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William Shatner: You know,
I've been around for a while.

I've met some interesting
people, done some crazy things.

So you'd think that there
wasn't much that could

take me by surprise.

You'd be wrong.

The world is full of
stories and science and

things that amaze and
confound me every single

day, incredible mysteries
that keep me awake at night.

Some I can answer.

And others just
defy logic.

Shatner: Is someone - or
something - controlling

our minds - remotely?

In Colorado, a man finds a
mysterious object in his body.

TIM CULLEN: It probably
had to be

extraterrestrial in nature.

Shatner: Are the brains
of humans being monitored

from outer space?

In St Louis, a séance
turns a housewife

into a literary genius.

JAN VANDERSANDE: She
dictated 7 books,

thousands of poems, short
stories, it's incredible.

Shatner: Can the dead take
over the minds of the living?

And in California, a woman
causes machines -

and people - to go haywire.

CHERYL WELSH: Electrical
equipment didn't work

anymore, my
computer, my tv.

Shatner: Is her mind being
remotely controlled

- by the government?

William Shatner: Yeah,
it's a weird world.

And I love it.

William Shatner:
Frightening isn't it.

This is an actual x-ray
of construction worker

Patrick Lawler - he went
to the dentist complaining

of a toothache - instead
he found a four inch nail

embedded in his skull
from his nail gun.

It's amazing what you can
find inside people...

Here's another - a cell
phone hidden inside an inmate.

How did he get
my phone number?

And this one - a man who
accidentally swallowed

some scissors while using
them as a toothpick.

And oh, here's
one of mine.

Well. Never mind.

Despite being bizarre -
all of these things are

easily explainable
- except this one.

This... was found inside
another man - a man who has no

idea what it is - or how
it got there -

or even if it came from Earth.

Shatner: Yuma
County, Colorado. 1998.

Cement contractor Tim
Cullen is on a routine job

when he suffers an injury.

TIM CULLEN: I was doing
some work for a farmer

earlier in the summertime
and I'd hit my thumb with

a hammer, belted
it pretty good.

My wife, she's a nurse,
she said well you might as

well go, why don't you go to
the doctor and get it looked at.

Shatner: Tim's thumb
turns out to be fine.

But the doctor who
examines him finds

something else.

Something he
can't explain.

TIM CULLEN: The doctor
took an x-ray and he said,

uh, you know, you have
something in your arm?

And I said, no.

He said, you got any
idea where it come from?

Shatner: Tim is
baffled by the news.

TIM CULLEN: The object in
the x-ray is a kind of

bright triangle in, in the
x-ray, real bright, right,

right next to
my wrist bone.

It was kind of interesting
to know that something got

in my body, I really didn't
know anything about it.

Shatner: The doctor
decides to operate.

But during the surgery,
something extraordinary happens.

TIM CULLEN: They were
doing the, the surgery and

I got to watch
it on a scope.

As the doctor got ready to
remove the object, when he

got close to it, it seemed
to move away from the

forceps that he was going
to remove the objects with.

Like the object sensed
that it was going to be removed.

They finally got a hold of
it and they, that's when

my arm really got to
hurting, they got it drawn

up near the surface and,
uh, put the snip on

it and took it loose.

Shatner: As the doctor
examines the object -

he realizes why it
reacted strangely.

Inside a membrane
is a core of metal.

There are also
"proprioceptors" -

wire-like appendages that
seem to be connected to

nerve endings
leading to his hand.

TIM CULLEN: There was no
anti-rejection structures

around the whole object at
all, the body doesn't even

know it's there.

I mean, it's metal and
nothing more foreign to

the body than metal.

Shatner: At first, Tim
makes a steady recovery.

But his health suddenly
begins to decline.

TIM CULLEN: My mental ability
started sliding downhill.

My ability to concentrate
and to stay awake, went

downhill really rapidly.

It's just like it's,
I dropped my will.

I feel like instead of
being a 60 year old man,

I have to take a nap like
an 80, 85 year old man.

Shatner: Certain his
health issues are

connected to the object, Tim
searches his memory for clues.

Then it hits him - a
mysterious incident

20 years earlier that
made no sense at all.

Until now.

TIM CULLEN: We were coming
back one night, in the

evening, late night,
probably 11:00 o'clock or so.

Coming up Highway 59 and
we encountered

this craft in front of us.

Looked like it was about
100 foot long,

it looked like a cigar.

There were some
lights on it.

Shatner: Tim stops
for a better view.

Whatever it is moves
like nothing on earth.

