Monsters and Mysteries in America (2013–…): Season 3, Episode 1 - Men in Black - full transcript
Ever since UFO sightings began, reports of mysterious dark suited men have followed. These Men-in-Black have been spotted around the world, threatening witnesses and destroying evidence. Are they government agents, extraterrestrial or something demonic?
Narrator:
IN THIS SPECIAL EDITION
OF "MONSTERS & MYSTERIES,"
THEY MAY BE THE STRANGEST
FEAR-INDUCING FIENDS
EVER TO EMERGE
FROM THE OUTER EDGE.
MYSTERIOUS MEN DRESSED IN BLACK.
Marsh: THE MOST
TROUBLING THING ABOUT
THE MEN IN BLACK PHENOMENON
IS THEIR COVERT NATURE.
YOU NEVER KNOW
WHEN THEY'RE COMING.
THEY'RE COLORLESS.
THEY'RE EMPTY.
YOU SHOULD BE WARY.
Redfern: ARE THEY PART OF
SOME SECRET GOVERNMENT AGENCY,
A SHADOW ORGANIZATION,
OR ARE THEY SOMETHING WEIRDER?
COULD THEY BE ALIENS THEMSELVES?
Narrator: THERE'S EVIDENCE THEY
MAY BE THE OLDEST EVIL THERE IS.
Lewis: YOU'RE LOOKING AT MEN
WHO REPRESENT SATAN,
THE ANTICHRIST,
AND THE FALSE PROPHET.
Redfern: THIS BEGS THE QUESTION
EVEN MORE --
WHO ARE THE REAL MEN IN BLACK?
Narrator:
WE'VE RECOVERED THE DETAILS
OF ONE MAN'S
LEGENDARY ENCOUNTER --
THE STORY IN HIS OWN WORDS,
LOST FOR DECADES.
Man: A SEARCHER?
Derenberger: A SEARCHER.
Narrator:
NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME,
AN ENTIRE EPISODE
STEPS INTO THIS DARK DOMAIN
TO DISCOVER
THE REAL MEN IN BLACK.
[ GASPS ]
CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
DISCOVERING THE TRUE NATURE
OF THE SO-CALLED MEN IN BLACK
AND THEIR DARK AGENDA
IS NO EASY TASK.
THE SEARCH COULD GO BACK
CENTURIES AND EXTEND WORLDWIDE.
THE HUNT COULD TAKE YOU
THROUGH SCORES OF CULTURES
AWASH WITH STORIES
OF DARK DEVILS,
DEMONIC TRICKSTERS,
AND PREDATORY VAMPIRES.
THE MEN IN BLACK KIND OF LOOK
LIKE PALE-FACED VAMPIRES.
THEY LOOK LIKE GHOULS.
THEY LOOK LIKE SOMETHING
DUG UP OUT OF THE GROUND.
THEY SEEM TO ATTRACT
OR CAUSE POLTERGEIST ACTIVITY.
SO YOU HAVE AN ENTIRE SUBCULTURE
THAT SUPPORTS THE DEMONIC ANGLE
FOR THE MEN IN BLACK.
Narrator: IN AMERICA, NO AREA
OF MEN IN BLACK PHENOMENA
IS MORE NOTORIOUS THAN THEIR
CONNECTION TO UFO ACTIVITY.
Man: LATEST EVIDENCE
IN THE SAUCER MYSTERY
ARE THESE EXCLUSIVE
MOTION-PICTURE FILMS
FROM LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.
Narrator:
FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY,
REPORTS OF ALIENS ARRIVING
FROM OTHER PLANETS
HAVE TOUCHED
NEARLY EVERY CORNER OF AMERICA.
CLAIMS ABOUT THESE EVENTS
ARE SO NUMEROUS
THEY'RE DIFFICULT TO IGNORE.
BUT I CAN'T FATHOM IT
BECAUSE IT SEEMS SO UNREAL.
Narrator:
YET INVESTIGATING THESE REPORTS
IS A STEP THAT MAY CREATE
DANGERS ALL ITS OWN.
MEN IN BLACK HAS KIND OF PUT
A FEAR INTO MY HEART AND SOUL,
ESPECIALLY IN MY EARLY DAYS
OF RESEARCH.
IN OTHER WORDS,
"STOP IT OR YOU'LL BE SORRY"
SORT OF SYNDROME,
AND THAT'S PRETTY SCARY.
Marsh:
IF YOU ARE AN EXPERIENCER,
I THINK YOU ARE GOING TO BE
LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER.
Narrator: WITH SOME OF THE VERY
FIRST FLYING-SAUCER EVENTS,
MEN IN BLACK ENCOUNTERS EMERGED.
JUNE 1947,
PUGET SOUND, WASHINGTON.
TWO HARBOR PATROLMEN,
HAROLD DAHL AND FRED CRISMAN,
WERE ON A WORK BOAT
WHEN THEY OBSERVED
UNUSUAL SAUCER-SHAPED
AIRCRAFT IN THE SKY.
WHAT IS THAT THING?
THINK WE OUGHT
TO CALL IT IN?
WHAT ARE WE GONNA
SAY IT IS?
Redfern: ONE OF THESE OBJECTS
WAS MANEUVERING
IN A VERY ERRATIC
AND STRANGE FASHION.
AND IT SUDDENLY EXPLODED
IN THE SKY,
SHATTERING ALL THIS STRANGE
WRECKAGE DOWN INTO THE HARBOR.
Marsh:
ONE OF THOSE OBJECTS DROPPED
SOMETHING DOWN ONTO THE SHIP,
WHICH ACTUALLY KILLED A DOG.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO CRISMAN AND DAHL,
AFTER THEY RETURNED TO PORT,
EVENTS GOT EVEN STRANGER.
GENTLEMEN, PERHAPS YOU'VE SEEN
THE WEATHER BALLOON?
BALLOON?
IT WAS A RANDOM
WEATHER-BALLOON TEST.
HEY, MAN,
THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION.
EASY MISTAKE.
"EASY MISTAKE"?
NOTHING TO BE
CONCERNED ABOUT.
Redfern: DAHL WAS APPROACHED
BY A REAL MAN IN BLACK,
AND HE WAS THREATENED
WITH HIS LIFE.
HIS FAMILY'S LIFE
WAS THREATENED...
YOU WILL NOT SPEAK
OF THIS TO ANYONE.
...MAKING IT VERY, VERY CLEAR
THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES
SHOULD HE TALK
ABOUT THIS ENCOUNTER.
YOU DON'T WANT TO
ALARM ANYONE, DO YOU?
THIS PARTICULAR CASE
IS IMPORTANT
BECAUSE THIS WAS THE VERY FIRST
MAN IN BLACK ENCOUNTER
IN WHICH A WITNESS
WAS THREATENED
AFTER HAVING SEEN A UFO.
Narrator: IT ALSO CONTAINED A
KEY FEATURE OF THE MEN IN BLACK.
YOU KNOW, THE G-MAN LOOK --
THIN TIE, VERY WELL-PRESSED
PANTS, BLACK OVERCOAT.
Redfern: VERY OFTEN WEARING
FEDORA-STYLE HATS.
SO, THEY DO HAVE THIS AIR
OF AUTHORITY ABOUT THEM,
WHICH DOES GIVE OFF KIND OF,
LIKE, A GOVERNMENT ANGLE.
Narrator: THESE VISITS BEGAN
OCCURRING WITH REGULARITY.
WHEREVER A UFO EVENT UNFOLDS AND
SOMEONE STARTS ASKING QUESTIONS,
SOON THEY REALIZE THEY'RE
THE ONES BEING INVESTIGATED.
FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS, STAN GORDON
HAS BEEN TRACKING UFO SIGHTINGS
AROUND PENNSYLVANIA.
IN THE EARLY 1970s,
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
SEEMED PRACTICALLY
UNDER ASSAULT.
WE HAD THIS MASSIVE WAVE
OF UFO ACTIVITY
THROUGHOUT
THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
ACTUALLY, IT WAS UNPRECEDENTED.
Marsh: ALL OF A SUDDEN,
IT WAS LIKE AN INVASION.
IT WAS JUST REPORT AFTER REPORT
AFTER REPORT COMING IN.
AND ONCE IT GOT UP INTO
THE HUNDREDS OF REPORTS
AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
IN THIS REGION,
I MEAN,
IT BECAME SERIOUS BUSINESS.
LIKE, WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?
Narrator: IT WAS IN THE MIDST
OF ALL THE UFO SIGHTINGS
THAT STAN GOT THE FIRST CLUES
THE MEN IN BLACK
WERE TRACKING HIM.
[ THUNDER CRASHES ]
AUGUST 24, 1973.
AT A TRAILER PARK IN DERRY,
PENNSYLVANIA,
SOMETHING HAD JUST UNFOLDED --
SOMETHING OUT OF THIS WORLD.
Gordon:
SO, WHEN WE GET ON THE SCENE,
WE INTERVIEW THE FAMILY INVOLVED
AND SOME OF THE OTHER NEIGHBORS
WHO EXPERIENCED
WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT.
IT WAS VERY APPARENT
THESE PEOPLE WERE FRIGHTENED
AND VERY, VERY UPSET
OVER WHAT THEY HAD EXPERIENCED.
YOU COULD SEE THE EMOTION.
THEY HAD SEEN SOMETHING
THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST.
WE FOUND OUT
THAT THIS WOMAN AND HER SON
WERE INSIDE OF THEIR TRAILER.
FROM THE BACK OF THEIR TRAILER,
THEY HEARD SCRATCHING SOUNDS...
[ SCRATCHING ]
...AND ALSO WHAT SOUNDED LIKE
BABY-CRYING SOUNDS.
[ BABY CRYING ]
THERE, AT VERY CLOSE RANGE,
SHE SEES THIS VERY TALL
HUMANOID CREATURE,
WIDE-SHOULDERED, OVER 6' TALL.
THEY WERE VERY, VERY FRIGHTENED.
[ SCREAMS ]
Narrator:
IT MUST HAVE BEEN ATTRACTED
TO THE TRAILER'S
ELECTRICAL SUPPLY.
[ SCREAMS ]
Narrator: RIGHT AFTER,
THE WOMAN'S POWER SHUTS OFF.
[ GROWLING ]
[ SCREAMING ]
Narrator: THE CREATURE DEPARTED
BUT LEFT SOME RESIDUE BEHIND.
[ THUNDER CRASHES ]
THE WOMAN'S SCREAMS DREW
THE ATTENTION OF NEIGHBORS,
WHO IMMEDIATELY
CALLED THE POLICE.
HEY, WE'VE GOT
A PRETTY BIG FOOTPRINT.
Gordon: AND WHEN THE POLICE
GET OUT THERE,
THEY FIND WHAT APPEARED
TO BE SOME FOOTPRINTS
THAT ARE VERY UNUSUAL.
Narrator:
EVEN MORE UNUSUAL,
THE MEN IN BLACK
THAT ARRIVED SOON AFTER.
[ TELEPHONE RINGING ]
LATER THAT NIGHT, STAN GORDON
RECEIVED AN URGENT CALL.
Gordon:
I'M ON THE LINE,
AND THE OPERATOR BREAKS IN
WITH AN EMERGENCY CALL.
HELLO, STAN?
AND THE EMERGENCY CALL
HAPPENED TO BE FROM THE WOMAN
WHO LIVED IN THAT MOBILE HOME.
SHE SAID...
SOMEONE
CAME TO MY HOME.
THERE WAS THIS MAN HERE
WHO WANTED TO TALK TO HER
ABOUT SEEING
THE CREATURE THAT NIGHT.
DID THE CREATURE
LEAVE ANY EVIDENCE?
SOMETHING
ON THE DOORKNOB.
STAN TOLD ME
TO KEEP IT.
WHO?
HE SAID
HE WAS WITH YOU.
HE INDICATED
THAT HE KNEW ME.
I WORK WITH STAN.
WHICH, OF COURSE,
THAT WASN'T THE CASE.
IT'S OKAY
TO GIVE IT TO ME.
AND IF SHE GAVE HIM THE SAMPLES,
HE WOULD GET THEM TO ME.
