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[gentle chiming]

[theme music]

ANNOUNCER: Tonight, on Unsolved Mysteries.

ROBERT STACK: They are known as men in black.

They are the vanguard of the UFO phenomenon,

cloaked in a veil of secrecy and quasi-official intimidation.

No one knows exactly who they are, who they represent,

or where they come from.

[suspenseful music]

It was a bizarre transcontinental odyssey

that began at a border crossing in western Canada

and ended in a deserted parking lot in Tennessee.

What prompted Blair Adams' sad and lonely journey to murder?

[suspenseful music]

Rosemary Altea says she was still

a young child when she had her first encounters

with the spirit world.

Today, Rosemary believes she's been

blessed with a rare ability to communicate with the dead.

And those who have witnessed her sessions

are convinced Rosemary's powers are real.

[suspenseful music]

This woman needs your help.

Some 30 years ago, circumstances forced

her to put her newborn son up for adoption.

Now a serious genetic disorder has

turned her search for that son into a matter

of life and death.

Join me for these intriguing new cases.

Perhaps you may be able to help solve a mystery.

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ROSEMARY: As you ask that question, in huge letters--

ROBERT STACK: These people share tragedy.

Death has taken someone dear to each of them.

In almost every case, it was a young child.

ROSEMARY: She writes love.

The message for her father and for you is love.

ROBERT STACK: Now they're desperately

hoping this woman can connect them to those loved ones,

just one more time.

Her name is Rosemary Altea.

She claims she can commune with the spirits of the dead.

I'm instructed to tell you that he's handsome.

WOMAN: Yes.

ROSEMARY: Of course, you would say yes.

ROBERT STACK: Rosemary considers this a rare gift,

a gift she first became aware of as a little girl in England.

ROSEMARY: --how sick he was.

Good night, Rosemary.

[smooch] Have a good night's sleep, all right?

ROBERT STACK: In the beginning, Rosemary

says her encounters with her spirit world

were confusing and very frightening.

[mysterious music]

GHOSTLY VOICES: Rosemary.

Rosemary.

Rosemary.

ROSEMARY: You would call them ghosts, but I-- as a child,

I just knew them as faces and voices,

which-- the voices would be whispering

and whispering at me.

I would never quite hear what they would say.

Sometimes they would call my name.

It would be very eerie, very ghostly.

And it was very, very scary.

I was a terrified child.

CHILD ROSEMARY: Mommy!

Mommy!

ROSEMARY: If I cried out in the night because I was scared,

my parents would basically yell at me.

And I just was seen to be a bad child.

Pull yourself towards yourself.

You don't want to end up like your grandmother, do you?

CHILD ROSEMARY: I love you, Mommy.

ROBERT STACK: Rosemary's family had a history of insanity.

Her grandmother spent her last days

confined to a mental hospital.

You know, as children do, I learned very quickly,

very fast, to keep my--

what was happening, my thoughts, my feelings, and my fears,

to myself.

And I grew up that way, never daring to tell anyone

because my greatest fear was that they would come

and put me in a straitjacket.

MAN: Last week, we made a certain amount of headway.

ROBERT STACK: Rosemary kept her secret for more than 20 years.

Then she met a man who changed her life.

He told her she wasn't crazy, she was psychic.

MAN: Good.

Now that we're all here--

ROBERT STACK: He introduced Rosemary to other psychics,

and they began helping her unleash the power within.

MAN: As we do, we start to breathe deeply.

ROBERT STACK: During one channeling session,

Rosemary says she learned she had a spirit guide, an Apache

shaman named Gray Eagle.

He has the most extraordinary eyes.

His face-- his skin is--

it's dark.

And he's here to help me communicate

with other spirits who've passed on to get

messages to family and friends.

Suddenly everything made sense.

It was like walking out of a very dark tunnel.

Imagine that you are walking in a dark tunnel with no light,

for all of your life.

And suddenly you discover sun.

Suddenly you discover the sunshine.

ROSEMARY: I see a bird in the distance.

ROBERT STACK: Rosemary decided then and there

to dedicate her life to working with those

who had lost loved ones.

In 1995 she published a bestselling

book about her experiences, The Eagle and the Rose.

Hello.

Miss Altea?

ROSEMARY: Yes?

Would you sign our copy?

ROBERT STACK: It was at a book signing in New Jersey

that Rosemary met a couple named Tony and Marie.

MAN: Uh, Ms. Altea?

ROSEMARY: Yes?

Hi.

I was wondering, do you ever speak at,

uh, bereavement groups?

