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These stories are inspired by the actual case files

of the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research.

Relax, man.

We made the pitch.

But we just got to wait and see if the client bites.

Jump out to two it's been reached, gentlemen.

6,800 feet.

All we're ready?

Excellent.

This it's gonna blow our minds.

Come on, Pete.

Let's do it.

Hey, I don't think I can...

I'm feeling kind of...

What was the checklist again?

Arch-thousand, two-thousand, look-thousand, pull-thousand.

You've learned all that, Pete.

Come on, Pete. You promise you'd either ask Wendy out or you jump with us.

And we haven't had any debriefing on any day with Wendy.

Let's just do it.

- I'm not jumping. - "I'm not jumping."

No, instead, you're gonna pay 200 bucks to sit in the airplane and be a big push.

I'm not jumping.

Well I am.

- Look, Pete, come on, all right? - Mick, I can't !

You've made all the way up here.

Look, I've done it a hundred times, all right? Live a little.

You want to sit in front of a computer for the rest of your life?

Yeah, this is great !

Hey, Pete. You look great, man.

Beautiful !

You look great.

Enjoy the ride.

Hold your shoot, Pete.

Pete! Pull it!

Peter!

- Pull your shoot! - It won't open !

- Pull it up, Pete! - It won't open !

Skydiving.

It's described by enthusiasts as an exhilarating release from all worries and concerns.

Skydivers know that the law of gravity governs all objects and bodies in our world.

That's why they wear parachutes.

But this law didn't hold true in the case of Peter McGrattan.

For in the midst of seeking to overcome his own personal insecurities,

he discovered that he was an incredible exception to one of life's universal rules.

File number 47129, Case Manager Curtis Rollins.

Log in, number one.

After being contacted by Dr. Leslie Stafford of St. John Hospital,

the OSIR has begun an investigation

into the reported phenomenon experienced by Peter McGrattan.

I was on call when he was brought in.

He had already regained consciousness and he seemed perfectly lucid.

I ran some basic tests as a precaution.

May we see Mr. McGrattan's chart?

Yes, of course.

And you found nothing unusual?

No.

Aside from slightly elevated blood pressure, Mr. McGrattan was in perfect health.

Dr. Stafford, how do you account for McGrattan's explanation of what happened?

Well, I thought it was a joke, but his friends insisted it was true.

And you believed them ?

No, of course not.

Who would believe something so ridiculous?

Then why call us?

Because the second time, I saw it myself.

You witnessed a second jump?

One of the nurses told me that he was going to jump again.

I was concerned for Peter that he was suffering from a head injury, a sub-dural hematoma,

or diffuse axonal injury.

He'd been...

You see, he'd been in a strange state of exhilaration.

I went out there to stop him.

And what exactly did you see?

I was too late.

I didn't see him jump from the plane,

but I was able to follow his descent as he got closer to the ground.

It was...

It was...

Amazing.

It's absolutely amazing.

I mean, Pete's always been a bit of...

I mean, sort of a guy's happy to play second string goalie on the hockey team.

And the guy who's always pushing the pool door, you know?

So, my buddy and my... we bet him.

Either he asks the receptionist out or he goes skydiving with us, right?

Well, I saw him plummet right by me.

I thought, oh man.

We're going to be scraping this guy off the tarmac, you know?

And then he lives.

I mean, think about it, man.

Both the guy shoots fail.

He lives.

And then he goes out the next week and he does it again ?

Well, to tell you the truth, I think he really changed after that first jump.

It's like two different people, the before and after Pete.

He's, I don't know, more passionate about things, just more focused, more assertive,

which has been great for him, but I think I kind of miss the old Pete.

Hey, Wendy.

New tie?

Congratulations, Pete.

It's a great pitch, man.

Clients are loving it.

Excellent.

So, um, keep Saturday open.

Oh, yeah, I've heard it down in my book.

I really want you to be there to see that it's like nothing you've ever seen before.

Believe me.

Are you here to see someone, sir ?

Pardon me ?

We're here to see Mr. McGrattan.

Hey, it's a feeling unlike anything I've ever felt, Dr. Rollins.

Have I either of you ever jumped?

Yes.

Then you know what I'm talking about ?

Not exactly.

I've always landed with the aid of a parachute.

