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Moment between LIFE and DEATH caught on camera... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Have you ever wondered what happens when you die? Well,
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Speaker 1: today I'm going to tell you three stories that all
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Speaker 1: give insights into what might actually happen. And these are
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. On the evening of the
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Speaker 1: December twenty seventh, nineteen eighty four, a sixteen year old
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Speaker 1: boy named John Bulwear sat in the passenger seat of
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Speaker 1: his best friend's jeep as they drove down a residential
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Speaker 1: road in Saint Paul, Minnesota. John's best friend was driving
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Speaker 1: and two more of their friends from school were in
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Speaker 1: the backseat. They were all talking and laughing and singing
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Speaker 1: along to the radio. It was dark outside and it
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Speaker 1: was rainy and kind of an awful night, but John
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Speaker 1: didn't care. He was way too excited because that night
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Speaker 1: he and his buddies were on their way to see
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Speaker 1: the megastar musician Prince perform live. So Prince was obviously
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Speaker 1: a massive, massive star at the time, and anyone at
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Speaker 1: the time would have been pretty excited to go see
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Speaker 1: him perform live, but this was a particularly big deal
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Speaker 1: for John and his friends because Prince was actually from Minneapolis, Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: which was just twenty minutes away from Saint Paul, where
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Speaker 1: they were from, so it was kind of like they
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Speaker 1: were going to see their hometown hero. Now, John and
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Speaker 1: his friends didn't expect to become huge rock star gods
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Speaker 1: like Prince, but there was just something about seeing, you know,
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Speaker 1: this hometown guy achieve his dreams on an international scale.
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Speaker 1: It was just really inspiring. And so again John and
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Speaker 1: his friends are just so stoked about this concert, like
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Speaker 1: they can't wait to get there. And so John, you know,
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Speaker 1: with all this excitement, he turns around to talk to
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Speaker 1: his friends in the backseat about this concert and how
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Speaker 1: great it's going to be. Right as he turns around.
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Speaker 1: He hears a loud screeching sound, and he whipped his
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Speaker 1: head back around just in time to see the headlights
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Speaker 1: of the car aimed at this tree that they're careening
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Speaker 1: straight towards. He screams, He hears his friends screaming. They
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Speaker 1: smash into the tree and everything goes dark. A few
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Speaker 1: minutes later, a Saint Paul police officer named Brian Coyle
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Speaker 1: and his patrol partner pulled up behind the now wrecked cheep.
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Speaker 1: They've been on their regular patrol when they've gotten a
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Speaker 1: call about the car crash. Now, the call hadn't come
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Speaker 1: from anybody in the crash, so they really didn't know
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Speaker 1: what to expect. Now, when Coyle stepped out of his
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Speaker 1: own car and walked towards the wreck, you know, it
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Speaker 1: was raining and dark, and you know, the visibility wasn't great.
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Speaker 1: But right away he saw there were three teenagers who
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Speaker 1: were standing upright outside of the car. Now, they looked
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Speaker 1: pretty shaken up, and they visibly had some cuts on
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Speaker 1: their body, but you know, overall, his assessment was they
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Speaker 1: were basically okay. And so while Coyle's partner went to
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Speaker 1: go examine the wreck itself, Coyle walked up to these
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Speaker 1: teenagers and one of them, through tears, explained to Coyle
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Speaker 1: that he had been driving, and he said he had
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Speaker 1: been just going too fast and he tried to take
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Speaker 1: a sharp turn and he hydroplaned, lost control and they
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Speaker 1: hit the tree. And then the driver said it didn't
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Speaker 1: matter though how this happened, because what mattered now is
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Speaker 1: his friend John is still in the car and he's
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Speaker 1: not moving. And so Officer Coyle left the teenagers and
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Speaker 1: told him to stay put, and he walked over to
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Speaker 1: the wreck where his partner was and Coyle he knelt
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Speaker 1: down and he looked inside the jeep and he saw
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Speaker 1: the other teenager, John slumped over inside the passenger seat,
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Speaker 1: and he wasn't moving, and so Coyle asked his partner, hey,
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Speaker 1: if you checked him, as he okay? And the partner
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Speaker 1: looked at Coyle and just said, no, he's dead. So
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Speaker 1: Officer Coyle took a deep breath and while his partner
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Speaker 1: called for backup and taped off the scene, Coyle went
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Speaker 1: back to John's friends and broke the news as gently
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Speaker 1: as he could, but of course they were all devastated.
