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The Cat People: A True Story of UFO Contact · UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT

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  Speaker 1: Hello everyone, my name is Preston Dennett, and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: a new episode of UFOs and the Paranormal. I call
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  Speaker 1: this episode, The Cat People. This episode is about two people,
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  Speaker 1: a man and a woman, both who have had lifelong
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  Speaker 1: experiences with UFOs and extraterrestrials that they describe as looking
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  Speaker 1: very much like hairless humanoid cats. It's a very interesting episode,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it provides some unique and important insights
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  Speaker 1: into the nature of the UFO phenomenon and the extraterrestrials
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  Speaker 1: that are visiting our planet. Our story today begins in
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  Speaker 1: 1956 in a little town called Haver. This is located
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  Speaker 1: in northern Montana, and Robert Hamley... This is the main witness.
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  Speaker 1: That's not his real name. He wants to be anonymous.
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  Speaker 1: And again, this was in 1956. Robert was just a
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  Speaker 1: little boy, and one day he was out skating, ice skating,
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  Speaker 1: with about a dozen other neighborhood kids in a little
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  Speaker 1: park in his hometown of Haver, Montana. And looking up,
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  Speaker 1: all the kids saw several objects scooting across the sky.
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  Speaker 1: Robert described them as metallic, round in shape, and moving
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  Speaker 1: very quickly. They were clearly not planes or helicopters or
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  Speaker 1: balloons or anything like that. Everyone stopped skating and stared
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  Speaker 1: at them because they were so unusual. And they said, wow,
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  Speaker 1: and cool. And just watch these objects move all the
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  Speaker 1: way across the sky until they disappeared off into the distance.
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  Speaker 1: And then everyone continued skating. Robert was very much impressed.
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  Speaker 1: He had no idea what these objects could be. He'd
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  Speaker 1: never heard of UFOs. All he knew was that these
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  Speaker 1: were not normal. And it really stuck in his mind,
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  Speaker 1: especially because of what happened next. It was shortly after
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  Speaker 1: this sighting that Robert started to be visited by these
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  Speaker 1: strange cat-like humanoids in his bedroom. Robert's bedroom was located
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  Speaker 1: in the basement of his home. And he woke up
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  Speaker 1: one evening to see two or three of these cat-like
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  Speaker 1: humanoids standing around his bed. He described them as about
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  Speaker 1: three foot tall, very slender, large heads, no hair, dark
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  Speaker 1: wraparound eyes. And he described them as looking very much
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  Speaker 1: like cats, but humanoid and having no hair. And it
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  Speaker 1: was very frightening for him. It was always the same.
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  Speaker 1: He'd wake up, see these things around his bed, and
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  Speaker 1: was paralyzed and consumed with fear. And this went on
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  Speaker 1: for years. As Robert says in his own words, I
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  Speaker 1: would have these horrendous nightmares. I would call them nightmares,
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  Speaker 1: where these big-eyed creatures would come, and I would feel paralyzed.
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  Speaker 1: All I would ever remember is that face, that side
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  Speaker 1: profile of this face with huge eyes. To me, it
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  Speaker 1: was just this horrible nightmare. For years, I couldn't do
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  Speaker 1: anything about it. This went on until I was about 16.
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  Speaker 1: So after years of going through this, Robert had had enough.
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  Speaker 1: He was tired of living like this, and he decided
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  Speaker 1: that next time they came, he would confront them and
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  Speaker 1: tell them to go away and never come back. And
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what he did. And I'll just let Robert
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  Speaker 1: describe what happened. As Robert says, when it happened, I
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  Speaker 1: told whatever it was. I said, this is it. It's
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  Speaker 1: either you or me, but only one of us is
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  Speaker 1: going to come out of this thing. I've had enough
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  Speaker 1: of it. And he says all that night he had
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  Speaker 1: a battle of wills with these cat-like humanoids. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: remember all of it, just them staring at him and
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  Speaker 1: him fighting back mentally. He called it a battle of wills.