TIM CULLEN: It crossed the
road, it crossed over the

fence and under the
telephone lines and the

next thing you know, Bingo
- it's kind of by the car,

and then it's
back up here.

My wife and I sat there
and two lights came on.

They're really bright
could like see my

peripheral vision
was kind of gone.

Shatner: Time seems to stand
still for Tim and his wife.

TIM CULLEN: After the
lights came on, and my

wife and I were sitting
there in the car for what

I perceive as four
or five minutes.

It was a mind-bending
experience for me at the time.

We sat there wondering
what to do, you know,

thinking about it, and
then I looked at

the wife and said, let's go.

Shatner: When they arrive
home, they discover

they've been gone - not
for minutes, but hours.

Tim can't account
for the lost time.

TIM CULLEN: There was lots
of things that may have

happened, you know, I
don't know, but missing

time, I don't get
to remember it.

It does make it
interesting for me.

Shatner: There is one
thing Tim is sure of.

He was taken on board
an alien spaceship and

implanted with
the metal object.

Shatner: Why?

TIM CULLEN: The aliens
want to interfere with my

thoughts processes
for some reason.

It's a form of
mind control.

You know, we're not the
only intelligent mortal

life form in
this universe.

It makes me wonder
why, why me?

And I truly do.

Uh, I'll never
get over it.

William Shatner: This
is Weird - or What.

A guy doing some simple
DIY ends up finding this

thing inside him.

Can Tim Cullen be right?

Was this device created by
an extra terrestrial then

implanted in his arm
during an alien abduction

and used somehow to
control his mind?

It's an incredible
concept, isn't it?

But I have an even more
important question - when

will they be on
sale at Radio Shack?

Shatner: What happened
to Tim Cullen?

Did an alien life form
implant a device inside

him to control his mind?

Ex-police officer Derrel
Sims is known as

the Alien Hunter.

He counsels people who
claim they've been

abducted by
extraterrestrials.

DERREL SIMS: Our abductees
range from everything from

housewives, to husbands
to - they're hard working

people, we've got three
NASA scientists that are

abductees, one of
them with implants.

Shatner: He's convinced
Tim's UFO experience was

not only real - it
wasn't his first.

DERREL SIMS: He's a
typical individual that

had no clue what was going
on, I suspect his events

started much younger on in
his life, many people who

find out they're an
abductee later in life

don't realize that they've
had events long before,

most of the time.

Shatner: But why did Tim
have no memory of what happened?

DERREL SIMS: Once the
encounter takes place they

leave on the individual
what is called a screen

memory, this is often
the true false memory syndrome.

They leave an imagery and
thoughts and feelings with you.

The majority of them are
not pleasant experiences.

Shatner: Despite this,
Tim knew something

inexplicable was happening
to his body - and his mind.

TIM CULLEN: For the first
20 years, when I had the

implant in my body I
believe I was smarter,

my mental function was
greatly enhanced.

I believe the implant was
there to, uh, uh,

mentally stimulate me.

Shatner: The implant
was affecting his

neurotransmitters -
chemicals that regulate

mood, behavior and other
critical functions in the brain.

DERREL SIMS: Abductees
often feel why am I having

these feelings.

Their levels of serotonin
and dopamine are being

altered as one
psychologist told me, says

anyone that can do that to
you, I don't care who that

is, they own you.

They own your emotions,
they own everything about you.

Shatner: Sims says
implants don't just change

the way the brain works -
they actually record

what it's doing.

DERREL SIMS: They're there
to do a job and one of the

things they're to do is to
collect huge amounts of

information particularly
emotions, enormous amounts

of emotions, s huge wide
variety and span of

emotions and to collect
them and to bring them back.

Shatner: But why would
aliens implant these

devices in humans?

DERREL SIMS: That's the
sixty-four thousand

dollar question.

Everybody's focusing on
the wrong thing, that's

what bothers me.

I come from an
intelligence background,

the whole thing is an
intelligence problem,

it always has been.

Shatner: Did aliens try to
control Timothy Cullen?

Or is the true explanation
more down to earth?

MICHAEL SHERMER: NASA
knows where every bolt is

floating around up there.

Shatner: A mysterious
object is found in a man's arm.

Was it inserted by
extra-terrestrials in

order to control him?

Dr. Michael Shermer is the
publisher of Skeptic magazine.

He's spent 30 years
investigating alien stories.

MICHAEL SHERMER: The Tim
Cullen story has been

around for a long
time in UFO lore.

You hear about these
implants with alleged

micro circuitry and
things like that.

I've never seen one.

I've never seen a
published article about this.

I've never heard of a
scientist examining

anything like that.

