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[Police siren wailing]

- There was something pulling me...

[Eerie indistinct whispering]

Up the mountain.

- Chris would come back from the grave

just to protect him.

- I really don't know what it was.

I can't explain it.

- I said, "nobody's gonna believe what's happening."

[Eerie voice whispering]

- She had premonitions before, but this was so real.

- Whoa!

- She died on impact.

- [Crying]

- I'm bringing us back around.

It's behind us.

[Eerie whispering]

- We'd been visiting family in Sacramento.

I had just sat up in bed and had this thing inside me

that I needed to go home,

and I needed to go home then.

I just felt like there was something pulling me

up the mountain.

We jumped in the car. We drove.

It was late.

We're on highway 50.

I don't like traveling the mountain at nighttime.

It's a really windy and twisty road.

You can go off the road.

I was looking out the window.

And as we're going around bullion bend,

on the side of the road, I see this blackish white thing.

And I didn't know what it was.

And when I was right up on it,

I could tell that it was a woman.

She was naked, totally naked,

and really white.

I know that I saw her on that road.

[Delicate instrumental music]

♪ ♪

[Indistinct echoey voices]

- All right, keep going.

- What do you think grandpa is? - [Giggles]

- I have two kids. Christine was the oldest.

- It's a little slippy.

- Christine was very bubbly, very outgoing,

very independent.

- Careful of the branch. - Oh, hold on!

- Chris has a little boy, Nick.

- Oh, you okay? - I got it.

- She was a mother that every little boy would love to have.

Both: One, two, three, Whoo!

[Laughter]

- Chris was really ambitious.

She worked a couple jobs and put herself through college.

And when she finally graduated, she got a job as a paralegal

600 miles away down in southern California.

- Oh, you guys have fun, huh?

- All right, I really gotta go. - Okay.

- Finally the time came where she had to leave.

- Love you. Okay, have fun.

- It was kind of sad... - Okay.

- To see them go, but it was a happy time

because she had what she worked for

for so hard.

- I'll see you guys later.

[Together] All right, bye!

- Drive safe! - See you!

- Chris said she would call us in a couple days.

And we said, "okay, no problem."

[Telephone ringing]

- [Groans] - Who is that?

- Wednesday morning, we got a call from a friend of Chris.

- Hello?

- She said, "hey, Chris isn't here.

She was supposed to be here. Don't you guys care?"

And I said, "well, what are you talking about?"

- She's made her way down to southern California.

- And she goes, "well, she was supposed to be here Monday,

and here it's Wednesday morning."

- Yes, yes, I'm trying to track down my daughter.

- Then, you know, we started getting a little worried.

They could be anywhere.

- I'm wondering if you have records...

- Called the hospitals.

We called the police department.

- Yeah, I'd like to report a missing person.

- Their response was, "well, that's only 48 hours,

and we get 200 calls like that a week."

They more or less said, "well, she'll show up.

Don't worry about it."

- The first time I heard about this case,

I was working for the El dorado county sheriff's department.

And my assignment at the time was working patrol...

Graveyard patrol shift.

- We got a missing person.

We got an adult female traveling with a young boy.

Unknown direction of travel.

- The case with Christine initially was just

a mother and her son who were moving to southern California.

- The family has no idea where they might have gone.

- There's people reported missing all the time...

You know, every day throughout this country.

- Also got an assault with a knife.

- There was nothing out of the ordinary.

I thought it was just another... I hate to say it...

But a routine missing persons report.

- It was like, "okay, what do we do now?"

We were handing out fliers,

and we went to every place...

Whether it was a restaurant, a home,

gas station, shopping markets.

We told people that our daughter's been missing

for three days.

And if they had seen her,

please call us.

- [Gasping]

[Telephone ringing]

- We were at home when the phone rang,

and it was my sister-in-law, 600 miles away.

- Hi, Karen.

- Dave? I just had an awful dream.

- She calls kind of frantic

and said she had a dream.

- It was dark. There was lights.

- She could see Nicky,

some lights, she said.

