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Legendary seers who can predict the
future with incredible accuracy.
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Psychic spies with the ability to see
inside enemy territory.
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And clairvoyants that gain supernatural
powers from the dead.
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Throughout history, a number of people
have been described as possessing a so
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-called sixth sense.
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Whether it's called clairvoyance, ESP,
or second sight, these individuals seem
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to have the ability to predict the
future, communicate with the dead, and
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times perform incredible physical feats.
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But is this intuitive awareness outside
the normal human perception
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a real thing? And if so, does a sixth...
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sense exist in all of us just waiting to
be unlocked?
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Well, that is what we'll try and find
out.
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For thousands of years, people have been
fascinated with and fearful of
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Unique individuals who possess the power
of prophecy.
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Great seers like Nostradamus, Gregorius
Rasputin, and Edgar
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Caythe have been revered for their
seemingly supernatural abilities to
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the future.
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Could this so -called sixth sense simply
be incredible intuition?
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Or is it something scientific we have
yet...
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to understand when we study psychic
phenomena when we study mediumship when
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study things like precognition knowing
information about the future when we
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study telepathy getting information mind
to mind from another person or
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clairvoyance getting information about
objects or things that are hidden from a
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distance all of those would have been
considered magic oh so long ago
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And today, we still study these same
things, but we don't call them magic
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anymore. We look at them as science.
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I don't think there's anything wrong
with being skeptical. And by being
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skeptical, I mean the true meaning of
skeptical, which is that it's like,
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I'm not sure.
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Show me the evidence.
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Now, the reality is when you look at the
research that's been done in the last
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150 years, the questions that still
remain.
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is really why is it that certain
individuals seem to have exceptional
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whereas the rest of us, myself included,
sort of minimal abilities.
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New Delhi, India, October 31st, 1984.
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Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is
assassinated in a surprise
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attack outside her home.
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The country is thrown into confusion and
grief.
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But incredibly, this tragic event was
foretold in surprising detail 15
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years earlier by a legendary psychic
known as Baba Vanga.
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It was in 1969 when Vanga said that
Indira Gandhi would be killed by her
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dress. Her dress is going to kill her,
she said.
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And what happened?
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was that before a meeting, she put a
dress which didn't allow for a
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vest to be put under, and then she was
shot dead by her security guard.
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So this is a really strong example of a
prediction attributed to her which
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really happened.
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While skeptics say Baba Vanga's eerily
accurate prediction was nothing more
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an extraordinary coincidence,
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It's believed that Baba Vanga also
predicted the September 11th terrorist
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attacks on the World Trade Center in New
York.
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And the election of the first African
-American president of the United
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And quite famously, a disaster involving
a Russian nuclear submarine known as
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the Kursk.
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In 1981, Papa Vanga said that a big
tragedy will happen around
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the turn of the century in August 1999
or 2000.
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Vanga is known to have said, at the turn
of the new century, Kursk will be
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underwater and the whole world will cry
over it.
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So these were her words.
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And the whole world was shocked when...
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At the turn of the century, indeed, in
August 2000, the whole submarine sank to
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the bottom of the ocean, 350 feet, down,
with the whole crew dying.
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How did Baba Vanga predict such a
specific and tragic event with such
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Many believe the answer can be traced
back... to the 1920s, when she was 12
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years old.
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And a traumatic event unlocked her
remarkable powers.
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Baba Vanga was from the town, village of
Stumitsche.
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And at the time, in Macedonia, it was
part of the Ottoman Empire,
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just before World War I.
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It's very simple. It's very small.
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And Baba Vanga was a normal child, an
average child in a way, with brown eyes.
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But the life -changing incident that
made Baba Vanga who she was
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was the day where she was walking on a
country road and she was caught up by a
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tornado that literally carried her up in
the
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air.
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and threw her into an adjacent field.
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For dozens of hours, people in the
village were trying to find her. And
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they finally found her, they found her
absolutely terrified and sobbing in the
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field. The strangest thing was it was
almost as if a lot of rock and dirt had
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been stuffed under her eyelids.
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Over a few days, the eyes became
infected and she became blind.
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As her physical senses started to
deteriorate, she realized other senses
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starting to grow.
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She started to be able to see what was
going to happen in the future.
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She slowly began to develop psychic
abilities that replaced her sight.
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And it took a while for these to
develop, but by World War II she was
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have psychic visions.
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and see what was happening during the
war.