Of all the implants that
have been tested that I've

seen, rigorously tested,
they've all concluded that

these were natural
earth bound artifacts -

shrapnel, piece of metal,
splinter, that kind of thing.

Uh, not any kind of
extraterrestrial.

Shatner: Dr. Shermer has
studied video of Tim's surgery.

He saw nothing to suggest
the object

was controlling his brain.

MICHAEL SHERMER: Seeing
the video of the surgeon

removing it, it didn't
look like that at all to me.

It looked like it was
actually quite loose in

there because as he was
poking the tongues in

there to grab it, it
was moving around.

It didn't look connected
to any nerves at all.

Shatner: But what about
the strange membrane

the doctor found?

MICHAEL SHERMER: We do
know that something that's

been in the body for a long
time gets coated by the body.

It's a way of
protecting itself.

That may look metal when
you see it but it's just

actually some other
organic material.

And I suspect
that's all it is.

Shatner: Was Tim
making it all up?

Not necessarily.

Dr. Shermer is sure Tim
had some kind of traumatic

experience - but pop
culture made him

blame it on ET's.

MICHAEL SHERMER: In the
middle ages the narratives

talk about demons 'cause
they lived in

a demon haunted world.

Two hundred years ago, a
hundred and fifty years

ago, these were
poltergeists and ghosts

'cause that's the
world they lived in.

Our century? Aliens.

So our anomalous
psychological experiences

are interpreted
through that filter.

Shatner: Colin Ross is a
psychiatrist specializing

in severe mental trauma.

He agrees something was
trying to control

Tim Cullen - but it
wasn't aliens.

COLIN ROSS: I get
contacted quite regularly

by email and mail, by
people who absolutely

firmly believe that
they're being monitored

and controlled remotely by
the CIA, the military or

the government.

They'll describe how they
were involved in the

military, how they had a
security clearance, they

got in some sort of beef
with some other person and

then it all started.

Shatner: But how could
the government control

someone's brain?

COLIN ROSS: It's a known
fact that from the

documents and this is
going back 40, 50 years

now, that you can control
somebody's behaviour

remotely by activating an
electrode that's in their brain.

It's not a conspiracy theory,
it's a medical proven fact.

Shatner: Dr. Ross says the
origins of mind-control

technology began from a
desire to tap the skills

of German scientists
smuggled into the US after

World War II.

COLIN ROSS: Operation
Paper Clip is one of a

series of projects that
was created by the CIA,

uh, after the second World
War, it was to get control

of the German scientists.

So the US government
wanted to bring a lot of

expertise over to the
United States, rocket

engineers, ball bearing
manufacturers, film,

whatever it might be and
brought them into the

United States for
use in research.

Shatner: One of them,
Dr. Wernher Von Braun,

helped the Americans take
the lead in the space race.

Did another German
scientist give the US the

edge in mind control?

Dr. Ross thinks so - and
that the US is still using

the technology.

COLIN ROSS: I'm quite
confident that there must

be military and CIA
implanted chips in people

around the world, for
various purposes.

Shatner: But why would
the US government want to

control people's minds?

Simple - to achieve global
domination by turning

ordinary people into
fearless assassins,

activated by
remote control.

COLIN ROSS: The way you
control behaviour is kind

of two fold, the electrode
can actually activate part

of your brain, or you can
hypnotically

condition a person.

So the idea is you
condition the person to

have this new identity
inside, who's hidden

behind an amnesia barrier,
you call them out with a

hypnotic code, give them
the assignment, they go

back inside, they carry
out the assignment.

If the out front person is
captured and interrogated,

has no information, no
memory of it whatsoever.

Shatner: Was Timothy
Cullen being groomed as a

covert government
assassin?

Are aliens trying to
control his brain?

Or did he just imagine
the whole thing?

Whatever the truth,
it's Weird or What.

Shatner: A séance turns a
housewife into

a literary genius.

JAN VANDERSANDE: She
only has an 8th grade

education, which
is quite amazing.

William Shatner: Hi, I'm
just trying to

contact the spirits.

I'll be with
you in a moment.

l...

WTF LOL ...means
nothing to me.

But do Ouija
boards really work?

Millions think so.

It was invented as a
harmless parlour game over

a century ago.

Since then it's become a
tool regarded by many as

the only genuine way we
can communicate with the dead.

Well, they're dead wrong.

There's another way - and
it won't just give you a

few random letters - but
enough to fill entire libraries.

All you need is your mind.

Shatner: July 8th, 1913.

St Louis, Missouri.

At the height of the
progessive era, the

suffrage movement is
working to bring women the

vote and unshackle them
from traditional roles.

