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Welcome Weirdos. I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness.
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Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre,
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unsolved and unexplained coming up in this episode of Weird Darkness.
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The US government explained the rapidly maneuvering lights as a
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weather balloon. But if you believe what fighter pilot George F.
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Gorman says, you'll believe there are some giant holes in
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the US government story because Gorman ended up in an
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aerial battle with one of those so called weather balloons.
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A passerby found scraps of paper on the ground implicating
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that one of the area's most prominent families was harboring
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a secret that the husband had his own wife imprisoned
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in their own home for months on end, unable to
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leave her own bedroom. But that was just the beginning
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of the story. In the wilds of Africa, it is
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said there is a manlike creature human in every way
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aside from one the being has no head, the most
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famous being the Grim Reaper. Dark hooded entities seem to
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be relatively common in the reports of ghost like beings.
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They can be intimidating, foreboding, and downright terrifying. One man's
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experience didn't stop with only one encounter. They haven't stopped
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at all. A couple have a fight, one of them
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leaves the home to cool off. It's something that happens
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every day in every town and city. It's simply how
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some couples have to work through things. But in one case,
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thirty two years later, the woman who left to cool
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off has yet to return, and her family is still waiting.
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Now bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights,
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and come with me into the weird darkness. In the
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words of Captain Edward J. Rupelt, the man who investigated
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unidentified flying object reports for the US Air Force in
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the early nineteen fifties, the Gorman Dogfight remains one of
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the classics among UFO sightings. The incident, which still lacks
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an air tight explanation, involved a twenty seven minute air
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encounter between a veteran World War II fighter pilot named
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George F. Gorman and a mysterious white orb at a
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high altitude above Fargo, North Dakota. I've never seen anything
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like it, Gorman told a local newspaper following the October first,
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nineteen forty eight event. If anyone else had reported such
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a thing, I would have thought they were crazy. Captain
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Rupelt operated Project Blue Book, which continued the work of
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Project Sign and Project Grudge, a series of hush hush
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studies conducted by the US Air Force between nineteen forty
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seven and nineteen sixty nine. His mission to determine if
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UFOs were a threat to national security and to scientifically
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analyze UFO related data. What makes the Gorman dogfight unique
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in the now declassified pages of Project Blue Book is
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not only the length of the encounter, but that it
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was recorded both on the ground and in the sky
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by numerous reputable sources. At the time of the incident, Gorreon,
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a twenty five year old former fighter pilot, served as
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a second lieutenant in the North Dakota Air National Guard.
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It was this role that placed him behind the flight
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controls of a P fifty one Mustang on October first,
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nineteen forty eight, taking part in a cross country flight
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alongside other National Guard airmen. While the other pilots landed
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at Fargo's Hector Airport on that fateful evening, Gorman stayed
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in the air in order to get in some night
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flying time in the cloudless conditions. Having circled his P
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fifty one over a lit football stadium, he was preparing
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the land at about nine pm, advised by the control
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tower that the only other plane in the vicinity was
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a Piper cub, which Gorman could see. About five hundred
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feet below him, he witnessed what he believed to be
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the tail light of another craft passing on his right,
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though the tower had no other object on the radar.
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Deciding to take a closer look at the unidentified object,
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Gorman pulled his plane up and closed to within about
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a thousand yards. It was about six to eight inches
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in diameter, clear white, and completely without fuzz at the edges.
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He said of the object in his report, it was
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blinking on and off as I approached. However, the light
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suddenly became steady and pulled into a sharp left bank.
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I thought it was making a pass at the tower.
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Deciding to follow, Gorman tried in vain to catch up
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with the object, reporting that he finally got behind it
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at around seven thousand feet, where it made a sharp
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turn and headed straight for the P fifty one. Almost
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at the point of collision, Gorman dived and said the
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light passed over his canopy at about five hundred feet
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before cutting sharply once more and heading back in his direction.
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Just as collision seemed imminent once again, Gorman said, the
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object shot straight up in the air in a steep climb,
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so steep that when he tried to intercept, his plane
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stalled at about fourteen thousand feet. The object was not
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seen again, but according to Gorman, he'd been engaged in
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aerial maneuvers with it for twenty seven minutes by the
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time he brought his plane in to land. Shaken by
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the encounter, the pilot went on to report he noticed
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no sound, exhaust, trail, or odor from the object, and
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while he had reached speeds of up to four hundred
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miles per hour while in pursuit, he couldn't keep up
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with whatever it was. I'm convinced that there was definite
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thought behind its maneuvers, Gorman said in a sworn statement
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to his commander. I am further convinced that the object
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was governed by the laws of inertia because its acceleration
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was rapid but not immediate, and although it was able
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to turn fairly tight at considerable speed, it still followed
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a natural curve. Gorman reported blacking out temporarily due to
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the excessive speed he reached an attempting to turn with
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the object. I'm in fairly good physical condition, and I
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do not believe that there are many, if any pilots
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who could withstand that turn and speed affected by the
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object and remain conscious. He wrote. The object was not
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only able to outturn and outspeed my aircraft, but was
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able to attain a far steeper climb, and was able
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to maintain a constant rate of climb, far in excess
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of my aircraft. Gorman wasn't the only one to see
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the mysterious object that night. It was also witnessed by
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air traffic controllers Lloyd D. Jensen and H. E. Johnson,
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who were manning the Hector Airport tower. According to Johnson,
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who reported seeing the Piper Cub and the UFO at
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the same time, the object was traveling at a high
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rate of speed and was fast enough to increase the
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spacing between itself and Gorman's fighter. Johnson described the object
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disappearing to be only a round light, perfectly formed, with
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no fuzzy edges or rays leaving its body. Doctor A. E. Cannon,
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the pilot of the Piper Cub and his passenger, also
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viewed the object, both in the sky and upon their
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return the airport, where they immediately joined the traffic controllers
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in the tower. Cannon described the light as moving very swiftly,
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much faster than the fifty one. Two. Civil Aeronautics Authority
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employees on the ground also reported seeing the object. Could
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it have simply been another aircraft? Taking the technology of
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the time into account, Doctor Travis S. Taylor, aerospace engineer
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and author of Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering, believes
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any other aircraft would have been apparent to Gorman. Earlier
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that year. He points out Chuck Yeager made his famous
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flight in the Bell X one at record breaking speed
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in which he broke the sound barrier. A craft like
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that would have been very obvious to a pilot in
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a P fifty one. Gorman would have known what he
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was looking at. The X fifty one looked like an airplane,
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says Taylor. If he was chasing something that didn't look
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like a standard aircraft and he couldn't keep up with it,
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either it was too far away and he didn't realize
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how far away it was, or it was moving faster
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than a P fifty one could move. US Air Force
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investigators from Project Sign later to become Project Grudge and
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ultimately Project Bluebook soon arrived in Fargo, where Geiger countermeasurements
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of Gorman's plane revealed heightened radioactivity, though this was later
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explained away as a side effect of the high altitude
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flying that took place. Was Gorman a kook or maybe
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touched in the head by his war experiences. Government investigators
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found him to be a credible witness, noting that he
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did not make the impression of being a dreamer. He
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reads little and only serious literature. He spends ninety percent
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of his time hunting and fishing, drinks less than moderately,
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smokes normally, and does not do drugs. He appears to
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be a sincere and serious individual who was considerably puzzled
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by his experience and made no attempt to blow his
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story up. One conspiracy theory speculated that Gorman's encounter may
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have been with a top secret test craft, with World
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War II a very recent memory. Tensions in nineteen forty
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eight were heightened both in military and civilian circles, and
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as the Cold War tightened its grip on the American Psyche.
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The US government sought to boost its scientific firepower with
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a clandestine initiative called Operation paper Clip, through which it
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recruited former Nazi scientists, engineers, and technicians, including Werner von
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Braun and his V two rocket team, to America to
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boost the nation's chances in the Cold War and looming
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space race. Further afialed, the Soviets had begun testing the
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r Ian rocket, a Soviet version of the German V
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two of World War II, the same year as Gorman's encounter,
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raising questions of whether the object he and the other
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saw could have been a Soviet craft or weapon. The
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r I didn't have the range to go from wherever
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their launch capability was in the Soviet Union to Fargo,
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says Taylor. It was a dumb rocket. All the rockets
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at that time were projectiles. They used aerodynamics mostly to
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guide them. They could do slow maneuvers, but if they
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did a fast maneuver, they'd start tumbling apart. Back in Fargo,
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after the Air Weather Service revealed it had released a
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lighted weather balloon ten minutes before Gorman first saw the object,
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investigators pounced, proclaiming the balloon the likeliest explanation for the
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object seen. As for the seemingly incredible movements witnessed, the
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report said those were due to Gorman's own maneuvers as
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he tried to chase the bright object. Essentially, investigators wrote,
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his high speed gave the balloon the appearance of moving
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in opposite directions as he passed by. Added to that theory,
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investigators noted the bright appearance of Jupiter on that date,
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hypothesizing that Gorman had attempting to chase the bright dot
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of the planet at the same time the weather balloon
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was in range. The lighted weather balloon would become the
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official cause of the encounter in the Project bluebook file.
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We were doing Project Mogul at the time, which was
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high altitude balloons fitted with high powered microphones that we
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were trying to listen to see if the Soviets were
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doing above ground nuclear testing, says Taylor, who points out
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that the famous Roswell New Mexico UFO sighting was explained
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away as a Project Mogul balloon. Whether Gorman was happy
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with the official outcome remains unknown. Maintaining his silence, he
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returned to the Air Force full time, eventually retiring at
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the rank of lieutenant colonel in nineteen sixty nine. He
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never spoke publicly about the encounter again, though according to
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the Bismarck Tribune, he did tell friends he was never
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convinced that he'd been dueling with a lighted balloon for
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twenty seven minutes. Gorman died in nineteen eighty two. Taylor
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has his own theory, possibly somebody was playing around with rocketry,
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but he notes there were no known test facilities or
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scientists in the Fargo area when the encounter took place.
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All the Operation Paperclip Germans were at the missile grounds
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in White Sands, New Mexico, while rocket guru Robert H.
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Goddard had died in nineteen forty five. It makes no sense,
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says Taylor, that there was anything there that was man
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made that they were chasing up. Next in the wilds
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of Africa, it said that there is a manlike creature
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human in every way aside from one The being has
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no head, and a passerby found scraps of paper on
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the ground with writing implicating that one of the area's
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most prominent families was hard boring a secret that the
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husband had his own wife imprisoned in their own home
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for months on end, unable to leave her own bedroom.
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But that was just the beginning of the story. A gaunt,
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wretched figure stood at the barred window of a ground
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floor room, attempting nervously to attract the attention of anyone
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passing by. Laurel House was in an isolated position at
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the far end of peckham Rae Common, on the road
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leading down to Camberwell Old Cemetery, surrounded by market guard
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gardens and farmland, with a few neighboring houses. Using a
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pencil begged from a kind servant and scraps of wallpaper
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covertly peeled from the wall, the woman wrote a series
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of notes in which she explained her plight and asked
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that her brother in law, Thomas Morgan, be informed that
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she was being kept against her will. She had been
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estranged from her family for some two years, but she
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had no doubt that in spite of their disappointment and disapproval,
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they would come to a rescue. Her savior was one
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Miss Jane Charlotte Barber, a single woman who resided two
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doors down from Laurel House in Piermont Cottage, and who
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was fully aware of the style in which doctor Hammond
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and his young family lived in their detached villa, where
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they were attended by a devoted housekeeper, two maids, and
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a gardener. Miss Barber had also noticed the attractive young
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lady who would often drive out with the dashing doctor,
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dressed expensively in a black silk game with a red
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velvet jacket and jaunty bonnet, and it was Miss Barber who,
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on this particular occasion a Tuesday in September eighteen sixty four,
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saw the ragged note flying through the open window. Although alarmed,
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she summoned her courage and picked up the note. Horrified
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by what she read, she hurried to the local police.