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Speaker 1: The only thing Coyle could do to help them was
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Speaker 1: to call an ambulance to come and take them to
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Speaker 1: the hospital to get checked out. Once the ambulance had
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Speaker 1: taken them away, and once John's body had been removed
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Speaker 1: from the jeep, Officer Coyle and his partner began to
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Speaker 1: document the scene by taking photos of the crash car
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Speaker 1: with a camera. Now, this was all standard practice, and
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Speaker 1: so while they did it, they didn't think anything of it. However,
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Speaker 1: about a week later, when Coyle and his partner were
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Speaker 1: reviewing the photos they took, Coyle noticed something shocking. One
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Speaker 1: of the pictures that Officer Coyle had taken was so
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Speaker 1: bizarre that it ended up in newspapers, not only in Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: but all over the country. Even today, thirty plus years later,
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Speaker 1: people are still talking about it. And when you see
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Speaker 1: this photo, I'll understand why this is the photograph. And
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Speaker 1: if you look at the top right above the jeep's
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Speaker 1: open door, you'll see something that could just be a
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Speaker 1: flash of light. But to Officer Coyle and so many
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Speaker 1: others who have looked at this photograph, they say that
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Speaker 1: weird apparition looking thing above the jeep looks eerily similar
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Speaker 1: to John Boulware's face. The sixteen year old victim of
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Speaker 1: the car crash, and it almost looks like this photograph
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Speaker 1: captured like the moment of John's spirit departing earth, like
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Speaker 1: it's showing his final moment in life, like when he
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Speaker 1: died screaming as the car is about to crash into
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Speaker 1: this tree. One evening in the summer of nineteen seventy four,
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Speaker 1: a sixty year old doctor named Julian Kirchik sat beside
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Speaker 1: his backyard pool at his home in Old Westbury, New York,
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Speaker 1: which is abb of New York City. It was a quiet,
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Speaker 1: sunny day, and doctor Kirchik was glad to have some
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Speaker 1: time to relax. He was a surgeon at a local hospital,
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Speaker 1: and he also had a wife and four children, so
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Speaker 1: it was not often that he got a moment of
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Speaker 1: peace to himself. And so doctor Kirchik leaned back in
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Speaker 1: his seat and closed his eyes and tried to relax
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Speaker 1: for a second, when all of a sudden, he heard
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Speaker 1: something rustle in the bushes nearby. Now, at first he
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Speaker 1: just figured it must be a squirrel or a bird
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Speaker 1: or something, so he didn't even bother opening his eyes,
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Speaker 1: like this is just nature, it's fine. But this rustling
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Speaker 1: sound persisted and it just wouldn't stop. And so eventually
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Speaker 1: doctor Kirchik did open his eyes and he got up
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Speaker 1: out of his chair to go see what was going on. Now,
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Speaker 1: these bushes were like twenty feet away from the doctor,
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Speaker 1: and so in order to truly investigate, he had to
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Speaker 1: get up and actually walk over there. And so he
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Speaker 1: gets up and he takes a few steps when he
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Speaker 1: suddenly freezes because now when he's looking at the bushes,
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Speaker 1: he sees there is someone standing basically in the bushes,
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Speaker 1: a person. But he realized this person was not a
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Speaker 1: normal looking person. The person was wearing what appeared to
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Speaker 1: be this dark, long robe that covered their whole body,
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Speaker 1: and in fact, the robe kind of obscured their face.
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Speaker 1: It was like there were this dark presence just standing
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Speaker 1: there in the middle of these bushes. And so doctor
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Speaker 1: Kirchik is just frozen, having no idea how to react
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Speaker 1: to this. I mean, does he call out for help,
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Speaker 1: does he chase this guy out of his yard? Like?
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Speaker 1: What does he do here? And as he's standing there, transfixed,
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Speaker 1: this person in the robe extends one of their arms,
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Speaker 1: this long, skinny arm, and kind of begins to beckon
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Speaker 1: doctor Kirchik towards them, and doctor Kirchik went from being
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Speaker 1: sort of startled to being terrified. This figure basically looked
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Speaker 1: like the Grim Reaper, and it felt like now the
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Speaker 1: Grim Reaper is beckoning him to come with him, to
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Speaker 1: come die. Basically, that was the feeling he suddenly had,
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Speaker 1: and it was unbelievably overwhelming, and so doctor Kirchik is
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Speaker 1: staring horrified. He blinks for a second, and the man
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Speaker 1: is gone. Over the next few days, doctor Kerchik obsessed
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Speaker 1: over what he had just seen. I mean, really, it
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Speaker 1: felt like he had just witnessed the Grim Reaper, and
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Speaker 1: worse that the Grim Reaper was like telling him to
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Speaker 1: come with him, like he was signaling to doctor Kertchik
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Speaker 1: that his time on Earth had come to an end,
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Speaker 1: that his death was imminent. That's what doctor Kirchik is thinking.
