I am actress Milla Jovovich,
and I will be portraying Dr. Abigail Tyler in The Fourth Kind
This film is a dramatization
of events that occurred October 1st through the 9th of 2000,
in the northern Alaskan town of Nome.
To better explain the events of the story,
the director has included actual
archived footage throughout the film.
This footage was acquired from Nome psychologist Dr. Abigail Tyler,
who has personally documented over 65 hours of video and audio materials
during the time of the incidents.
To better protect their privacy,
we have changed the names and professions
of many of the people involved.
Every dramatized scene in this movie is supported
by either archived audio, video,
or as it was related by Dr. Tyler
during extensive interviews with the director.
In the end, what you believe is yours to decide.
Please be advised that some of what
you are about to see is extremely disturbing.
OSUNSANMl: Just relax, and I'll ask you questions,
and whenever, whatever you want to toss in there
Okay You all right?
Okay
I'm going to try
and make this as painless as possible
Can you state your name for the camera?
Dr Abigail Emily Tyler
Okay, where would you like to begin?
I guess
After what happened with Will, my husband, I
I went to my friend, who is also a psychologist, Dr
(INAUDIBLE)
Because I was having trouble dealing with how he
With how it happened and who did it
REAL ABEL ON RECORDING: You don't think you might need more time?
REAL ABBEY ON RECORDING: No, this is something I have to do this
I have to remember his face
I need it for myself to heal
I have to try, and I have to know that, for my children,
that I did everything that I could
to remember ...to remember.
You know, since that night, Ashley still can't see,
and I don't think that she's gonna get her sight back
if she doesn't accept what happened.
(SIGHING)
Well, I think you both have the same problem, just different symptoms.
Yeah, and I think that it could help
if I could just remember the face of that man,
so we could somehow track him down and set the record straight
and find some closure.
All right. All right.
Do you want it on video?
Yeah.
Counseling a fellow psychologist is like...
It's like talking to myself.
You always say that.
ABEL: I do? Oh, my God.
All right.
I guess just try to relax and get yourself comfortable.
Listen to the sound of my voice as I count back.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
Ten...
REAL ABEL: Nine
Eight, seven, six...
Your eyes are getting heavier...
and heavier
Five, four
They're almost closed. They're almost closed
Three, two
and one.
One
Very good, Abbey. Very good.
Very good, Abbey Very good
Let's go back in time...
Let's go back in time
...back into the past...
back into the past
...to the night of August 2nd of this year.
To the night of August 2nd of this year
What was the weather like?
Warm. Warmer than usual,
even though it's raining outside.
Okay, good.
Now, let's go back to when you were with Will,
just before the intruder entered your room.
We're making love.
It's nice. It's so... It's so nice.
He's falling asleep.
Mmm.
Good. So what happens... What happened next?
I'm awake. I'm wide awake,
and we're just lying here.
What woke you up?
(SIGHS)
(GROANING)
(SCREAMING)
Oh, God!
Someone stabbed him in the chest! Oh, my God!
Blood everywhere. There's blood everywhere.
ABEL: Try to see his face Try to see his face
I can't see it.
My husband!
It just feels like I can't move. I can't see it.
It feels like we're frozen I can't see it
Abbey. Abbey, Abbey, Abbey, Abbey. Abbey.
It's all over me! All over me.
Focus on my voice. Focus on my voice.
You will be awakened and conscious
in five, four, three, two, one.
(GASPS)
Abbey. Here. Let me.
If I could just see his face.
He was killed, and I was right there, Abel. I was right there.
Yeah, you know, it's as natural to feel guilt
as it is unnatural to feel it was your fault.
You know that.
Yeah, okay. Okay.
I think you might want to consider taking some time off.
Real time, you know?
Because it just might help you find clarity with what happened.
I have to continue this study. It meant a lot to Will,
and he would have wanted me to continue.
Now, why did I know you were gonna say that?
He would have wanted me to try and finish it
as soon as I could.
It meant a lot to him.
OSUNSANMl: And how long had it been at this point
since Will had passed away?
