:22,840
It's certainly possible they could
have had an exorcism at the House.
472
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But then again,
that is the sort of event
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that they would probably have done
their best to keep hidden.
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I'm wondering what they would have
done for an exorcism at the time.
475
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:41,640
Nowadays, it seems like we have
such a plethora of exorcism rituals.
476
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Everything from calling
a priest or a shaman,
477
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,480
or a Wiccan, to burning white sage
throughout the house
478
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and reciting prayers.
479
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,800
I'm not sure what
they would have had access to.
480
00:35:54,880 --> 00:36:00,040
They wouldn't have had the immense
culture of pagans that we have now.
481
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:05,080
They would probably have had
to resort to calling a priest.
482
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,280
I know many religious families that,
when they move into a new home,
483
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they ask their minister or priest
to come to the house
484
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,760
and bless it, for no other reason
other than give it some good energy.
485
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,880
I'm certain that different
first families
486
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,040
have brought in clergy to say
blessings in the White House.
487
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,560
And maybe some of those families are
a little more devout in their faith
488
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:33,000
and keep those darker forces at bay,
and maybe other first families
489
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,840
give into a little more
of those darker impulses.
490
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:44,640
You have made the right decision
for your family.
491
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,400
Let us hope.
492
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,960
No, let us pray.
493
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:03,520
We call forth to the one
that demonises this family!
494
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,720
We call forth to the one
495
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:15,560
that terrorises this home,
this home under God!
496
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,320
Join us now.
497
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,880
You don't have the courage
to address those that you torment!
498
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:37,280
Perhaps, you fear a servant of God?
499
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:45,680
Our Father, who art in Heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
500
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,080
Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done.
501
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,480
Mother!
502
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,440
On earth as it is in Heaven.
503
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:56,360
Give us this day, our daily bread.
504
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,800
And forgive us our trespasses,
505
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:03,080
as we forgive those
who trespass against us.
506
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:10,640
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
507
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,440
(GROWLS)
508
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,040
Save this house, O God!
509
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,520
Full on demonic possession,
it's like a bad relationship,
510
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,480
it's to get you alone,
to break you down, psychologically.
511
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,400
But then you're getting this
attention from this force
512
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,600
that may promise you things
and offer you things
513
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,560
and make things seem better,
514
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,920
but then it's like with every wish,
there comes a curse.
515
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:45,080
Take your almighty hand
516
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:49,880
and sweep this devil
into the flames of hell.
517
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:55,520
In the name of the Father,
and the Son, and the Holy Spirit!
518
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,920
Lord, hear my prayer!
519
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,080
Amen.
520
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:35,760
He's gone, he's gone.
521
00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:47,360
Exorcism is always
somewhat questionable.
522
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:53,200
If these demons get into people,
it's gonna be very difficult
523
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:57,120
to get it out of them, especially if
they don't want it out of them.
524
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,720
Franklin Pierce,
his career is basically over
525
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:07,120
and now he's a lame duck.
526
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,120
Ultimately, he will
become a one-term president
527
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,440
because they're not going
to nominate him for a second term,
528
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,520
which at that time
had never happened before.
529
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,720
The Kansas—Nebraska Act,
it was the final nail in the coffin.
530
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:22,040
(BANG!)
531
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:26,360
He and Jane finish out his
presidency, the nation is a mess.
532
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,560
He was, by many accounts,
considered to be the worst president
533
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:36,440
in US history, and he just sort
of fades into obscurity after that.
534
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,040
When you think of our presidents,
it's no secret
535
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:44,880
that the First Lady probably has
a lot of influence on their husband.
536
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,360
That was not the case
during Pierce's presidency.
537
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,440
We have a very absent First Lady.
538
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:56,040
She loved piano.
Had she pursued piano,
539
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,840
when she was an older woman,
540
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,200
it would have brought
some of her sorrow out.
541
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,000
I imagine she was just so relieved,
542
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:07,840
she was finally going
to be able to go home now.
543
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,320
Even though it was under
very sad circumstances.
544
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:17,680
Within 10 years after Bennie
died in 1853, Jane dies.
545
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:22,080
After she dies, now he's lost
his entire family.
546
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,160
He's been a terrible president.
547
00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:29,000
He had all this promise, and he
doesn't really have too much glory.
548
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:31,840
And so he drinks himself to death.
549
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:39,280
It was a perfect storm
of terrible events,
550
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,680
both personal and national,
for the Pierces.
551
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:48,200
That is why I believe that their
darkness, whatever they brought in,
552
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,160
is still also inside
the White House, very much so.
553
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,080
The White House
has to be haunted, right?
554
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,320
Now maybe again, that's us thinking
it has to be haunted.
555
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:56,800
But so many...yes.
556
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:58,840
But wait, but wait, my phone rang,
it woke us up
557
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,640
in the middle of the night,
we had a fireplace in our room,
558
00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:03,640
and all of a sudden,
we started hearing
559
00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:07,600
1920's piano music,
as clear as day.
560
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,680
Coming out of the fire place.
561
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,720
I said, "Buddy, you wouldn't believe
what we heard last night."
562
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,520
and he goes, "Oh, Jenna,
563
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:16,400
"you wouldn't believe
what I've heard."
564
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,960
There are employees
that have been there
565
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,520
and have seen these things
since the White House was built.
566
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,640
That tells you that
there's something there,
567
00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:31,960
that there's some kind of energy
568
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:35,400
that brings something
supernatural to that place.