- No, Chrissy wasn't in it. It was just Nicky.

And the number 16 kept popping up over and over.

It was, like, two, three times, I kept seeing this number 16.

- She kept seeing a number 16 popping up.

At the time, I didn't know what "16" meant.

- Just try to stay calm.

- The dream was vivid enough that she believed in it.

- Yeah, but I have to come down to see you.

- She had premonitions before, but this was so real,

she knew that she was gonna find them.

[Indistinct radio transmission]

- On Friday, I was approached by the detective

that had been assigned to this case.

And he suspected that perhaps

she stopped at one of the all-night, 24-hour gas stations

in placerville to fill up her car.

There was, I believe, four gas stations

in this immediate area we were looking for.

And I began asking them if they had any recollection

of seeing this girl, this vehicle,

if anything sounded familiar or similar to them.

I remember going to the gas station in placerville,

and I specifically recall going in and the clerk...

He was a younger guy that worked there.

- This area about two, three days ago.

- Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember seeing them.

- You saw them. - Yeah.

He remembered her.

- When? - Uh, a few days ago?

- And he recalled the car.

He remembered a little boy was with her.

- Her son just waited in the car.

- He didn't know the license plate.

He didn't know if it matched, but the girl,

the picture that was on the flier,

seemed to resemble the girl that he remembered having

a conversation with.

- Reported to come by this area two or three days ago.

- Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember seeing them.

- You saw them? - Yeah.

- He remembered her. He recalled the car.

He remembered a little boy was with her.

- Hello. How are you tonight?

- He said that she bought a couple sodas,

and they had some small talk... "where are you off to?"

- I'm going to California for a new job.

- And he remembers her saying she's really tired,

but she's got to make the drive.

She's gonna go up and see a friend, you know,

and having to make that drive up highway 50.

He remembered specifically two things in particular:

Her being tired and her having to drive

through these windy mountain roads to go up there

to go see a friend.

- Thanks.

- All kinds of things entered my mind.

She could have been involved in an accident.

She could've driven off the road.

She could've had car trouble,

and somebody else could've, you know, stopped to help her,

and ended up taking her and the car.

We were concerned that, did she maybe get into an accident?

Did she meet with some foul play?

I mean, any number of things could've happened.

[Eerie whispering]

- [Sighs]

- We'd been visiting family in Sacramento.

And around 2:00, I woke my husband up

and told him I needed to go home.

I literally started shaking him awake.

- We need to go. - What? What for?

- I need to go home. - Can't we just go tomorrow?

- And he was saying, "well, can't we wait until tomorrow?"

And I said, "no, I want to go now."

- What's the matter? - I don't know.

- I needed to leave right now.

Normally I would've just went back to sleep,

but I just...

Kept bothering him until he finally said okay.

- Okay, we'll go.

- I just felt like there was something pulling me

up the mountain.

When you drive from Sacramento to lake Tahoe,

it turns into the mountains.

We're on highway 50.

It was odd because I don't like traveling the mountain

at nighttime.

It's really a windy and twisty road.

And you can go off the road.

I was looking out the window.

And as we're going around bullion bend,

on the side of the road, I see this blackish white thing.

And I didn't know what it was.

And when I was right up on it,

I could tell that it was a woman.

She was naked, totally naked,

and really white.

I can see her body,

and I can see that it was a woman...

But I could not see her shadow.

- I just saw a dead woman on the side of the road!

- What? What?

Do you want me to stop?

- My husband wanted to stop.

And he said he was gonna go back

'cause he could probably help her.

What if she wasn't dead, and I'd told him,

no, I didn't want to go back.

She may be a ploy, you know.

What if somebody was in the woods waiting to come out

and then take our car, or take us with the car,

or kill us?

I asked him to please find the nearest phone.

- There's a phone right here.

- We drove on about another quarter mile.

There's a ranger station up on the mountain.

And I called 911.

- Hi, I'd like to, uh... Report a...

A body on the side of the road.

