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The world you know is not what it seems.

Buried deep inside

one of America's leading universities

lies one of the largest collections

of paranormal research in the world.

This thing is slowly...

Something was communicating with me.

This is the spirit. This is your--

I saw a little object hovering.

From telepathy, possession, the abduction experience...

They said, "We're coming."

Collected over decades,

much of it has never been seen by the public.

This is truly a halfway house

between your world and ours.

I'm scouring the globe looking for new people

with extraordinary stories.

I realized my dream is about to happen.

Their accounts will be preserved

alongside some of the most remarkable cases in history.

She's more than telepathic.

I felt like I was being watched.

I saw really horrific things.

There's no way for me to put into words

what I went through.

As curator of the archive,

I'm always searching for cases that push a phenomenon

into new territory.

In every culture throughout history,

people have claimed they see the future.

It's what we call a precognition.

It's a phenomenon we know is real.

We have the declassified government files

in our vault to prove it.

I mean, some of them are literally stamped secret.

I have invited two very special experiencers

with precognitive ability

to come and tell their stories.

Their testimony will be recorded and added

to the archive, where future researchers can

continue the investigation.

Precognition violates our central idea

that time is linear and goes one way.

So the central question of precognition

is, if people can really see the future,

does that mean it's already happened

and that free will doesn't exist?

I've asked Eric Wargo,

one of the world's leading experts on precognition,

to come and help me investigate this phenomenon.

Just as we think of events in the past

as they've already happened, they're fixed,

everything in the future is fixed as well.

And when someone's having a precognitive dream,

information about experiences in their future

are trickling back in time.

I have been writing on precognition since about 2011.

I came across Andrew Paquette.

Andrew recorded tons of precognitive dreams.

If you ask if I consider myself a prophet,

the answer is no.

If you ask me if I meet

the dictionary definition of one, I'd say yes.

Throughout my life, I've had dreams and premonitions

that predicted future events.

Some of them concern terrifying,

harrowing incidents of mass casualty and disaster,

and some of them actually have saved my life.

He's a very valuable example of a dreamer

who is able to demonstrate precognition

consistently over many years.

Not only does he pay attention to his dreams,

but he can illustrate what his precognitive dreams are about.

And I think those two things together

make him a remarkable witness.

Although I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota,

I moved to California with my family when I was two

and then moved extremely frequently.

Sometimes we lived in the car.

Sometimes we lived on the couch of people

that my mom ran into somewhere.

My mother, she was schizophrenic.

I was told that my mom was very dangerous,

and I should be very wary of her,

that she could put my life in jeopardy.

I remember studying a great deal.

You could say that was a refuge from all the drama.

I prided myself on my intelligence.

I knew that precognitive dreams can't happen,

or at least that's what I thought.

In 1984, I was 18 years old.

I went to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

And one day, I was in a drawing class

when I saw a woman pass by the door.

That moment was like a flash,

because I recognized her instantly from a dream

I'd had several years earlier.

And in it, I woke up in bed beside a woman

who I knew I'd been with for seven years,

but then separate from her for about a year.

I was very lonely,

and at that point, I realized, that's it.

I can't take it anymore.

I am going to get back together with this gal

that I'm married to.

And that's the end of the dream.

So when I was in Art Center, I was thinking,

that's the gal I wake up next to

in that dream, which obviously means

I have to introduce myself.

And so I did.

The fact that he had dreamt about meeting me previously

was just a nice coincidence, because I believe in God

and I believe that our lives are spiritual too.

And his dream did come true.

About a year after we met, Kitty and I had decided

to go to Amsterdam.

I really liked it there.

And I said, why don't we just get an apartment and stay here?

But she got bored after a little while, so she left.

She went back to New York City.

And one night, I had

the scariest dream I'd ever had.

In the dream, these two people come up from behind me,

and a very strong arm comes around my neck.

They basically steer me into an alleyway.

And then I saw the guy had a gun, and I was very afraid.

It seemed to me that the only way out of this was to fight.