569
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,320
The next President to move into
the White House was James Buchanan.
570
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,960
He had an opportunity
to try to change course,
571
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:46,680
but instead he illegally influenced
The Supreme Court
572
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,640
to get them to rule on
a decision regarding slavery
573
00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:51,400
to make it the law of the land.
574
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:55,600
It just brought things to a head
and lit the fuse on the Civil War,
575
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:57,600
which would become
the next president's problem.
576
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,920
President Lincoln is the single,
most revered president
577
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:39,640
in US history.
578
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,080
There's not even a close second.
579
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:45,920
This is a guy
with humble beginnings.
580
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,520
We all know the story of being
raised in a log cabin.
581
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,080
He was self-taught. He had less
than a year of formal schooling.
582
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,320
He taught himself the law.
583
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,200
A lot of people don't know that
Lincoln was a corporate lawyer,
584
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:00,120
he worked for railroads.
585
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:04,160
And being a brilliant speaker,
who can just move audiences.
586
00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:08,000
And using that gift, to make
his way up through the ranks,
587
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,080
in this new party
called the Republican Party.
588
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:18,240
He's inaugurated
right before the Civil War.
589
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,360
The stress on him
must have been tremendous.
590
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,960
The fate of the country
is riding on his back.
591
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,040
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
592
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:15,000
Shortly after Abe
enters the White House,
593
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:19,560
he tells his friend that he's had
a vision, he's seen a ghost.
594
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:26,920
He noticed that one of the
reflections looked pale and gaunt.
595
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,560
His wife interpreted
this experience to mean
596
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,760
that he would serve out
his first term
597
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,800
but would not survive his second.
598
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:38,080
I think he was very open in talking
about his dreams, his visions.
599
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:42,600
And it's only later that we're able
to more clearly interpret them,
600
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:44,240
given the benefit of history.
601
00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:47,360
The interesting thing
about Lincoln,
602
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,480
I don't think you could pin his
religious belief system down.
603
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,280
In fact he once said;
"When I do good, I feel good.
604
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,560
"I do bad, I feel bad.
That is my religion."
605
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:04,120
While Abe Lincoln has very humble
beginnings, Mary Todd does not.
606
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:05,800
Mary Todd comes from money.
607
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:09,080
She grew up in a very nice,
beautiful home.
608
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:10,760
Her father was very well to-do.
609
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,800
And so she got a lot of education,
especially for those times.
610
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,480
They get married
and they start their family.
611
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,400
Abe and Mary would go on
to have four children.
612
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,000
As parents we don't have favourites,
but you know, we do,
613
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,320
and Willy was
the Lincolns' favourite.
614
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:32,920
A lovable, loving, caring boy,
615
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,320
incredibly smart,
very much like his father.
616
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,400
Well, when the Lincolns
moved into the White House,
617
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,320
Mary thought the White House
should impress people.
618
00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:46,760
And so, she believed it
was her duty, as First Lady,
619
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,280
to make it the magnificent home
and office that it should be.
620
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,880
And so, she takes
the Congress' funds
621
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:58,080
and she spends it to make
the mansion look elegant again.
622
00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,240
As paranormal investigators,
we see this a lot of times
623
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:08,360
when people are restoring homes
or renovating,
624
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,400
that paranormal activity
tends to really pick up.
625
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,120
Perhaps the spirits
don't want things changed?
626
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,760
Perhaps there are parts
of the building
627
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,760
that are important to them
in some way?
628
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:23,760
But it is a very common occurrence.
629
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:25,280
(CHILD LAUGHING)
630
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,600
So, in 1911,
during the Taft administration,
631
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,360
he really did
a lot of renovation.
632
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:40,000
This presence began to appear
in the White House
633
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:42,000
that they called
"The Thing."
634
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:57,520
People would suddenly
feel this cold, frigid air.
635
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,560
And they got the sense
that something
636
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:01,920
was looking over
their shoulder.
637
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,040
And then the staff
would feel a pressure.
638
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:06,320
And sometimes even a tap.
639
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:09,560
And when they would turn,
they would either see nothing there
640
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:14,200
or a big, black,
amorphous mass.
641
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:29,800
We do have one reported sighting
of "the thing" by a personal maid.
642
00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:34,560
She, reported a young boy
with light dishevelled hair,
643
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,080
with very sad-looking
blue eyes.
644
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:42,040
President Taft had a military aide,
Archibald Butt,
645
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:46,520
that he put in charge of
investigating what this thing was.
646
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:50,280
And Butt wrote at some length
about the reality of this.
647
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:51,680
This is a military man.
648
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:54,800
And he writes to his sister-in-law,
649
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,800
telling her about
the spooky happenings
650
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:01,360
that are scaring the staff
at the White House.
651
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:03,560
The letter only mentions
that it's a boy,
652
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:04,880
haunting the White House.
653
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:09,440
For more than 200 years now,
654
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:14,520
there's only one boy
who ever died in the White House.
655
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,040
Ironically enough,
anything that Archibald Butt
656
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:31,040
may have found out about
who this spectre could have been,
657
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:33,720
died with him when
he went down with the Titanic.
658
00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:38,920
(BELLS CHIME)
659
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:44,440
(CHILD LAUGHING)
660
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,160
(GASPS)
661
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:00,920
It's Fort Sumtner, Sir.
662
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,360
Thank you.