One of the newly liberated
women is housewife

Pearl Lenore Curran, who is
enjoying a visit

from her neighbour.

JAN VANDERSANDE: Pearl
Curran was born in 1883,

she only has an 8th grade
education, she wasn't

really passionate
about anything.

Shatner: Physicist and
author Dr. Jan Vandersande

is an expert on mediums
and psychic phenomena.

JAN VANDERSANDE: She
didn't read much, she

didn't travel much.

So here you have a lady
who's, let's put it this way,

boring.

Shatner: The fashion of
the day, Pearl and her

friend are playing with
a Ouija Board, trying to

contact spirits.

JAN VANDERSANDE: A Ouija
board is a board where all

the letters of the
alphabet are in a circle.

And in the centre you
put a glass upside down.

And then you have about
two or three people in the

room put their hands on
the glass and if someone

there is a medium, the
glass will

start spelling out words.

Shatner: Despite many
attempts, they fail to

raise the dead.

But Pearl is persuaded
to try one last time.

JAN VANDERSANDE: They
were playing and all of a

sudden, the thing
really started moving .

There was no way where she
knew where it was going.

The spirits were using her
to move the planchette on

the Ouija board.

Shatner: Someone,
or something, is

communicating with them.

The glass begins to
spell out a message.

JAN VANDERSANDE: "Many
moons ago I lived.

Again I come.

Patience Worth
my name, wait.

I would speak with thee.

Good friends,
let us be merry.

The time for
work is passed.

Let the tabby drows and blinker
wisdom to the fire log."

Now that is not
normal English.

Shatner: They are
connecting with someone

named Patience Worth.

Who was she?

JAN VANDERSANDE: Patience
Worth claimed she was born

in 1649 in rural
Dorchester, in England.

And, uh, when she was
about 30, she claimed she

came to the US in
Nantucket and there when

she was 44 or 45, she was
killed by the Indians.

Shatner: Patience's
essence is overwhelming.

She is so powerful Pearl
suddenly realises she no

longer needs
the Ouija board.

JAN VANDERSANDE: She
starts getting the words

before the thing
even moves.

So that's how she knew
she was the medium she's

hearing the, the voices
and the dictation from,

from Patience.

And she was seeing images,
pictures while she was

getting Patience
talk to her.

And that would then
was then written down.

So that's how
she developed.

Shatner: Over the coming
months, Pearl's literary

output is prolific.

JAN VANDERSANDE: Patience
dictated seven books,

thousands of poems, short
stories, it's incredible.

Shatner: Her stories
are filled with obscure

details of 17th century
life - things she simply

could not have known.

Pearl publishes her work.

The critics love it.

JAN VANDERSANDE: For
example, the New York

Tribune, New York Tribune,
you know, it's a famous

paper, review of her book
called Hope True Blood,

"a work approximating
absolute genius."

Lady's Pictorial of
London: "This book will

stand as a landmark of
fiction by a new writer

who will take a prominent
place among great writers."

Shatner: Pearl's unlikely
transformation attracts

the attention of skeptical
scientists, who seek a

rational explanation.

JAN VANDERSANDE: Dr.
Franklin Prince, he

has a PhD from Yale and
he was the head of the

American Society for
Psychical Research, they

asked him to
investigate her.

So he spent several weeks
interviewing her, sitting

in on her sessions
when she was writing.

Shatner: But the doctor
finds no evidence of

deception.

JAN VANDERSANDE: His
conclusions were that

Mrs. Curren was not, was
not fraudulent and she was

not, nuts or
anything like that.

She was a normal person.

Shatner: Patience and
Pearl's ghost writing

partnership continues for
almost a quarter of a

century - until 1937
when, in an eerie twist,

Patience uses her final
message to deliver a

chilling prediction.

JAN VANDERSANDE: Patience
actually told her in her

the last communication
that the end was drawing near.

And all of a sudden she
got sick and she died.

There's no doubt about it,
in my mind, this is a case

of mental mediumship where
spirits communicate with her.

William Shatner: It's
an incredible story.

You know, people often
ask me if I use a ghost

writer, with all these
memoirs and novels and

poetry that I've
published over the years.

I'm not ashamed
to say I do.

Not that I couldn't do it
all by myself, obviously,

I'm a busy guy with
a busy schedule.

As is Fred. He's very talented.

Whatcha got going
for me today?

I told you - stay off of
Facebook when you're on

working hours Fred.

I want you to send
a note to my wife.

Tell her I'm with
her in spirit.

Shatner: How did Pearl
Curran write so accurately

about things she
knew nothing about?