I reached for this guy's gun.

But as soon as I made contact with the gun barrel,

he shot me in the neck.

I felt the blood coming down my chest.

I felt the warmth of it,

and I felt like I was dying.

My body collapsed.

My mind left my body.

And the next thing I knew, I was in New York City

at Kitty's mother's apartment in Manhattan.

I was trying to get her attention,

but she didn't see me at all.

I had this very strong realization

where I thought for sure I was dead.

It was kind of like almost a melancholy ache

that I would never be able to say goodbye to Kitty

or that I loved her.

I woke up from that dream, and it really did have

my heart beating pretty hard.

So I got up, and I made

an international phone call to Kitty.

He was like, I had this really weird dream.

I died.

And I was like, you've got to come back.

I think precognition evolved

as part of a survival mechanism.

It's part of our basic makeup to the sensing things ahead.

It didn't occur to me at all that this might be

a dream about a future event.

A couple weeks later, I went to the travel agency,

and I got the airplane tickets back to New York City.

And then I realized, hey, this is kind of funny,

because the people around me on the street itself

all looked like they were from that dream.

Then all of a sudden, this great big arm

came around my neck.

I was thinking, it is like the dream,

but I'm safe, because there's no alley on this street.

But then I looked ahead of me, and I saw

there actually was an alley that had been

covered up by scaffolding.

And I thought, OK, that's too much.

That's just too much for coincidence,

and I have to try something to prevent myself

from going in that alley.

I have to do anything I can.

I'd had that dream where I'd been killed

in an alleyway in Amsterdam.

And one night, I felt it was about to come true.

I thought, I'm not strong enough to break the guy's grip.

But somehow, he loosened his grip, and I was like, oh,

and I ducked under his arm and I ran.

I thought, these two things are very, very similar,

and I did feel like I had just escaped death.

After I arrived in New York, my rational mind had taken over

and said, no, you didn't escape death.

This was a coincidence.

And then I told Kitty about the mugging attempt.

I said, that's your dream, you know?

That's--that's what you dreamt about.

I was convinced that it had foretold the mugging,

and that was a warning.

That dream saved his life.

And I said, no, that is impossible,

because I knew, logically, it had to be false.

In 1987, I went to an ashram in Upstate New York,

and I met someone named Tom, a research physicist.

Turned out we actually lived very close to each other.

And he said, perhaps I should come over for dinner

and bring my girlfriend, Sumi.

I said, sure, come on over.

At the appointed time, I heard the door.

And I suddenly had a level of strangeness

that I don't know that I'd felt before.

It almost seemed like the hallway telescoped in length.

It felt very slow, and I could almost picture

dry leaves blowing across the floorboards.

And literally, the moment my hand touched the door,

I knew for a fact that the woman

on the other side of the door would kill herself.

She was going to commit suicide.

There was just no doubt in my mind.

And then I opened the door.

And it was Tom and Sumi standing there,

and this feeling of this future event for her

left my mind immediately.

We had dinner and they left,

and Kitty and I were doing the dishes,

and she was complaining about Sumi.

Between the four of us,

only Andrew didn't have a college degree,

and I thought she was making comments

that were dismissive of him.

And I didn't like that.

And I said, you shouldn't talk that way about someone

who's going to commit suicide.

I was shocked.

So I just countered and said,

how can you say something like that?

He said he just touched the doorknob.

And he felt this knowing, this knowledge.

I thought, you've got to tell Tom.

I didn't believe it was a real premonition.

So no, I was not about to tell Tom.

He's a research physicist.

He's not going to believe this.

But the other thing that concerned me even more

is, I didn't want to put ideas in Sumi's head.

This is the number one concern

of people who have a dream warning them about something.

Culture does not take precognition seriously.

And people have these experiences,

and they feel guilt because of them.

But this is a fantastic example of this.

I had been riding home from work,

and this man had a newspaper.

And it had a double-page spread

where they discussed this person

who had jumped off a building.