663
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,280
When Lincoln moved
into the White House,
664
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:06,920
the country
was really in chaos.
665
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:10,520
The people of the north were
outraged by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
666
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,240
States are seceding,
667
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,000
they're breaking away
from the union,
668
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,040
and in just a few weeks,
669
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,280
the first shots are fired
in the Civil War.
670
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:25,280
The nation is now at war with itself
and it's being torn apart.
671
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,160
Can you imagine
the psychological toll
672
00:50:33,240 --> 00:50:35,120
that it took on Lincoln, right?
673
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,360
It wasn't like 9/11
where he took office,
674
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,080
and then all hell broke loose.
675
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:41,560
He knew that there
was something brewing.
676
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,840
You had families pitted
against one another...
677
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:49,480
..losing sons on both sides
of this war.
678
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,520
There was no honour
in a lot of these deaths.
679
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,000
They were just left,
they were buried
680
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,800
in, in shallow graves
with countless others.
681
00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,280
That was a huge chasm and a scar,
682
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,880
psychic and physical,
that affected our entire country.
683
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,160
Through history, the White House
has been the focal point.
684
00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:19,920
The place the country,
and often times, the world,
685
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:20,960
turns to.
686
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,000
You're going to have people
that are angry and hateful
687
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,720
towards the new directions
that our country goes.
688
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,440
With that anxiety, that energy,
689
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:35,240
that focus, and if there are
transient spirits,
690
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,360
I would think the White House
would be a beacon,
691
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:39,200
like, a flame to a moth.
692
00:51:40,040 --> 00:51:43,040
If there were a demon
in the White House
693
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,960
during Lincoln's time,
perhaps the demon is looking
694
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:51,960
at this chaos in our country
as the ultimate success.
695
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:04,760
By the time 1862 came around,
696
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:08,280
in his first annual message,
Lincoln was trying
697
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,520
to convince the south
he would not disturb slavery
698
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:13,160
where it already existed.
699
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:19,240
Lincoln's goal was always
to preserve the Union;
700
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,040
it was not to free the slaves.
701
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:26,800
Lincoln was trying
to salvage the country.
702
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:54,200
(PANTS AND SCREAMS)
703
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:58,080
In the winter of 1862,
young Willie Lincoln
704
00:52:58,160 --> 00:52:59,760
comes down with an illness.
705
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:05,040
At first, the hope is it's just
a cold or something like that,
706
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,440
but as days turn into weeks,
it just gets worse and worse,
707
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:10,720
and then it's clear
that he's got typhoid.
708
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:12,600
Which everyone understands
can be deadly.
709
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:18,080
As Willy
gets sicker and sicker,
710
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,480
they are nursing him,
they are praying,
711
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:23,440
they are doing everything possible.
712
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,560
They do not want to lose
their very precious son.
713
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,440
With typhoid,
it can start as just a fever,
714
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:47,240
but it can get worse and worse
with hallucinations.
715
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:51,720
Oh. No...
Shh.
716
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:54,760
There's nothing worse
than when your kid is sick,
717
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:59,480
and you feel helpless
trying to tend to him,
718
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:06,320
trying to do anything they can,
but there's only so much you can do.
719
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,480
This just devastates Mary.
720
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:34,360
She's lost her child,
she is just plunged into severe,
721
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,000
severe, um, depression.
722
00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:44,960
So the entire presidency was one
of trial and trouble for him.
723
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:50,080
Not just politically,
militarily, but domestically.
724
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:58,120
The similarities between many
of these presidents is eerie.
725
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:02,640
Franklin Pierce and his wife Jane
726
00:55:02,720 --> 00:55:08,320
had to witness their 11-year-old son
horribly killed.
727
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:11,640
Fast forward
to Abraham Lincoln,
728
00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:17,320
Willie was also 11 years old,
and he died.
729
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:19,240
And guess what?
730
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,560
In both cases,
the wives decided they wanted
731
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,000
to summon
the spirits of these boys.
732
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:44,240
As you can imagine, the Lincolns
were just absolutely devastated.
733
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,480
Willie's death was really
a major turning point
734
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:51,280
for both of the Lincolns personally,
on many levels.
735
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:54,760
All presidencies were difficult
in their own way,
736
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:58,280
but Lincoln's, I think it has to
have been the most difficult, ever.
737
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:03,320
He was trying to save
the country from splitting apart.
738
00:56:08,720 --> 00:56:11,200
(CLATTERING)
739
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:24,760
(WHISPERED VOICES)
740
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,400
(DOOR OPENS)
Mr. President.
741
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:34,000
Thank you.
742
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:42,520
My Dear Sir,
the impulse to write you
743
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:45,800
the moment I heard of your
great domestic affliction
744
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:49,000
was very strong, but it
brought back the crushing sorrow
745
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,960
that befell me just before
I went to Washington in 1853.
746
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:56,840
Even in this hour,
your thoughts will be
747
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,720
of your cherished boy
until you meet him in that new life,
748
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,720
when tears and toils
and conflict will be unknown.
749
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,960
With Mrs. Pierce's
and my own best wishes,
750
00:57:08,040 --> 00:57:11,000
and truest sympathy
for Mrs. Lincoln and yourself,
751
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:14,720
I am very truly, your friend,
Franklin Pierce.
752
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,280
President Pierce
writes a very heartfelt note
753
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,200
offering his deepest condolences
and his understanding
754
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:23,440
what the President must be
going through right now.