REAL ABBEY: Two months
And you guys were already back to school,
and the kids were already back to school?
I had to try and get some normality back into life
I didn't know what else to do
Is Nome a place you can drive into or
No, you have to fly around
Okay
You can't get there by road
Any messages?
No, but Scott's waiting in your office,
and you have a 1:00 and a 2:00.
Thank you.
So, how was it coming in?
It was a little bumpy.
You'd think as beautiful as that sky is
that it wouldn't be so rough.
The stuff that really shakes us...
We seldom ever see coming.
I know, I know.
It's a good saying.
Not every week.
Hi, Scott. Sorry I'm late.
SCOTT: (GRUNTS) Hey, Dr. Tyler.
I flew up to Anchorage this morning,
so I'm having a bit of a slow start.
Please, sit down and make yourself comfortable.
How are you?
I'm all right.
Have you been sleeping?
It's... It's worse.
I wake up in the middle of the night almost every night,
and I just lie there.
What time does this normally occur?
Around 2:30, 3:00 in the morning.
And there's nothing unusual waking you up?
No, nothing.
It's just there's... There's one thing.
There's an owl at my window.
An owl?
A white owl. It was just looking at me.
How long was it there?
Hours.
No matter what I did, it wouldn't fly away.
It wasn't scared of me.
What was it doing?
Just staring at me.
(SIGHING)
Had you ever seen it before?
TOMMY: Yeah.
Once when I was a kid.
That was the first time?
Uh-huh.
I guess I've seen it a lot.
How much is a lot?
Every night this week.
Every night?
You mean every time you go to bed?
I think it came inside.
Was your window open?
No.
I wonder how it got in.
I don't know, but I remember it looking down at me.
Over your bed?
Yeah, I think so. I...
It's really hard to remember.
It's almost like... Like it didn't happen.
Like, you know, in a dream.
Like I just dreamt it.
Can you come see me tomorrow?
Sure, if you think I should, or if it's important.
Yeah, I do. I do think it's important,
and it's nothing to be alarmed at, at all,
but there have been some strange coincidences here,
and I just... I feel like I need to try something new.
What do you mean?
You're not the first patient I've had
who's experienced something like this.
REAL ABBEY: I felt so sorry for my baby,
and I feel responsible
Can you just knock it off?
Conversion disorder is not a phenomenon
that a lot of people understand,
and we've had to make quite an adjustment
OSUNSANMl: When did Ashley go blind?
After what happened to Will,
she just lost her sight
(IMITATING BIRD CALLING)
Hey, baby.
Hi, Mommy.
How was rehearsal for the play?
Hey, what's wrong?
Nothing.
Come on.
Come on, cough it up. What happened?
Ralph called me a faker.
What? A faker?
He said that I could see before,
and now I was just pretending.
What a jerk.
He said that I just wanted everybody
to feel sorry for me because of Daddy.
Dear Lord, thank you for everything we have.
Please continue to bless our family,
and please continue to help Ashley overcome her challenges,
and help all of us to heal.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
ASHLEY: Amen.
Hey, what time is the game tomorrow?
7:00.
And who are you playing again?
I already told you, Browerville.
Well, I'm sorry, sweetie. I must have forgot.
Dad never forgot.
(SIGHS)
Yeah, and Dad's not here anymore.
No, he's not.
Can you accept it yet?
Okay, Ronnie, not in front of your sister, okay?
We'll talk about it later.
What do you mean?
Nothing, honey.
How Dad died.
All right, Ronnie. What is wrong with you?
You go around helping other people with their problems...
Stop it. Stop it!
...but you can't even help yourself.
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Ronnie.
Mommy? What did...
What does he mean?
OSUNSANMl: And do you think he, in any way,
may have blamed you for Will's death?
REAL ABBEY: Yes, he did blame me,
and he said that I couldn't help him
or Ashley or anyone, and he was right
WILL ON RECORDING: A small number continue to experience
debilitating sleep disorders,
and this seems to be the trend throughout Nome,
and a cause remains unknown
Even during the night months, they can't sleep
We've seen over 300 people throughout Nome
who are all exhibiting the same symptoms
Around 3:00 in the morning, they are awakened for no apparent reason,
and they wake up apprehensive, frightened, panicked,
as if something's about to happen
Whether or not this is related
Daddy?