You don't believe me.

Mr. McGrattan, what we're proposing is a full series of tests that may help to verify

and explain the phenomenon that allegedly occurred.

Allegedly ?

I'm not fooling around here, Dr. Rollins.

Something incredible has happened to me.

It's like I'm giving this power.

Well, has anyone else, anyone that you're not acquainted with witnessed this feet?

Just the guy who shot the videotape.

No, I admit it's not a broadcast quality.

Look, why don't I just do another jump and you guys can do all the tests you want?

Well, let us examine your tape and run some preliminary tests first.

Do you?

That a promise ?

I'll take that as a yes.

Case number 47129, day four.

Peter McGrattan has completed a series of physiological tests

covering all perceptual and neurological factors.

McGrattan is in perfect health.

No extreme or unexpected conditions were found. Rollins out.

Well, McGrattan wasn't lying about the quality of the videotape.

Too many stops and starts poor image quality, take glitches.

Even with digital enhancement,

the distance is too far from the subject to make out that it's McGrattan.

Not to mention that the landings obscured by trees.

High probability of a hoax.

There are a few documented cases of individual surviving free fall.

- But not with that significant injury. - And McGrattan's as healthy as a horse.

Lindsay, I'd like you to conduct a follow-up test with Mr. McGrattan.

Sandor, say the tape back to HQ to see if it's been doctored.

And let me know the results of your environmental analysis as soon as you can for both jump sites.

What about McGrattan's request that he jump again?

I can't sanction a test jump until we've gathered enough data to substantiate his claim.

That's a catch-22.

Can you set up a controlled environment to approximate free fall?

I'll get on that immediately.

What were you thinking when the parachutes failed?

I was thinking how my therapist told me to face my fears directly.

I actually thought it was over.

I was trying to figure out how I am going to survive.

Then what happened?

Well, I'm rushing towards the ground.

I'm thinking that these are my last moments alive.

And then this total relaxing euphoria that this total eye overcomes me.

And that it goes.

And I try to remember it.

But you can't?

Anything like that ever happened to you?

But you jumped again. Why?

I had to.

To make it mine, do you know what I mean?

What made you think that you could repeat this event?

I just knew.

In here, I knew.

You must feel that about something.

What does your therapist think about this change?

About this newfound confidence?

I don't see my therapist anymore.

What are you doing?

You weren't decelerating.

You know, this harness thing isn't working.

It doesn't feel right.

I know there's no danger.

Look, why don't we just go do a real jump?

You guys must have a plane.

We're not risking your life.

All right.

Then why don't we just up the stakes a bit?

All systems normal.

Do you think McGrattan psychodynamics are normal?

What do you mean?

I wonder if this isn't the result of some kind of Superman complex.

I think he's invincible.

Could be.

Could be the source of the phenomenon itself.

Then again, it's also entirely possible at the psychological complex

to develop as a result of the event.

Chicken or the egg, which came first, the mental complex or the phenomenon?

If there was a phenomenon.

I have a hunch that there may be something more going on here than masculine bravado.

His heart rates accelerating.

Dr. Rollins would like both of you to report to the test site.

It's 35 foot jump.

We've removed his inhibitors.

This is as close to free fall as we can simulate under these conditions.

You wouldn't get me up there.

Ms. Donner, here we go.

Mr. McGrattan claims he needs a sense of danger to recreate the phenomenon.

Or a sense of suicide.

Okay. Let's do it, kids.

All right, everyone. Stand by.

No deceleration at all. Your results show anything?

Nothing. Typical fluctuations and bio stats.

No abnormalities whatsoever.

What do you think?

These findings don't support a story in the least.

I understand your frustration.

No, I don't think you do.

Look... These tests. They're rinky think.

The whole thing. You're not going to get anything useful under these conditions.

We'll have to see what the test results turn up.

Why don't we just go out and do it?

You and I both know that's the only way.

I have the ability to defy gravity.

I don't really care why.

Now, you said you were going to do some preliminary tests.

Well, I have been poked and prodded and wired from head to toe.

I think we're past preliminaries.

With the results of these tests, we should be able to rule out a wide spectrum of possibilities.

What if you turn up a wide spectrum of nothing?

We keep...

And what if in the meantime, my ability disappears?