755
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,360
It becomes a real moment
of bright humanity
756
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:32,160
for the former President.
Mary Todd Lincoln is a wreck.
757
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,800
She just can't accept this,
758
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:38,800
and she very quickly reaches
out to spiritualist mediums.
759
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:42,600
I think the death of Willie
really converted her fully,
760
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:45,560
and she began developing
761
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:49,640
a very intense relationship
with spiritualism at that time.
762
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:56,000
Charles Colchester
was one of five mediums
763
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:58,680
that were visitors
to the White House.
764
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:02,480
It's said that Abraham
was suspicious of his motives.
765
00:58:03,320 --> 00:58:06,400
He asked Noah Brooks,
who was a friend of the Lincolns,
766
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:08,320
to investigate Colchester
767
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:10,360
and see if he could figure out,
you know,
768
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:11,760
if this guy was real or not.
769
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:16,480
We use memories
to create the connection,
770
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:19,120
to open the door
so to speak.
771
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,720
Relax, Ms. Lincoln.
772
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,280
Often, the dispossessed match
our disposition.
773
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:29,720
Shall we begin?
774
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,680
Mary, I want you
to close your eyes.
775
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:44,880
There is a place beyond your fears,
776
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:50,400
doubts, regrets, pain,
all that pain,
777
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:53,240
there is a place beyond all of it,
778
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,640
and that is where your son resides.
779
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:02,080
We will travel there together, OK?
780
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:10,280
I want you to go to the last place
you saw your son happy.
781
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,080
I want you to pull him
into your mind.
782
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,000
Can you see him?
783
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:28,520
I can.
784
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:31,840
Can he see you?
785
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:36,600
Yes.
786
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:40,880
He loves you, doesn't he?
787
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:42,280
He does.
788
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:47,040
He's happy, isn't he?
He's...
789
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:54,360
There's something wrong.
790
00:59:56,400 --> 01:00:01,120
There's...something else!
791
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:04,200
(LOW CREAKING)
792
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:11,160
(NOTE PLAYS)
793
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,480
Mary believed deeply
in spiritualism.
794
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:26,520
Her half-sister, Emily Helm,
795
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:28,480
wrote in her diary
that one night,
796
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:30,880
Mary knocked on her door
and came into her room
797
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:33,280
and she said, "He lives, Emily.
Willie lives.
798
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:36,520
"I see him at night
standing at the foot of my bed".
799
01:00:36,600 --> 01:00:41,160
And Emily Helm said
Mary had a very strange look
800
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:45,200
in her eye as she talked about
these supernatural things,
801
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,960
and she wrote, "It is unnatural
and it frightens me."
802
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:56,000
Spiritualism exploded in popularity
around the time of the Civil War.
803
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:59,640
People were going to mediums
because they were desperate
804
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:01,960
to get any sign or message
805
01:01:02,040 --> 01:01:04,720
from all of these loved ones
who they either knew were dead
806
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:07,920
or just didn't know
what their whereabout was.
807
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:15,880
The scope of the carnage
is just kind of,
808
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:17,800
really kind
of unfathomable.
809
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:25,360
Just the battle of Gettysburg.
Three-day battle.
810
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:28,160
There were over 50,000 casualties.
811
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:35,320
50,000 in just three days
in one battle.
812
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:42,520
To have suffered
the losses he suffered,
813
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:45,360
there's good understanding
that Lincoln himself
814
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:47,080
fought anxiety and depression
815
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:56,120
I think you can see,
throughout his presidency,
816
01:01:56,200 --> 01:02:01,720
that he was struggling with
why this calamity had happened.
817
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:06,520
But he sensed that it was reparation
818
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:11,560
for this sin born at the beginning
of the country.
819
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:16,760
It was something that had to be
paid for with blood.
820
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:30,400
Lincoln is getting the pressure
from all sides during the Civil War.
821
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,800
People are dying
every single day.
822
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:36,600
There was a lot of pressure
being given to him,
823
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,360
by people who were
avowed spiritualists.
824
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,280
Telling him,
"You have to do this.
825
01:02:42,360 --> 01:02:45,040
"This is the time
to issue the emancipation."
826
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:49,560
There's evidence that,
in the Lincoln papers,
827
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:51,480
messages from John Conklin,
828
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:56,280
one of the mediums who had private
seances with the President.
829
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:59,480
Conklin claimed that he channelled
830
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:02,320
the first draft of
The Emancipation Proclamation.
831
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,760
That the spirits
were giving it to him
832
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,760
and that channelled it
and that he he gave it to Lincoln.
833
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:14,720
If you were a medium
who had had interaction
834
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:16,680
with the president
who goes on to create
835
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:19,120
one of the most famous documents
in history,
836
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,600
you're probably gonna think
it would be a good idea
837
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:23,200
to lay claim to
having a part in that.
838
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:32,000
Lincoln finally recognised
that the only way to end the war
839
01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:34,320
would have to be
an executive act.
840
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:40,200
This is the point
where President Lincoln
841
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:42,520
drafts the Emancipation
Proclamation.
842
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:45,960
And this is one of
the most important documents
843
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:48,040
to ever come across
a Presidential desk.
844
01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:52,640
The point is to announce
that all men should be free.
845
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:56,920
And Lincoln's got a target
on his back now.
846
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:04,200
It garners him great enemies.
He's already a marked man.