Oh, of course.

If you'd like to see my publicist,

she's right back there and she'll make

all the arrangements for you.

MAN: Thank you.

Oh, you lost little girl.

To cancer.

Wow, my Lord, look at all the spirits around you.

Well.

At that point we all fell off.

We kind of fell apart.

Because we couldn't believe that this woman--

we had no idea who she was--

knew this.

I'll just take a seat right here.

ROBERT STACK: Two years earlier, Tony and Marie

had lost their three and a half year old daughter, Michelle,

to leukemia.

When the book signing was over, Rosemary tried to make

contact with Michelle's spirit.

A little girl.

She's really happy that you saved a card.

There's a special card that you saved in a drawer for her?

And the picture that she made, that you have

hidden in a box in the closet.

She's very pleased you kept those things.

ROBERT STACK: To Tony and Marie, that message was startling.

One of Michelle's favorite playthings

was a Valentine card Tony had given Marie.

MICHELLE: My favorite card!

Goodness, that card!

The magical love card, huh?

[smooches] Let's see, shall we read it?

Look how pretty this is!

TONY: Beautiful!

ROBERT STACK: Later, when Michelle was hospitalized,

a therapist helped her to make a flower picture for her parents,

a piece of art they still treasure.

No one except for my wife, my daughter, and me

are the only three that knew about the card and the card

in the closet that we kept.

And at that point in time I was absolutely convinced

that this woman has an ability to speak

to people on the other side.

She's quite adamant about it.

As we left the book store, the biggest amazement

was trying to get over the shock of everything

that just happened that night.

I couldn't believe what happened.

And upon us discussing it and talking about it,

I had a feeling of so much joy and so much peace

that I can't even describe.

I'm so pleased to be with all of you.

And I know--

ROBERT STACK: Tony and Marie were

members of a bereavement group.

The other members were hoping Rosemary

would be just as successful at contacting their loved ones.

Some, though, harbored quiet doubts.

WOMAN: Will you be speaking with us as a group?

The ability to be able to be in touch with spirits

was very spooky to me.

And I was somewhat taken aback by someone saying they

had the ability to do that.

And he's with you all the time.

Is that your son? WOMAN: Yes.

KENNETH BOZAK: And as she progressed around the room,

she was identifying several people

and their associated child and what the child died from.

But the older one.

She's older than any of the other children.

KENNETH BOZAK: And she was telling the right stories

about the right people.

Yes.

And when she got to me and my wife,

we were sitting there and she was saying--

she looked at us and she said, "Your

child died of a brain tumor."

ROBERT STACK: Rosemary was right.

20-year-old Stephanie Bozak had died of a brain tumor in 1994.

She asked me to tell you that she has a scar on her head.

WOMAN: That's right.

She's very happy that you saved the lock of her hair.

Is that true?

I did do that.

And she really is happy about the statue for you--

I-- the statue.

There's a-- a man with a stick, possibly.

Like a trophy?

That's it.

It's a trophy.

She's very pleased about the trophy.

I won a golf trophy at the country club two nights ago.

Nobody knew about that.

I was absolutely flabbergasted.

And I felt like I was really connecting with Stephanie.

She was there in the room with us that night.

And that pushed me over the edge.

That gave me the belief that Rosemary was

doing something that was real.

I don't know how Rosemary does what she does.

And I don't spend a lot of time trying to figure it out.

I think it is something you get a benefit from

and you either accept it or you reject it.

And it helps you get through sometimes.

She's looking at me very seriously.

She says I'm to tell you-- and you won't be satisfied with

this, I have to warn you now--

ROSEMARY: People are given tremendous hope,

tremendous hope.

Because I'm here now.

ROSEMARY: They're often given the strength

and the encouragement to go on with their lives,

to live their lives more positively.

--she says is to just get on with your lives.

And she's asking, please when you try?

I just have a job to do, just like everyone else.

My job just has to--

just happens to be a little bit more extraordinary.

[gentle music]

ROBERT STACK: Can the spirits of the dead

return to communicate with the living?

Skeptics suggest that people who believe they can

are at best indulging in wishful thinking.

Nevertheless, those who've experienced Rosemary Altea's

power are convinced they have indeed received messages

of love from beyond the grave.

[suspenseful music]

Coming up.

If you ever report that you've seen a UFO,

you may receive some unexpected visitors.

Who are the mysterious men in black?

But first a woman's search for her long lost son

becomes a race against time when she

is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.

