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- You know, I've been around for a while.
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Met some interesting people.
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Done some crazy things.
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So you just might think
that there's not much
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that can take me by surprise.
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You'd be wrong.
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The world is full of stories,
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and science, and things
that amaze and confound me
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every single day.
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Incredible mysteries
keep me awake at night.
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Some I can answer,
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others just defy logic.
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Do ghosts exist?
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Should we fear the paranormal?
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In California, a woman is terrorized
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by an invisible attacker.
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Is she the victim
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of a genuine haunting?
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- Forget these silly
movies that are out there.
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This is real.
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- [Voiceover] In New
England, a mother undergoes
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a violent transformation.
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(growling)
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Has she been possessed by a demon?
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- It'll make a cold
chill go up your spine.
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- [Voiceover] And a British
teenager claims to see ghosts.
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Does she have the gift?
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- Like, the fear, it was uncontrollable.
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- Yeah.
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It's a weird world.
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And I love it.
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(intense music)
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Have you ever seen a ghost?
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Over 90 million North Americans
claim to have done just that
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and 40 million others say they
have physically experienced
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a paranormal event.
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Many of these events are easily explained,
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but some are not only
weird and inexplicable,
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most disturbing of all,
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they seem to be evidence
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of pure evil.
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Do ghosts exist?
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And what are they, anyway?
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Is the paranormal
something we should fear?
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Or is is simply...
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Hogwash.
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August 8th, 1989.
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Barry Taff, one of the world's leading
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paranormal investigators,
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responds to the call of a distressed woman
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in San Pedro, California.
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He brings along a colleague,
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photographer Jeff Wheatcraft.
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- After 5,000 cases,
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you go out expecting nothing to happen.
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And most of the time,
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that's exactly what does occur.
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Nothing.
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- [Voiceover] The terrified woman
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is Jackie Hernandez, a single mother
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who claims that someone or something
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has turned her home into a living hell.
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- She reported apparitions of an old man.
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Strange lights.
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Somebody tried to smother
her a couple times.
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Things were flying at her.
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It was extraordinary.
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- [Voiceover] But perhaps most chilling,
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on several occasions,
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Jackie claims to have seen a corpse
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in her son's bed.
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Intrigued,
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the ghost hunters decide to look around.
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- I have this attitude
where I'm very skeptical
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because you know that a
lot of people embellish
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and exaggerate and
misrepresent what's going on.
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- [Voiceover] But in Jackie's house,
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they find something unexpected.
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And very weird.
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- We were taking pictures
all over the house,
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and we saw this strange
liquid, I don't know what,
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viscous liquid dripping out of a wall.
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- [Voiceover] Unable to
explain the weird slime,
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Taff is now convinced Jackie
is not faking anything,
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and real paranormal activity
is occurring in her home.
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They take samples
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and promise to return.
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But just three days later,
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another call.
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This time, it's an emergency.
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Whatever is in Jackie's house
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is on a rampage.
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The physical attacks
have become so violent,
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and severe, she fears for her life.
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- I was unavailable because
my father had a heart attack.
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So they were there without me.
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- [Voiceover] Jackie
reports the evil entity
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is now in her attic.
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It has been tormenting
her with strange lights
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and ear-shattering banging.
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Jeff and Gary decide to investigate.
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Nothing could prepare them
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for what they find.
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- They hear, oh!
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Like a yell or a moan,
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and Gary turned back to
see what happened to Jeff,
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and he couldn't see, it
was too dark in the attic.
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- [Voiceover] Despite his terror,
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Gary snapped some photos in the darkness.
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What they revealed
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will haunt them forever.
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- You can see that Jeff,
a six foot two man,
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about 215 pounds,
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something has wrapped
itself around his neck
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and it's pulling him
up against the rafter.
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And yet, there was no one there.
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It was Jeff and Gary.
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And he cut him down.
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He had a rope burn on his neck.
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It would have killed him.
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The question is, there
was no one else there,
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so what tried to kill him,
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how and why?
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- [Voiceover] Something had
tried to murder Jeff Wheatcraft.
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The investigators leave the house
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only to make another chilling discovery.
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The forensic lab report
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on the ooze from Jackie's walls
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is in.
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- The conclusion was,
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it was human blood plasma.
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That's something you will
lose sleep over, literally.
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Forget these silly movies
that are out there.
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This is real.
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- [Voiceover] Now certain
they are dealing with an evil,
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homicidal phenomenon,
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they tell Jackie to get out
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and never come back.
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What was is Jackie Hernandez' house?
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And was it out to kill?
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Jackie's story became known
as the San Pedro haunting,
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one of the most mysterious
paranormal events in history.
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But what really happened?
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Javier Ortega is a paranormal researcher.
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He has no doubt.
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- The Jackie Hernandez
case is a very extreme case
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of a haunting.
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If somebody dared me to go in that house,
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I wouldn't have set foot in there.
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- [Voiceover] Haunting.
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We've all heard of it.
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But what does it really mean?
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- In a haunting it's usually
the sprit of a deceased person,
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the homeowner that
passed away in that house
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and they were so attached to
a physical object or location
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that they come back.
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- [Voiceover] Was Jackie's house haunted
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by someone who had died there?
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Incredibly, the investigation
uncovered something bizarre.
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- During the investigation
of the Jack Hernandez case,
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she reported that here and some friends
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were playing with the Ouija board
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and they were able to talk
with the spirit in the house.
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And the spirit had told them that
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he was a Marine that was murdered.
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So they went out and
they did some research,
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and they found out that there was a Marine
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named Herman Hendrickson
who was found dead in 1930.
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- [Voiceover] Was the
spirit of a murdered Marine
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responsible for the attacks
on Jackie and Wheatcraft?
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Does a haunting explain the
other things she experienced?
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- A lot of the things that
were reported were apparitions.
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Whether it was a disembodied
head floating in the attic
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or a corpse-like old man
sitting in her child's bed.
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She also reported seeing strange lights.
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They were described as
globs of luminous light.
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Free-floating globs of
lights have been reported
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in haunted places as well.
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- [Voiceover] But for Ortega,
the most compelling evidence
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of a haunting is that
mysterious goo Barry and Jeff
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found oozing from Jackie's walls.
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- I mean it just sounds so bizarre,
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that you have human blood
plasma oozing from the walls.
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And when they checked,
there wasn't any device
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that was emitting this substance.
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So that, to me, has to be one
of the most compelling cases
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in the paranormal.
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- [Voiceover] Was the Marine
so angry about being murdered
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that he bled through Jackie's walls?
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Incredibly, Ortega thinks
Jackie wasn't the only victim.
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- When Jackie Hernandez left the premise,
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people who inhabited that home
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have also reported strange activities.
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They reported objects being moved around,
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pots and pans being moved around,
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and they reported being
touched by unseen forces.
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When you have a lot of physical activity
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in a supposed haunted location,
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it tends to speak volumes
for the amount of energy
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that resides in that home.
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And we don't know, as paranormal
researchers we don't know
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if it's due to psychokinetic forces
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or if it's due to location hauntings.
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If we have the same reports
happening year after year
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at the same location when
there's different tenants,
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it usually tends to point towards
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it being a location haunting.
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- What an incredible story.
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You know, I mean, strange things
happen around my house too,
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but once I say I'm sorry,
everything's forgiven.
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But human blood
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dripping from walls
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and a spirit that is so
angry it tries to kill you?
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I mean, who are they gonna call?
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Ghostbusters?
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(chuckles) I've always wanted to say that.
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Was Jackie Hernandez
the victim of a haunting
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or was it something else?
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- It does not appear that the house
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would fit the classic haunting.
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- [Voiceover] A terrified woman reports
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extreme paranormal events in her home.
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Weird light, strange noises,
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even physical attacks.
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Did Jackie Hernandez
live in a haunted house?
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- It does not appear that the house
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would fit the classic haunting.
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- [Voiceover] Loyd Auerbach
is a paranormal investigator.
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He believes the answer
isn't ghosts at all.