847
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:10,800
It's gonna create
tremendous stresses
848
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,240
on any human being to go through
what he was going through.
849
01:04:14,320 --> 01:04:20,240
He may have sought solace
and comfort from spiritualism,
850
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:24,160
but was Lincoln
actually a Spiritualist?
851
01:04:24,240 --> 01:04:28,920
To this day, it's still a huge
arguing point amongst scholars.
852
01:04:31,040 --> 01:04:33,400
I think a lot of presidents
were somewhat embarrassed
853
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:35,560
by the possibility
of being connected
854
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:37,800
to the realm of the supernatural.
855
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:43,160
Good evening. This is the President
of the United States.
856
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:46,720
Looking at all the people
that have resided in the White House,
857
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:48,760
there's been a lot
of tragedy and a lot of loss.
858
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:50,840
A lot of heartbreak and stresses.
859
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:54,080
And they want to understand
why these things are happening.
860
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:58,320
They began branching out into
different religious understanding.
861
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:01,880
Everybody from Mary Todd Lincoln
to Nancy Reagan,
862
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:04,560
she, you know, worked in,
in the field of Astrology.
863
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:11,320
It's very well known
that Nancy Reagan
864
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:15,600
would regularly bring astrologers
to the White House.
865
01:05:16,240 --> 01:05:19,000
This became known back in the 1980s,
866
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:21,240
and it was controversial even then.
867
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:22,960
I agree with everything he said.
868
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:25,600
Nancy Reagan,
reached out to astrologers
869
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:27,960
when Ronald Reagan was president,
870
01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:30,680
particularly after
the assassination attempt on him.
871
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:33,120
Shots fired...
872
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:37,120
There were actually times
when he would not leave
873
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,920
the White House because
it was not a good day,
874
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,720
according to the astrologer,
for him to leave the White House.
875
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:47,920
The situation between
Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan,
876
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,760
may be very similar
to the relationship
877
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:52,880
between Abraham Lincoln
and Mary Todd Lincoln,
878
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:55,440
where the wife is more interested
in metaphysics
879
01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:57,200
and the spiritual side of life,
880
01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:00,400
but the husband is not sure
who they can trust.
881
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,480
Mr President, will you continue
to allow astrology
882
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:06,000
to play a part in your daily...
(REPORTERS GROAN)
883
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:10,200
You asked for it.
I can't because I never did.
884
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:20,280
Supposedly, Abraham Lincoln
885
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:22,960
had heard things
about Lord Colchester
886
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:24,520
that made him suspicious.
887
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:31,880
He had a general reputation
of being a shyster
888
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,280
and just wanting to work his way
into the halls of power.
889
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:35,840
Mr. President.
890
01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:38,200
Mr. Colchester.
891
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:42,840
As I'm sure your wife has told you
from our previous sessions,
892
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:47,920
the way to the spiritual plane
is through memories of the past.
893
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:55,200
It's simply a doorway.
894
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,120
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
895
01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:31,280
In time, we end up knowing
much darker details
896
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,880
about Colchester,
who will end up having
897
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:36,400
a very interesting relationship
to the Lincolns.
898
01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:12,040
(CRYING VOICES)
899
01:08:20,280 --> 01:08:24,560
In 1865, not long before
President Lincoln is assassinated,
900
01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:26,400
he said he had been up late,
901
01:08:26,480 --> 01:08:28,440
and he fell into kind of
a fitful sleep.
902
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:32,480
When he woke up, he hears sobbing,
crying, all around.
903
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:50,560
He went from room to room,
904
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:53,160
from hallway to hallway,
looking everywhere.
905
01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:58,960
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
906
01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:03,040
And it was empty.
907
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,560
He asks a nearby soldier,
"Who's dead in the White House?"
908
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:30,520
And the soldier answers,
909
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:34,560
"The President,
he was killed by an assassin."
910
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:47,360
(MUSIC BUILDS)
911
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:02,880
(WHISPERED VOICES)
912
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:08,400
By mid-April of 1865...
913
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:14,240
..President Lincoln
is coming around,
914
01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:15,760
right, the war is over.
915
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:21,800
And so, he is going
to Ford Theatre to see a play.
916
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:50,400
They're watching the play
and he falls over on to Mary.
917
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:55,760
So she is covered in his blood.
918
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:59,040
And he is, of course, been shot.
919
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:03,360
The parallels between
what she went through
920
01:11:03,440 --> 01:11:06,400
and what Jackie Kennedy
went through.
921
01:11:08,920 --> 01:11:12,120
If the TV cameras would have been
running at those times,
922
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:14,760
her ball gown would have been
the pink suit
923
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:19,440
that is so vividly pictured uh,
with Jackie Kennedy.
924
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:31,440
From the time President Lincoln
dies, in 1865,
925
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:34,200
his spirit becomes
the most prominent ghost
926
01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:36,320
in the White House to this day.
927
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:38,160
President Coolidge's wife,
Grace Coolidge,
928
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:41,800
claims to have seen Lincoln's ghost
in the White House.
929
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:45,120
Reagan's dog refused to go into
what's known as Lincoln's bedroom.
930
01:11:46,440 --> 01:11:49,000
Queen Wilameena, Winston Churchill,
931
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:52,720
Abraham Lincoln has been sighted
by over a dozen individuals,
932
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:55,360
and people of major note
throughout history.
933
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:58,240
Why do ghosts stick around?