Can paranormal entities
take over our minds?

Shatner: Professor Stephen
Braude is an expert on

parapsychology and editor
in chief of the

Journal of Scientific
Exploration.

STEPHEN BRAUDE: I
personally don't think

Pearl Curran was
channeling an entity

Patience Worth.

The character Patience
Worth provided very few

clues about her
alleged earthly life.

Just that she lived in
the 17th Century, around

Dorset in England, at some
point came to the U.S.

and was killed in some kind of
battle with Native Americans.

That's pretty
much all we know.

So there's very
little evidence.

Shatner: So who was
the literary genius?

For Braude, the answer
is easy - Pearl Curran.

STEPHEN BRAUDE: My best
guess about the

Patience Worth case is
that Pearl Curran was a kind of

dissociative virtuoso.

Somebody who could go into
a kind of altered state,

and in that state, access
various abilities and

reservoirs of knowledge
that ordinarily, were not

at her disposal.

In Pearl's case I think
she went into a kind of

light trance at the
Ouija board, a kind of

dissociative state, and in
that state she was able to

by-pass certain barriers
to creativity she had

erected through
most of her life.

Shatner: Was Pearl Curran
a world-class writer -

without even knowing it?

If so, Braude's theory
leaves a nagging question.

STEPHEN BRAUDE: One of the
main and lingering puzzles

about the case, is how
Pearl Curran, acquired the

knowledge that she did of
life in England during the

Victorian era so that she
could write her novel,

HOPE TRUE BLOOD.

It's possible that she
might have encountered

some of the materials
through her everyday life.

My suggestion about this
is that Pearl Curran had

some latent and quite
formidable linguistic

talents which were just
waiting for the proper

time to nurture them
and to bring them out.

Shatner: Was Patience
Worth just the name Pearl

Curran gave to
her inner author?

Shatner: How did she know
so much about things she

hadn't experienced?

CYNTHIA LARSON: She was
just getting it directly

from that time,
from that space.

Shatner: A poorly educated
housewife becomes a

literary master.

Did she possess
hidden talents?

Cynthia Larson
doesn't think so.

She's an author and expert
on the physics of reality

- the building blocks of
everything we know

and experience.

CYNTHIA LARSON: The
Pearl Curran story is

extraordinary and when I
first heard about it I was

amazed with the syntax,
the language and the

everyday experiences.

Shatner: How did Pearl
access this ancient

knowledge in
perfect detail?

Quantum physics,
of course.

CYNTHIA LARSON: My theory
about Pearl Curran is that

she was quantum
jumping back in time.

If you can imagine this
universe as consisting of

many parallel
alternate realities.

Then what you're doing is
actually choosing which

one of those you
want to go to.

Establishing a kind of
connection to it, through

some meditative process
and then bringing the

correct energy to it
to make that jump.

Shatner: In addition to
alternate realities,

Larson thinks quantum
jumps can take us both

backward and
forward in time.

CYNTHIA LARSON: Usually
when we think of time

travel we think in terms
of time being linear.

What is extremely
different about quantum

jumping is that we are
working with the theory

that we have many worlds,
many alternate realities.

That means there were many
possible beginnings, we're

right now moving towards
many possible futures.

Shatner: Quantum jumping
into the past might

explain how Pearl wrote
with such vivid detail.

Shatner: But how
did she do it?

CYNTHIA LARSON: When
people have this

experience they often are
in a meditative state.

I think what Pearl was
able to do by staying in

that mind set, she was
literally making what you

might call a quantum
jump, into that reality.

That for her it was
extremely real, and so

when the words came
through it wasn't

something that she was
interpreting, she was just

getting it directly from
that time, from that space.

What makes Pearl Curran's
story so believable is we

can see that she was
clearly connecting with

very definite
times and spaces.

Shatner: Did Pearl Curran
access some hidden talent

to write her novels?

Or was she quantum leaping
back and forth through time?

Shatner: Psychic Ellie
Crystal sees no need to

dispute Curran's
version of events.

ELLIE CRYSTAL: Pearl
could not have known the

information that she
was writing about.

She did not have access to
the computer technologies

we have today.

Pearl wrote all her books
based on her connections

with the collective
unconscious and an entity

she called Patience Worth.

Shatner: But how was she
able to contact this spirit?

Crystal is certain that
Pearl was, like herself,

a psychic.

ELLIE CRYSTAL: As a
psychic, you're moving

your consciousness from
this reality to another

reality getting information
and bringing it back.

Shatner: To show just how
easy it is to tap into

information from the dead
- Crystal is going to

demonstrate - by
contacting the spirit of

none other than
...Pearl Curran.

