Monsters and Mysteries in America (2013–…): Season 3, Episode 5 - Vermont Pigman, Bridge Where I Died, Project Stargate - full transcript
In a small Vermont town, the legendary Pigman unleashes a beastly wrath upon trespassing teenagers; an alluring hitchhiker has monstrous plans for anyone who gives her a ride; and the classified details of a secret government program using psychic spies.
Narrator: A VERMONT TOWN PLAGUED
BY A HOG-HUMAN MONSTER.
[ CREATURE HISSES ]
[ SCREAMS ]
GUYS, GUYS, GO, GO!
IT LOOKED LIKE A MAN,
EXCEPT FOR A PIG'S HEAD.
[ CREATURE SQUEALS ]
IT'S TERRIFYING.
[ SCREAMS ]
Narrator:
THE NORTH CAROLINA BRIDGE
WITH A HITCHHIKER FROM HELL.
YOU OKAY?
THIS GIRL LOOKED LIKE
SHE HAD BEEN IN A CAR WRECK.
IT WAS BIZARRE.
IT WAS CREEPY.
[ HISSES ]
Beasley:
SCARED ME TO DEATH.
Narrator: A CONSPIRACY STORY
TOO BIZARRE TO BE BELIEVED
NOW REVEALED TO BE TRUE.
THE SECRET GOVERNMENT AGENCY
THAT USED PSYCHICS
ON A SUPERNATURAL MISSION.
PROJECT STAR GATE
WAS REALLY LIKE SOMETHING
STRAIGHT OUT OF "THE X-FILES."
IT WAS A PLAN TO PSYCHICALLY SPY
UPON OUR ENEMIES.
CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
Narrator:
IN AMERICA'S FAR NORTHEAST,
WITHIN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS
OF VERMONT,
THE COUNTRYSIDE TOWN
OF NORTHFIELD.
BY ALL APPEARANCES,
NORTHFIELD IS A QUINTESSENTIAL
NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE,
A CHARMING MIX
OF FARMING FAMILIES
AND COLLEGE STUDENTS.
WHAT'S CURIOUS
IS NORTHFIELD'S OBSESSION
WITH A MOST UNUSUAL BEAST,
A PIGMAN MONSTROSITY
THAT'S TERRORIZED LOCALS
FOR DECADES.
IT SOUNDED LIKE A PIG SQUEAL,
AND IT JUST KEPT GETTING CLOSER.
AND WE WERE SCARED.
IT WAS A MASSIVE,
PINK, NAKED FIGURE
THAT WAS PART
VERY MUSCULAR HUMAN
AND PART PIG.
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Narrator:
IN ORDER TO REALLY UNDERSTAND
NORTHFIELD'S MONSTER LEGEND,
YOU HAVE TO GET OUT
TO THE EDGE OF TOWN,
TO A PLACE WHERE THE WOODS
DESCEND INTO A RUGGED RAVINE.
A SINGLE WINDING ROAD
IS THE ONLY WAY IN...
AND THE ONLY WAY OUT.
LOCALS CALL IT
"THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL."
Paulger:
I WOULD NOT WANT TO BE
IN THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL
ALONE AT NIGHT.
IT WOULD BE REALLY EASY
FOR SOMETHING TO HIDE UP THERE.
THERE'S CAVES, THERE'S REALLY,
REALLY THICK UNDERBRUSH.
Abramovich: IT DEFINITELY
IS A CREEPY REGION.
I MEAN, YOU'RE SO ISOLATED.
IF SOMETHING
WERE TO HAPPEN TO YOU
UP IN DEVIL'S WASHBOWL,
THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE
NO ONE WOULD FIND YOU.
Narrator:
IN FACT, THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL
HAS A LONG HISTORY OF VERY ODD
PIG-RELATED ENCOUNTERS.
Abramovich:
THE STRANGENESS STARTED IN 1971,
WHEN A YOUNG MAN,
ABOUT 20 YEARS OLD,
DISAPPEARED FROM A FARM
ON DARBY HILL.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO THE LEGEND,
THE YOUNG MAN HANDLED HIS PIGS
WITH CRUELTY.
ONE NIGHT,
HE MET WITH A GRUESOME END.
COME GET YOUR FOOD.
[ PIG SQUEALS ]
[ LAUGHS ]
[ SQUEALING CONTINUES ]
[ CREATURE SNARLS ]
[ SQUEALS ]
[ SCREAMS ]
Abramovich:
ONE VARIATION OF THE STORY SAYS
THAT THEY NEVER FOUND THE BODY.
HE HAD BEEN EATEN BY PIGS.
THE PARENTS LAUNCHED
A SEARCH PARTY
AND COMBED THE AREA
FROM DEVIL'S WASHBOWL,
PRETTY MUCH
ALL OF WESTERN NORTHFIELD.
HE WAS NEVER FOUND AGAIN.
NOTHING EVER TURNED UP,
NO TRACE OF HIM.
YOU KNOW, THAT WAS THAT.
BUT WEIRD THINGS
STARTED HAPPENING
AROUND THE DARBY HILL AREA.
[ RATTLING ]
A FARMER ONE NIGHT
HEARD COMMOTION,
LIKE HIS GARBAGE CANS
WERE BEING GONE THROUGH.
LIKE, HE HAD THE OLD TIN --
YOU KNOW, THE OLD METAL CANS,
AND HE JUST HEARD SOMETHING
KNOCK THEM OVER.
Narrator: HE FIGURED IT WAS
A WILD ANIMAL, PERHAPS A BEAR.
WHAT HE SAW NEXT BORE
NO RELATION TO ANYTHING NATURAL,
ANYTHING KNOWN.
Abramovich: HE GOES OUT,
AND HE SAW
THE NAKED BODY OF A MAN,
BUT IT HAD THE GROTESQUE HEAD
OF A PIG.
[ SQUEALS ]
[ ROARS ]
[ GUNSHOT ]
[ SQUEALS ]
WHAT HAPPENED?
WHAT WAS THAT?
IT WAS A PIGMAN.
A WHAT?
NOTHING.
Narrator:
AFTER AN ENCOUNTER LIKE THIS,
A STAID VERMONT FARMER
MIGHT BE HESITANT
TO TALK ABOUT THE INTRUDER.
WHO WOULD BELIEVE HIM?
ONLY PIGMAN WOULDN'T STAY
IN THE SHADOWS FOR LONG.
IN THE FALL OF 1971,
LOCAL TEENS
WERE AT THE NORTHFIELD
HIGH SCHOOL DANCE.
COME ON.
I GOT A SURPRISE FOR YOU GUYS.
I HOPE YOU BROUGHT VODKA.
YEAH, WHERE'S THE BOOZE
YOU PROMISED?
OF COURSE I DID.
I GOT IT. I'M IN CONTROL.
A FEW OF THE ROWDIER KIDS
WENT BEHIND THE SCHOOL,
UP TO NO GOOD,
WITH A BELLY FULL OF COURAGE.
ALL RIGHT.
I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW LAME
THAT DANCE WAS.
Abramovich:
THEY, YOU KNOW, WENT OUT THERE
TO, LIKE, DRINK BEER,
SMOKE CIGARETTES,
STUFF LIKE THAT,
AND AS THEY WERE OUT THERE,
THEY HEARD WEIRD NOISES COMING
FROM SORT OF LIKE
BEYOND THE SAND PIT,
WHERE THE WOODS CREPT UP.
[ SQUEALING ]
AND ONE OF THEM
HAD A FLASHLIGHT.
WHAT WAS THAT?
HE SHINED IT OVER,
AND THEY DID NOT EXPECT
WHAT THEY SAW.
PROBABLY JUST SOMEONE
MESSING WITH US.
Abramovich:
THEY SAW THIS CREATURE,
AND IT WAS KNEELING DOWN,
EATING ROADKILL.
JUST, LIKE, EATING IT RAW --
LIKE, RIPPING HIS TEETH INTO IT,
RIPPING OFF THE FUR.
OH, GOD!
OH, MY GOD.
[ SCREAMS ]
THIS GIANT, NAKED, SCARY THING,
SQUEALING,
BUT MORE LIKE SCREAMING,
LIKE A PIG
GOING TO THE SLAUGHTER.
[ SNARLS ]
Abramovich: THE KIDS WENT BACK,
AND THEY WERE CRYING.
WHAT WAS THAT?!
SO YOU KNEW
SOMETHING WAS WRONG
WHEN A WHOLE BUNCH
OF 15- AND 16-YEAR-OLD BOYS
WERE OPENLY CRYING IN FRONT
OF THEIR HIGH SCHOOL PEERS,
'CAUSE THAT REALLY
JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN.
IT WAS A PIG, RIGHT?
IT -- IT WAS A PIG?
Narrator: AFTER THE ENCOUNTER
AT THE HIGH SCHOOL DANCE,
RESIDENTS ORGANIZED A TEAM
TO SEARCH SOME CAVES
IN THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL AREA.
Abramovich: SO, THEY WENT UP
INTO ONE OF THESE CAVES,
AND WHAT THEY FOUND
WAS ASTOUNDING.
INSIDE THE CAVE,
THEY FOUND A BED OF MATTED HAY.
[ COUGHS ]
GOD, WHAT IS THAT SMELL?
THAT IS WICKED BAD!
AND THEY FOUND A PILE
OF JUST DEAD ANIMALS.
MOST OF THEM WERE BONES, THOUGH.
BONES.
Man: IS THAT A CAT?
Man: GUYS, LOOK.
Narrator: THIS MAY HAVE BEEN
EVIDENCE OF THE CREATURE,
BUT THE SEARCH PARTY DIDN'T
TURN UP THE PIGMAN HIMSELF.
STILL, RESIDENTS OF NORTHFIELD
SWEAR HE'S THERE.
PIGMAN --
HEAD OF A HOG,
CLAWS FOR HANDS, HUMAN FEET.
WHERE THE MAN ENDS
AND THE PIG BEGINS
IS ANYBODY'S GUESS.
STORIES OF MONSTROUS PIGS
GO BACK AS FAR AS HOLLAND
IN THE 15th CENTURY,
OFTEN TIED TO WITCHCRAFT
AND PHYSICAL DEFORMITY.
OVER THE YEARS,
VARIOUS THEORIES HAVE CIRCULATED
ABOUT THE ORIGINS
OF NORTHFIELD'S PIGMAN.
Abramovich:
ONE WEIRD THEORY ABOUT PIGMAN
WAS THIS KID
HAD A PHYSICAL DEFORMITY,
AND SHUNNED BY SOCIETY,
MISUNDERSTOOD,
HE TOOK UP RESIDENCE
IN THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL.
Levitt:
IT COULD HAVE BEEN A PERSON
WHO WAS LIVING
KIND OF IN A FERAL WAY.
[ SNARLS ]
Abramovich: IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
SORT OF LIKE THIS MUTATED HUMAN,
YOU KNOW, DAMNED AT BIRTH.
Narrator: THE ENCOUNTERS HAVE
BEEN REPORTED TIME AND AGAIN.
Abramovich:
IT WAS IN THE '80s.
DEVIL'S WASHBOWL
BECAME SORT OF THIS PLACE
WHERE CURIOUS TEENAGERS
WOULD GO UP
TO SORT OF GET A SCARE
AND TO LOOK
FOR THE INFAMOUS PIGMAN.
BUT IT ALSO BECOME SORT OF
ANOTHER SORT OF DESTINATION,
LIKE A LOVER'S LANE.
THIS ONE INCIDENT HAPPENED
TO THIS ONE COUPLE
THAT WENT UP THERE.
THEY WERE UP THERE AT NIGHT,
AND THEY WERE MAKING OUT
IN THE CAR.
Severy: THE YOUNG FELLAS USED TO
TAKE THEIR GIRLS UP THERE
AND TELL THEM ABOUT THE PIGMAN.
AND THEY COULD GET
THEIR GIRLFRIENDS
TO CUDDLE UP A LITTLE CLOSER.
Narrator: THEY PROBABLY THOUGHT
THEY WERE ALONE AT LAST.
THEY WERE WRONG.
I GOT TO GO
TO THE BATHROOM.
[ SCOFFS ]
THAT IS SO ROMANTIC.
Narrator: "WHEN NATURE CALLS"
TOOK ON A WHOLE NEW MEANING.
Abramovich: THE GIRLFRIEND
WAS WAITING IN THE CAR.
[ CREATURE SNORTS ]
[ SQUEALS ]
AAH!
ALL OF SUDDEN, SHE HEARD,
LIKE, THIS NOISE,
AND SHE LOOKED OVER,
AND HER BOYFRIEND
HAD BEEN THROWN
INTO THE UNDERBRUSH.
[ SCREAMS ]
SHE WAS FREAKING OUT
AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW,
AND SHE STARTED SCREAMING.
Narrator: THE COUPLE'S SCREAMS
DROVE THE CREATURE AWAY.
OH, MY GOD,
WHAT WAS THAT THING?!
I DON'T KNOW.
THAT WAS NOT
A NORMAL PERSON!
THE YOUNG MAN
SURVIVED THE ATTACK.
YOUR SHIRT.
AND HIS INJURIES
WOULD REVEAL
AN IMPORTANT CLUE
ABOUT THE PIGMAN.
[ GASPS ]
OH, MY GOD!
Abramovich: HE SAID THAT
INSTEAD OF HANDS, HE HAD, LIKE,
A SET OF TWO GIANT,
JUTTING CLAWS
THAT WERE, LIKE, IN THE AREA
WHERE HIS HANDS
SHOULD HAVE BEEN,
WHICH WAS AN INTERESTING DETAIL.
AND HE HAD THE PROOF
ON HIS STOMACH.
Narrator:
RIGHT UP TO THE PRESENT,
ENCOUNTERS WITH THE PIGMAN
CONTINUE.
Paulger:
WE KIND OF HEARD SOME RUSTLING.
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN,
IT LOOKED LIKE A MAN,
EXCEPT FOR A PIG'S HEAD.
AND HE WAS NAKED, PALE WHITE.
[ GIRL SCREAMS ]
OH, MY GOD.
IT'S TERRIFYING.
[ CREATURE SQUEALS ]
Narrator:
IN NORTHFIELD, VERMONT,
THE LEGEND OF A PROWLING PIGMAN
HAS FRIGHTENED AND FASCINATED
TOWNSFOLK FOR DECADES.