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[suspenseful music]

ROBERT STACK: Sometimes one decision,

made with the best of intentions,

can change our lives forever.

That was certainly the case for a 15-year-old Bobbie

Paige of Idaho Falls, Idaho.

[mysterious music]

Could you guys toss me that sleeping bag?

ROBERT STACK: On a warm summer night in 1965,

Bobbie gave in to youthful desire and the young man

she loved.

[mysterious music]

I love you.

And I want to marry you, Bobbie.

BOBBIE: I believed what he said.

I believed that he wanted to marry me.

[mysterious music]

That night I knew that I was pregnant.

I was excited because I thought I was getting married.

I was very happy.

I was very excited.

I, you know--

I was thinking about having a wedding

and that this was my knight in shining

armor coming to rescue me.

ROBERT STACK: But just two weeks later,

a vicious rumor brought Bobbie's romantic fantasy

crashing to the ground.

Word had it that Bobbie's boyfriend

was not the baby's father.

Give me my ring back right now.

Why? What's wrong?

You lied to me.

BOBBIE: What are you talking about?

Brad told me that you're two months pregnant.

Did you think I wasn't going to find out?

Brad has no idea what he's talking about.

And why would you listen to Brad before you would listen to me?

My sister even told me you cannot get pregnant

after having sex only one time.

And you don't have morning sickness after only

being pregnant for two weeks!

Your sister is crazy.

And if you don't believe me, we can go to the doctor

and he'll tell you.

MAN: Why would I go to the doctor?

This has nothing to do with me! - It does!

It's your baby!

MAN: It's not my baby! - It's your baby!

Give me my ring, now! [suspenseful music]

[inaudible]

BOBBIE: I was very afraid.

Don, please don't do this!

I knew that I was pregnant and he was leaving me.

And I didn't want him to leave.

I didn't want him to leave me.

I felt betrayed.

[mysterious music]

ROBERT STACK: Nine months later, on the day before Mother's Day,

Bobbie gave birth to a healthy baby boy.

Early on she had made the painful decision to put

her child up for adoption.

I want to see him.

I knew that I couldn't keep him.

There was no way I could keep him.

And I wanted what was best for him.

And I knew that--

that giving him up for adoption would give him

the best chance at a good life.

Miss Page, I am taking over for your caseworker.

ROBERT STACK: Bobbie had been sedated when her son was born.

And now she desperately wished to see him.

But even that proved difficult.

I'm not signing these papers until I see my baby.

WOMAN: Bobbie. NURSE: I'm sorry.

That's not allowed.

My doctor and caseworker agreed that I will not sign

anything until I saw my baby.

NURSE: I'm sorry.

It's hospital policy.

I'm not signing these.

ROBERT STACK: In the end Bobbie prevailed.

But it was a bittersweet victory that

has haunted her ever since.

The heart-wrenching joy of seeing

her child for the first time, and the last.

Oh, he's beautiful.

BOBBIE: I wanted him.

I wanted to take him home.

[gentle music]

He had blue eyes.

He opened them and looked at me.

He was beautiful.

[gentle music]

It's time to go.

I was just totally emotionally drained after that.

I sobbed all the way back to the room.

I don't think I quit sobbing for weeks after that.

But I signed the papers.

I could-- I don't think I could even see what I was signing

I just said, "Where do you want me to sign?"

and I signed the papers.

[gentle music]

NURSE: Thank you, Miss Page.

[gentle music]

ROBERT STACK: Bobbie eventually married

and had three more children.

But she never forgot the son she left behind.

In 1984, when he turned 18, Bobbie

traveled to the adoption center that had handled the case.

Bobbie thought she could now gain

access to her son's records and find out where he was.

He's 18.

Well, I'm sorry.

I don't know where you heard that information.

Unfortunately once the records are sealed,

we cannot open them no matter what the child's age is.

So there's really nothing we can show you.

Although we can have you fill out a letter.

And if he ever comes to us looking for information

about his birth mother, well, then we

can show him this information and then maybe he

can contact you.

ROBERT STACK: Bobbie wrote the letter

and spent the next several years waiting for her son to answer.

He never did.

Then in 1993, a tragic series of events

turned Bobbie's search into a desperate race against time.

[suspenseful music]

Bobbie was diagnosed with a chronic active autoimmune

hepatitis, a rare genetic disorder in which

her own antibodies attack and will

eventually destroy her liver.

Bobbie was told she had at most 10 years to live.

There is no cure for chronic active autoimmune hepatitis.

The advantage of finding Bobette's son

now would be that if he did have the disease,

he could be treated early, prevent liver damage,

and extend his life quite a lot.