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  Speaker 1: And at some point they apparently left. He woke up
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  Speaker 1: the next morning. They were gone, of course. And he
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  Speaker 1: was shocked to see that all of his blankets and
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  Speaker 1: bed sheets were completely swept off of his bed. But
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  Speaker 1: what's very interesting is following this battle of wills, these
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  Speaker 1: cat-like humanoids never came back. At least not for a
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  Speaker 1: very long time. Meanwhile, many hundreds of miles away, down
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas Valley in Nevada, another little girl I
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  Speaker 1: will call Melissa Branson, it's not her real name, she
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  Speaker 1: also requested to be anonymous, was having very similar experiences
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  Speaker 1: to Robert. Of course, Las Vegas Valley was not nearly
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  Speaker 1: as populated then in the 1950s as it is now.
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  Speaker 1: And Melissa would wake up in the middle of the
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  Speaker 1: night to see these cat-like eyes coming through the wall
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  Speaker 1: and staring at her. And it was always the same.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as she'd see them, she'd usually pass out.
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  Speaker 1: A few times, she does remember them rushing towards her
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  Speaker 1: bed and grabbing her. And it was very, very frightening
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  Speaker 1: for her. She did complain to her parents. But her
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  Speaker 1: parents said, oh, you must be having nightmares. Melissa protested.
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  Speaker 1: She said that she was awake when this was happening,
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  Speaker 1: but her parents didn't know what to do, and Melissa
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  Speaker 1: wasn't getting much help from them, so she just kind
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  Speaker 1: of clammed up about it. But over the years, throughout
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  Speaker 1: her childhood, they visited her over and over again. And
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  Speaker 1: then finally in her mid-teens, just like Robert, they stopped coming.
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  Speaker 1: They did leave Melissa with some profound anxieties. Once she
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  Speaker 1: went to an arcade where there was a little booth
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  Speaker 1: with a gypsy fortune-telling witch in it with large dark eyes.
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  Speaker 1: That sent chills down her spine. She wasn't quite sure why.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't quite connect it to her childhood experiences. But
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  Speaker 1: anything similar to that caused her pretty bad anxiety. She
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  Speaker 1: had these little china dolls with large dark staring eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Those gave her the creeps. But what really upset her
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  Speaker 1: was a series of art prints by a very famous
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  Speaker 1: artist by the name of Margaret Keane, who was very
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  Speaker 1: famous for drawing large-eyed waif children and large-eyed pets, animals,
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  Speaker 1: dogs and cats and such. And whenever she saw those
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  Speaker 1: art prints, it would just send Melissa over the edge
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  Speaker 1: with anxiety. Again, it was those dark, staring eyes that
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  Speaker 1: really scared her. But these experiences did stop at some
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  Speaker 1: point and her anxieties weren't so bad that it was
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  Speaker 1: crippling her or anything. But she did connect it to
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  Speaker 1: these experiences as a kid. And she did have a
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  Speaker 1: UFO sighting around this time. It was actually 1960 when
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  Speaker 1: she had her first UFO sighting. She was outside her
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  Speaker 1: home in Las Vegas and looking up, saw what she
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  Speaker 1: describes as a rusty brown, maroon-colored light. It moved swiftly
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  Speaker 1: across the sky, suddenly stopped and turned at a right
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  Speaker 1: angle and darted away. Clearly not a helicopter or a
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  Speaker 1: plane or a balloon or anything like that. It absolutely
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  Speaker 1: convinced her that UFOs were real. But that's as far
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  Speaker 1: as it went. And after that, her UFO experiences stopped
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. She grew up, as did Robert Hamley.
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  Speaker 1: And Robert went down to visit Las Vegas and met Melissa.
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  Speaker 1: And they hit it off immediately. They started dating. They
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  Speaker 1: fell in love. They got married. And they were living
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  Speaker 1: happily ever after. It was many, many years later when
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  Speaker 1: UFOs suddenly marched back into their life. And neither of
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  Speaker 1: them had thought about UFOs or their childhood experiences for years.