Then you lose, I lose. Everybody loses.

Look, go home. Relax. Get a good night's sleep.

We'll get back at it tomorrow morning. Deal?

What happened to the last deal?

*** fly boy.

Hey, Wendy.

There's no here for ***

You all right?

Yeah, was a long day.

Oh, listen. I'm really sorry.

I can't make it Saturday.

Okay.

Hang on. Let me explain.

Hang on. I gotta buzz you out.

So, what's it like anyway? Skydiving.

What was it like?

Only a feeling of an intense joy.

Then you can't remember what it was like.

A few moments where I was reminded of why I wanted to be alive.

You know, not sitting behind some desk

shuffling papers and telling clients what they want to hear.

You know what I mean.

You know, try it sometime.

Yeah. I think I'd like that.

You have a good weekend, Wendy.

And, uh, yeah.

I'm gonna do it again.

The data is clean. As you can see from this QT diagrams,

the finding show a stable atmosphere over both jump site locations.

Stable now, but none of this tells us what the conditions were like during Peter's free fall.

No, unfortunately, that specific information won't be available without a test job.

He's moving from terminal velocity 55 meters per second to zero velocity in one and a half seconds.

Where would that kind of energy come from if he really did it?

Okay. I'd like to open this up to speculation.

Lindsay, you feel the phenomenon could be the result

of some sort of PK gravitational distortion induced by the subject?

It's a possibility, yes.

As we've seen in other PK ability cases,

the subject's emotional state could trigger the phenomenon.

The hypothesis being that McGrattan's high level of endorphins join free fall triggers the PK shift.

Exactly.

I just don't see how we can accurately test for it in a controlled environment unless we...

Unless we throw him out of a plane from 10,000 feet.

Tell McGrattan we're gonna let him jump.

What changed your mind, doctor ?

I know you'll jump again sooner or later.

I'd rather not have your death on my conscience.

I think you just wanted to see the main event up close.

You'll be rigged with total remote bio-stab monitoring. We'll be jumping with you.

And you will wear a parachute, It's all this clear ?

Good morning, Ms Donner ! ***

Come on, let's do it.

Everything okay?

I want you and the rest of the team out of the landing site.

Run the environmental and bio-scan simultaneous to the jump.

Stay in constant radio contact the entire time.

How long's did you last jump, doctor?

Long enough.

It doesn't just blow your mind ?

What say we keep our minds on the task in hand?

But can you think of a better way to go?

You want to die, Mr. McGrattan?

This is Rollins. Com check.

Donner here, I copy.

We have the visuals registering.

We'll commence testing as you jump.

Approaching the drop zone.

10,000 feet. Jump in 30 seconds.

You're ready to witness a miracle, Dr. Rollins?

At 2800 feet, pull your hip forward.

By then we'll have all the data we need.

All right, we'll see on the ground...

No less than 2800 feet.

Whatever you say, Doc.

Here they come.

Pull your chute.

Huh ? Yeah !

Peter !

What is he...

Oh my god. He's taking off his chute.

Peter !

Terminal velocity reached.

Curtis, you're below 1,000 feet.

Pull your chute.

See you later !

Woo!

He's slowing down !

Curtis, he's decelerating.

Keep tracking him !

No atmospheric abnormalities.

No energy fields present.

Tasha ? Tasha !

Elevated heart rate.

All of the biofunctions are normal as per feet fall.

And you didn't believe me.

I told you I could do it.

That was totally irresponsible.

Will you people get over it ? It worked.

You could have gotten Dr. Rollins killed.

Look, he's alive. I'm alive.

You all got your data. Everybody got what they wanted,

and that's all that matters.

There's no denying what we all witnessed.

Any theories?

Maybe McGrattan experienced some kind of anomalous geophysical gravitational surge.

No, we have no geophysical or environmental evidence to support such hypothesis.

What if McGrattan, as he passes the vortex of the surge,

could he be affected on a cellular level,

briefly altering his body weight composition?

If we had medical or physiological data to back that up,

isn't this consistent with other studies of PK indused phenomena?

The hard data it just isn't there.

At the end of the day, all we have is...

A miracle.

Case number 47129. Final log entry.

All tests are inconclusive.