My last area--

ROBERT STACK: Since the diagnosis,

Bobbie has stepped up her search with the full support

of her other three children, who all run the risk

of inheriting her disorder.

I want to see her happy.

I want to see her enjoy, you know, this time

that she has left.

And I think that finding my older brother

would do that for her.

A lot can happen in 30 years.

Her curiosity has ranged from everything

to what is he doing with his life now in terms of career?

You know, how was his home life?

Everything like that.

Was it everything she had hoped it would have been

by giving him up for adoption in order to provide

a better life for him?

What I want is to let him know that I love him.

And I've always loved him.

And that I loved him from day one.

That I always cared about him and that

I wanted the very best for him.

And that my hope is that he's had a wonderful life.

[gentle music]

[suspenseful music]

ROBERT STACK: When we return.

No one knows why Blair Adams left his home in Canada

and why he turned up dead in Tennessee.

Was he running from a killer?

Or from his own personal demons?

And later, dozens of people claim they've encountered

the so-called men in black.

Are they secret government operatives

assigned to investigate UFOs?

Or do they come from a place beyond space and time?

[suspenseful music]

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ROBERT STACK: Strangers found him half-dressed

and battered in a parking lot on a gray July morning in 1996.

Scattered around the body was a mix of German, Canadian, and US

currency totaling some $4,000.

His wallet was intact, and its contents identified him

as 31-year-old Blair Adams of Surrey, British Columbia,

in western Canada.

Every aspect of this case is mysterious.

There is no logical explanation for anything he did.

We can't say for a fact that this

is why he did that because there's no explanation for it.

We cannot come up with a motive--

a motive for this man to be dead.

We can't come up for reasoning for him to be here.

We can't come up for a reason for him to leave Canada.

Nobody knew he was going to take this trip.

Nobody.

This is an actual whodunit.

[mysterious music]

ROBERT STACK: The investigation is not

stalled for lack of evidence.

As Blair Adams wandered the continent,

he left indelible impressions on everyone he met.

Authorities have now been able to reconstruct

his baffling 3,000 mile journey in exhaustive detail.

But still no one knows why Blair left home

or why he ended up in Knoxville, Tennessee.

No one knows whether Blair Adams was running from a killer

or if he was just running from himself.

Prior to his mysterious death, Blair Adams

was a foreman with a construction company

in Surrey, British Columbia.

Those who knew him say Blair liked his work and did it well.

Blair did seem to have a normal life.

He had many friends.

He had a job.

He traveled on occasion, had a history

of several different girlfriends,

was well-liked by virtually everyone

that we've had contact with.

[suspenseful music]

ROBERT STACK: However, in the summer of 1996,

Blair's cheery demeanor began to crack and buckle.

Now his moods swung unpredictably

from agitated paranoia to pensive withdrawal.

Something was obviously very much the matter.

He hadn't been sleeping well.

Something was wrong.

I asked him numerous times what was wrong.

And he said, "Oh, I don't think I should tell you about it."

And to this day, I don't know what "it" is.

[mysterious music]

ROBERT STACK: Whatever trouble was brewing in Blair's life

began to boil up on Friday, July 5th.

He withdrew his savings and emptied his safe deposit box

of more than $6,000 in cash, and thousands more

in jewelry, gold, and platinum.

It was a first stop on a dead-end run to Tennessee.

[mysterious music]

The next stop was a Canadian-American border.

On Sunday, Blair made the first of several attempts

to enter the United States.

As he would so often in the last days of his life,

Blair left a lasting impression.

OFFICER: Where you going?

Uh, Seattle.

Can you step out of the car?

Can I see some ID?

Sure.

ROBERT STACK: As an unmarried young man carrying

a large amount of cash, Blair fit the profile

of a drug trafficker.

He was refused entry.

[mysterious music]

The next day, Monday, Blair showed up at his job,

but not to work.

BLAIR: Uh, I need to quit my job.

Why?

I need some time.

Can I get my check?

ROBERT STACK: Blair's erratic behavior continued.

That afternoon, he spent $1,600 on a round-trip airline

ticket from Vancouver, Canada to Frankfurt, Germany.

His flight would leave the following day.

But just hours after buying the ticket to Germany,

Blair was again desperate to get into the United States.

He showed up at a friend's house in a panic.

Blair. I'm

Sorry to come by so late but I need your help.

I really need you to help me, OK?

Wait, it's almost one!

I need you to take me to the border.

Take you to the border?