Marsh:
YOU NEVER KNEW WHEN THE MEN
IN BLACK WERE GOING TO SHOW UP.
YOU NEVER KNEW
HOW THEY GOT THEIR INFORMATION.
[ GASPS ]
HE TOOK THE SAMPLE?
HE TOOK EVERYTHING.
HE'S NOT WITH US.
I'M SORRY.
PROBABLY ANY SERIOUS PERSON
STUDYING UFOs IN THAT ERA
WOULD HAVE HAD
SOME AT LEAST BASIC FEAR
THAT THE MEN IN BLACK
WERE ALWAYS ONE STEP AWAY.
Redfern: THIS IS ALL
PARTICULARLY UNNERVING
FOR THE WITNESSES
BECAUSE THE BIG QUESTION
IS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN NEXT?
IS THE MAN IN BLACK
GONNA COME BACK?
Narrator:
IMAGINE THE UNBELIEVABLE...
...WITNESSING FIRSTHAND
AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT.
AS IF A UFO ENCOUNTER
ISN'T SHOCKING ENOUGH,
FOR YEARS,
STORIES HAVE CIRCULATED
ABOUT WITNESSES GETTING VISITS
FROM MEN IN BLACK.
GENTLEMEN, PERHAPS YOU'VE SEEN
THE WEATHER BALLOON.
THE FILES
OF UFO RESEARCHER STAN GORDON
INCLUDE MANY INVESTIGATIONS
SUDDENLY DERAILED.
THERE'S THE 1973 CASE
OF AN APPARENT ALIEN ENCOUNTER
AT A TRAILER PARK
IN SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA.
Gordon:
AND THERE'S A YOUNG BOY THERE.
AND HE'S TAKING POLAROID
PICTURES OF THE FOOTPRINTS.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ]
Narrator: JUST THEN, A STRANGE,
DARK-SUITED MAN ARRIVED.
I JUST TOOK A PICTURE.
YOU JUST TOOK US
A PICTURE.
Gordon: AND HE MAKES SOME KIND
OF AN ODD COMMENT LIKE,
"IT HAS BEEN DESTROYED."
MY REACTION WAS THE CONCERN OF,
"WHO WAS THIS MAN?
"WHERE DID HE COME FROM?
WHERE ARE THE SAMPLES?
WHY DID HE DESTROY THE EVIDENCE
AT THE SCENE?"
Redfern:
ONE OF THE MOST DISCONCERTING
AND BAFFLING ASPECTS
OF THE MEN IN BLACK MYSTERY
IS THAT EVEN IF YOU DON'T TELL
ANYONE ABOUT YOUR ENCOUNTER,
THE MEN IN BLACK
STILL FIND OUT ABOUT IT.
AND THAT CAN LEAD TO
INTIMIDATING PHONE CALLS,
PEOPLE BEING FOLLOWED,
AND EVEN TELEPHONE MONITORING.
Narrator: AND WITH M.I.B.s,
IT CAN GET MUCH WORSE.
I BELIEVE MEN IN BLACK
ARE TO BE FEARED.
IF THEY TELL YOU TO DO SOMETHING
AND YOU DON'T LISTEN
TO WHAT THEY TELL YOU,
THEY WILL DO ANYTHING
TO GET THEIR WAY, EVEN KILL YOU.
I BELIEVE THEY WOULD KILL YOU
IF THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY.
Narrator:
STAN GORDON HAS SEEN
JUST HOW INTIMIDATING
THE MEN IN BLACK CAN BE.
ONE OF HIS MOST TERRIFYING CASES
UNFOLDED IN OCTOBER OF 1973
AT A PENNSYLVANIA FARM.
AND WHAT I FIND OUT
IS ABOUT 9:00 THAT NIGHT...
[ COWS MOOING ]
...THEY SEE THIS LARGE OBJECT
ABOUT AS BIG AS A BARN --
A BIG, ROUND, RED SPHERE
ABOUT 100 FEET OFF THE GROUND
AND HOVERING.
Narrator: AS THE GLOWING ORB
DESCENDED ON THE FARM,
STEVE GEIGER AND HIS TWO COUSINS
SET OFF TOWARDS A PASTURE.
Gordon: THIS THING'S MAYBE ABOUT
100 FEET OR SO IN DIAMETER,
AND IT'S ILLUMINATING
THE WHOLE AREA.
AND THEN THEIR ATTENTION
IS DRAWN
TO TWO HUGE HUMANOID FIGURES
WALKING IN THEIR DIRECTION.
THEY GET
A REALLY GOOD LOOK AT THEM.
Redfern: THE CREATURES
THAT STEVE DESCRIBED
ARE VERY, VERY STRANGE --
SEVEN TO NINE FEET TALL,
ARMS HANGING
DOWN PAST THEIR KNEES,
AND THEY HAD THESE
WEIRD SELF-ILLUMINATING EYES.
[ GUNSHOT ]
Gordon:
THERE'S A FLASH OF LIGHT.
[ GUNSHOT ]
AND WHEN HE FIRES
THAT SECOND SHOT,
THE OBJECT IN THE FIELD
DISAPPEARS.
IT JUST VANISHES FROM SIGHT.
Narrator: HE HAD SEEN AN
ALIEN SPACECRAFT AND CREATURES
THAT COULDN'T BE FROM EARTH.
Gordon: AND I REMEMBER
WHAT STEVE ALWAYS SAID TO ME.
HE SAID HE'D NEVER FORGET
HOW THOSE GLOWING EYES
JUST KEPT STARING AT HIM.
AND HE SAID, "LOOK,
I'VE BEEN HUNTING ALL MY LIFE."
HE SAID, "I KNOW I HIT IT.
"I KNOW I HIT THAT BIG CREATURE.
BUT THERE WAS NO EFFECT
ON IT WHATSOEVER."
Narrator:
WHILE MEN IN BLACK DON'T PURSUE
EACH AND EVERY WITNESS,
CLEARLY THIS FARMER
HAD SEEN TOO MUCH.
Gordon: HERE WAS A GUY THAT HAD
A VERY, VERY CLOSE ENCOUNTER.
HE WAS THE ONE THAT THEY PICKED.
WE'RE GOING TO
HELP YOU REMEMBER.
[ SCREAMING ]
Narrator: FOR DECADES, AMERICA
HAS BEEN AWASH WITH RUMORS
OF MYSTERIOUS MEN IN BLACK --
HOVERING, HARD TO DEFINE,
YET SPREADING THE WORD,
"WE'RE WATCHING YOU."
Redfern: WHEN IT COMES TO
THE MEN IN BLACK,
WHAT WE DO KNOW
IS THAT UFO WITNESSES
HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY MONITORED,
WATCHED, AND THREATENED.
AND THAT'S VERY FRIGHTENING
FOR THEM.
Narrator:
IT'S A SCENARIO THAT STAN GORDON
DISCOVERED BACK IN THE 1970s
WHEN HE FIRST STARTED
TRACKING UFO REPORTS.
CASE IN POINT,
ONE NIGHT IN OCTOBER 1973,
STAN RECEIVED AN URGENT CALL
ABOUT AN ALIEN ENCOUNTER
AT A FARM.
LIKE,
FLUORESCENT GREEN.
YOU SEE THESE MARKS HERE --
WE WERE SITTING ON THE PORCH.
STATE TROOPERS
WERE ON THE SCENE.
THE GROUND IS,
LIKE, BRIGHT GREEN.
SO I GRABBED
MY SHOTGUN.
Gordon:
AND WHAT THE TROOPER TELLS ME
IS WHERE THE OBJECT
HAD BEEN ON THE GROUND,
THAT WHOLE AREA IS NOW
SELF-LUMINESCENT GLOWING --
100, MAYBE 150 FEET OR SO
IN DIAMETER, HE ESTIMATED.
THE LIGHT COMING UP
FROM THE GLOWING AREA
IS COMING UP
ABOUT 12 INCHES OFF THE GROUND.
HE JUST APPEARED
OUT OF THE WOODS.
BY THE TIME WE GOT THERE...
AND HIS EYES WERE GLOWING.
...THE FARM ANIMALS
STILL WOULDN'T GO
ANYWHERE NEAR THAT AREA.
Narrator:
AS THE DAYS PASSED,
STAN GORDON STAYED IN TOUCH
WITH THE FARMER STEVE GEIGER.
Gordon:
AND WE TALKED TO HIM
ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY
OF DOING HYPNOSIS.
AND HE KIND OF LOOKED AT US
A LITTLE FUNNY
AND SAID, "WHY DO YOU
WANT TO HYPNOTIZE ME AGAIN?"
AND WE SAID, "STEVE,
WE NEVER HYPNOTIZED YOU."
Narrator:
AS STAN WOULD LEARN, SHORTLY
AFTER THE UFO INCIDENT...
...STEVE WAS VISITED
BY TWO STRANGE MEN,
ONE DRESSED
IN AN AIR FORCE UNIFORM,
THE OTHER A BLACK SUIT.
HE ALWAYS ASSUMED THEY WERE
CONNECTED TO MY RESEARCH GROUP.
THESE MEN WANTED TO,
AGAIN, DO A THOROUGH
INVESTIGATION WITH HIM.
THEY WANTED TO GO OVER
ALL THE DETAILS WITH HIM.
Narrator: AFTER THAT,
THIS FARMER'S WORLD
TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
THIS ISN'T HAPPENING.
WE'RE GOING TO HELP YOU
REMEMBER.
Narrator: HYPNOTIC TECHNIQUES
WERE APPLIED.
[ SCREAMING ]
[ BREATHING HEAVILY ]
IS THIS WHAT YOU SAW?
YOU'RE NOT CRAZY.
EVERYTHING IS PERFECTLY NORMAL.
IT'S REALLY NOT EVEN WORTH
MENTIONING...TO ANYONE.
AND THEY TOLD HIM HE WASN'T
CRAZY, THAT HE SAW WHAT HE SAW,
AND THAT THEY WOULD BE IN TOUCH.
[ BELL RINGING ]
BUT THAT WAS THE LAST
THEY EVER HEARD FROM THEM.
RIGHT AWAY, WE KNEW
SOMETHING UNUSUAL HAD OCCURRED.
WE HAD NEVER HYPNOTIZED HIM.
NONE OF THE PEOPLE
ASSOCIATED WITH OUR RESEARCH
GROUP HAD HYPNOTIZED HIM.
AND WE WANTED TO FIND OUT
WHAT WAS HE TALKING ABOUT?
Marsh: THAT WAS JUST ONE WAY
OF KIND OF CONTAINING IT.
HOW ELSE COULD YOU TAKE
JUST A GENERAL --
SOMEBODY FROM
THE GENERAL POPULATION --
HOW DO YOU SUPPRESS THEM?
YOU THREATEN THEM.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO THOSE WHO KNEW HIM,
THE MAN NEVER GOT OVER
THE TRAUMA.
Gordon:
I DIDN'T DOUBT THE FACT
THAT HE HAD A VISIT
BY THESE "MEN IN BLACK."
I'M SURE IT WAS HARD FOR HIM
TO GET PAST ANYONE
WHO WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH
AN EXPERIENCE LIKE THAT.
IT HAS A LONG-LASTING EFFECT.
Narrator: PARANORMAL RESEARCHER
CLYDE LEWIS
HAS NO DOUBTS
ABOUT THE MEN IN BLACK.
Lewis:
THEY'RE THE CLEAN-UP CREW.
THEY'RE THE GUYS
BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
SO, WHEN THINGS GET OUT OF HAND,
WHETHER A UFO SIGHTING
OR AN EXOTIC AIRCRAFT IS SEEN
THAT NOBODY'S SUPPOSED TO SEE,
OR SOMETHING,
THEY'LL SHOW UP AND THEY'LL
TELL YOU, YOU KNOW --
THEY'LL TELL YOU
THAT THIS IS SOMETHING
THAT YOU'RE NOT
SUPPOSED TO BE DEALING WITH.
Narrator:
AFTER THESE INVESTIGATIONS, STAN
REALIZED WHAT HE WAS UP AGAINST.
