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In 1986, in Shelton,
Connecticut, a catastrophic
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and unexplained fire broke out, killing
32 people and destroying 50 homes.
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After ruling out arson
and accident, the Shelton
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Police and Fire
Department's mysteriously
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closed the case, and a 33rd person, survivor
Liz Sherman, mysteriously disappeared.
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When the investigation
into her disappearance
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was halted, abruptly
just two weeks after it
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began, some cried
conspiracy and brought up
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the name of a long-defung
government agency,
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the Bureau for Paranormal Research and
Defense, or BPRD as it's commonly known.
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Disbanted in 1974, could this
government agency still be secretly active?
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Hello, I'm Jim More,
will find out tonight
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when investigative
journal looks into the BPRD.
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It's strange history and its possible
involvement in world events, even today.
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All on this evening's investigative
journal presents, the BPRD, declassified.
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I recently spoke with
someone, not a conspiracy
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theorist, but rather a young woman
who lost a friend that day in 1986.
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Dorothy Hutchins, childhood
friend, and confidant of Liz Sherman.
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Dorothy Hutchins
was Liz Sherman's
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best friend from preschool
until the day Liz disappeared.
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"You said that you and
Liz were childhood friends.
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You met in kindergarten.
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Talk about anything unusual that
you remember happening with Liz.
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" The strangest memory
of her was one day when
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it was during recess, and
she was extremely upset.
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I didn't really understand why she was
upset, and she pulled me away from the
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rest of the kids, and she was just sobbing,
sobbing hysterically, and was just so tense
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upset, and was
holding her fist like this
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clenched, and she said, and repeated, "I
can turn my fingers black. I can't help it.
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" Now, since that time,
was there anything that
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you remember about Liz
that strikes you as being odd?
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"We're looking back those
years in elementary school.
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There are random
things going on.
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There are a lot of fires. Just
spontaneous, small fires at school.
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" "But do you somehow connect those
fires with Liz in your mind?" "I didn't.
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Then, now I don't know.
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" That kind of stuff
doesn't happen to me
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anymore, or around me
anymore, so it's a bit odd
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that those occurrences did
happen when I was around her.
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Some say that the best evidence linking Liz
Sherman's disappearance to the BPRD exists
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in the form of this
videotape, released last
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year by the Justice
Department under the Freedom
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of Information Act. It
depicts a young girl's
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birthday party in the early
1980s attended by Liz Sherman.
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When we move in on Liz, we can clearly
see what appears to be a flame emanating
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from her right hand,
turning her fingers black,
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possible proof of her
paranormal abilities.
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These frames may
be the only evidence of
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Liz Sherman's strange
powers, explaining why
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the BPRD was interested
in her in the first place.
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"There was a
huge fire in Shelton.
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A lot of people were killed. Describe
that fire and tell us what happened.
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" "Well, it was in April of
'86 and it was early morning.
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Most of us were getting ready
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for school and sirens screaming, chaos."
"Did you see Liz that day of that fire?"
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"I think I saw her
standing in the flames.
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" "Standing in the flames
was she on fire, was
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she hurt? She was
looking at me. Just standing
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there, looking at me, and I
was just being pulled away.
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" "Just fire flames
all around her.
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" "You went to a memorial
service for a number of the people.
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" "Right." "And they read off everyone's
name. So what makes you think that
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Liz may have survived?"
"Well, they didn't list her.
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They didn't find her body.
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I mean, they didn't
find her alive or dead.
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" "Do you in your heart
think that Liz caused that
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fire?" "I don't know."
Could the BPRD have had
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something to do with Liz
Sherman's disappearance
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in 1986 or in the
catastrophic fire that
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killed 32 people?
Could it be pulling strings
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in Washington to this
day? Is the BPRD as
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some claim responsible
for saving millions of
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Americans over the
years or for putting us
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in unnecessary danger?
Recently declassified
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documents suggest the
latter, while others claim
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it is a fraud or a hoax.
For the next 30 minutes,
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investigative journal
will peel away the veneer
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and peek into the secret world of
the BPRD if it does indeed still exist.
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Though the existence of a U.S.-led bureau
for paranormal research and defense might
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sound far-fetched to some,
there's a rich history of U.
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S. government agencies involvement
with the occult. Dr. Anthony Levy teaches
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history and metaphysics
at Bellman University.
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One of his courses, Occult
and government in 20th
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century history, explains
how various nations
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used occultists to shape
history in the modern age.