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They had no hesitation in contacting the mister Morgan mentioned
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in the note, having learnt that its author was Rosalind
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Hammond and that she was being held against her will
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by doctor Edward Hammond, her husband. Police Constable Spinx, accompanied
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by mister Morgan, arrived at the house and demanded to
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see missus Hammond. The doctor said that it was not
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possible as she was sleeping and could not be disturbed,
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but after firm words from Spinx, he relented, and with
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a show of reluctance, he took them to her room,
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which was bolted from the outside. The room was dirty
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and meekly furnished, with just an iron bedstead and fusty linens.
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The occupant was thin and pale, and dressed in nightclothes.
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She explained that her husband kept her locked up, and
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that he was aided and abetted by Elizabeth Allen, who
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was his housekeeper, and by Emily Wakeman, who had once
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been his maid and was now his mistress. But she
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appeared to be unbroken by her ordeal. The newspapers described
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her as an intelligent woman, and she had clearly retained
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her senses. How had the wealthy missus Hammond come to
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such a pass aged thirty seven? She was worth six
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hundred pounds per annum, which would be about seventy thousand
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pounds in today's money, and yet she had to borrow
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a hat and a cloak in order to present herself
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decently at Lambeth Police Court. Her story is one of
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misfortune and cruelty met it out not only by her
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husband but also by the Tory in society and its
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legal system. Rosalind Hammond nay Buckley was born at the
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Lawn in South Lambeth, in one of the houses built
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by her grandfather, Philip Buckley. Her mother, Anne Wolfe, who
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was the only child of an East India house employee,
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had married the wealthy widower Henry Buckley, who made his
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living as a floor cloth manufacturer, trading from premises adjoining
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King's College and the Strand and at thirty nine Westminster
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Bridge Road, where the manufactory was based. Floor cloths, which
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were sold as alternatives to expensive carpets and elaborately tiled
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or marbled floors, were made of canvas protected by up
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to twelve coats of paint per side, with a stenciled
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or hand painted design. Being both popular and expensive, floor
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cloths certainly contributed to Henry's fortune. He had two children
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by his first marriage and four much younger daughters with
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Anne Rosewellyland, who was the youngest of the children, enjoyed
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a privileged childhood in Lambeth and at River Hill, the
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family's country house near seven Oaks in Kent, which boasted
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nine indoor servants and gardens laid out in a Himalayan style.
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She was only fifteen when in eighteen forty one her
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father died, leaving significant money and property, including four houses
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in Lambeth, the Leasehole Manufactory, the lease to River Hill,
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and thousands of pounds in stocks. His wife and children
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were all handsomely provided for. The daughters would inherit their
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share when they reached the age of twenty one or
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earlier if they married. The respectable and wealthy miss Buckleys
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were eagerly sought as brides. Henrietta married the Reverend Cyril Acoustice,
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Ellen married John T. Wright, a solicitor, and Fanny Alicia
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married Thomas Morgan, a wine merchant of Tower Hill. Rosalind
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two would have been expected to lead a life of respectability,
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either as the perfect Victorian wife, the angel in the house,
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or as her widowed mother's companion, which was often the
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fate of the youngest daughter. Then, in eighteen forty eight,
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when she was twenty two, she was sent for a
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water cure at an establishment run by a homeopathic doctor,
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and things did not go quite to plan. The water cure,
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or hydropathy, gained popularity from the eighteen forties. Kate Summerscale
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in Missus Robinson's Disgrace describes it as a popular treatment
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for the vague anxiety related sicknesses of the mid nineteenth century.
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The theory was that immersion in hot and cold baths
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and showers could restore health to an unbalanced body. Patients
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might include men who overworked or over indulged, and women
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suffering from female complaints or hysteria. Female hysteria was the
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diagnos for a raft of symptoms that included fainting, insomnia,
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bad temper, and an unmaidenly interested in sex. Enlightened doctors
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of the time believed that the cause was often unfulfilling
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lives centered on the needs of others. Women, they argued,
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were obliged to repress their natural desires, whether these were
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sexual or simply a yearning for something more interesting than needlework.
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We do not know why Rosalind took the water cure,
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but we do know that she was seduced by her
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doctor at the Hydro, and that in eighteen fifty she
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gave birth to a boy who was christened at Saint
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John's Church in Erith, in Kent. The baptismal record declared
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that the boy was Stanley Ellis Buckley, that he was
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the son of James and Rosalind Buckley, and that his
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father was a farmer. That this was not entirely true.
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Was soon discovered, whereupon James and his occupation were expunged
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from the record and the blank space filled with the
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damning words single woman. We now find it hard to
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grasp how scandalous and illegitimate child born to an unmarried
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middle class girl would have been in the nineteenth century.
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It is interesting to spanculate on the identity of Rosalind's seducer,
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for which we have no other evidence than that his
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name was probably, but not necessarily James. The proprietor of
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the Sudbrook Park Hydro in Petersham was James Ellis, but
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then again there was a clutch of homeopathic James's running
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water cure establishments in and around Malvern. James Manby, who
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seduced the future Florence Bravo when she was his patient,
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is partner James Wilson and a James Marsden. I think
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we can assume that whatever had brought it on, Rosalind
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was being treated for hysteria, for in the eighteen fifty
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one census she was living in Leytonstone in Essex, at
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the home of doctor Stephen Mackenzie, along with the doctor's
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family and a clutch of female patients. Mackenzie is described
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as extensively known by his successful treatment of the most
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inveterate of hysterics in on the Pathology and Treatment of Hysteria,
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written by his assistant Robert Brudenel Carter in eighteen fifty three. Sadly,
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Carter also records that Mackenzie, who died tragically falling from
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his carriage, kept no patient records for the next ten years.
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Rosalind remains a mystery until on the twentieth of August
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eighteen sixty one, she married a man called Edward Hammond
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at Saint Nicholas Church in Brighton. At this point her
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sisters were probably relieved that a man who had full
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knowledge of her unfortunate past was willing to take Rosalind
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off their hands. He was not quite the addition they
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wanted for the family. He was a man of limited means,
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he had four young children, and he was determined to
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have control of Rosalind's generous annuity. But in light of
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her youthful lapse, they knew that Rosalind was lucky to
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find a husband. After a few months buried life in
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Lower Clapham Road soured, Edward encouraged Rosalind to behave as
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a semi invalid who stayed in bed all day and
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dosed herself with morphia and brandy. Numerous local doctors were
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brought in to treat her rather vague symptoms, and early
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in eighteen sixty two she suffered the double affliction of
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the death of a twelve year old Stanley and a
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difficult confinement. Rosalind was also beginning to entertain suspicions about
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the nature of her husband's relationship with Emily the Maid.
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In March, she took the new baby to live with
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a wet nurse and Maidstone and Kent. She was accompanied
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by Emily, and in the course of the overnight stay
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she challenged her. The girl said that she had been
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raped by doctor Hammond, with a pillow pressed over her
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face to muffle her screams. Rosalind furiously rejected Emily's story
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and wrote to her father, accusing her of being Edward's mistress.
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She refused to go back to Clapham, instead asking her
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family for help. As they disliked Edward. They encouraged her
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to separate from them, but Rosalind capitulated, possibly because she
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loved the doctor, possibly because she was trapped if she
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left him. She also left her money. When they married,
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all her assets became his, but she also had to
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have his agreement for any legal separation. A divorce might
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free her, but in eighteen sixty four she did not
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have sufficient grounds. Whereas a man only had to show
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that his wife had committed adultery, a woman had to
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prove not only that her husband was an adulterer, but
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that he had also deserted her, or had committed sodomy
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or incest, or had been guilty of bigamy or cruelty.
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Was no easier to prove than adultery. An Act for
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the Better Prevention and Punishment of Aggravated Assaults upon Women
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and Children had been passed in eighteen fifty three, but
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it merely redefined what was or was not acceptable behavior
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without banning violence outright, and so Rosalind returned home and
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retracted her accusation against Emily Wakeman, later saying that she
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had been coerced. By September eighteen sixty two, the family
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had moved to a property called Lanark House on Queen's
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Road in Peckham, where previously Edward had encouraged his wife
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to stay in bed for most of the day. He
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now employed Elizabeth Allen to stop her from leaving the house.
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Rosalind was no longer treated with respect by anyone in
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a household, and on Christmas Eve her husband hit her
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around the head. He was the worse for drink, and
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he was encouraged by Emily Wakerman. Even though the maid
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was now his acknowledge mistress, he continued to sleep with
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his wife, who gave birth early in January eighteen sixty
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three to a girl named Emily Rosalind. If Hammond was
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to keep both Rosalind's annuity and his paramour, it was
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important that no one in the neighborhood begin to ask
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questions about his wife's whereabouts. With this aim, he moved
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the family in May eighteen sixty three to Laurel House
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on the edge of the much less densely populated Peckham Rye.
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Here Rosalind was confined to a single room. Meals were
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brought to her by Elizabeth Allen and one or two
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of the children. To stop her making an escape, the
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window was barred and the door was kept locked. Her
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day clothes were removed, and she suffered the further indignity
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of seeing them on Emily Wakeman. Her jewelry box was
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pilfered by her husband, who then sent his gardener, Thomas Abraham's,
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to pawn the contents. In fact, Doctor Edward Hammond was
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not a doctor at all, in contravention of the Medical
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Act of eighteen fifty eight. His medical title was self awarded.
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Born in Dartford in Kent in eighteen eighteen, Hammond had
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not had the privileged upbringing that Rosalind had enjoyed, and
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he was not a professional man. In eighteen forty three,
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when he married his first wife, another Emily, he was
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working as an oil merchant. Eight years later, with Emily
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and their young family, he was living in rural Lower
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Tooting now Tooting Broadway, a few doors from the Mider
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public House. He was a manufacturer of the gelatine used
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as a setting agent in many of the elaborate puddings
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loved by Victorians. Knowing that your Bland's made Georgelly was
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given its wobble with boiled down connective animal tissue cannot
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have been very appetizing. By eighteen sixty one he was
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a widowed chemist and druggist, living in east Wickham in Kent,
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which was only three and a half miles from Erith,
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where Rosalind's son Stanley was baptized. Moving forward to September
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eighteen sixty four, those attending Lambeth Police Court were horrified
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to see how unwell missus Hammond looked and how poorly
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she was dressed. But her husband's lawyers were determined that
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she would receive no pity, and they set about demolishing
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her character by revealing that she had given birth to
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an illegitimate child, and that she habitually stayed in bed
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all day, imbibing Brandy and Morphia. Hammond himself explained to
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Way the fact that she was kept locked up by
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claiming that she had threatened to murder him. The two
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knives hidden in her bed were evidence of her homicidal tendencies,
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the implication being that if not quite mentally unstable, she
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was at least a degenerate woman who needed to be
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restrained for her family's safety. Rosalind calmly countered all that
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was said about her, and a doctor was brought in
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to explain that she was sane. The magistrate was not
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sympathetic to Edward Hammond, and he sent the case to trial.
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When the case came to court in November eighteen sixty four,
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Hammond pleaded guilty, but sentencing was deferred to allow his
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lawyer's time to negotiate a settlement with Rosalind's legal team.
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The not guilty pleas submitted by Emily Wakeman and Elizabeth
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Allen were accepted because they had acted under Hammond's orders.
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At the sentencing hearing in January eighteen sixty five, Hammond
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was confident he would be returning to Laurel House for
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dinner with his faithful Emily, relying on his generosity in
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agreeing to a legal separation from Rosalind and in allowing
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her half the annuity that she had brought to the marriage.