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After that, people who were very
concerned about their loved ones who had
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on would come to her to see if she was
able to communicate with the dead.
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And they gave her the nickname Baba
Vanga, which means like a wise
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As Baba Vanga's popularity grew, she
also attracted the attention of the
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scientific community.
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In the late 1960s, Bulgarian scientist
Georgi Lazanov studied
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Baba Vanga at the Institute of
Suggestology, which is part of the
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Academy of Sciences, with quite a lofty
goal.
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Can science unlock the secrets behind
the sixth sense?
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They made experiments with Baba Vanga
from February to October 1967.
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Lozanov thought that clairvoyance
happens because some people, very few
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are capable of receiving signals from
the environment which cannot
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be registered, they cannot be seen. So
he tried to use the most modern
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technology and equipment they were able
to get.
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to try and register and pinpoint those
stimuli, those signals he was supposing
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exist. They were measuring her brain
activity while she was making
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Unfortunately, they were not able to
register what they were searching for.
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So they also interviewed people visiting
her to ask them whether what she said
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really came true. It was a long -term
project.
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answer those questions with, yes, Baba
Vanga really could say what will happen
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to my life.
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In 1996, Baba Vanga passed away at the
age of 84, leaving behind
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predictions for the coming decades that
include deadly plagues, terrible wars,
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and even extraterrestrial visitations.
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And while we wait to see if her future
prophecies prove accurate, researchers
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continue. To study people who possess
the sixth sense.
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10 ,050 Cielo Drive, Los Angeles,
California.
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August 15th, 1969.
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Six days after the shocking murder of
actress Sharon Tate and four others in
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home, Tate's husband, film director
Roman Polanski, arrives to tour the
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the crime with a rather unusual
investigator, a psychic detective named
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Peter Herkos.
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Herkos was allowed to go to the scene of
the Sharon Tate murders, and he
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picked up some interesting details that
were not known at the time.
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He said that there were three murders.
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And he said that he saw a vision of
someone in this house who had taken
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some bad LSD and visualized the devil.
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And that's interesting because Tex
Watson, who was one of the killers, when
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came into the house, he said, I'm the
devil and I'm here to do the devil's
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business.
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When Herkos got there, he kept getting
the name Charlie.
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Charlie, Charlie, Charlie, over and over
and over again.
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And he was able to describe this man who
was this force of destruction and
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wiry and dark who was manipulating
others.
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It's very interesting because that's
exactly who was behind these murders.
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Charlie, of course, turned out to be the
notorious cult leader, Charles Manson.
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who was convicted of first -degree
murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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What ability did Peter Herkes possess
that allowed him to envision the
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mastermind behind this heinous crime?
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In 1941, Peter Herkes was doing a job
painting a house, and he
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fell off his ladder, falling about 40
feet, and he had a brain injury and
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flipped into a coma.
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So when he awoke out of the coma, he
discovered that he had psychic ability.
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And he discovered this almost
immediately because he could sense
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the other patients in the same hospital
room as him.
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Is a traumatic injury the key to
unlocking a sixth sense?
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While that may be the case for some
seers, there are others who, like author
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Laurelyn Jackson,
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believe they were born with these
remarkable gifts.
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So I'm a psychic and a medium.
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And being psychic means that I can read
energy.
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It was before I even had language that I
would feel and read energy around me.
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I'll see pictures.
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I'll see images. I'll see things that
are symbols for me to understand.
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And then being a medium means that I'm
able to connect with the consciousness
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someone who's no longer in a physical
body.
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Sometimes it can be in the voice of a
loved one who's crossed.
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Sometimes it just arrives as a thought
without much sound, where you just
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suddenly know something in every ounce
of your being, but there's no logical
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you could know it.
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It took me a very long time to fully
embrace my abilities.
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And part of that journey for me was
getting tested in every way possible.
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This will be interesting for me, too,
because my readings for people usually
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60 to 90 minutes. And so usually the
first 15 minutes of a reading, I'm just
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aligning my energy with the sitter's
energy. I'm doing an aura reading. I'm
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seeing what they're like. It's almost
like tuning into that frequency.
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And then it really starts. So I don't
know how this is going to go. We're
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to have to say.
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In 2013, Laura participated in a
fascinating experiment under the
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psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Durant.
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I'm going to turn it over, look at it,
and say go. Okay. All right?
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Go. Yeah.