934
01:11:58,320 --> 01:12:01,320
It's entirely possible that,
since Lincoln was assassinated,
935
01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:04,240
that he feels that he has
unfinished business,
936
01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:07,720
that he is still
hanging out there, thinking perhaps
937
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:10,760
that there is something
that he still needs to complete.
938
01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:30,920
There's an engraving
in the Library at Congress
939
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:32,960
that shows
John Wilkes Booth.
940
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:34,800
He's got a pistol in his hand.
941
01:12:34,880 --> 01:12:37,960
Standing over his shoulder
is this creature
942
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:39,880
who is obviously Satan,
943
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:42,840
and Satan is of course
tempting him to the deed.
944
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:46,560
It was widely believed
that John Wilkes Booth
945
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:53,160
was under the influence
of either demonic or satanic power.
946
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:15,480
Colchester warned Lincoln
of his impending assassination.
947
01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:18,680
Now was this truly
a psychic premonition,
948
01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:21,920
or do we need to take a step back
and look at the bigger picture?
949
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:26,800
Colchester was also a
drinking buddy of John Wilkes Booth.
950
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,560
It turns out that John Wilkes Booth,
951
01:13:40,640 --> 01:13:44,640
who has come to Washington
initially to kidnap Lincoln...
952
01:13:45,480 --> 01:13:48,640
..he's staying at a hotel
that's about six blocks
953
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:52,120
from the Capitol,
and Colchester is staying
954
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:54,120
at the same hotel,
955
01:13:54,200 --> 01:13:57,120
and becomes friends
with John Wilkes Booth.
956
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:05,880
When federal agents
try to track down Colchester,
957
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:07,680
they go to this hotel.
958
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:11,200
And by that point he's vanished.
He's skipped town.
959
01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:31,160
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
960
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:56,800
There is a moment
in spiritual seance
961
01:14:56,880 --> 01:15:00,120
where, in order to get results,
962
01:15:00,200 --> 01:15:04,000
you had to let yourself be open.
963
01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:07,040
That's why a lot of mediums
are very cautious
964
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:09,200
allowing a spirit
fully through them.
965
01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:11,640
And without knowing who it is
you're coming into contact with,
966
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:16,760
you very well could be dealing
with something quite dangerous.
967
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:22,960
Colchester was also very good
friends with John Wilkes Booth.
968
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:25,520
It's kind of the mystery
among historians
969
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:28,800
exactly why that
those two connected.
970
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:31,960
There's been evidence,
recently, that Booth
971
01:15:32,040 --> 01:15:36,960
was not only a spiritualist,
but also that Colchester
972
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:38,800
was an actor at times,
973
01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:42,800
and was on the program
at Ford's Theater more than once.
974
01:15:46,600 --> 01:15:51,040
Colchester was also
visiting the White House
975
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:57,480
to assist Mary Todd with contacting
the Lincoln's dead child.
976
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:07,120
On occasions, Colchester
would say to President Lincoln,
977
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:09,240
"I have a warning for you,
978
01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:12,560
"I'm afraid you are going
to be assassinated."
979
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:18,960
And Abraham Lincoln was suspicious.
Then enters Noah Brooks.
980
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:22,960
He decided that
he would prove Colchester
981
01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:26,480
was a phoney, and this was
personally embarrassing.
982
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:35,800
It leaked out to the public.
983
01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:39,600
Colchester responded
by writing Mary a letter,
984
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:42,960
demanding a military pass so that
he could go wherever he wanted.
985
01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:45,720
He tried to blackmail Mrs. Lincoln,
986
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:48,160
and Noah Brooks threatened
to basically beat him
987
01:16:48,240 --> 01:16:51,200
to within an inch of his life
if he didn't leave DC immediately.
988
01:16:57,600 --> 01:17:03,400
The irony is that Colchester
may have been the one psychic
989
01:17:03,480 --> 01:17:05,680
that Lincoln
should have been listening to.
990
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:09,320
Is it just drunk buddies
shooting their mouth off,
991
01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:13,840
or is it truly a conspiratorial plot
to assassinate our president?
992
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:17,280
I think there's all sorts
of possible explanations.
993
01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:21,440
Even if Colchester
gained some sort of inkling
994
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:24,640
that an attempt would be
made on Lincoln's life...
995
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:28,080
..I don't know.
996
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:30,840
There's a lot of people actually
working on this right now,
997
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:34,720
tracking both Booth and Colchester
before and after the Civil War.
998
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:38,480
There's dark stuff in there.
We don't know the answer yet.
999
01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:48,360
We know that there was
a lot of controversy
1000
01:17:48,440 --> 01:17:50,960
surrounding Colchester
and the Fox Sisters.
1001
01:17:51,640 --> 01:17:55,240
Just as there's been with every
medium and psychic since.
1002
01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:59,480
The problem is that when you become
that famous and that popular,
1003
01:17:59,560 --> 01:18:04,600
do you start to feel
the need to perform...
1004
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:08,360
..that you don't let people down?
1005
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:12,640
I can honestly tell you
I've seen really amazing mediums
1006
01:18:12,720 --> 01:18:15,480
and I've seen some
really bad mediums,
1007
01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:17,600
but I've seen
the same results from both.
1008
01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:21,880
If it's somebody doing
a cold reading,
1009
01:18:21,960 --> 01:18:24,760
but at the end of that 15 minutes,
you feel better,
1010
01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:27,760
I have a hard time
being pressed against that
1011
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:30,320
when you could spend years
on a counsellor's couch
1012
01:18:30,400 --> 01:18:32,760
and not get that same healing.