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  Speaker 1: And then in 1992, Melissa was at her place of work,
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  Speaker 1: a museum in Clark County, Nevada. And she was cleaning
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  Speaker 1: up the storeroom and opened a box and found a
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  Speaker 1: series of letters from pioneering aviator George Crockett and in
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  Speaker 1: this box of letters from George Crockett she saw that
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  Speaker 1: these letters were actually involving correspondence between George Crockett and
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  Speaker 1: Howard Hughes and they were referencing UFOs and underground bases
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  Speaker 1: and large budgets of millions of dollars so it really
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  Speaker 1: impressed her and brought UFOs back to the forefront of
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  Speaker 1: her mind. And it was around this time that she
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  Speaker 1: and her husband Robert sat down on their couch one
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  Speaker 1: evening to watch a television miniseries called Intruders. This television
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  Speaker 1: miniseries is based on bud hopkins book by the same
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  Speaker 1: name and involves of course people who are being visited
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  Speaker 1: by extraterrestrials grays and being taken on board and having
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  Speaker 1: very profound visitations and as they're watching this movie Melissa
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  Speaker 1: remembered that she had had these experiences as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: She turned to her husband Robert and says, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that happened to me when I was a little girl.
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  Speaker 1: Robert was stunned and he said, you know what, that
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  Speaker 1: also happened to me when I was a little boy.
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  Speaker 1: And they compared notes and were shocked to see how
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  Speaker 1: incredibly similar their stories were. Both described seeing these short
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  Speaker 1: figures with large, dark, cat-like eyes. Their stories were so
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  Speaker 1: similar that they wondered if they were dealing with the
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  Speaker 1: same types of ETs. And a little more digging revealed
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  Speaker 1: that both their families, on both sides of their families,
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  Speaker 1: there was a history of UFO encounters. And in fact,
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  Speaker 1: Robert's mother said that she had experienced very scary nighttime
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  Speaker 1: visitations by some type of entity. And on another occasion,
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  Speaker 1: she said that she was driving home and saw a
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  Speaker 1: cone of light shining down onto the field next to
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  Speaker 1: her from this object high in the sky. And Robert's
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  Speaker 1: father said that he was going to pick up his wife,
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  Speaker 1: Robert's mother, from work where she worked at a hospital,
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  Speaker 1: and saw this football-shaped object hovering over the hospital. It
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  Speaker 1: had colored lights all around it. It was just hovering there,
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  Speaker 1: stationary in place, and very much impressed him as not
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  Speaker 1: being anything normal. And it turned out that Melissa's aunt
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  Speaker 1: also had encounters. Way back in the 1930s, Melissa's aunt
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  Speaker 1: was visiting California and was actually in Santa Monica overlooking
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  Speaker 1: the Santa Catalina Channel, which is, of course, well known
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  Speaker 1: for having high levels of UFO activity. And Melissa's aunt
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  Speaker 1: said that she was standing on the beach in Santa
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  Speaker 1: Monica when this bright ball of light came in from
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  Speaker 1: the ocean and hovered very close to her, frightened her
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit. She had a sense of timelessness. She
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  Speaker 1: felt paralyzed, and finally this object darted off. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: both sides of their family have a history of UFO encounters,
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  Speaker 1: which is absolutely something we see in this field. And
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  Speaker 1: following this series of events, they both started having UFO
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  Speaker 1: sightings again. It was in 1994 that Melissa was outside
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  Speaker 1: when she saw a bright glowing light, much brighter than
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  Speaker 1: any star, and she stared at it trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out what it could be and was wondering if it
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  Speaker 1: was aware that she was looking at it. At that
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  Speaker 1: exact point, it suddenly shrank down and disappeared, but she
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  Speaker 1: felt like it was sort of responding to her or
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  Speaker 1: was definitely aware that she was watching it. And it
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  Speaker 1: was just two months later, the same exact thing happened.
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  Speaker 1: She had the same feeling. It was watching her. Knew
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  Speaker 1: she was watching it. And it shrank down and disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: And her husband saw her looking up and said, what's
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  Speaker 1: going on? And she said, I think I just saw
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  Speaker 1: a UFO. And Robert was amazed. And it was a
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  Speaker 1: short time after that that he had his own encounter.
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  Speaker 1: And again, it involved this weird telepathic element to it.
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  Speaker 1: Robert had a strange impulse to look up at the sky.