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But his mute defense cut no mustard, and he was
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sentenced to twelve months hard labor in Wandsworth Prison. Hammond
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moved with him went his children, and also Emily Wakeman,
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who remained with the family in some capacity for the
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rest of her life. Even if Hammond had wished to
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marry the girl, it would prove impossible, as Roslind remained
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resolutely alive until eighteen ninety six. Rosalind lived alone in
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various lodging houses on the Isle of Wight and in
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South London. She was deprived of her child, Emily Rosalind,
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who remained with her father. She also had to relinquish
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half her annuity, for it would not be until eighteen
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eighty two that a woman was legally entitled to keep
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the money that she had brought to a marriage. On
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her death, Rosalind was buried in the family grave in
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Norwood Cemetery, leaving a poultry seventy six pounds to a
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Reverend John Beresford. Although people living in medieval Europe knew
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a lot more of the wider world than many initially think,
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with strong trade links in Asia and northern Africa, they
477
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were still intrigued about what lay beyond the land known
478
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to man, and stories of mythical creatures abounded. One such
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creature which fascinated for centuries was the Blemy. These creatures
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were said to be a type of man who lived
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in Africa, but they did not have a head. Rather,
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their face appeared on their chest their shoulders above them.
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The Blemys were in fact a real African people, forming
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a nomadic kingdom in northern Nubia between six hundred BC
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and three hundred AD. Even from their early origins, however,
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stories were told of their headless nature. Herodotus, who lived
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between four eighty four and four twenty five BC, wrote
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in his histories that they were known as the Akafaeloi,
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or those without a head, and that they lived on
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the eastern edge of Libya. A few centuries later, in
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circa forty five AD, Mela, a Roman geographer, wrote that
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the Blemy lived in Africa and had their faces in
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their chests, and this was confirmed by Pliny the Elder,
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who said the tribe had no heads, their mouths and
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eyes being seated in their breasts, and located them in
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Ethiopia or Nubia. The stories of these strange headless men
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continued long after the real Blemy tribe was gone. In
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medieval Europe. Drawings of these creatures can be found in
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manuscripts and in the extremities of world maps charting the unknown.
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The drawing of a Blemy features in an Anglo Saxon
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manuscript in the British Library dating to circa ten twenty five,
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and Blemys are also found on the Herford Mappa Mundi
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of thirteen hundred. The largest medieval map to still exist
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Isidore of Seville, who lived from five sixty to six
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thirty six Adylanes in his Etymologies, people believe that in Libya,
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blemy are born as trunks without heads, and have their
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mouth and eyes on their chest. Others born without necks
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have their eyes on their shoulders. As the centuries progressed,
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stories of the blemys continued and they moved with the
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boundaries of exploration. In the late medieval period, some are
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shown as being in India, such as on the fourteen
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thirty six Andreo Bianco map. As the sixteenth century arrived
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and the discovery of the Americas began, the blemys moved
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across the seas. Ottoman Admiral pieriy Rice placed a blemy
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on his fifteen thirteen world map near the coast of
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Brazil and put a description next to the drawing. He
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said the blemys grew to around five foot three inches,
518
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their eyes were close together, but that they were harmless.
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In fifteen ninety six, Sir Walter Rawley wrote a book
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about his journey to Guyana, where he reports that there
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was a nation of people whose heads appear not above
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their shoulders, who are reported to have their eyes in
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their shoulders and their mouths in the middle of their breasts,
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and that a long train of hair grows backward between
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their shoulders. Although Raleigh did not see these people for himself,
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he decided that the stories were truthful, as everyone he
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met there confirmed it. So why did people believe these
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stories for so long and where did it originate from?
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Numerous theories have been centered on the idea that the
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original Blemy warriors may have carried shields with faces on them,
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or that they marched with their heads tucked close to
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their chests. Others make links with how some types of ape,
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such as the Bonobo, sit with their shoulders hunched up
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head down, and suggest various tribespeople may have sat similarly,
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or that the apes themselves were the origin. The mythology
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00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:05.119
of human creatures with their faces in their chests spanned
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over a thousand years and found its way into aspects
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of culture in the West, from adorning maps and manuscripts
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and churches, to being reported as scientific fact to appearing
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00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:23.480
in literature including Shakespeare. The Blimy fascinated Europe. They were
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a symbol of something other that could be found in
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the margins of the civilized world, strange creatures on the
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00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:35.320
edge of truth, and even now they continue to intrigue
544
00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:43.239
us today when we'd darkness returns, the most famous being
545
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:47.000
the Grim Reaper. Dark hooded entities seem to be relatively
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common in the reports of ghosts. Like beings, they can
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be intimidating, foreboding, and downright terrifying. One man's experience didn't
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stop with only one encounter. In fact, they haven't stopped
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at all. And a couple have a fight, one of
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them leaves the home to cool off. It's something that
551
00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:12.400
happens every day in every town and city. It's simply
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how some couples have to work through things. But in
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one case, thirty two years later, the woman who left
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00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:22.679
to cool off has yet to return and her family
555
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:52.679
is still waiting. It's a scenario that plays out every
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00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:56.000
day in the real world. A couple have a fight
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and one of them leaves to cool off. However, in
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this case, thirty two years later, her family is still
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waiting for her to return. Elizabeth Anne Campbell was born
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on May thirty first, nineteen sixty seven, to Tom and
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sam Soon Campbell. She was the youngest of five children
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and grew up in a very close knit family who
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resided in Lampasas, Texas. Elizabeth was said to have led
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a quiet, sheltered life and was very close with her mother.
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She was a month shy of her twenty first birthday,
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and she was attending Central Texas College in nearby Colleen, Texas,
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along with her boyfriend, Ricky Ray. She had plans to
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attend Texas A and M in the fall to study
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marine biology. Then, on April twenty fifth, nineteen eighty nine,
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which started out to be just an ordinary Monday for Elizabeth,
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would end in a horrible way that no one could
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have ever imagined. Elizabeth was working a shift at a
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seven to eleven convenience store on Rand Avenue in Colleen, Texas.
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Her boyfriend came that night to pick her up after
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her shift ended. The couple had planned on studying together
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that night for some upcoming tests at college. There was
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an argument concerning some things related to Elizabeth's job as
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well as Ricky wanted to study English that night and
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Elizabeth wanted to study trigonometry. The argument apparently got heated
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enough that Elizabeth wanted to leave Ricky's house, so she
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phoned her mother for a ride. Ricky was heard by
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Elizabeth's family in the background promising that he would give
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her a ride home, so her mother didn't make the drive.
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Elizabeth is said to have walked outside of Ricky's house,
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thinking he would soon join her and drive her home. However,
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Ricky never came outside, so angrily Elizabeth started to walk
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home on her own. Unfortunately, her house was thirty miles away.
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Exactly what happened next is unclear. Elizabeth had left Rickey's
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house in Colleen and then gone from there to near
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Central Texas College CTC in Colleen. Police believed that Elizabeth
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probably got a ride to travel that distance in that
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amount of time, but no one has ever come forward
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to confirm that. The next sighting of Elizabeth was when
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a fellow student of CTC said he witnessed her walking
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down a service road near the college. He was working
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late at the computer lab that night and saw her
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on his way home. He said he didn't personally know Elizabeth,
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but recognized her from college. He stated he gave Elizabeth
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a ride to a seven to eleven in Coppera's Cove,
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about seventeen miles from her house, where witnesses did report
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seeing a green gremlin drop her off. She then went
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inside to use the phone to call Ricky to ask
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him to give her a ride. This was approximately forty
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five minutes after Elizabeth left and eleven miles away from
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Rickey's house. Elizabeth said she was scared. The couple argued
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again about her leaving, and during the fight he refused
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to pick her up, so she hung up. She told
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him she was going to call her family to come
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get her. She knew that would be a long distance call,
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so she used the payphone outside the seven eleven to
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try to reach them. Around midnight, Elizabeth's mother said the
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phone did ring. She had turned the phone off in
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the bedroom, so by the time she got to the
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other phone in the house it had stopped ringing. Presumably,
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judging by the time and the situation, the mist call
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was from Elizabeth. What happens next is the biggest unknown
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of this case. No one ever sees or hears from
618
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Elizabeth again after she is sided at the phone booth
619
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outside the seven eleven, except one witness who claims to
620
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have seen her leave the seven eleven and get in
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a maroon car with a Landau roof. Although there is
622
00:41:55.719 --> 00:41:59.679
never another confirmed sighting of Elizabeth, many people over the
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00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:02.920
next several months will report that they have seen her
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in a variety of locations and situations. The family didn't
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realize that Elizabeth was even gone until the following morning,
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when she wasn't in her bedroom. They phoned her boyfriend Ricky.
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He didn't know where she was exactly, but thought she'd
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probably gone to her sister's apartment at the CTC Housing complex.
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When she wasn't there, her family tried to report her
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missing with the police right away, they were told they
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00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:32.440
could not because it had only been twelve hours. The
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family was reportedly told conflicting things by the police, such
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as they had to wait twenty four, forty eight or
634
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seventy two hours to report her as a missing person,
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00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:45.960
depending on who they talked to. The family felt the
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00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:49.199
police were not as proactive as they could be, and
637
00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:52.719
some didn't even think Elizabeth was missing at all, but
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00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:56.800
was an adult who chose to leave. The family then
639
00:42:56.920 --> 00:43:00.679
sprang into action on their own. They did absolutely everything
640
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:03.719
to try to track their loved one down. They initially
641
00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:06.159
hired a PI, but it was getting to be expensive
642
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:08.119
and they felt they could do just as good of
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00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:11.719
a job. Elizabeth's father then takes a lengthy leave of
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00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:15.280
absence from his job to help in the search. Over
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the years, they sell property, cattle, stocks, land, jewelry, in
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00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:23.000
anything they had of any value to help fund the
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00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:27.519
search for their beloved daughter. The family distributed flyers, made
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00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:30.840
countless phone calls, traveled anywhere there was thought to be
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00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:33.920
a sighting, and even went to some very seedy and
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00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:39.519
dangerous locations. Elizabeth's mother, Sam Soon refused to sleep in
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a bed for the first one and a half months
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after her daughter went missing, because if her daughter was suffering,
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she would be too. There was even a bizarre phone
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call made to a worker at the Lampasses Hospital the
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week after she went missing, asking if the ambulance carrying
656
00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:59.800
Elizabeth's body had arrived at the hospital yet Also Tom
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00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:02.840
came Amble. Elizabeth's father is said to have hounded the
658
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:06.679
television show Unsolved Mysteries until they agreed to do a
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00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:11.000
segment on Elizabeth's disappearance. After the segment aired in November
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of nineteen eighty nine, there were two hundred phone calls
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00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:19.320
of possible sightings. Just six days after Elizabeth disappeared, there
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00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.719
was a possible sighting in Waco, Texas, eighty five miles
663
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:26.000
from where she disappeared. The witness at the gas station
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said the woman was with a rough looking Asian man
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who held the female by the wrist and spoke in
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a foreign language. The woman kept looking down and would
667
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:38.039
not make eye contact. The second sighting was two weeks
668
00:44:38.039 --> 00:44:41.079
after the disappearance, just two miles from where she vanished.
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The clerk at the convenience store said a woman resembling
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Elizabeth was with an angry looking Asian man who was
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holding her by the wrist. It appeared the woman was
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not allowed to talk. The third siding was two months
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00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:58.199
after Elizabeth vanished and was in Garland, Texas, one hundred
674
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:01.480
and fifty miles from where she went. Miss the Lady
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00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:04.280
bumped into a woman as they were entering a convenience store.