HALF HUMAN, HALF HOG,
100% HIDEOUS.
Levitt:
PART OF WHAT'S SO TERRIFYING
ABOUT A HALF-HUMAN,
HALF-PIG ANIMAL SPECIFICALLY
IS THAT THEY ARE
SO MUCH LIKE US.
THEY HAVE SKIN LIKE OURS.
THEY'RE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT.
AND IT'S AN ANIMAL THAT WE EAT
A LOT THAT IS TURNING ON US.
Narrator: AMANDA PAULGER
IS A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
AND A NORTHFIELD NATIVE.
SHE KNOWS ALL TOO WELL
THE TALES OF THE PIGMAN.
WHEN I WAS 16,
I WAS AT A PARTY,
AND MY FRIENDS AND I DECIDED
THAT WE WERE GOING TO WALK
DOWN THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL ROAD.
CHECK THIS OUT.
ISN'T THIS CLOSE
TO THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL?
EXACTLY, DUDE.
WE SHOULD GO FIND THE PIGMAN.
BUT NO!
THERE'S NO WAY THAT'S REAL.
A REALLY, REALLY BAD IDEA.
COME ON.
LET'S JUST GO.
Paulger:
WELL, AT FIRST IT STARTED OUT,
YOU KNOW, AS A JOKE.
I KIND OF JUST THOUGHT,
"OH, THIS WHOLE THING
IS JUST HILARIOUS.
THERE'S NO WAY PIGMAN
COULD BE REAL.
HEY, PIGMAN!
OH, COME ON.
WHERE IS HE?
SO, WE STARTED WALKING
DOWN THE ROAD.
WE PROBABLY GOT ABOUT A MILE IN.
AND IT'S IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE NIGHT.
IT'S VERY, VERY DARK
ON THAT ROAD.
YOU CAN'T SEE ANY MOONLIGHT.
THERE'S NO STARS.
THE CANOPY FROM THE TREES
IS SO HEAVY
THAT THERE'S NO OTHER LIGHT
GETTING IN.
[ THUD ]
WE STARTED NOTICING BRANCHES
FALLING RIGHT IN FRONT OF US.
MAYBE PIGMAN
DID THAT, TOO.
[ LAUGHS ]
YEAH, I'M SURE HE DID.
IT WAS A LITTLE WINDY,
SO WE FIGURED,
"OH, IT'S PROBABLY JUST THE WIND
KNOCKING BRANCHES DOWN."
BUT WE NOTICED IT
EVERY LIKE 30 SECONDS.
THERE WAS A BRANCH,
AND IT WAS ALWAYS
RIGHT IN FRONT OF US.
AND THERE'S CERTAINLY NO WAY
THAT A COYOTE, A DOG, OR A BEAR
WOULD BE THROWING STICKS AT US.
[ CREATURE SQUEALS IN DISTANCE ]
GUYS, I THINK
I JUST HEARD SQUEALING.
LOOK, RELAX.
MY FRIEND SWORE
THAT SHE HEARD SQUEALING.
YOU'RE JUST FREAKING US OUT.
I THINK
I HEARD IT, TOO.
THIS IS WICKED SCARY.
WE STARTED GETTING
REALLY FREAKED OUT.
WE SAID TO OURSELVES,
"WHAT IF WE MADE HIM ANGRY?
"WHAT IF HE COMES AFTER US?
OH, MY GOD, WHAT IF THE PIGMAN
PUT THESE TREES HERE?"
MARK, YOU ALL RIGHT?
AND WE DECIDED
TO TURN AROUND.
WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE.
I CAN'T SEE A THING.
IT'S WAY TOO DARK.
IT'S SERIOUSLY DARK
OUT HERE, GUYS.
ONE OF MY FRIENDS SCREAMS
AND SAYS,
"I SWEAR I JUST SAW THE PIGMAN.
I SWEAR I JUST SAW HIM."
SHE WAS SCARED.
I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING.
[ CREATURE SQUEALS ]
IT LOOKED LIKE A MAN,
EXCEPT FOR A PIG'S HEAD.
AND HE CAME OUT OF THE WOODS,
AND HE WAS NAKED AND JUST WHITE.
LIKE, REALLY, REALLY PALE WHITE.
IT'S TERRIFYING.
Narrator: AMANDA'S NOT SURE
WHAT TO BELIEVE
ABOUT NORTHFIELD'S FABLED SWINE.
Paulger:
I DO THINK SOMETHING
WAS THROWING THOSE BRANCHES
AT US.
I DEFINITELY THINK THERE
COULD BE SOMETHING UP THERE.
I AM STILL REALLY AFRAID
OF THOSE WOODS
AND THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S OUT THERE.
AND I WOULDN'T WANT TO TAKE
THE RISK OF GOING OUT THERE.
[ CREATURE GROWLS ]
Narrator:
IN THE MIDDLE OF NORTH CAROLINA
SITS THE SMALL SETTLEMENT
OF JAMESTOWN,
A COMMUNITY OF BARELY 3,000.
IT FEELS LIKE EVERYBODY
KNOWS ONE ANOTHER.
AND THERE'S ONE MORE RESIDENT
KNOWN TO ONE AND ALL.
SHE'S BEEN HERE
FOR NEARLY A CENTURY.
Tomlin: I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE
PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED HER
BELIEVE IN WHAT THEY SAW.
THEY KNOW THEY EXPERIENCED
SOMETHING OUT THERE.
Narrator:
ON THE EDGE OF TOWN,
A COUNTRY ROAD AND WHAT APPEARS
TO BE AN ORDINARY BRIDGE.
IT'S ACTUALLY A PLACE
THAT'S CAUGHT IN A LIMBO
OF ANOTHER TIME,
A NIGHT WHEN A YOUNG WOMAN
LOST HER WAY HOME.
LYDIA THE HITCHHIKER --
SOMEHOW, HER FATE
BECAME PRISONER TO THIS BRIDGE,
AND SHE'S BEEN YEARNING
TO ESCAPE EVER SINCE.
THE STORY OF LYDIA
IS ONE OF THOSE STORIES
THAT NEVER GOES AWAY.
AND FOR GENERATIONS,
CHILDREN IN THIS AREA
HAVE GROWN UP
HEARING THE TALE OF LYDIA.
[ HISSES ]
Narrator:
THE INFAMOUS JAMESTOWN BRIDGE.
IT WAS BUILT IN THE EARLY 1900s
TO ACCOMMODATE TRAINS
ALONG THE SOUTHERN
RAILROAD NETWORK.
LESS WELL PLANNED
WAS THE NARROW, TREACHEROUS ROAD
LEADING TO THE UNDERPASS.
BACK THEN,
THERE WERE MANY ACCIDENTS.
PEOPLE SAY THAT THERE WERE
MANY FATALITIES THERE
OVER THE YEARS.
Narrator: THE BRIDGE KNOWN
FOR ITS MANY HAZARDS
HAS BECOME EVEN MORE FAMOUS
FOR A HITCHHIKER.
HER APPEARANCES AT THE BRIDGE
BEGAN BACK IN THE 1920s
ON A NIGHT
THAT HELD SUCH PROMISE
BUT TURNED INTO TRAGEDY.
SHE WAS COMING HOME
FROM THIS WONDERFUL EVENING
WHERE SHE HAD BEEN DANCING
WITH HER BOYFRIEND.
LYDIA, WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD
YOU EVER GO TO PROM WITH ME?
[ CHUCKLES ]
I DIDN'T WANT TO BE AN OLD MAID.
YEAH, WELL,
YOU COULD HAVE GONE WITH SAM,
OR ANYBODY ELSE IN TOWN.
[ CHUCKLES ]
I DIDN'T WANT TO GO
WITH ANYBODY ELSE.
I'M GONNA LOVE YOU
TILL THE DAY I DIE.
AND HER LIFE WAS CUT SHORT
BY THIS TRAGIC ACCIDENT.
[ SCREAMS ]
AND YOU SEE THIS YOUNG WOMAN,
THIS TORTURED SOUL,
WHO IS OUT THERE
AT THE UNDERPASS,
STILL TRYING TO FIND
HER WAY HOME.
OVER THE YEARS,
DOZENS OF PEOPLE HAVE CLAIMED
TO HAVE SEEN HER
OR PICKED HER UP.
Narrator: DESPERATE FOR A RIDE,
HITCHHIKING ON THE ROAD --
ANY GOOD SAMARITAN
WOULD WANT TO HELP.
Renegar:
THE FIRST RECORDED STORY
OF SOMEONE PICKING UP LYDIA
WAS IN 1924.
A MAN ON HIS WAY HOME
FROM THE LATE SHIFT
SAW THE GIRL STANDING THERE
BESIDE THE UNDERPASS.
Narrator: FOLKLORISTS RECORD
HIS NAME AS BURKE HARDISON.
SO, HE PULLS OVER
ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
AND THAT'S WHEN HE
IS STARTLED BY HER APPEARANCE.
[ DOOR CLOSES ]
ARE YOU OKAY?
SHE APPEARS BEATEN...
DO YOU NEED A DOCTOR?
...AS IF SOMEONE
HAS BEATEN HER UP
OR SHE'S BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT.
Moore Brown: AS HE DRIVES,
HE FEELS MORE AND MORE
DREAD AND FEAR.
SHE WAS SILENTLY SITTING THERE,
AND HE'S GETTING
MORE FRIGHTENED.
AS HE GOT CLOSER TO THE STREET,
SHE INDICATED THAT
THAT WAS THE STREET.
SO HE TURNED DOWN THE STREET.
WAIT HERE, OKAY?
WAIT HERE.
Narrator:
THEY ARRIVED AT A HOUSE
ON JOHNSON STREET,
NEAR JAMESTOWN.
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
THE DOOR OPENED.
AN ELDERLY WOMAN STOOD THERE.
HE SAID...
HELLO, MA'AM.
I'M SORRY IT'S SO LATE,
BUT I DO BELIEVE I HAVE
YOUR DAUGHTER IN MY CAR.
THE WOMAN SHOOK HER HEAD
AND SAID,
"NO, NO, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE."
NO, MY DAUGHTER
DIED YEARS AGO
IN A TERRIBLE
CAR WRECK
ON THE CURVE DOWN BELOW
THE JAMESTOWN BRIDGE.
AND SHE PICKED UP
A PICTURE AND SAID,
"THIS IS MY DAUGHTER, LYDIA."
Narrator: ALL THESE STORIES END
IN A SIMILAR WAY --
THE YOUNG HITCHHIKER GONE,
AS IF SHE HAD NEVER
BEEN THERE AT ALL.
THROUGH THE YEARS,
THE ROADSIDE ENCOUNTERS
WITH LYDIA
HAVE TURNED MORE SINISTER
AND DANGEROUS.
IMAGINE COMING UP ON
A HITCHHIKER AT 2:30 AT NIGHT.
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
THIS GIRL
WAS ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
YOU OKAY?
IT WAS BIZARRE.
IT WAS CREEPY.
IT SCARED ME TO DEATH.
Narrator: IN NORTH CAROLINA,
IN THE SMALL SETTLEMENT
KNOWN AS JAMESTOWN,
THERE'S A BRIDGE THAT SEAMS
TO EXIST AS A WAY STATION
BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT.
GENERATIONS OF TRAVELERS
CLAIM TO HAVE SEEN
A YOUNG FEMALE HITCHHIKER.
SHE NEVER SEEMS TO LEAVE.
THAT'S WHAT TOM BEASLEY SAW
ONE NIGHT IN 1972
WHEN HE WAS DRIVING
NEAR THE JAMESTOWN BRIDGE.
I NEVER BELIEVED
THE LEGEND OF LYDIA.
I JUST...
I WAS A NONBELIEVER.
Narrator:
THAT WOULD SOON CHANGE.
ONE NIGHT, TOM AND A BUDDY WERE
RETURNING HOME LATE TO JAMESTOWN
FROM THE NEARBY CITY
OF GREENSBORO.
WE'D GONE OVER THERE,
I GUESS YOU COULD SAY,
FOR A NIGHT ON THE TOWN.
Narrator:
IT WAS 2:00 IN THE MORNING
AS THEY DROVE THE DESERTED ROAD.
SUDDENLY, TOM SPOTTED
SOMETHING STRANGE AHEAD.
Beasley:
AS I WAS COMING DOWN THE HILL,
THE GIRL WAS STANDING
ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
Narrator: AT FIRST, HE DIDN'T
QUITE BELIEVE HIS EYES.
Beasley: THEN I PASSED HER.
THIS GIRL LOOKED LIKE
SHE HAD BEEN IN A CAR WRECK.
OBVIOUSLY, SHE'S IN DISTRESS.
I WOKE MY FRIEND UP.
YOU SEE A YOUNG LADY
ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD?
AND HE SAID, "YOU'RE CRAZY."
THERE'S SOMEONE BACK THERE.
I THINK SHE NEEDS HELP.
I'M TURNING AROUND.
WE WENT BACK TO SEE
IF THE GIRL WAS STILL THERE,
AND WE WERE GOING TO FIND OUT
WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS
AND, YOU KNOW,
IF SHE NEEDED HELP.
AND AT THAT POINT, MY FRIEND
SAW HER ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
BUT THIS TIME,
SHE WAS SITTING ON THE GROUND.
WAS THIS SOMEBODY
THAT WAS JUST THROWN OUT
BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD?
WAS THIS SOMEBODY
THAT HAD BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT?
SO WE PULL OVER.
HEY, THERE.
HE HAS THE WINDOW DOWN.
HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING.
I FINALLY PUNCH HIM.
I SAID, "SAY SOMETHING."
HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING.
SO I PUNCH HIM AGAIN.
DAVID, SAY SOMETHING.
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN,
HE JUST SAYS...
MOVE THE CAR.
I SAID, "WHAT?"
AND HE SAID,
"MOVE THE DAMN CAR."
[ ENGINE REVS ]
AS WE PULLED AWAY,
SHE WAS SCREAMING,
"COME BACK! COME BACK!"
COME BACK!
COME BACK!
IT WASN'T A NORMAL SOUND.
I MEAN, WE WERE TERRIFIED.
I MEAN, WE GOT OUT OF THERE
AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
AND AS WE'RE ON THE ROAD,
I SAID, "WHAT HAPPENED?"
AND HE SAID,
"YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT."