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- Knowing about the Jackie Hernandez case,
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it seemed that she herself
was a poltergeist agent.
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- [Voiceover] Poltergeist?
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Isn't that just a hyperactive ghost?
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Or is there a difference?
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- What we learned in
the last hundred years
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is that these things relate typically
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not to ghost sightings,
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not to hauntings per say,
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not to a place being haunted,
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but to a person, an
individual in this situation,
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who is typically stressed
or otherwise put-upon.
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Possibly epileptic, we're
having epileptic type activity,
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it's about a third, perhaps, of the cases.
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And the expression,
instead of by an entity,
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it's by the entity in the body.
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It's by a person's
unconscious blowing off steam.
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Or having a seizure, essentially,
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it's kind of like a seizure in
some of these people as well.
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But it's not a ghost-related situation.
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If you go on the web
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and look at a lot of ghost-hunting sites,
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you'll see poltergeist is
a particular type of ghost,
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mischievous spirit.
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Most of the folks who are on the web
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have no background in parapsychology,
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they don't know the literature
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for the last hundred or
so years, they don't know
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how we've actually come
to these conclusions.
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Or they don't know how the fact
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that we can actually stop these cases.
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Whereas it's a little bit harder
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when you have a reported
ghost instance or a haunting,
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to deal with that.
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- [Voiceover] Many now believe
poltergeists are not ghosts,
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but a manifestation of
something called psychokinesis.
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- We call it PK for short,
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and it's the idea that the
mind can directly interact
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or affect matter and energy.
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We typically think of it
in the paranormal world
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as affecting things outside your body.
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Whether it be moving objects,
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what people often call telekinesis,
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or bending metal,
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or even healing.
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- [Voiceover] Was Jackie Hernandez herself
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causing the weird
phenomenon in her own house?
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If so, why?
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And for that matter, how?
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- Certain people, their unconscious minds,
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let loose.
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I mean, we see people
who are stressed out,
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who are put-upon in society,
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really expressing that
stress in different ways.
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Some people get enraged
and they break things.
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Some people shoot people.
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Some people keep it bottled up
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and it can explode in kind
of a different direction
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for certain individuals,
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which is a psychokinetic direction.
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And we call those situations
where there's stress,
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think of it as an
unconscious temper tantrum,
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is happening outside themselves
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and just throwing things around,
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probably like they'd like to do
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if they actually physically could do it.
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But by having their unconscious
throw things around,
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who's gonna get blamed?
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The invisible force, the invisible ghost?
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Certainly not the person
who's stressed out.
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When we talk about the stress
involved in these PK events,
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which are often called poltergeist cases,
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we're not talking about
typical stress of, you know,
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just day to day stress.
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Sitting in traffic,
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being frustrated because
your computer couldn't work,
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which may actually be
related back to the PK.
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Those kinds of stresses do
show in small ways sometimes.
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But they can, again, come out
in a lot of different ways.
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For example, road rage
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or people just screaming at
the driver across the way
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without acting on it.
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You release that stress.
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People have other ways of doing it.
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In poltergeist cases, the stresses
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tend to be very psychologically oriented
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in most of these cases.
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So they can be related
to deep-seeded issues
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around the family,
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or even around the working conditions.
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They are typically not
expressed in other ways,
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so there's no outlet for
most of these people.
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In other conditions, these
would be the kids or the adults
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who are going to act
out in a very bad way,
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whether it be breaking things
or doing something else,
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typically.
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So we have a different kind
of stress level involved,
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but it can be very much
under that surface.
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I had a case for example years ago,
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where the woman was recovering memories
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of her father abusing her as a child.
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And that caused significant stress,
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especially as she talked
with therapists about it.
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And that was extended out
to a poltergeist incident.
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By talking to her, you wouldn't know.
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There's just no way you'd
see that stress was there,
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and it was a completely
different kind of stress
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than we think about of
just being frustrated
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by day to day activity.
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- [Voiceover] Was
Jackie's unconscious mind
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throwing a temper tantrum?
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And if so, why?
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It could be due to the
fact she was experiencing
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emotional issues at the time
following a difficult divorce.
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- There was enough going on in her life,
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and frankly enough psychological issues
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that would indicate
that she was responsible
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for most of the phenomena
that was happening.
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In most poltergeist cases,
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people rarely ever think
of themselves as the agent.
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- [Voiceover] According to Auerbach,
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the most compelling argument
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that Jackie was both the
victim and the problem
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is what happened when she
moved 600 kilometers away.
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Incredibly, the vicious paranormal
attacks on her continued.
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- In poltergeist cases, when people move,
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the phenomena follows them.
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Because it's coming from them.
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And that also happened
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in that particular case.
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- [Voiceover] But if Jackie
was her own poltergeist,
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how is it that the new tenants
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also reported paranormal attacks?
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- We've had cases where people
have heard about the case
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and have gone home and
because they're so freaked out
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by the situation, they
start witnessing things.
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That has happened.
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So you can think of it almost
like a contagious idea.
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It is possible that it
was a haunted house.
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It is possible there was an entity there.
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We can't completely exclude that.
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But it best fit the poltergeist model.
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- [Voiceover] Could it
be that Jackie herself
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was responsible for the weird goings on?
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Or were they the result
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of an altogether different
kind of bad vibe?
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Professor John Huntington
believes the Jackie Hernandez case
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can be explained by
undetectable audio waves
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known as infrasound.
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- Sound is just a
vibration in air pressure.
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That's how we perceive it,
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that's how it gets into your ear.
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Infrasound is below the range
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that we can hear as an audible sound,
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but we're still being affected by,
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the sound wave is still
impinging on our bodies.
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In fact right now in the room,
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we have a pretty loud 19 hertz,
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19 cycle per second infrasound wave going,
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but it's not really audible as a sound,
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and it's quite a bit louder
than the level of speech
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I'm talking at right now.
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But it's still there and
it's still affecting us,
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it's still pressurizing the air
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that I'm breathing, that I'm speaking.
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- [Voiceover] Human ears can't
detect ultra-low frequencies.
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If it's below 20 hertz, you can't hear it.
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- Your body makes lots of sounds
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down at very low frequencies,
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such as your heartbeat,
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the movement in you blood,
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breath noise coming in
and out of your body.
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If we could hear all that,
it would drive us crazy.
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But we're still being affected by,
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the sound wave is still
impinging on our body.
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- [Voiceover] But other
that our own bodies,
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what might cause these low frequencies?
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- Man made sources of
infrasound could be anything
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from a piece of air-handling
equipment in a building,
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anything like a train, a truck,
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anything that's big stuff that's moving
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could generate these very
low frequency sounds.
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- [Voiceover] Incredibly,
Huntington believes
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low-frequency sound waves
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could've caused Jackie Hernandez'
unpleasant experiences.
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- So in addition to things
like headaches and nausea
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being caused by exposure to infrasound,
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there have been some reports
of feeling a presence
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or some sort of hallucination
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or feeling like strange things
are going on in the room.
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A lot of that was documented
by two researchers
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at Coventry University, Tandy
and Lawrence in the late '90s.
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They were working in a space,
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sort of an underground
space as I understand it,
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and they had all kinds
of strange experiences.
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People would think that somebody
was standing next to them,
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and when there wasn't anybody in the room.
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They'd be feeling alone,
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and felt like there was
a presence in the room
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and there wasn't anybody else there.
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All kinds of strange experiences
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happening in this one space.
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And this, of course,
would build up anxiety,
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having these sort of
constant strange experiences.
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And one of the researchers
brought a fencing foil
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into the room to work on
it, clamped it into a vice
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and it started moving on its own.
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It was flopping up and down on both ends
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where it wasn't secured in the vice.
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That led Tandy and
Lawrence to research this,
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and they ended up doing
some acoustical measurements
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in the room and found that a
piece of air-handling equipment
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was causing a very loud,
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19 cycle per second infrasound
sound wave in the room.
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And in addition, the physical
geometry of the space
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was causing that sound wave to build up
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in certain locations in the lab.