ELLIE CRYSTAL: The energy
of Pearl is still in the grids.

Pearl is saying...

she is showing
me two keys.

Beautiful gold keys.

She's writing now.

Shatner: Crystal says this
kind of channeling is

called "automatic
writing."

ELLIE CRYSTAL: The
waters will be big...

The land areas will fall.

When I'm doing automatic
writing I just let my hand

go across the page and
write whatever - whatever

comes out and it just
goes, and goes, and goes

to a point where you just
have this feeling

of being complete.

And then you look down and
you see what you wrote.

Shatner: Is this how Pearl
wrote her best-sellers?

ELLIE CRYSTAL: Automatic
writing is something you

come back to all the time
and you keep writing

and writing.

It can get very
addictive also.

Shatner: Did Pearl Curran
travel back in time and

report what she saw?

Did she contact a
long-dead spirit to write

her novels?

Or was she tapping into an
ability she never knew she had?

We may never know.

Weird... or What?

Shatner: In California, a
woman causes machines -

and people -
to go haywire.

CHERYL WELSH: Electrical
equipment didn't work

anymore, my
computer, my tv.

William Shatner:
Oh my God.

You know I wish I had one
of these when I was a kid.

Isn't this amazing? Wooh!

It's hard to
believe, isn't it?

I can control every
movement of this tiny

device - up...yeah and
watch this, down...up.

I have complete power over
it - I can make it perform

even the most intricate
of maneuvers - without even...

Guess I need
more practice.

Wireless devices like this
are no longer a novelty -

but what if instead of
a helicopter you could

control - someone's brain
- now that would make for

an interesting story.
Here it is.

Shatner: September, 1988.

It is the start of the
fall semester at the

University of California
Davis - where Cheryl Welsh

is beginning life
as a law student.

CHERYL WELSH: I grew up in
Sacramento California,

I was a receptionist at
Kaiser Hospital for 10 years.

I decided that I wanted to
go back to school

and so I went to UC Davis.

Shatner: But as her studies get
underway, things change.

CHERYL WELSH: I know what
normal life is and life

became very abnormal.

Shatner: It starts
with her telephone.

CHERYL WELSH: Usually you
pick up a phone, you hear

dial tone...but my
phone...there would be

click noises, there'd be a
long pause - then static.

Shatner: She has it
checked, but the strange

noises continue.

Cheryl becomes concerned.

Shatner: It's the first
of many appliances that

behave erratically
in her presence.

CHERYL WELSH: Things in my
environment, all of the

electrical equipment
didn't work anymore, my

computer, my TV.

Shatner: Her unease grows
as she discovers it's not

only machines that act
strangely around her .

CHERYL WELSH: Police cars
started to follow me.

I had a rock
thrown at my car.

Somebody tried to
drive me off the road.

I mean, I've never
had a ticket.

I've never taken drugs.

People in my environment
were acting out of

character.

I was acting my normal
self, and people were

acting weird.

People turned against me,
people would stare at you.

And students would
swear and spit on me.

Shatner: Weirder still,
random strangers on the

street seem to know
exactly what she's thinking.

CHERYL WELSH: I felt like
I was surveiled, I thought

somebody could
read my thoughts.

Shatner: Cheryl's personal
life falls apart as

friends and
family drift away.

Then, she's fired
from her job.

CHERYL WELSH: It was like
shock and awe for three

years it was like that.

I realized, you know, this
wasn't going to go away,

despite my best efforts.

That was a really
depressing, blackest

moment of my life.

I just cried and cried and
cried, I thought, why not

just end it?

Shatner: Fearing for her
sanity, Cheryl seeks help.

CHERYL WELSH: So I went
to my adviser and I was

having trouble
academically.

And so he helped me get
through this and, um, he

was the only one
that believed me.

Her adviser comes to a
quick conclusion:

Cheryl is the victim of a
deliberate and organized

campaign of harassment.

But who is behind it?

CHERYL WELSH: First we
checked out, we thought

maybe there's a psychology
experiment they're trying

to stress you out.

There was no
psychology experiment.

So I hired private
investigators and I tried

to figure out if there
were any bugs in my apartment.

Nothing.

I'm talking to my adviser,
we both figured only the

government would have the
kind, this kind of control

over your telephone,
or what you did in the

privacy of your apartment.

Shatner: Deciding to
investigate, Cheryl gains

access to government
documents.

They reveal the
unthinkable: a top-secret

experiment is subjecting
everyday citizens - to

mind control.

CHERYL WELSH: Major
countries have developed

this secret mind control
technology, especially

Russia and the
United States.