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Speaker 1: But doctor Kirchik, he's a surgeon, he's a man of
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Speaker 1: science and reason, and he can't understand how this could
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Speaker 1: have happened. I mean, even if it was just a hallucination,
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Speaker 1: it was so vivid, it was so visceral, like, how
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Speaker 1: could this be? What's going on with him? But the
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Speaker 1: problem doctor Kirchik had was Who's he going to talk
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Speaker 1: to about this? Hey, by the way, I saw the
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Speaker 1: grim Reaper and now I'm worried I'm gonna die soon,
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Speaker 1: or maybe somebody in my family's gonna die soon, or
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Speaker 1: a patient is going to die soon, Like, Who's going
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Speaker 1: to have that conversation with him? But at the same
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Speaker 1: time that he was feeling increasingly isolated because of this,
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Speaker 1: you know, whatever he saw, he couldn't help but feel
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Speaker 1: like it was real and it was driving him mad,
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Speaker 1: like I'm not doing anything and something bad is imminent.
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Speaker 1: What do I do? And so for months, doctor Kirchik
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Speaker 1: just carried this incredible weight with him everywhere he went,
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Speaker 1: like this constant sense of unease, until October of nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy four. That month, doctor Kirchik suddenly got sick. He
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Speaker 1: had a fever and it just wouldn't go away, and
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Speaker 1: so he went to his own doctor for a checkup,
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Speaker 1: and his doctor told him, I got some bad news.
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Speaker 1: That day. Doctor Kirchik was diagnosed with an incurable form
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Speaker 1: of blood cancer. He was heartbroken, but he was not
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Speaker 1: totally surprised because for him, this sort of felt like
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Speaker 1: a validation of what he'd already seen death. The grim
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Speaker 1: Reaper had been calling him, and now doctor Kertchik knew why.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Kirchik would share his story with newspapers, which is
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Speaker 1: how we know about it today, and shortly after sharing
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Speaker 1: On the afternoon of Sunday twenty seventh, two thousand, a
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Speaker 1: fifty year old husband and father named Bruce Leneger sat
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Speaker 1: in his living room in Lafayette, Louisiana. He and his
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Speaker 1: wife and his two year old son, James, had just
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Speaker 1: gotten home from church and now Bruce was just trying
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Speaker 1: to relax. However, it was proving very difficult to relax
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Speaker 1: because as Bruce is trying to sit on the couch
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Speaker 1: and just kind of close his eyes for a second,
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Speaker 1: his son, James, the two year old, has his toy plane,
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Speaker 1: his favorite toy plane, and he is repeatedly smashing it
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Speaker 1: into the coffee table as loud as he can, saying,
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Speaker 1: playing crash, playing crash, playing crash. And while, of course,
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Speaker 1: like you know, James is a kid, He's going to
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Speaker 1: be loud and noisy and obnoxious. That's what kids do.
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Speaker 1: But for Bruce, he's watching his son do this, and
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Speaker 1: he couldn't help but be really concerned because lately, like
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Speaker 1: over the past few months, James had become unnaturally fixated
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Speaker 1: not on planes, but on plane crashes. And even more specifically,
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Speaker 1: James had begun having these recurring nightmares like four or
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Speaker 1: five times a week where he'd wake up terrified, and
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Speaker 1: he would say he James had just been in a horrible,
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Speaker 1: fiery plane crash, and it was like every night that
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Speaker 1: was the nightmare. And it was like Bruce and his
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Speaker 1: wife didn't even know what to make of this, Like
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Speaker 1: where's he getting this from. James was a pretty sheltered kid,
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Speaker 1: like he wasn't being exposed to, you know, horrible plane crashes,
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Speaker 1: either in movies or TV shows or books. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's a two year old. It just made no sense
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Speaker 1: that he was having this recurring nightmare. But what made
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Speaker 1: it even more kind of unsettling is that James wasn't
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Speaker 1: just fixated on the plane crash aspect of this nightmare.