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As soon as they turned
the HPAC equipment off,
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or actually decoupled
that piece of equipment
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from the mounting equipment
where is was transmitting,
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all the strange experiences went away.
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- [Voiceover] Can infrasound
exposure mimic the experience
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of a haunting?
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- Infrasound could
possibly cause something
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like a hallucination or an apparition
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or some other things like that
456
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based on the vibration of the sound wave
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actually affecting the eye.
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The eye itself could resonate,
459
00:20:03,735 --> 00:20:05,775
or get a very strong vibration,
460
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and that could cause blurring of vision
461
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or possible issues around
the periphery of the vision.
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Those things, coupled with already being
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in a spooky location, being
on edge by the infrasound,
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can certainly cause some
sort of ghostly experiences.
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- [Voiceover] Could
Huntington's theory be correct?
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Does the paranormal activity
witnessed in San Pedro
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have a rational explanation?
468
00:20:31,954 --> 00:20:36,667
And does it explain human
plasma oozing from the wall?
469
00:20:36,993 --> 00:20:39,364
Was Jackie's home haunted?
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Or was she her own poltergeist?
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Whatever the answer,
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this story is certainly weird,
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or what.
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- [Voiceover] A Connecticut
housewife is tortured
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from within.
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Has she been possessed by an evil spirit?
477
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- Demons like to attack good people.
478
00:21:15,483 --> 00:21:17,607
- Many of us have experienced events
479
00:21:17,607 --> 00:21:19,999
that we would call paranormal.
480
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But in fact, they're just
things that are harmless
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and easily explained.
482
00:21:25,569 --> 00:21:28,099
But what is the paranormal?
483
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And does it exist?
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Even the name is a little, well,
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weird and scary.
486
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Here's the way it's
described in the dictionary.
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Paranormal: the claimed
occurrence of an event
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without scientific explanation.
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(buzzing)
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(sighs) As psychokinesis.
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(sighs)
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Extrasensory perception
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of other purportedly
supernatural phenomena.
494
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Alright guys, come on, that's it, out.
495
00:22:07,405 --> 00:22:10,890
You can fool some, oh boy, oh boy.
496
00:22:15,006 --> 00:22:18,626
But some people experience
paranormal events that are real.
497
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So real, in fact, they're deadly.
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00:22:20,601 --> 00:22:22,327
Weird,
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00:22:22,327 --> 00:22:23,947
or what?
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History professor John
Koerner studies reports
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of paranormal activity.
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None have haunted him more
503
00:22:32,783 --> 00:22:34,940
than the story of Patricia Reding.
504
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- By all accounts, she was a good person.
505
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I mean, there's nothing
you can see in her past
506
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that would indicate why
this happens to her.
507
00:22:44,169 --> 00:22:46,802
- [Voiceover] In 1992, Patricia's life
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took a terrifying turn.
509
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Doing chores around her home
in Litchfield, Connecticut,
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she suddenly hears a terrifying voice.
511
00:22:56,037 --> 00:22:57,639
(low voices)
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- Worship Satan!
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- She felt what she thought
was an evil presence
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that was around her.
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00:23:04,076 --> 00:23:06,735
There was nothing that could explain this.
516
00:23:06,735 --> 00:23:08,796
- [Voiceover] Patricia
tries to brush it off.
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But the eerie voice won't stop.
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Ever.
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(deep voice mumbles)
520
00:23:14,775 --> 00:23:18,442
It's the beginning of a horrifying ordeal.
521
00:23:20,166 --> 00:23:21,506
- Stop!
522
00:23:21,555 --> 00:23:23,562
- A situation that's much worse.
523
00:23:23,562 --> 00:23:26,113
Pat had a number of things
that were happening to her
524
00:23:26,113 --> 00:23:27,629
that were very unusual.
525
00:23:27,629 --> 00:23:29,903
There were bite marks
on the back of her neck,
526
00:23:29,903 --> 00:23:31,719
bruises on the back of her body,
527
00:23:31,719 --> 00:23:33,715
things she could not do by herself.
528
00:23:34,225 --> 00:23:35,904
- [Voiceover] What could be inflicting
529
00:23:35,904 --> 00:23:37,730
Patricia's vicious bruises
530
00:23:37,730 --> 00:23:39,149
and other injuries?
531
00:23:39,149 --> 00:23:42,321
It's a frightening and bizarre mystery.
532
00:23:42,321 --> 00:23:45,754
Devastated and disturbed, she seeks help.
533
00:23:46,176 --> 00:23:49,112
- The family took Patricia
Reding to the hospital,
534
00:23:49,112 --> 00:23:50,458
to local doctors.
535
00:23:50,458 --> 00:23:52,476
They ruled out all the conditions
536
00:23:52,476 --> 00:23:54,942
that could possibly be affecting her.
537
00:23:54,942 --> 00:23:57,056
- [Voiceover] With no medical explanation,
538
00:23:57,056 --> 00:24:01,726
Patricia resorts to hoping her
problems will simply go away.
539
00:24:03,408 --> 00:24:05,807
- But then things started
getting much worse after that.
540
00:24:06,317 --> 00:24:08,073
(evil laughing)
541
00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,257
She was knocked over.
542
00:24:10,257 --> 00:24:13,134
Horribly, she did not
know what was happening.
543
00:24:13,417 --> 00:24:14,816
- [Voiceover] Again and again.
544
00:24:14,816 --> 00:24:16,321
The seemingly evil presence
545
00:24:16,321 --> 00:24:18,490
hurls her into the wall.
546
00:24:18,490 --> 00:24:20,806
- These are things that never could happen
547
00:24:20,806 --> 00:24:23,646
to Pat Reding in a normal situation.
548
00:24:23,646 --> 00:24:25,386
She is not herself.
549
00:24:25,386 --> 00:24:26,336
(moans)
550
00:24:26,336 --> 00:24:28,217
She's becoming someone else.
551
00:24:28,217 --> 00:24:30,062
- [Voiceover] Fearing for her safety,
552
00:24:30,062 --> 00:24:33,576
Patricia has only one place to turn.
553
00:24:35,743 --> 00:24:38,230
- At that point, the
Catholic church got involved.
554
00:24:38,230 --> 00:24:41,273
- [Voiceover] Patricia's bishop
takes her claims seriously.
555
00:24:41,273 --> 00:24:43,073
After an examination,
556
00:24:43,073 --> 00:24:46,199
he reaches an incredible conclusion.
557
00:24:46,740 --> 00:24:48,319
- They make the diagnosis,
558
00:24:48,319 --> 00:24:50,107
yes, she is possessed.
559
00:24:50,925 --> 00:24:53,823
Demons like to attack good people.
560
00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,241
- [Voiceover] There's only one solution.
561
00:24:56,241 --> 00:24:57,545
An ancient ritual
562
00:24:57,545 --> 00:24:59,595
as old as the church itself.
563
00:24:59,595 --> 00:25:04,168
The bishop decides he
will perform an exorcism.
564
00:25:05,638 --> 00:25:08,221
- He called upon the
demon to reveal himself
565
00:25:08,221 --> 00:25:10,495
and say who you are, reveal yourself,
566
00:25:10,495 --> 00:25:12,075
in the name of Jesus Christ.
567
00:25:12,075 --> 00:25:13,954
Almost every religion believes in evil,
568
00:25:13,954 --> 00:25:15,513
in some form or another.
569
00:25:15,513 --> 00:25:17,488
But the difference with
the Catholic church
570
00:25:17,488 --> 00:25:19,901
is that the Catholic church believes evil
571
00:25:19,901 --> 00:25:22,901
is actually a physical
manifestation in this world.
572
00:25:22,901 --> 00:25:24,513
It's not just a concept.
573
00:25:25,805 --> 00:25:28,763
- [Voiceover] At first,
the demon stays hidden.
574
00:25:28,763 --> 00:25:30,828
But not for long.
575
00:25:32,318 --> 00:25:36,861
(talking in foreign language)
576
00:25:40,224 --> 00:25:41,708
- She was speaking in a language
577
00:25:41,708 --> 00:25:43,550
that she could not speak in normally.