- They told me somebody would be there and to get in the truck

and lock the door.

- [Crying]

- We sat in the car, and we waited,

which seemed like hours, which was probably just minutes.

[Police siren blares]

The cop car pulled up.

And I jumped out of the car and I told them

that I had seen a naked lady on the side of the road,

and she was really white, and I thought she was dead.

The officer told me, "take us there,

but stay back 200 yards."

We pulled out of the parking lot, and we drove.

And then I said, "Nicky, this is it.

There's bullion bend up ahead."

He had a big spotlight, and he was looking.

And then he came back down

and told me that they hadn't found anything

and that we should go home.

And I even told my husband that I didn't think

that they believed me and that they thought I was crazy,

and they probably just stopped the search.

But I know that I saw her on that road.

- Hey, guys.

- Hey, how are you? - How's it going?

- Not bad.

- Later in the shift that night, I met up with the officers

that had gone up to the call that Deborah hoyt made.

- What's going on with bullion bend, seriously?

- We were speculating.

I mean, maybe she's imagining it;

maybe it's a practical joke.

- Okay, so was she nuts? I mean, was she...

- No, she was very convincing.

Like, she saw something.

- They believed her.

It wasn't like they'd dismissed her as being a whack job,

but they believed her.

- We got in the house,

and I just laid on my bed and kept crying.

I kept trying to go to sleep, but...

She kept popping in my head.

The vision of her just kept popping in my head,

and when it did, I would wake up and cry.

- I got a call to go back to the sheriff's department.

I met with the aunt and uncle of Christine skubish,

who had just spent all night driving up to placerville

from southern California.

- Okay, well, we want to help. Where can we go?

- They were concerned, obviously,

for Christine and for Nicky,

because nobody had seen or heard from them.

And they'd indicated to me that they wanted

to start their own search.

- Highway 50, okay. We're gonna go there now.

- No, you can't go there.

- And I recommended that they get some rest.

They were both very tired.

Get some sleep and start fresh when the sun is up.

As I was talking to them, I was becoming more suspicious

that there could be some connection

between this naked woman and Christine skubish.

I just had a sixth sense.

I thought, "I'm gonna go up into that area and search myself."

[Haunting instrumental music]

♪ ♪

- And I was desperate to find her, along with my wife.

As the time was clicking on,

we started getting more and more worried.

We knew that something had happened,

but we didn't know what.

[Intense instrumental music]

♪ ♪

- As I drove up there, obviously the sun is rising.

It's getting brighter.

I approached the bullion bend area.

This is the area that Deborah hoyt had told the officers

where she'd seen this naked woman.

I was looking for anything that was out of the ordinary.

It could've been debris on the roadway

that ordinarily wouldn't be there.

It could be skid marks off the side of the road.

Anything that isn't ordinarily on the highway,

I was gonna stop and investigate.

Once I got into the bullion bend area, I slowed my car down.

I saw a small tennis shoe, like a child's tennis shoe,

on the road.

I'm thinking, "what are the odds that this is Nicky's shoe?"

I mean, this is exactly the location

that I had been told Deborah hoyt said

she saw a naked woman on the shoulder.

- I could look down and actually see

that this was a very steep drop-off.

And there was, you know, big pine trees

all intermingled there.

And as I'm looking down, I started to see debris.

That's when I saw the red car.

The whole roof had been peeled back on this car,

and so the entire top part of the car was missing.

It was gone.

[Tense instrumental music]

♪ ♪

I came around to see if there was anybody in there.

I realize at that point

this is in fact Christine skubish.

I reached, and I tried to feel for a pulse.

At that point, I knew that she had died.

She was deceased.

What bothered me the most about this,

not that seeing Christine like that,

but looking across the car...

That's what really got me.

He had basically the look of death.

He didn't have any life, looking at him.

I took my light, and I shined my light in his eyes

to see if there's any reaction.

And I saw no reaction, no pupil change.

I didn't feel a pulse.

I believed that Nicky, too, was dead.