"HER FACE," HE SAID,
"IT SCARED ME TO DEATH,"
HE AND I,
AND WE KEPT ON GOING.
I KNOW WHAT THAT WAS.
I THINK I KNOW, TOO.
IT'S LIKE, "OH, MY GOD."
OH, MY GOD!
WE SAW LYDIA!
[ CHUCKLES ]
WE WERE TERRIFIED.
WE WERE TERRIFIED.
Narrator: FEW HAVE EVER TAKEN
THE TIME TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT
WHY LYDIA IS ON THAT ROAD.
WHAT IS SO HORRIBLE
ABOUT THIS STORY
IS THAT SHE IS SO YOUNG.
SHE HAD BARELY BEGUN
TO EXPERIENCE LIFE
BEFORE IT WAS TAKEN FROM HER.
[ SCREAMS ]
Narrator: MICHAEL RENEGAR,
A LOCAL HISTORIAN,
WAS DETERMINED TO FIND THE TRUTH
BEHIND THE LEGEND.
RIGHT AWAY,
MICHAEL RAN INTO A PROBLEM.
OF ALL THE LYDIA'S WHO DIED
BETWEEN 1900 AND 1940,
ONLY ONE DIED
IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.
THIS WOMAN WAS LYDIA J. FIELDS.
SHE DIED IN 1921.
HOWEVER, SHE WAS 64 YEARS OLD.
Narrator:
BASIC TO THE LEGEND
IS A YOUNG WOMAN
DYING BY THE BRIDGE.
ONE DAY, RENEGAR WAS PLAYING
MUSIC WITH FRIENDS
WHEN HE STUMBLED UPON
WHAT MIGHT BE THE REAL NAME
BEHIND THE LEGEND.
IT WAS A SONG
BY THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN,
AND IT WAS CALLED
"BRINGING MARY HOME."
WHEN I HEARD THE LYRICS,
EVERYTHING JUST SORT OF
FELL IN PLACE.
IT'S THE SAME STORY, BASICALLY.
AT THE END OF THE SONG,
THE LADY TELLS HIM
THAT HER DAUGHTER DIED
IN A WRECK JUST DOWN THE ROAD
AND TELLS HIM HE'S THE 13th ONE
THAT'S BEEN THERE
BRINGING MARY HOME.
I SAID, "AHA. MARY."
I WAS STUNNED BECAUSE THIS
WAS THE EXACT SAME STORY
THAT PEOPLE TELL
ABOUT THE JAMESTOWN UNDERPASS.
THE SONG PROVIDES MORE EVIDENCE
THAT HER NAME WAS MARY
INSTEAD OF LYDIA.
Narrator:
AND RENEGAR WAS ABLE TO FIND
SOME SUPPORTING EVIDENCE.
I FOUND THREE PEOPLE
WHO REMEMBERED AN ACCIDENT
AT THE UNDERPASS IN WHICH
A YOUNG LADY WAS KILLED.
THEY THOUGHT IT WAS MARY
OR MARY ANNE OR MARY JANE --
SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE.
THE ONLY THING
THEY WERE SURE ABOUT
WAS THAT HER NAME WAS NOT LYDIA.
Narrator: AND A CHECK
OF THE COUNTY RECORDS
ADDED FURTHER CONFIRMATION.
Renegar: I SOON FOUND OUT
THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF WOMAN
NAMED MARY WHO DIED
IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD
IN GUILFORD COUNTY.
I BECAME MORE DETERMINED
THAN EVER
TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH
OF THIS STORY.
Narrator: HE BEGAN TO HUNT
FOR THE HITCHHIKER'S HOME.
I WAS TOLD A STORY
BY A YOUNG WOMAN
WHO GOT IN TOUCH WITH ME
THAT SHE LIVED
IN A HOUSE IN HIGH POINT
WITH HER PARENTS.
Narrator:
THE WOMAN'S FAMILY RESIDED
IN AN OLD HOUSE
ON JOHNSON STREET,
A STREET THAT'S LONG BEEN TIED
TO THE LYDIA LEGEND.
Renegar:
THE YOUNG LADY TOLD ME THAT
ONE DAY SHE WALKED
INTO THE LIVING ROOM
AND SAW AND OLD LADY
STANDING THERE.
AND SHE WAS STARTLED.
THE OLD LADY LOOKED AT HER
AND SAID...
[ Echoing ]
YOU LOOK LIKE MY MARY.
...AND TURNED
AND WALKED AROUND THE CORNER.
WHEN SHE LOOKED,
THE LADY WASN'T THERE.
SHE STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS
OF THE NEIGHBORS.
AND SOMEONE TOLD HER
THAT THERE WAS AN OLD LADY
WHO HAD LIVED IN THAT HOUSE
UNTIL SHE DIED,
AND THAT THE OLD LADY'S DAUGHTER
HAD DIED MANY YEARS AGO
IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
OUT IN JAMESTOWN.
HER NAME WAS MARY.
Narrator:
RENEGAR THINKS THE NAMES
OF THE TWO ILL-FATED WOMEN,
LYDIA AND MARY,
ONE OLD AND ONE YOUNG,
EVENTUALLY BECAME ENTWINED,
AND AT LEAST SINCE THE 1950s,
JAMESTOWN'S PHANTOM HITCHHIKER
HAS BEEN CALLED LYDIA.
Tomlin:
PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE FEAR
THAT THEY FELT AT THAT MOMENT,
HOW UNEASY THEY FELT
BEING IN HER PRESENCE.
MOVE THE DAMN CAR.
AND THE STRIKING THING
TO ME IS HOW
SOMETIMES, YEARS LATER
AFTER THEIR EXPERIENCE,
THEY STILL FEEL THIS FEAR
INSIDE OF THEM.
[ HISSES ]
Narrator:
FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS,
IN THE SMALL TOWN
OF JAMESTOWN, NORTH CAROLINA,
SCORES OF PEOPLE
HAVE HAD SIGHTINGS
OF A STRANGE-LOOKING HITCHHIKER
NEAR A LOCAL BRIDGE.
Moore Brown: I THINK PEOPLE
ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE
LYDIA THE HITCHHIKER
BECAUSE SHE'S TIED TO THAT SPOT.
THAT'S WHERE SHE DIED.
SHE HAS TO WAIT ENDLESSLY
TO BE BROUGHT HOME.
Narrator: OVER THE YEARS,
WITNESSES
HAVE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE
OF THE TERRIFYING TEEN
IN TATTERS.
Moore Brown: I MYSELF PERSONALLY
FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES,
LIKE IN THE CASE
OF THE HITCHHIKER,
THEY'RE ROOTED TO THAT PLACE.
THEY'RE TIED TO THE PLACE
WHERE THE TRAGEDY HAPPENED,
AND THEY CAN'T MOVE ON.
I THINK PEOPLE
CAN GET LOST IN TIME.
I BELIEVE SOMETHING
SUCH AS AN ACCIDENT --
THEY MAY HAVE TROUBLE
FINDING THEIR WAY HOME.
TO THIS DAY, I STILL THINK BACK
ABOUT THAT NIGHT.
AND I CAN HEAR
THE GIRL SCREAMING.
COME BACK!
COME BACK!
Narrator: HALFWAY BETWEEN
BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON, D.C.,
SITS THE ARMY BASE
AT FORT MEADE.
IT ONCE HARBORED
A MYSTERIOUS MILITARY UNIT,
ONE THAT TURNED PSYCHICS
INTO SOLDIERS.
Smith: I WAS A PSYCHIC SPY
FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
MY JOB WAS TO USE
MY MENTAL POWERS
TO COLLECT INTELLIGENCE
FROM FOREIGN THREATS
IN SUPPORT OF THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT'S GOALS AND MISSIONS.
Narrator: DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
AND FIRST-PERSON TESTIMONY
FINALLY REVEALS THE DETAILS
OF A GOVERNMENT-RUN
PARANORMAL PROGRAM,
CODE NAME "STAR GATE."
THERE ARE PEOPLE
WHO SEEM TO POSSESS
EXTRAORDINARY ABILITIES --
CLAIRVOYANCE, TELEPATHY,
MIND OVER MATTER.
WHILE MANY DOUBT
THESE POWERS EXIST,
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
ACTUALLY TOOK THE CHANCE
THEY MIGHT BE REAL.
PROJECT STAR GATE
WAS REALLY LIKE SOMETHING
STRAIGHT OUT OF "THE X-FILES."
IT WAS A PLAN
AT THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR
TO TRAIN PEOPLE TO PSYCHICALLY
SPY UPON OUR ENEMIES.
Narrator: THE MILITARY CHOSE
A HANDFUL OF SOLDIER
UNLIKE ANYONE
EVER EQUIPPED FOR COMBAT.
THEY FELT THAT THEY MIGHT BE
EITHER EXTREMELY LUCKY
OR MAY HAVE SOME BENT
TOWARDS PSYCHIC PERFORMANCE.
Narrator:
THE IDEA WAS FARFETCHED --
RECRUITS CAPABLE
OF REMOTE VIEWING,
AN ABILITY TO PROJECT ONE'S SELF
PSYCHICALLY TO REMOTE LOCATIONS
OR TARGETS.
IF IT WORKED,
IT WOULD BE E.S.P. ON STEROIDS.
WHY WAS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
WILLING TO DABBLE
IN THESE DARK ARTS?
APPARENTLY,
THEY WERE DESPERATE --
DESPERATE DURING INFORMATION
DURING THE COLD WAR
WITH THE SOVIETS.
Redfern:
THIS WAS THE EARLY '70s.
WE'RE STILL IN THE HEIGHT
OF THE COLD WAR.
DEEP FEARS OF A WORLDWIDE
NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE.
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT
WAS LOOKING FOR
WAS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY
TO SPY ON THE ENEMY
THAT WOULDN'T BE NOTICED.
Narrator: PAUL SMITH
WAS ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S
SECRET REMOTE VIEWERS.
EVEN FOR SMITH, THE PROGRAM
WAS BAFFLING IN THE EXTREME.
Smith: THERE WERE TIMES
WHEN REMOTE VIEWING
JUST FELL FLAT ON ITS FACE.
BUT THERE WERE TIMES
WHEN IT WORKED REALLY WELL
AND THAT THERE WAS NO DOUBT
THAT WE HAD GOTTEN
THAT INFORMATION
THROUGH PSYCHIC MEANS.
Narrator:
UP CLOSE, THE PROCESS LOOKED
ABOUT AS COMPLICATED
AS ENTERING A ROOM
AND SITTING DOWN AT A DESK.
Smith:
A TYPICAL REMOTE-VIEWING SESSION
LOOKS ALMOST LIKE
IT WAS DESIGNED
TO PUT ANYBODY ELSE WATCHING IT
TO SLEEP.
Narrator: THE MONITOR
WOULD HAND THE REMOTE VIEWER
A SEALED ENVELOPE
WITH A TARGET WRITTEN INSIDE.
NEITHER OF THEM KNEW
WHAT THE TARGET WAS.
LET ME KNOW
WHAT COMES INTO YOUR MIND.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THESE
INSTRUCTIONS I'VE GIVEN YOU?
THE REMOTE VIEWER
WOULD BEGIN TO RECEIVE
IMPRESSIONS OF THE TARGET.
Smith:
FIRST THING IS YOU START GETTING
WHAT I CALL FRAGMENTS,
OR BITS OF PERCEPTION --
COLORS, TASTES, SMELLS, SOUNDS.
AND YOU'RE GETTING
ALL THAT DOWN.
Tallitsch:
IT'S PRETTY MUCH AS EXCITING
AS WATCHING SOMEBODY
DO A MATH PROBLEM.
IT'S NOT ALL THAT SEXY.
BUT THE RESULTS AFTER THE FACT
ARE, YOU KNOW, AMAZING.
Smith: WE WORKED ON
ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
SOVIET "R" AND "D."
THEY WOULD OFTEN RUN US
ON THINGS LIKE
HOSTAGE SITUATIONS
IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
CHINESE NUCLEAR TESTS.
AND WE WERE SUCCESSFUL
IN DOING THAT.
Narrator: AT ONE POINT,
PAUL SMITH WAS ACTUALLY ASKED
BY HIS SUPERIORS
TO TRY TO SEE INTO THE FUTURE.
THEY WANTED INFORMATION
ON FUTURE ATTACKS ON THE U.S.
Smith: SO, I SIT DOWN,
AND I GOT THIS IMPRESSION
OF THIS LARGE METAL STRUCTURE
OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WATER.
THE STRUCTURE IS MOVING.
I SOON REALIZE
IT'S SOME KIND OF VESSEL.
AND, IN FACT,
I HAD THE IMPRESSION
IT WAS AN AMERICAN DESTROYER.
THE U.S.S. STARK,
A NAVY FRIGATE,
IS ON ROUTINE PATROL
IN THE PERSIAN GULF
85 MILES NORTHEAST OF BAHRAIN.
ITS 200 OFFICERS AND CREW
HAD JUST PASSED HUMP DAY,
THE HALFWAY MARK
OF THEIR SIX-MONTH DEPLOYMENT.
WHAT'S UP WITH YOU, MAN?
THE CREW IS IN GOOD SPIRITS.
MOST WERE SETTLED
INTO THEIR BUNKS BELOW,
FULL FROM A SUNDAY DINNER
OF POTPIE.
I EVEN GOT AN IMPRESSION OF
CELERY SAUTéING IN THE GALLEY.
I MEAN, THAT SMELL WAS PRESENT.
I GOT THE IMPRESSION OF THIS...
THERE'S AN AIRCRAFT ABOVE.
...SOME WAY OFF IN THE DISTANCE.
Narrator: THE FRIGATE'S RADAR
APPEARED NORMAL.
SO, THEN THE AIRCRAFT DROPPED
ONE OF TWO OF THESE KIND OF
LONG CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS
WITH LITTLE, STUBBY WINGS
THAT MADE ROARING,
GUTTERING SOUNDS.
I DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS.
IT'S HORRIBLE!
Narrator: AT 9:07,
A LOOKOUT ON THE DECK SPOTTED
A BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT
ON THE HORIZON.
BY 9:09, IT WAS ALL TOO OBVIOUS.
THE LIGHT WAS A MISSILE HEADING
STRAIGHT FOR THE STARK.
Man: MISSILE INBOUND,
MISSILE INBOUND!