Due to Mr. McGrattan's violation of OSIR procedure

and his irresponsible actions,

all onsite investigations will be discontinued.

Yeah, I understand. You got to do what you got to do.

I got to do what I got to do.

Which is just to keep jumping without a parachute.

Not today.

Hi again.

Hey, Wendy, you ready?

Ready is all ever-be.

You are going to use that, aren't you?

Want an advice, Mr. McGrattan?

Yeah, shoot.

We don't know what caused your ability.

It could disappear without warning.

Be careful.

Or it could last forever.

I'll be careful, Dr. Rollins.

You know, you could stand to be a little less careful from time to time.

- Deal? - Deal.

I think that's our ride.

Come on.

Good luck.

Thanks.

Everything's packed up.

Well, there's the coworker.

Wendy.

Peter and Wendy.

Haven't I heard that somewhere before?

Were unknown external forces the cause of this amazing phenomenon?

Or was it generated from within Peter McGrattan?

The limits of human potential have yet to be fully explored.

In fact, we're just beginning to realize the innate powers which lie within ourselves

and all our capacities.

Only the OSIR knows whether Peter continues to tempt fate

or whether he became a small headline in a local paper.

Chute failure ends in tragedy.

Jeremy?

Jeremy?

Jeremy, is that you?

Oh, honey, for crying a loud.

Mom, it's here again.

Oh, honey, it's just you and me, you know.

You're sleepwalking again.

No, it's back, Mom.

It's back, I swear.

Well, honey, I'll clean up after we get you back to bed.

Okay, come on.

Come on.

Come on, come on.

I know.

The family home, ideally a place where parents create a sanctuary

from the uncertainties and turmoil of the world outside.

Jeremy Stansky, a happy, healthy eight-year-old,

had every reason to expect that his home was a safe refuge from danger and strife.

His mother, Debbie and his father, Kevin,

believed that their own diligent efforts had made this family home

the loving, comfortable haven their child deserved.

Yet despite Jeremy's expectations, under cover of darkness,

a mysterious intruder entered their refuge, violated its tranquility,

and created a nightmare.

A nightmare, the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research,

was brought in to dispel.

In here ?

Yes.

It's stronger here.

Yes, that's right.

Your neighbor was right to call me.

There is an entity here.

Uh, uh, right now?

I'm picking up.

Bitterness.

Discard.

Unwhite spirits, here is no place for you.

Be gone!

Oh !

As soon as I told Sally Bertia what had been happening,

she got right on the phone to him.

He's part of some special psychic hotline.

Or something.

Unquiet spirits in your home?

Dial 1-800 flakes.

Kevin, you haven't been here.

I don't know what the heck's going on,

but whatever it is, it's scaring the hell out of me.

Okay, look, I saw the damage, too.

I don't know what caused it, Debbie.

Daddy.

I'm scared.

I know, son. I know.

Everything's all right.

Come on. Come here.

Okay, look, why don't we start by talking to somebody

who knows what they're doing?

Okay.

File number 9-2109, day 1, 0930 hours.

Connor Doyle Case Manager.

On-site inspection, circumstantial assessment

preliminary interviews underway.

I've confirmed with the subjects that the final objective

of this operation is to locate and identify the phenomena.

I could tell by her emotions,

that she had encountered an active malevolence.

It surrounded her aura.

My partner and I responded to the Stansky home

on several occasions recently.

Each time we found evidence of destructive activity

but no intruder, no sign of forced entry.

I don't think they're responsible for any of the damage.

Look, I know that something's going on.

I don't know exactly what it is,

but I can tell you there's not some kind of

vengeful spirit like that, nutcase, said.

At this point, I believe in ghosts or poltergeists

or whatever it takes to get rid of it.

I even had a plan to dispel it until you people showed up.

You know, so I have this buddy of mine

that works over at the University of Washington

and he put me in touch with you guys.

I mean, I'm frightened by the little boy.

He's frightened. He's terrified.

He refuses to sleep in our house.

It came once, and after that,

there was a long gap before I saw him again.

And it just stared at me,

and it was going to eat me right there.

But then my mom came down and it scared it away.

I just want to figure out like what's going on here.

I'm really scared. It's going to come back. I know it.

Case file update 1150 hours.