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"You point to Rasputin as being the, if you
will, father of the occult when you're a big one.
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" In terms of influence on a government,
I think Rasputin in the 20th century
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was probably the, had
the most power and the
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most influence based on
his supposed occult learning.
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Now here you have, okay, you've got
this scraggly monk. He supposedly had
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pessimistic powers and
he had convinced Zara
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Nicholas, and particularly
his wife Alexandra,
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that he had the power
of saving their son.
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There are numerous
documented cases of Rasputin
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supposedly curing this boy
just by whispering in his ears.
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"Move forward a bit in history, staying
in Europe, focus on the third Reich.
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There was a reliance with the third Reich
on the occult as well, talk about that.
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" They, the third Reich
actually developed
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what they called the
occult bureau, and their
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whole thrust of the
occult bureau was to try
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to harness occult
powers for their own use.
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How elaborate did the reliance on
the occult go with the third Reich?
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I think their major
thrust was to get a hold
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of the spear of
destiny, which is, well,
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this spear is the spear,
the Roman centurion
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plunged it into his
side when Jesus was on
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the cross and the
Germans believed, and many
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people believed, that the spear, whoever
controlled this spear, was invincible.
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We know that the US
government also toyed with
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the idea of paranormal
defense. For instance,
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in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt formed a group
nicknamed The Watch, created to monitor and
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combat the enemy's occult bureau
with his own brand of paranormal justice.
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Most people with the
government will tell you
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The Watch was simply
to monitor the activity
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of the third Reich, and see if
there was a way to exploit it.
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And that people say
that this from the watch
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that sort of opened the
door for US government
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involvement in occult
powers, and that led to the
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BPRD, the bureau for
paranormal research and defense.
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Now, the US government
will claim, yes, there
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is a BPRD, but the P
never stood for paranormal,
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and the organization itself
was disbanded in the mid-70s.
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Well, they claim
they admit there
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was a BPRD, but they won't
tell you what the P stood for.
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If you look at the
documents where it's blacked
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out, the right number
of letters is paranormal.
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What other word is there?
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To this day, there are
operations within the
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US government that we
hear little or nothing about.
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Besides The Watch and the alleged BPRD, we
also know about other top-secret government
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operations like MK
Ultra, a secret government
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study into brainwashing
and mind control.
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And during wartime, we
hear about the exploits
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of Delta Force, an
elite commando unit,
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whose existence the US
government will not confirm or deny.
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Now some new
information has come to light
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regarding the bureau for
paranormal research and defense.
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This evidence,
consisting of recently
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declassified documents
and hard physical evidence,
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is making its way around the
country in the form of a traveling show.
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Conway Ricker is an estate
lawyer in Kettering, Ohio.
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He's also the grandson of US Army
General Norton Ricker, a lifelong military
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veteran whose records
are considered classified.
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On his deathbed, General Ricker told his
grandson his most closely guarded secrets
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about his past
association with the BPRD.
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This confession altered the
course of Conway's life forever.
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So you begin a quest and how do you
go about piecing together information?
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First thing I did is I
started looking into
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the Freedom of Information
Act and found out
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that I could get papers concerning
my grandfather and the BPRD.
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But the problem is once you
get them, they're marked out.
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Somebody has gone through with
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the black marker and marked out most
of the information that you're looking for.
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So is there any information
in these documents
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to suggest to you
that there is a BPRD?
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Oh, BPRD is actually mentioned in there.
It says it in there. So we know that that's
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real and I was able to
go through and from the
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bits of information I was able
to put together, find the BPRD.
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This building located
on a New Jersey military
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base is the location that Conway Ricker
claims is the headquarters of the BPRD.
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Though the government
permitted us to shoot the exterior
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of this building, all
requests to go inside
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or interview anyone
we saw walking in or out
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were strictly forbidden. Conway Ricker has
a trespassing warrant against him issued by
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this military base,
requiring him to remain at
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least 200 yards from
the building at all times.
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When you went to
this location, the folks
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there didn't say this is
the BPRD because the
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government claims there is
no BPRD currently in existence.
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Right. Well, I've got memos that say
that it does exist. I mean, they claim that
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it's been disbanded,
but it's still operating.
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While some believe that a government agency
for paranormal defense is plausible, Ricker
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takes it one step further,
suggesting a rogue
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faction of the bureau
that most call absurd.
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You said your grandfather, General Norton
Ricker worked for the BPRD. What did he do?