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Red. The goal was to analyze Laura's
brain waves to see what's really
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inside her head when she taps into her
intuitive abilities.
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What we did was we took a 19 -channel
EEG cap, kind of looks like a
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swimming cap with sensors built into it.
What it allows us to do is then compare
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her brain in different states.
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So what we're looking at in these
images...
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are a comparison of Laura Lynn Jackson's
brain activity comparing a conversation
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to a psychic reading.
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And really what you notice is this
dramatic increase of activity in the
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right quadrant.
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Here you see it starts to turn a little
more white, which is an even greater
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increase. And so this is showing this
strong increase, especially in these
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fast brain waves during a psychic
reading.
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Looking at the data.
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This clearly suggests that for her, a
psychic reading and a regular
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are distinct states of consciousness.
They're different.
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And they don't look the same in the
brain.
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So, for me, the question becomes, why?
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This, to me, is the mystery right now.
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At one point, you had three in a row.
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Okay. Dr. Tarrant's brain scan
experiment revealed a lot of very
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information. When he looked at my brain
in resting state to just get baseline,
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he asked me if I had ever had traumatic
brain injury.
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Dr. Tarrant shared with me that my brain
looked very similar to people who have
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had traumatic brain injury, and yet I've
had no traumatic brain injury.
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It didn't really make sense to me.
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So I think the question really is, is
there a possible physiological component
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to being able to access this sixth sense
or these other abilities?
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And I think that there is.
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Some people have these abilities
unlocked after some sort of neurological
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incident or a traumatic brain injury.
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But then other folks, they're just born
with these abilities. I think what this
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suggests is that... Whether it's through
an injury or whether it's through some
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sort of practice of altered states or
meditation, somehow we have to shift the
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brain out of its normal functioning.
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But there's still actually a lot that we
need to understand in terms of how it
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is possible to unlock our sixth sense.
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It's exciting to think that if we can
find the key to unlock our minds, we
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all possess extrasensory power.
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In fact, recently declassified files
reveal that both the United States and
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Russia spent decades trying to identify
and train people suspected of having
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psychic abilities. Not just to discover
their true potential, but also to
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recognize them.
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The Arctic Ocean, 1958.
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The United States Navy's first nuclear
-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus,
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dives deep below the waves outside of
radio contact.
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A sailor inside the submarine holds up a
series of cards that have various
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shapes printed on them.
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Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in
Maryland, a psychic tries to visualize
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cards the sailor is presenting using
only the power of the mind.
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With the sub under the Arctic ice cap,
they did several runs of completely
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shuffled cards. I believe it was 160
guesses.
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112 turned out to be correct when
everything was compared after the sub
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That's a 70 % hit rate.
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The Soviets heard about this. They did a
check apparently with some sources who
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said, yes, that's what happened, and
decided to start spending.
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It turned out to be billions of dollars
to investigate the possibility of
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telepathy as well as other psychic
phenomena.
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While the U .S. Navy denied these
psychic tests were taking place, the
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alone inspired the Soviet Union to
invest in programs with the goal of
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developing psychic weapons.
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The Soviets started to recruit special
people to help them with their studies.
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They recruited one woman named Nina
Kolizhina.
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Nina Kolizhina was from Ukraine, and she
was a housewife who said that she could
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control different objects without
touching them.
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She was mainly able to sensibly move
objects with psychokinesis, mind over
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matter.
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At one point, they had her try to use
her psychokinesis to try to stop the
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of a frog.
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And it did. At least that was what was
reported.
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Is it possible to turn someone's sixth
sense into a deadly weapon?
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While it's a matter of debate, we do
know that this Soviet program would
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a top -secret psychic arms race.
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American intelligence realized, oh my
goodness.
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They're getting ahead of us.
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We need to start our own psychic spying
program.
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They wanted to see if they could have
people who were psychics get information
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about the Soviet Union where their
satellites could not get information.
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This was a form of clairvoyance, the
ability to see objects or events from a
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distance called remote viewing.
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According to declassified documents from
1972 to 1995,
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The CIA, Army, and Defense Intelligence
Agency engaged in a joint effort to
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recruit and train remote viewers as
psychic spies for the American
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This top -secret program was called
Project Stargate.
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The Stargate program ran from 1972 to
1995.
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During that period, there were 20 people
on staff.
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There were nine consultants and two
visiting scientists.
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I was one of the visiting scientists,
and I was there for the calendar year
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1985.