Obvious circumstantial causes such as

loose shelving or vibrations from low-flying aircraft

have been eliminated.

A comprehensive range of physiological

and psychological tests will be run on family members

as soon as we finish preliminary interviews.

Is that your cat, Jeremy?

Triple. He's *** cat.

Oh.

You know, I had a cat when I was little.

Jeremy, your mom said that you said something the other night.

She told me you said it's back.

Could you tell me what you were talking about?

I don't remember.

Are you sure?

All right.

It was Mr. Grimshaw.

Happy now ?

Who was Mr. Grimshaw, Jeremy?

Mr. Grimshaw, the bear.

Don't you know anything? He did it all of it.

Oh.

Oh, I know. He doesn't want to talk to us about it either.

Yeah, which is strange, because usually it's the other way around.

When did the sleepwalking start?

I don't know, about two months ago or so.

Yeah, something like that.

Now, I was talking to my friend who's a doctor,

and she said that it wasn't very common in children,

but not to be too concerned, hopefully, it's at the phase.

I see.

Dr. Corllis, do you really think that Jeremy

could be responsible for all that damage?

Now, I've heard that children can sometimes generate poltergeists.

You know, talk with spirits.

Baby...

Baby, no !

We really can't come to any conclusions

until we've got all the data in.

Right, so you have no idea what he saw.

I'll have a better idea once I've progressed Jeremy using hypnosis.

Jeremy, can you hear me?

Yes.

We're going to fly back in time now.

Remember, nothing can hurt you.

Okay?

Just tell me the story of what you see.

We're in your living room.

Yes.

Are we alone?

No, it's here.

I want you to go back to the last time you saw it.

Can you do that for me, Jeremy?

All right.

Now, where are you?

I'm in the kitchen. It's night.

What do you see?

I hear breathing.

Breathing how?

Now I see its eyes.

Red eyes !

Red eyes looking at met.

Red eyes ! Red eyes !

Jeremy, take that picture.

Freeze in your mind.

How is looking at you ?

It's a monster! A monster !

It's a monster!

It's gonna eat me!

It's gonna eat me !

Jeremy, breat. Come back now,

Come back with me.

Good.

We'll try again later.

You're safe.

The family psychodynamics are fairly normal, given the circumstances.

Mr. Stansky's work forces him to travel a great deal, so it could be causing a certain

degree of anxiety in Jeremy.

Did the hypnosis reveal anything about the incident?

Only that he has a vivid imagination, or he really saw something outlandish that night.

It's difficult to gauge his perceptions because of his youth.

He's still learning to separate the real from the imagined.

Could he have possibly caused the damage?

I doubt it.

He's only eight years old.

It would have come out in the regression.

Peter, you want to bring us up to speed on your analysis?

We've run environmental scans on the house and surrounding area, and baseline readings

are all well within the normal range.

There's no toxic gases, there's no contaminants in the water, the food, and there's no abnormal

concentrations of energy fields.

Established full surveillance, let's see if anything turns up.

Ripple?

Ripple !

Ripple !

Here kitty !

Ripple, where are you?

Jeremy, sweetheart !

Mom, I can't find Ripple.

I'm sure he's around somewhere. Come watch up for dinner.

What about Ripple ? I can't find him.

Ripple's fine. Come wash up for dinner.

Continuing with routine circumventual assessment.

Can you repeat that, please?

Case file update. 2300 hours.

Surveillance monitoring is being established throughout the house and surrounding property.

Standard biophysical monitoring units have been deployed on family members to facilitate real-time

transmissions of pertinent biostats.

Blood pressure, heart rate, galvanic skin response.

Next log update, in 12 hours.

Are those reports ready ?

Okay, let's see them.

Hold on. Biostats rising in sector 7.

Was quite a nightmare.

Yeah, poor kid.

Set it up for 20 minutes sweeps of the frontage. We'll pick it up as sector 3A.

Mr. Doyle, can I talk to you?

What's the problem, Mr. Stansky?

The problem is that my kid is a mess.

He doesn't eat, he's exhausted, he's talking about monsters

all the time, and I think he's about ready to snap.

I realize he's in some emotional distress, we learned that much from our assessment.

Mr. Stansky, is there anything that could have precipitated his condition?

Anything we might have missed?