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The woman appeared to be nervous and hurried to get
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back to the car with the man inside. She's convinced
678
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:15.960
the woman she encountered was Elizabeth. The police didn't really
679
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:20.320
put too much confidence into these sightings. They did say, however,
680
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that at the time there was an underworld pipeline that
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00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:29.679
supplies Asian prostitutes from Colleen to Dallas and Houston. Elizabeth
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00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:32.840
was attractive and was half Korean, so she could have
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been a target. But there was no actual evidence to
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00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:39.440
support it that. In May of nineteen ninety two, there
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00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:42.639
was a possible development in the case that gave Elizabeth's
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family renewed hope. Briefly four years after her disappearance, her
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00:45:48.119 --> 00:45:51.519
purse was discovered in the Crockett County Sheriff's Department, more
688
00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:54.159
than two hundred miles from where she was last seen.
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What at first gave the family hope soon turned into
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anger and frustration. It was revealed that the purse had
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actually been in the evidence room of the Crockett County
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Sheriff's Department since between April twenty fifth, nineteen eighty eight,
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00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:13.280
to January nineteen eighty nine, shortly after Elizabeth had disappeared.
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So someone apparently found the purse around Azona, Texas, and
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turned it in, where it was put in an evidence
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room and completely forgotten. There was no record made of
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who found it and exactly when and where it was found.
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There were too many fingerprints on the purse to be
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00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:32.920
of any help, and it didn't appear to have been
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out in the elements for any amount of time. The
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only reason it was discovered in nineteen ninety two was
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a new deputy had arrived and was going through the
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evidence room for things to be auctioned at the annual
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Alliance Club auction when the deputy saw what was inside
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00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:51.800
the purse her driver's license, military ID, and bank statements.
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He ran the information and discovered she was still missing
707
00:46:55.280 --> 00:47:00.159
and alerted Coppera's cove PD. Barbara Campbell also stated in
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her radio interview that she actually visited the Crockett County
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sheriff two years after her sister went missing. She gave
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him a missing person flyer and talked to him about
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the purse and what might be in it. All the
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while during this conversation, she was apparently mere feet away
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from the evidence room where her sister's purse was sitting
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and had already been turned in. She angrily confronted the
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new sheriff in nineteen ninety two when this came to light,
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and he seemed to put the blame on the former,
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now deceased sheriff and was never given a satisfactory answer.
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There is another possible theory as to what happened to
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Elizabeth Campbell that is not widely mentioned in discussions about her.
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There's no concrete proof or evidence to support this, but
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it could be related to serial killer Robert Ben Rhodes,
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dubbed the truck stop Killer. He was thought to have
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been active from nineteen seventy five to nineteen ninety. He
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was an over the road truck driver and was known
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to be in the vicinity during his routes, near where
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Elizabeth went missing. His first victim's body was even disposed
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of near a Zona, Texas, where Elizabeth's purse was later discovered.
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His first murder wasn't discovered until nineteen ninety, but he
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has claimed his crimes went back fifteen years. In the
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research by the Police cross referencing roads trucking logs with
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records of young women who went missing during the years
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he was active, it's thought he could have had as
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many as fifty victims. His semi was said to have
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been a traveling torture chamber, and he usually picked up
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young female hitchhikers as well as trucks dot prostitutes. In
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nineteen ninety four, he was convicted of three of the
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murders and is currently serving a life sentence at the
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Minard Correctional Center in Chester, Illinois. There seems to have
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been a lot of regrets from Elizabeth's loved ones in
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the years since her disappearance, which is understandable. Had the
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family known Elizabeth needed a ride home that night, they
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would have certainly been there for her. Her brother was
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driving around Colleen visiting friends at the time, and one
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of her sisters was actually working at a seven to
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eleven in Colleen that night across town. The missed phone
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call at her parents' house was just a very unfortunate
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circumstance that happened by accident. I'm sure Elizabeth's then boyfriend, Ricky,
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also regrets his actions that night in refusing on two
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occasions to give her a ride home. He's quoted at
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the time in a newspaper article as saying, I was
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thinking of myself. I was a stupid ass. Ricky was
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never really viewed as a suspect in his girlfriend's disappearance.
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He had witnesses who verified where he was that night,
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and he also passed a polygraph test. The eyewitness sightings
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are interesting, but it doesn't seem likely that someone who
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abducted someone and had an interest in trafficking them and
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stripping them of their identity would parade them out in
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public spaces so soon after, especially after the missing flyers
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had been put up, it would make sense they would
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want to keep her isolated. Elizabeth had already accepted a
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ride that night with someone she didn't know, so it's
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entirely possible she accepted another ride, hoping to get from
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Coppera's Cove to her home in Lampass, but sadly came
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to harm then. Even though Elizabeth was angry that night,
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I don't believe she left with the intention of staying gone.
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She had made a few phone calls to try and
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solicit a ride and seemed eager to return home. Plus,
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there was a PEA check that was never picked up,
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and there has been no bank account or credit card
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activity since she disappeared. Elizabeth Campbell's family still to this day,
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works day and night to find out answers as to
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what happened to their loved one. Her mother is in
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fragile health but will never stop her fight. When Elizabeth
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went missing, in her room, she found rapped Birthday and
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Motherday gifts to her from her daughter, which she still
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refuses to open. Her logic behind that is simple. She
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wants her daughter to see her expression when she opens
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up her gifts, so she's saving them until she's reunited
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with her beloved daughter. The family also has a makeshift
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memorial to Elizabeth in the living room of their home. Sadly,
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Elizabeth's father, Tom Campbell, passed away in twenty eighteen, still
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heartbroken over his missing daughter. Tom's quote in the Unsolved
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Mysteries segment regarding if she'd been brainwashed and forced to
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be on the streets is very poignant. She's our daughter,
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not what somebody's tried to make her. She'll always be
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our little girl. The Campbell family is undeterred in their
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fight to find their loved one and return her to
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those that love her. I hope they can get all
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the answers one day and finally know whether Elizabeth's disappearance
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was the result of trafficking or tragedy. This black cloaked
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hooded entity has visited me at least four times in
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my life. I believe it all began after I bought
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a kid's puzzle game that showed a black cloaked hooded
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entity skeleton and a black cloak with an A symbol
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on its skulls forehead and the title is Alchemist in
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September nineteen ninety seven, when I was a kid, I
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was watching an episode of Zoro on TV with my mother.
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When Zoro became a black cloaked hero to scare his enemies,
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he made this sound oooooo. That night, at four am,
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I was awake on my bed when the bedroom door
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opened and I heard this exact same sound. But I
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knew the TV was turned off and everyone was sleeping.
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I knew this sounded crazy, but it was real. I
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stood up on my bed to see outside the door,
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and I knew that it was a real ghost this time,
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but it was too dark that I did not see anything,
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but I know that something was there. I tried to
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ignore it and lay back down on my bed and
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closed my eyes to sleep. Suddenly I became paralyzed and
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could not move while I could hear a strange sound
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that sounded like a high pitched airplane engine, and I
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could see a pathway image in my head as if
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I was moving at a very high speed. It was terrifying,
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or perhaps this entity had the power to control my emotions.
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I was frightened to the point I was able to
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get control on my hands, so I rubbed my eyes
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very fast to get the image away, but then I
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became paralyzed again. However, the image and sound were gone,
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and a new image appeared that showed a tree and
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grassland with two people who were talking about something. I
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was not frightened anymore, so I smiled to show the
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ghost that I was not afraid. So the image disappeared
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and I was able to open my eyes and move again.
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It seemed that the ghost had a power over me
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when I was afraid, but when I was not afraid
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of it, then the ghost could not do much. The
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next incident happened in nineteen ninety eight. When I was
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playing a video game. At the corner of the reflective
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frame of the screen of the TV, I could see
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something moving behind me. It looked like the black cloaked,
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hooded figure with a bit of white skull inside the hood.
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I looked back, but did not see anything. I was
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then overcome with a rancid smell, as if something dead
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and rotting for days was in my bedroom. I investigated
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to see if there was a dead rat in my bedroom,
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but I already knew that that was impossible since I
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lived on the fourth floor of an apartment building and
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I had never seen a rat in my apartment. Incident
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happened late at night, I could not sleep because I
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was hungry, so I went to the kitchen to find
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myself something to eat. While I was slicing some sausage,
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I caught something out of the corner of my eye
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outside the door of the kitchen. It looked as if
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there was a transparent, black cloaked, hooded figure with no legs,
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no arms, and no face moving above the floor at
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a fast speed, while it's hood was staring down as
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if it was looking down while walking. I wasn't very scared,
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but I knew something was there as it moved from
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left to right outside the kitchen doorway. The last incident
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occurred in August twenty thirteen, more than fifteen years after
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the first incident. I'm not a kid anymore, and it's
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been a long time since this black cloaked, hooded entity
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visited me, but I think it still remembers me, and
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this is why it came back to see me. I
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could hear the ghost making that same sound oOoOO oooo,
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just like the first incident back in nineteen ninety seven
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when I was a kid. This time, however, I could
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also feel what I believed to be two hands shaking
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on my blanket. Very fast, and I could hear the
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sound of chain rattling, as if both of my entity's
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00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:20.079
arms were wrapped in chain. It's as if this entity
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was once a prisoner or something and it had been executed,
863
00:56:23.639 --> 00:56:27.079
which would explain the chain. I could also smell that
864
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same rancid smell of a dead body, like the second
865
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incident in nineteen ninety eight. Again, I was able to
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open my eyes, and I wasn't very scared, but I
867
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:41.280
saw something that looked like the transparent, black cloaked, hooded entity,
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floating in mid air with no legs, no arms, and
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no face. To my surprise, it was much smaller than
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what I expected. I was expecting to see it standing
871
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next to my bed and looking larger than normal human size,
872
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but it looked smaller and moved freely in midas. I
873
00:57:01.639 --> 00:57:03.559
think this was the first time I was able to
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see this entity much clearer than before. It seemed to
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me that this black cloaked, hooded ghost or entity was
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not as threatening or evil as I expected it to be.
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I don't know if it's evil or not, but it
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was not threatening yet at the same time could be
879
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frightening too. The lesson I learned is that if you
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can control yourself and prove or show the entity that
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you're not afraid of it, then this entity cannot do
882
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anything to you. At the same time, however, never even
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challenge it or offend it, because perhaps it could also
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be dangerous if it gets angry. We cannot underestimate this entity.
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I would never recommend anyone to offend this entity because
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we might never know its full capability or what it
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can do to us. From what I've learned, Satanists and
888
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many devil worshipers would normally wear this black cloak with
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a hood during the Satanic ritual, while some Christian priests
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would wear a brown cloak with a hood. I suspect
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that it could be the ghost of the Satanists who
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was prosecuted and executed by the Church for following Satanism
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during the medieval times. Also, a friend once told me
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that near where I live, there's a small hill where
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Satanists used to perform the Satanic ritual. If you made
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it this far, welcome to the Weirdo Family. If you
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liked this episode, please cheer it on your social media
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or tell a friend or family member about the podcast
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and maybe they'll become a Weirdo Family Member too. All
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stories in Weird Darkness are purported to be true unless
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stated otherwise, and you could find source links or links
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to the authors in the show notes. The Gorman Dogfight
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was by Colin Bertram for history dot Com. Beware the
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Headless Bleming is by Jemma Holman for just History Posts.
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The black hooded figure that Haunts Me is by Stephen
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Wagner for Live About. Imprisoned in her own room by
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her husband is from London Overlooked, and the Elizabeth Campbell
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Mystery is from Heathergrup for Lost and Found Blogs. Weird
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Darkness theme by Alibi Music. And now that we're coming
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out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light.
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John Chapter fourteen, Verse twenty seven. Peace I leave with
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you my peace I give you. I do not give
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to you as the world gives. Do not let your
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hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid. And a
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final thought, don't ask God to guide your footsteps if
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you're not willing to move your feet. I'm Darren Marler.
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Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness.
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Welcome Weirdos. I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness.