IN SHORT ORDER,
WITNESSES FORGET THEIR STORIES,
MISPLACE EVIDENCE.
THEY NEVER SAW ANYTHING.
SOME OF THESE CASES
SEEM TO SUGGEST A POSSIBILITY
THAT THERE MAY, INDEED,
BE A GOVERNMENT AGENCY
THAT CONTINUES
TO INVESTIGATE UFOs
AT A VERY HIGH SECRETIVE LEVEL,
AND THEY'RE OUT THERE
DOING INTERVIEWS
AND GATHERING EVIDENCE.
SO, THERE WAS THAT BIG QUESTION
STILL REMAINED --
WHO WERE THESE MEN?
WHY DID THEY
WANT TO INTERVIEW THE WITNESS?
AND WHAT WERE THEY GONNA DO
WITH THE INFORMATION?
Narrator:
THEY MAY EVEN WELCOME
WORD OF THEIR SPECIAL BRAND
OF TERROR TO TRICKLE OUT,
SENDING THE MESSAGE
"YOU COULD BE NEXT."
Redfern: SINCE 1947, THERE
HAVE BEEN LITERALLY HUNDREDS
OF MEN IN BLACK REPORTS
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S OFFICIAL
STANCE ON THE MEN IN BLACK
IS THAT THE MYSTERY'S
NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM.
THIS BEGS THE QUESTION
EVEN MORE --
WHO ARE THE REAL MEN IN BLACK?
Narrator:
SOME ARE CERTAIN
THE MEN IN BLACK
MUST BE FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
OTHER CLUES SUGGEST
THE MYSTERY GOES MUCH DEEPER,
TO A SHADOWY GROUP
WHOSE IDENTITIES
MAY GO BEYOND THIS WORLD
AND THIS POINT IN TIME.
IN WEST VIRGINIA, ON THE NIGHT
OF NOVEMBER 2, 1966,
A SEWING-MACHINE SALESMAN
NAMED WOODY DERENBERGER
WAS DRIVING HOME.
HIS STORY HAS BEEN AMONG
THE MOST DISCUSSED CASES
IN THE MEN IN BLACK PHENOMENON.
LOST FOR DECADES, AUDIOTAPES
OF HIS ORIGINAL TESTIMONY
WERE RECENTLY RECOVERED.
Narrator:
FAR FROM THEIR HOLLYWOOD PERSONA
ARE THE STORIES
OF REAL MEN IN BLACK --
SECRETIVE, SINISTER,
AND, ACCORDING
TO SOME INVESTIGATORS,
THEY MAY BE EXTRATERRESTRIALS
OR TIME TRAVELERS
FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION.
THAT MIGHT EXPLAIN
WHY MEN IN BLACK
ARE SOMETIMES SEEN
WITH ODD PHYSICAL FEATURES,
AS IF THESE ALIENS HAVEN'T
QUITE MASTERED THE HUMAN FORM.
PALE SKIN, TIGHT LIPS,
BULGING EYES.
THEY LOOK EMACIATED,
THEY LOOK ANEMIC,
THEY DON'T REALLY LOOK HUMAN.
Narrator: ONE SUCH CASE
CENTERED ON AN ENCOUNTER
WITH A TIME-TRAVELING
MAN IN BLACK,
A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE
WITH A TERRIFYING GRIN.
WITHIN THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
IS THE SMALL WEST VIRGINIA TOWN
OF PARKERSBURG.
NOVEMBER 2, 1966.
SEWING-MACHINE SALESMAN
WOODY DERENBERGER
WAS DRIVING THROUGH THE AREA.
HIS EXPERIENCE THAT NIGHT
WOULD TURN ANY INVESTIGATION
OF MEN IN BLACK
IN AN ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT DIRECTION.
LONG LOST TAPES
FROM A RADIO INTERVIEW
HE DID THE VERY NEXT DAY
REVEAL A MAN PROFOUNDLY
AFFECTED BY THE ENCOUNTER.
[ ROCK MUSIC PLAYS ]
THE EVENING STARTED OUT
LIKE MANY OTHERS --
A LONG JOURNEY HOME AFTER WORK.
A FAMILY MAN, WOODY HAD
A LOVING WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN.
MOM AND DAD ALWAYS
GOT ALONG REALLY WELL.
PEOPLE WOULD CALL US
"THE CLEAVERS"
BECAUSE OF HOW WELL
OUR FAMILY ACTED.
Narrator:
THIS NIGHT WOULD ALTER HIS LIFE
AND THAT OF HIS FAMILY'S
FOREVER.
[ THUD ]
Bowman: HE HEARD A NOISE
IN THE BACK OF THE TRUCK,
AND HE WAS AFRAID ONE OF THE
SEWING MACHINES HAD FALLEN OVER.
[ WHOOSH ]
Narrator:
THEN A SPACECRAFT BIG AS LIFE
LANDED DIRECTLY
IN FRONT OF HIS TRUCK.
FORCED TO STOP, WOODY MIGHT HAVE
THOUGHT HE WAS DREAMING.
A DOOR SLID OPEN
ON THE SIDE OF THE CRAFT.
AND WHAT LOOKED LIKE
A MAN STEPPED OUT.
Sheppard:
HE HAD ON A BLACK TOPCOAT.
UNDERNEATH THAT TOPCOAT,
HE SAID YOU COULD SEE, LIKE,
A GLISTENING KIND OF MATERIAL.
Bowman: THIS MAN HAD AN UNUSUAL,
SPOOKY-LOOKING GRIN ON HIS FACE,
STRUCK MY FATHER AS BEING SCARY.
WHO ARE YOU?
WOODY.
DO YOU HAVE A FAMILY?
YES.
Narrator: SOMEHOW, WOODY WAS
HEARING THE GRINNING MAN SPEAK.
AND AS FAR AS I UNDERSTAND,
THIS WAS ALL MENTAL.
THERE WERE NO SPOKEN WORDS
THAT CAME FROM HIM.
I-I KNEW
WHAT HE WAS ASKING ME.
Bowman:
AND THAT'S WHAT SCARED DAD FIRST
BECAUSE HE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND
HOW HE'S HEARING WORDS.
THIS MAN IS TALKING,
BUT HE'S NOT OPENING HIS MOUTH.
AND HE TOLD MY FATHER
THAT HE WAS A TYPE OF A SCOUT.
HE TOLD ME THAT --
THAT HE WAS A SEARCHER.
A SEARCHER?
A SEARCHER.
HE ASKED HIM A LOT OF QUESTIONS
SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION,
YOU KNOW, SEARCHING TO SEE
WHAT'S GOING ON ON EARTH.
Narrator:
COLLECTING INFORMATION BASIC
TO THE MEN IN BLACK PHENOMENON.
FINALLY, WOODY MANAGED
A QUESTION OF HIS OWN.
DAD SAID, "WELL, WHO ARE YOU?"
COLD.
INDRID COLD.
THE HATCH OPENED.
IT HOVERED THERE
FOR JUST A FEW SECONDS.
AND THEN IT SHOT AWAY
AT A VERY HIGH RATE OF SPEED.
AND HE SAID TO ME,
"WE WILL SEE YOU AGAIN."
"WE WILL SEE YOU AGAIN.
WE'RE COMING BACK TO SEE YOU,
WOODY DERENBERGER,"
SAID INDRID COLD.
"I'M COMING BACK."
AND THAT'S THE THING
THAT MR. DERENBERGER
SAID FRIGHTENED HIM THE MOST
WAS THAT THEY WERE
GOING TO COME BACK.
AND HE SAID,
"WE WILL SEE YOU AGAIN."
DO YOU BELIEVE HE WILL?
I'M AFRAID HE WILL.
I-I DON'T WANT HIM TO,
BUT I HAVE A FEELING
THAT HE WILL.
Narrator: MEN IN BLACK --
THEY APPEAR
WITH DISTURBING REGULARITY,
SPREADING PARANOIA AND FEAR.
WHAT IS THEIR TRUE AGENDA?
IN 1966,
SALESMAN WOODY DERENBERGER
CAME FACE-TO-FACE WITH
A MOST PECULIAR MAN IN BLACK.
AND THE ENCOUNTER
WAS JUST THE FIRST
OF MANY EXTRAORDINARY VISITS.
WOODY'S DAUGHTER, TAUNIA BOWMAN,
WAS A YOUNG CHILD AT THE TIME
AND REMEMBERS HER FATHER
RETURNING HOME THAT NIGHT.
Bowman:
WHEN HE WALKED THROUGH THE DOOR,
WE ALL KNEW DAD WAS HOME.
HE WAS WHITE AS A SHEET.
Y'ALL GO TO BED.
I'D NEVER SEEN DAD LIKE THAT,
AND NOTHING EVER SCARED
MY FATHER.
MY FATHER WAS A BIG GUY.
Sheppard: MRS. DERENBERGER
SAID THAT WHEN HE CAME HOME,
HE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN
ANY WHITER
IF HE HAD BEEN LYING
IN A COFFIN.
HE LOOKED LIKE A DEAD BODY.
DADDY, WHAT'S WRONG?
GET TO BED NOW!
Bowman:
HE TOLD MY BROTHER AND I
THAT WE HAD TO GO UPSTAIRS
AND GO TO BED.
SO I SNUCK DOWNSTAIRS
AND LISTENED TO MY DAD TELLING
MY MOM THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED.
YOU'RE NOT GONNA BELIEVE
WHAT HAPPENED TO ME TODAY.
MOM TOLD DAD IF HE WAS
TRYING TO SCARE HER...
IT'S WORKING.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.
THAT'S WHEN MOM
PICKED THE PHONE UP
AND CALLED
THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
Narrator:
OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS,
INDRID COLD, THE GRINNING MAN,
WOULD DROP IN
ON THE DERENBERGERS,
SOMETIMES BRINGING OTHER
VISITORS, ALSO DRESSED IN BLACK.
WHERE DID YOU GUYS
COME FROM?
Bowman:
INDRID COLD KNEW WHERE WE LIVED.
HE WOULD POP UP IN WEIRD PLACES
AND THEN DISAPPEAR.
BRING TAUNIA INSIDE,
PLEASE.
AND IT WAS AT THAT POINT
THAT I WASN'T
EVEN HARDLY
ALLOWED TO PLAY OUTSIDE
BECAUSE OF ALL THE STRANGERS
IN THE AREA.
TAUNIA, COME HERE.
Redfern:
WHEN IT COMES TO THE COMPARISONS
BETWEEN INDRID COLD
AND THE MEN IN BLACK,
THERE ARE ACTUALLY A NUMBER
OF INTERESTING SIMILARITIES.
THERE'S THE GRINNING FACTOR
AND ALSO THE BLACK TOPCOAT.
THERE'S THE FACT THAT COLD KEPT
COMING BACK TO THE FAMILY HOME.
MRS. DERENBERGER, FOR EXAMPLE,
WAS SOMEWHAT CONCERNED BY THIS.
Narrator: MEN IN BLACK
HAVE MADE REPEATED VISITS
TO PROMINENT UFO RESEARCHERS.
THE EFFECT OF THESE MEETINGS
ON WOODY DERENBERGER
WAS LIFE-CHANGING.
WHAT WAS MOST FASCINATING
WAS THAT IN THE WAKE
OF THESE EVENTS,
DERENBERGER BEGAN TO DEVELOP
VERY KEEN SENSES OF E.S.P.
THIS TOTALLY FREAKED
HIS WIFE OUT
BECAUSE HE WAS
ABLE TO TELL HER --
SAY, FOR EXAMPLE,
IF SHE WAS OUT SHOPPING,
WHO SHE SPOKE TO,
WHERE SHE WENT,
WHAT SHE'D BOUGHT AT THE STORE,
THINGS LIKE THAT.
Marsh:
WE'RE DEALING WITH SOME TYPE
OF OTHERWORLDLY,
NONHUMAN BEINGS...
...WHO WERE INTERACTING
WITH THIS GUY,
YOU KNOW, CAUSING HIM TO HAVE
ALL KINDS
OF ODD THINGS HAPPEN TO HIM.