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It took me about nine months to get all
of the clearances, but it ended up
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having to be a top -secret clearance.
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If an agency came and asked, you know,
could you look into this thing, whatever
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it happened to be, these remote viewers
would do their best to describe what it
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is.
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The CIA and the FBI and a bunch of other
agencies, they came back again and
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again and again.
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There's something like 450 missions that
these remote viewers were asked to do.
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So somebody somewhere found it to be
useful.
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In an unassuming building in Fort Meade,
Maryland, Project Stargate's military
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unit performed hundreds of remote
viewing missions.
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And one of these psychic spies was a
gifted Army officer named David
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In 1986, I was recruited to become a
member of what at the time was
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called Sunstreak. Now everyone knows it
as Project Stargate.
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In a remote viewing session, you're
going to be over in the viewing room.
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What you're doing is calling together
all of your senses to go to a target
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is unbeknownst to you to determine what
the temperature might be, what the
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sounds are that you're hearing, what the
visual representations of things are
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that you're perceiving.
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Now you're developing an overall picture
of it and then putting a summary
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together and turning it in.
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Three targets a day, 90 minutes each,
working it.
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Remote viewers used their psychic
abilities to search for lost spy planes,
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inside top -secret military facilities,
and even targeted wanted criminals for
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the United States government.
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Just how successful were they?
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December 21st, 1988.
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Pan Am Flight 103, bound for the United
States, mysteriously explodes in midair
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over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland,
killing all 259 people on board and 11
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the ground.
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And while a traditional investigation is
launched,
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Morehouse and a team of psychic spies at
U .S. Army Base Fort Meade begin their
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own analysis of the shocking event.
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Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over
Lockerbie, Scotland.
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We, of course, didn't know this. We were
assembled, and we did our work.
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We identified it as an explosion.
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We were even able to identify where the
explosion came, below the passenger
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level, in front of the leading edge of
the right wing.
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We were the first to identify the
explosive device.
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being hidden inside of a boom box.
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What the Renault viewing team did was
provide essential information to at
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determine, in part, what happened on
that fateful night.
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Project Stargate was officially shut
down in 1995.
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But considering the project's longevity
and reported success, you have to
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wonder, is it possible that the United
States government still uses... Psychic
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spies today?
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Do I believe that the Central
Intelligence Agency is still utilizing
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viewing, buried it somewhere deeper,
darker, more protected in some other
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intelligence agency, whether it's the
NSA, Directorate of Science and
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Technology, or some other agency, as
they're evolving?
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Yes, of course they are.
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If the United States government is in
fact still trying to weaponize psychics,
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it's no wonder why the program would be
kept secret. In any case, some experts
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believe an even better use of a person's
sixth sense is not to launch attacks,
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but to prevent them by looking into the
future.
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Shorewood, Wisconsin, October 26, 1935.
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Nestled along the blue waters of Lake
Michigan, all is calm in this quaint
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Milwaukee suburb until 7 .32 p .m., when
a peaceful autumn evening
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is interrupted by a massive explosion of
dynamite.
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There was an explosion at the Shorewood
Village Hall.
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It exploded and shattered all the
windows and left a huge hole in the
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Then, less than 24 hours later, two
branches of the First National Bank
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had explosions about a half hour apart.
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So by now, the city is in panic because
it appears there's a mad bomber on the
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loose.
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Four days after the explosions at the
banks, Two different police stations are
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bombed within about 10 minutes of each
other.
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These dynamite bombs caused serious
damage.
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Nobody could quite understand why this
was happening. Were these anarchists?
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Were these communists? Were these people
just trying to sow terror?
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No one knew the cause.
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From October 26th to November 3rd, 1935,
this series of bombings would
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become known as the Seven Nights of
Terror.
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And while these shocking attacks caught
the townspeople off guard, they were no
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surprise to a local psychic named Arthur
Price Roberts, who predicted the event
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and its location just one day before the
first explosion.
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Arthur Price Roberts, throughout his
life, was known by many names. Some
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him Doc Roberts, Professor Roberts.
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But his very favorite thing to be called
was psychic detective.
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The story that gets the most attention
is the story of the mysterious bombings.
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In fact, the reason that we even know of
his prediction is because he gave it at
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a live psychic show.
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He talks about police buildings,
government buildings, banks being
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people who are at that show.