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  Speaker 1: This was during the day. And looking up, he was
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  Speaker 1: amazed to see, quite high up there, a silver disk-like object.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty much stationary in the sky, and he
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  Speaker 1: had the distinct feeling that it was looking at him
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  Speaker 1: and knew that he was looking at it. And at
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  Speaker 1: that moment, it quickly winked out and disappeared. But it
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  Speaker 1: impressed Robert enough that he decided he was going to
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  Speaker 1: get a camera. So in case this thing appeared again,
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  Speaker 1: he would try to get a picture. And of course
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  Speaker 1: it did appear again. And it started the same way.
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  Speaker 1: He had a very strong impulse to look up. And
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  Speaker 1: he looked up and sure enough, there was this disc.
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  Speaker 1: And he had his camera right near him. And he
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  Speaker 1: attempted to take a picture. And I'll just let Robert
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  Speaker 1: describe what happened next. As Robert says, it was one
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  Speaker 1: of those, I can feel somebody looking at me long
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  Speaker 1: distance kind of thing. So when I had this feeling
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  Speaker 1: I should look up, I did. And there was another one.
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  Speaker 1: It looked just like it. And I thought, by God,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready for it this time. I reached in, grabbed
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  Speaker 1: my camera, turned around, and it was not in the
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  Speaker 1: sky anymore. So, no picture. And it was at this
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  Speaker 1: point that these cat-like humanoids came marching back full force
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  Speaker 1: into their life again. It started one evening with Melissa
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  Speaker 1: having a very odd feeling that something was going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: As Melissa says, I just had the feeling that something
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  Speaker 1: was happening and I had to be ready for it.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very odd feeling. And when she woke
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  Speaker 1: up the next morning, that feeling still persisted. As she says,
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  Speaker 1: something had been there in the house during the night.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a strange experience. I felt like all
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  Speaker 1: night long I had a very restless sleep. I felt
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  Speaker 1: constantly on guard, like you're expecting something or something's going
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  Speaker 1: on and you're ready to hit the floor. So she
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  Speaker 1: told her husband Robert about it and he gave her
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  Speaker 1: kind of an odd look. But he had to go
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  Speaker 1: to work, so he quickly rushed off to work. And
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  Speaker 1: when he came home, he revealed that he had, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: seen these cat-like humanoids that night. And I'll just quote
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  Speaker 1: Robert again. As Robert says, Cat people is about the
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  Speaker 1: only way you can describe it. If you put a
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  Speaker 1: cat head on these humanoid bodies, they were dark. almost black,
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  Speaker 1: so you really could not determine what they were wearing.
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  Speaker 1: It was just the shapes. But you could see the
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  Speaker 1: features and the face, and the closest thing I can
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  Speaker 1: come to is they had that kind of cat face, morphed,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. So as soon as he saw them,
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  Speaker 1: they were leaning over Melissa on her side of the bed,
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  Speaker 1: and he shouted at them with a lot of force,
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  Speaker 1: Go away. And they did. They disappeared. And Melissa confirms
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  Speaker 1: this as Melissa says, and I quote, I'll never forget it.
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  Speaker 1: He walked in the front door and he just stood
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  Speaker 1: there and looked at me and he was looking at
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  Speaker 1: me with this very intent look on his face. Then
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  Speaker 1: he told me he had been thinking about what I
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  Speaker 1: said all day and he had to tell me about
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  Speaker 1: what happened during the night. He'd woken up and he'd
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  Speaker 1: seen these three things. He said they looked like cat-like figures.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of a cat body, it was almost a stick
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  Speaker 1: figure sort of body. They weren't the size of cats.
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  Speaker 1: They were much larger than cats, but not as big
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  Speaker 1: as humans. And they were on my side of the bed.
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  Speaker 1: They were arranged in a row. I think he felt
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  Speaker 1: a little bit like they might be threatening me. But
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  Speaker 1: it just offended him. And he basically told them to
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  Speaker 1: get the hell out. And he said that at that point,
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  Speaker 1: they one at a time sort of dematerialized. I was
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  Speaker 1: feeling like I had been on guard all night. And
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  Speaker 1: when he recounted what had happened, you know the feeling
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  Speaker 1: that something drops to the pit of your stomach? It
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  Speaker 1: was just a further confirmation to me of what I
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  Speaker 1: had seen coming through the wall. So it was two
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  Speaker 1: weeks later that these cat people visited again. And again,
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  Speaker 1: Robert was filled with fear and told them to go away.