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Speaker 1: He also began to tell Bruce and his wife these
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Speaker 1: weird details about the plane crash because it was always
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Speaker 1: the same plane crash in his nightmare. He began telling
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Speaker 1: his parents that the Japanese shot me down, and Bruce
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Speaker 1: and his wife are like, what is he referencing? Like
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Speaker 1: is this a World War two reference? But again he's
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Speaker 1: too like developmentally, it's not something he would say even
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Speaker 1: if he was exposed to it, Like it just didn't
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Speaker 1: make any sense. Now over the past few months that
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Speaker 1: this behavior had really ramped up. Bruce and his wife
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Speaker 1: had taken James to the doctor to say, what's going
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Speaker 1: on here, what's my kid doing? I don't understand any
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Speaker 1: of this. And the doctors were all like, nah, he's
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Speaker 1: a kid, Like, yeah, it's a weird fixation he's got,
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Speaker 1: but he'll grow out of it, like, don't worry about it.
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Speaker 1: But to Bruce and his wife, it just seemed like
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Speaker 1: James was not growing out of it. He was just
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Speaker 1: getting more and more fixated as time went on. And
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Speaker 1: so as Bruce is sitting there on the couch watching
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Speaker 1: James for the millionth time smash his toy plane into
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Speaker 1: the coffee table and pretend it was this plane crash
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Speaker 1: you couldn't stop thinking about, Bruce decided he had to
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Speaker 1: do something about this, and so over the next couple
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Speaker 1: of months, Bruce, instead of trying to figure out what
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Speaker 1: was wrong with James that was causing him to fixate
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Speaker 1: on this plane crash, you know, instead of doing that,
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Speaker 1: he began sort of like leaning in and asking James
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Speaker 1: to give him more information about whatever he was seeing
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Speaker 1: in his nightmare, like give me all the specific you
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Speaker 1: can possibly recall, and James would eventually let on that
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Speaker 1: it wasn't just the Japanese that shot him down, it
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Speaker 1: was the Japanese military. And also the type of plane
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Speaker 1: that James was flying in apparently was a coarse airplane.
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Speaker 1: Bruce had never heard of that before. And again he's
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Speaker 1: looking at his two year old son, thinking, how do
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Speaker 1: you even know what a course airplane is? But nonetheless
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Speaker 1: that's what James said. And so Bruce doesn't know what
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Speaker 1: to do with this information, but again he's just trying
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Speaker 1: to learn. And so in November of that year, Bruce
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Speaker 1: found himself sitting in the living room and he had
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Speaker 1: this this World War II coffee table book that he'd
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Speaker 1: actually purchased for his father, but he hadn't given it
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Speaker 1: to him yet. And he saw James, you know, playing
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Speaker 1: with his plane, smashing it into the coffee table, and
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Speaker 1: Bruce he grabs this coffee table book full of pictures
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Speaker 1: of pilots and combat and war, and he flips two
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Speaker 1: pictures of pilots from World War Two because now, you know,
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Speaker 1: Bruce is thinking, maybe my son somehow is imagining a
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Speaker 1: scene from World War two. You know, a pilot is
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Speaker 1: crashed in World War Two that you and he's military
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Speaker 1: shot them down. I don't know no idea how he
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Speaker 1: got this image, but that could be what he's thinking about.
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Speaker 1: And so he's like, well, maybe I'll just start looking
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Speaker 1: at pictures from World War Two of pilots and maybe
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Speaker 1: somehow or another, James will look at this and something
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Speaker 1: will click for him. He Brews really didn't know what
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Speaker 1: he was trying to get out of this, but either way,
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Speaker 1: he called James over and he shows him this book
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Speaker 1: and he's like, James, do you recognize any of these planes? Like,
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Speaker 1: are any of these planes the coarse airplane that you
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Speaker 1: flew you know in your dream? You know, is any
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Speaker 1: of this stuff sort of lining up with your dream? Again,
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Speaker 1: he's talking to a two year old, but the two
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Speaker 1: year old sort of got it. James looked at the pages,
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Speaker 1: but nothing clicked. James sort of reached down and was
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Speaker 1: just kind of flipping through all the pages and there
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Speaker 1: was nothing. There was no connection with James. But towards
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Speaker 1: the end of the Coffee Table book, where Bruce is
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Speaker 1: thinking like what am I been doing here? I'm like
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Speaker 1: prompting my two year old to research World War two
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Speaker 1: with me? Like what is this? What is going on here?
