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Speaker 1: today's stories. On the evening of the December twenty seventh,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, a sixteen year old boy named John
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Speaker 1: Bullwear sat in the passenger seat of his best friend's
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Speaker 1: jeep as they drove down a residential road in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: John's best friend was driving and two more of their
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Speaker 1: friends from school were in the backseat. They were all
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Speaker 1: talking and laughing and singing along to the radio. It
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Speaker 1: was dark outside and it was rainy and kind of
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Speaker 1: an awful night, but John didn't care. He was way
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Speaker 1: too excited because that night he and his buddies were
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Speaker 1: on their way to see the megastar musician Prince perform live.
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Speaker 1: So Prince was obviously a massive, massive star at the time,
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Speaker 1: and anyone at the time would have been pretty excited
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Speaker 1: to go see him perform live, but this was a
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Speaker 1: particularly big deal for John and his friends because Prince
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Speaker 1: was actually from Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was just twenty minutes
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Speaker 1: away from Saint Paul, where they were from, so it
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Speaker 1: was kind of like they were going to see their
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Speaker 1: hometown hero. Now, John and his friends didn't expect to
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Speaker 1: become huge rock star gods like Prince, but there was
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Speaker 1: just something about seeing, you know, this hometown guy achieve
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Speaker 1: his dreams on an international scale.
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Speaker 2: It was just really inspiring.
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Speaker 1: And so again John and his friends are just so
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Speaker 1: stoked about this concert, like they can't wait to get there.
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Speaker 1: And so John, you know, with all this excitement, he
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Speaker 1: turns around to talk to his friends in the backseat
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Speaker 1: about this concert and how great it's going to be.
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Speaker 2: 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.
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Speaker 2: He screams, He hears his friends screaming.
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Speaker 1: They smash into the tree, and everything goes dark. A
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Speaker 1: few minutes later, a Saint Paul police officer named Brian
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Speaker 1: Coyle and his patrol partner pulled up behind the now
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Speaker 1: wrecked jeep. They'd been on their regular patrol when they've
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Speaker 1: gotten a call about the car crash. Now, the call
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Speaker 1: hadn't come from anybody in the crash, so they really.
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Speaker 2: Didn't know what to expect.
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Speaker 1: Now, when Coyle stepped out of his own car and
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Speaker 1: walked towards the wreck, you know, it was raining and
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Speaker 1: dark out, and you know, the visibility wasn't great. But
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Speaker 1: right away he saw there were three teenagers who were
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Speaker 1: standing upright outside of the car. Now, they looked pretty
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Speaker 1: shaken up, and they visibly had some cuts on their body,
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Speaker 1: but you know, overall, his assessment was they were basically okay.
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Speaker 2: And so while Coyle's.
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Speaker 1: Partner went to go examine the wreck itself, Coyle walked
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Speaker 1: up to these teenagers and one of them, through tears,
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Speaker 1: explained to Coyle that he had been driving, and he
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Speaker 1: said he had been just going too fast and he
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Speaker 1: tried to take a sharp turn and he hydroplaned, lost
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Speaker 1: control and they hit the tree. And then the driver
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Speaker 1: said it didn't matter though how this happened, because what
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Speaker 1: mattered now is his friend John is still in the
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Speaker 1: car and he's not moving. And so Officer Coyle left
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Speaker 1: the teenagers and told him to stay put, and he
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Speaker 1: walked over to the wreck where his partner was and
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Speaker 1: Coyle he knelt down and he looked inside the jeep
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Speaker 1: and he saw the other teenager, John slumped over inside
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Speaker 1: the passenger seat, and he wasn't moving, and so Coyle
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Speaker 1: asked his partner, hey, if you checked him, as he okay?
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Speaker 1: And the partner looked at Coyle and just said, no,
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Speaker 1: he's dead. So Officer Coyle took a deep breath and
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Speaker 1: while his partner called for backup and taped off the scene,
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Speaker 1: Coyle went back to John's friends and broke the news
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Speaker 1: as gently as he could, but.
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Speaker 2: 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 a 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.
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Speaker 2: Is someone standing basically in the.
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Speaker 1: Bushes, a person. But he realized this person was not
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Speaker 1: a normal looking person. The person was wearing what appeared
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Speaker 1: to 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 2: What does he do here?