Narrator:
IN THE LATE 1960s, THERE WERE
AT LEAST FOUR SEPARATE SIGHTINGS
OF THE GRINNING MAN IN BLACK.
IT RAISES THE QUESTION --
WHO REALLY WAS INDRID COLD
AND WHAT WAS HIS AGENDA?
Lewis: HE WAS ANOTHER --
SORT OF AN M.I.B.
INDRID COLD --
HE IS THERE TO TELL YOU
THAT SOMETHING
IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
THESE GUYS -- THEY SEE
THEMSELVES AS CUSTODIANS.
THEY SEE THEMSELVES
AS BEING PART OF,
YOU KNOW, PUSHING OUR EVOLUTION
IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
Narrator: IN THIS VIEW, THE MEN
IN BLACK HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AROUND
SECRETLY
SHAPING EVENTS ON EARTH.
Sheppard: WHO ARE THEY?
YOU KNOW, WHO ARE THEY?
I BELIEVE THAT THEY COME BACK
AND THEY CHECK ON,
YOU KNOW, PROGRESS.
SO, IF I HAD TO SAY
WHO INDRID COLD WAS,
I WOULD SAY INDRID COLD
WAS PROBABLY OUR BROTHER --
OUR BROTHER FROM ANOTHER WORLD.
Narrator:
WHILE SOME IMAGINE MEN IN BLACK
ARE BENEVOLENT GUARDIANS,
OTHER CLUES POINT
TO A MUCH DARKER AGENDA.
Redfern:
WHAT'S PARTICULARLY INTERESTING
ABOUT THE MAJORITY
OF MEN IN BLACK REPORTS
AND, IN A FASHION, PARALLELS
WITH THE INDRID COLD STORY
IS THAT PEOPLE GET
A SENSE OF DREAD FROM THEM.
AND ALSO,
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REPORTS
WHERE THE MEN IN BLACK
ARE SEEN GRINNING.
MOST PEOPLE ARE VERY SCARED AND
INTIMIDATED BY THE MEN IN BLACK,
NOT JUST BY THEIR THREATS,
BUT BY THE WAY THEY LOOK.
THEY SORT OF LOOK LIKE
PALE-FACED GHOULS OR VAMPIRES.
Narrator: NOW THERE'S EVIDENCE
THE MEN IN BLACK
MIGHT BE EVEN SCARIER
THAN IMAGINED...
THE OLDEST EVIL THERE IS.
DEMONS CALLED FORTH
BY THE DEVIL HIMSELF.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
REVEREND DR. RAY BOECHE IS
AN ORDAINED PASTOR OF 25 YEARS
AND A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR.
Boeche:
I'D INVESTIGATED CASES,
NUMEROUS CASES OF PEOPLE WHO HAD
HAD THESE KINDS OF ENCOUNTERS.
I NEVER EXPECTED
THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT
WOULD HAPPEN TO MYSELF.
Narrator: ONE AFTERNOON IN 1987,
BOECHE AND TWO COLLEAGUES
BEGAN SEARCHING THROUGH FILES
DOCUMENTING AN INFAMOUS
MEN IN BLACK CASE.
[ PIANO PLAYING ]
[ THUNDER RUMBLES ]
[ FIRE CRACKLING ]
DR. HERBERT HOPKINS
WAS A RESPECTED PSYCHIATRIST
WHO HAD PERFORMED HYPNOSIS
SESSIONS ON CLIENTS
CLAIMING TO ENCOUNTER
MEN IN BLACK.
[ Distorted ]
GOOD EVENING, DR. HOPKINS.
I NEED TO SPEAK WITH YOU
ABOUT YOUR WORK.
Boeche: THIS INDIVIDUAL,
DRESSED IN A BLACK SUIT,
BEGINS TO QUESTION HIM ABOUT --
GENERALLY ABOUT THIS UFO CASE.
VERY TALL, VERY THIN.
THESE TAPES
ARE OF NO USE TO YOU.
THEY NEED TO BE
EXPUNGED.
THIS ODD INDIVIDUAL
BEGAN TO TELL DR. HOPKINS
THAT HE SHOULDN'T
INVESTIGATE THIS,
HE SHOULD LEAVE THIS ALONE.
DO YOU SEE THE COIN?
AND SO DR. HOPKINS BEGINS
TO LOOK AT THE COIN IN HIS HAND.
Narrator: THIS MAN IN BLACK
WAS THREATENING TO DO MORE
THAN DESTROY EVIDENCE.
THE STRANGER SAYS, "IF YOU
DON'T LEAVE THIS CASE ALONE,
THAT'S WHAT WILL HAPPEN
TO YOUR HEART."
DESTROY THE TAPES,
DR. HOPKINS.
THAT WAS THE THREAT
THAT WAS MADE
BY THE MAN IN BLACK
TO DR. HOPKINS.
"IF YOU CONTINUE, I'LL CAUSE
YOUR HEART TO VANISH."
DR. HOPKINS WAS,
AGAIN, ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED.
ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED.
AND HE FOLLOWED
THE STRANGER'S INSTRUCTIONS
AND BURNED ALL OF HIS RECORDS,
BURNED HIS TAPES OF
THE HYPNOSIS SESSIONS AND SO ON,
AND WAS EXTRAORDINARILY
TRAUMATIZED --
EXTRAORDINARILY TRAUMATIZED
BY THAT EVENT.
[ WOMAN SCREAMING ]
Narrator:
GOING THROUGH HOPKINS' PAPERS
WOULD LAUNCH REVEREND BOECHE
INTO HIS OWN
TERRIFYING ENCOUNTER
WITH A DEMONIC MAN IN BLACK.
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
OH, MY GOSH.
[ GASPS ]
[ WHIMPERS ]
AND WE SAT THERE WITH OUR EYES
FIXED STRAIGHT AHEAD.
IT WAS THIS INCREDIBLE
WAVE OF TERROR
THAT -- THAT GRIPPED
ALL THREE OF US.
Narrator: RUMORS OF MEN IN BLACK
CONTINUE TO CIRCULATE.
THEIR ORIGINS UNKNOWN.
SOME SUGGEST THESE DARK FIGURES
ARE MUCH MORE SINISTER
THAN WE EVER THOUGHT.
Boeche: THE BIGGEST THING THAT
APPEARS TO PUT THEM IN THE REALM
OF THE DEMONIC
IS THE FACT THAT THEY SEEM
TO BE MORE OF A SPIRITUAL BEING
IN NATURE --
A SUPERNATURAL BEING --
AND THREATS THAT SEEM TO CARRY
VERY MUCH
A SENSE OF MALEVOLENCE.
Narrator:
JUST THIS SORT OF MEN IN BLACK
RECENTLY CROSSED PATHS
WITH CLYDE LEWIS, HOST OF
A POPULAR PARANORMAL RADIO SHOW.
Lewis:
THAT ENCOUNTER WAS BIZARRE.
HE HAD A BLACK HAT.
HE HAD A BLACK OVERCOAT,
WHITE SHIRT, BLACK TIE.
AND HE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE
HE BELONGED THERE.
Woman:
HEY, MISTER.
CAN I BUM A CIGARETTE?
I DON'T SMOKE.
WHATEVER.
THEN HE WAS GONE.
HE HAD DISAPPEARED.
I FIGURED,
"OH, MY GOSH, YOU KNOW,
"THESE GUYS ARE FOLLOWING ME,
OR THEY'RE OBSERVING ME.
SOMETHING'S GOING ON."
AND IT WAS VERY UNNERVING.
Narrator: CLYDE HAD EVERY REASON
TO FEEL APPREHENSIVE.
I TRIED TO TAKE A PICTURE OF HIM
WITH MY CELLPHONE,
AND WHEN
I SNAPPED THE PICTURE --
AND I HAD IT RIGHT ON HIM.
I PUT MY CELLPHONE ON THE GUY...
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ]
...TRY TO SNAP THE PICTURE.
HE'S NOT THERE.
AND IT JUST -- I THOUGHT,
"HOW CAN THAT HAPPEN?
"HOW CAN I PUT MY CELLPHONE
RIGHT THERE,
ARMS AWAY, SNAP THE PIC --
NOTHING?"
AND I WAS BLOWN AWAY.
Narrator: A MAN IN BLACK
SUDDENLY VANISHING IS ONE THING.
IT'S EVEN WORSE
WHEN HE UNEXPECTEDLY APPEARS.
ONE NIGHT IN 1987,
IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA,
REVEREND BOECHE
AND TWO COLLEAGUES
WERE RESEARCHING ACCOUNTS
OF MEN IN BLACK ENCOUNTERS.
Boeche:
WE WERE AT A LONG TABLE,
AND WE WERE SORTING THROUGH
THESE DOCUMENTS
INTO SOME KIND OF RATIONAL ORDER
SO WE COULD REALLY BEGIN
TO EXAMINE THEM.
[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATION ]
YEAH,
EXACTLY LIKE IT SAYS.
AND AS WE SAT THERE,
I BEGAN TO BE AWARE
OF JUST A VERY UNEASY FEELING.
Narrator: IT MAY HAVE BEEN
UNWISE TO DELVE TOO DEEPLY
INTO THE MISDEEDS
OF THE MEN IN BLACK.
[ GASPS ]
THE EVIL DOCUMENTED
IN THOSE FILES
CAME TO LIFE
DIRECTLY BEFORE THEM.
Boeche: IT WAS
THIS INCREDIBLE WAVE OF TERROR
THAT GRIPPED ALL THREE OF US.
AND WE JUST SAT THERE
UNABLE TO MOVE.
Narrator: SATISFIED
IT HAD TERRIFIED ITS VICTIMS,
THIS DEMONIC MAN IN BLACK
VANISHED INTO THIN AIR.
Boeche: WHEN THREE OF US HAVE
EXACTLY THE SAME EXPERIENCE
AT EXACTLY THE SAME TIME
IN EXACTLY
THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES,
IT BEGINS TO MAKE ME WONDER,
YOU KNOW,
"WHAT SORT OF EXTERNAL FORCE
CAME INTO PLAY THERE
TO CAUSE THIS TO HAPPEN?"
SOMETHING THE THREE OF US
NEVER FORGOT.
WE'VE NEVER FORGOTTEN THAT.
WHAT THE HECK
WAS THAT?
I HAVE NO IDEA.
Narrator: AFTER THIS HARROWING
ENCOUNTER, REVEREND BOECHE
SUSPENDED THE GROUP'S RESEARCH
INTO THE MEN IN BLACK.
Boeche: IT IS DEFINITELY
A TRAUMATIC EVENT
THAT NO ONE WANTS TO REMEMBER,
NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT,
AND EVERYONE WHO'S EXPERIENCED
IT WISHES THEY COULD FORGET.
AND THE SCARS NEVER GO AWAY.
THEY NEVER GO AWAY.
Narrator:
THAT LINGERING MEMORY,
A SENSE OF PROFOUND DREAD
ETCHED IN YOUR MIND
SEEMS TO BE A UNIVERSAL FEATURE
OF THE MEN IN BLACK PHENOMENON.
Redfern:
THESE CASES ARE DEFINITELY
NOT HOAXES OR HALLUCINATIONS.
TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE HAD
CREDIBLE ENCOUNTERS
THAT ARE VERY SIMILAR
TO EACH OTHER.
Boeche: IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS
VERY PSYCHOLOGICALLY SCARRING.
IT'S ALMOST AS IF YOU HAD BEEN
STALKED BY A PSYCHOPATH,
AND YOU NEVER GET OVER THAT.
VERY MUCH THE SAME THING
WITH THE MEN IN BLACK.
Lewis: THEY'RE NOT
COMIC-BOOK CHARACTERS
FOUND IN
A STEVEN SPIELBERG MOVIE.
THEY'RE REAL INDIVIDUALS.
THEY ARE HERE TO OBSERVE US.
THEY MOVE ABOUT
IN A CLANDESTINE WAY.
AND THEY MAY EVEN HAVE CONTACT
OR MAY EVEN ARE IN CAHOOTS
WITH PERHAPS A SATANIC PATH.
BEWARE -- M.I.B.s ARE REAL.