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My understanding is
the time that he was
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there, what he told me. He was
looking after this, um, hellboy.
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There's a lot of people
who believe that the
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BPRD existed, but,
um, it's just the real
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fringe theorists who believe in hellboy.
I think it's the ones that are out there.
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It just like there are people who
think that Area 51, well, that may exist.
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The people who believe that
the U.S. government is actually
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reverse engineering
UFOs there to figure
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out how they work.
That's, you know, that's going that far.
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Do you worry that by coming forward,
people will just think you're a nut? Yeah.
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I don't people think I'm a nut. I've
lost a lot of clients at my practice.
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How about your family? They tolerate it.
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Why do you think your grandfather wanted
you to pursue this story? I wish you'd told
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me why, but I know him, and I know if he
told me he wanted me to, it was important.
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So I will.
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Coming up next, a historical perspective
on the U.S. government and the paranormal.
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Stay tuned for more of investigative
journal, the BPRD declassified.
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Welcome back to
investigative journal.
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Is the BPRD even a real
organization? Declassified
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document show a mention
of its formation in 1943.
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If critics are correct, this government
agency is not what is widely believed to be
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the Bureau for Paranormal
Research and Defense,
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rather it is some other
entity created by the U.
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S. government and
presumably dismantled in 1974.
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But before we can believe that the government
could fight enemies from a paranormal
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realm, we first need to
know there is a plausible
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argument for the existence
of the supernatural.
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Deb Cronroy's is a
research fellow at the
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Pinecliff University
Parapsychology Program.
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When we talk about
the paranormal, about
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things happening which
we can't seem to explain
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with science, how do you respond
to people who say this is real?
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Well, it is real in the
sense that it's happening
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to them, so it's an
event that occurred.
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All of my studies are totally scientific.
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What have you seen with
your own eyes that you
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would consider an
example of the paranormal?
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Well, I've done hundreds of experiments
over the 32 years, and I have seen evidence
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of telepathy, mind to mind
communication, clear voice,
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pre-code mission, but we're
talking minor evidence of this.
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Based on what you've
seen in your experiments,
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have you ever witnessed
anything in the realm
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of the paranormal that you could harness
either as a weapon or used defensively?
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No, absolutely not.
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Psychokinesis, which
is what you're talking
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about, psychokinetic
power, which is the ability
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to have mind over
matter, to move something,
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to change the way
something, the appearance
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of something, the way something
looks, to blow something up.
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Any kind of extreme power
is absolutely impossible.
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But Conway Ricker believes differently.
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Yeah, it's well-documented
known that controlled
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and wrote viewing is taking place where
they took people that were supposedly had no
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psychic abilities
whatsoever, and they placed
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in a room, and they
had them visualize where
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they imagined a target to be,
and the results were amazing.
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They were 75% accurate.
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You've got a nice life in Ohio, you've got
kids, you've got a wife, you're a lawyer.
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Why would you risk everything?
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Just to prove the existence
of Hellboy and the BPRD?
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Hopefully, they'll come
forth and say, "Yes,
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this is something that
we did, we're involved in."
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We created, I don't
know, they created them
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stolen, whatever, somehow we got Hellboy,
and we've used him in military action.
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Is there any doubt in your
mind that Hellboy is real?
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Now, Hellboy is real.
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Read the book of Ephesians.
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You know, it talks
about spiritual warfare,
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demons and angels, battling,
supernatural battles taking place.
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What kind of proof do you have
that there is, in fact, a Hellboy?
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Well, I have actual
physical proof, which is,
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I have a horn that I
believe is from Hellboy.
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Hellboy.
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Ricker would not allow
us to examine the alleged
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horn, but he did furnish
us with this photograph.
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There was an explosion
at a state in Scotland,
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and in the rubble of the
explosion, this horn was found.
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The man that owned
this was well known and
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well documented to
be involved in the occult.
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But is there anything
to prove the existence
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of this so-called Hellboy
without hard proof
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like Conway Ricker's alleged horn,
it's easy to say there is no proof.
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What other proof, if any, do you have
that suggests the existence of Hellboy?
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Well, there's a photo.
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A photo that I believe is Hellboy.
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It's a group of soldiers, a German World
War II, and it's blurry, but you can make
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out a figure that's obviously not
human, it looks like some type of creature.