It's the middle of the night!

I just-- I just need you to drive.

I got a car.

Blair, I can't leave my kids.

Look, somebody's trying to kill me.

Kill you?

Yeah.

ROBERT STACK: Blair provided no details about the death threat.

His friend was unable to take him over the border.

OK. Forget about it.

Sorry to bother you.

Thanks.

Thanks anyway.

ROBERT STACK: On Tuesday Blair went to the Vancouver

airport as scheduled.

But instead of boarding the plane for Germany,

he turned in his tickets, rented a car,

and headed back to the border.

This time he managed to slip through.

Blair was in Seattle by 4 p.m.

He left his rental car, a Nissan, at the airport

and bought a one-way ticket to Washington, D.C.

The one way ticket was odd because he paid about $770

for a one-way ticket when he could

have purchased round-trip ticket for approximately $350 or $400.

So it would have been half the price for a round-trip ticket

as he paid for a one-way ticket.

It just seemed very unusual.

ROBERT STACK: After arriving in D.C. early Wednesday morning,

Blair rented a white Toyota and continued his peculiar odyssey.

Now he was headed to Knoxville, more than 500 miles

to the southwest.

His travel was unlogical in itself.

I mean, why go to D.C. to turn around

to come back to Knoxville?

He had no business, or no reason,

to be in east Tennessee.

He had no business, or no reason, being in Knoxville.

Everything we can find out, he knows no one in east Tennessee

or the eastern United States.

Hi!

Hi, can you help me?

I can't get my car started. - What's the problem?

ROBERT STACK: Blair was first seen in Knoxville

around 5:30 that afternoon.

[mysterious music]

Oh, this can't be your key.

BLAIR: Yeah, that's my key.

Well, this is a Nissan key.

Yeah.

Well, this is a Toyota.

So?

Well, it won't start it.

Well, that's the key I've been using.

You have another key?

BLAIR: No.

Are you sure?

[mysterious music]

So the mechanic says, "OK, empty out your pockets

and let's look for it."

He empties out all his pockets.

There is no key to the Toyota.

ROBERT STACK: Blair was stranded in Knoxville

until morning, when he could get a new key

from his rental car company.

A mechanic drove Blair to a nearby hotel,

where he once again made an unforgettable impression,

this time on the desk clerk.

Best way to describe him would be paranoid.

He just was very nervous, agitated.

Expecting someone to come in on him even though there

wasn't anybody there.

I don't know who he was looking for but he

was waiting for somebody to walk in for him.

ROBERT STACK: Perhaps Blair was being followed.

Perhaps he only thought so.

The hotel security camera shows that in the space of an hour,

he went in and out of the lobby five times before finally

paying for a room.

We can only assume that something was

wrong with his thought process.

He wasn't acting rationally.

[mysterious music]

ROBERT STACK: After checking in Blair pocketed the key.

But instead of going to his room,

he marched out the front door and never came back.

It was 7:37 p.m.

And it was the last time Blair Adams was known to be alive.

[mysterious music]

12 hours later, Blair's body was found in a parking lot

about a half mile from his hotel.

He was naked from the waist down.

Blair's death was as enigmatic as the last few days

of his life.

His pants were removed in a way

not like someone would take their own pants off.

But in a way that someone else would remove your pants

from you, in a pulling motion where his pants

were turned inside out.

His socks were turned inside out.

His shoes were off.

And his shirt was ripped open.

ROBERT STACK: $4,000 in American,

Canadian, and German currency was strewn around Blair's body.

Another $2,000 worth of jewelry, gold, and platinum and was

found inside a small pack.

[mysterious music]

And there was one other perplexing clue.

The key to Blair's Toyota had suddenly reappeared

about 10 feet from his body.

[mysterious music]

We start looking at the angle of maybe a drug deal gone bad.

That didn't pan out.

We start thinking about robbery.

Robbery was immediately first thought of.

We throw it away because all the money is still there.

We tried to find anything in his background that would have led

us to believe that he frequent with prostitutes

or that he even had any homosexual experiences.

You know, anything to explain how he

was found the way he was found.

We found nothing.

ROBERT STACK: According to the autopsy report,

Blair had sustained numerous cuts and abrasions.

Police believe some of the wounds

came from fending off an attack.

Blair was ultimately killed by a violent blow

that ruptured his stomach.

Look, hey, someone's trying to kill me.

Kill you?

ROBERT STACK: Although Blair had been adamant that his life was

in danger, authorities now believe

the threat was imaginary and that Blair's

bizarre pilgrimage was a wild flight

from his own inner demons.