Smith:
AND THERE'S SMOKE AND FLAME,
AND THE VESSEL
KIND OF SHIVERS AND SHAKES
AND LEANS TO ONE SIDE,
AND THERE'S FIRE HOSES
ON THE DECK
AND PEOPLE SCREAMING,
ALMOST KIND OF LIKE
CHAOS GOING ON.
IT'S REALLY HARD TO EXPLAIN
UNLESS YOU'VE EXPERIENCED IT
YOURSELF.
IT WAS LIKE
I WAS SEEING THEM SCREAMING.
IT'S HORRIBLE!
Narrator:
IN FORT MEADE, MARYLAND,
A TOP-SECRET GOVERNMENT MISSION,
PROJECT STAR GATE,
EMPLOYED TELEPATHIC SPIES
IN A WAR AGAINST
AMERICA'S ENEMIES.
ON MAY 15, 1987,
PSYCHIC SPY PAUL SMITH
WAS IN SESSION,
VIEWING IN HIS MIND'S EYE
SOME SORT OF AN ATTACK
AGAINST A NAVY SHIP.
THERE'S AN AIRCRAFT ABOVE.
MISSILES RIP THROUGH
THE PORTSIDE HULL
AND EXPLODED INSIDE
THE CREW'S SLEEPING QUARTERS.
THOSE WHO WEREN'T KILLED
BY THE INITIAL BLAST
SOON PERISHED
IN A RAGING INFERNO.
THE SURPRISING THING --
SMITH'S PSYCHIC SESSION
WAS IGNORED.
LET'S CALL IT QUITS
FOR THE WEEKEND, OKAY?
NO ALARM BELLS TRIPPED,
NO WARNING FLAGS RAISED.
TWO DAYS LATER, ON MAY 17th,
SMITH'S HORRIFYING VISION
WOULD TURN OUT TO BE TRUE.
TELL YOUR SISTER
WE'RE LEAVING.
OKAY.
I WAS GETTING MY KIDS
OFF TO SCHOOL,
AND I GET A PHONE CALL
FROM OUR OPERATIONS OFFICER.
[ TELEPHONE RINGS ]
HELLO?
HE SAID, "YOU HAVEN'T SEEN
THE PAPERS YET THIS MORNING,
HAVE YOU?"
NO, I HAVEN'T.
SO I OPEN UP
THE WASHINGTON POST.
FRONT PAGE --
PHOTOGRAPH OF THE SHIP.
"U.S. SHIP HIT BY TWO
IRAQI EXOCET MISSILES."
AND IT WAS ON FIRE.
37 SAILORS WERE KILLED.
IT WAS PROBABLY
THE MOST ACCURATE
REMOTE-VIEWING SESSION
I'VE EVER DONE.
AND YET, IT HAPPENED 50 HOURS
BEFORE THE ACTUAL EVENT
TOOK PLACE.
DAD, WHAT IS IT?
IT WAS AMAZING.
COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS.
Narrator: THOUGH THEY WERE
DABBLING IN THE PARANORMAL,
PERHAPS HIS HANDLERS COULDN'T
RUN THE RISK OF ACTING ON IT.
AS VIEWERS,
WE WERE OFTEN INSULATED
FROM WHAT HAPPENED FURTHER UP
WITH OUR DATA.
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE,
WE'D HEAR, "WENT UP THE CHAIN
AND NOBODY DID ANYTHING
ABOUT IT" OR WHATEVER,
"NOBODY BELIEVED IT"
OR WHATEVER.
AND THAT WOULD BE ANNOYING.
THE CASE WITH THE STARK --
IF THE WARNING HAD GONE OUT,
THE RADARS WOULD HAVE BEEN UP.
IT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE SAVED
37 AMERICAN LIVES.
THERE SEEMS TO BE TWO SIDES
TO THE REMOTE-VIEWING PROGRAM.
ONE WAS TO LEGITIMATELY SPY
ON THE ENEMIES
AND TO PREVENT THEM
FROM DOING US HARM.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN
WAS THE RESEARCH
THAT WAS UNDERTAKEN
INTO THE UFO PHENOMENON
AND WHAT THAT MAY HAVE UNCOVERED
WITH REGARD TO UFO ACTIVITY
ON THE MOON, ON MARS,
AND EVEN RIGHT HERE ON EARTH.
Narrator: JOSEPH McMONEAGLE
WAS STAR GATE'S
FIRST REMOTE VIEWER,
DESIGNATED 001.
WHEREAS PAUL SMITH
HAD SOMEHOW MANAGED
TO SEE SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE,
McMONEAGLE WAS ASKED
TO FIND CLUES
TO A PAST EVENT
THAT COULD NOT BE EXPLAINED.
IN 1982,
AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT
WAS CAUGHT IN MILITARY
SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHS.
NOBODY COULD FIGURE OUT
WHAT THIS OBJECT WAS.
McMoneagle:
AND WHAT I DESCRIBED WAS
AN OBLIQUE OBJECT THAT WAS
ESSENTIALLY FLAT AS A PANCAKE,
APPROXIMATELY 300 FEET ACROSS,
THAT MADE A HARD RIGHT TURN --
90-DEGREE RIGHT TURN --
AT 14,000 FEET.
MY SENSE WAS
THERE WAS NO LIFE-FORMS ON IT,
THAT IT WAS
A FULLY AUTOMATED VEHICLE.
Narrator: LATER, McMONEAGLE WAS
ASKED TO REPORT TO THE PENTAGON.
THAT'S A UFO.
THAT LOOKS LIKE A UFO TO ME.
NO, NO.
THAT IS NOT A UFO.
THAT IS A HIGH-ALTITUDE
WEATHER BALLOON.
THERE, I WAS MET BY TWO --
WHAT YOU WOULD CALL, I GUESS,
TWO MEN IN BLACK.
THEY SHOWED ME A BLOW-UP PICTURE
OF THE OBJECT
THAT I HAD DESCRIBED,
AND I SAID, "OH, WOW.
THAT'S A UFO."
AND HE GOT REALLY ANGRY.
FOR YOU, FOREVER,
THAT IS A HIGH-ALTITUDE
WEATHER BALLOON.
NO, IT'S NOT.
WE'RE GOING TO YOUR COMMAND
ABOUT THIS.
Redfern:
I THINK IT'S VERY LIKELY
THAT THE OBJECT
JOE McMONEAGLE TALKED ABOUT
WAS SOME FORM OF UFO.
AFTER ALL, WHEN YOU HAVE
A 300-FOOT-LONG OBJECT
THAT CAN DO RIGHT-HAND TURNS
AT 800 MILES AN HOUR,
CLEARLY WE DON'T HAVE
THE TECHNOLOGY
TO BUILD ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
Narrator:
IF McMONEAGLE'S PSYCHIC POWERS
SENSED EXTRATERRESTRIAL OBJECTS,
HOW MUCH FATHER COULD THEY GO?
ON MAY 22, 1984,
McMONEAGLE WAS HANDED
AN ENVELOPE
WITH GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES
FOR A NEW REMOTE-VIEWING TARGET.
WHAT HE WOULD SEE NEXT
BECAME UNDOUBTEDLY
THE MOST SHOCKING REVELATION
OF THE ENTIRE STAR GATE PROJECT.
USING THE INFORMATION
IN THE ENVELOPE I PROVIDED,
EXCLUSIVELY FOCUS
YOUR ATTENTION.
NOW FOCUS ON
40.89 DEGREES NORTH.
WHAT FOLLOWS ARE BASED
ON ACTUAL C.I.A. TRANSCRIPTS
OF McMONEAGLE'S INCREDIBLE
PSYCHIC DISCOVERY.
McMoneagle: SO I CLOSED MY EYES.
I EMPTIED MY MIND.
AND MY EXPECTATION
IS THAT THE NEXT INFORMATION
THAT COMES INTO MY MIND
WILL BE PERTINENT
TO THE ACTUAL TARGET
I'M WORKING ON.
AND HE GAVE ME
THE FIRST SET OF COORDINATES,
AND MY PERCEPTION WAS THAT
IT WAS A VERY LARGE PYRAMID.
AND IT WAS DIFFERENT.
Narrator: DIFFERENT BECAUSE
THIS PYRAMID IS NOT IN EGYPT,
NOT EVEN ON EARTH.
I'M TRACKING SEVERE --
SEVERE CLOUDS,
MORE LIKE A DUST STORM.
IT'S A GEOLOGIC PROBLEM.
ONCE McMONEAGLE
WAS IN THE PSYCHIC ZONE,
A MONITOR WAS THERE
TO GUIDE HIM.
OKAY. GO BACK TO BEFORE
THE GEOLOGIC PROBLEM.
McMONEAGLE FINDS HIMSELF
CONNECTING WITH AN ALIEN
SOMEWHERE ELSE
IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM,
A RACE OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS
IN TROUBLE.
Tallitsch: THE INITIAL SHOCK
OF REMOTE-VIEWING
AN ALIEN FOR THE FIRST TIME...
YOU KNOW, QUESTION EVERYTHING
THAT YOU KNOW.
Narrator:
AT FORT MEADE ARMY BASE IN 1984,
JOE McMONEAGLE WAS PART OF
A SECRET GOVERNMENT PROGRAM,
PROJECT STAR GATE,
ATTEMPTING TO USE PSYCHIC SPIES
TO LOCATE ALIEN LIFE-FORMS.
I'M JUST SEEING
VERY LARGE PEOPLE.
VERY TALL AND THIN.
IT'S HUMANS LIKE US,
ONLY THEY SEEM TO BE
MUCH BIGGER.
Narrator:
McMONEAGLE'S CONNECTION OCCURS
AT A CRITICAL MOMENT
IN THE LIVES OF THESE BEINGS.
THEIR CIVILIZATION IS AT AN END.
McMONEAGLE IS SOMEHOW
CONNECTING TO THEM
THROUGH THE VASTNESS
OF TIME AND SPACE.
McMoneagle: THE INFORMATION
THAT I WAS GETTING
FROM THESE PARTICULAR
COORDINATES
DEALT WITH A LONG-PAST RACE
OF PEOPLE THAT WERE HUMAN.
I GOT A SENSE
THAT SOMETHING HAPPENED
THAT DISTURBED THE AREA
THAT THEY LIVED IN.
Man: WHAT IS IT
THEY'RE WAITING FOR?
EVIDENTLY,
THERE WAS A GROUP OR A PARTY
THAT WENT TO LOOK
FOR A NEW PLACE TO LIVE.
ASK HIM IF THERE'S ANYWAY YOU
CAN HELP HIM IN HIS PREDICAMENT.
[ Distorted ] IS THERE ANYTHING
I CAN DO TO HELP YOU?
Narrator:
AS HARD AS IT IS TO BELIEVE,
McMONEAGLE IS CERTAIN
HE WAS STARING
AT THE RAVAGED END
OF AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION
PREPARING TO LEAVE
WITH ITS REMNANT POPULATION.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW
WHAT YOUR TARGET WAS?
YES, I WOULD.
EVEN MORE SHOCKING,
THEY'RE HEADED TO EARTH.
I THINK IT'S HIGHLY LIKELY
THAT WE MAY BE
THE SURVIVORS
OR THE SUBSEQUENT SURVIVORS
OF THAT PARTICULAR SPECIES
OR THAT PARTICULAR RACE.
Narrator: THE IMAGES
CONTINUE TO HAUNT McMONEAGLE.
SO, EVENTUALLY, HE DECIDED TO DO
A LITTLE RESEARCH ON HIS OWN.
I'D LIKE TO GET PICTURES
FOR THESE COORDINATES ON MARS.
I WENT BY JPL,
THE JET PROPULSION LAB,
AND WENT IN AND HANDED THE GUY
THE CARD AT THE DESK AND SAID,
"I'D LIKE TO GET NEGATIVES
FOR THESE LOCATIONS ON MARS."
AND HE TOOK ONE LOOK
AT THE CARD, AND HE SAID...
OH, YOU WANT PICTURES
OF THE OLD CITY.
AND HE TURNED AROUND
AND PULLED AN ENVELOPE OUT
AND HANDED IT TO ME.
AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT,
WHERE I REMOTE VIEWED
A VERY LARGE PYRAMID,
WELL, IN FACT,
THERE'S
A FOUR-SIDED PYRAMID THERE.
IT'S LEFT ME
WITH ENOUGH INFORMATION
THAT I AM SURE
THAT I WAS REMOTE-VIEWING
SOMETHING ON MARS.
Redfern: A NUMBER OF RESEARCHES
OF PROJECT STAR GATE
BELIEVE THAT,
THANKS TO
THE REMOTE VIEWING PROGRAM,
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
HAS ACTUALLY UNCOVERED EVIDENCE
OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM,
POSSIBLY EVEN ON OUR PLANET.
IF REVEALED, OF COURSE,
THIS WOULD BE
THE BIGGEST STORY EVER.
BUT IT BEGS THE QUESTION,
WHY IS THE GOVERNMENT
WITHHOLDING IT?
Tallitsch: IF WE ALL KNEW
THAT ALIENS EXISTED,
THE GOVERNMENT
WOULD COLLAPSE OVERNIGHT.
AND NOT JUST OURS --
AROUND THE WORLD.
EVERYTHING
FROM RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
TO, YOU KNOW,
WORLD GOVERNMENTS --
FIRST-WORLD GOVERNMENTS --
WOULD COLLAPSE.
Narrator:
AS THE DETAILS OF THIS PROGRAM
ARE ONLY NOW MAKING CLEAR,
WHAT BEGAN AS AN UNCONVENTIONAL
MILITARY EXPERIMENT
MAY HAVE YIELDED
EARTH-SHAKING DISCOVERIES.
I GOT A LEGION OF MERIT
FROM MY GOVERNMENT
FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION
THAT COULD NOT BE OBTAINED
BY ANY OTHER METHOD
ON OVER 160 DIFFERENT TARGETS.
I KNOW
THAT REMOTE VIEWING WORKS.
Smith:
IT KIND OF STARTLED ME, REALLY,
THE MARVELOUS NATURE OF
WHAT WERE DOING AT FORT MEADE.
WHAT ACTUALLY HAD HAPPENED HERE,
THERE WAS NO OTHER EXPLANATION
THAN I HAD REALLY BEEN PSYCHIC
DURING THAT TIME.