578
00:25:43,550 --> 00:25:45,899
Trying to insult the
priest, insult his family,
579
00:25:45,899 --> 00:25:48,856
things that she never
would have done on her own.
580
00:25:48,856 --> 00:25:49,871
(moaning)
581
00:25:49,871 --> 00:25:51,386
These are pretty clear
signs you're dealing
582
00:25:51,386 --> 00:25:53,874
with an evil entity
inside the person's body.
583
00:25:53,874 --> 00:25:56,383
- [Voiceover] Having forced
the demon into the open,
584
00:25:56,383 --> 00:25:58,908
the real battle begins.
585
00:25:59,404 --> 00:26:01,124
- Things like holy objects.
586
00:26:01,124 --> 00:26:02,704
This often can anger the demon.
587
00:26:02,704 --> 00:26:04,658
These are tools in a war
588
00:26:04,658 --> 00:26:07,680
that can cause them to be so upset,
589
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:11,213
the words of Christ makes them so angry,
590
00:26:11,213 --> 00:26:14,021
so it has to be said over and over again.
591
00:26:14,021 --> 00:26:15,975
It's a war of attrition.
592
00:26:15,975 --> 00:26:18,866
- [Voiceover] The battle rages for hours.
593
00:26:18,866 --> 00:26:22,343
At long last, something breaks.
594
00:26:22,926 --> 00:26:25,295
- The demons, they get so upset,
595
00:26:25,295 --> 00:26:27,409
they just can't take this any longer,
596
00:26:27,409 --> 00:26:29,086
and they'll go somewhere else.
597
00:26:29,086 --> 00:26:30,820
They'll go bother somebody else.
598
00:26:31,125 --> 00:26:32,738
- [Voiceover] The exhausting battle ends
599
00:26:32,738 --> 00:26:34,715
with the demons on the run.
600
00:26:34,715 --> 00:26:37,589
But before long, they're back.
601
00:26:38,738 --> 00:26:40,456
- Evil is real.
602
00:26:40,456 --> 00:26:43,493
It can affect someone
in some horrible ways.
603
00:26:43,820 --> 00:26:47,076
- [Voiceover] Sadly,
Patricia runs out of time.
604
00:26:47,076 --> 00:26:49,329
After 16 exorcisms,
605
00:26:49,329 --> 00:26:52,030
in 2005 she dies of cancer,
606
00:26:52,030 --> 00:26:55,227
believed to be caused by her demons.
607
00:26:57,048 --> 00:27:00,817
Incredibly, Patricia's story
is far from the only one.
608
00:27:00,817 --> 00:27:05,504
An estimated 15,000 exorcisms
are performed each year.
609
00:27:05,504 --> 00:27:09,149
Can evil really live inside us?
610
00:27:10,415 --> 00:27:12,454
Or is there some other way
611
00:27:12,454 --> 00:27:14,680
to explain demonic possession?
612
00:27:17,316 --> 00:27:19,875
Christopher Rosik is a psychologist.
613
00:27:19,875 --> 00:27:22,106
He says he knows exactly what happened
614
00:27:22,106 --> 00:27:23,761
to Patricia Reding.
615
00:27:23,761 --> 00:27:27,561
- Coming from a religious
perspective, you might assume that
616
00:27:27,561 --> 00:27:30,673
this must be a demonic presence.
617
00:27:30,673 --> 00:27:33,600
But as a psychologist,
my diagnosis would be
618
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,811
dissociative identity disorder.
619
00:27:37,402 --> 00:27:39,579
- [Voiceover] Better known
as a split personality,
620
00:27:39,579 --> 00:27:41,992
dissociative identity disorder
621
00:27:41,992 --> 00:27:44,202
is when two or more personalities
622
00:27:44,202 --> 00:27:45,975
inhabit one mind.
623
00:27:48,147 --> 00:27:50,352
An abusive childhood can sometimes cause
624
00:27:50,352 --> 00:27:52,050
such a psychological break.
625
00:27:52,050 --> 00:27:54,100
One personality becomes the happy face,
626
00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:55,604
the person the world sees.
627
00:27:55,604 --> 00:27:57,954
The other deals with all the hidden pain,
628
00:27:57,954 --> 00:28:00,083
shame and suffering.
629
00:28:00,954 --> 00:28:03,132
- The primary personality is unaware
630
00:28:03,132 --> 00:28:05,086
of the other personality.
631
00:28:05,086 --> 00:28:06,527
They may hear voices
632
00:28:06,527 --> 00:28:08,278
and have these sort of signs,
633
00:28:08,278 --> 00:28:10,509
but they don't know what it's about.
634
00:28:12,351 --> 00:28:14,695
- [Voiceover] Were the
demonic voices Patricia heard
635
00:28:14,695 --> 00:28:17,518
really the screams of a
tortured second personality?
636
00:28:17,620 --> 00:28:18,521
- Stop!
637
00:28:19,756 --> 00:28:22,077
- [Voiceover] Could it have
even tried to hurt her?
638
00:28:25,499 --> 00:28:28,563
- I had a patient who
would end up in a graveyard
639
00:28:28,563 --> 00:28:30,336
with a blade in her hand
640
00:28:30,336 --> 00:28:32,700
and having cut her arm.
641
00:28:34,542 --> 00:28:37,116
- [Voiceover] Is a
self-destructive alter ego
642
00:28:37,116 --> 00:28:39,790
responsible for Patricia's injuries?
643
00:28:41,910 --> 00:28:46,915
Can psychology explain
the power of an exorcism?
644
00:28:47,227 --> 00:28:50,227
- After the exorcism, the
individual experiences complete
645
00:28:50,227 --> 00:28:52,854
and sudden remission of their symptoms.
646
00:28:52,854 --> 00:28:55,085
And of course that's
considered proof positive
647
00:28:55,085 --> 00:28:57,060
that the demon has been removed.
648
00:28:57,060 --> 00:28:58,736
An alternative way of
looking at that, however,
649
00:28:58,736 --> 00:29:01,950
is that the prayer, the ritual has in fact
650
00:29:01,950 --> 00:29:04,971
just served to rearrange
these separate identities
651
00:29:04,971 --> 00:29:06,947
such that they have receded
652
00:29:06,947 --> 00:29:09,381
from the host's awareness.
653
00:29:09,381 --> 00:29:11,869
They don't hear the voice any more.
654
00:29:11,869 --> 00:29:14,708
Then, what I experience happen
with some patients is that
655
00:29:14,708 --> 00:29:16,630
maybe weeks or months later,
656
00:29:18,151 --> 00:29:20,354
the voices come back.
657
00:29:20,574 --> 00:29:24,503
And then they think, well,
I must have invited it back,
658
00:29:24,503 --> 00:29:27,588
or something's wrong
with me, I'm really evil.
659
00:29:29,410 --> 00:29:33,375
And so, that's just to
say that, that experience
660
00:29:33,375 --> 00:29:36,824
of the sudden symptom
relief after an exorcism
661
00:29:36,824 --> 00:29:41,331
is not a clear indicator that
there was a demonic presence
662
00:29:41,331 --> 00:29:43,669
that was expelled at that point.
663
00:29:43,669 --> 00:29:46,296
Everything I'm saying
here is in no way meant
664
00:29:46,296 --> 00:29:50,888
to malign the value of
religious, spiritual care.
665
00:29:53,588 --> 00:29:55,605
But there are some psychological ways
666
00:29:55,605 --> 00:29:57,655
of understanding these experiences
667
00:29:57,655 --> 00:29:59,742
that really should be taken into account.
668
00:30:02,695 --> 00:30:04,627
- Demonic possession.
669
00:30:04,627 --> 00:30:08,288
Ordinary people suddenly
possessed by nasty entities.
670
00:30:08,288 --> 00:30:09,260
Ring a bell?
671
00:30:09,260 --> 00:30:11,128
Well, you know, I've seen all the movies.
672
00:30:11,128 --> 00:30:12,676
Omen one, two, three.