And yet somehow, at the end of the road

Blair Adams wound up dead just as he had feared.

[mysterious music]

I want Blair back.

I want him well and healthy.

I want him to knock on the front door and come in.

But obviously that's not going to happen.

[mysterious music]

I don't know.

You know, Blair is dead.

And it would be nice to have some understanding

of why he died.

ROBERT STACK: Blair Adams was killed

on July 11th, 1996 near interstate highway

40 in Knoxville.

Authorities believe the fatal attack

occurred at around 3:30 a.m.

[suspenseful music]

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ROBERT STACK: Never underestimate

the power of prayer, a simple expression of faith that

has endured for centuries--

a testament to that timeless belief

that through spiritual devotion, anything is possible,

even miracles both great and small.

[gentle music]

It was the summer of 1995.

Linda Gordon, a divorced mother of four,

was living in Sackets Harbor, New York.

At the time, Linda was longing to meet a man she could love,

a man she could marry.

[gentle music]

I was sitting outside my front porch.

And I was reading my Bible.

And I glanced up and I saw a man jogging.

Three months earlier I had written in my prayer journal

that I was-- or felt I was ready for a husband.

And that if God wanted me to have

one to send him to my door.

And then I called all my friends and family

and said, "I'm praying for a husband."

And they laughed and said that the only guy

I was going to marry that came to my door

would be the pizza guy.

[gentle music]

ROBERT STACK: But this guy was not delivering anything.

In fact, he was searching for love, just like Linda.

Want to introduce myself.

I'm David Shublak.

I'm Linda.

Nice to meet you. - Yeah.

Nice to meet you.

ROBERT STACK: David was a major in the army

on temporary assignment at nearby Fort Drum.

I've seen you sitting here before.

I just felt a warm glow and then goosebumps on top of that.

And a voice spoke to my heart and said,

"This is the man you've been praying for."

ROBERT STACK: For both Linda and David, it was literally a match

made in heaven.

Four months later, they were married

just hours before David shipped out to Louisiana for six weeks.

But their married life together didn't

begin until late November, when Linda joined David

at Fort Huachuca in Arizona.

[gentle music]

Six days later, David set off on his usual morning run.

His route took him to the far reaches of the base.

Where the sidewalk ended, David began running

along the shoulder of the road.

He was headed east, directly into a blinding sun.

[gentle music]

[engine revving]

[tires screeching]

[thumping]

[screeching]

God.

ROBERT STACK: David had been struck full force by a car

traveling at 52 miles an hour.

He was catapulted some 60 feet through the air

and landed head first on the pavement.

[running footsteps]

Traffic accident, bilateral leg fractures.

I think--

ROBERT STACK: David had suffered several massive skull

fractures, broken both his legs and his left arm.

Within hours he was airlifted to the University Medical Center

in Tucson.

DOCTOR: We've inserted a shunt and have

increased his barbituates.

Major Shublak's intercranial pressure

has continued to increase.

DR. WILLIAM SMITH: Shortly after his admission

to the intensive care unit, the normal functions of his brain

just obviously were stopping.

DOCTOR: His reflex responses have remained--

We usually start to become worried about patients'

intercranial pressure once it gets

over a level of 15 to 20 millimeters

and sustained for that level.

Major Shublak's intercranial pressure

was really three to four times what we normally

would consider survivable intercranial pressure

in an individual.

[gentle music]

ROBERT STACK: That pressure was causing David's

brain to swell uncontrollably.

Dr. Smith told Linda there was little hope for his recovery.

I felt like I was being sucked down a drain.

And I wasn't going to allow that to happen.

And I wasn't going to lose hope.

And I wasn't going to accept the negativity

that the doctor was saying even though it

was true medical science.

ROBERT STACK: After five days, the time

came for Linda and David's family to make

a heart-wrenching decision.

David is clinically brain dead.

You and your family have three options.

You can leave him in the hospital

and maintain life support.

You can take them home with you on life support.

Or since he indicated he wished to be an organ donor,

you can sign the papers to harvest his organs.

I had to get spiritually radical because things

were getting very intense.

And I had a lot of pressure on me through various people.

And it's not an-- it's not a negative thing.

But here was a organ donor and there

are people that need organs.

And I totally agree with that.

But I couldn't sign the harvest the organ

papers if I knew in my heart that David wasn't dead.

ROBERT STACK: Linda once again turned

to the Bible for inspiration.

She was immediately drawn to this story of Lazarus.