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Speaker 1: But as James is flipping the pages, he suddenly stops
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Speaker 1: and he points at one of the pages and he
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Speaker 1: says to his dad, that's where I was shot down.
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Speaker 1: And he's pointing at the Battle of Ebo Jima. And
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Speaker 1: so Bruce, you know, again, he doesn't really know what
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Speaker 1: he's trying to accomplish here, but you know, clearly his
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Speaker 1: son has pointed out this particular fact that's sort of
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Speaker 1: roughly tied in with the other things he's brought up.
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Speaker 1: You know, he's had this dream about being a pilot
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Speaker 1: who crashes because the Japanese military shot him down. He's
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Speaker 1: highlighting a battle in Japan during World War Two where
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Speaker 1: you know, the Allies were fighting the Axis Powers and
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Speaker 1: the Japanese, you know, could have been shooting somebody down.
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Speaker 1: So it sort of made sense. Okay, fine, maybe my
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Speaker 1: son's dream is about something that happened at the Battle
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Speaker 1: of Ebo Jima. Don't know how this even happens, don't
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Speaker 1: know how this is possible, but I'm going to do
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Speaker 1: some research. And so that's what Bruce does. He begins
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Speaker 1: researching the Battle of Iwo Jima. Doesn't even really know
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Speaker 1: what he's looking for, but he just wants to see
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Speaker 1: if there's anything connected to what his son has been saying,
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Speaker 1: and what he eventually discovers actually is sort of a relief.
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Speaker 1: He discovers that there is no record of any course
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Speaker 1: airplanes crashing during the Battle of Eogima. In fact, no
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Speaker 1: course airplanes at all were flown during the Battle of Eogima,
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Speaker 1: and his son, James had been saying specifically, I flew
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Speaker 1: a coarse airplane, like that was the plane that crashed,
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Speaker 1: And so he's thinking, Okay, there's a hole in my
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Speaker 1: son's story, Like he clearly must have latched on to
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Speaker 1: some event somehow, somebody said it to him, he heard it,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is, and in his two year old mind
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Speaker 1: he sort of warped it. And then that's what he
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Speaker 1: believes happened. But it's not real, like he's not actually
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Speaker 1: recalling something that happened in the Battle of Ebojima, Like
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Speaker 1: this is just, you know, a false memory or something. However,
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Speaker 1: Bruce was unable to definitively find the names of pilots
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Speaker 1: who actually flew in the Battle of Ebojima. He wanted
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Speaker 1: to find if there was any pilots named James who
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Speaker 1: potentially crashed, you know, during that battle, but he just
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Speaker 1: couldn't find the information. You know, maybe it existed somewhere,
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Speaker 1: but he couldn't find it. And so Bruce had this
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Speaker 1: idea to get in touch with this old veterans group,
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Speaker 1: all these old guys who had served in the Battle
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Speaker 1: of eo Jima that were still alive. They were based
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Speaker 1: out in San Diego, and they got together periodically and
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Speaker 1: just sort of had social hours and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: And Bruce he goes out to San Diego and under
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Speaker 1: false pretenses, he basically tells the group that he's shooting
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Speaker 1: a documentary about the Battle of euo Jima and he
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Speaker 1: needs some information, you know, about certain pilots that flew
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Speaker 1: during the battle. He goes out there and he goes
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Speaker 1: to one of their social events and he begins asking around,
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Speaker 1: asking if anybody knew about any pilots named James who
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Speaker 1: were shot down during the Battle of Eogima, and basically
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Speaker 1: all the men he talked to directed him to go
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Speaker 1: talk to the group's historian, this one guy who kind
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Speaker 1: of had all the information about what had happened during
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Speaker 1: this battle. And so Bruce goes over to the sky
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Speaker 1: and he starts asking him questions about you know, any
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Speaker 1: pilots that you know were shot down during the battle,
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Speaker 1: do you know? And the historian he tells Bruce that,
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Speaker 1: you know, during that battle, virtually no planes were shot down. However,
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Speaker 1: there was one plane that was shot down. A single
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Speaker 1: US Air Force pilot was shot down during the Battle
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Speaker 1: of Euojima and he was killed. And that pilot's name
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Speaker 1: was James Houston Junior. Bruce couldn't help but be truly
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Speaker 1: shocked that the only pilot shot down during the Battle
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Speaker 1: of Euojima happened to be named James, Like that just
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Speaker 1: seemed like a coincidence, That couldn't be possible, considering what
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Speaker 1: his son was saying. And so suddenly Bruce doesn't know
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Speaker 1: what to make of this information he's been given for
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Speaker 1: so long. His two year old son named James, has
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Speaker 1: been talking about how in his dream he's been shot
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Speaker 1: down by the Japanese military during the Battle of Ewojima,
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Speaker 1: and now he's being told there was a single pilot
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Speaker 1: shot down in real life during the Battle of Eojima
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Speaker 1: and his name was James, Like, how is that possible?