And I realized from the headlines that it was Sumi.

I just shouted out, "I know her.

I know her."

And I was just sobbing in public.

She was a very high-achieving person,

so she had very big expectations.

And for whatever reason,

she felt disappointed in herself,

and she just succumbed to this despair.

I had by then experienced enough events

that I decided to start a dream journal

on September 15, 1989,

because I wanted to know if I was really having

precognitive dreams.

And I wanted to have it in a written, dated format.

With some dreams, I found it was

more expedient to make an illustration

than to try to describe it in words.

Now, it just so happened that I proved very quickly

that I was having dreams of the future.

I dreamed about the Ramstein air show disaster.

And the Sioux City crash.

Both of those dreams actually happened,

basically, as I expected.

Anyone in our culture is going to have

a basic knee-jerk skepticism about this stuff,

and it may take a few really uncanny experiences

to get them to change their minds about it.

Kitty and I moved to a loft in Tribeca, Manhattan.

While there, I had one of the scarier dreams

I'd had up until that point.

I was in Lower Manhattan,

but all the buildings were missing.

And in their place was a giant rubble field.

When all of a sudden, a man in the dream says, look.

And then I saw a skeletal figure.

And he said, either you move out of this area,

never to return,

or you will die in the disaster

that killed all these other people.

We weren't taking any chances,

so we packed it up and just left.

We moved all the way to Vermont,

where I figured we could be perfectly safe

from any disaster that happened in Lower Manhattan.

And then I decided, you know what?

I'm going to go ahead and also send this dream

to some newspapers, because I think

it's predictive of a real disaster

that's going to happen.

The newspapers did not respond.

I sent the letters out.

None of them responded.

One of them, I got the letter back

because of some kind of a mail problem.

It was from the "Dallas Morning Herald."

The postmark here is May 3, 1990.

So here it is.

So what this contains is a--

a letter.

It says, "To whom it may concern,

"I have personally experienced several hundred dreams

"which proved to be in some way precognitive.

"The reason I am writing now is that I have had

"a series of disturbing dreams

"that appear to predict a major disaster

"in the New York City area.

"A significant number of the buildings

on Manhattan Island will be reduced to rubble."

I had it notarized on the second day of May, 1990.

Every year that passed, we were just curious.

What was this disaster dream about?

We had our daughter, Nina, in 1992.

By then, we had moved from the East Coast

to the West Coast.

But the thing is, is that I kept dreaming

about a disaster in Lower Manhattan.

I had a series of six dreams in total.

I was worried it was going to actually happen,

but I didn't know when it might be true.

On August 25, 2001, I had promised to take my family

to LEGOLAND in California.

We had made our way through the park

until we got to a tableau representing New York City.

But as I'm looking at it, I realize

the World Trade Center is missing from their tableau,

and that synced with my dreams

where the buildings were missing.

And it hit me like a lead sinker in the heart.

I realized my dream is about to happen.

Just a few moments ago, something believed to be

a plane crashed into the South Tower

of the World Trade Center.

When it fell, then I thought, oh, my gosh.

That's my dream.

It was a horrifying moment,

because I knew they were full of people.

That was a confirmation that we didn't want to know,

that those dreams were true.

People reported so many dreams and artworks

that were premonitions of 9/11.

David Mandell is another example.

On September 11, 1996, he woke up

with a dream of the Twin Towers in New York collapsing.

So he drew a picture of this and had himself photographed

at his local Barclays bank to give a date and time stamp.

And five years to the day later, 9/11 happened.

On December 12, 2004, I dreamed

about the Boxing Day tsunami.

The most powerful earthquake of the past 40 years,

triggering massive tidal waves.

And it was in the exact region

described in my dream journal.

Many of the victims lived outside the range

of the international tsunami warning system.

And in the last seven years, my dreams foretell

actual armed conflict between America and China

to do with lithium in the Salton Sea in California.

There was a military base in the Seattle, Washington, region

that did come under attack.

There's another one I saw

where China was at war with Russia.