IN THIS SPECIAL EDITION
OF "MONSTERS & MYSTERIES,"
THEY MAY BE THE STRANGEST
FEAR-INDUCING FIENDS
EVER TO EMERGE
FROM THE OUTER EDGE.
MYSTERIOUS MEN DRESSED IN BLACK.
Marsh: THE MOST
TROUBLING THING ABOUT
THE MEN IN BLACK PHENOMENON
IS THEIR COVERT NATURE.
YOU NEVER KNOW
WHEN THEY'RE COMING.
THEY'RE COLORLESS.
THEY'RE EMPTY.
YOU SHOULD BE WARY.
Redfern: ARE THEY PART OF
SOME SECRET GOVERNMENT AGENCY,
A SHADOW ORGANIZATION,
OR ARE THEY SOMETHING WEIRDER?
COULD THEY BE ALIENS THEMSELVES?
Narrator: THERE'S EVIDENCE THEY
MAY BE THE OLDEST EVIL THERE IS.
Lewis: YOU'RE LOOKING AT MEN
WHO REPRESENT SATAN,
THE ANTICHRIST,
AND THE FALSE PROPHET.
Redfern: THIS BEGS THE QUESTION
EVEN MORE --
WHO ARE THE REAL MEN IN BLACK?
Narrator:
WE'VE RECOVERED THE DETAILS
OF ONE MAN'S
LEGENDARY ENCOUNTER --
THE STORY IN HIS OWN WORDS,
LOST FOR DECADES.
Man: A SEARCHER?
Derenberger: A SEARCHER.
Narrator:
NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME,
AN ENTIRE EPISODE
STEPS INTO THIS DARK DOMAIN
TO DISCOVER
THE REAL MEN IN BLACK.
[ GASPS ]
CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
DISCOVERING THE TRUE NATURE
OF THE SO-CALLED MEN IN BLACK
AND THEIR DARK AGENDA
IS NO EASY TASK.
THE SEARCH COULD GO BACK
CENTURIES AND EXTEND WORLDWIDE.
THE HUNT COULD TAKE YOU
THROUGH SCORES OF CULTURES
AWASH WITH STORIES
OF DARK DEVILS,
DEMONIC TRICKSTERS,
AND PREDATORY VAMPIRES.
THE MEN IN BLACK KIND OF LOOK
LIKE PALE-FACED VAMPIRES.
THEY LOOK LIKE GHOULS.
THEY LOOK LIKE SOMETHING
DUG UP OUT OF THE GROUND.
THEY SEEM TO ATTRACT
OR CAUSE POLTERGEIST ACTIVITY.
SO YOU HAVE AN ENTIRE SUBCULTURE
THAT SUPPORTS THE DEMONIC ANGLE
FOR THE MEN IN BLACK.
Narrator: IN AMERICA, NO AREA
OF MEN IN BLACK PHENOMENA
IS MORE NOTORIOUS THAN THEIR
CONNECTION TO UFO ACTIVITY.
Man: LATEST EVIDENCE
IN THE SAUCER MYSTERY
ARE THESE EXCLUSIVE
MOTION-PICTURE FILMS
FROM LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.
Narrator:
FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY,
REPORTS OF ALIENS ARRIVING
FROM OTHER PLANETS
HAVE TOUCHED
NEARLY EVERY CORNER OF AMERICA.
CLAIMS ABOUT THESE EVENTS
ARE SO NUMEROUS
THEY'RE DIFFICULT TO IGNORE.
BUT I CAN'T FATHOM IT
BECAUSE IT SEEMS SO UNREAL.
Narrator:
YET INVESTIGATING THESE REPORTS
IS A STEP THAT MAY CREATE
DANGERS ALL ITS OWN.
MEN IN BLACK HAS KIND OF PUT
A FEAR INTO MY HEART AND SOUL,
ESPECIALLY IN MY EARLY DAYS
OF RESEARCH.
IN OTHER WORDS,
"STOP IT OR YOU'LL BE SORRY"
SORT OF SYNDROME,
AND THAT'S PRETTY SCARY.
Marsh:
IF YOU ARE AN EXPERIENCER,
I THINK YOU ARE GOING TO BE
LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER.
Narrator: WITH SOME OF THE VERY
FIRST FLYING-SAUCER EVENTS,
MEN IN BLACK ENCOUNTERS EMERGED.
JUNE 1947,
PUGET SOUND, WASHINGTON.
TWO HARBOR PATROLMEN,
HAROLD DAHL AND FRED CRISMAN,
WERE ON A WORK BOAT
WHEN THEY OBSERVED
UNUSUAL SAUCER-SHAPED
AIRCRAFT IN THE SKY.
WHAT IS THAT THING?
THINK WE OUGHT
TO CALL IT IN?
WHAT ARE WE GONNA
SAY IT IS?
Redfern: ONE OF THESE OBJECTS
WAS MANEUVERING
IN A VERY ERRATIC
AND STRANGE FASHION.
AND IT SUDDENLY EXPLODED
IN THE SKY,
SHATTERING ALL THIS STRANGE
WRECKAGE DOWN INTO THE HARBOR.
Marsh:
ONE OF THOSE OBJECTS DROPPED
SOMETHING DOWN ONTO THE SHIP,
WHICH ACTUALLY KILLED A DOG.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO CRISMAN AND DAHL,
AFTER THEY RETURNED TO PORT,
EVENTS GOT EVEN STRANGER.
GENTLEMEN, PERHAPS YOU'VE SEEN
THE WEATHER BALLOON?
BALLOON?
IT WAS A RANDOM
WEATHER-BALLOON TEST.
HEY, MAN,
THERE WAS AN EXPLOSION.
EASY MISTAKE.
"EASY MISTAKE"?
NOTHING TO BE
CONCERNED ABOUT.
Redfern: DAHL WAS APPROACHED
BY A REAL MAN IN BLACK,
AND HE WAS THREATENED
WITH HIS LIFE.
HIS FAMILY'S LIFE
WAS THREATENED...
YOU WILL NOT SPEAK
OF THIS TO ANYONE.
...MAKING IT VERY, VERY CLEAR
THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES
SHOULD HE TALK
ABOUT THIS ENCOUNTER.
YOU DON'T WANT TO
ALARM ANYONE, DO YOU?
THIS PARTICULAR CASE
IS IMPORTANT
BECAUSE THIS WAS THE VERY FIRST
MAN IN BLACK ENCOUNTER
IN WHICH A WITNESS
WAS THREATENED
AFTER HAVING SEEN A UFO.
Narrator: IT ALSO CONTAINED A
KEY FEATURE OF THE MEN IN BLACK.
YOU KNOW, THE G-MAN LOOK --
THIN TIE, VERY WELL-PRESSED
PANTS, BLACK OVERCOAT.
Redfern: VERY OFTEN WEARING
FEDORA-STYLE HATS.
SO, THEY DO HAVE THIS AIR
OF AUTHORITY ABOUT THEM,
WHICH DOES GIVE OFF KIND OF,
LIKE, A GOVERNMENT ANGLE.
Narrator: THESE VISITS BEGAN
OCCURRING WITH REGULARITY.
WHEREVER A UFO EVENT UNFOLDS AND
SOMEONE STARTS ASKING QUESTIONS,
SOON THEY REALIZE THEY'RE
THE ONES BEING INVESTIGATED.
FOR ALMOST 50 YEARS, STAN GORDON
HAS BEEN TRACKING UFO SIGHTINGS
AROUND PENNSYLVANIA.
IN THE EARLY 1970s,
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
SEEMED PRACTICALLY
UNDER ASSAULT.
WE HAD THIS MASSIVE WAVE
OF UFO ACTIVITY
THROUGHOUT
THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
ACTUALLY, IT WAS UNPRECEDENTED.
Marsh: ALL OF A SUDDEN,
IT WAS LIKE AN INVASION.
IT WAS JUST REPORT AFTER REPORT
AFTER REPORT COMING IN.
AND ONCE IT GOT UP INTO
THE HUNDREDS OF REPORTS
AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
IN THIS REGION,
I MEAN,
IT BECAME SERIOUS BUSINESS.
LIKE, WHAT THE HECK IS THIS?
Narrator: IT WAS IN THE MIDST
OF ALL THE UFO SIGHTINGS
THAT STAN GOT THE FIRST CLUES
THE MEN IN BLACK
WERE TRACKING HIM.
[ THUNDER CRASHES ]
AUGUST 24, 1973.
AT A TRAILER PARK IN DERRY,
PENNSYLVANIA,
SOMETHING HAD JUST UNFOLDED --
SOMETHING OUT OF THIS WORLD.
Gordon:
SO, WHEN WE GET ON THE SCENE,
WE INTERVIEW THE FAMILY INVOLVED
AND SOME OF THE OTHER NEIGHBORS
WHO EXPERIENCED
WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT.
IT WAS VERY APPARENT
THESE PEOPLE WERE FRIGHTENED
AND VERY, VERY UPSET
OVER WHAT THEY HAD EXPERIENCED.
YOU COULD SEE THE EMOTION.
THEY HAD SEEN SOMETHING
THAT WASN'T SUPPOSED TO EXIST.
WE FOUND OUT
THAT THIS WOMAN AND HER SON
WERE INSIDE OF THEIR TRAILER.
FROM THE BACK OF THEIR TRAILER,
THEY HEARD SCRATCHING SOUNDS...
[ SCRATCHING ]
...AND ALSO WHAT SOUNDED LIKE
BABY-CRYING SOUNDS.
[ BABY CRYING ]
THERE, AT VERY CLOSE RANGE,
SHE SEES THIS VERY TALL
HUMANOID CREATURE,
WIDE-SHOULDERED, OVER 6' TALL.
THEY WERE VERY, VERY FRIGHTENED.
[ SCREAMS ]
Narrator:
IT MUST HAVE BEEN ATTRACTED
TO THE TRAILER'S
ELECTRICAL SUPPLY.
[ SCREAMS ]
Narrator: RIGHT AFTER,
THE WOMAN'S POWER SHUTS OFF.
[ GROWLING ]
[ SCREAMING ]
Narrator: THE CREATURE DEPARTED
BUT LEFT SOME RESIDUE BEHIND.
[ THUNDER CRASHES ]
THE WOMAN'S SCREAMS DREW
THE ATTENTION OF NEIGHBORS,
WHO IMMEDIATELY
CALLED THE POLICE.
HEY, WE'VE GOT
A PRETTY BIG FOOTPRINT.
Gordon: AND WHEN THE POLICE
GET OUT THERE,
THEY FIND WHAT APPEARED
TO BE SOME FOOTPRINTS
THAT ARE VERY UNUSUAL.
Narrator:
EVEN MORE UNUSUAL,
THE MEN IN BLACK
THAT ARRIVED SOON AFTER.
[ TELEPHONE RINGING ]
LATER THAT NIGHT, STAN GORDON
RECEIVED AN URGENT CALL.
Gordon:
I'M ON THE LINE,
AND THE OPERATOR BREAKS IN
WITH AN EMERGENCY CALL.
HELLO, STAN?
AND THE EMERGENCY CALL
HAPPENED TO BE FROM THE WOMAN
WHO LIVED IN THAT MOBILE HOME.
SHE SAID...
SOMEONE
CAME TO MY HOME.
THERE WAS THIS MAN HERE
WHO WANTED TO TALK TO HER
ABOUT SEEING
THE CREATURE THAT NIGHT.
DID THE CREATURE
LEAVE ANY EVIDENCE?
SOMETHING
ON THE DOORKNOB.
STAN TOLD ME
TO KEEP IT.
WHO?
HE SAID
HE WAS WITH YOU.
HE INDICATED
THAT HE KNEW ME.
I WORK WITH STAN.
WHICH, OF COURSE,
THAT WASN'T THE CASE.
IT'S OKAY
TO GIVE IT TO ME.
AND IF SHE GAVE HIM THE SAMPLES,
HE WOULD GET THEM TO ME.
Marsh:
YOU NEVER KNEW WHEN THE MEN
IN BLACK WERE GOING TO SHOW UP.
YOU NEVER KNEW
HOW THEY GOT THEIR INFORMATION.