673
00:30:12,676 --> 00:30:14,075
The Exorcist, the lot.
674
00:30:14,075 --> 00:30:15,281
And guess what?
675
00:30:15,281 --> 00:30:17,449
Not only do they not scare me,
676
00:30:17,449 --> 00:30:19,509
but I don't believe in them.
677
00:30:19,509 --> 00:30:23,782
(lightning crackles)
678
00:30:27,069 --> 00:30:29,909
I mean, just because
it gets a little stormy
679
00:30:29,909 --> 00:30:32,183
doesn't mean the devil is on his way
680
00:30:32,183 --> 00:30:34,846
to take over your soul, does it?
681
00:30:35,108 --> 00:30:37,745
And as for all that other ridiculous stuff
682
00:30:37,745 --> 00:30:39,581
like twisting heads,
683
00:30:39,581 --> 00:30:42,181
speaking in strange tongues.
684
00:30:51,689 --> 00:30:55,276
Is demonic possession all in our heads?
685
00:30:57,368 --> 00:31:01,111
Or is there a more frightening answer?
686
00:31:01,629 --> 00:31:04,693
- What Satan can do,
is invade human bodies.
687
00:31:04,693 --> 00:31:06,625
- [Voiceover] A Connecticut woman appears
688
00:31:06,625 --> 00:31:08,696
to have been possessed by an evil demon.
689
00:31:08,696 --> 00:31:11,227
Could she be suffering
from a split personality?
690
00:31:11,227 --> 00:31:14,430
Or is the explanation far more terrifying?
691
00:31:16,572 --> 00:31:18,126
Reverend Bob Larson
692
00:31:18,126 --> 00:31:20,746
is not your average man of God.
693
00:31:21,938 --> 00:31:23,913
- I am, among other things,
694
00:31:23,913 --> 00:31:25,209
an exorcist.
695
00:31:25,662 --> 00:31:27,040
- [Voiceover] Larson has studied
696
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,171
Patricia Reding's possession
697
00:31:28,171 --> 00:31:30,237
and is convinced it was real.
698
00:31:32,549 --> 00:31:35,912
- There are those who would
like to have the public believe
699
00:31:35,912 --> 00:31:38,890
that demonic possession is rare.
700
00:31:38,890 --> 00:31:43,055
I can tell you, it's not rare.
701
00:31:43,055 --> 00:31:46,748
It'll make a cold chill go up your spine.
702
00:31:49,571 --> 00:31:53,123
- [Voiceover] Are demons
really all around us?
703
00:31:53,123 --> 00:31:57,302
Are they trying to take over
the bodies of innocent humans?
704
00:31:59,230 --> 00:32:02,230
- The Bible teaches that when
Satan was cast out of Heaven,
705
00:32:02,230 --> 00:32:05,017
a third of the angles
involved in that insurrection
706
00:32:05,017 --> 00:32:06,788
were cast out with him.
707
00:32:06,788 --> 00:32:08,881
- [Voiceover] According
to the Book of Revelation,
708
00:32:08,881 --> 00:32:12,021
when Satan lost his war with
God, he and his followers
709
00:32:12,021 --> 00:32:15,431
were banished to the
spirit realm on Earth.
710
00:32:15,810 --> 00:32:19,878
- Satan is now then,
invisible spirit being.
711
00:32:19,878 --> 00:32:22,665
Satan can't pull the trigger of a gun.
712
00:32:22,665 --> 00:32:25,986
But what Satan can do,
is invade human bodies.
713
00:32:25,986 --> 00:32:28,174
And those people then become
714
00:32:28,174 --> 00:32:30,560
the instruments of evil.
715
00:32:30,961 --> 00:32:32,637
- [Voiceover] Larson
believes demonic possession
716
00:32:32,637 --> 00:32:34,473
has a firm basis in scripture.
717
00:32:34,473 --> 00:32:37,463
He's also certain that
Patricia's condition
718
00:32:37,463 --> 00:32:40,879
wasn't a case of split personality.
719
00:32:40,879 --> 00:32:44,605
- I deal a lot with multiple
personality disorder.
720
00:32:44,605 --> 00:32:47,094
I know the difference.
721
00:32:47,094 --> 00:32:51,343
When you see the demon have
such utter hatred for God
722
00:32:51,343 --> 00:32:55,368
and religious objects such as the cross,
723
00:32:55,368 --> 00:32:59,719
that aversion means it's
something more than psychosis.
724
00:32:59,719 --> 00:33:02,805
That's when you know they are possessed.
725
00:33:02,805 --> 00:33:05,485
- [Voiceover] But there's
one thing Larson believes
726
00:33:05,485 --> 00:33:09,019
is the ultimate proof of demonic presence.
727
00:33:10,610 --> 00:33:12,201
- In the Pat Reding case,
728
00:33:12,201 --> 00:33:14,059
she apparently spoke in another language.
729
00:33:14,059 --> 00:33:16,525
I've seen this happen thousands
and thousands of times.
730
00:33:16,525 --> 00:33:18,500
I had a woman speak Chinese one time.
731
00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:20,891
I had a fascinating case
where a strange language
732
00:33:20,891 --> 00:33:23,240
was being spoken and a college professor
733
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,445
with a PhD in ancient Semitic languages,
734
00:33:26,445 --> 00:33:28,692
he said, I can come up and tell you
735
00:33:28,692 --> 00:33:30,763
exactly what the voice was saying.
736
00:33:30,763 --> 00:33:31,831
And he did!
737
00:33:31,831 --> 00:33:33,412
And the voice was speaking
738
00:33:33,412 --> 00:33:35,184
about his possession of the person
739
00:33:35,184 --> 00:33:37,693
and how he was determined to destroy them.
740
00:33:37,693 --> 00:33:40,735
Now this was a PhD college professor
741
00:33:40,735 --> 00:33:43,314
who was giving testimony to it.
742
00:33:44,227 --> 00:33:47,729
- [Voiceover] Could these
foreign, even forgotten languages
743
00:33:47,729 --> 00:33:52,331
prove that Satan is
carrying on an age-old war
744
00:33:52,331 --> 00:33:55,517
by invading the bodies of humans?
745
00:33:56,420 --> 00:33:58,768
- To the skeptics, who may not believe
746
00:33:58,768 --> 00:34:01,021
in demonic possession,
I say, travel with me
747
00:34:01,021 --> 00:34:05,137
and meet the thousands of
people who have had exorcisms.
748
00:34:05,143 --> 00:34:07,929
When you see the smile and the glow
749
00:34:07,929 --> 00:34:10,161
on the person's face as they say to you,
750
00:34:10,161 --> 00:34:11,069
wow.
751
00:34:11,069 --> 00:34:12,925
I didn't know I could feel like this.
752
00:34:12,925 --> 00:34:15,088
Something is gone.
753
00:34:15,088 --> 00:34:17,852
That's why I do exorcisms.
754
00:34:18,691 --> 00:34:21,499
- [Voiceover] Are exorcisms ultimate proof
755
00:34:21,499 --> 00:34:24,813
that devilish spirits
still roam the Earth?
756
00:34:24,813 --> 00:34:28,343
Could reports of demonic
possession be explained
757
00:34:28,343 --> 00:34:31,012
by a misunderstood mental illness,
758
00:34:31,012 --> 00:34:34,515
or is everyone simply making it up?
759
00:34:34,515 --> 00:34:38,944
Whatever the truth, this
mystery is most definitely
760
00:34:38,944 --> 00:34:41,341
weird, or what.
761
00:35:01,778 --> 00:35:03,454
- I don't know about you,
762
00:35:03,454 --> 00:35:05,430
but stories of ghosts and the paranormal
763
00:35:05,430 --> 00:35:06,988
send shivers up my spine.
764
00:35:06,988 --> 00:35:08,547
But that's kind of fun, right?
765
00:35:08,547 --> 00:35:10,938
But do spirits or ghosts
or whatever they are
766
00:35:10,938 --> 00:35:12,444
always have to be evil?