Shatner: She's convinced
the people who harassed

her were under mind control
- and didn't even know it.

CHERYL WELSH: Somebody is
making them do things, you

know against, without
their knowing it.

Shatner: But why
choose Cheryl?

CHERYL WELSH: You're going
to need to experiment on a

lot of people, you can't
do it ethically, so you're

going to do it
covertly, you know.

Shatner: She thinks she
knows what put her on the

government's radar.

CHERYL WELSH: Before I
went to UC Davis I went to

the Army
recruiting office.

I filled out the forms, I
put in my application, but

I went to UC
Davis instead.

And then after that was
when this happened.

After networking with
other victims, they have

that connection, former
people who applied to the

CIA, former people who
have relatives in the, in

the government or the
CIA are often targets.

Shatner: Are the minds of
innocent citizens being

controlled by
government-sanctioned

experiments?

Is Cheryl Welsh
telling the truth?

Or are her claims absurd
- just another conspiracy

theory that's
impossible to prove?

Shatner: Maybe - but not
if you listen to Nick Begich.

NICK BEGICH: I think
there's some good evidence

that um, Cheryl Welch and
many of the other people

I've spoken with um have
been victimized by this

electromagnetic mind
control experiments.

The weapons of this
century aren't bombs and

bullets and ordinance.

But electromagnetic energy
targeting the human being,

which is a greatest
revolution in military

affairs, um,
since gunpowder.

Shatner: Begich is an expert in
government mind control.

He is convinced the
Pentagon has mastered a

technology once thought to
be science fiction: the

ability to broadcast
information directly into

the human brain.

NICK BEGICH: Our
government began spending

a lot of time looking at
how to modify behaviour of

human beings, going
back to the Korean War.

In fact, in a publication,
Low Intensity Conflict and

Modern Technology,
they have a chapter on

electromagnetic weapons
systems being able to not

just to dehabilitate
someone but actually even

to stimulate certain
activities within the brain.

Shatner: But how?

NICK BEGICH: HAARP is the
High Frequency Active

Aurora Research Project,
which started as a joint

effort of the Air
Force and Navy.

This is a very large array
or field of antennas based

in Alaska, radio
frequency antennas.

Shatner: HAARP antennas
transmit powerful radio

signals into the upper
atmosphere to study the

effects on wireless
communications.

But Begich says HAARP can
also be used for more

sinister ends .

NICK BEGICH: HAARP has
announced several of their

programs and campaigns,
and there's two areas that

I got very
concerned about.

One was weather
modification applications.

The other was the
effect on human beings.

If you can modulate a
signal, that, that the

brain locks on to,
recognizes, and begins to

mirror, or follow the
frequency, following response.

The brain rhythms change,
then that creates a

chemical cascade within the
brain and the emotions change.

Now the resolution gets
finer and finer and finer.

And it used to just be
about triggering emotions.

You could change peoples'
brain chemistry pretty

readily, change their
emotional state pretty easily.

But when you get down to
the idea of thoughts, and

being able to manipulate
those, that requires a

much...a different
kind of sophistication.

Shatner: Can we hear sounds -
without using our ears?

Not only is it possible,
says Begich - he can prove

it, using sound
recordist Brad Dawe.

NICK BEGICH: So what I'm
going to demonstrate is an

earth pulse sound wave.

And what this is is
an infrasound device.

It's just a small
electronic circuit that we

run a cd player playing
some Bach into our circuit

and then comes out through
two piezoelectric transducers.

So I'm going to place this
transducers on your face,

you're going to block
your ears tightly.

We put those in contact
with the skin and listen.

BRAD DAWE: Yup.

NICK BEGICH: So
what do you hear?

BRAD DAWE: I hear the
music, yeah, loudly.

NICK BEGICH: Right in the
center of their forehead,

inside their head they'll
hear Bach, just like they

would with their ears but
the ears aren't involved.

NICK BEGICH: Now, I can
take this away, if you'd

hold this on there with
one finger and then we'll

show that this current
actually can transit.

So it only works when I
touch your head or when I

touch your skin.

Essentially the current is
going through both of us

but the signal does not
go down, it maintains

the same volume.

BRAD DAWE: It wasn't
through my ears at all, it

was basically...it felt
like it was coming from

the middle of my head...no
direction...and it was

clear so not through my
ears at all which was

pretty cool.

NICK BEGICH: Now we can
do this wirelessly with

microwaves so there's lots
of ways to do it and this

just gives a very simple
sort of workbench model

that gives the principle
so people can understand,

yeah you can really do it.