I don't know, I don't know. He's going through an awfully tough phase right now.

I mean, if he even sees an ad on TV for a horror film, he doesn't sleep for weeks.

Sounds like he has quite an active imagination.

Overactive, actually.

Look, I'm a little bit worried with all the stuff going on in the house,

and all the other people and the investigations.

A big break from his routine, you know,

plus he's convinced that there's some evil thing lurking in the house.

I understand you're concerned.

I've noticed Jeremy's behavior has become a bit erratic since our arrival.

Maybe what he needs is some stability.

Mr. Doyle, you need a break.

What do you propose?

Time away from here, all of us, just to relax and get Jeremy away.

We could consider moving you out temporarily,

try a different approach to monitoring the house.

And please, just for a few days.

We'll move you out tonight.

Case file update day four, 0300 hours.

In order to test the possibility that the family itself is influencing the occurrences,

we're sealing off the house and relocating the stance to a neighbor's home.

Unbroken audio and video surveillance will be maintained for an additional 72 hours.

HQ is considering discontinuing the investigation.

Not surprised.

How do you care to proceed?

I'm undecided.

My sense is that we should stick around a little while longer.

If anything, to help Jeremy come to terms with whatever it is he's experiencing.

Peter, what's your take on a situation?

Don't ask me.

If we've been here a week and as have yet no observable phenomenon, it's been detected.

Agreed. Let's not discount the accuracy of each individual's story under DDP testing.

I want to return the Stansky family to their home

and maintain environmental surveillance.

- What about headquarters? - Leave that to me.

Okay.

Okay, come on in.

Kev, you're ready for bed?

But, Mom, I'm not tired.

Okay, come on, let's go.

Upstairs, come on.

Please note, someone's altered the environment.

Temperature differential are minus 15 degrees.

He's dreaming again.

Oh ! Mr. Doyle, you scared me.

Sorry about that. I just want to make sure Jeremy was alright.

He's been so upset by this whole thing.

I can tell.

Oh, Jeremy !

It must be so frightened.

Kids are resilient, Mrs. Stansky.

- He'll be fine. - Thank you.

Well, you know how it is once you let your imagination get the better of you.

If we had any reason to believe that your family was in any kind of danger, he wouldn't be here.

We'll be monitoring you constantly from the mobile unit.

Oh, great. I'll be sleeping like a baby knowing that 15 scientists are watching me.

Oh, that's just the heat coming on.

Now I watch its eyes !

Red eyes !

Red eyes looking at me.

Red eyes !

It's only a theory so far, but it certainly points towards a rational explanation for the boy's story.

A composite memory ?

I still have to run some tests to confirm it,

but hypothetically, the boy saw something while in a sleepwalking state.

This half-imagined image got mixed up with two other sense impressions from the kitchen,

the sound from the heat vent, and the red lights from the microwave.

- And we have our demon. - Exactly.

It's nice and neat.

But what did the actual damage ?

Something moved !

Where?

Monitor 3 sector 12.

Just a flicker of a vibration.

Good night, honey.

Something knocked the camera. Invert the *** imaging.

All equipment online.

What is it?

Up there !

Final case log entry.

Our monster has turned out to be a giant green python.

Python molores bivitatis.

Originally kept as a pet by a couple on the next block.

When they moved out and abandoned it,

this snake must have found its way into the local sewer system.

The whereabouts of the family's cat remain unknown.

And then your imagination kind of played a trick on yo,

because it made you think like there was a monster in the house, right?

And there was something there.

But it wasn't a monster.

So there's nothing to be afraid of now.

Okay ?

Okay.

The intruder that violated the Stansky home was neither a malevolent poltergeist,

a grotesque monster nor a mysterious undiscovered force of nature.

It was just a very ordinary and very earthbound abandoned reptile.

After the python was moved to the local zoo,

the Stansky family experienced no further nocturnal visitations

and resumed their normal lives undisturbed.

Jeremy's sleepwalking phase eventually passed.

Though the explanation secured by the OSIR was ultimately a simple one,

nevertheless, a family sanctuary had been violated.

Simple reason or not,

the Stansky's feel a great debt to the Office of Scientific Investigation and Research

for restoring their home as the shelter and refuge, it is supposed to be.

I'm Dan Acroid for Psi Factor.