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Here you'll find stories of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre,
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unsolved and unexplained coming up in this episode of Weird Darkness.
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The US government explained the rapidly maneuvering lights as a
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weather balloon. But if you believe what fighter pilot George F.
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Gorman says, you'll believe there are some giant holes in
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the US government story because Gorman ended up in an
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aerial battle with one of those so called weather balloons.
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A passerby found scraps of paper on the ground implicating
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that one of the area's most prominent families was harboring
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a secret that the husband had his own wife imprisoned
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in their own home for months on end, unable to
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leave her own bedroom. But that was just the beginning
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of the story. In the wilds of Africa, it is
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said there is a manlike creature human in every way
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aside from one the being has no head, the most
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famous being the Grim Reaper. Dark hooded entities seem to
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be relatively common in the reports of ghost like beings.
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They can be intimidating, foreboding, and downright terrifying. One man's
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experience didn't stop with only one encounter. They haven't stopped
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at all. A couple have a fight, one of them
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leaves the home to cool off. It's something that happens
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every day in every town and city. It's simply how
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some couples have to work through things. But in one case,
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thirty two years later, the woman who left to cool
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off has yet to return, and her family is still waiting.
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Now bolt your doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights,
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and come with me into the weird darkness. In the
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words of Captain Edward J. Rupelt, the man who investigated
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unidentified flying object reports for the US Air Force in
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the early nineteen fifties, the Gorman Dogfight remains one of
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the classics among UFO sightings. The incident, which still lacks
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an air tight explanation, involved a twenty seven minute air
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encounter between a veteran World War II fighter pilot named
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George F. Gorman and a mysterious white orb at a
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high altitude above Fargo, North Dakota. I've never seen anything
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like it, Gorman told a local newspaper following the October first,
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nineteen forty eight event. If anyone else had reported such
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a thing, I would have thought they were crazy. Captain
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Rupelt operated Project Blue Book, which continued the work of
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Project Sign and Project Grudge, a series of hush hush
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studies conducted by the US Air Force between nineteen forty
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seven and nineteen sixty nine. His mission to determine if
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UFOs were a threat to national security and to scientifically
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analyze UFO related data. What makes the Gorman dogfight unique
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in the now declassified pages of Project Blue Book is
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not only the length of the encounter, but that it
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was recorded both on the ground and in the sky
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by numerous reputable sources. At the time of the incident, Gorreon,
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a twenty five year old former fighter pilot, served as
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a second lieutenant in the North Dakota Air National Guard.
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It was this role that placed him behind the flight
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controls of a P fifty one Mustang on October first,
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nineteen forty eight, taking part in a cross country flight
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alongside other National Guard airmen. While the other pilots landed
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at Fargo's Hector Airport on that fateful evening, Gorman stayed
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in the air in order to get in some night
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flying time in the cloudless conditions. Having circled his P
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fifty one over a lit football stadium, he was preparing
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the land at about nine pm, advised by the control
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tower that the only other plane in the vicinity was
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a Piper cub, which Gorman could see. About five hundred
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feet below him, he witnessed what he believed to be
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the tail light of another craft passing on his right,
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though the tower had no other object on the radar.
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Deciding to take a closer look at the unidentified object,
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Gorman pulled his plane up and closed to within about
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a thousand yards. It was about six to eight inches
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in diameter, clear white, and completely without fuzz at the edges.
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He said of the object in his report, it was
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blinking on and off as I approached. However, the light
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suddenly became steady and pulled into a sharp left bank.
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I thought it was making a pass at the tower.
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Deciding to follow, Gorman tried in vain to catch up
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with the object, reporting that he finally got behind it
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at around seven thousand feet, where it made a sharp
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turn and headed straight for the P fifty one. Almost
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at the point of collision, Gorman dived and said the
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light passed over his canopy at about five hundred feet
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before cutting sharply once more and heading back in his direction.
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Just as collision seemed imminent once again, Gorman said, the
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object shot straight up in the air in a steep climb,
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so steep that when he tried to intercept, his plane
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stalled at about fourteen thousand feet. The object was not
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seen again, but according to Gorman, he'd been engaged in
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aerial maneuvers with it for twenty seven minutes by the
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time he brought his plane in to land. Shaken by
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the encounter, the pilot went on to report he noticed
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no sound, exhaust, trail, or odor from the object, and
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while he had reached speeds of up to four hundred
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miles per hour while in pursuit, he couldn't keep up
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with whatever it was. I'm convinced that there was definite
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thought behind its maneuvers, Gorman said in a sworn statement
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to his commander. I am further convinced that the object
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was governed by the laws of inertia because its acceleration
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was rapid but not immediate, and although it was able
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to turn fairly tight at considerable speed, it still followed
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a natural curve. Gorman reported blacking out temporarily due to
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the excessive speed he reached an attempting to turn with
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the object. I'm in fairly good physical condition, and I
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do not believe that there are many, if any pilots
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who could withstand that turn and speed affected by the
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object and remain conscious. He wrote. The object was not
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only able to outturn and outspeed my aircraft, but was
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able to attain a far steeper climb, and was able
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to maintain a constant rate of climb, far in excess
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of my aircraft. Gorman wasn't the only one to see
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the mysterious object that night. It was also witnessed by
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air traffic controllers Lloyd D. Jensen and H. E. Johnson,
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who were manning the Hector Airport tower. According to Johnson,
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who reported seeing the Piper Cub and the UFO at
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the same time, the object was traveling at a high
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rate of speed and was fast enough to increase the
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spacing between itself and Gorman's fighter. Johnson described the object
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disappearing to be only a round light, perfectly formed, with
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no fuzzy edges or rays leaving its body. Doctor A. E. Cannon,
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the pilot of the Piper Cub and his passenger, also
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viewed the object, both in the sky and upon their
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return the airport, where they immediately joined the traffic controllers
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in the tower. Cannon described the light as moving very swiftly,
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much faster than the fifty one. Two. Civil Aeronautics Authority
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employees on the ground also reported seeing the object. Could
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it have simply been another aircraft? Taking the technology of
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the time into account, Doctor Travis S. Taylor, aerospace engineer
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and author of Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering, believes
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any other aircraft would have been apparent to Gorman. Earlier
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that year. He points out Chuck Yeager made his famous
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flight in the Bell X one at record breaking speed
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in which he broke the sound barrier. A craft like
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that would have been very obvious to a pilot in
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a P fifty one. Gorman would have known what he
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was looking at. The X fifty one looked like an airplane,
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says Taylor. If he was chasing something that didn't look
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like a standard aircraft and he couldn't keep up with it,
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either it was too far away and he didn't realize
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how far away it was, or it was moving faster
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than a P fifty one could move. US Air Force
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investigators from Project Sign later to become Project Grudge and
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ultimately Project Bluebook soon arrived in Fargo, where Geiger countermeasurements
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of Gorman's plane revealed heightened radioactivity, though this was later
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explained away as a side effect of the high altitude
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flying that took place. Was Gorman a kook or maybe
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touched in the head by his war experiences. Government investigators
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found him to be a credible witness, noting that he
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did not make the impression of being a dreamer. He
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reads little and only serious literature. He spends ninety percent
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of his time hunting and fishing, drinks less than moderately,
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smokes normally, and does not do drugs. He appears to
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be a sincere and serious individual who was considerably puzzled
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by his experience and made no attempt to blow his
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story up. One conspiracy theory speculated that Gorman's encounter may
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have been with a top secret test craft, with World
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War II a very recent memory. Tensions in nineteen forty
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eight were heightened both in military and civilian circles, and
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as the Cold War tightened its grip on the American Psyche.
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The US government sought to boost its scientific firepower with
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a clandestine initiative called Operation paper Clip, through which it
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recruited former Nazi scientists, engineers, and technicians, including Werner von
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Braun and his V two rocket team, to America to
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boost the nation's chances in the Cold War and looming
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space race. Further afialed, the Soviets had begun testing the
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r Ian rocket, a Soviet version of the German V
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two of World War II, the same year as Gorman's encounter,
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raising questions of whether the object he and the other
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saw could have been a Soviet craft or weapon. The
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r I didn't have the range to go from wherever
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their launch capability was in the Soviet Union to Fargo,
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says Taylor. It was a dumb rocket. All the rockets
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at that time were projectiles. They used aerodynamics mostly to
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guide them. They could do slow maneuvers, but if they
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did a fast maneuver, they'd start tumbling apart. Back in Fargo,
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after the Air Weather Service revealed it had released a
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lighted weather balloon ten minutes before Gorman first saw the object,
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investigators pounced, proclaiming the balloon the likeliest explanation for the
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object seen. As for the seemingly incredible movements witnessed, the
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report said those were due to Gorman's own maneuvers as
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he tried to chase the bright object. Essentially, investigators wrote,
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his high speed gave the balloon the appearance of moving
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in opposite directions as he passed by. Added to that theory,
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investigators noted the bright appearance of Jupiter on that date,
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hypothesizing that Gorman had attempting to chase the bright dot
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of the planet at the same time the weather balloon
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was in range. The lighted weather balloon would become the
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official cause of the encounter in the Project bluebook file.
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We were doing Project Mogul at the time, which was
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high altitude balloons fitted with high powered microphones that we
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were trying to listen to see if the Soviets were
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doing above ground nuclear testing, says Taylor, who points out
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that the famous Roswell New Mexico UFO sighting was explained
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away as a Project Mogul balloon. Whether Gorman was happy
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with the official outcome remains unknown. Maintaining his silence, he
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returned to the Air Force full time, eventually retiring at
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the rank of lieutenant colonel in nineteen sixty nine. He
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never spoke publicly about the encounter again, though according to
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the Bismarck Tribune, he did tell friends he was never
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convinced that he'd been dueling with a lighted balloon for
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twenty seven minutes. Gorman died in nineteen eighty two. Taylor
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has his own theory, possibly somebody was playing around with rocketry,
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but he notes there were no known test facilities or
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scientists in the Fargo area when the encounter took place.
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All the Operation Paperclip Germans were at the missile grounds
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in White Sands, New Mexico, while rocket guru Robert H.
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Goddard had died in nineteen forty five. It makes no sense,
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says Taylor, that there was anything there that was man
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made that they were chasing up. Next in the wilds
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of Africa, it said that there is a manlike creature
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human in every way aside from one The being has
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no head, and a passerby found scraps of paper on
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the ground with writing implicating that one of the area's
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most prominent families was hard boring a secret that the
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husband had his own wife imprisoned in their own home
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for months on end, unable to leave her own bedroom.
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But that was just the beginning of the story. A gaunt,
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wretched figure stood at the barred window of a ground
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floor room, attempting nervously to attract the attention of anyone
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passing by. Laurel House was in an isolated position at
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the far end of peckham Rae Common, on the road
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leading down to Camberwell Old Cemetery, surrounded by market guard
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gardens and farmland, with a few neighboring houses. Using a
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pencil begged from a kind servant and scraps of wallpaper
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covertly peeled from the wall, the woman wrote a series
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of notes in which she explained her plight and asked
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that her brother in law, Thomas Morgan, be informed that
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she was being kept against her will. She had been
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estranged from her family for some two years, but she
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had no doubt that in spite of their disappointment and disapproval,
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they would come to a rescue. Her savior was one
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Miss Jane Charlotte Barber, a single woman who resided two
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doors down from Laurel House in Piermont Cottage, and who
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was fully aware of the style in which doctor Hammond
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and his young family lived in their detached villa, where
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they were attended by a devoted housekeeper, two maids, and
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a gardener. Miss Barber had also noticed the attractive young
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lady who would often drive out with the dashing doctor,
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dressed expensively in a black silk game with a red
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velvet jacket and jaunty bonnet, and it was Miss Barber who,
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on this particular occasion a Tuesday in September eighteen sixty four,
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saw the ragged note flying through the open window. Although alarmed,
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she summoned her courage and picked up the note. Horrified
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by what she read, she hurried to the local police.