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Speaker 1: And as he's standing there, transfixed, this person in the
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Speaker 1: robe extends one of their arms, this long, skinny arm,
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Speaker 1: and kind of begins to beckon doctor Kirchik towards them,
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Speaker 1: and doctor Kirchik went from being sort of startled to
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Speaker 1: being terrified. This figure basically looked like the Grim Reaper,
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Speaker 1: and it felt like now the Grim Reaper is beckoning
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Speaker 1: him to come with him, to come die. Basically, that
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Speaker 1: was the feeling he suddenly had, and it was unbelievably overwhelming,
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Speaker 1: and so doctor Kirchik is staring horrified.
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Speaker 2: He blinks for a second, and the man is gone.
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Speaker 1: Over the next few days, doctor Kerchik obsessed over what
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Speaker 1: he had just seen. I mean, really, it felt like
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Speaker 1: he had just witnessed the Grim Reaper, and worse that
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Speaker 1: the Grim Reaper was like telling him to come with him,
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Speaker 1: like he was signaling to doctor Kertchik that his time
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Speaker 1: on Earth had come to an end, that his death
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Speaker 1: was imminent. That's what doctor Kirchik is thinking. But doctor Kirchik,
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Speaker 1: he's a surgeon, he's a man of science and reason,
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Speaker 1: and he can't understand how this could have happened. I mean,
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Speaker 1: even if it was just a hallucination, it was so vivid,
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Speaker 1: it was so visceral, like, how could this be?
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Speaker 2: What's going on with him?
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Speaker 1: But the problem doctor Kirchik had was Who's he going
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Speaker 1: to talk to about this?
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Speaker 2: Hey, by the way, I saw.
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Speaker 1: The 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 2: What do I do?
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Speaker 1: And so for months, doctor Kirchuk just carried this incredible
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Speaker 1: weight with him everywhere he went, like this constant sense
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Speaker 1: of unease, until October of nineteen seventy four. That month,
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Speaker 1: doctor Kirchik suddenly got sick. He had a fever and
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Speaker 1: it just wouldn't go away, and so he went to
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Speaker 1: his own doctor for a checkup, and his doctor told him,
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Speaker 1: I got.
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Speaker 2: 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.
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Speaker 2: Kerchik 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: his story, doctor Kirchik would die.
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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 2: Playing crash, Plane Crash, playing crash.
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Speaker 1: And while, of course, like you know, James is a kid,
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Speaker 1: He's going to be loud and noisy and obnoxious.
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Speaker 2: 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, Like, what's my kid doing?
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Speaker 2: I don't understand any of this, And.
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Speaker 1: The doctors were all like, nah, he's a kid, Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a weird fixation he's got, but he'll grow out
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Speaker 1: a bit, like, don't worry about it. But to Bruce
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Speaker 1: and his wife, it just seemed like James was not
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Speaker 1: growing out of it. He was just getting more and
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Speaker 1: more fixated as time went on. And so as Bruce
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Speaker 1: was sitting there on the couch watching James for the
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Speaker 1: millionth time smash his toy plane into the coffee table
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Speaker 1: and pretend it was this plane crash you couldn't stop
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Speaker 1: thinking about, Bruce decided he had to do something about this,
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Speaker 1: and so over the next couple of months, Bruce, instead
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Speaker 1: of trying to figure out what was wrong with James
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Speaker 1: that was causing him to fixate on this plane crash,
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Speaker 1: you know, instead of doing that, he began sort of
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Speaker 1: like leaning in and asking James to give him more
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Speaker 1: information about whatever he was seeing in his nightmare, like
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Speaker 1: give me all the specific you can possibly recall, and
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Speaker 1: James would eventually let on that it wasn't just the
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Speaker 1: Japanese that shot him down, it was the Japanese military.
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Speaker 1: And also the type of plane that James was flying
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Speaker 1: in apparently was a coarse airplane. Bruce had never heard
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Speaker 1: of that before. And again he's looking at his two
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Speaker 1: year old son, thinking, how do you even know what
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Speaker 1: a course airplane is? But nonetheless that's what James said.