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Speaker 1: That just seems impossible, And so at this point Bruce
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Speaker 1: is really holding on to the fact that his son
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Speaker 1: had said his plane that he was shot down in
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Speaker 1: was a coarse airplane, and this guy, James Houston Jr.
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Speaker 1: Who was shot down, the plane he was shot down
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Speaker 1: in was not a corsair plane. And so Bruce is
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Speaker 1: telling himself like, Okay, this is just a crazy coincidence,
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Speaker 1: Like this didn't somehow happen to my son. He's not
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Speaker 1: like channeling somebody else who died years ago, Like that
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Speaker 1: can't be what's happening here. This is just a wild
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Speaker 1: set of circumstances, That's all this is. But he's freaked
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Speaker 1: out now, and so he calls his wife and he
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Speaker 1: tells her about what he's learned, and he kind of
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Speaker 1: downplays how much this has really unsettled him, but he
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Speaker 1: ultimately tells his wife and the two of them decide, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know what, let's just do a little bit more
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Speaker 1: research and just just figure out what's going on here,
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Speaker 1: Like this is just so crazy. We got to do
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Speaker 1: a little bit more research. And in doing research about
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Speaker 1: James Houston Jr. They discover that James has a sister
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Speaker 1: who is still alive, and so they decide to contact her,
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Speaker 1: not really even sure what they're gonna say, but they figure,
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Speaker 1: you know what, let's just get in touch with her
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Speaker 1: and just tell her what's going on. Who knows. Maybe
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Speaker 1: somehow she can explain this who knows, And so kind
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Speaker 1: of on a whim, James and his wife they send
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Speaker 1: a message to this woman, to the sister, and the
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Speaker 1: sister when she finds out there's this two year old
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Speaker 1: who's sort of referencing her brother's death in some way
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, her reaction was to send actual physical
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Speaker 1: photographs of James Houston Junior when he was a pilot,
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Speaker 1: when he served in the military. She just sent a
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Speaker 1: whole bunch of pictures to Bruce, his wife, and James
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Speaker 1: to look at. Like there really wasn't a clear set
21:23
Speaker 1: of what do we do now, and so that's what
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Speaker 1: she did. Here are some pictures, And when Bruce looked
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Speaker 1: at these photos, it was like his whole world was
21:31
Speaker 1: completely rocked because in one of the photos that clearly
21:35
Speaker 1: showed James Houston Junior, he is standing in front of
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Speaker 1: a plane, and that plane was a coarse air plane.
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Speaker 1: And so at this point for Bruce, it felt like
21:45
Speaker 1: the set of circumstances, the coincidences here were simply too
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Speaker 1: much to ignore. This is no longer coincidence, this is
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Speaker 1: something else. And also there's one other small detail that
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Speaker 1: now was sort of bubbling up in Bruce's mind, and
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Speaker 1: that was periodically, his son, James would talk about how
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Speaker 1: he really wasn't named James, he was named James three,
22:08
Speaker 1: just periodically. His son would say that, not every time,
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Speaker 1: but he brought it up enough that it was sort
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Speaker 1: of a known thing that he was James three. And
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Speaker 1: now Bruce is thinking, James Houston Junior, that's James two,
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Speaker 1: my son. How could he possibly know all these things
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Speaker 1: that happened to James Houston Junior if he was not
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Speaker 1: James three, James Houston Junior's reincarnated soul. Bruce would eventually
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Speaker 1: take his son's story to the news and the family
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Speaker 1: would film a primetime segment on ABC about it. James
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Speaker 1: was soon invited to the Battle of Euojima Veterans reunion,
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Speaker 1: where he would shock the group with his knowledge of
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Speaker 1: the battle. James also met James Houston Junior's sister, and
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Speaker 1: when he did, he called her by a nickname that
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Speaker 1: only her late brother ever used. After that, even she
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Speaker 1: was convinced that her brother's spirit had come back to
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Speaker 1: earth in James three. If reincarnation is real, James's story
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Speaker 1: is one of the most credible and well documented cases
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