If precognition is true, then all of our assumptions

about human psychology, culture, everything

need to be rethought.

I didn't want to believe this stuff.

I didn't want to believe my dreams were of the future.

But I think this happens to me because I can credibly say

that the reality we experience as human beings

is a tiny fraction of what's really going on.

I will submit some physical artifacts to the archives.

This is my fourth dream related to 9/11.

It was something I didn't understand at the time,

I didn't figure out until later.

This is my written description of the skeleton dream.

So this is still 11 years before the 9/11 events.

People like Andrew have long fascinated those in power.

Governments have repeatedly tried

to weaponize precognition,

and the most infamous example is in our collection.

Project Star Gate was a real government program

that happened between 1972 and 1994.

It was this remote viewing program

that was basically spying on the Soviet Union

with psychics.

The intuitive idea of remote viewing

is that some aspect of one's consciousness

is traveling across space to some event

happening at a distance.

There's all kinds of examples of psychics successfully

telling what was going on halfway around the world,

just sitting in front of a pad of paper.

But there's an alternative hypothesis

that remote viewing is really a form of precognition.

What a remote viewer is really doing

is precognizing a future moment of learning the right answer.

Joe McMoneagle was their most storied remote viewer.

He was given the coordinates of a secret facility

in the Soviet Union.

They just didn't know what was happening

inside this building.

So I worked a target.

It was a very, very large submarine.

It's about the length of a Soviet aircraft carrier.

We sent the report to the National Security Council,

and they won't accept it.

They said, this is just total fantasy.

The intelligence data suggested

it was too far from the ocean to be a submarine base.

He insisted it was.

A few weeks after his session,

the satellites saw a trench being dug from this facility

to the water.

And sure enough, this gigantic submarine

is moved out into the water.

I mean, that's astonishing.

What Joe McMoneagle drew and described

turned out to be accurate to this brand-new submarine.

Was his consciousness penetrating that building

in the Soviet Union,

or was he pre-remembering the later point

when he was brought into a room and shown

the satellite photos of this submarine?

That's the question.

I think that it's one that has not been answered yet.

Remote viewing can be used for finding missing persons

or solving crimes, but it's very secret.

I've invited Amaris because Amaris was able

to engage with psychic ability and transition

from somebody who was bewildered

by psychic phenomena to someone who does

remote viewing for their job.

That's incredible.

I probably always had psychic ability.

But because of the lens that I had at the time

was a fear lens, I didn't pursue it.

Like Andrew's story, people who have

these kinds of experiences

go in one of two directions, either developing

these abilities and accepting them,

or just rejecting and burying them.

The psychic world has remained

in the shadows for eons.

But, you know, I had an opportunity

to meet some people

who were doing some work with a bank,

and they were looking to do psychic espionage.

Every day that I engaged with this phenomenon,

the stakes kept getting higher,

and I started to worry that it might be very dangerous.

I grew up in a mining community far north in Canada.

Winter lasted for nine months.

You know, it was a weird place to grow up.

But also, people struggled in mining communities.

It was just too hard of a place for my mom.

When I was about 11 years old, my parents separated.

So we moved into the city, to my grandparents' house

in Winnipeg.

But the house had very strange phenomena and feelings.

It was super, super creepy.

And there was a lot of weird things that happened.

I was going through puberty.

Often, we'd hear organ music coming out of the fireplace.

There'd be whispers that would come from hallways.

I was scared.

And then when I was 18,

I started to have visions and dreams.

It's the most scared I've ever been in my entire life.

And it definitely felt demonic.

But I didn't understand what was happening to me.

The experiences I had were traumatizing.

They felt very powerful, very dangerous.

But as I got older, you know, I was curious.

And so I went to this house in our city,

which was offering a haunted tour.

I was tormented by this when I was growing up,

so it took quite a bit for me to kind of decide

to do something like that.

As soon as I got in there, I felt threatened.

People were walking around

with these electromagnetic frequency readers...