[ GASPS ]
HE TOOK THE SAMPLE?
HE TOOK EVERYTHING.
HE'S NOT WITH US.
I'M SORRY.
PROBABLY ANY SERIOUS PERSON
STUDYING UFOs IN THAT ERA
WOULD HAVE HAD
SOME AT LEAST BASIC FEAR
THAT THE MEN IN BLACK
WERE ALWAYS ONE STEP AWAY.
Redfern: THIS IS ALL
PARTICULARLY UNNERVING
FOR THE WITNESSES
BECAUSE THE BIG QUESTION
IS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN NEXT?
IS THE MAN IN BLACK
GONNA COME BACK?
Narrator:
IMAGINE THE UNBELIEVABLE...
...WITNESSING FIRSTHAND
AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT.
AS IF A UFO ENCOUNTER
ISN'T SHOCKING ENOUGH,
FOR YEARS,
STORIES HAVE CIRCULATED
ABOUT WITNESSES GETTING VISITS
FROM MEN IN BLACK.
GENTLEMEN, PERHAPS YOU'VE SEEN
THE WEATHER BALLOON.
THE FILES
OF UFO RESEARCHER STAN GORDON
INCLUDE MANY INVESTIGATIONS
SUDDENLY DERAILED.
THERE'S THE 1973 CASE
OF AN APPARENT ALIEN ENCOUNTER
AT A TRAILER PARK
IN SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA.
Gordon:
AND THERE'S A YOUNG BOY THERE.
AND HE'S TAKING POLAROID
PICTURES OF THE FOOTPRINTS.
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ]
Narrator: JUST THEN, A STRANGE,
DARK-SUITED MAN ARRIVED.
I JUST TOOK A PICTURE.
YOU JUST TOOK US
A PICTURE.
Gordon: AND HE MAKES SOME KIND
OF AN ODD COMMENT LIKE,
"IT HAS BEEN DESTROYED."
MY REACTION WAS THE CONCERN OF,
"WHO WAS THIS MAN?
"WHERE DID HE COME FROM?
WHERE ARE THE SAMPLES?
WHY DID HE DESTROY THE EVIDENCE
AT THE SCENE?"
Redfern:
ONE OF THE MOST DISCONCERTING
AND BAFFLING ASPECTS
OF THE MEN IN BLACK MYSTERY
IS THAT EVEN IF YOU DON'T TELL
ANYONE ABOUT YOUR ENCOUNTER,
THE MEN IN BLACK
STILL FIND OUT ABOUT IT.
AND THAT CAN LEAD TO
INTIMIDATING PHONE CALLS,
PEOPLE BEING FOLLOWED,
AND EVEN TELEPHONE MONITORING.
Narrator: AND WITH M.I.B.s,
IT CAN GET MUCH WORSE.
I BELIEVE MEN IN BLACK
ARE TO BE FEARED.
IF THEY TELL YOU TO DO SOMETHING
AND YOU DON'T LISTEN
TO WHAT THEY TELL YOU,
THEY WILL DO ANYTHING
TO GET THEIR WAY, EVEN KILL YOU.
I BELIEVE THEY WOULD KILL YOU
IF THEY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY.
Narrator:
STAN GORDON HAS SEEN
JUST HOW INTIMIDATING
THE MEN IN BLACK CAN BE.
ONE OF HIS MOST TERRIFYING CASES
UNFOLDED IN OCTOBER OF 1973
AT A PENNSYLVANIA FARM.
AND WHAT I FIND OUT
IS ABOUT 9:00 THAT NIGHT...
[ COWS MOOING ]
...THEY SEE THIS LARGE OBJECT
ABOUT AS BIG AS A BARN --
A BIG, ROUND, RED SPHERE
ABOUT 100 FEET OFF THE GROUND
AND HOVERING.
Narrator: AS THE GLOWING ORB
DESCENDED ON THE FARM,
STEVE GEIGER AND HIS TWO COUSINS
SET OFF TOWARDS A PASTURE.
Gordon: THIS THING'S MAYBE ABOUT
100 FEET OR SO IN DIAMETER,
AND IT'S ILLUMINATING
THE WHOLE AREA.
AND THEN THEIR ATTENTION
IS DRAWN
TO TWO HUGE HUMANOID FIGURES
WALKING IN THEIR DIRECTION.
THEY GET
A REALLY GOOD LOOK AT THEM.
Redfern: THE CREATURES
THAT STEVE DESCRIBED
ARE VERY, VERY STRANGE --
SEVEN TO NINE FEET TALL,
ARMS HANGING
DOWN PAST THEIR KNEES,
AND THEY HAD THESE
WEIRD SELF-ILLUMINATING EYES.
[ GUNSHOT ]
Gordon:
THERE'S A FLASH OF LIGHT.
[ GUNSHOT ]
AND WHEN HE FIRES
THAT SECOND SHOT,
THE OBJECT IN THE FIELD
DISAPPEARS.
IT JUST VANISHES FROM SIGHT.
Narrator: HE HAD SEEN AN
ALIEN SPACECRAFT AND CREATURES
THAT COULDN'T BE FROM EARTH.
Gordon: AND I REMEMBER
WHAT STEVE ALWAYS SAID TO ME.
HE SAID HE'D NEVER FORGET
HOW THOSE GLOWING EYES
JUST KEPT STARING AT HIM.
AND HE SAID, "LOOK,
I'VE BEEN HUNTING ALL MY LIFE."
HE SAID, "I KNOW I HIT IT.
"I KNOW I HIT THAT BIG CREATURE.
BUT THERE WAS NO EFFECT
ON IT WHATSOEVER."
Narrator:
WHILE MEN IN BLACK DON'T PURSUE
EACH AND EVERY WITNESS,
CLEARLY THIS FARMER
HAD SEEN TOO MUCH.
Gordon: HERE WAS A GUY THAT HAD
A VERY, VERY CLOSE ENCOUNTER.
HE WAS THE ONE THAT THEY PICKED.
WE'RE GOING TO
HELP YOU REMEMBER.
[ SCREAMING ]
Narrator: FOR DECADES, AMERICA
HAS BEEN AWASH WITH RUMORS
OF MYSTERIOUS MEN IN BLACK --
HOVERING, HARD TO DEFINE,
YET SPREADING THE WORD,
"WE'RE WATCHING YOU."
Redfern: WHEN IT COMES TO
THE MEN IN BLACK,
WHAT WE DO KNOW
IS THAT UFO WITNESSES
HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY MONITORED,
WATCHED, AND THREATENED.
AND THAT'S VERY FRIGHTENING
FOR THEM.
Narrator:
IT'S A SCENARIO THAT STAN GORDON
DISCOVERED BACK IN THE 1970s
WHEN HE FIRST STARTED
TRACKING UFO REPORTS.
CASE IN POINT,
ONE NIGHT IN OCTOBER 1973,
STAN RECEIVED AN URGENT CALL
ABOUT AN ALIEN ENCOUNTER
AT A FARM.
LIKE,
FLUORESCENT GREEN.
YOU SEE THESE MARKS HERE --
WE WERE SITTING ON THE PORCH.
STATE TROOPERS
WERE ON THE SCENE.
THE GROUND IS,
LIKE, BRIGHT GREEN.
SO I GRABBED
MY SHOTGUN.
Gordon:
AND WHAT THE TROOPER TELLS ME
IS WHERE THE OBJECT
HAD BEEN ON THE GROUND,
THAT WHOLE AREA IS NOW
SELF-LUMINESCENT GLOWING --
100, MAYBE 150 FEET OR SO
IN DIAMETER, HE ESTIMATED.
THE LIGHT COMING UP
FROM THE GLOWING AREA
IS COMING UP
ABOUT 12 INCHES OFF THE GROUND.
HE JUST APPEARED
OUT OF THE WOODS.
BY THE TIME WE GOT THERE...
AND HIS EYES WERE GLOWING.
...THE FARM ANIMALS
STILL WOULDN'T GO
ANYWHERE NEAR THAT AREA.
Narrator:
AS THE DAYS PASSED,
STAN GORDON STAYED IN TOUCH
WITH THE FARMER STEVE GEIGER.
Gordon:
AND WE TALKED TO HIM
ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY
OF DOING HYPNOSIS.
AND HE KIND OF LOOKED AT US
A LITTLE FUNNY
AND SAID, "WHY DO YOU
WANT TO HYPNOTIZE ME AGAIN?"
AND WE SAID, "STEVE,
WE NEVER HYPNOTIZED YOU."
Narrator:
AS STAN WOULD LEARN, SHORTLY
AFTER THE UFO INCIDENT...
...STEVE WAS VISITED
BY TWO STRANGE MEN,
ONE DRESSED
IN AN AIR FORCE UNIFORM,
THE OTHER A BLACK SUIT.
HE ALWAYS ASSUMED THEY WERE
CONNECTED TO MY RESEARCH GROUP.
THESE MEN WANTED TO,
AGAIN, DO A THOROUGH
INVESTIGATION WITH HIM.
THEY WANTED TO GO OVER
ALL THE DETAILS WITH HIM.
Narrator: AFTER THAT,
THIS FARMER'S WORLD
TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
THIS ISN'T HAPPENING.
WE'RE GOING TO HELP YOU
REMEMBER.
Narrator: HYPNOTIC TECHNIQUES
WERE APPLIED.
[ SCREAMING ]
[ BREATHING HEAVILY ]
IS THIS WHAT YOU SAW?
YOU'RE NOT CRAZY.
EVERYTHING IS PERFECTLY NORMAL.
IT'S REALLY NOT EVEN WORTH
MENTIONING...TO ANYONE.
AND THEY TOLD HIM HE WASN'T
CRAZY, THAT HE SAW WHAT HE SAW,
AND THAT THEY WOULD BE IN TOUCH.
[ BELL RINGING ]
BUT THAT WAS THE LAST
THEY EVER HEARD FROM THEM.
RIGHT AWAY, WE KNEW
SOMETHING UNUSUAL HAD OCCURRED.
WE HAD NEVER HYPNOTIZED HIM.
NONE OF THE PEOPLE
ASSOCIATED WITH OUR RESEARCH
GROUP HAD HYPNOTIZED HIM.
AND WE WANTED TO FIND OUT
WHAT WAS HE TALKING ABOUT?
Marsh: THAT WAS JUST ONE WAY
OF KIND OF CONTAINING IT.
HOW ELSE COULD YOU TAKE
JUST A GENERAL --
SOMEBODY FROM
THE GENERAL POPULATION --
HOW DO YOU SUPPRESS THEM?
YOU THREATEN THEM.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO THOSE WHO KNEW HIM,
THE MAN NEVER GOT OVER
THE TRAUMA.
Gordon:
I DIDN'T DOUBT THE FACT
THAT HE HAD A VISIT
BY THESE "MEN IN BLACK."
I'M SURE IT WAS HARD FOR HIM
TO GET PAST ANYONE
WHO WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH
AN EXPERIENCE LIKE THAT.
IT HAS A LONG-LASTING EFFECT.
Narrator: PARANORMAL RESEARCHER
CLYDE LEWIS
HAS NO DOUBTS
ABOUT THE MEN IN BLACK.
Lewis:
THEY'RE THE CLEAN-UP CREW.
THEY'RE THE GUYS
BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
SO, WHEN THINGS GET OUT OF HAND,
WHETHER A UFO SIGHTING
OR AN EXOTIC AIRCRAFT IS SEEN
THAT NOBODY'S SUPPOSED TO SEE,
OR SOMETHING,
THEY'LL SHOW UP AND THEY'LL
TELL YOU, YOU KNOW --
THEY'LL TELL YOU
THAT THIS IS SOMETHING
THAT YOU'RE NOT
SUPPOSED TO BE DEALING WITH.
Narrator:
AFTER THESE INVESTIGATIONS, STAN
REALIZED WHAT HE WAS UP AGAINST.
IN SHORT ORDER,
WITNESSES FORGET THEIR STORIES,
MISPLACE EVIDENCE.
THEY NEVER SAW ANYTHING.