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  Speaker 1: As Robert says, it kind of had a menacing look.
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  Speaker 1: I said, go away, and it just vanished. So this
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  Speaker 1: turned out to be their last encounter with these cat-like humanoids.
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  Speaker 1: Robert forcefully told them to go away, and they did.
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  Speaker 1: So he successfully ended his encounters with these extraterrestrials. It
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  Speaker 1: was not their last unexplained event. They did have one
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  Speaker 1: weird event which they think is connected to this, in
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  Speaker 1: which they woke up, he woke up, to see an
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  Speaker 1: apparition in his room. He described it as sort of
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  Speaker 1: a gold, sepia-colored, tubular-shaped, cloud-like apparition in the corner of
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  Speaker 1: his room. He examined it closely for a few moments
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  Speaker 1: and decided he would just ignore it, and it finally
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  Speaker 1: went away. He told his wife the next morning, but
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  Speaker 1: neither of them knew what to make of it. As
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  Speaker 1: Robert says, that was kind of bizarre. And that was
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  Speaker 1: the last of those kinds of things that happened. There
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  Speaker 1: is an interesting end note to this case. Robert's little
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  Speaker 1: brother came to visit. And Robert's little brother had always
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  Speaker 1: been jealous of Robert because Robert had his own room
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  Speaker 1: in the basement. And Robert's little brother really wanted it.
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  Speaker 1: And when Robert finally moved out of the house, his
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  Speaker 1: little brother was super excited to see take over the
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  Speaker 1: bedroom and started to move his things down there he's
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  Speaker 1: telling the story to Robert he said he went down
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  Speaker 1: there and was moving his things in and hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: in that room for more than 15 minutes when something
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  Speaker 1: happened something very scary and Robert asked him what happened
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  Speaker 1: and Robert's brother refused to elaborate and said only I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it was but it was horrible and
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  Speaker 1: he refused to talk about it at all. So this
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  Speaker 1: is the story of Robert and Melissa and their encounters
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  Speaker 1: with cat-like humanoids. I suspect there's more to it that
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  Speaker 1: they don't remember. I did present this story in my book, Wondrous,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's a very interesting account for a
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  Speaker 1: number of reasons. One really interesting factor is that both
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  Speaker 1: Robert and Melissa believe they were having encounters with the
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  Speaker 1: same types of ETs. And they wonder if they were
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  Speaker 1: brought together by the ETs. And I have to wonder
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  Speaker 1: that too, because that is something I've heard in many
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  Speaker 1: other cases. Another very interesting detail is they both describe
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  Speaker 1: having telepathic contact to some degree with these UFOs that
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  Speaker 1: they saw many people have an impulse to look up
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  Speaker 1: and see a UFO and sure enough that's what happened
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  Speaker 1: with Robert especially another very interesting detail I think probably
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  Speaker 1: the most important take away from this case is that
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  Speaker 1: Robert was able to end his encounters by forcefully telling
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  Speaker 1: these beings to go away UFO researcher Ann Druffle wrote
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  Speaker 1: a book, How to Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction. And
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  Speaker 1: the number one method is basically using your willpower and
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  Speaker 1: telling these ETs to go away. And this is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what Robert did. And he was successful at it. And
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  Speaker 1: this just goes to show that if a person does
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  Speaker 1: want to end their encounters... if they are experiencing too
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  Speaker 1: much fear and don't want this experience, it is possible
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  Speaker 1: to do this. So I think that is a very
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  Speaker 1: important aspect to this case and was really the main
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  Speaker 1: reason I wanted to present this episode to you today.
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  Speaker 1: Hope you've enjoyed it. I want to thank you once
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  Speaker 1: again for watching. I truly appreciate it. And until next time,
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  Speaker 1: keep searching for answers and Keep having fun.