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BY A HOG-HUMAN MONSTER.
[ CREATURE HISSES ]
[ SCREAMS ]
GUYS, GUYS, GO, GO!
IT LOOKED LIKE A MAN,
EXCEPT FOR A PIG'S HEAD.
[ CREATURE SQUEALS ]
IT'S TERRIFYING.
[ SCREAMS ]
Narrator:
THE NORTH CAROLINA BRIDGE
WITH A HITCHHIKER FROM HELL.
YOU OKAY?
THIS GIRL LOOKED LIKE
SHE HAD BEEN IN A CAR WRECK.
IT WAS BIZARRE.
IT WAS CREEPY.
[ HISSES ]
Beasley:
SCARED ME TO DEATH.
Narrator: A CONSPIRACY STORY
TOO BIZARRE TO BE BELIEVED
NOW REVEALED TO BE TRUE.
THE SECRET GOVERNMENT AGENCY
THAT USED PSYCHICS
ON A SUPERNATURAL MISSION.
PROJECT STAR GATE
WAS REALLY LIKE SOMETHING
STRAIGHT OUT OF "THE X-FILES."
IT WAS A PLAN TO PSYCHICALLY SPY
UPON OUR ENEMIES.
CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
Narrator:
IN AMERICA'S FAR NORTHEAST,
WITHIN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS
OF VERMONT,
THE COUNTRYSIDE TOWN
OF NORTHFIELD.
BY ALL APPEARANCES,
NORTHFIELD IS A QUINTESSENTIAL
NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE,
A CHARMING MIX
OF FARMING FAMILIES
AND COLLEGE STUDENTS.
WHAT'S CURIOUS
IS NORTHFIELD'S OBSESSION
WITH A MOST UNUSUAL BEAST,
A PIGMAN MONSTROSITY
THAT'S TERRORIZED LOCALS
FOR DECADES.
IT SOUNDED LIKE A PIG SQUEAL,
AND IT JUST KEPT GETTING CLOSER.
AND WE WERE SCARED.
IT WAS A MASSIVE,
PINK, NAKED FIGURE
THAT WAS PART
VERY MUSCULAR HUMAN
AND PART PIG.
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Narrator:
IN ORDER TO REALLY UNDERSTAND
NORTHFIELD'S MONSTER LEGEND,
YOU HAVE TO GET OUT
TO THE EDGE OF TOWN,
TO A PLACE WHERE THE WOODS
DESCEND INTO A RUGGED RAVINE.
A SINGLE WINDING ROAD
IS THE ONLY WAY IN...
AND THE ONLY WAY OUT.
LOCALS CALL IT
"THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL."
Paulger:
I WOULD NOT WANT TO BE
IN THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL
ALONE AT NIGHT.
IT WOULD BE REALLY EASY
FOR SOMETHING TO HIDE UP THERE.
THERE'S CAVES, THERE'S REALLY,
REALLY THICK UNDERBRUSH.
Abramovich: IT DEFINITELY
IS A CREEPY REGION.
I MEAN, YOU'RE SO ISOLATED.
IF SOMETHING
WERE TO HAPPEN TO YOU
UP IN DEVIL'S WASHBOWL,
THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE
NO ONE WOULD FIND YOU.
Narrator:
IN FACT, THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL
HAS A LONG HISTORY OF VERY ODD
PIG-RELATED ENCOUNTERS.
Abramovich:
THE STRANGENESS STARTED IN 1971,
WHEN A YOUNG MAN,
ABOUT 20 YEARS OLD,
DISAPPEARED FROM A FARM
ON DARBY HILL.
Narrator:
ACCORDING TO THE LEGEND,
THE YOUNG MAN HANDLED HIS PIGS
WITH CRUELTY.
ONE NIGHT,
HE MET WITH A GRUESOME END.
COME GET YOUR FOOD.
[ PIG SQUEALS ]
[ LAUGHS ]
[ SQUEALING CONTINUES ]
[ CREATURE SNARLS ]
[ SQUEALS ]
[ SCREAMS ]
Abramovich:
ONE VARIATION OF THE STORY SAYS
THAT THEY NEVER FOUND THE BODY.
HE HAD BEEN EATEN BY PIGS.
THE PARENTS LAUNCHED
A SEARCH PARTY
AND COMBED THE AREA
FROM DEVIL'S WASHBOWL,
PRETTY MUCH
ALL OF WESTERN NORTHFIELD.
HE WAS NEVER FOUND AGAIN.
NOTHING EVER TURNED UP,
NO TRACE OF HIM.
YOU KNOW, THAT WAS THAT.
BUT WEIRD THINGS
STARTED HAPPENING
AROUND THE DARBY HILL AREA.
[ RATTLING ]
A FARMER ONE NIGHT
HEARD COMMOTION,
LIKE HIS GARBAGE CANS
WERE BEING GONE THROUGH.
LIKE, HE HAD THE OLD TIN --
YOU KNOW, THE OLD METAL CANS,
AND HE JUST HEARD SOMETHING
KNOCK THEM OVER.
Narrator: HE FIGURED IT WAS
A WILD ANIMAL, PERHAPS A BEAR.
WHAT HE SAW NEXT BORE
NO RELATION TO ANYTHING NATURAL,
ANYTHING KNOWN.
Abramovich: HE GOES OUT,
AND HE SAW
THE NAKED BODY OF A MAN,
BUT IT HAD THE GROTESQUE HEAD
OF A PIG.
[ SQUEALS ]
[ ROARS ]
[ GUNSHOT ]
[ SQUEALS ]
WHAT HAPPENED?
WHAT WAS THAT?
IT WAS A PIGMAN.
A WHAT?
NOTHING.
Narrator:
AFTER AN ENCOUNTER LIKE THIS,
A STAID VERMONT FARMER
MIGHT BE HESITANT
TO TALK ABOUT THE INTRUDER.
WHO WOULD BELIEVE HIM?
ONLY PIGMAN WOULDN'T STAY
IN THE SHADOWS FOR LONG.
IN THE FALL OF 1971,
LOCAL TEENS
WERE AT THE NORTHFIELD
HIGH SCHOOL DANCE.
COME ON.
I GOT A SURPRISE FOR YOU GUYS.
I HOPE YOU BROUGHT VODKA.
YEAH, WHERE'S THE BOOZE
YOU PROMISED?
OF COURSE I DID.
I GOT IT. I'M IN CONTROL.
A FEW OF THE ROWDIER KIDS
WENT BEHIND THE SCHOOL,
UP TO NO GOOD,
WITH A BELLY FULL OF COURAGE.
ALL RIGHT.
I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW LAME
THAT DANCE WAS.
Abramovich:
THEY, YOU KNOW, WENT OUT THERE
TO, LIKE, DRINK BEER,
SMOKE CIGARETTES,
STUFF LIKE THAT,
AND AS THEY WERE OUT THERE,
THEY HEARD WEIRD NOISES COMING
FROM SORT OF LIKE
BEYOND THE SAND PIT,
WHERE THE WOODS CREPT UP.
[ SQUEALING ]
AND ONE OF THEM
HAD A FLASHLIGHT.
WHAT WAS THAT?
HE SHINED IT OVER,
AND THEY DID NOT EXPECT
WHAT THEY SAW.
PROBABLY JUST SOMEONE
MESSING WITH US.
Abramovich:
THEY SAW THIS CREATURE,
AND IT WAS KNEELING DOWN,
EATING ROADKILL.
JUST, LIKE, EATING IT RAW --
LIKE, RIPPING HIS TEETH INTO IT,
RIPPING OFF THE FUR.
OH, GOD!
OH, MY GOD.
[ SCREAMS ]
THIS GIANT, NAKED, SCARY THING,
SQUEALING,
BUT MORE LIKE SCREAMING,
LIKE A PIG
GOING TO THE SLAUGHTER.
[ SNARLS ]
Abramovich: THE KIDS WENT BACK,
AND THEY WERE CRYING.
WHAT WAS THAT?!
SO YOU KNEW
SOMETHING WAS WRONG
WHEN A WHOLE BUNCH
OF 15- AND 16-YEAR-OLD BOYS
WERE OPENLY CRYING IN FRONT
OF THEIR HIGH SCHOOL PEERS,
'CAUSE THAT REALLY
JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN.
IT WAS A PIG, RIGHT?
IT -- IT WAS A PIG?
Narrator: AFTER THE ENCOUNTER
AT THE HIGH SCHOOL DANCE,
RESIDENTS ORGANIZED A TEAM
TO SEARCH SOME CAVES
IN THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL AREA.
Abramovich: SO, THEY WENT UP
INTO ONE OF THESE CAVES,
AND WHAT THEY FOUND
WAS ASTOUNDING.
INSIDE THE CAVE,
THEY FOUND A BED OF MATTED HAY.
[ COUGHS ]
GOD, WHAT IS THAT SMELL?
THAT IS WICKED BAD!
AND THEY FOUND A PILE
OF JUST DEAD ANIMALS.
MOST OF THEM WERE BONES, THOUGH.
BONES.
Man: IS THAT A CAT?
Man: GUYS, LOOK.
Narrator: THIS MAY HAVE BEEN
EVIDENCE OF THE CREATURE,
BUT THE SEARCH PARTY DIDN'T
TURN UP THE PIGMAN HIMSELF.
STILL, RESIDENTS OF NORTHFIELD
SWEAR HE'S THERE.
PIGMAN --
HEAD OF A HOG,
CLAWS FOR HANDS, HUMAN FEET.
WHERE THE MAN ENDS
AND THE PIG BEGINS
IS ANYBODY'S GUESS.
STORIES OF MONSTROUS PIGS
GO BACK AS FAR AS HOLLAND
IN THE 15th CENTURY,
OFTEN TIED TO WITCHCRAFT
AND PHYSICAL DEFORMITY.
OVER THE YEARS,
VARIOUS THEORIES HAVE CIRCULATED
ABOUT THE ORIGINS
OF NORTHFIELD'S PIGMAN.
Abramovich:
ONE WEIRD THEORY ABOUT PIGMAN
WAS THIS KID
HAD A PHYSICAL DEFORMITY,
AND SHUNNED BY SOCIETY,
MISUNDERSTOOD,
HE TOOK UP RESIDENCE
IN THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL.
Levitt:
IT COULD HAVE BEEN A PERSON
WHO WAS LIVING
KIND OF IN A FERAL WAY.
[ SNARLS ]
Abramovich: IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
SORT OF LIKE THIS MUTATED HUMAN,
YOU KNOW, DAMNED AT BIRTH.
Narrator: THE ENCOUNTERS HAVE
BEEN REPORTED TIME AND AGAIN.
Abramovich:
IT WAS IN THE '80s.
DEVIL'S WASHBOWL
BECAME SORT OF THIS PLACE
WHERE CURIOUS TEENAGERS
WOULD GO UP
TO SORT OF GET A SCARE
AND TO LOOK
FOR THE INFAMOUS PIGMAN.
BUT IT ALSO BECOME SORT OF
ANOTHER SORT OF DESTINATION,
LIKE A LOVER'S LANE.
THIS ONE INCIDENT HAPPENED
TO THIS ONE COUPLE
THAT WENT UP THERE.
THEY WERE UP THERE AT NIGHT,
AND THEY WERE MAKING OUT
IN THE CAR.
Severy: THE YOUNG FELLAS USED TO
TAKE THEIR GIRLS UP THERE
AND TELL THEM ABOUT THE PIGMAN.
AND THEY COULD GET
THEIR GIRLFRIENDS
TO CUDDLE UP A LITTLE CLOSER.
Narrator: THEY PROBABLY THOUGHT
THEY WERE ALONE AT LAST.
THEY WERE WRONG.
I GOT TO GO
TO THE BATHROOM.
[ SCOFFS ]
THAT IS SO ROMANTIC.
Narrator: "WHEN NATURE CALLS"
TOOK ON A WHOLE NEW MEANING.
Abramovich: THE GIRLFRIEND
WAS WAITING IN THE CAR.
[ CREATURE SNORTS ]
[ SQUEALS ]
AAH!
ALL OF SUDDEN, SHE HEARD,
LIKE, THIS NOISE,
AND SHE LOOKED OVER,
AND HER BOYFRIEND
HAD BEEN THROWN
INTO THE UNDERBRUSH.
[ SCREAMS ]
SHE WAS FREAKING OUT
AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW,
AND SHE STARTED SCREAMING.
Narrator: THE COUPLE'S SCREAMS
DROVE THE CREATURE AWAY.
OH, MY GOD,
WHAT WAS THAT THING?!
I DON'T KNOW.
THAT WAS NOT
A NORMAL PERSON!
THE YOUNG MAN
SURVIVED THE ATTACK.
YOUR SHIRT.
AND HIS INJURIES
WOULD REVEAL
AN IMPORTANT CLUE
ABOUT THE PIGMAN.
[ GASPS ]
OH, MY GOD!
Abramovich: HE SAID THAT
INSTEAD OF HANDS, HE HAD, LIKE,
A SET OF TWO GIANT,
JUTTING CLAWS
THAT WERE, LIKE, IN THE AREA
WHERE HIS HANDS
SHOULD HAVE BEEN,
WHICH WAS AN INTERESTING DETAIL.
AND HE HAD THE PROOF
ON HIS STOMACH.
Narrator:
RIGHT UP TO THE PRESENT,
ENCOUNTERS WITH THE PIGMAN
CONTINUE.
Paulger:
WE KIND OF HEARD SOME RUSTLING.
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN,
IT LOOKED LIKE A MAN,
EXCEPT FOR A PIG'S HEAD.
AND HE WAS NAKED, PALE WHITE.
[ GIRL SCREAMS ]
OH, MY GOD.
IT'S TERRIFYING.
[ CREATURE SQUEALS ]
Narrator:
IN NORTHFIELD, VERMONT,
THE LEGEND OF A PROWLING PIGMAN
HAS FRIGHTENED AND FASCINATED
TOWNSFOLK FOR DECADES.
HALF HUMAN, HALF HOG,
100% HIDEOUS.
Levitt:
PART OF WHAT'S SO TERRIFYING
ABOUT A HALF-HUMAN,
HALF-PIG ANIMAL SPECIFICALLY
IS THAT THEY ARE
SO MUCH LIKE US.
THEY HAVE SKIN LIKE OURS.
THEY'RE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT.