- [Raspy gasp]

- And then I noticed that his chest,

as he's laying, his chest Rose a little bit,

like he took a breath.

- [Raspy breathing]

- And I thought my mind was playing tricks on me.

I thought I was seeing things.

And then I got down close,

and I could actually feel shallow breaths.

- [Raspy breathing]

- And I said, "oh, my god. He's alive."

- Nicky, stay with me.

Nicky, stay with me.

- I immediately got on the radio.

- I need an e.M.T. Down here as soon as possible.

- I tried to hold his hand.

I said, "Nicky, if you can hear me, squeeze my hand."

- Stay with me, now. Stay with me.

- I tried to get him to interact with me.

- Come on, Nicky.

- I just continued to repeat his name.

- Stay with me.

- And I told him, "you're gonna be okay."

Another deputy showed up,

and I called him down to where I was.

I told him who Nicky was,

and I said, "you got to stay here with him.

You know, I'm afraid the family's coming."

I didn't want them to see

the condition of Christine or Nicky.

And sure enough, Karen arrived.

- Stay back, please. - [Sobbing]

- Nicky's okay.

- And I had to put up my hands and say, "stop."

- Stay back, stay back. Let's go back up the hill.

- I kind of held Karen, and I looked her in the face,

and I told her, "the car's down here.

I found both Christine and Nicky."

- Watch your step, watch your step.

- And then I had to tell her.

I said, "Christine didn't make it.

Christine died."

- It's okay, it's okay. It's okay.

- Oh, my god, Christine!

- "But Nicky is alive."

- You're okay, buddy. - Okay.

All right. - Let's get you home, buddy.

- Everybody ready? One, two, three.

- It's okay, Nicky.

We'll get you home safe.

- The firefighters, the paramedics,

they did all the treatments, the neck support, everything,

and put him on a flat back board to get him out of there

and load him into an ambulance.

[Indistinct radio transmission]

- We got the phone call.

They found Chris and Nick.

And my wife kept saying, "well, how are they?

Are they okay?"

And I had to tell her...

"Brenda, Chris is dead."

- Earlier today police responded

to a fatal car accident on highway 50.

- My mother came to tell me

I needed to see something on TV.

- 23-year-old Christine skubish and her son, Nicky,

went missing five days ago.

Their car was found in a ravine.

Christine was pronounced dead at the scene.

- I looked up, and I saw the woman

that I had saw on the side of the road.

- Remarkably Nicky survived for five days

without food or water.

She had the same soft face,

and if you can imagine her eyes closed,

that would've been her.

- The woman that Deborah hoyt saw

could not have been Christine skubish

because the night that Deborah hoyt saw this woman,

Christine skubish had already been dead for five days.

- The coroner's report indicated that death was immediate

and that she died on impact.

Christine skubish never took off her clothes,

never climbed up the hill,

never lied on the side of the road,

never went back down and got redressed

and put herself back in the car.

None of that happened.

She was lying dead in that car for five days

before Deborah hoyt ever saw anybody on the side of the road.

- When I walk into the room, I could see him there,

and he was trying to hold his hands up, like, "papa."

- Papa!

- [Laughing] Nicky, look at you.

- And he was pale, skinny,

but he had a smile on his face.

I walked over there,

and not grabbing him hard or tight,

but just held him as gently... Like a baby.

[Clapping]

And it's like we were happy.

Although we lost our daughter,

we were happy that Nicky was still there.

- Roughly about 17 years have passed

since the accident happened.

Most of the things that I do remember

are just lots of flashes, mostly pictures.

They're very vivid.

The earliest ones... I do remember being

at my grandparents' house with my mother.

I remember them having a conversation.

I don't exactly know what it was about.

That's about the earliest memory that I have.

The closest memory that occurs after that

is of the accident itself.

I remember tumbling down the hill.

[Crashing and glass breaking]

It's just tree after tree after tree.

We were just hitting them head-on.

I just remember waking up and being in the passenger seat

next to my mother.

I remember not knowing what to think.

Looking at my mom and just kind of thinking she was asleep.