According to the Bible, Jesus brought Lazarus back to life

after he'd been dead for four days.

Linda prayed that God would do the same for David.

And Jesus said, "He who believeth in me, though he

were dead, shall still live.

And whoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."

[gentle music]

Believeth thou this.

[gentle music]

I did all I knew how to do spiritually.

Medical science couldn't save David.

They said he was dead.

Money couldn't save David.

Only God could save David.

[gentle music]

We had a meeting with the family last night regarding

the options they face.

ROBERT STACK: A few hours later, Dr. Smith went in to check

on David's vital signs.

I was amazed when I examined him

that instead of maybe one or two primitive reflexes,

he actually opened his eyes and started to look around.

[machine beeping]

[suspenseful music]

David?

David, can you hear me?

Very-- quite eerie.

And certainly out of the ordinary.

It was not something that we expected to see.

It just rather gave me chills up and down

my spine when I saw this.

ROBERT STACK: When Linda returned to the hospital,

David's father was waiting with the astonishing news.

FATHER: Linda.

LINDA: Good morning.

[smooching]

FATHER: Now, don't get your hopes up,

but there was a flicker of response when the doctors

checked David this morning.

That wasn't a flicker.

That was the flame of God.

Linda, we'd like you to talk to David.

We'd like to see if he'll respond to commands.

ROBERT STACK: Linda was convinced the David's life

signs were the miracle she had prayed

for, a modern day parallel to the story of Lazarus.

David?

Sweetheart, it's me.

Can you move your left hand, David?

[gentle music]

[linda chuckling]

I knew that David wasn't going to die because when I met

David, God spoke to my heart and said,

"This is the man I'm giving you.

And you will have a long life together serving me."

David and I had only been married six days.

And that's not a long life together.

So I knew that he wasn't going to die.

To me, it was just a waking up from a sleep.

That's all it was.

It was just coming back into contact, literally, with life.

But I remember nothing else.

It was just like I woke up from a nap.

ROBERT STACK: Incredibly, just three months after he

was all but given up for dead, David Shublak was

discharged from the hospital.

He has since made a complete recovery,

a recovery that still has his doctors grappling for answers.

I have never seen someone survive the pressure this high.

The fact that he returned to normal function after that

is remarkable.

Is it a miracle?

It very well may have been.

[suspenseful music]

[tires screeching]

[thumping]

Traffic accident.

ROBERT STACK: How can we explain David

Shublak's remarkable comeback from the brink of death?

Was it luck?

Or perhaps, as the Shublaks believe,

divine intervention ascribed to the power of prayer?

I'm truly amazed, every day, at what happened to me.

There's no way that a person cannot be amazed.

Absolutely none.

Linda proves what moving a mountain calls for.

Determination and faith is--

will do all things.

[gentle music]

[suspenseful music]

ROBERT STACK: Next, meet the men in black.

They arrive without warning, oozing power and intimidation.

Their origins are a mystery, their mission unknown.

[suspenseful music]

[suspenseful music]

ROBERT STACK: The men in black are

one of the most perplexing mysteries

we've ever come across.

Cloaked in secrecy, they show up without warning,

state their business, then vanish

as quickly as they appeared.

No one knows who the men in black are,

where they come from, or who they represent.

There's no real proof that they even exist.

But hundreds of eyewitness accounts

give us good cause to investigate

this most unusual phenomenon.

[mysterious music]

Meet Ray Muniz of Austin, Texas.

Ray owns and operates his own auto tinting shop

on the outskirts of town, a rather ordinary job

for a man who claims to have had several extraordinary

experiences.

Since he was nine, Ray says he's had five

separate encounters with UFOs.

As a result, Ray has now become a sort of local celebrity.

[suspenseful music]

Because of all the experiences that I have, or have had,

I thought it necessary for me to start looking into all of this.

So I started this show here in Austin, this local cable

access show called Project UFO.

CALLER: I mean--

World power.

CALLER: That's kind of general.

ROBERT STACK: Every week Ray speaks

to other people who say they've had firsthand alien encounters.

In June of 1996, one of Ray's viewers

sent him this home video, which supposedly

shows an unidentified spacecraft in the sky

over Georgetown, Texas.

MAN 1: Man!

MAN 2: Look at that!

MAN 1: It's a UFO, man!

RAY: And on the video you can see

a radio station tower, which has three red lights on it.

Well, right next to this tower is this huge UFO.

It's just hovering there, like, parked.

WOMAN: Are those airplanes?

MAN 1: Those ain't no airplanes, and they're getting closer.