AND IT'S AN ANIMAL THAT WE EAT
A LOT THAT IS TURNING ON US.
Narrator: AMANDA PAULGER
IS A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER
AND A NORTHFIELD NATIVE.
SHE KNOWS ALL TOO WELL
THE TALES OF THE PIGMAN.
WHEN I WAS 16,
I WAS AT A PARTY,
AND MY FRIENDS AND I DECIDED
THAT WE WERE GOING TO WALK
DOWN THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL ROAD.
CHECK THIS OUT.
ISN'T THIS CLOSE
TO THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL?
EXACTLY, DUDE.
WE SHOULD GO FIND THE PIGMAN.
BUT NO!
THERE'S NO WAY THAT'S REAL.
A REALLY, REALLY BAD IDEA.
COME ON.
LET'S JUST GO.
Paulger:
WELL, AT FIRST IT STARTED OUT,
YOU KNOW, AS A JOKE.
I KIND OF JUST THOUGHT,
"OH, THIS WHOLE THING
IS JUST HILARIOUS.
THERE'S NO WAY PIGMAN
COULD BE REAL.
HEY, PIGMAN!
OH, COME ON.
WHERE IS HE?
SO, WE STARTED WALKING
DOWN THE ROAD.
WE PROBABLY GOT ABOUT A MILE IN.
AND IT'S IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE NIGHT.
IT'S VERY, VERY DARK
ON THAT ROAD.
YOU CAN'T SEE ANY MOONLIGHT.
THERE'S NO STARS.
THE CANOPY FROM THE TREES
IS SO HEAVY
THAT THERE'S NO OTHER LIGHT
GETTING IN.
[ THUD ]
WE STARTED NOTICING BRANCHES
FALLING RIGHT IN FRONT OF US.
MAYBE PIGMAN
DID THAT, TOO.
[ LAUGHS ]
YEAH, I'M SURE HE DID.
IT WAS A LITTLE WINDY,
SO WE FIGURED,
"OH, IT'S PROBABLY JUST THE WIND
KNOCKING BRANCHES DOWN."
BUT WE NOTICED IT
EVERY LIKE 30 SECONDS.
THERE WAS A BRANCH,
AND IT WAS ALWAYS
RIGHT IN FRONT OF US.
AND THERE'S CERTAINLY NO WAY
THAT A COYOTE, A DOG, OR A BEAR
WOULD BE THROWING STICKS AT US.
[ CREATURE SQUEALS IN DISTANCE ]
GUYS, I THINK
I JUST HEARD SQUEALING.
LOOK, RELAX.
MY FRIEND SWORE
THAT SHE HEARD SQUEALING.
YOU'RE JUST FREAKING US OUT.
I THINK
I HEARD IT, TOO.
THIS IS WICKED SCARY.
WE STARTED GETTING
REALLY FREAKED OUT.
WE SAID TO OURSELVES,
"WHAT IF WE MADE HIM ANGRY?
"WHAT IF HE COMES AFTER US?
OH, MY GOD, WHAT IF THE PIGMAN
PUT THESE TREES HERE?"
MARK, YOU ALL RIGHT?
AND WE DECIDED
TO TURN AROUND.
WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE.
I CAN'T SEE A THING.
IT'S WAY TOO DARK.
IT'S SERIOUSLY DARK
OUT HERE, GUYS.
ONE OF MY FRIENDS SCREAMS
AND SAYS,
"I SWEAR I JUST SAW THE PIGMAN.
I SWEAR I JUST SAW HIM."
SHE WAS SCARED.
I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING.
[ CREATURE SQUEALS ]
IT LOOKED LIKE A MAN,
EXCEPT FOR A PIG'S HEAD.
AND HE CAME OUT OF THE WOODS,
AND HE WAS NAKED AND JUST WHITE.
LIKE, REALLY, REALLY PALE WHITE.
IT'S TERRIFYING.
Narrator: AMANDA'S NOT SURE
WHAT TO BELIEVE
ABOUT NORTHFIELD'S FABLED SWINE.
Paulger:
I DO THINK SOMETHING
WAS THROWING THOSE BRANCHES
AT US.
I DEFINITELY THINK THERE
COULD BE SOMETHING UP THERE.
I AM STILL REALLY AFRAID
OF THOSE WOODS
AND THE DEVIL'S WASHBOWL.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S OUT THERE.
AND I WOULDN'T WANT TO TAKE
THE RISK OF GOING OUT THERE.
[ CREATURE GROWLS ]
Narrator:
IN THE MIDDLE OF NORTH CAROLINA
SITS THE SMALL SETTLEMENT
OF JAMESTOWN,
A COMMUNITY OF BARELY 3,000.
IT FEELS LIKE EVERYBODY
KNOWS ONE ANOTHER.
AND THERE'S ONE MORE RESIDENT
KNOWN TO ONE AND ALL.
SHE'S BEEN HERE
FOR NEARLY A CENTURY.
Tomlin: I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE
PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED HER
BELIEVE IN WHAT THEY SAW.
THEY KNOW THEY EXPERIENCED
SOMETHING OUT THERE.
Narrator:
ON THE EDGE OF TOWN,
A COUNTRY ROAD AND WHAT APPEARS
TO BE AN ORDINARY BRIDGE.
IT'S ACTUALLY A PLACE
THAT'S CAUGHT IN A LIMBO
OF ANOTHER TIME,
A NIGHT WHEN A YOUNG WOMAN
LOST HER WAY HOME.
LYDIA THE HITCHHIKER --
SOMEHOW, HER FATE
BECAME PRISONER TO THIS BRIDGE,
AND SHE'S BEEN YEARNING
TO ESCAPE EVER SINCE.
THE STORY OF LYDIA
IS ONE OF THOSE STORIES
THAT NEVER GOES AWAY.
AND FOR GENERATIONS,
CHILDREN IN THIS AREA
HAVE GROWN UP
HEARING THE TALE OF LYDIA.
[ HISSES ]
Narrator:
THE INFAMOUS JAMESTOWN BRIDGE.
IT WAS BUILT IN THE EARLY 1900s
TO ACCOMMODATE TRAINS
ALONG THE SOUTHERN
RAILROAD NETWORK.
LESS WELL PLANNED
WAS THE NARROW, TREACHEROUS ROAD
LEADING TO THE UNDERPASS.
BACK THEN,
THERE WERE MANY ACCIDENTS.
PEOPLE SAY THAT THERE WERE
MANY FATALITIES THERE
OVER THE YEARS.
Narrator: THE BRIDGE KNOWN
FOR ITS MANY HAZARDS
HAS BECOME EVEN MORE FAMOUS
FOR A HITCHHIKER.
HER APPEARANCES AT THE BRIDGE
BEGAN BACK IN THE 1920s
ON A NIGHT
THAT HELD SUCH PROMISE
BUT TURNED INTO TRAGEDY.
SHE WAS COMING HOME
FROM THIS WONDERFUL EVENING
WHERE SHE HAD BEEN DANCING
WITH HER BOYFRIEND.
LYDIA, WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD
YOU EVER GO TO PROM WITH ME?
[ CHUCKLES ]
I DIDN'T WANT TO BE AN OLD MAID.
YEAH, WELL,
YOU COULD HAVE GONE WITH SAM,
OR ANYBODY ELSE IN TOWN.
[ CHUCKLES ]
I DIDN'T WANT TO GO
WITH ANYBODY ELSE.
I'M GONNA LOVE YOU
TILL THE DAY I DIE.
AND HER LIFE WAS CUT SHORT
BY THIS TRAGIC ACCIDENT.
[ SCREAMS ]
AND YOU SEE THIS YOUNG WOMAN,
THIS TORTURED SOUL,
WHO IS OUT THERE
AT THE UNDERPASS,
STILL TRYING TO FIND
HER WAY HOME.
OVER THE YEARS,
DOZENS OF PEOPLE HAVE CLAIMED
TO HAVE SEEN HER
OR PICKED HER UP.
Narrator: DESPERATE FOR A RIDE,
HITCHHIKING ON THE ROAD --
ANY GOOD SAMARITAN
WOULD WANT TO HELP.
Renegar:
THE FIRST RECORDED STORY
OF SOMEONE PICKING UP LYDIA
WAS IN 1924.
A MAN ON HIS WAY HOME
FROM THE LATE SHIFT
SAW THE GIRL STANDING THERE
BESIDE THE UNDERPASS.
Narrator: FOLKLORISTS RECORD
HIS NAME AS BURKE HARDISON.
SO, HE PULLS OVER
ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
AND THAT'S WHEN HE
IS STARTLED BY HER APPEARANCE.
[ DOOR CLOSES ]
ARE YOU OKAY?
SHE APPEARS BEATEN...
DO YOU NEED A DOCTOR?
...AS IF SOMEONE
HAS BEATEN HER UP
OR SHE'S BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT.
Moore Brown: AS HE DRIVES,
HE FEELS MORE AND MORE
DREAD AND FEAR.
SHE WAS SILENTLY SITTING THERE,
AND HE'S GETTING
MORE FRIGHTENED.
AS HE GOT CLOSER TO THE STREET,
SHE INDICATED THAT
THAT WAS THE STREET.
SO HE TURNED DOWN THE STREET.
WAIT HERE, OKAY?
WAIT HERE.
Narrator:
THEY ARRIVED AT A HOUSE
ON JOHNSON STREET,
NEAR JAMESTOWN.
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
THE DOOR OPENED.
AN ELDERLY WOMAN STOOD THERE.
HE SAID...
HELLO, MA'AM.
I'M SORRY IT'S SO LATE,
BUT I DO BELIEVE I HAVE
YOUR DAUGHTER IN MY CAR.
THE WOMAN SHOOK HER HEAD
AND SAID,
"NO, NO, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE."
NO, MY DAUGHTER
DIED YEARS AGO
IN A TERRIBLE
CAR WRECK
ON THE CURVE DOWN BELOW
THE JAMESTOWN BRIDGE.
AND SHE PICKED UP
A PICTURE AND SAID,
"THIS IS MY DAUGHTER, LYDIA."
Narrator: ALL THESE STORIES END
IN A SIMILAR WAY --
THE YOUNG HITCHHIKER GONE,
AS IF SHE HAD NEVER
BEEN THERE AT ALL.
THROUGH THE YEARS,
THE ROADSIDE ENCOUNTERS
WITH LYDIA
HAVE TURNED MORE SINISTER
AND DANGEROUS.
IMAGINE COMING UP ON
A HITCHHIKER AT 2:30 AT NIGHT.
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
THIS GIRL
WAS ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
YOU OKAY?
IT WAS BIZARRE.
IT WAS CREEPY.
IT SCARED ME TO DEATH.
Narrator: IN NORTH CAROLINA,
IN THE SMALL SETTLEMENT
KNOWN AS JAMESTOWN,
THERE'S A BRIDGE THAT SEAMS
TO EXIST AS A WAY STATION
BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND THE NEXT.
GENERATIONS OF TRAVELERS
CLAIM TO HAVE SEEN
A YOUNG FEMALE HITCHHIKER.
SHE NEVER SEEMS TO LEAVE.
THAT'S WHAT TOM BEASLEY SAW
ONE NIGHT IN 1972
WHEN HE WAS DRIVING
NEAR THE JAMESTOWN BRIDGE.
I NEVER BELIEVED
THE LEGEND OF LYDIA.
I JUST...
I WAS A NONBELIEVER.
Narrator:
THAT WOULD SOON CHANGE.
ONE NIGHT, TOM AND A BUDDY WERE
RETURNING HOME LATE TO JAMESTOWN
FROM THE NEARBY CITY
OF GREENSBORO.
WE'D GONE OVER THERE,
I GUESS YOU COULD SAY,
FOR A NIGHT ON THE TOWN.
Narrator:
IT WAS 2:00 IN THE MORNING
AS THEY DROVE THE DESERTED ROAD.
SUDDENLY, TOM SPOTTED
SOMETHING STRANGE AHEAD.
Beasley:
AS I WAS COMING DOWN THE HILL,
THE GIRL WAS STANDING
ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
Narrator: AT FIRST, HE DIDN'T
QUITE BELIEVE HIS EYES.
Beasley: THEN I PASSED HER.
THIS GIRL LOOKED LIKE
SHE HAD BEEN IN A CAR WRECK.
OBVIOUSLY, SHE'S IN DISTRESS.
I WOKE MY FRIEND UP.
YOU SEE A YOUNG LADY
ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD?
AND HE SAID, "YOU'RE CRAZY."
THERE'S SOMEONE BACK THERE.
I THINK SHE NEEDS HELP.
I'M TURNING AROUND.
WE WENT BACK TO SEE
IF THE GIRL WAS STILL THERE,
AND WE WERE GOING TO FIND OUT
WHAT THE PROBLEM WAS
AND, YOU KNOW,
IF SHE NEEDED HELP.
AND AT THAT POINT, MY FRIEND
SAW HER ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
BUT THIS TIME,
SHE WAS SITTING ON THE GROUND.
WAS THIS SOMEBODY
THAT WAS JUST THROWN OUT
BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD?
WAS THIS SOMEBODY
THAT HAD BEEN IN AN ACCIDENT?
SO WE PULL OVER.
HEY, THERE.
HE HAS THE WINDOW DOWN.
HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING.
I FINALLY PUNCH HIM.
I SAID, "SAY SOMETHING."
HE DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING.
SO I PUNCH HIM AGAIN.
DAVID, SAY SOMETHING.
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN,
HE JUST SAYS...
MOVE THE CAR.
I SAID, "WHAT?"
AND HE SAID,
"MOVE THE DAMN CAR."
[ ENGINE REVS ]
AS WE PULLED AWAY,
SHE WAS SCREAMING,
"COME BACK! COME BACK!"
COME BACK!
COME BACK!
IT WASN'T A NORMAL SOUND.
I MEAN, WE WERE TERRIFIED.
I MEAN, WE GOT OUT OF THERE
AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
AND AS WE'RE ON THE ROAD,
I SAID, "WHAT HAPPENED?"
AND HE SAID,
"YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT."
"HER FACE," HE SAID,
"IT SCARED ME TO DEATH,"
HE AND I,
AND WE KEPT ON GOING.
I KNOW WHAT THAT WAS.
I THINK I KNOW, TOO.
IT'S LIKE, "OH, MY GOD."