I didn't think anything more than that...

At least, not that I remember.

I remember seeing lights.

And I just remember that there was something there.

There was something right next to the car the entire time

next to my mom.

I have a very distinct and vivid picture of it

in my head.

I mean, it was just a light.

It was a big light.

And then through the back window of the car itself,

I could also see the same thing next to the road.

And it had a silhouette.

There was no specific features,

but I saw a lighted outline of a body.

[Eerie indistinct whispering]

It was never something that scared me.

And I didn't feel afraid when I saw it.

- Two weeks later, Brenda and I decided to go to the crash site

to see if there was anything else that was left down there

behind that were Chris's.

We wanted to make sure that we got everything out of there.

As I got out of the car, there was a little mile marker

it said "16 miles" with an arrow pointing to placerville.

Then I knew that my sister didn't have a dream.

It was a premonition.

- The number 16 kept popping up.

- And it all started making sense

as I started adding the pieces.

- When you put all of the pieces of the puzzle together...

You take the dream that my aunt had,

the apparition sighting that Debra hoyt did see...

- I just saw a dead woman on the side of the road.

And the lights that I did see around the car...

It had to have been an angel.

Whether it was god's hand

or just a mother looking after her son,

I honestly don't know, but it was something.

It was something greater than me,

greater than anything that I've ever believed.

- I absolutely think something special happened here.

People have asked before,

"is this some kind of a miracle?"

Yeah, I think it is a miracle.

It's a whole number of series of events that I can't explain.

And I don't know. I've often thought about it.

I just don't have the answers.

- I would come into the heliport

and preflight the helicopter.

Then we would settle in and try to Gauge,

listening to the police radio,

of how the day was going.

- Alex, you copy?

- I was working with a new crew member, Kenny downs.

He did not have any flight experience,

and my job was to kind of guide him and show him the ropes.

- I'd only been in the unit a couple weeks.

So it was like having a brand-new job.

We noticed very quickly it was a very quiet night.

Around 10:30 or 11:00 that night...

- engine's on.

- We decided that we should take the helicopter up

and do our routine patrol.

- Requesting permission to take off.

- Make our presence known.

- Air one, this is north tower. You are clear to hover taxi.

- Copy that.

- Get us in town, see what's happening.

- Kenny and I were flying.

Kenny was shining the light,

checking for anything that may be unusual.

Checking rooftops of businesses, school grounds,

and the expressways and roadways.

- Expressway looks fine. No traffic.

Not much, Kenny.

All clear right now.

- The radio was quiet.

There wasn't a lot of activity on the streets.

- Let's head a little further out and see what's going on.

- There was virtually nothing in the sky.

It was just a slow night all the way around.

- So you wouldn't think that that night would be a night

that you'd remember for the rest of your life.

- Over to the west, we'll head over and we'll check in

on the container yard.

Swing your light around that side.

Let's keep an eye out for what's happening.

- We had been flying for about 45 minutes to an hour.

- Air one, we have a burglary in progress

on beutil road.

- Copy that.

- A call came out that there was a burglary in progress.

- And it's about three miles up north, I believe.

- Then as we got nearer,

which was only about a couple minutes,

three minutes away,

I saw a light flickering.

The officer was shining his flashlight,

turning it off and on,

and I could tell where we were going.

- All right, this is beutil coming up right over here.

- We were almost there.

- Be advised, all personnel, that is a false alarm.

- And they told us that it was a false alarm.

- Copy that.

False alarm, Kenny.

- All right, I'm gonna bring us around then.

We'll head back to base if that's the case.

- We decided that we would just head back to the heliport

and take a break.

- Kentucky a.T.C., this is air one.

We are four miles due southwest of...

- Roger that, air one. You are clear to land

on helipad three.

- En route back to the heliport,

we went over a group of trees.

We cleared this clump of trees,

and I saw something very unusual.

- What's that? - What's what?

- Look over to your left.

- I recall Kenny saying to me,

"Kenny, when did that tower get out there?"