To the missing people or disappearances
No, my baby,
it's just a recording of Daddy's voice.
Come over here. I got you. Come up on the bed.
My angel.
ABBEY: Okay, you're doing real good, Tommy.
When I get to one, you will be asleep,
very, very relaxed.
Four, three,
two and one.
Can you hear me?
Yes.
And when was the last time
you had trouble sleeping?
Last night.
And did you see the owl?
Yeah.
Good. And what did it look like?
REAL ABBEY ON VIDEO: What did it look like?
Tommy?
I
I don't remember
You don't remember what the owl looks like?
No
No, I don't see the owl.
I don't see the owl now
It's not there anymore.
It's not there anymore
Did it fly away?
REAL ABBEY: Did it fly away?
TOMMY: No, I think it's...
No, I think it's
I don't really remember it...
I don't really remember it
...ever being there.
Ever being there
There's something outside my door. It's gonna open it.
(INHALES SHARPLY) The door's opening.
(DOOR OPENING)
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God!
No
REAL ABBEY: What's wrong?
Oh, Jesus! Tommy, what's wrong?
No, no, no!
No, no!
No, no, no! No, no, no! Okay, Tommy, when I count to three,
you will awaken.
No, no, no!
To conscious No!
Three! No!
No, no! No!
Three! No!
(REAL TOMMY SCREAMING)
Tommy, it's not happening.
It's a memory. This is not real.
It is real
Did I do that?
Yeah, you did, Tommy, but it's okay. It's okay.
(SHUSHING)
What did you see?
Nothing.
What?
Nothing.
You said you saw something.
No, I didn't see anything.
I didn't see anything.
I'm just trying to help you.
If you want to help me, get me out of this room.
I need to go home. I need to go home. I'm okay. I'm okay.
Tommy, are you trying to convince me or you?
Did you see what was bothering you at night?
Did you see the owl?
Can we talk about this next time?
Yeah, of course. Sure.
Talk to me when you need to.
Yeah. Okay.
(CALLER SCREAMING)
(GUN FIRING)
(POLICE SIRENS WAILING)
Call in EMTs, Search, everybody. I want everybody.
Transfer me into that house. Right now.
(PHONE RINGING)
Tommy here
Yeah, what's going on in there?
I want to talk to Abbey Tyler
Abbey?
Abbey's not here right now, but I can help you.
I have to talk to her!
(SCREAMING)
(GASPS)
(PHONE RINGING)
Hello?
AUGUST: I need you down here at Tommy's house
August? He's gone crazy.
He's holding his family hostage, and he's asking for you.
Okay, I'll be right there.
(POLICEMEN CHATTERING)
TOMMY ON PHONE: Bring her up here
AUGUST: She's here right now.
We'll walk her up to you, okay, Tommy? It's gonna be all right.
Just give her the phone Give her the phone I want to talk to her
OFFICER: Both arms out. Both arms out. She's here.
Put her on the phone right now
I'm gonna do it right now, okay? Is this really necessary?
I want to talk to her! Can somebody tell me what's going on?
Where is she? Take it easy, all right?
I don't see her Get her up here! August, what's going on?
I need you to calm him down and get him thinking rationally.
He's got Sarah, Timothy and Joe lined up
in the kitchen with a gun to their heads,
and he wants to talk to you for some reason, all right?
OFFICER: Watch your step.
Straight this way.
Tommy? Tommy, what... What's going on here?
I'm so sorry, but I've gotta do this
I don't have a choice
It was completely surreal to be there in the middle of the night
with all those police trucks
I don't have a choice
No, no, no. You have a choice, Tommy.
We always have a choice.
Not this time Please, Tommy!
Yes. Yes, you do. You have the choice
right now to just... To just stop.
Just put down the gun, Tommy.
You have it within your power to just stop.