OH, MY GOD!
WE SAW LYDIA!
[ CHUCKLES ]
WE WERE TERRIFIED.
WE WERE TERRIFIED.
Narrator: FEW HAVE EVER TAKEN
THE TIME TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT
WHY LYDIA IS ON THAT ROAD.
WHAT IS SO HORRIBLE
ABOUT THIS STORY
IS THAT SHE IS SO YOUNG.
SHE HAD BARELY BEGUN
TO EXPERIENCE LIFE
BEFORE IT WAS TAKEN FROM HER.
[ SCREAMS ]
Narrator: MICHAEL RENEGAR,
A LOCAL HISTORIAN,
WAS DETERMINED TO FIND THE TRUTH
BEHIND THE LEGEND.
RIGHT AWAY,
MICHAEL RAN INTO A PROBLEM.
OF ALL THE LYDIA'S WHO DIED
BETWEEN 1900 AND 1940,
ONLY ONE DIED
IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.
THIS WOMAN WAS LYDIA J. FIELDS.
SHE DIED IN 1921.
HOWEVER, SHE WAS 64 YEARS OLD.
Narrator:
BASIC TO THE LEGEND
IS A YOUNG WOMAN
DYING BY THE BRIDGE.
ONE DAY, RENEGAR WAS PLAYING
MUSIC WITH FRIENDS
WHEN HE STUMBLED UPON
WHAT MIGHT BE THE REAL NAME
BEHIND THE LEGEND.
IT WAS A SONG
BY THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN,
AND IT WAS CALLED
"BRINGING MARY HOME."
WHEN I HEARD THE LYRICS,
EVERYTHING JUST SORT OF
FELL IN PLACE.
IT'S THE SAME STORY, BASICALLY.
AT THE END OF THE SONG,
THE LADY TELLS HIM
THAT HER DAUGHTER DIED
IN A WRECK JUST DOWN THE ROAD
AND TELLS HIM HE'S THE 13th ONE
THAT'S BEEN THERE
BRINGING MARY HOME.
I SAID, "AHA. MARY."
I WAS STUNNED BECAUSE THIS
WAS THE EXACT SAME STORY
THAT PEOPLE TELL
ABOUT THE JAMESTOWN UNDERPASS.
THE SONG PROVIDES MORE EVIDENCE
THAT HER NAME WAS MARY
INSTEAD OF LYDIA.
Narrator:
AND RENEGAR WAS ABLE TO FIND
SOME SUPPORTING EVIDENCE.
I FOUND THREE PEOPLE
WHO REMEMBERED AN ACCIDENT
AT THE UNDERPASS IN WHICH
A YOUNG LADY WAS KILLED.
THEY THOUGHT IT WAS MARY
OR MARY ANNE OR MARY JANE --
SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE.
THE ONLY THING
THEY WERE SURE ABOUT
WAS THAT HER NAME WAS NOT LYDIA.
Narrator: AND A CHECK
OF THE COUNTY RECORDS
ADDED FURTHER CONFIRMATION.
Renegar: I SOON FOUND OUT
THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF WOMAN
NAMED MARY WHO DIED
IN THE SAME TIME PERIOD
IN GUILFORD COUNTY.
I BECAME MORE DETERMINED
THAN EVER
TO FIND OUT THE TRUTH
OF THIS STORY.
Narrator: HE BEGAN TO HUNT
FOR THE HITCHHIKER'S HOME.
I WAS TOLD A STORY
BY A YOUNG WOMAN
WHO GOT IN TOUCH WITH ME
THAT SHE LIVED
IN A HOUSE IN HIGH POINT
WITH HER PARENTS.
Narrator:
THE WOMAN'S FAMILY RESIDED
IN AN OLD HOUSE
ON JOHNSON STREET,
A STREET THAT'S LONG BEEN TIED
TO THE LYDIA LEGEND.
Renegar:
THE YOUNG LADY TOLD ME THAT
ONE DAY SHE WALKED
INTO THE LIVING ROOM
AND SAW AND OLD LADY
STANDING THERE.
AND SHE WAS STARTLED.
THE OLD LADY LOOKED AT HER
AND SAID...
[ Echoing ]
YOU LOOK LIKE MY MARY.
...AND TURNED
AND WALKED AROUND THE CORNER.
WHEN SHE LOOKED,
THE LADY WASN'T THERE.
SHE STARTED ASKING QUESTIONS
OF THE NEIGHBORS.
AND SOMEONE TOLD HER
THAT THERE WAS AN OLD LADY
WHO HAD LIVED IN THAT HOUSE
UNTIL SHE DIED,
AND THAT THE OLD LADY'S DAUGHTER
HAD DIED MANY YEARS AGO
IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
OUT IN JAMESTOWN.
HER NAME WAS MARY.
Narrator:
RENEGAR THINKS THE NAMES
OF THE TWO ILL-FATED WOMEN,
LYDIA AND MARY,
ONE OLD AND ONE YOUNG,
EVENTUALLY BECAME ENTWINED,
AND AT LEAST SINCE THE 1950s,
JAMESTOWN'S PHANTOM HITCHHIKER
HAS BEEN CALLED LYDIA.
Tomlin:
PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE FEAR
THAT THEY FELT AT THAT MOMENT,
HOW UNEASY THEY FELT
BEING IN HER PRESENCE.
MOVE THE DAMN CAR.
AND THE STRIKING THING
TO ME IS HOW
SOMETIMES, YEARS LATER
AFTER THEIR EXPERIENCE,
THEY STILL FEEL THIS FEAR
INSIDE OF THEM.
[ HISSES ]
Narrator:
FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS,
IN THE SMALL TOWN
OF JAMESTOWN, NORTH CAROLINA,
SCORES OF PEOPLE
HAVE HAD SIGHTINGS
OF A STRANGE-LOOKING HITCHHIKER
NEAR A LOCAL BRIDGE.
Moore Brown: I THINK PEOPLE
ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEE
LYDIA THE HITCHHIKER
BECAUSE SHE'S TIED TO THAT SPOT.
THAT'S WHERE SHE DIED.
SHE HAS TO WAIT ENDLESSLY
TO BE BROUGHT HOME.
Narrator: OVER THE YEARS,
WITNESSES
HAVE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE
OF THE TERRIFYING TEEN
IN TATTERS.
Moore Brown: I MYSELF PERSONALLY
FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES,
LIKE IN THE CASE
OF THE HITCHHIKER,
THEY'RE ROOTED TO THAT PLACE.
THEY'RE TIED TO THE PLACE
WHERE THE TRAGEDY HAPPENED,
AND THEY CAN'T MOVE ON.
I THINK PEOPLE
CAN GET LOST IN TIME.
I BELIEVE SOMETHING
SUCH AS AN ACCIDENT --
THEY MAY HAVE TROUBLE
FINDING THEIR WAY HOME.
TO THIS DAY, I STILL THINK BACK
ABOUT THAT NIGHT.
AND I CAN HEAR
THE GIRL SCREAMING.
COME BACK!
COME BACK!
Narrator: HALFWAY BETWEEN
BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON, D.C.,
SITS THE ARMY BASE
AT FORT MEADE.
IT ONCE HARBORED
A MYSTERIOUS MILITARY UNIT,
ONE THAT TURNED PSYCHICS
INTO SOLDIERS.
Smith: I WAS A PSYCHIC SPY
FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.
MY JOB WAS TO USE
MY MENTAL POWERS
TO COLLECT INTELLIGENCE
FROM FOREIGN THREATS
IN SUPPORT OF THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT'S GOALS AND MISSIONS.
Narrator: DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS
AND FIRST-PERSON TESTIMONY
FINALLY REVEALS THE DETAILS
OF A GOVERNMENT-RUN
PARANORMAL PROGRAM,
CODE NAME "STAR GATE."
THERE ARE PEOPLE
WHO SEEM TO POSSESS
EXTRAORDINARY ABILITIES --
CLAIRVOYANCE, TELEPATHY,
MIND OVER MATTER.
WHILE MANY DOUBT
THESE POWERS EXIST,
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
ACTUALLY TOOK THE CHANCE
THEY MIGHT BE REAL.
PROJECT STAR GATE
WAS REALLY LIKE SOMETHING
STRAIGHT OUT OF "THE X-FILES."
IT WAS A PLAN
AT THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR
TO TRAIN PEOPLE TO PSYCHICALLY
SPY UPON OUR ENEMIES.
Narrator: THE MILITARY CHOSE
A HANDFUL OF SOLDIER
UNLIKE ANYONE
EVER EQUIPPED FOR COMBAT.
THEY FELT THAT THEY MIGHT BE
EITHER EXTREMELY LUCKY
OR MAY HAVE SOME BENT
TOWARDS PSYCHIC PERFORMANCE.
Narrator:
THE IDEA WAS FARFETCHED --
RECRUITS CAPABLE
OF REMOTE VIEWING,
AN ABILITY TO PROJECT ONE'S SELF
PSYCHICALLY TO REMOTE LOCATIONS
OR TARGETS.
IF IT WORKED,
IT WOULD BE E.S.P. ON STEROIDS.
WHY WAS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
WILLING TO DABBLE
IN THESE DARK ARTS?
APPARENTLY,
THEY WERE DESPERATE --
DESPERATE DURING INFORMATION
DURING THE COLD WAR
WITH THE SOVIETS.
Redfern:
THIS WAS THE EARLY '70s.
WE'RE STILL IN THE HEIGHT
OF THE COLD WAR.
DEEP FEARS OF A WORLDWIDE
NUCLEAR APOCALYPSE.
WHAT THE GOVERNMENT
WAS LOOKING FOR
WAS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY
TO SPY ON THE ENEMY
THAT WOULDN'T BE NOTICED.
Narrator: PAUL SMITH
WAS ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S
SECRET REMOTE VIEWERS.
EVEN FOR SMITH, THE PROGRAM
WAS BAFFLING IN THE EXTREME.
Smith: THERE WERE TIMES
WHEN REMOTE VIEWING
JUST FELL FLAT ON ITS FACE.
BUT THERE WERE TIMES
WHEN IT WORKED REALLY WELL
AND THAT THERE WAS NO DOUBT
THAT WE HAD GOTTEN
THAT INFORMATION
THROUGH PSYCHIC MEANS.
Narrator:
UP CLOSE, THE PROCESS LOOKED
ABOUT AS COMPLICATED
AS ENTERING A ROOM
AND SITTING DOWN AT A DESK.
Smith:
A TYPICAL REMOTE-VIEWING SESSION
LOOKS ALMOST LIKE
IT WAS DESIGNED
TO PUT ANYBODY ELSE WATCHING IT
TO SLEEP.
Narrator: THE MONITOR
WOULD HAND THE REMOTE VIEWER
A SEALED ENVELOPE
WITH A TARGET WRITTEN INSIDE.
NEITHER OF THEM KNEW
WHAT THE TARGET WAS.
LET ME KNOW
WHAT COMES INTO YOUR MIND.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THESE
INSTRUCTIONS I'VE GIVEN YOU?
THE REMOTE VIEWER
WOULD BEGIN TO RECEIVE
IMPRESSIONS OF THE TARGET.
Smith:
FIRST THING IS YOU START GETTING
WHAT I CALL FRAGMENTS,
OR BITS OF PERCEPTION --
COLORS, TASTES, SMELLS, SOUNDS.
AND YOU'RE GETTING
ALL THAT DOWN.
Tallitsch:
IT'S PRETTY MUCH AS EXCITING
AS WATCHING SOMEBODY
DO A MATH PROBLEM.
IT'S NOT ALL THAT SEXY.
BUT THE RESULTS AFTER THE FACT
ARE, YOU KNOW, AMAZING.
Smith: WE WORKED ON
ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
SOVIET "R" AND "D."
THEY WOULD OFTEN RUN US
ON THINGS LIKE
HOSTAGE SITUATIONS
IN THE MIDDLE EAST,
CHINESE NUCLEAR TESTS.
AND WE WERE SUCCESSFUL
IN DOING THAT.
Narrator: AT ONE POINT,
PAUL SMITH WAS ACTUALLY ASKED
BY HIS SUPERIORS
TO TRY TO SEE INTO THE FUTURE.
THEY WANTED INFORMATION
ON FUTURE ATTACKS ON THE U.S.
Smith: SO, I SIT DOWN,
AND I GOT THIS IMPRESSION
OF THIS LARGE METAL STRUCTURE
OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WATER.
THE STRUCTURE IS MOVING.
I SOON REALIZE
IT'S SOME KIND OF VESSEL.
AND, IN FACT,
I HAD THE IMPRESSION
IT WAS AN AMERICAN DESTROYER.
THE U.S.S. STARK,
A NAVY FRIGATE,
IS ON ROUTINE PATROL
IN THE PERSIAN GULF
85 MILES NORTHEAST OF BAHRAIN.
ITS 200 OFFICERS AND CREW
HAD JUST PASSED HUMP DAY,
THE HALFWAY MARK
OF THEIR SIX-MONTH DEPLOYMENT.
WHAT'S UP WITH YOU, MAN?
THE CREW IS IN GOOD SPIRITS.
MOST WERE SETTLED
INTO THEIR BUNKS BELOW,
FULL FROM A SUNDAY DINNER
OF POTPIE.
I EVEN GOT AN IMPRESSION OF
CELERY SAUTéING IN THE GALLEY.
I MEAN, THAT SMELL WAS PRESENT.
I GOT THE IMPRESSION OF THIS...
THERE'S AN AIRCRAFT ABOVE.
...SOME WAY OFF IN THE DISTANCE.
Narrator: THE FRIGATE'S RADAR
APPEARED NORMAL.
SO, THEN THE AIRCRAFT DROPPED
ONE OF TWO OF THESE KIND OF
LONG CYLINDRICAL OBJECTS
WITH LITTLE, STUBBY WINGS
THAT MADE ROARING,
GUTTERING SOUNDS.
I DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS.
IT'S HORRIBLE!
Narrator: AT 9:07,
A LOOKOUT ON THE DECK SPOTTED
A BRIGHT WHITE LIGHT
ON THE HORIZON.
BY 9:09, IT WAS ALL TOO OBVIOUS.
THE LIGHT WAS A MISSILE HEADING
STRAIGHT FOR THE STARK.
Man: MISSILE INBOUND,
MISSILE INBOUND!