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They had no hesitation in contacting the mister Morgan mentioned
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in the note, having learnt that its author was Rosalind
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Hammond and that she was being held against her will
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by doctor Edward Hammond, her husband. Police Constable Spinx, accompanied
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by mister Morgan, arrived at the house and demanded to
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see missus Hammond. The doctor said that it was not
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possible as she was sleeping and could not be disturbed,
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but after firm words from Spinx, he relented, and with
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a show of reluctance, he took them to her room,
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which was bolted from the outside. The room was dirty
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and meekly furnished, with just an iron bedstead and fusty linens.
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The occupant was thin and pale, and dressed in nightclothes.
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She explained that her husband kept her locked up, and
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that he was aided and abetted by Elizabeth Allen, who
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was his housekeeper, and by Emily Wakeman, who had once
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been his maid and was now his mistress. But she
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appeared to be unbroken by her ordeal. The newspapers described
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her as an intelligent woman, and she had clearly retained
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her senses. How had the wealthy missus Hammond come to
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such a pass aged thirty seven? She was worth six
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hundred pounds per annum, which would be about seventy thousand
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pounds in today's money, and yet she had to borrow
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a hat and a cloak in order to present herself
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decently at Lambeth Police Court. Her story is one of
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misfortune and cruelty met it out not only by her
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husband but also by the Tory in society and its
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legal system. Rosalind Hammond nay Buckley was born at the
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Lawn in South Lambeth, in one of the houses built
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by her grandfather, Philip Buckley. Her mother, Anne Wolfe, who
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was the only child of an East India house employee,
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had married the wealthy widower Henry Buckley, who made his
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living as a floor cloth manufacturer, trading from premises adjoining
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King's College and the Strand and at thirty nine Westminster
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Bridge Road, where the manufactory was based. Floor cloths, which
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were sold as alternatives to expensive carpets and elaborately tiled
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or marbled floors, were made of canvas protected by up
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to twelve coats of paint per side, with a stenciled
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or hand painted design. Being both popular and expensive, floor
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cloths certainly contributed to Henry's fortune. He had two children
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by his first marriage and four much younger daughters with
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Anne Rosewellyland, who was the youngest of the children, enjoyed
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a privileged childhood in Lambeth and at River Hill, the
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family's country house near seven Oaks in Kent, which boasted
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nine indoor servants and gardens laid out in a Himalayan style.
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She was only fifteen when in eighteen forty one her
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father died, leaving significant money and property, including four houses
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in Lambeth, the Leasehole Manufactory, the lease to River Hill,
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and thousands of pounds in stocks. His wife and children
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were all handsomely provided for. The daughters would inherit their
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share when they reached the age of twenty one or
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earlier if they married. The respectable and wealthy miss Buckleys
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were eagerly sought as brides. Henrietta married the Reverend Cyril Acoustice,
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Ellen married John T. Wright, a solicitor, and Fanny Alicia
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married Thomas Morgan, a wine merchant of Tower Hill. Rosalind
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two would have been expected to lead a life of respectability,
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either as the perfect Victorian wife, the angel in the house,
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or as her widowed mother's companion, which was often the
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fate of the youngest daughter. Then, in eighteen forty eight,
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when she was twenty two, she was sent for a
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water cure at an establishment run by a homeopathic doctor,
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and things did not go quite to plan. The water cure,
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or hydropathy, gained popularity from the eighteen forties. Kate Summerscale
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in Missus Robinson's Disgrace describes it as a popular treatment
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for the vague anxiety related sicknesses of the mid nineteenth century.
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The theory was that immersion in hot and cold baths
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and showers could restore health to an unbalanced body. Patients
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might include men who overworked or over indulged, and women
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suffering from female complaints or hysteria. Female hysteria was the
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diagnos for a raft of symptoms that included fainting, insomnia,
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bad temper, and an unmaidenly interested in sex. Enlightened doctors
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of the time believed that the cause was often unfulfilling
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lives centered on the needs of others. Women, they argued,
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were obliged to repress their natural desires, whether these were
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sexual or simply a yearning for something more interesting than needlework.
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We do not know why Rosalind took the water cure,
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but we do know that she was seduced by her
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doctor at the Hydro, and that in eighteen fifty she
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gave birth to a boy who was christened at Saint
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John's Church in Erith, in Kent. The baptismal record declared
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that the boy was Stanley Ellis Buckley, that he was
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the son of James and Rosalind Buckley, and that his
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father was a farmer. That this was not entirely true.
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Was soon discovered, whereupon James and his occupation were expunged
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from the record and the blank space filled with the
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damning words single woman. We now find it hard to
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grasp how scandalous and illegitimate child born to an unmarried
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middle class girl would have been in the nineteenth century.
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It is interesting to spanculate on the identity of Rosalind's seducer,
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for which we have no other evidence than that his
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name was probably, but not necessarily James. The proprietor of
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the Sudbrook Park Hydro in Petersham was James Ellis, but
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then again there was a clutch of homeopathic James's running
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water cure establishments in and around Malvern. James Manby, who
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seduced the future Florence Bravo when she was his patient,
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is partner James Wilson and a James Marsden. I think
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we can assume that whatever had brought it on, Rosalind
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was being treated for hysteria, for in the eighteen fifty
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one census she was living in Leytonstone in Essex, at
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the home of doctor Stephen Mackenzie, along with the doctor's
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family and a clutch of female patients. Mackenzie is described
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as extensively known by his successful treatment of the most
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inveterate of hysterics in on the Pathology and Treatment of Hysteria,
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written by his assistant Robert Brudenel Carter in eighteen fifty three. Sadly,
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Carter also records that Mackenzie, who died tragically falling from
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his carriage, kept no patient records for the next ten years.
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Rosalind remains a mystery until on the twentieth of August
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eighteen sixty one, she married a man called Edward Hammond
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at Saint Nicholas Church in Brighton. At this point her
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sisters were probably relieved that a man who had full
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knowledge of her unfortunate past was willing to take Rosalind
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off their hands. He was not quite the addition they
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wanted for the family. He was a man of limited means,
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he had four young children, and he was determined to
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have control of Rosalind's generous annuity. But in light of
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her youthful lapse, they knew that Rosalind was lucky to
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find a husband. After a few months buried life in
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Lower Clapham Road soured, Edward encouraged Rosalind to behave as
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a semi invalid who stayed in bed all day and
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dosed herself with morphia and brandy. Numerous local doctors were
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brought in to treat her rather vague symptoms, and early
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in eighteen sixty two she suffered the double affliction of
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the death of a twelve year old Stanley and a
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difficult confinement. Rosalind was also beginning to entertain suspicions about
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the nature of her husband's relationship with Emily the Maid.
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In March, she took the new baby to live with
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a wet nurse and Maidstone and Kent. She was accompanied
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by Emily, and in the course of the overnight stay
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she challenged her. The girl said that she had been
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raped by doctor Hammond, with a pillow pressed over her
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face to muffle her screams. Rosalind furiously rejected Emily's story
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and wrote to her father, accusing her of being Edward's mistress.
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She refused to go back to Clapham, instead asking her
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family for help. As they disliked Edward. They encouraged her
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to separate from them, but Rosalind capitulated, possibly because she
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loved the doctor, possibly because she was trapped if she
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left him. She also left her money. When they married,
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all her assets became his, but she also had to
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have his agreement for any legal separation. A divorce might
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free her, but in eighteen sixty four she did not
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have sufficient grounds. Whereas a man only had to show
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that his wife had committed adultery, a woman had to
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prove not only that her husband was an adulterer, but
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that he had also deserted her, or had committed sodomy
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or incest, or had been guilty of bigamy or cruelty.
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Was no easier to prove than adultery. An Act for
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the Better Prevention and Punishment of Aggravated Assaults upon Women
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and Children had been passed in eighteen fifty three, but
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it merely redefined what was or was not acceptable behavior
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without banning violence outright, and so Rosalind returned home and
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retracted her accusation against Emily Wakeman, later saying that she
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had been coerced. By September eighteen sixty two, the family
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had moved to a property called Lanark House on Queen's
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Road in Peckham, where previously Edward had encouraged his wife
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to stay in bed for most of the day. He
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now employed Elizabeth Allen to stop her from leaving the house.
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Rosalind was no longer treated with respect by anyone in
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a household, and on Christmas Eve her husband hit her
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around the head. He was the worse for drink, and
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he was encouraged by Emily Wakerman. Even though the maid
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was now his acknowledge mistress, he continued to sleep with
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his wife, who gave birth early in January eighteen sixty
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three to a girl named Emily Rosalind. If Hammond was
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to keep both Rosalind's annuity and his paramour, it was
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important that no one in the neighborhood begin to ask
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questions about his wife's whereabouts. With this aim, he moved
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the family in May eighteen sixty three to Laurel House
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on the edge of the much less densely populated Peckham Rye.
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Here Rosalind was confined to a single room. Meals were
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brought to her by Elizabeth Allen and one or two
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of the children. To stop her making an escape, the
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window was barred and the door was kept locked. Her
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day clothes were removed, and she suffered the further indignity
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of seeing them on Emily Wakeman. Her jewelry box was
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pilfered by her husband, who then sent his gardener, Thomas Abraham's,
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to pawn the contents. In fact, Doctor Edward Hammond was
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not a doctor at all, in contravention of the Medical
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Act of eighteen fifty eight. His medical title was self awarded.
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Born in Dartford in Kent in eighteen eighteen, Hammond had
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not had the privileged upbringing that Rosalind had enjoyed, and
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he was not a professional man. In eighteen forty three,
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when he married his first wife, another Emily, he was
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working as an oil merchant. Eight years later, with Emily
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and their young family, he was living in rural Lower
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Tooting now Tooting Broadway, a few doors from the Mider
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public House. He was a manufacturer of the gelatine used
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as a setting agent in many of the elaborate puddings
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loved by Victorians. Knowing that your Bland's made Georgelly was
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given its wobble with boiled down connective animal tissue cannot
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have been very appetizing. By eighteen sixty one he was
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a widowed chemist and druggist, living in east Wickham in Kent,
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which was only three and a half miles from Erith,
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where Rosalind's son Stanley was baptized. Moving forward to September
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eighteen sixty four, those attending Lambeth Police Court were horrified
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to see how unwell missus Hammond looked and how poorly
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she was dressed. But her husband's lawyers were determined that
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she would receive no pity, and they set about demolishing
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her character by revealing that she had given birth to
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an illegitimate child, and that she habitually stayed in bed
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all day, imbibing Brandy and Morphia. Hammond himself explained to
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Way the fact that she was kept locked up by
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claiming that she had threatened to murder him. The two
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knives hidden in her bed were evidence of her homicidal tendencies,
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the implication being that if not quite mentally unstable, she
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was at least a degenerate woman who needed to be
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restrained for her family's safety. Rosalind calmly countered all that
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was said about her, and a doctor was brought in
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to explain that she was sane. The magistrate was not
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sympathetic to Edward Hammond, and he sent the case to trial.
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When the case came to court in November eighteen sixty four,
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Hammond pleaded guilty, but sentencing was deferred to allow his
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lawyer's time to negotiate a settlement with Rosalind's legal team.
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The not guilty pleas submitted by Emily Wakeman and Elizabeth
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Allen were accepted because they had acted under Hammond's orders.
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At the sentencing hearing in January eighteen sixty five, Hammond
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was confident he would be returning to Laurel House for
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dinner with his faithful Emily, relying on his generosity in
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agreeing to a legal separation from Rosalind and in allowing
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her half the annuity that she had brought to the marriage.