SOME OF THESE CASES
SEEM TO SUGGEST A POSSIBILITY
THAT THERE MAY, INDEED,
BE A GOVERNMENT AGENCY
THAT CONTINUES
TO INVESTIGATE UFOs
AT A VERY HIGH SECRETIVE LEVEL,
AND THEY'RE OUT THERE
DOING INTERVIEWS
AND GATHERING EVIDENCE.
SO, THERE WAS THAT BIG QUESTION
STILL REMAINED --
WHO WERE THESE MEN?
WHY DID THEY
WANT TO INTERVIEW THE WITNESS?
AND WHAT WERE THEY GONNA DO
WITH THE INFORMATION?
Narrator:
THEY MAY EVEN WELCOME
WORD OF THEIR SPECIAL BRAND
OF TERROR TO TRICKLE OUT,
SENDING THE MESSAGE
"YOU COULD BE NEXT."
Redfern: SINCE 1947, THERE
HAVE BEEN LITERALLY HUNDREDS
OF MEN IN BLACK REPORTS
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S OFFICIAL
STANCE ON THE MEN IN BLACK
IS THAT THE MYSTERY'S
NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM.
THIS BEGS THE QUESTION
EVEN MORE --
WHO ARE THE REAL MEN IN BLACK?
Narrator:
SOME ARE CERTAIN
THE MEN IN BLACK
MUST BE FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
OTHER CLUES SUGGEST
THE MYSTERY GOES MUCH DEEPER,
TO A SHADOWY GROUP
WHOSE IDENTITIES
MAY GO BEYOND THIS WORLD
AND THIS POINT IN TIME.
IN WEST VIRGINIA, ON THE NIGHT
OF NOVEMBER 2, 1966,
A SEWING-MACHINE SALESMAN
NAMED WOODY DERENBERGER
WAS DRIVING HOME.
HIS STORY HAS BEEN AMONG
THE MOST DISCUSSED CASES
IN THE MEN IN BLACK PHENOMENON.
LOST FOR DECADES, AUDIOTAPES
OF HIS ORIGINAL TESTIMONY
WERE RECENTLY RECOVERED.
Narrator:
FAR FROM THEIR HOLLYWOOD PERSONA
ARE THE STORIES
OF REAL MEN IN BLACK --
SECRETIVE, SINISTER,
AND, ACCORDING
TO SOME INVESTIGATORS,
THEY MAY BE EXTRATERRESTRIALS
OR TIME TRAVELERS
FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION.
THAT MIGHT EXPLAIN
WHY MEN IN BLACK
ARE SOMETIMES SEEN
WITH ODD PHYSICAL FEATURES,
AS IF THESE ALIENS HAVEN'T
QUITE MASTERED THE HUMAN FORM.
PALE SKIN, TIGHT LIPS,
BULGING EYES.
THEY LOOK EMACIATED,
THEY LOOK ANEMIC,
THEY DON'T REALLY LOOK HUMAN.
Narrator: ONE SUCH CASE
CENTERED ON AN ENCOUNTER
WITH A TIME-TRAVELING
MAN IN BLACK,
A MYSTERIOUS FIGURE
WITH A TERRIFYING GRIN.
WITHIN THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS
IS THE SMALL WEST VIRGINIA TOWN
OF PARKERSBURG.
NOVEMBER 2, 1966.
SEWING-MACHINE SALESMAN
WOODY DERENBERGER
WAS DRIVING THROUGH THE AREA.
HIS EXPERIENCE THAT NIGHT
WOULD TURN ANY INVESTIGATION
OF MEN IN BLACK
IN AN ENTIRELY
DIFFERENT DIRECTION.
LONG LOST TAPES
FROM A RADIO INTERVIEW
HE DID THE VERY NEXT DAY
REVEAL A MAN PROFOUNDLY
AFFECTED BY THE ENCOUNTER.
[ ROCK MUSIC PLAYS ]
THE EVENING STARTED OUT
LIKE MANY OTHERS --
A LONG JOURNEY HOME AFTER WORK.
A FAMILY MAN, WOODY HAD
A LOVING WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN.
MOM AND DAD ALWAYS
GOT ALONG REALLY WELL.
PEOPLE WOULD CALL US
"THE CLEAVERS"
BECAUSE OF HOW WELL
OUR FAMILY ACTED.
Narrator:
THIS NIGHT WOULD ALTER HIS LIFE
AND THAT OF HIS FAMILY'S
FOREVER.
[ THUD ]
Bowman: HE HEARD A NOISE
IN THE BACK OF THE TRUCK,
AND HE WAS AFRAID ONE OF THE
SEWING MACHINES HAD FALLEN OVER.
[ WHOOSH ]
Narrator:
THEN A SPACECRAFT BIG AS LIFE
LANDED DIRECTLY
IN FRONT OF HIS TRUCK.
FORCED TO STOP, WOODY MIGHT HAVE
THOUGHT HE WAS DREAMING.
A DOOR SLID OPEN
ON THE SIDE OF THE CRAFT.
AND WHAT LOOKED LIKE
A MAN STEPPED OUT.
Sheppard:
HE HAD ON A BLACK TOPCOAT.
UNDERNEATH THAT TOPCOAT,
HE SAID YOU COULD SEE, LIKE,
A GLISTENING KIND OF MATERIAL.
Bowman: THIS MAN HAD AN UNUSUAL,
SPOOKY-LOOKING GRIN ON HIS FACE,
STRUCK MY FATHER AS BEING SCARY.
WHO ARE YOU?
WOODY.
DO YOU HAVE A FAMILY?
YES.
Narrator: SOMEHOW, WOODY WAS
HEARING THE GRINNING MAN SPEAK.
AND AS FAR AS I UNDERSTAND,
THIS WAS ALL MENTAL.
THERE WERE NO SPOKEN WORDS
THAT CAME FROM HIM.
I-I KNEW
WHAT HE WAS ASKING ME.
Bowman:
AND THAT'S WHAT SCARED DAD FIRST
BECAUSE HE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND
HOW HE'S HEARING WORDS.
THIS MAN IS TALKING,
BUT HE'S NOT OPENING HIS MOUTH.
AND HE TOLD MY FATHER
THAT HE WAS A TYPE OF A SCOUT.
HE TOLD ME THAT --
THAT HE WAS A SEARCHER.
A SEARCHER?
A SEARCHER.
HE ASKED HIM A LOT OF QUESTIONS
SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION,
YOU KNOW, SEARCHING TO SEE
WHAT'S GOING ON ON EARTH.
Narrator:
COLLECTING INFORMATION BASIC
TO THE MEN IN BLACK PHENOMENON.
FINALLY, WOODY MANAGED
A QUESTION OF HIS OWN.
DAD SAID, "WELL, WHO ARE YOU?"
COLD.
INDRID COLD.
THE HATCH OPENED.
IT HOVERED THERE
FOR JUST A FEW SECONDS.
AND THEN IT SHOT AWAY
AT A VERY HIGH RATE OF SPEED.
AND HE SAID TO ME,
"WE WILL SEE YOU AGAIN."
"WE WILL SEE YOU AGAIN.
WE'RE COMING BACK TO SEE YOU,
WOODY DERENBERGER,"
SAID INDRID COLD.
"I'M COMING BACK."
AND THAT'S THE THING
THAT MR. DERENBERGER
SAID FRIGHTENED HIM THE MOST
WAS THAT THEY WERE
GOING TO COME BACK.
AND HE SAID,
"WE WILL SEE YOU AGAIN."
DO YOU BELIEVE HE WILL?
I'M AFRAID HE WILL.
I-I DON'T WANT HIM TO,
BUT I HAVE A FEELING
THAT HE WILL.
Narrator: MEN IN BLACK --
THEY APPEAR
WITH DISTURBING REGULARITY,
SPREADING PARANOIA AND FEAR.
WHAT IS THEIR TRUE AGENDA?
IN 1966,
SALESMAN WOODY DERENBERGER
CAME FACE-TO-FACE WITH
A MOST PECULIAR MAN IN BLACK.
AND THE ENCOUNTER
WAS JUST THE FIRST
OF MANY EXTRAORDINARY VISITS.
WOODY'S DAUGHTER, TAUNIA BOWMAN,
WAS A YOUNG CHILD AT THE TIME
AND REMEMBERS HER FATHER
RETURNING HOME THAT NIGHT.
Bowman:
WHEN HE WALKED THROUGH THE DOOR,
WE ALL KNEW DAD WAS HOME.
HE WAS WHITE AS A SHEET.
Y'ALL GO TO BED.
I'D NEVER SEEN DAD LIKE THAT,
AND NOTHING EVER SCARED
MY FATHER.
MY FATHER WAS A BIG GUY.
Sheppard: MRS. DERENBERGER
SAID THAT WHEN HE CAME HOME,
HE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN
ANY WHITER
IF HE HAD BEEN LYING
IN A COFFIN.
HE LOOKED LIKE A DEAD BODY.
DADDY, WHAT'S WRONG?
GET TO BED NOW!
Bowman:
HE TOLD MY BROTHER AND I
THAT WE HAD TO GO UPSTAIRS
AND GO TO BED.
SO I SNUCK DOWNSTAIRS
AND LISTENED TO MY DAD TELLING
MY MOM THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED.
YOU'RE NOT GONNA BELIEVE
WHAT HAPPENED TO ME TODAY.
MOM TOLD DAD IF HE WAS
TRYING TO SCARE HER...
IT'S WORKING.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.
THAT'S WHEN MOM
PICKED THE PHONE UP
AND CALLED
THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT.
Narrator:
OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS,
INDRID COLD, THE GRINNING MAN,
WOULD DROP IN
ON THE DERENBERGERS,
SOMETIMES BRINGING OTHER
VISITORS, ALSO DRESSED IN BLACK.
WHERE DID YOU GUYS
COME FROM?
Bowman:
INDRID COLD KNEW WHERE WE LIVED.
HE WOULD POP UP IN WEIRD PLACES
AND THEN DISAPPEAR.
BRING TAUNIA INSIDE,
PLEASE.
AND IT WAS AT THAT POINT
THAT I WASN'T
EVEN HARDLY
ALLOWED TO PLAY OUTSIDE
BECAUSE OF ALL THE STRANGERS
IN THE AREA.
TAUNIA, COME HERE.
Redfern:
WHEN IT COMES TO THE COMPARISONS
BETWEEN INDRID COLD
AND THE MEN IN BLACK,
THERE ARE ACTUALLY A NUMBER
OF INTERESTING SIMILARITIES.
THERE'S THE GRINNING FACTOR
AND ALSO THE BLACK TOPCOAT.
THERE'S THE FACT THAT COLD KEPT
COMING BACK TO THE FAMILY HOME.
MRS. DERENBERGER, FOR EXAMPLE,
WAS SOMEWHAT CONCERNED BY THIS.
Narrator: MEN IN BLACK
HAVE MADE REPEATED VISITS
TO PROMINENT UFO RESEARCHERS.
THE EFFECT OF THESE MEETINGS
ON WOODY DERENBERGER
WAS LIFE-CHANGING.
WHAT WAS MOST FASCINATING
WAS THAT IN THE WAKE
OF THESE EVENTS,
DERENBERGER BEGAN TO DEVELOP
VERY KEEN SENSES OF E.S.P.
THIS TOTALLY FREAKED
HIS WIFE OUT
BECAUSE HE WAS
ABLE TO TELL HER --
SAY, FOR EXAMPLE,
IF SHE WAS OUT SHOPPING,
WHO SHE SPOKE TO,
WHERE SHE WENT,
WHAT SHE'D BOUGHT AT THE STORE,
THINGS LIKE THAT.
Marsh:
WE'RE DEALING WITH SOME TYPE
OF OTHERWORLDLY,
NONHUMAN BEINGS...
...WHO WERE INTERACTING
WITH THIS GUY,
YOU KNOW, CAUSING HIM TO HAVE
ALL KINDS
OF ODD THINGS HAPPEN TO HIM.
Narrator:
IN THE LATE 1960s, THERE WERE
AT LEAST FOUR SEPARATE SIGHTINGS
OF THE GRINNING MAN IN BLACK.