Smith:
AND THERE'S SMOKE AND FLAME,
AND THE VESSEL
KIND OF SHIVERS AND SHAKES
AND LEANS TO ONE SIDE,
AND THERE'S FIRE HOSES
ON THE DECK
AND PEOPLE SCREAMING,
ALMOST KIND OF LIKE
CHAOS GOING ON.
IT'S REALLY HARD TO EXPLAIN
UNLESS YOU'VE EXPERIENCED IT
YOURSELF.
IT WAS LIKE
I WAS SEEING THEM SCREAMING.
IT'S HORRIBLE!
Narrator:
IN FORT MEADE, MARYLAND,
A TOP-SECRET GOVERNMENT MISSION,
PROJECT STAR GATE,
EMPLOYED TELEPATHIC SPIES
IN A WAR AGAINST
AMERICA'S ENEMIES.
ON MAY 15, 1987,
PSYCHIC SPY PAUL SMITH
WAS IN SESSION,
VIEWING IN HIS MIND'S EYE
SOME SORT OF AN ATTACK
AGAINST A NAVY SHIP.
THERE'S AN AIRCRAFT ABOVE.
MISSILES RIP THROUGH
THE PORTSIDE HULL
AND EXPLODED INSIDE
THE CREW'S SLEEPING QUARTERS.
THOSE WHO WEREN'T KILLED
BY THE INITIAL BLAST
SOON PERISHED
IN A RAGING INFERNO.
THE SURPRISING THING --
SMITH'S PSYCHIC SESSION
WAS IGNORED.
LET'S CALL IT QUITS
FOR THE WEEKEND, OKAY?
NO ALARM BELLS TRIPPED,
NO WARNING FLAGS RAISED.
TWO DAYS LATER, ON MAY 17th,
SMITH'S HORRIFYING VISION
WOULD TURN OUT TO BE TRUE.
TELL YOUR SISTER
WE'RE LEAVING.
OKAY.
I WAS GETTING MY KIDS
OFF TO SCHOOL,
AND I GET A PHONE CALL
FROM OUR OPERATIONS OFFICER.
[ TELEPHONE RINGS ]
HELLO?
HE SAID, "YOU HAVEN'T SEEN
THE PAPERS YET THIS MORNING,
HAVE YOU?"
NO, I HAVEN'T.
SO I OPEN UP
THE WASHINGTON POST.
FRONT PAGE --
PHOTOGRAPH OF THE SHIP.
"U.S. SHIP HIT BY TWO
IRAQI EXOCET MISSILES."
AND IT WAS ON FIRE.
37 SAILORS WERE KILLED.
IT WAS PROBABLY
THE MOST ACCURATE
REMOTE-VIEWING SESSION
I'VE EVER DONE.
AND YET, IT HAPPENED 50 HOURS
BEFORE THE ACTUAL EVENT
TOOK PLACE.
DAD, WHAT IS IT?
IT WAS AMAZING.
COULD HAVE STOPPED THIS.
Narrator: THOUGH THEY WERE
DABBLING IN THE PARANORMAL,
PERHAPS HIS HANDLERS COULDN'T
RUN THE RISK OF ACTING ON IT.
AS VIEWERS,
WE WERE OFTEN INSULATED
FROM WHAT HAPPENED FURTHER UP
WITH OUR DATA.
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE,
WE'D HEAR, "WENT UP THE CHAIN
AND NOBODY DID ANYTHING
ABOUT IT" OR WHATEVER,
"NOBODY BELIEVED IT"
OR WHATEVER.
AND THAT WOULD BE ANNOYING.
THE CASE WITH THE STARK --
IF THE WARNING HAD GONE OUT,
THE RADARS WOULD HAVE BEEN UP.
IT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE SAVED
37 AMERICAN LIVES.
THERE SEEMS TO BE TWO SIDES
TO THE REMOTE-VIEWING PROGRAM.
ONE WAS TO LEGITIMATELY SPY
ON THE ENEMIES
AND TO PREVENT THEM
FROM DOING US HARM.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN
WAS THE RESEARCH
THAT WAS UNDERTAKEN
INTO THE UFO PHENOMENON
AND WHAT THAT MAY HAVE UNCOVERED
WITH REGARD TO UFO ACTIVITY
ON THE MOON, ON MARS,
AND EVEN RIGHT HERE ON EARTH.
Narrator: JOSEPH McMONEAGLE
WAS STAR GATE'S
FIRST REMOTE VIEWER,
DESIGNATED 001.
WHEREAS PAUL SMITH
HAD SOMEHOW MANAGED
TO SEE SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE,
McMONEAGLE WAS ASKED
TO FIND CLUES
TO A PAST EVENT
THAT COULD NOT BE EXPLAINED.
IN 1982,
AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT
WAS CAUGHT IN MILITARY
SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHS.
NOBODY COULD FIGURE OUT
WHAT THIS OBJECT WAS.
McMoneagle:
AND WHAT I DESCRIBED WAS
AN OBLIQUE OBJECT THAT WAS
ESSENTIALLY FLAT AS A PANCAKE,
APPROXIMATELY 300 FEET ACROSS,
THAT MADE A HARD RIGHT TURN --
90-DEGREE RIGHT TURN --
AT 14,000 FEET.
MY SENSE WAS
THERE WAS NO LIFE-FORMS ON IT,
THAT IT WAS
A FULLY AUTOMATED VEHICLE.
Narrator: LATER, McMONEAGLE WAS
ASKED TO REPORT TO THE PENTAGON.
THAT'S A UFO.
THAT LOOKS LIKE A UFO TO ME.
NO, NO.
THAT IS NOT A UFO.
THAT IS A HIGH-ALTITUDE
WEATHER BALLOON.
THERE, I WAS MET BY TWO --
WHAT YOU WOULD CALL, I GUESS,
TWO MEN IN BLACK.
THEY SHOWED ME A BLOW-UP PICTURE
OF THE OBJECT
THAT I HAD DESCRIBED,
AND I SAID, "OH, WOW.
THAT'S A UFO."
AND HE GOT REALLY ANGRY.
FOR YOU, FOREVER,
THAT IS A HIGH-ALTITUDE
WEATHER BALLOON.
NO, IT'S NOT.
WE'RE GOING TO YOUR COMMAND
ABOUT THIS.
Redfern:
I THINK IT'S VERY LIKELY
THAT THE OBJECT
JOE McMONEAGLE TALKED ABOUT
WAS SOME FORM OF UFO.
AFTER ALL, WHEN YOU HAVE
A 300-FOOT-LONG OBJECT
THAT CAN DO RIGHT-HAND TURNS
AT 800 MILES AN HOUR,
CLEARLY WE DON'T HAVE
THE TECHNOLOGY
TO BUILD ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
Narrator:
IF McMONEAGLE'S PSYCHIC POWERS
SENSED EXTRATERRESTRIAL OBJECTS,
HOW MUCH FATHER COULD THEY GO?
ON MAY 22, 1984,
McMONEAGLE WAS HANDED
AN ENVELOPE
WITH GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES
FOR A NEW REMOTE-VIEWING TARGET.
WHAT HE WOULD SEE NEXT
BECAME UNDOUBTEDLY
THE MOST SHOCKING REVELATION
OF THE ENTIRE STAR GATE PROJECT.
USING THE INFORMATION
IN THE ENVELOPE I PROVIDED,
EXCLUSIVELY FOCUS
YOUR ATTENTION.
NOW FOCUS ON
40.89 DEGREES NORTH.
WHAT FOLLOWS ARE BASED
ON ACTUAL C.I.A. TRANSCRIPTS
OF McMONEAGLE'S INCREDIBLE
PSYCHIC DISCOVERY.
McMoneagle: SO I CLOSED MY EYES.
I EMPTIED MY MIND.
AND MY EXPECTATION
IS THAT THE NEXT INFORMATION
THAT COMES INTO MY MIND
WILL BE PERTINENT
TO THE ACTUAL TARGET
I'M WORKING ON.
AND HE GAVE ME
THE FIRST SET OF COORDINATES,
AND MY PERCEPTION WAS THAT
IT WAS A VERY LARGE PYRAMID.
AND IT WAS DIFFERENT.
Narrator: DIFFERENT BECAUSE
THIS PYRAMID IS NOT IN EGYPT,
NOT EVEN ON EARTH.
I'M TRACKING SEVERE --
SEVERE CLOUDS,
MORE LIKE A DUST STORM.
IT'S A GEOLOGIC PROBLEM.
ONCE McMONEAGLE
WAS IN THE PSYCHIC ZONE,
A MONITOR WAS THERE
TO GUIDE HIM.
OKAY. GO BACK TO BEFORE
THE GEOLOGIC PROBLEM.
McMONEAGLE FINDS HIMSELF
CONNECTING WITH AN ALIEN
SOMEWHERE ELSE
IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM,
A RACE OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS
IN TROUBLE.
Tallitsch: THE INITIAL SHOCK
OF REMOTE-VIEWING
AN ALIEN FOR THE FIRST TIME...
YOU KNOW, QUESTION EVERYTHING
THAT YOU KNOW.
Narrator:
AT FORT MEADE ARMY BASE IN 1984,
JOE McMONEAGLE WAS PART OF
A SECRET GOVERNMENT PROGRAM,
PROJECT STAR GATE,
ATTEMPTING TO USE PSYCHIC SPIES
TO LOCATE ALIEN LIFE-FORMS.
I'M JUST SEEING
VERY LARGE PEOPLE.
VERY TALL AND THIN.
IT'S HUMANS LIKE US,
ONLY THEY SEEM TO BE
MUCH BIGGER.
Narrator:
McMONEAGLE'S CONNECTION OCCURS
AT A CRITICAL MOMENT
IN THE LIVES OF THESE BEINGS.
THEIR CIVILIZATION IS AT AN END.
McMONEAGLE IS SOMEHOW
CONNECTING TO THEM
THROUGH THE VASTNESS
OF TIME AND SPACE.
McMoneagle: THE INFORMATION
THAT I WAS GETTING
FROM THESE PARTICULAR
COORDINATES
DEALT WITH A LONG-PAST RACE
OF PEOPLE THAT WERE HUMAN.
I GOT A SENSE
THAT SOMETHING HAPPENED
THAT DISTURBED THE AREA
THAT THEY LIVED IN.
Man: WHAT IS IT
THEY'RE WAITING FOR?
EVIDENTLY,
THERE WAS A GROUP OR A PARTY
THAT WENT TO LOOK
FOR A NEW PLACE TO LIVE.
ASK HIM IF THERE'S ANYWAY YOU
CAN HELP HIM IN HIS PREDICAMENT.
[ Distorted ] IS THERE ANYTHING
I CAN DO TO HELP YOU?
Narrator:
AS HARD AS IT IS TO BELIEVE,
McMONEAGLE IS CERTAIN
HE WAS STARING
AT THE RAVAGED END
OF AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION
PREPARING TO LEAVE
WITH ITS REMNANT POPULATION.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW
WHAT YOUR TARGET WAS?
YES, I WOULD.
EVEN MORE SHOCKING,
THEY'RE HEADED TO EARTH.
I THINK IT'S HIGHLY LIKELY
THAT WE MAY BE
THE SURVIVORS
OR THE SUBSEQUENT SURVIVORS
OF THAT PARTICULAR SPECIES
OR THAT PARTICULAR RACE.
Narrator: THE IMAGES
CONTINUE TO HAUNT McMONEAGLE.
SO, EVENTUALLY, HE DECIDED TO DO
A LITTLE RESEARCH ON HIS OWN.
I'D LIKE TO GET PICTURES
FOR THESE COORDINATES ON MARS.
I WENT BY JPL,
THE JET PROPULSION LAB,
AND WENT IN AND HANDED THE GUY
THE CARD AT THE DESK AND SAID,
"I'D LIKE TO GET NEGATIVES
FOR THESE LOCATIONS ON MARS."
AND HE TOOK ONE LOOK
AT THE CARD, AND HE SAID...
OH, YOU WANT PICTURES
OF THE OLD CITY.
AND HE TURNED AROUND
AND PULLED AN ENVELOPE OUT
AND HANDED IT TO ME.
AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT,
WHERE I REMOTE VIEWED
A VERY LARGE PYRAMID,
WELL, IN FACT,
THERE'S
A FOUR-SIDED PYRAMID THERE.
IT'S LEFT ME
WITH ENOUGH INFORMATION
THAT I AM SURE
THAT I WAS REMOTE-VIEWING
SOMETHING ON MARS.
Redfern: A NUMBER OF RESEARCHES
OF PROJECT STAR GATE
BELIEVE THAT,
THANKS TO
THE REMOTE VIEWING PROGRAM,
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
HAS ACTUALLY UNCOVERED EVIDENCE
OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE
IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM,
POSSIBLY EVEN ON OUR PLANET.
IF REVEALED, OF COURSE,
THIS WOULD BE
THE BIGGEST STORY EVER.
BUT IT BEGS THE QUESTION,
WHY IS THE GOVERNMENT
WITHHOLDING IT?
Tallitsch: IF WE ALL KNEW
THAT ALIENS EXISTED,
THE GOVERNMENT
WOULD COLLAPSE OVERNIGHT.
AND NOT JUST OURS --
AROUND THE WORLD.
EVERYTHING
FROM RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
TO, YOU KNOW,
WORLD GOVERNMENTS --
FIRST-WORLD GOVERNMENTS --
WOULD COLLAPSE.
Narrator:
AS THE DETAILS OF THIS PROGRAM
ARE ONLY NOW MAKING CLEAR,
WHAT BEGAN AS AN UNCONVENTIONAL
MILITARY EXPERIMENT
MAY HAVE YIELDED
EARTH-SHAKING DISCOVERIES.
I GOT A LEGION OF MERIT
FROM MY GOVERNMENT
FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION
THAT COULD NOT BE OBTAINED
BY ANY OTHER METHOD
ON OVER 160 DIFFERENT TARGETS.
I KNOW
THAT REMOTE VIEWING WORKS.
Smith:
IT KIND OF STARTLED ME, REALLY,
THE MARVELOUS NATURE OF
WHAT WERE DOING AT FORT MEADE.
WHAT ACTUALLY HAD HAPPENED HERE,
THERE WAS NO OTHER EXPLANATION
THAN I HAD REALLY BEEN PSYCHIC
DURING THAT TIME.
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