1013
01:18:34,360 --> 01:18:36,320
As controversial
as the Fox sisters were,
1014
01:18:36,400 --> 01:18:39,080
their results were pretty amazing.
1015
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:41,120
And it left a lot
of people feeling good.
1016
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:43,480
Feeling as though they had connected.
1017
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:47,400
Do I think there were times,
especially under scrutiny,
1018
01:18:47,480 --> 01:18:48,800
when everybody's watching,
that they may have
1019
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:51,560
done something to help? Sure.
1020
01:18:52,560 --> 01:18:56,840
Many of the major mediums
were repeatedly debunked.
1021
01:18:56,920 --> 01:19:00,320
But some were not
repeatedly debunked.
1022
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:03,760
And some were engaged
in some very famous occurrences
1023
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:06,280
that, to this day,
are argued about.
1024
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:09,840
It's tough because
how do we draw that line
1025
01:19:09,920 --> 01:19:11,760
of what's real
and what's not?
1026
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:20,760
What frightens me, is that we may
have things in the White House
1027
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:23,360
that are practically demonic.
1028
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:27,360
I've been inside
the White House,
1029
01:19:27,440 --> 01:19:29,520
but they won't let me go
to the Lincoln bedroom
1030
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,200
and do any research there.
1031
01:19:31,280 --> 01:19:35,360
You can only get
so close to the truth,
1032
01:19:35,440 --> 01:19:38,880
and then, (CLICKS), they lock
down all the information.
1033
01:19:42,520 --> 01:19:45,040
All these years,
we've had a plethora
1034
01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:50,080
of stories of
a dark, devilish entity.
1035
01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:55,680
And now we have our
first piece of hard evidence.
1036
01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:01,720
It wasn't until 2008, amazingly,
1037
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:04,040
that someone looked
at that photo and said,
1038
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:06,400
"Who's the guy standing
in the corner to the right
1039
01:20:06,480 --> 01:20:08,040
"who looks like transparent?"
1040
01:20:14,600 --> 01:20:17,960
Over 150 years,
there's been so many reports
1041
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:20,120
of activity
at the White House.
1042
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:25,200
One of the most vocal presidents
1043
01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:27,920
about the paranormal activity
was Truman.
1044
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:30,000
Second sticks, 301. Take One.
1045
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:35,440
He writes several letters to family
members explaining the disturbances.
1046
01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:40,360
I believe it was
nine separate occasions
1047
01:20:40,440 --> 01:20:42,840
that he wrote about
the ghost of the White House.
1048
01:20:42,920 --> 01:20:44,840
That's just in writing,
I can't imagine
1049
01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:46,280
how many times
he talked about them.
1050
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:48,440
And to quote the President,
1051
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:51,000
"Sure as shooting,
the place is haunted."
1052
01:20:56,520 --> 01:21:00,200
Harry Truman played
a pivotal role in the history
1053
01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:05,200
of our country. Harry Truman decided
to drop the first atomic bomb.
1054
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:12,000
In the history of the world,
this was a new chapter for humanity.
1055
01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:15,080
We had the ability to create,
but worse,
1056
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:19,000
destroy on a level
never before even imagined.
1057
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:24,480
And so everything surrounding
his position in history
1058
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:27,120
has a spiritual context.
1059
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:36,800
Truman's White House was literally
falling apart around him,
1060
01:21:36,880 --> 01:21:38,320
and it was
not a safe place to live.
1061
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:40,960
They were telling him,
these, these walls
1062
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:44,360
and these floors are rotting,
they're not doing well,
1063
01:21:44,440 --> 01:21:48,080
and he kind of thought, "Oh, well
it's an old house, it creaks."
1064
01:21:49,760 --> 01:21:52,880
It wasn't until the piano went
through the, the second floor,
1065
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:55,480
that he went, "Uh-oh,
maybe something is wrong here."
1066
01:21:58,520 --> 01:22:00,040
When a building is renovated,
1067
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:02,280
that seems to stir up
ghostly activity.
1068
01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:06,640
It's a story that seems to hold true
for a lot of different locations,
1069
01:22:06,720 --> 01:22:09,400
and there was no bigger renovation
than the White House.
1070
01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:14,880
When the White House
was being gutted,
1071
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:18,800
Harry Truman hired a National Park
Service photographer
1072
01:22:18,880 --> 01:22:22,720
named Abbie Rowe
to document this historic process.
1073
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,320
He took this one
particular photograph.
1074
01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:29,520
Just an ordinary photo,
shows a bulldozer,
1075
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:31,760
shows three guys
standing over in a corner.
1076
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:35,960
And way in the distance
you can see this figure
1077
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:40,200
that's sort of see-through,
and you can say,
1078
01:22:40,280 --> 01:22:42,440
"Well, it's an old camera
and that was so long ago
1079
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:44,440
"and the distance was so great,"
but if you look
1080
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:47,120
just to the left of that figure,
you see three men standing
1081
01:22:47,200 --> 01:22:50,280
at the same distance
who are obviously solid,
1082
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:53,920
and so, this enigmatic photo's maybe
1083
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:57,560
the first documented ghost photo
inside the White House.
1084
01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:01,520
That I believe is the most amazing
ghost photograph ever taken.