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But his mute defense cut no mustard, and he was
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sentenced to twelve months hard labor in Wandsworth Prison. Hammond
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moved with him went his children, and also Emily Wakeman,
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who remained with the family in some capacity for the
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rest of her life. Even if Hammond had wished to
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marry the girl, it would prove impossible, as Roslind remained
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resolutely alive until eighteen ninety six. Rosalind lived alone in
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various lodging houses on the Isle of Wight and in
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South London. She was deprived of her child, Emily Rosalind,
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who remained with her father. She also had to relinquish
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half her annuity, for it would not be until eighteen
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eighty two that a woman was legally entitled to keep
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the money that she had brought to a marriage. On
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her death, Rosalind was buried in the family grave in
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Norwood Cemetery, leaving a poultry seventy six pounds to a
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Reverend John Beresford. Although people living in medieval Europe knew
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a lot more of the wider world than many initially think,
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with strong trade links in Asia and northern Africa, they
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were still intrigued about what lay beyond the land known
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to man, and stories of mythical creatures abounded. One such
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creature which fascinated for centuries was the Blemy. These creatures
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were said to be a type of man who lived
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in Africa, but they did not have a head. Rather,
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their face appeared on their chest their shoulders above them.
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The Blemys were in fact a real African people, forming
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a nomadic kingdom in northern Nubia between six hundred BC
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and three hundred AD. Even from their early origins, however,
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stories were told of their headless nature. Herodotus, who lived
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between four eighty four and four twenty five BC, wrote
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in his histories that they were known as the Akafaeloi,
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or those without a head, and that they lived on
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the eastern edge of Libya. A few centuries later, in
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circa forty five AD, Mela, a Roman geographer, wrote that
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the Blemy lived in Africa and had their faces in
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their chests, and this was confirmed by Pliny the Elder,
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who said the tribe had no heads, their mouths and
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eyes being seated in their breasts, and located them in
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Ethiopia or Nubia. The stories of these strange headless men
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continued long after the real Blemy tribe was gone. In
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medieval Europe. Drawings of these creatures can be found in
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manuscripts and in the extremities of world maps charting the unknown.
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The drawing of a Blemy features in an Anglo Saxon
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manuscript in the British Library dating to circa ten twenty five,
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and Blemys are also found on the Herford Mappa Mundi
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of thirteen hundred. The largest medieval map to still exist
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Isidore of Seville, who lived from five sixty to six
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thirty six Adylanes in his Etymologies, people believe that in Libya,
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blemy are born as trunks without heads, and have their
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mouth and eyes on their chest. Others born without necks
508
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have their eyes on their shoulders. As the centuries progressed,
509
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stories of the blemys continued and they moved with the
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boundaries of exploration. In the late medieval period, some are
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shown as being in India, such as on the fourteen
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thirty six Andreo Bianco map. As the sixteenth century arrived
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and the discovery of the Americas began, the blemys moved
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across the seas. Ottoman Admiral pieriy Rice placed a blemy
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on his fifteen thirteen world map near the coast of
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Brazil and put a description next to the drawing. He
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said the blemys grew to around five foot three inches,
518
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their eyes were close together, but that they were harmless.
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In fifteen ninety six, Sir Walter Rawley wrote a book
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about his journey to Guyana, where he reports that there
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was a nation of people whose heads appear not above
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their shoulders, who are reported to have their eyes in
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their shoulders and their mouths in the middle of their breasts,
524
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and that a long train of hair grows backward between
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their shoulders. Although Raleigh did not see these people for himself,
526
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he decided that the stories were truthful, as everyone he
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met there confirmed it. So why did people believe these
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stories for so long and where did it originate from?
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Numerous theories have been centered on the idea that the
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original Blemy warriors may have carried shields with faces on them,
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or that they marched with their heads tucked close to
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their chests. Others make links with how some types of ape,
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such as the Bonobo, sit with their shoulders hunched up
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head down, and suggest various tribespeople may have sat similarly,
535
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or that the apes themselves were the origin. The mythology
536
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of human creatures with their faces in their chests spanned
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over a thousand years and found its way into aspects
538
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of culture in the West, from adorning maps and manuscripts
539
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and churches, to being reported as scientific fact to appearing
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in literature including Shakespeare. The Blimy fascinated Europe. They were
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a symbol of something other that could be found in
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the margins of the civilized world, strange creatures on the
543
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edge of truth, and even now they continue to intrigue
544
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us today when we'd darkness returns, the most famous being
545
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:47.000
the Grim Reaper. Dark hooded entities seem to be relatively
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common in the reports of ghosts. Like beings, they can
547
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be intimidating, foreboding, and downright terrifying. One man's experience didn't
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stop with only one encounter. In fact, they haven't stopped
549
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at all. And a couple have a fight, one of
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them leaves the home to cool off. It's something that
551
00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:12.400
happens every day in every town and city. It's simply
552
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how some couples have to work through things. But in
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one case, thirty two years later, the woman who left
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00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:22.679
to cool off has yet to return and her family
555
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:52.679
is still waiting. It's a scenario that plays out every
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day in the real world. A couple have a fight
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and one of them leaves to cool off. However, in
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this case, thirty two years later, her family is still
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waiting for her to return. Elizabeth Anne Campbell was born
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on May thirty first, nineteen sixty seven, to Tom and
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sam Soon Campbell. She was the youngest of five children
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and grew up in a very close knit family who
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resided in Lampasas, Texas. Elizabeth was said to have led
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a quiet, sheltered life and was very close with her mother.
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She was a month shy of her twenty first birthday,
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and she was attending Central Texas College in nearby Colleen, Texas,
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along with her boyfriend, Ricky Ray. She had plans to
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attend Texas A and M in the fall to study
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marine biology. Then, on April twenty fifth, nineteen eighty nine,
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which started out to be just an ordinary Monday for Elizabeth,
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would end in a horrible way that no one could
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have ever imagined. Elizabeth was working a shift at a
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seven to eleven convenience store on Rand Avenue in Colleen, Texas.
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Her boyfriend came that night to pick her up after
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her shift ended. The couple had planned on studying together
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that night for some upcoming tests at college. There was
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an argument concerning some things related to Elizabeth's job as
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well as Ricky wanted to study English that night and
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Elizabeth wanted to study trigonometry. The argument apparently got heated
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enough that Elizabeth wanted to leave Ricky's house, so she
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phoned her mother for a ride. Ricky was heard by
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Elizabeth's family in the background promising that he would give
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her a ride home, so her mother didn't make the drive.
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Elizabeth is said to have walked outside of Ricky's house,
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thinking he would soon join her and drive her home. However,
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Ricky never came outside, so angrily Elizabeth started to walk
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home on her own. Unfortunately, her house was thirty miles away.
588
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Exactly what happened next is unclear. Elizabeth had left Rickey's
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house in Colleen and then gone from there to near
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Central Texas College CTC in Colleen. Police believed that Elizabeth
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probably got a ride to travel that distance in that
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amount of time, but no one has ever come forward
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to confirm that. The next sighting of Elizabeth was when
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a fellow student of CTC said he witnessed her walking
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down a service road near the college. He was working
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late at the computer lab that night and saw her
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on his way home. He said he didn't personally know Elizabeth,
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but recognized her from college. He stated he gave Elizabeth
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a ride to a seven to eleven in Coppera's Cove,
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about seventeen miles from her house, where witnesses did report
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seeing a green gremlin drop her off. She then went
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inside to use the phone to call Ricky to ask
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him to give her a ride. This was approximately forty
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five minutes after Elizabeth left and eleven miles away from
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Rickey's house. Elizabeth said she was scared. The couple argued
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again about her leaving, and during the fight he refused
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to pick her up, so she hung up. She told
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him she was going to call her family to come
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get her. She knew that would be a long distance call,
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so she used the payphone outside the seven eleven to
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try to reach them. Around midnight, Elizabeth's mother said the
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phone did ring. She had turned the phone off in
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the bedroom, so by the time she got to the
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other phone in the house it had stopped ringing. Presumably,
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judging by the time and the situation, the mist call
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was from Elizabeth. What happens next is the biggest unknown
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of this case. No one ever sees or hears from
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Elizabeth again after she is sided at the phone booth
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outside the seven eleven, except one witness who claims to
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have seen her leave the seven eleven and get in
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a maroon car with a Landau roof. Although there is
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00:41:55.719 --> 00:41:59.679
never another confirmed sighting of Elizabeth, many people over the
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next several months will report that they have seen her
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in a variety of locations and situations. The family didn't
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realize that Elizabeth was even gone until the following morning,
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when she wasn't in her bedroom. They phoned her boyfriend Ricky.
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He didn't know where she was exactly, but thought she'd
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probably gone to her sister's apartment at the CTC Housing complex.
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When she wasn't there, her family tried to report her
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missing with the police right away, they were told they
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could not because it had only been twelve hours. The
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family was reportedly told conflicting things by the police, such
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as they had to wait twenty four, forty eight or
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seventy two hours to report her as a missing person,
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depending on who they talked to. The family felt the
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00:42:45.960 --> 00:42:49.199
police were not as proactive as they could be, and
637
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some didn't even think Elizabeth was missing at all, but
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00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:56.800
was an adult who chose to leave. The family then
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00:42:56.920 --> 00:43:00.679
sprang into action on their own. They did absolutely everything
640
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:03.719
to try to track their loved one down. They initially
641
00:43:03.760 --> 00:43:06.159
hired a PI, but it was getting to be expensive
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and they felt they could do just as good of
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a job. Elizabeth's father then takes a lengthy leave of
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absence from his job to help in the search. Over
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the years, they sell property, cattle, stocks, land, jewelry, in
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anything they had of any value to help fund the
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00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:27.519
search for their beloved daughter. The family distributed flyers, made
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00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:30.840
countless phone calls, traveled anywhere there was thought to be
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00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:33.920
a sighting, and even went to some very seedy and
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dangerous locations. Elizabeth's mother, Sam Soon refused to sleep in
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a bed for the first one and a half months
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after her daughter went missing, because if her daughter was suffering,
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she would be too. There was even a bizarre phone
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call made to a worker at the Lampasses Hospital the
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week after she went missing, asking if the ambulance carrying
656
00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:59.800
Elizabeth's body had arrived at the hospital yet Also Tom
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came Amble. Elizabeth's father is said to have hounded the
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00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:06.679
television show Unsolved Mysteries until they agreed to do a
659
00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:11.000
segment on Elizabeth's disappearance. After the segment aired in November
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of nineteen eighty nine, there were two hundred phone calls
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00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:19.320
of possible sightings. Just six days after Elizabeth disappeared, there
662
00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.719
was a possible sighting in Waco, Texas, eighty five miles
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00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:26.000
from where she disappeared. The witness at the gas station
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said the woman was with a rough looking Asian man
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who held the female by the wrist and spoke in
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a foreign language. The woman kept looking down and would
667
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not make eye contact. The second sighting was two weeks
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00:44:38.039 --> 00:44:41.079
after the disappearance, just two miles from where she vanished.
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The clerk at the convenience store said a woman resembling
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Elizabeth was with an angry looking Asian man who was
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holding her by the wrist. It appeared the woman was
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not allowed to talk. The third siding was two months
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00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:58.199
after Elizabeth vanished and was in Garland, Texas, one hundred
674
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:01.480
and fifty miles from where she went. Miss the Lady
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00:45:01.480 --> 00:45:04.280
bumped into a woman as they were entering a convenience store.