And I said, "tower? What tower?"

"Yeah, that tower with the light on it."

- There is no tower there.

- He said, "what are you talking about?"

I said, "that right there." So I shined the light on it.

- And I looked over and saw a glowing object.

And I said, "what is that?"

- That's definitely not a light on a tower.

- I got lower and a little closer.

- It was very bright.

It had a pear shape.

It just set there.

So we were kind of facing off with each other.

It was looking at us, and we were looking at it.

I kept asking Kenny, "what is this thing?"

- Look at that.

- We just couldn't believe what we were seeing.

It started gaining altitude...

Coming up to about our altitude.

It stopped for a second.

It kind of looked at us, kind of faced off,

and then it started going to the right...

And then to the left.

- Wow, I've never seen anything like it.

- Okay.

- It kind of hovered like we were doing.

So we were kind of faced off with each other.

And then all of a sudden, it just takes off at warp speed.

[Sonic boom]

And just goes, like, a mile and a half in a second.

- Oh, my god. - It took off.

- As it disappeared from my sight,

it had to be going 600 miles an hour.

- We just couldn't believe it.

What is this thing?

It would leave, and it would be right back.

[Sharp hissing]

- I saw a helicopter hovering over the g.E. Property.

I could tell that it was a police helicopter.

- What do you got going on over at g.E.?

I'm across the street in the park.

- I said, "guys, you all need to come over here.

We've got something chasing us. We're in g.E. Parking lot."

- You know, I moved onto the property to get a better look.

And, you know, I see the helicopter,

and then off to one side I see kind of a faint glowing light.

- Joe, we're seeing this orange glow up in the sky here.

Do you see what we're seeing, Joe?

- I see it all around you.

- You know, I'm talking to Kenny on the radio,

and you know, we're basically asking him,

"hey, what is it, guys?" You know, "what are you seeing?"

- It's behind us! Behind us.

- I hear, "Kenny, it's chasing us!

It's chasing us!"

- I'm bringing us back around. Bringing us back around.

- Air one, I have no idea what that is.

- I'm thinking, "this thing is gonna hit our tail rotor."

- Keeps going behind. I can't keep it in front.

- I turn into it.

- Stand by, air one. I have no idea what that is.

- We're chasing after it.

I was looking out my windshield.

I want to know what it is.

The whole time, you know,

I'm chasing this object and everything,

things are flashing through my mind.

Is it a plane, a balloon?

Some kind of aircraft?

I can't keep my eye on it 'cause they're moving,

and I'm having to move to try to keep up

and get a closer look at it.

I'm driving pretty fast...

As I'm zigzagging through the buildings.

It started getting farther and farther away from me

where I couldn't keep up with it.

- The last moment, it was unbelievable.

- It's hovering right in front of us.

- It's hovering. - Whoa!

- What the hell is that?

- Oh, my god.

All of a sudden, there come the fireballs.

- Whoa!

- Where'd it go?

- When it fired out,

they stayed equal distance to each other.

- Look at that. - There's another one.

- When they shot these fireballs out,

one never passed the other one.

It was just right in line.

- At that same time,

I'm banking the helicopter hard to the left and turning

because I didn't want these objects to hit us.

- I see these faint fireballs just kind of spurt out.

- By then, I'm coming back up and around

to see where it went.

And it was gone.

- Where'd it go? Kenny? Kenny?

Where'd it go? - I-I don't know.

- And we were saying, "where is it?"

- Kenny, you see anything? I don't see anything.

- There was nothing. It just vanished.

We circled the area and could not find any trace of anything.

Just as it appeared in the beginning,

it was gone in an instant.

- Once the unidentified flying object disappeared,

we decided to head in.

There wasn't a lot of conversation.

- At that point, I'm just kind of baffled, you know.

What was it?

We're trying to say that this was not a u.F.O.

And we couldn't do it.

- Do I believe in u.F.O.S? Absolutely.

- I really don't know what it was.

And I can't explain it.

But I did see an unidentified flying object.

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