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I'm joined in studio with
Nate Hyannis, a retired
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official with the United States Department
of Defense, who claims that all of the
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stories about the BPRD
are pure fantasy, and
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by satellite with Michael, who
has chosen to have his real
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identity and face obscured
for personal security reasons.
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Michael claims to be
a former agent for the
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BPRD, though he wants to be clear he
does not fear reprisals from the Bureau.
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He is concerned that if people knew who
he was, they would be able to track back to
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the Bureau itself and then cause
harm to his friends still there.
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Is that right, Michael?
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That's true, Jim.
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Thank you.
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Welcome to both of you.
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First to Nate, if the
BPRD is not the Bureau
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for Paranormal Research
and Defense, what is it?
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Well, Jim, basically the
BPRD was a mechanism
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of the United States
Department of Defense.
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There was a mission was highly classified,
so it's not much to go into there, but one
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thing I can tell you is that the
BPRD did not stand for paranormal.
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Michael, we hear no paranormal, not active.
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What do you say?
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Both are incorrect there, Jim.
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So what is the BPRD?
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The Bureau for Paranormal
Research and Defense
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is very active and
very much alive today,
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basically what the BPRD
does is it investigates
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paranormal phenomena that can't be
explained with conventional science.
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Well, Nate, we know
that the United States
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government has dabbled into the
realm of the paranormal in the past.
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Why would you dispute that?
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Well, first of all, I don't dispute that.
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Excuse me.
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The government used many voodoo type of...
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Well, I'm glad it isn't disputed,
but I wouldn't call it voodoo.
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In fact, I'll go and remind
everybody, let me rephrase that, okay?
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The government did
use certain hokey type
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of methods to gather information,
especially back in World War II.
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However, back 50
years ago, they realized
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that it was a waste
of time, they're wasting
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valuable resources, money
on paranormal research.
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Well, actually, that's
incorrect, because remote
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viewing has been used
and still used today.
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In fact, there's a very high accuracy rate.
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Michael, you're hiding
behind the screen and
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you're claiming to be part of a
long position and it doesn't exist.
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We have to talk one at a time.
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Michael, respond to that if you could.
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Not a problem.
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A lot of agencies exist that
our government supports that.
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That's true, and I don't know.
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That's not public knowledge.
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That's a clear answer on all levels
from the Department of Defense.
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Not that high, I've read your file, but for
you to sit back and say that our government
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doesn't support certain
departments, what would
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really call into
question your credibility.
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For example, the Delta Force, some of
those, in question what's your inability.
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I mean, there are some
who are talking about
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the government for a long time or
the government which is 12 years.
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Gentlemen, hold on both
of the official line from the U.
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S. government is that funding for the
BPRD ceased in the mid '70s, Michael,
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you claim that it's a
secret organization in effect.
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Very secret.
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Not over in secret, yes.
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Nate, what do you say?
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I would say that, first of all,
Michael, don't question my patriotism.
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Don't question your patriotism.
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Don't answer your question.
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The government
doesn't spend money on
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boogeymen, on little green
men from Mars or the tooth fur.
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We don't defend our
country with big fight, Michael.
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What our government
doesn't spend money last
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before we're running
out of time, Michael?
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Unfortunately, we have
a need for a BPRD, I
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wish we didn't, but we
do, and our government
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spends money on that
to defend our country.
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And that is unfortunately
the final word,
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clearly, this is a controversy,
we'll not be settled here.
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Thank you both.
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Thanks for having us.
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Thank you.
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This is welcome.
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Thank you.
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So, are we to believe there is actually an
agency of the federal government whose main
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task is to rid us of threats
from the paranormal
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realm, or are we to believe that there
are people like Conway Ricker, a tax lawyer
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who have left reality
and their own credibility
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to search for creatures
such as the elusive Hellboy?
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I can already see in some
circles I'm a laughing stock.
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But it's important
enough for me to suffer
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that, to be that laughing
stock, to help reveal
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what I believe is the truth,
what I know is the truth.
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And one of the personal
lives that are touched,
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18 years later, will
Dorothy Hutchins ever
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know what happened to
her best childhood friend?
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I've no reason to believe
that she's not with us.
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I'm confused, but I hope
that one day I'll see her again.
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Regardless of the lies
that have been spread
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to either prop up or
deny the existence of
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the BPRD, at its heart
lies a palpable mystery.
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The efforts of hardworking
people using the
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freedom of information
act as a rallying cry
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have not yet uncovered what might be the
first real mystery of the new millennium.
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I'm Jim More, thank you for watching.
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