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start contacting Shorewood police saying
there's going to be a series of
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bombings in Milwaukee.
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And the police instantly dismissed that.
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And then, just a day later, the
Shorewood Village Hall is dynamited.
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So now the police turn to Roberts, and
Roberts informed police that there's
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going to be one more explosion.
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And he said that it would happen south
of the Menominee River.
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And that's exactly what happened.
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The two bombers who had been responsible
for this had been making the bombs in a
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little shed pretty close to the river,
and they accidentally blew themselves up
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along with their entire supply of
dynamite.
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And this explosion was so big that they
could hear it for about eight miles
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away. And that was it.
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The seven nights of terror were over.
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To this day, the motive behind the
dynamite bombings carried out by 20
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-old Hugh Rutkowski and 16 -year -old
Paul Giovanni remains unknown.
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But how was Doc Roberts able to predict
these bombings with such uncanny
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accuracy?
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Many believe it was because he possessed
a rare psychic ability known as
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precognition. And precognition?
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What we're talking about is someone
getting information that they could not
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project from the current circumstances,
things that they could never know.
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Now, this is very different from someone
who is able to look at the current
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world and make predictions on what's
going to happen next.
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We're talking about someone who is able
to know an unpredictable event,
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something that no way they could know.
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With Robert, He was accurately able to
do this. As a psychic, he was able to
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perform precognitive feats quite
regularly.
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Roberts actually predicted his own death
in 1940.
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He said to friends, I will be dying on
January 2, 1940, and he did.
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What I love about precognition and
studying precognition in the human mind
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that it allows us hope.
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that if we can know about something in
the future, we can prepare, which is
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incredibly important for our well
-being.
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Like, for instance, a particular crime
happens.
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And so if you can predict the what and
the when, how can you manage that?
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I think it opens up a lot of questions
about, does the crime actually have to
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almost happen?
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But then you stop it just before it
does.
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If they're wrong and someone is thought
to be a criminal and they're not, what
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happens then?
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There's all sorts of ethical problems
with this.
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The widespread prediction on the
eradication of crime does have some
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issues. And how would you even find such
a large workforce as psychics to
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accomplish such a lofty goal?
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Well, some believe the answer may be
found in Argentina.
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Because in 2024...
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Argentina's security forces announced
plans to predict and prevent future
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crimes, not with psychics, but with
artificial intelligence.
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Some people believe that you can use
artificial intelligence to predict what
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crimes are going to occur. And if you
are looking at patterns of what happened
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in the past, with artificial
intelligence, you may be able to project
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going to occur in the future.
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The very premise...
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is not just that it gathers and weighs
information, but it devises new ways,
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methods of gleaning information.
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If AI lives up to its potential as a
public tool, it would be foolish of us
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to conclude that it couldn't be used as
an instrument of foresight.
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There's no telling where that wheel
stops turning.
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This peaceful, quaint community.
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is often referred to as the psychic
capital of the world.
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In 1894, George Colby, a medium who
could commune with the spirits of the
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established the Casadegas Spiritualist
Camp here.
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And today, his legacy lives on with
residents of the camp like spiritual
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and teacher, Reverend Louis Gates.
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The Casadegas Spiritualist Camp is
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The biggest spiritualist camp in the
southeastern part of the United States.
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It's a place for mediums together.
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People live here to do their work and to
teach and instruct.
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But also the camp is here to allow
people to come and to get readings and
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connect with their loved ones and people
who have passed over in the spirit
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world.
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Camps were actually formed back in the
day when there was no place for
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spiritualists to meet.
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And spiritualism really majorly took off
because when we have wars, Civil War,
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World War I, II, all the wars we've had,
when people have lost loved ones,
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people want to hear from their loved
ones.
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But it has always been a form of
communication.
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Shamans, part of the tribe, had that
communication with spirit.
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It's always had some kind of connection
with death.
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While holy men have communicated with
the dead since antiquity, spiritualism
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a religious movement and belief system
that began in the mid -1800s.
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Through seances and human conduits to
the spirit realm, known as mediums,
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spiritualists believe we can communicate
with the dead and receive messages and
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guidance from beyond the veil.
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Spiritualism started in New York State
in a town called Hydesville in 1848.
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And it started off really in the house
of the Fox family.
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There were three sisters in the house,
Kate, Margaret and Leah.
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And they started to hear noises, strange
bangs in their house.
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And they soon realized that they could
communicate with these noises.