William Shatner: Don't you
just love death-metal?

I've got a head
banger award.

Now this is a fascinating
theory - but there's just

one problem.

I'm not sure these
piezoelectric tranducers

are going to catch on as
a fashion accessory - and

frankly I don't even know
what piezoelectric means.

But if we're to believe
Begich - the government

don't even need these -
they're tapping directly

into our minds -
controlling us with

powerful, invisible
microwaves that can alter

the very way we think and
act, making us believe

anything they
want us to....

And that's just
the Republicans.

Shatner: Is the government
manipulating our minds -

wirelessly?

Or does the answer
lie elsewhere?

Ryan Fuller: There's some kind
of organization out to get them.

Shatner: A California
woman suffers a brutal

campaign of harassment.

Is the government trying
to control her mind?

Clinical psychologist

J. Ryan Fuller believes
Cheryl's experience isn't

due to harassment -
but mental illness.

RYAN FULLER: When I heard
of some of the things that

were described, um,
certainly bring to mind

the kinds of content that
sometimes people with

psychotic disorders have.

Shatner: He thinks Cheryl
has a classic case of

"delusional disorder."

RYAN FULLER: A delusional
disorder is a particular

type of psychotic
disorder, where there's

going to be a false belief
that's held very,

very strongly.

So I might believe that my
mother in law is trying to

poison me with
her cooking.

It's something that could
happen in the real world,

but there isn't any
evidence to confirm it.

Shatner: But what about
the strangers who spit at

Cheryl in the street?

RYAN FULLER: The
interpretation that people

are going to be insulting
them or hostile or have

malicious intent is
very, very common.

It could be that I'm being
harassed by the police, or

the FBI, there's a
conspiracy, um, there's

some kinds of organization
or people kind of out to

get them that's going to
sort of lead to sort of

suspiciousness and hyper
vigilance and things like that.

Shatner: Ironically, Cheryl
could be making it worse.

RYAN FULLER: There is
evidence in fact that by

struggling with it and
sort of fighting it and

working to change it, that
that does in fact, uh,

increase the one stress
level and increase anxiety.

So there can be a great
deal of suffering.

Shatner: Is Cheryl Welsh
suffering from delusions?

Or is the real explanation
even more out there?

Shatner: Trish MacGregor
has written about the

paranormal for
over 30 years.

She thinks she can explain
at least one of Cheryl's

experiences - her strange
encounters

with electrical equipment.

TRISH MACGREGOR: My theory
about Cheryl Welsh is it

could be the Pauli Effect.

The Pauli Effect is, is a
label, a term that grew

out of a phenomena that
used to happen whenever

Wolfgang Pauli who was a
theoretical physicist,

would walk into a science
lab and equipment would

spontaneously break down.

Shatner: Wolfgang Pauli
was a brilliant Nobel

Prize winning physicist
who counted Einstein

himself among his
many admirers.

But Pauli is also
remembered for his ability

to cause lab equipment to
malfunction - simply by

being near it.

TRISH MACGREGOR: In 1950,
he walked into a lab in

Princeton, where they had
a particle accelerator.

And it caught on
fire and burned.

This lab in Hamburg banned
Pauli from, from the lab.

I mean, that, that's how
prominent this whole

phenomena became.

Shatner: Even stranger,
the Pauli effect didn't

stop at the laboratory.

TRISH MACGREGOR: On
Pauli's second honeymoon,

uh, he and his wife set up
for a car trip, he had a

new battery in the car,
and the battery died.

Wasn't the fact that he
was a klutz, it wasn't

like he was stumbling into
equipment, he would walk

in and without doing
anything, the equipment

would spontaneously
just break down.

They kept saying, oh it's
coincidence, you know.

This is scientifically
impossible and yet

it kept happening.

Shatner: Is Cheryl suffering
from the Pauli effect?

MacGregor says we can't
dismiss the possibility.

TRISH MACGREGOR: I don't
think we can say to Cheryl

Welsh, what you
experience is not real.

Because it is. It's real to her.

Shatner: Is Cheryl Welsh
the victim of a series of

bizarre coincidences?

Was she the target of a
government experiment in
mind control?

Or is it all in her head?

Weird... or What?

Shatner: So there we have
it, three stories

of mind control.

An implant turbocharges
a man's brain.

Is it an alien device?

A housewife turns into
a literary genius.

Is she channeling a spirit
from the 17th century?

And a woman suffers a
bizarre campaign of harassment.

Is she a guinea pig for
a secret technology?

You decide.

William Shatner: Join me
next time for more stories

that will undoubtedly
be weird or what?