767
00:35:12,444 --> 00:35:14,675
Aren't there any friendly
dead people out there?
768
00:35:14,675 --> 00:35:15,679
I hope so.
769
00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:17,281
But there's some people
770
00:35:17,281 --> 00:35:19,693
who not only enjoy having ghosts around,
771
00:35:19,693 --> 00:35:21,861
they can talk to them whenever they like.
772
00:35:21,861 --> 00:35:22,864
How?
773
00:35:22,864 --> 00:35:25,057
They'v got the gift.
774
00:35:29,740 --> 00:35:31,513
In just about every way,
775
00:35:31,513 --> 00:35:34,854
Fae Jackson is an average teenage girl.
776
00:35:34,854 --> 00:35:36,573
- I like to shop
777
00:35:36,573 --> 00:35:38,154
and just hang out with my friends.
778
00:35:38,154 --> 00:35:40,737
- [Voiceover] While Fae's
life appears to be ordinary,
779
00:35:40,737 --> 00:35:42,691
in truth she and her family are dealing
780
00:35:42,691 --> 00:35:44,549
with something so sensitive,
781
00:35:44,549 --> 00:35:48,269
they've chosen to
conceal their appearance.
782
00:35:51,467 --> 00:35:53,784
- Well although is has become
part of everyday life for us,
783
00:35:53,784 --> 00:35:56,009
it is still at times frightening.
784
00:35:56,581 --> 00:35:58,525
- [Voiceover] Fae's story
began three years ago
785
00:35:58,525 --> 00:36:00,244
when she was 10.
786
00:36:01,305 --> 00:36:04,717
- I was sitting in my bedroom on my own.
787
00:36:06,138 --> 00:36:09,622
I could feel a man sitting next to me.
788
00:36:13,119 --> 00:36:15,255
- She could feel, like an
energy, like a presence
789
00:36:15,255 --> 00:36:16,487
next to her.
790
00:36:18,533 --> 00:36:21,094
- And I could just feel
his breath in my ear
791
00:36:21,094 --> 00:36:22,733
and it was all warm.
792
00:36:23,369 --> 00:36:26,231
- And then she heard him
whispering in her ear.
793
00:36:27,107 --> 00:36:28,405
- Can you hear me?
794
00:36:29,734 --> 00:36:30,966
- Can you hear me?
795
00:36:33,642 --> 00:36:36,123
- [Voiceover] Fae races to her mom.
796
00:36:36,685 --> 00:36:39,941
- Like, the fear, it was uncontrollable.
797
00:36:39,941 --> 00:36:42,615
It just was unexplainable.
798
00:36:43,475 --> 00:36:45,749
- The child was absolutely terrified.
799
00:36:45,749 --> 00:36:48,285
And I was scared for her, to be honest.
800
00:36:49,305 --> 00:36:51,653
- [Voiceover] When Lynn takes
her daughter back to the room,
801
00:36:51,653 --> 00:36:53,655
the man is gone.
802
00:36:55,091 --> 00:36:56,671
But Fae is in no doubt
803
00:36:56,671 --> 00:36:58,577
as to what she's experienced.
804
00:36:59,330 --> 00:37:01,096
- I saw my first ghost.
805
00:37:01,935 --> 00:37:04,049
- [Voiceover] Terrifyingly,
Fae's encounter
806
00:37:04,049 --> 00:37:06,018
was just the beginning.
807
00:37:06,441 --> 00:37:09,537
- The spirit started
regularly visiting me.
808
00:37:09,537 --> 00:37:12,184
They'd only come when I was on my own.
809
00:37:12,184 --> 00:37:13,807
Then when they did,
810
00:37:13,807 --> 00:37:16,829
just random spirits would
walk into my bedroom.
811
00:37:16,829 --> 00:37:20,833
- [Voiceover] Fae is haunted
by hundreds of ghosts.
812
00:37:20,833 --> 00:37:23,779
Sometimes she sees as
many as five a night.
813
00:37:24,860 --> 00:37:27,290
- Sometimes they just want
to show her how they died,
814
00:37:27,290 --> 00:37:29,958
which is a little bit grim at times,
815
00:37:29,958 --> 00:37:32,184
and she's only 13.
816
00:37:32,884 --> 00:37:35,820
- [Voiceover] The ghosts
begin getting bolder.
817
00:37:37,562 --> 00:37:40,176
- There was an instant
when her bed was shook,
818
00:37:40,176 --> 00:37:42,679
which completely terrified me.
819
00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:45,429
- I just felt like I was being attacked.
820
00:37:45,429 --> 00:37:46,753
It was horrible.
821
00:37:46,753 --> 00:37:48,536
It felt really dangerous
822
00:37:48,536 --> 00:37:51,274
and I felt like I was on my own.
823
00:37:51,910 --> 00:37:54,946
- That was when I knew we
had to do something about it.
824
00:37:57,066 --> 00:37:58,327
- [Voiceover] At her wit's end,
825
00:37:58,327 --> 00:38:00,205
Lynn seeks professional advice.
826
00:38:01,156 --> 00:38:03,462
- We got lots of help from local mediums
827
00:38:03,462 --> 00:38:05,715
who understood what was happening.
828
00:38:05,715 --> 00:38:07,999
- [Voiceover] Far from seeing
it as something frightening,
829
00:38:07,999 --> 00:38:10,466
the mediums tell them Fae's ability to see
830
00:38:10,466 --> 00:38:12,996
and connect with the dead is a gift,
831
00:38:12,996 --> 00:38:15,410
and a very rare one at that.
832
00:38:15,410 --> 00:38:19,691
- They taught Fae techniques
that she could use
833
00:38:19,691 --> 00:38:22,893
to take more control over her gift,
834
00:38:22,893 --> 00:38:25,285
and see it as a gift really.
835
00:38:25,285 --> 00:38:28,221
- [Voiceover] With the
help of psychic mediums,
836
00:38:28,221 --> 00:38:30,314
the support of her mother
837
00:38:30,314 --> 00:38:32,192
and lots of hard work,
838
00:38:32,192 --> 00:38:35,187
Fae finally mastered her gift.
839
00:38:37,093 --> 00:38:39,068
- It's like I have two lives.
840
00:38:39,068 --> 00:38:41,717
Like, I live one life where
I'm just a normal girl.
841
00:38:41,717 --> 00:38:45,319
And then, other times
I can talk to spirits.
842
00:38:46,628 --> 00:38:48,896
So it's really quite exciting.
843
00:38:53,151 --> 00:38:55,377
- I see dead people.
844
00:38:55,916 --> 00:38:58,062
That's something else
I've always wanted to say,
845
00:38:58,062 --> 00:38:59,424
but I can't, 'cause I don't.
846
00:38:59,424 --> 00:39:00,892
Well, not when I'm sober anyway.
847
00:39:00,892 --> 00:39:02,664
But incredibly, it may be
848
00:39:03,204 --> 00:39:05,269
because I'm an adult.
849
00:39:05,269 --> 00:39:07,283
You see, Fae isn't alone.
850
00:39:07,283 --> 00:39:09,440
Millions of other children
see dead people too.
851
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:10,091
How?
852
00:39:10,091 --> 00:39:11,991
Do they possess a special power?
853
00:39:11,991 --> 00:39:13,412
A sixth sense?
854
00:39:13,412 --> 00:39:14,949
And is it a gift?
855
00:39:15,763 --> 00:39:17,423
Or a curse?
856
00:39:19,339 --> 00:39:20,797
Weird,
857
00:39:20,797 --> 00:39:22,076
or what?
858
00:39:26,408 --> 00:39:28,479
- [Voiceover] 13 year old Fae Jackson
859
00:39:28,479 --> 00:39:30,358
claims she can see ghosts.
860
00:39:30,358 --> 00:39:33,299
Do children possess the gift?
861
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,330
Who better to ask about
children who see ghosts
862
00:39:37,330 --> 00:39:41,712
than Caren Goode, author
of Children Who See Ghosts.