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Speaker 1: And so Bruce doesn't know what to do with this information,
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Speaker 1: but again he's just trying to learn. And so in
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Speaker 1: November of that year, Bruce found himself sitting in the
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Speaker 1: living room and he had this this World War II
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Speaker 1: coffee table book that he'd actually purchased for his father,
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Speaker 1: but he hadn't given it to him yet. And he
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Speaker 1: saw James, you know, playing with his plane, smashing it
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Speaker 1: into the coffee table, and Bruce he grabs this coffee
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Speaker 1: table book full of pictures of pilots and combat and war,
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Speaker 1: and he flips two pictures of pilots from World War
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Speaker 1: Two because now, you know, Bruce is thinking, maybe my
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Speaker 1: son somehow is imagining a scene.
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Speaker 2: From World War two.
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Speaker 1: You know, a pilot is crashed in World War Two.
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Speaker 1: That and he's military shot them down. I don't know
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Speaker 1: no idea how he got this image, but that could
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Speaker 1: be what he's thinking about.
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Speaker 2: And so he's like, well, maybe I'll just.
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Speaker 1: Start looking at pictures from World War Two of pilots
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Speaker 1: and maybe somehow or another, James will look at this
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Speaker 1: and something will click for him. Bruce really didn't know
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Speaker 1: what he was trying to get out of this, but
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Speaker 1: either way, he called James over and he shows him
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Speaker 1: this book and he's like, James, do you recognize any
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Speaker 1: of these planes? Like, are any of these planes the
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Speaker 1: coarse airplane that you flew you know in your dream?
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Speaker 1: You know, is any of this stuff sort of lining
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Speaker 1: up with your dream? Again, he's talking to a two
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Speaker 1: year old, but the two year old sort of got it.
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Speaker 1: James looked at the pages, but nothing clicked. James sort
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Speaker 1: of reached down and was just kind of flipping through
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Speaker 1: all the pages and there was nothing. There was no
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Speaker 1: connection with James. But towards the end of the coffee
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Speaker 1: table book, where Bruce is thinking like what am I
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Speaker 1: been doing here? I'm like prompting my two year old
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Speaker 1: to research World War Two with me?
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Speaker 2: Like what is this?
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Speaker 1: So?
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Speaker 2: 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.
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Speaker 2: 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.
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Speaker 2: Know, could have been shooting somebody down. So it sort
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Speaker 2: of made sense.
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Speaker 1: Okay, fine, maybe my son's dream is about something that
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Speaker 1: happened at the Battle of Ebo Jima. Don't know how
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Speaker 1: this even happens, don't know how this is possible, but
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Speaker 1: I'm going to do some research.
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Speaker 2: And so that's what Bruce does.
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Speaker 1: He begins researching the Battle of Ewo Jima. Doesn't even
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Speaker 1: really know what he's looking for, but he just wants
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Speaker 1: to see if there's anything connected to what his son
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Speaker 1: has been saying, and what he eventually discovers actually is
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Speaker 1: sort of a relief. He discovers that there is no
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Speaker 1: record of any course airplanes crashing during the Battle of Eogima.
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Speaker 1: In fact, no course airplanes at all were flown during
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Speaker 1: the Battle of Eogima, and his son, James had been
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Speaker 1: saying specifically, I flew a coarse airplane, like that was
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Speaker 1: the plane that crashed, And so he's thinking, Okay, there's
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Speaker 1: a hole in my son's story, Like he clearly must
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Speaker 1: have latched on to some event somehow, somebody said it
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Speaker 1: to him, He heard it, whatever it is, and in
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Speaker 1: his two year old mind he sort of warped it.
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Speaker 1: And then that's what he believes happened. But it's not real,
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Speaker 1: like he's not actually recalling something that happened in the
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Speaker 1: Battle of Ebojima, Like this is just, you know, a
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Speaker 1: false memory or something. However, Bruce was unable to definitively
17:39
Speaker 1: find the names of pilots who actually flew in the
17:42
Speaker 1: Battle of Ebogima. He wanted to find if there was
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Speaker 1: any pilot's named James who potentially crashed, you know, during
17:48
Speaker 1: that battle, but he just couldn't find the information. You know,
17:51
Speaker 1: maybe it existed somewhere, but he couldn't find it. And
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Speaker 1: so Bruce had this idea to get in touch with
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Speaker 1: this old veterans group, all these old guys who had
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Speaker 1: served in the Battle of Ebo Jima that was still alive.
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Speaker 2: They were based out in San Diego, and.