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They would do one knock for yes.
435
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Two knocks for no.
436
00:34:05,220 --> 00:34:09,659
And they were able to determine that it
was the spirit of a peddler who'd been
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murdered a few years earlier.
438
00:34:11,540 --> 00:34:15,560
And later on, they found human remains
down in the cellar.
439
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,780
It became a big news story.
440
00:34:20,739 --> 00:34:25,340
The Fox sisters announced that they had
worked out a code to communicate with
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00:34:25,340 --> 00:34:27,900
intelligences from the other world.
442
00:34:28,699 --> 00:34:33,320
People descended on the cabin to
investigate the girls, clergy, lawyers,
443
00:34:33,540 --> 00:34:39,860
newspaper reporters, scientists, and
many came away proclaiming them
444
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:44,179
Americans were ready to believe, and
they embraced the claims.
445
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:47,300
So the movement of spiritualism began.
446
00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:54,460
It's been estimated that by the late
1800s, the American spiritualism
447
00:34:54,460 --> 00:34:56,480
had upwards of 6 million followers.
448
00:34:58,060 --> 00:35:02,560
But could there be another reason
spiritualism became so popular, besides
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longing to speak with the dearly
departed?
450
00:35:06,020 --> 00:35:12,640
Well, some believe that it could be a
path to unlock mysterious powers.
451
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:19,220
There are different kinds of mediums.
Probably the most common forms that
452
00:35:19,220 --> 00:35:23,240
familiar with are called clairvoyant
mediums.
453
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,540
They go into a trance.
454
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and then different spirits will start to
communicate through their bodies.
455
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:35,440
And then physical mediumship is where
the medium is causing objects to
456
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or move.
457
00:35:36,740 --> 00:35:39,820
Their physical body might change in
different ways.
458
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:41,860
You might see their faces transform.
459
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,120
They might become larger or smaller and
things like that.
460
00:35:45,980 --> 00:35:51,000
Can some mediums really gain
otherworldly physical powers from the
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Perhaps the answer lies with one
legendary seance from the 1800s.
462
00:36:01,060 --> 00:36:05,360
Ashley House, London, England, December
1868.
463
00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:12,860
Members of London's intellectual elite
gather to participate in a seance led by
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00:36:12,860 --> 00:36:17,060
famed Scottish medium Daniel Douglas
Hume.
465
00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:19,700
It is during this...
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00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,520
that he earns the nickname, the flying
psychic.
467
00:36:24,100 --> 00:36:31,020
And he earns it by somehow levitating
above the table, hovering above
468
00:36:31,020 --> 00:36:37,560
it, and then somehow physically flying
out of the window of the seance room and
469
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,480
in through another window. No one knows
how he did it.
470
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:49,100
There were no wires. There was no one in
the room that was working with
471
00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:55,490
him. It was just the people at the
seance and Hume conducting
472
00:36:55,490 --> 00:37:00,570
this amazing feat that we are still
talking about and still puzzling about
473
00:37:00,570 --> 00:37:01,570
today.
474
00:37:02,450 --> 00:37:07,730
After the fact, people have raised
doubts about what took place on that
475
00:37:08,130 --> 00:37:13,190
But the fact that there were so many
witnesses in the room, that they were
476
00:37:13,190 --> 00:37:18,950
supposedly respectable members of
society, observing these events from
477
00:37:18,950 --> 00:37:24,970
angles, and they were adamant that what
they'd seen was a real phenomenon.
478
00:37:26,330 --> 00:37:29,730
He had a gift that not everybody else
has.
479
00:37:30,410 --> 00:37:35,970
But there are mediums that have gifts,
that have a connection to gifts from the
480
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spirit world.
481
00:37:36,950 --> 00:37:43,310
I do believe that people can unlock a
sixth sense by meditating, by breathing,
482
00:37:43,490 --> 00:37:47,370
by working at it, to open their mind
to...
483
00:37:47,820 --> 00:37:51,520
Other realms, other places become in
contact with spirit.
484
00:37:51,740 --> 00:37:56,680
If you keep working at the same thing,
day after day after day, the energy will
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00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:57,680
get stronger.
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00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,020
McLean, Virginia.
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00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:11,180
From 2011 to 2015, a government agency
known as the Intelligence
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00:38:11,180 --> 00:38:16,700
Advanced Research Projects Activity
conducts a series of competitions.