863
00:39:43,949 --> 00:39:47,366
- To discover that children
see ghosts, talk with ghosts,
864
00:39:48,459 --> 00:39:50,141
to me it was exciting.
865
00:39:52,366 --> 00:39:54,203
- [Voiceover] After more than 25 years
866
00:39:54,203 --> 00:39:56,770
researching the special
abilities of young minds,
867
00:39:56,770 --> 00:39:59,941
Goode has reached an
incredible conclusion.
868
00:40:01,442 --> 00:40:03,993
- Children are more
predisposed to see ghosts
869
00:40:03,993 --> 00:40:05,414
than adults are,
870
00:40:05,414 --> 00:40:08,253
primarily because of their brain power.
871
00:40:08,253 --> 00:40:11,553
The sixth sense begins
to develop in children
872
00:40:11,553 --> 00:40:13,827
between the ages of 18 months
873
00:40:13,827 --> 00:40:15,450
all the way up through
874
00:40:15,450 --> 00:40:17,317
five to six years.
875
00:40:17,317 --> 00:40:20,873
And the reason is because
their brain is going
876
00:40:20,873 --> 00:40:23,756
through a tremendous growth spurt.
877
00:40:23,756 --> 00:40:26,190
- [Voiceover] We've all
heard of the sixth sense,
878
00:40:26,190 --> 00:40:27,472
but what is it?
879
00:40:27,472 --> 00:40:31,165
What does it do that
your other five can't?
880
00:40:31,165 --> 00:40:34,283
- When I discuss with
a parent, for example,
881
00:40:34,283 --> 00:40:36,162
what is the sixth sense.
882
00:40:36,162 --> 00:40:40,411
I explain it to the parent as
being intuitive intelligence.
883
00:40:40,411 --> 00:40:43,768
Some people have a heightened intuition.
884
00:40:43,768 --> 00:40:47,736
Particularly sensitive children,
885
00:40:47,736 --> 00:40:50,063
we call them sensitive because
886
00:40:50,063 --> 00:40:52,925
they may be sensitive to the feelings
887
00:40:52,925 --> 00:40:55,551
of someone who might be ill.
888
00:40:55,551 --> 00:41:00,014
Or, one child that I'm aware
of used to tell me about,
889
00:41:00,014 --> 00:41:04,380
he would know a car accident
when his mom was driving.
890
00:41:04,380 --> 00:41:06,591
He would get nauseated.
891
00:41:06,591 --> 00:41:08,566
And it always correlated, for him,
892
00:41:08,566 --> 00:41:11,032
with a nearby car accident.
893
00:41:11,032 --> 00:41:13,488
So I think that a sixth sense
894
00:41:13,488 --> 00:41:16,189
involves feeling and intuition,
895
00:41:16,189 --> 00:41:19,681
and it could involve
heightened sensitivities.
896
00:41:19,681 --> 00:41:23,994
- [Voiceover] But where does
this sixth sense come from?
897
00:41:23,994 --> 00:41:26,278
Is it a gift only bestowed on some?
898
00:41:26,278 --> 00:41:29,973
Remarkably, Goode believes it's an ability
899
00:41:29,973 --> 00:41:32,663
that's within us all.
900
00:41:32,663 --> 00:41:36,593
- The pineal gland is
located within the brain,
901
00:41:36,593 --> 00:41:40,874
which actually regulates
light within our body.
902
00:41:40,874 --> 00:41:44,172
I believe he pineal gland can be a doorway
903
00:41:44,172 --> 00:41:46,052
to the sixth sense.
904
00:41:46,052 --> 00:41:48,027
- [Voiceover] But if
we all have the ability
905
00:41:48,027 --> 00:41:50,450
to access our sixth sense,
906
00:41:50,450 --> 00:41:54,885
why do so few children maintain
this power into adulthood?
907
00:41:59,018 --> 00:42:00,759
- As the hormones change,
908
00:42:00,759 --> 00:42:04,731
children go through brain
wave shifts, mood shifts,
909
00:42:04,731 --> 00:42:08,542
and that's the time logic develops.
910
00:42:08,542 --> 00:42:12,845
And children may turn
away from their intuition,
911
00:42:12,845 --> 00:42:14,488
their feelings.
912
00:42:14,488 --> 00:42:18,653
If children have not been
encouraged in their imagination,
913
00:42:18,653 --> 00:42:23,073
in their conversations and
sixth sense development,
914
00:42:23,073 --> 00:42:26,900
it can shut down when cognition sets in.
915
00:42:28,389 --> 00:42:30,696
- [Voiceover] Do children's growing brains
916
00:42:30,696 --> 00:42:32,693
give them a sixth sense?
917
00:42:32,693 --> 00:42:35,597
Should a child's ghost
sightings be encouraged?
918
00:42:35,597 --> 00:42:39,936
Do kids like Fae really have the gift?
919
00:42:43,433 --> 00:42:45,942
- My initial reaction to
reading the article about Fae,
920
00:42:45,942 --> 00:42:49,097
was quite honestly, I wasn't impressed.
921
00:42:51,078 --> 00:42:53,213
- [Voiceover] Psychic Jack Rourke
922
00:42:53,213 --> 00:42:55,605
is an expert in parapsychology.
923
00:42:55,605 --> 00:42:57,419
Experience has taught him
924
00:42:57,419 --> 00:43:00,911
that a far more mundane
explanation may be at work,
925
00:43:00,911 --> 00:43:02,716
or rather, at home.
926
00:43:05,619 --> 00:43:08,812
- There is a phenomena called parentizing.
927
00:43:08,812 --> 00:43:11,897
Where, in essence, there's
a bit of a role reversal.
928
00:43:11,897 --> 00:43:15,250
Where a child can sometimes
become the caretaker
929
00:43:15,250 --> 00:43:18,335
of the parent, or become
the mirror to the parent.
930
00:43:18,335 --> 00:43:21,410
- [Voiceover] Rourke believed
that through parentizing,
931
00:43:21,410 --> 00:43:23,898
children can be actively encouraged
932
00:43:23,898 --> 00:43:26,892
to say they see ghosts.
933
00:43:27,357 --> 00:43:30,570
- The more positive
reinforcement a child gets
934
00:43:30,570 --> 00:43:32,728
from their parent that they are special,
935
00:43:32,728 --> 00:43:34,703
that they are extra sensitive,
936
00:43:34,703 --> 00:43:38,588
that they have special empathic
or intuitive abilities,
937
00:43:38,588 --> 00:43:41,792
the more the child then
believes they're psychic.
938
00:43:41,792 --> 00:43:44,493
And I'll give you an
example of how this is done.
939
00:43:44,493 --> 00:43:47,461
The child wakes up in
the middle of the night
940
00:43:47,461 --> 00:43:49,137
from a horrible dream
941
00:43:49,137 --> 00:43:52,255
and is talking about ghosts
chasing them, things like this.
942
00:43:53,748 --> 00:43:55,691
You come in as the parent and say,
943
00:43:55,691 --> 00:43:57,441
no, you're wrong, that didn't happen,
944
00:43:57,441 --> 00:44:00,292
you lose the ability to comfort the child
945
00:44:00,292 --> 00:44:03,382
because they've been made wrong.
946
00:44:03,688 --> 00:44:06,784
Now, I go into the room,
same scenario, and I say,
947
00:44:06,784 --> 00:44:08,598
oh you saw a ghost, didn't you?
948
00:44:08,598 --> 00:44:10,062
(sniffles) Yes.
949
00:44:10,062 --> 00:44:11,759
This is how it's done.
950
00:44:13,070 --> 00:44:15,037
- [Voiceover] But why
would a child like Fae
951
00:44:15,037 --> 00:44:17,588
go along with the idea of seeing ghosts?
952
00:44:17,588 --> 00:44:19,451
What's in it for her?
953
00:44:21,571 --> 00:44:24,336
- The specialness of the
child in these circumstances
954
00:44:24,336 --> 00:44:27,048
gives the child permission to commiserate
955
00:44:27,048 --> 00:44:29,418
with the parent, they become
their emotional partner.