IT RAISES THE QUESTION --
WHO REALLY WAS INDRID COLD
AND WHAT WAS HIS AGENDA?
Lewis: HE WAS ANOTHER --
SORT OF AN M.I.B.
INDRID COLD --
HE IS THERE TO TELL YOU
THAT SOMETHING
IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
THESE GUYS -- THEY SEE
THEMSELVES AS CUSTODIANS.
THEY SEE THEMSELVES
AS BEING PART OF,
YOU KNOW, PUSHING OUR EVOLUTION
IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
Narrator: IN THIS VIEW, THE MEN
IN BLACK HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AROUND
SECRETLY
SHAPING EVENTS ON EARTH.
Sheppard: WHO ARE THEY?
YOU KNOW, WHO ARE THEY?
I BELIEVE THAT THEY COME BACK
AND THEY CHECK ON,
YOU KNOW, PROGRESS.
SO, IF I HAD TO SAY
WHO INDRID COLD WAS,
I WOULD SAY INDRID COLD
WAS PROBABLY OUR BROTHER --
OUR BROTHER FROM ANOTHER WORLD.
Narrator:
WHILE SOME IMAGINE MEN IN BLACK
ARE BENEVOLENT GUARDIANS,
OTHER CLUES POINT
TO A MUCH DARKER AGENDA.
Redfern:
WHAT'S PARTICULARLY INTERESTING
ABOUT THE MAJORITY
OF MEN IN BLACK REPORTS
AND, IN A FASHION, PARALLELS
WITH THE INDRID COLD STORY
IS THAT PEOPLE GET
A SENSE OF DREAD FROM THEM.
AND ALSO,
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REPORTS
WHERE THE MEN IN BLACK
ARE SEEN GRINNING.
MOST PEOPLE ARE VERY SCARED AND
INTIMIDATED BY THE MEN IN BLACK,
NOT JUST BY THEIR THREATS,
BUT BY THE WAY THEY LOOK.
THEY SORT OF LOOK LIKE
PALE-FACED GHOULS OR VAMPIRES.
Narrator: NOW THERE'S EVIDENCE
THE MEN IN BLACK
MIGHT BE EVEN SCARIER
THAN IMAGINED...
THE OLDEST EVIL THERE IS.
DEMONS CALLED FORTH
BY THE DEVIL HIMSELF.
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
REVEREND DR. RAY BOECHE IS
AN ORDAINED PASTOR OF 25 YEARS
AND A PARANORMAL INVESTIGATOR.
Boeche:
I'D INVESTIGATED CASES,
NUMEROUS CASES OF PEOPLE WHO HAD
HAD THESE KINDS OF ENCOUNTERS.
I NEVER EXPECTED
THAT SOMETHING LIKE THAT
WOULD HAPPEN TO MYSELF.
Narrator: ONE AFTERNOON IN 1987,
BOECHE AND TWO COLLEAGUES
BEGAN SEARCHING THROUGH FILES
DOCUMENTING AN INFAMOUS
MEN IN BLACK CASE.
[ PIANO PLAYING ]
[ THUNDER RUMBLES ]
[ FIRE CRACKLING ]
DR. HERBERT HOPKINS
WAS A RESPECTED PSYCHIATRIST
WHO HAD PERFORMED HYPNOSIS
SESSIONS ON CLIENTS
CLAIMING TO ENCOUNTER
MEN IN BLACK.
[ Distorted ]
GOOD EVENING, DR. HOPKINS.
I NEED TO SPEAK WITH YOU
ABOUT YOUR WORK.
Boeche: THIS INDIVIDUAL,
DRESSED IN A BLACK SUIT,
BEGINS TO QUESTION HIM ABOUT --
GENERALLY ABOUT THIS UFO CASE.
VERY TALL, VERY THIN.
THESE TAPES
ARE OF NO USE TO YOU.
THEY NEED TO BE
EXPUNGED.
THIS ODD INDIVIDUAL
BEGAN TO TELL DR. HOPKINS
THAT HE SHOULDN'T
INVESTIGATE THIS,
HE SHOULD LEAVE THIS ALONE.
DO YOU SEE THE COIN?
AND SO DR. HOPKINS BEGINS
TO LOOK AT THE COIN IN HIS HAND.
Narrator: THIS MAN IN BLACK
WAS THREATENING TO DO MORE
THAN DESTROY EVIDENCE.
THE STRANGER SAYS, "IF YOU
DON'T LEAVE THIS CASE ALONE,
THAT'S WHAT WILL HAPPEN
TO YOUR HEART."
DESTROY THE TAPES,
DR. HOPKINS.
THAT WAS THE THREAT
THAT WAS MADE
BY THE MAN IN BLACK
TO DR. HOPKINS.
"IF YOU CONTINUE, I'LL CAUSE
YOUR HEART TO VANISH."
DR. HOPKINS WAS,
AGAIN, ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED.
ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED.
AND HE FOLLOWED
THE STRANGER'S INSTRUCTIONS
AND BURNED ALL OF HIS RECORDS,
BURNED HIS TAPES OF
THE HYPNOSIS SESSIONS AND SO ON,
AND WAS EXTRAORDINARILY
TRAUMATIZED --
EXTRAORDINARILY TRAUMATIZED
BY THAT EVENT.
[ WOMAN SCREAMING ]
Narrator:
GOING THROUGH HOPKINS' PAPERS
WOULD LAUNCH REVEREND BOECHE
INTO HIS OWN
TERRIFYING ENCOUNTER
WITH A DEMONIC MAN IN BLACK.
WHAT'S HAPPENING?
OH, MY GOSH.
[ GASPS ]
[ WHIMPERS ]
AND WE SAT THERE WITH OUR EYES
FIXED STRAIGHT AHEAD.
IT WAS THIS INCREDIBLE
WAVE OF TERROR
THAT -- THAT GRIPPED
ALL THREE OF US.
Narrator: RUMORS OF MEN IN BLACK
CONTINUE TO CIRCULATE.
THEIR ORIGINS UNKNOWN.
SOME SUGGEST THESE DARK FIGURES
ARE MUCH MORE SINISTER
THAN WE EVER THOUGHT.
Boeche: THE BIGGEST THING THAT
APPEARS TO PUT THEM IN THE REALM
OF THE DEMONIC
IS THE FACT THAT THEY SEEM
TO BE MORE OF A SPIRITUAL BEING
IN NATURE --
A SUPERNATURAL BEING --
AND THREATS THAT SEEM TO CARRY
VERY MUCH
A SENSE OF MALEVOLENCE.
Narrator:
JUST THIS SORT OF MEN IN BLACK
RECENTLY CROSSED PATHS
WITH CLYDE LEWIS, HOST OF
A POPULAR PARANORMAL RADIO SHOW.
Lewis:
THAT ENCOUNTER WAS BIZARRE.
HE HAD A BLACK HAT.
HE HAD A BLACK OVERCOAT,
WHITE SHIRT, BLACK TIE.
AND HE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE
HE BELONGED THERE.
Woman:
HEY, MISTER.
CAN I BUM A CIGARETTE?
I DON'T SMOKE.
WHATEVER.
THEN HE WAS GONE.
HE HAD DISAPPEARED.
I FIGURED,
"OH, MY GOSH, YOU KNOW,
"THESE GUYS ARE FOLLOWING ME,
OR THEY'RE OBSERVING ME.
SOMETHING'S GOING ON."
AND IT WAS VERY UNNERVING.
Narrator: CLYDE HAD EVERY REASON
TO FEEL APPREHENSIVE.
I TRIED TO TAKE A PICTURE OF HIM
WITH MY CELLPHONE,
AND WHEN
I SNAPPED THE PICTURE --
AND I HAD IT RIGHT ON HIM.
I PUT MY CELLPHONE ON THE GUY...
[ CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS ]
...TRY TO SNAP THE PICTURE.
HE'S NOT THERE.
AND IT JUST -- I THOUGHT,
"HOW CAN THAT HAPPEN?
"HOW CAN I PUT MY CELLPHONE
RIGHT THERE,
ARMS AWAY, SNAP THE PIC --
NOTHING?"
AND I WAS BLOWN AWAY.
Narrator: A MAN IN BLACK
SUDDENLY VANISHING IS ONE THING.
IT'S EVEN WORSE
WHEN HE UNEXPECTEDLY APPEARS.
ONE NIGHT IN 1987,
IN LINCOLN, NEBRASKA,
REVEREND BOECHE
AND TWO COLLEAGUES
WERE RESEARCHING ACCOUNTS
OF MEN IN BLACK ENCOUNTERS.
Boeche:
WE WERE AT A LONG TABLE,
AND WE WERE SORTING THROUGH
THESE DOCUMENTS
INTO SOME KIND OF RATIONAL ORDER
SO WE COULD REALLY BEGIN
TO EXAMINE THEM.
[ INDISTINCT CONVERSATION ]
YEAH,
EXACTLY LIKE IT SAYS.
AND AS WE SAT THERE,
I BEGAN TO BE AWARE
OF JUST A VERY UNEASY FEELING.
Narrator: IT MAY HAVE BEEN
UNWISE TO DELVE TOO DEEPLY
INTO THE MISDEEDS
OF THE MEN IN BLACK.
[ GASPS ]
THE EVIL DOCUMENTED
IN THOSE FILES
CAME TO LIFE
DIRECTLY BEFORE THEM.
Boeche: IT WAS
THIS INCREDIBLE WAVE OF TERROR
THAT GRIPPED ALL THREE OF US.
AND WE JUST SAT THERE
UNABLE TO MOVE.
Narrator: SATISFIED
IT HAD TERRIFIED ITS VICTIMS,
THIS DEMONIC MAN IN BLACK
VANISHED INTO THIN AIR.
Boeche: WHEN THREE OF US HAVE
EXACTLY THE SAME EXPERIENCE
AT EXACTLY THE SAME TIME
IN EXACTLY
THE SAME CIRCUMSTANCES,
IT BEGINS TO MAKE ME WONDER,
YOU KNOW,
"WHAT SORT OF EXTERNAL FORCE
CAME INTO PLAY THERE
TO CAUSE THIS TO HAPPEN?"
SOMETHING THE THREE OF US
NEVER FORGOT.
WE'VE NEVER FORGOTTEN THAT.
WHAT THE HECK
WAS THAT?
I HAVE NO IDEA.
Narrator: AFTER THIS HARROWING
ENCOUNTER, REVEREND BOECHE
SUSPENDED THE GROUP'S RESEARCH
INTO THE MEN IN BLACK.
Boeche: IT IS DEFINITELY
A TRAUMATIC EVENT
THAT NO ONE WANTS TO REMEMBER,
NO ONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT,
AND EVERYONE WHO'S EXPERIENCED
IT WISHES THEY COULD FORGET.
AND THE SCARS NEVER GO AWAY.
THEY NEVER GO AWAY.
Narrator:
THAT LINGERING MEMORY,
A SENSE OF PROFOUND DREAD
ETCHED IN YOUR MIND
SEEMS TO BE A UNIVERSAL FEATURE
OF THE MEN IN BLACK PHENOMENON.
Redfern:
THESE CASES ARE DEFINITELY
NOT HOAXES OR HALLUCINATIONS.
TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE HAD
CREDIBLE ENCOUNTERS
THAT ARE VERY SIMILAR
TO EACH OTHER.
Boeche: IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS
VERY PSYCHOLOGICALLY SCARRING.
IT'S ALMOST AS IF YOU HAD BEEN
STALKED BY A PSYCHOPATH,
AND YOU NEVER GET OVER THAT.
VERY MUCH THE SAME THING
WITH THE MEN IN BLACK.
Lewis: THEY'RE NOT
COMIC-BOOK CHARACTERS
FOUND IN
A STEVEN SPIELBERG MOVIE.
THEY'RE REAL INDIVIDUALS.
THEY ARE HERE TO OBSERVE US.
THEY MOVE ABOUT
IN A CLANDESTINE WAY.
AND THEY MAY EVEN HAVE CONTACT
OR MAY EVEN ARE IN CAHOOTS
WITH PERHAPS A SATANIC PATH.
BEWARE -- M.I.B.s ARE REAL.