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00:38:17,470 --> 00:38:19,570
designed to answer a fascinating
question.
490
00:38:20,390 --> 00:38:25,690
How effective are regular, everyday
people at predicting the future?
491
00:38:26,230 --> 00:38:31,010
These contests are known as forecasting
tournaments.
492
00:38:32,690 --> 00:38:37,550
Forecasting tournaments are competitions
where people try to predict a future
493
00:38:37,550 --> 00:38:43,530
event, something that's of global
importance, like will this country
494
00:38:43,530 --> 00:38:46,470
its troops from this other country by
such and such a date?
495
00:38:47,340 --> 00:38:50,660
Will the yen go up by two points on
Thursday?
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00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:54,440
Really detailed questions that are very
hard to predict.
497
00:38:54,740 --> 00:38:56,140
And these are just ordinary people.
498
00:38:56,460 --> 00:39:00,160
They could be someone who works at home
raising their kids.
499
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:04,940
These aren't special PhDs or anything.
But when they're grouped together, they
500
00:39:04,940 --> 00:39:09,260
become this kind of super forecasting
unit that together can predict future
501
00:39:09,260 --> 00:39:15,220
events much better than even
intelligence officials with classified
502
00:39:16,810 --> 00:39:21,070
It was reported that when grouped
together, future predictions made by
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00:39:21,070 --> 00:39:27,790
people outperform intelligence analysts
who had access to classified data by
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00:39:27,790 --> 00:39:32,330
about 30%. And the question becomes,
why?
505
00:39:33,190 --> 00:39:39,150
When we look at the work of super
forecasters, there's the debate about
506
00:39:39,150 --> 00:39:41,830
what they're doing is just kind of
listening to their intuition.
507
00:39:42,860 --> 00:39:46,580
versus maybe some sort of precognition,
the ability to know things in the
508
00:39:46,580 --> 00:39:52,940
future. Our mind -body is picking up on
something before it materializes.
509
00:39:54,340 --> 00:39:59,080
This is probably an evolutionary
adaptation that we've developed.
510
00:39:59,860 --> 00:40:03,280
We all have intuitive abilities, but
many times we don't listen.
511
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:07,180
We're not aware of it on a conscious
level, but we have a feeling.
512
00:40:09,230 --> 00:40:12,510
In terms of the super forecasters, maybe
they're really good at listening.
513
00:40:13,430 --> 00:40:18,950
Can the sixth sense really come down to
highly attuned intuition, something that
514
00:40:18,950 --> 00:40:19,950
everyone has?
515
00:40:20,050 --> 00:40:24,370
And if so, is it possible not to
entertain one very exciting possibility?
516
00:40:25,530 --> 00:40:31,530
Through practice, can anyone develop
these mysterious powers of the mind?
517
00:40:33,250 --> 00:40:37,350
People are very curious about unlocking
a sixth sense. People ask me.
518
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,340
You know, you're a neuroscientist. What
do I do to my brain to make it so that I
519
00:40:41,340 --> 00:40:42,340
can have these capacities?
520
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,300
You actually think it's part of how the
brain works?
521
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,820
So it's not really unlocking something
that's locked away.
522
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,320
It's more like using what's already
there, but taking it seriously.
523
00:40:53,420 --> 00:40:59,700
You're already getting in the
information, not judging it, not
524
00:40:59,700 --> 00:41:03,480
assuming it's wrong, but testing it out.
525
00:41:04,140 --> 00:41:08,320
So, for example, if I meditate, am I
more aware of my thoughts that seem to
526
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:09,178
out of the blue?
527
00:41:09,180 --> 00:41:11,480
That might help me with a problem I'm
working on.
528
00:41:12,340 --> 00:41:14,940
It's more like attending to what's
already there.
529
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:22,680
It's intriguing to consider that the
ability to predict the future may be a
530
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,460
skill that can be taught to all of us.
531
00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:30,280
Whether it's seeing events before they
happen, communicating with the spirit
532
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:31,820
world, or...
533
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:33,560
reading someone else's thoughts.
534
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:38,940
The human mind seems to be capable of
feats that defy our understanding.
535
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:43,520
Are these abilities a freak combination
of luck and intuition?
536
00:41:44,180 --> 00:41:51,100
Or could they be evidence of an elusive
sixth sense locked away within the human
537
00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:52,100
mind?
538
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:58,980
It's an intriguing mystery that, for the
moment, remains unexplained.
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