ROBERT STACK: Several days after he received the tape,

Ray says some unexpected visitors showed up at his shop.

They were dressed in black suits,

black ties, the black glasses, the whole nine yards.

Mr. Muniz?

Yes?

Raynaldo Muniz?

Yes?

I have a summons.

A summons?

Internal Revenue Service.

Am I being audited?

[suspenseful music]

Just show up.

[mysterious music]

I showed the paper to my worker, just for a moment,

because it looked official and everything.

Well, I walked back out to see where they had gone to.

And there wasn't anything out there.

There was no time for them to drive away in a car

or walk away.

It was very strange.

ROBERT STACK: Not wanting to take

any chances, Ray hurried to the downtown address listed

on the summons.

There he claims he encountered another man in black.

I took my box of my papers and everything, all my tax stuff,

and I laid it down on the guy's desk.

I said, "Well, here it is."

He looked at me and said, "OK, thank you.

You can leave now."

I said, "Excuse me?"

He said, "Thank you.

You can leave now."

And I said, "Aren't you going to look at my stuff?"

He said, "No. Thank you.

You can leave now."

[mysterious music]

ROBERT STACK: Ray says he returned home to find

his video collection ransacked.

He now believes this was the reason for his visit

from the men in black.

They wanted me at a certain place at a certain time

so they could go to my house and look for that tape.

They didn't find the tape.

I still have the tape.

So it's either something that was government

that they didn't want people to know about, some new aircraft.

Or it was a UFO that they don't want people to know about.

[mysterious music]

The men in black may be either A,

human intelligence operatives working from deep level

black book projects.

That's their entire agenda is to silence UFO witnesses

and experiencers to relating to the public

what they may have encountered.

I have a summons.

There are also, I believe, men in black that are non-human

in origin who have taken upon themselves

the job in order to do the same thing that

the human men in black are.

In other words, to silence or to control

the output of information regarding the UFO phenomenon.

I was feeling frightened.

I was-- I was concerned for my safety.

I felt a little bit harassed, if you can put it that way.

And I did not know what to expect.

So I was on guard.

[mysterious music]

ROBERT STACK: Collette Peters of San Juan Capistrano,

California, is a highly accomplished figure

skater who has garnered several national awards.

Collette claims that during her life,

she has had two UFO experiences and one unnerving encounter

with a man in black who she is certain

was something other than a man.

When I was approximately 19 or 20 I was in New York City,

walking down one of the main avenues.

And I started to encounter a very, very bizarre

feeling it was pure evil.

And when I looked up, what I saw was a very tall,

lanky man walking towards me.

But he seemed out of place and quite odd.

His skin to me did not look normal.

You couldn't see any facial hair or if he had

shaved or any imperfections.

It was a smooth, shiny, plastic-looking jaw.

[mysterious music]

It seemed to fit the criteria of what

people call the men in black.

The only difference is in my case,

they did not directly come up and threaten me.

[mysterious music]

I don't feel that he had conveyed

any message to me except--

except by the presence that he kept.

The-- the sinister, evil nature that generated from him

is the only way I could really describe it.

I think people have had genuine experiences which

are anomalous and unusual.

It does not mean, however, that I think

that they are extraterrestrials that

are telling him to be quiet about something,

or what have you.

In my opinion, they are disinformation agents

using a combination of physical alteration of their appearance

with some of these electronics.

And these are electronic systems which

have been reverse engineered from extraterrestrial devices.

And it is intended to simply set people off

from looking in the direction of what's

really going on with the UFO or extraterrestrial issue.

[mysterious music]

ROBERT STACK: There is, of course, another possibility.

Skeptics have said that the men in black

are merely the product of a few overactive imaginations.

Just show up.

[mysterious music]

I'm a got to touch it, feel it, see it type of person.

I was there.

I saw.

I felt. You know?

I mean, why would I put my life in danger for a lie?

I don't feel that it could have been

a figment in my imagination because of the physicality

of it, the feelings that I felt. I'm not talking

about emotional feelings.

I'm talking about the hair actually

raising up on your skin.

It was quite unique.

It was something I'll never forget.

[mysterious music]

ROBERT STACK: We asked the Air Force and the Department

of Defense if there were covert units that

fit the MO of the men in black.

The Air Force issued a blanket denial.

The Department of Defense said, "We've never

heard of such a thing," then added,

"You might try the Air Force."

[mysterious music]

[mysterious music]

Join me next time for another dramatic edition

of Unsolved Mysteries.

[mysterious music]