1085
01:23:02,360 --> 01:23:05,800
Nobody can explain who that was.
1086
01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:07,880
I'm talking professional filmmakers,
1087
01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:11,320
expert photographers
in Washington DC.
1088
01:23:13,480 --> 01:23:16,160
We have a highly credible photograph
1089
01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:20,200
in the White House
of a full bodied apparition.
1090
01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:21,960
And it just so happens
that that ghost
1091
01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:26,880
is seen directly
below the Lincoln bedroom.
1092
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:34,600
I saw that, right there,
we have not only proof
1093
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:37,760
of paranormal activity
in the White House,
1094
01:23:37,840 --> 01:23:41,200
but also maybe even
a very interesting connection
1095
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:44,480
between President Truman
and President Lincoln.
1096
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:49,840
And you often find that
the lives of these presidents
1097
01:23:49,920 --> 01:23:52,520
sort of resonate
with each other.
1098
01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:54,720
In eerie ways.
1099
01:24:03,280 --> 01:24:05,960
Every four years,
every eight years,
1100
01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:08,280
they're coming in and they're
shifting it, they're changing it.
1101
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:10,000
They're making it their own.
1102
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:14,240
It seems to awaken the soul or
the spirit of the location itself.
1103
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:24,240
The White House, like any building,
has a very rich history.
1104
01:24:24,320 --> 01:24:27,640
Many people have lived
and died there.
1105
01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:30,120
Huge decisions have happened there.
1106
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:32,240
Tragedy has happened there.
1107
01:24:32,320 --> 01:24:34,720
We hear about the,
the friendly ghosts
1108
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:37,640
at the White House pretty often.
1109
01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:39,400
They came with all good intentions.
1110
01:24:39,480 --> 01:24:40,480
They were friendly ghosts.
1111
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,720
Make clear what the benefit...
(LOUD CREAK)
1112
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:46,680
Have no fear.
The ceiling is not falling.
1113
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:47,760
That I'm aware of. OK.
1114
01:24:47,840 --> 01:24:50,560
Maybe it's Former President
Lincoln's ghost. I'll go with that.
1115
01:24:51,480 --> 01:24:53,960
But imagine if the White House
1116
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:59,400
were to admit that there are evil
entities in the White House.
1117
01:24:59,480 --> 01:25:01,280
That's a matter
of national security.
1118
01:25:03,400 --> 01:25:08,680
Imagine. You're the most powerful
leader of the free world.
1119
01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:11,600
And you call out to those
that came before you,
1120
01:25:11,680 --> 01:25:14,240
seeking guidance and counsel.
1121
01:25:15,160 --> 01:25:17,840
But darkness likes
to find our weaknesses.
1122
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:19,960
Likes to find us
at our most vulnerable.
1123
01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:23,360
And what may originally come through
as something to help us,
1124
01:25:23,440 --> 01:25:26,560
may in fact be aiding us
in our own destruction.
1125
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:30,360
But the question is,
who is the demon here?
1126
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:33,640
Who is the demon in White House,
1127
01:25:33,720 --> 01:25:37,720
extending it's darkness
over the county?
1128
01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:40,480
Mother?
1129
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:41,960
There is something wrong.
1130
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:45,440
There are a lot of theories
the demon was a malignant spirit
1131
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:49,520
called "the elemental," something
that had never been a human being.
1132
01:25:49,600 --> 01:25:51,560
Is Benjamin with us?
1133
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,200
It's hard to define specifically
1134
01:25:54,280 --> 01:25:57,360
what draws these demons
into the White House.
1135
01:25:59,880 --> 01:26:03,320
It's easy to speculate abuse
of power, abuse of ego.
1136
01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:08,280
These demons feed off of
this darkness within those walls.
1137
01:26:10,760 --> 01:26:13,960
During the Pierce
and Lincoln administrations,
1138
01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:16,680
this dark past was slavery.
1139
01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:19,480
That institution came into existence
1140
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:22,600
as the country itself
came into existence.
1141
01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:24,840
Mother?
1142
01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:26,760
And of course the Civil War,
1143
01:26:26,840 --> 01:26:31,600
600,000 Americans died
in a period of four years.
1144
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:35,760
I mean, it's just unimaginable
how the people in the 1800s
1145
01:26:35,840 --> 01:26:39,400
were dealing
with so much death.
1146
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,680
Every presidency has its demons,
1147
01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:47,840
you can just turn
on the news to see that.
1148
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:54,680
People performing
unspeakable acts of evil.
1149
01:26:54,760 --> 01:26:59,040
Thousands of lives
were suddenly ended by evil.
1150
01:26:59,120 --> 01:27:00,280
Good and evil
are always in our world,
1151
01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:02,480
and always will be in our world.
1152
01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:06,240
When you go to a powerful place,
1153
01:27:06,320 --> 01:27:08,680
you connect with the emotional,
the fear, the rage.
1154
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:12,560
And it becomes a powerful location,
a spirit of place.
1155
01:27:17,480 --> 01:27:19,640
A haunting,
in its simplest definition,
1156
01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:22,320
is the past coming to the present,
1157
01:27:22,400 --> 01:27:25,200
and that leaves a stain,
1158
01:27:25,280 --> 01:27:28,520
and some stains never wash away.
1159
01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:31,320
(VOICE ECHOES, DISTORTS)
1160
01:27:37,600 --> 01:27:40,600
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