956
00:44:29,418 --> 00:44:31,489
They go to activities together,
957
00:44:31,489 --> 00:44:34,212
they may go to certain psychic functions,
958
00:44:34,212 --> 00:44:38,205
and this unique relationship
becomes a reward to the child.
959
00:44:38,205 --> 00:44:42,550
And in order to maintain that
closeness with their parent,
960
00:44:42,550 --> 00:44:45,829
they have to maintain
the psychic identity.
961
00:44:45,829 --> 00:44:48,529
For the parents, this also
gives them the passive means
962
00:44:48,529 --> 00:44:50,387
to control the child.
963
00:44:50,387 --> 00:44:52,801
And also, what I've witnessed is a way
964
00:44:52,801 --> 00:44:54,689
to slow down their development
965
00:44:54,689 --> 00:44:56,900
and prolong their childhood.
966
00:44:56,900 --> 00:44:58,801
So this is an interesting thing,
967
00:44:58,801 --> 00:45:00,423
one of the things that we look at.
968
00:45:00,423 --> 00:45:04,801
Now why, per say, a child might
have a specific experience?
969
00:45:04,801 --> 00:45:06,862
Could be biological.
970
00:45:06,862 --> 00:45:09,658
It could be an environmental reason.
971
00:45:09,658 --> 00:45:13,229
It could just be an ordinary bad dream.
972
00:45:13,951 --> 00:45:15,760
- Can you hear me?
973
00:45:17,538 --> 00:45:20,069
- [Voiceover] Are children who see ghosts
974
00:45:20,069 --> 00:45:21,852
merely playing out a fantasy
975
00:45:21,852 --> 00:45:23,998
with the encouragement of their parents?
976
00:45:23,998 --> 00:45:26,966
Is there nothing special
about them at all?
977
00:45:26,966 --> 00:45:31,060
Does the gift exist in children at all?
978
00:45:32,058 --> 00:45:36,867
- A person like Fae may be
capable of seeing ghosts
979
00:45:36,867 --> 00:45:41,872
because she has some
physiological advantage.
980
00:45:45,510 --> 00:45:47,763
- [Voiceover] Thousands of
children across the globe
981
00:45:47,763 --> 00:45:49,930
claim they can see dead people.
982
00:45:49,930 --> 00:45:53,677
Do they have an extra special sense
983
00:45:53,677 --> 00:45:56,511
known as the gift?
984
00:45:58,300 --> 00:46:01,162
Paranormal investigator Joshua P. Warren
985
00:46:01,162 --> 00:46:03,949
believes there could be
a medical explanation
986
00:46:03,949 --> 00:46:06,035
for this phenomena.
987
00:46:06,617 --> 00:46:10,974
- A person like Fae may be
capable of seeing ghosts
988
00:46:10,974 --> 00:46:15,639
because she has some
physiological advantage
989
00:46:15,639 --> 00:46:18,458
in her eyeballs themselves.
990
00:46:18,458 --> 00:46:20,732
- [Voiceover] Could Fae's eye
991
00:46:20,732 --> 00:46:24,165
have powers the rest of ours don't?
992
00:46:24,165 --> 00:46:26,753
Warren believes her secret may be
993
00:46:26,753 --> 00:46:30,282
that she sees light differently.
994
00:46:30,757 --> 00:46:33,224
- Right now, all the data that we have
995
00:46:33,224 --> 00:46:37,569
indicates ghosts are more
visible in the infrared realm.
996
00:46:37,569 --> 00:46:40,986
Some of the best ghost images I've seen
997
00:46:40,986 --> 00:46:44,264
have been captured using
infrared technology.
998
00:46:44,264 --> 00:46:46,816
- [Voiceover] Could Fae be seeing ghosts
999
00:46:46,816 --> 00:46:48,908
that are all around us?
1000
00:46:48,908 --> 00:46:50,723
Ghosts that most of us miss
1001
00:46:50,723 --> 00:46:53,029
because we can't see infrared?
1002
00:46:53,029 --> 00:46:55,399
- The average person can only see
1003
00:46:55,399 --> 00:46:58,762
a relatively narrow band of light
1004
00:46:58,762 --> 00:47:02,574
from usually around green to red.
1005
00:47:02,574 --> 00:47:05,670
Fae might be able to see a little bit more
1006
00:47:05,670 --> 00:47:07,528
than the rest of us.
1007
00:47:07,528 --> 00:47:09,428
- [Voiceover] Scientists
call the range of light
1008
00:47:09,428 --> 00:47:10,827
the visible spectrum.
1009
00:47:10,827 --> 00:47:12,226
Although most of us know it
1010
00:47:12,226 --> 00:47:13,924
as the colors of the rainbow.
1011
00:47:13,924 --> 00:47:18,013
But what if Fae was somehow
able to literally see
1012
00:47:18,013 --> 00:47:20,329
what the rest of us can't?
1013
00:47:20,329 --> 00:47:24,280
- In the human eye, there are
two primary types of cells.
1014
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,301
You've got the rod cells
and the cone cells.
1015
00:47:27,301 --> 00:47:31,540
Rod cells are used for night time vision,
1016
00:47:31,540 --> 00:47:33,536
but they can't see color.
1017
00:47:33,536 --> 00:47:36,163
Then you have the cone cells,
1018
00:47:36,163 --> 00:47:38,256
which respond very quickly
1019
00:47:38,256 --> 00:47:39,953
and they see color.
1020
00:47:39,953 --> 00:47:44,700
If Fae has more of
those rod or cone cells,
1021
00:47:44,700 --> 00:47:47,107
especially the cones,
1022
00:47:47,107 --> 00:47:50,416
that alone might allow
her to see a broader range
1023
00:47:50,416 --> 00:47:54,111
of colors and frequencies
than the average person.
1024
00:47:54,111 --> 00:47:58,434
Her eyes physiologically
allow her to peer deeper
1025
00:47:58,434 --> 00:48:02,379
into the infrared or ultraviolet realms.
1026
00:48:03,228 --> 00:48:05,524
- [Voiceover] Incredibly,
Warren also believes the eye
1027
00:48:05,524 --> 00:48:07,712
might not just explain Fae's story,
1028
00:48:07,712 --> 00:48:10,264
but also why children on average
1029
00:48:10,264 --> 00:48:13,456
report seeing more ghosts than adults.
1030
00:48:14,467 --> 00:48:16,520
- As a person ages,
1031
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:20,588
the components of the eye
become more and more dense.
1032
00:48:20,588 --> 00:48:23,290
In extreme cases, they
can become very cloudy
1033
00:48:23,290 --> 00:48:24,816
and form a cataract.
1034
00:48:24,816 --> 00:48:29,141
So the older you get, the
less you're able to see
1035
00:48:29,141 --> 00:48:32,674
when it comes to this band of frequencies.
1036
00:48:32,674 --> 00:48:34,468
Children are not only
1037
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able to see a wider range of frequencies,
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but they also should have an
open mind and open awareness.
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They have not been structured so much yet
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into a belief system
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and into a task-driven, day to day routine
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that gives us tunnel vision as adults.
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As children, they still
have a wider awareness
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and perception of what's around them,
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and a willingness to acknowledge
honestly what they see.
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- [Voiceover] Could Fae
and other children like her
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really be able to see into
the infrared world of ghosts?
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Does she have a sixth sense?
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Or is Fae just a needy kid?
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Who wanted her mother's
attention and approval.
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We may never know.
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Weird, or what?
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- [Voiceover] So there we have it.
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Ghost stories from around the world.
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A Californian woman's home plays host
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to one of the most terrifying
paranormal events on record.
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(evil laughing)
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In New England, a woman is possessed
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by an evil spirit so strong,
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even the Catholic church
fails to defeat it.
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And a British teenager can
see and talk to ghosts.
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Is she proof that some
children have the gift?
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Are these bizarre stories evidence
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that ghosts exist?
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Can we seek comfort in
rational explanations
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or do we ignore them
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at our peril?
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You decide.
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Join me again next time for more stories
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that will undoubtably be weird, or what.
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