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The woman appeared to be nervous and hurried to get
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back to the car with the man inside. She's convinced
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the woman she encountered was Elizabeth. The police didn't really
679
00:45:15.960 --> 00:45:20.320
put too much confidence into these sightings. They did say, however,
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that at the time there was an underworld pipeline that
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00:45:23.639 --> 00:45:29.679
supplies Asian prostitutes from Colleen to Dallas and Houston. Elizabeth
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00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:32.840
was attractive and was half Korean, so she could have
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been a target. But there was no actual evidence to
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00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:39.440
support it that. In May of nineteen ninety two, there
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00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:42.639
was a possible development in the case that gave Elizabeth's
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family renewed hope. Briefly four years after her disappearance, her
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00:45:48.119 --> 00:45:51.519
purse was discovered in the Crockett County Sheriff's Department, more
688
00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:54.159
than two hundred miles from where she was last seen.
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What at first gave the family hope soon turned into
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anger and frustration. It was revealed that the purse had
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actually been in the evidence room of the Crockett County
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Sheriff's Department since between April twenty fifth, nineteen eighty eight,
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00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:13.280
to January nineteen eighty nine, shortly after Elizabeth had disappeared.
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So someone apparently found the purse around Azona, Texas, and
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turned it in, where it was put in an evidence
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room and completely forgotten. There was no record made of
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who found it and exactly when and where it was found.
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There were too many fingerprints on the purse to be
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00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:32.920
of any help, and it didn't appear to have been
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out in the elements for any amount of time. The
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00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:39.000
only reason it was discovered in nineteen ninety two was
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a new deputy had arrived and was going through the
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evidence room for things to be auctioned at the annual
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Alliance Club auction when the deputy saw what was inside
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00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:51.800
the purse her driver's license, military ID, and bank statements.
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00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:54.960
He ran the information and discovered she was still missing
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00:46:55.280 --> 00:47:00.159
and alerted Coppera's cove PD. Barbara Campbell also stated in
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00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:03.480
her radio interview that she actually visited the Crockett County
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sheriff two years after her sister went missing. She gave
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him a missing person flyer and talked to him about
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the purse and what might be in it. All the
712
00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:16.960
while during this conversation, she was apparently mere feet away
713
00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:19.480
from the evidence room where her sister's purse was sitting
714
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and had already been turned in. She angrily confronted the
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new sheriff in nineteen ninety two when this came to light,
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and he seemed to put the blame on the former,
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00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:32.800
now deceased sheriff and was never given a satisfactory answer.
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There is another possible theory as to what happened to
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Elizabeth Campbell that is not widely mentioned in discussions about her.
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There's no concrete proof or evidence to support this, but
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it could be related to serial killer Robert Ben Rhodes,
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dubbed the truck stop Killer. He was thought to have
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00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:57.679
been active from nineteen seventy five to nineteen ninety. He
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00:47:57.800 --> 00:47:59.800
was an over the road truck driver and was known
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to be in the vicinity during his routes, near where
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00:48:02.599 --> 00:48:07.239
Elizabeth went missing. His first victim's body was even disposed
727
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:11.440
of near a Zona, Texas, where Elizabeth's purse was later discovered.
728
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His first murder wasn't discovered until nineteen ninety, but he
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00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:19.400
has claimed his crimes went back fifteen years. In the
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research by the Police cross referencing roads trucking logs with
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records of young women who went missing during the years
732
00:48:25.840 --> 00:48:28.559
he was active, it's thought he could have had as
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many as fifty victims. His semi was said to have
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been a traveling torture chamber, and he usually picked up
735
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young female hitchhikers as well as trucks dot prostitutes. In
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nineteen ninety four, he was convicted of three of the
737
00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:45.880
murders and is currently serving a life sentence at the
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Minard Correctional Center in Chester, Illinois. There seems to have
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been a lot of regrets from Elizabeth's loved ones in
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the years since her disappearance, which is understandable. Had the
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family known Elizabeth needed a ride home that night, they
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would have certainly been there for her. Her brother was
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driving around Colleen visiting friends at the time, and one
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of her sisters was actually working at a seven to
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eleven in Colleen that night across town. The missed phone
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call at her parents' house was just a very unfortunate
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circumstance that happened by accident. I'm sure Elizabeth's then boyfriend, Ricky,
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also regrets his actions that night in refusing on two
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occasions to give her a ride home. He's quoted at
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the time in a newspaper article as saying, I was
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thinking of myself. I was a stupid ass. Ricky was
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never really viewed as a suspect in his girlfriend's disappearance.
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He had witnesses who verified where he was that night,
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and he also passed a polygraph test. The eyewitness sightings
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are interesting, but it doesn't seem likely that someone who
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abducted someone and had an interest in trafficking them and
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stripping them of their identity would parade them out in
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public spaces so soon after, especially after the missing flyers
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had been put up, it would make sense they would
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want to keep her isolated. Elizabeth had already accepted a
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ride that night with someone she didn't know, so it's
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entirely possible she accepted another ride, hoping to get from
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Coppera's Cove to her home in Lampass, but sadly came
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to harm then. Even though Elizabeth was angry that night,
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I don't believe she left with the intention of staying gone.
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She had made a few phone calls to try and
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solicit a ride and seemed eager to return home. Plus,
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there was a PEA check that was never picked up,
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and there has been no bank account or credit card
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activity since she disappeared. Elizabeth Campbell's family still to this day,
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works day and night to find out answers as to
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what happened to their loved one. Her mother is in
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fragile health but will never stop her fight. When Elizabeth
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went missing, in her room, she found rapped Birthday and
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Motherday gifts to her from her daughter, which she still
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refuses to open. Her logic behind that is simple. She
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wants her daughter to see her expression when she opens
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up her gifts, so she's saving them until she's reunited
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with her beloved daughter. The family also has a makeshift
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memorial to Elizabeth in the living room of their home. Sadly,
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Elizabeth's father, Tom Campbell, passed away in twenty eighteen, still
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heartbroken over his missing daughter. Tom's quote in the Unsolved
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Mysteries segment regarding if she'd been brainwashed and forced to
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be on the streets is very poignant. She's our daughter,
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not what somebody's tried to make her. She'll always be
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our little girl. The Campbell family is undeterred in their
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fight to find their loved one and return her to
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those that love her. I hope they can get all
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the answers one day and finally know whether Elizabeth's disappearance
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was the result of trafficking or tragedy. This black cloaked
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hooded entity has visited me at least four times in
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my life. I believe it all began after I bought
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a kid's puzzle game that showed a black cloaked hooded
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entity skeleton and a black cloak with an A symbol
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on its skulls forehead and the title is Alchemist in
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September nineteen ninety seven, when I was a kid, I
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was watching an episode of Zoro on TV with my mother.
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When Zoro became a black cloaked hero to scare his enemies,
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he made this sound oooooo. That night, at four am,
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I was awake on my bed when the bedroom door
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opened and I heard this exact same sound. But I
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knew the TV was turned off and everyone was sleeping.
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I knew this sounded crazy, but it was real. I
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stood up on my bed to see outside the door,
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and I knew that it was a real ghost this time,
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but it was too dark that I did not see anything,
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but I know that something was there. I tried to
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ignore it and lay back down on my bed and
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closed my eyes to sleep. Suddenly I became paralyzed and
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could not move while I could hear a strange sound
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that sounded like a high pitched airplane engine, and I
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could see a pathway image in my head as if
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I was moving at a very high speed. It was terrifying,
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or perhaps this entity had the power to control my emotions.
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I was frightened to the point I was able to
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get control on my hands, so I rubbed my eyes
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very fast to get the image away, but then I
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became paralyzed again. However, the image and sound were gone,
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and a new image appeared that showed a tree and
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grassland with two people who were talking about something. I
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was not frightened anymore, so I smiled to show the
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ghost that I was not afraid. So the image disappeared
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and I was able to open my eyes and move again.
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It seemed that the ghost had a power over me
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when I was afraid, but when I was not afraid
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of it, then the ghost could not do much. The
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next incident happened in nineteen ninety eight. When I was
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playing a video game. At the corner of the reflective
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frame of the screen of the TV, I could see
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something moving behind me. It looked like the black cloaked,
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hooded figure with a bit of white skull inside the hood.
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I looked back, but did not see anything. I was
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then overcome with a rancid smell, as if something dead
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and rotting for days was in my bedroom. I investigated
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to see if there was a dead rat in my bedroom,
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but I already knew that that was impossible since I
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lived on the fourth floor of an apartment building and
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I had never seen a rat in my apartment. Incident
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happened late at night, I could not sleep because I
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was hungry, so I went to the kitchen to find
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myself something to eat. While I was slicing some sausage,
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I caught something out of the corner of my eye
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outside the door of the kitchen. It looked as if
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there was a transparent, black cloaked, hooded figure with no legs,
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no arms, and no face moving above the floor at
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a fast speed, while it's hood was staring down as
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if it was looking down while walking. I wasn't very scared,
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but I knew something was there as it moved from
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left to right outside the kitchen doorway. The last incident
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occurred in August twenty thirteen, more than fifteen years after
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the first incident. I'm not a kid anymore, and it's
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been a long time since this black cloaked, hooded entity
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visited me, but I think it still remembers me, and
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this is why it came back to see me. I
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could hear the ghost making that same sound oOoOO oooo,
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just like the first incident back in nineteen ninety seven
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when I was a kid. This time, however, I could
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also feel what I believed to be two hands shaking
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on my blanket. Very fast, and I could hear the
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sound of chain rattling, as if both of my entity's
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arms were wrapped in chain. It's as if this entity
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was once a prisoner or something and it had been executed,
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which would explain the chain. I could also smell that
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same rancid smell of a dead body, like the second
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incident in nineteen ninety eight. Again, I was able to
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open my eyes, and I wasn't very scared, but I
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saw something that looked like the transparent, black cloaked, hooded entity,
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floating in mid air with no legs, no arms, and
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no face. To my surprise, it was much smaller than
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what I expected. I was expecting to see it standing
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next to my bed and looking larger than normal human size,
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but it looked smaller and moved freely in midas. I
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think this was the first time I was able to
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see this entity much clearer than before. It seemed to
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me that this black cloaked, hooded ghost or entity was
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not as threatening or evil as I expected it to be.
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I don't know if it's evil or not, but it
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was not threatening yet at the same time could be
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frightening too. The lesson I learned is that if you
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can control yourself and prove or show the entity that
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you're not afraid of it, then this entity cannot do
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anything to you. At the same time, however, never even
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challenge it or offend it, because perhaps it could also
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be dangerous if it gets angry. We cannot underestimate this entity.
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I would never recommend anyone to offend this entity because
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we might never know its full capability or what it
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can do to us. From what I've learned, Satanists and
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many devil worshipers would normally wear this black cloak with
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a hood during the Satanic ritual, while some Christian priests
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would wear a brown cloak with a hood. I suspect
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that it could be the ghost of the Satanists who
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was prosecuted and executed by the Church for following Satanism
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during the medieval times. Also, a friend once told me
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that near where I live, there's a small hill where
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Satanists used to perform the Satanic ritual. If you made
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it this far, welcome to the Weirdo Family. If you
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stories in Weird Darkness are purported to be true unless
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stated otherwise, and you could find source links or links
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to the authors in the show notes. The Gorman Dogfight
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was by Colin Bertram for history dot Com. Beware the
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Headless Bleming is by Jemma Holman for just History Posts.
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The black hooded figure that Haunts Me is by Stephen
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Wagner for Live About. Imprisoned in her own room by
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her husband is from London Overlooked, and the Elizabeth Campbell
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Mystery is from Heathergrup for Lost and Found Blogs. Weird
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Darkness theme by Alibi Music. And now that we're coming
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out of the dark, I'll leave you with a little light.
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John Chapter fourteen, Verse twenty seven. Peace I leave with
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you my peace I give you. I do not give
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to you as the world gives. Do not let your
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hearts be troubled, and do not be afraid. And a
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final thought, don't ask God to guide your footsteps if
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you're not willing to move your feet. I'm Darren Marler.
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Thanks for joining me in the Weird Darkness.