And the lights would flash

if there was some kind of energy in the air

that these things were specifically sensitive

to picking up.

I look behind me, and there's, like, a lineup of people,

and they're following me.

And the people just kind of made a circle

around me at that time.

And in that moment, I started to think about being a child

and experiencing paranormal activity.

And I thought, was I causing this haunting?

Was it me?

Maybe there was some aspect of me that was paranormal.

But then after this haunted house tour,

it all kind of came home.

And I realized, yeah, I can't run from this.

This is who I am.

So I bought my first tarot deck.

Then I started reading the cards for people.

There was this lovely woman I did a reading for.

She was in the middle of experiencing a haunting

in her house, and she was also experiencing

a breakup with a partner and losing her dog.

And during the reading, I was surprised to see

the Lovers card turn up.

I almost felt awkward saying it.

I was like, well, you know, there's another relationship

coming your way.

And within a month, she had met somebody,

and they're now married.

And I was like, wow, this is actually

a way to gather information.

Cards could be used for predicting the future.

There's nothing special, really, about tarot.

You could use any system of engaging

your precognitive ability,

but that's clearly what's going on here.

As I continued with my tarot practice,

I was experiencing what I thought

within the bounds of my psychic ability.

But that was not what life had in store for me.

I saw a movie that they made, and it's called

"Men Who Stare At Goats."

It's about remote viewing based on Project Star Gate.

The fact that this was a highly protected program

and the people that were in it were assets,

it just blew my mind.

And so my husband said, Amaris, you need to do this.

You need to try this. You're going to be good at it.

I dragged my heels because I didn't like

the military aspect.

But then I came across Angela Ford on a podcast.

She's one of the only female remote viewers,

and she started talking about using the tarot

in her practice in Star Gate.

So I thought, well, then maybe I could be a remote viewer.

Maybe I could find missing people,

track down a murderer.

Who knows?

Angela was in the military intelligence community

for a number of years,

actually working as a remote viewer.

Remote viewers were being paid by the Army.

They were under the Army.

And then in 1986, I was brought into the program.

When Angela hits the target, she hits it 100%.

She found hostages that were in rural places in Asia.

She interrupted boats that had drugs on them

in South America.

She could do remarkable things.

It's miraculous, is what it is.

At the end of the podcast, my husband said,

you need to call her.

So he did. He called her.

And she texted back and said, well, yeah,

I'd love to meet with you guys.

So when I finally met Angela, there was a bridge

between my work and what I did with tarot

and having--connecting with remote viewing.

It certainly set me on the trajectory

to, like, really go for it

and inspired me to kind of believe

that I could do this work.

I was very lucky to be recommended

to become a part of a secret group

that was doing remote viewing practically.

I felt that my paranormal upbringing, all of a sudden,

was serving me in that it predisposed me

to really connect with this world of remote viewing.

The way that it generally works

is that you receive a target.

The target could be a person, items, or a place.

First, I close my eyes.

Then what I do is, I click into a stream of information,

kind of like the zeros and the ones from the Matrix.

You're picking up on some kind of code, essentially,

but it's outside of time and space

because the information could be in the past,

or it could be in the future.

But the information is there nonetheless.

I get impressions about temperature.

I get a feeling of heights.

The motional feelings of being in physical places.

Sometimes I'll get feelings of, like, moving water,

something being warm or being, you know, kind of musty.

The most accurate information is the initial information

that comes within seconds.

And I sit and I draw pictures.

It feels like someone's drawing in me.

And then I put those shapes down.

If you want to become a part of a project,

you have to pass a series of tests.

They want to find out first that you are psychic.

And so this target I did, I kept feeling

like something was spinning, you know, going down,

and then would spin back the other way and go out.

And it was near water.

I kept getting this spiral.

I was like, well, maybe that's the water,

but it wasn't quite like that.

I knew it was something a little bit different.

And it was a skate park,

and it had this bowl shape here.

And it had a whole bunch of different people

coming and going and spinning in and out

using their skateboards.