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Speaker 1: They got together periodically and just sort of had social
18:07
Speaker 1: hours and stuff like that. And Bruce he goes out
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Speaker 1: to San Diego and under false pretenses, he basically tells
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Speaker 1: the group that he's shooting a documentary about the Battle
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Speaker 1: of Euo Jima and he needs some information, you know,
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Speaker 1: about certain pilots that flew during the battle. He goes
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Speaker 1: out there, he goes to one of their social events
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Speaker 1: and he begins asking around, asking if anybody knew about
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Speaker 1: any pilots named James who were shot down during the
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Speaker 1: Battle of Ebo Jima, and basically all the men he
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Speaker 1: talked to directed him to go talk to the group's historian,
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Speaker 1: this one guy who kind of had all the information
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Speaker 1: about what had happened during this battle. And so Bruce
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Speaker 1: goes over to the sky and he starts asking him
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Speaker 1: questions about you know any pilots that you know were
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Speaker 1: shot down during the battle, do you know? And the
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Speaker 1: historian he tells Bruce that, you know, during that battle,
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Speaker 1: virtually no planes were shot down. However, there was one
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Speaker 1: plane that was shot down. A single US Air Force
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Speaker 1: pilot was shot down during the Battle of Euojima and
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Speaker 1: he was killed. And that pilot's name was James Houston Junior.
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Speaker 1: Bruce couldn't help but be truly shocked that the only
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Speaker 1: pilot shot down during the Battle of Eojima happened to
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Speaker 1: be named James, Like that just seemed like a coincidence,
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Speaker 1: That couldn't be possible, considering what his son was saying.
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Speaker 1: And so suddenly Bruce doesn't know what to make of
19:25
Speaker 1: this information he's been given For so long. His two
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Speaker 1: year old son named James, has been talking about how
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Speaker 1: in his dream he's been shot down by the Japanese
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Speaker 1: military during the Battle of Ewojima, and now he's being
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Speaker 1: told there was a single pilot shot down in real
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Speaker 1: life during the Battle of Eojima and.
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Speaker 2: 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
19:51
Speaker 1: is really holding on to the fact that his son
19:53
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
20:16
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
20:22
Speaker 1: tells her about what he's learned, and he kind of
20:24
Speaker 1: downplays how much this has really unsettled him, but he
20:26
Speaker 1: ultimately tells his wife and the two of them decide, Okay,
20:29
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,
20:33
Speaker 1: Like this is just so crazy. We got to do
20:35
Speaker 1: a little bit more research. And in doing research about
20:38
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,
20:48
Speaker 1: you know what, let's just get in touch with her
20:50
Speaker 1: and just tell her what's going on.
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Speaker 2: Who knows.
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Speaker 1: Maybe somehow she can explain this who knows, And so
20:55
Speaker 1: kind of on a whim, James and his wife they
20:58
Speaker 1: send a message to this woman, to the sister, and
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Speaker 1: the sister when she finds out there's this two year
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Speaker 1: old who's sort of referencing her brother's death in some
21:05
Speaker 1: way for whatever reason, her reaction was to send actual
21:10
Speaker 1: physical photographs of James Houston Junior when he was a pilot,
21:15
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
21:28
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.
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Speaker 2: 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
21:49
Speaker 1: much to ignore. This is no longer coincidence, this is
21:52
Speaker 1: something else. And also there's one other small detail that
21:55
Speaker 1: now was sort of bubbling up in Bruce's mind, and
21:59
Speaker 1: that was periodically his son, James would talk about how
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Speaker 1: he really wasn't.
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Speaker 2: Named James, he was named James three, just periodically.
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Speaker 1: His son would say that, not every time, but he
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Speaker 1: brought it up enough that it was sort of a
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Speaker 1: known thing that he was James three. And now Bruce
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Speaker 1: is thinking, James Houston Junior, that's James two, my son.
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Speaker 1: How could he possibly know all these things that happened
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Speaker 1: to James Houston Junior if he was not James three,
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Speaker 1: James Houston Junior's reincarnated soul. Bruce would eventually take his
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Speaker 1: son's story to the news and the family would film
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Speaker 1: a primetime segment.
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Speaker 2: On ABC about it.
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Speaker 1: James was soon invited to the Battle of Eojima 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
22:48
Speaker 1: when he did, he called her by a nickname that
22:51
Speaker 1: only her late brother ever used. After that, even she
22:55
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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