So I was picking up on the movement.

And then there was palm trees.

I started getting the feedback that I was doing well,

and I was invited to see if I could successfully hit

a target in the real world.

We did a viewing where we were looking for somebody

who had taken off across Europe

with many millions in euros,

and there was a bank that was looking to recover that money.

So this particular case, I started

to get images of a Mediterranean country,

something like Italy, with an island.

I recognized it as a mountainous area

and saw that there was a lake.

The bank had identified a suspect,

and I could see their apartment.

And it had a big living room

and that there was a big window.

I was able to kind of look out the window of that apartment

and see the city that it was in.

Kind of a beautiful city, very colorful.

It was the perfect place for someone on the run

with a lot of money who worked at a bank to hide.

Everything about it screamed, I need to know more.

And then I got closer and closer.

And then I saw the target hiding in the dark.

As I was doing the remote viewing session,

I started turning over cards,

and the cards were lining up with the imagery I was seeing.

One of the first cards I saw was the Four of Swords

and had a very strong woman with a sword on it.

And in the viewing, I had seen a woman.

This woman was not feeling well in the situation

and that she was on the defensive.

And then beside that was the King of Swords.

And the King of Swords is like the kingpin or the boss.

So it showed this pairing of these two people

who were kind of on the defensive

and who were highly intelligent,

and they were running away.

The nature of this particular field

is that it's meant to be in private.

I had to sign NDAs to do this work,

but I did get feedback.

And based on my description and the tarot together,

they identified the place I was describing

in the Mediterranean.

They went in, and they found the guy.

And they apprehended him.

Remote viewing specifically really brought home

that this could be something legitimate,

and it doesn't have to be totally woo, right?

This is maybe science as well.

Remote viewing gives people a concept,

and now Amaris has a language for talking about

what she's already been doing.

It's not just something random happening.

It's something Amaris can actually now apply

and use to help people.

We still don't understand how this works,

but clearly she found a target in Italy

while still being in her home in Canada.

That's remarkable.

It's been about a year and a half

since I've been employed as a remote viewer.

Angela Ford and I teach classes together.

I haven't had a boring moment in the last two years,

so that's thanks to you.

Well, thank you.

To be an educator with Angela Ford,

it's kind of a dream come true.

There's opportunities to have your mind blown

in ways that change your life

when you engage with these things.

Well, Amaris's story is so fascinating

because it overturns all of our assumptions

about how the mind works, how causality works.

It's truly impossible,

and yet the evidence for it is very compelling.

If I'm going to have a legacy,

I want it to be that I gave space

for people to have these experiences,

to feel validated and normal.

But when I teach, I'm very specific

about using this ethically.

There have been some people in the past

that have used it for negative purposes.

Some colleagues of mine were approached by people

saying they were trying to reunite lost and missing

and murdered Indigenous women and children

with their families.

They asked if they could use remote viewing skills to hunt

across America for these people

who could be in danger or who had already passed.

There was a team that was put together in this effort.

But it turns out this was actually

a covert operation done by a cult-like organization.

And they were trying to track these women down

who had run away from the cult and bring them back.

You've got to use insight, and you've got to use

your own psychic ability when you're vetting people too.

So today, I'm going to submit one of my sacred tarot decks

that I use for all my viewing.

Definitely has some energy in it.

And then my notepad is

one of my first remote viewing notepads,

where I did a lot of the remote viewing

tasking over the last year.

So I feel like it speaks well to the work

that I've been doing.

Reflecting on these experiences,

the stories of Andrew and Amaris

are very different examples of these psychic phenomena,

and that is why these stories are so important

for our collection.

We'll take their items and catalog their accounts

so people can study their incredible gifts

long into the future.

Andrew has powerful precognitions,

but he isn't able to control his dreams,

while Amaris is able to harness her ability

as a remote viewer.

I mean, you could say that people don't have

these experiences, but they clearly do.

So if they do, what does that mean?

Their psychic ability indicates that free will

ultimately may be an illusion.