Please, before somebody gets hurt.
Tommy, look at Sarah, Tommy.
Look at... Look at your wife.
Look at your children, Tommy.
It's okay It's okay
You would never let anything happen to them.
You love them so much.
I know what keeps us up at night
And if you saw what I saw,
you would understand
What did you see, Tommy?
It doesn't matter, because we're not gonna
have to see it ever again
Just wait, Tommy. I can help you.
Just talk to me, okay? We'll talk as long as you need to.
We'll get through this, Tommy.
If anybody's got a clear shot, take it now.
RYAN: Negative
GREGORY: I don't have a clear shot, sir The wife is blocking him
And he wasn't listening to me
Do you know what Zimabu Eter means?
And they were going to kill him
What? Wait. I can't hear you, Tommy. What?
Has anybody got the shot?
Zimabu Eter! Zimabu Eter! Zimabu Eter!
What the hell does that mean?
Zimabu Eter? I don't know, Tommy. What the hell does that mean?
Anybody got the goddamn shot?
But I can find out. Just give me a little time.
I need to know now!
Just give me a little time.
I will find out for you. I promise. Right now!
No, please!
You can't help me
I love you
(GUN FIRES)
REAL AUGUST: Move, move!
Move, move, move!
Tommy! God damn it!
REAL AUGUST ON RECORDING: I'm having a hard time
understanding what happened here
REAL ABBEY: I know I know
You don't know what he saw? REAL AUGUST: So you have no idea what he saw?
REAL ABBEY: He didn't tell me He didn't tell me.
What did he tell you?
That what he thought he saw wasn't an owl.
That it was something else.
And that's what was keeping him up at night?
Yeah.
So he was under hypnosis when he saw this?
Yeah.
And how do you know what he saw was real?
I don't know that it was.
So what you're saying is that Tommy might have done all of this
based on something that was imaginary.
(SIGHS)
All I know is that he believed what he saw,
and there was more fear in his eyes
than I've ever seen in my life.
Had you not hypnotized him,
do you think he would have done this?
What do you mean?
I'm just wondering,
without this hypnotism,
do you think he still would have murdered his family?
That is a ridiculous and offensive question.
No, what's ridiculous and offensive
is that an entire family is lying in a morgue
from a murder-suicide,
and the last meaningful contact
that the murderer had was with you.
No, what happened tonight
would have manifested itself eventually.
He was suppressing something.
Look, in 13 years of practice,
I've never witnessed something to this extent.
Abbey, why didn't you contact us
if you suspected he was unstable
after an admittedly violent episode?
He was completely coherent when he left my office.
Now, I had no reason to suspect...
I called his wife to ask her to keep an eye on him.
And now she's dead.
Okay, I'm not going to sit here and listen
to how hypnosis-induced murder caused this.
Jesus, I am trying to find out... This is ridiculous.
...what caused one of the worst murders in the history of Nome.
There's something going on in this town that we don't understand.
There's something happening to people in their sleep...
Well, I don't know about any of that!
I don't understand what you're talking about!
I don't deal in hallucinations.
I don't deal in the visions in the ether.
What in the hell are you talking about?
I'm dealing in real flesh and blood things,
four of whom are lying on slabs next door.
How dare you? My husband was lying on one of those slabs
and you still haven't found his killer.
Abbey, now, you know damn well what happened to Will.
That case is closed.
No, you cannot file things away
without getting to what really happened.
Now, there are more unsolved murders and missing people in Nome...
Sit down. ...than any other town in Alaska,
three years of which have been under your watch.
Now, what is happening in this town is very real,
and it must be acknowledged.
Sit down!
You stop whatever this governmental study is,
this hypnosis, whatever it is,
whatever you and Will were after.
It's bringing nothing but bad news to a town that's had enough.
Now, I don't care how important it is to you.
I don't care how hard you've worked on it. I don't care.
You're not gonna use the people of Nome for a goddamn rat study.
I felt responsible for
death, and his family's
And at the time, after all that happened,
I still didn't know why he did it
All of the patients reported seeing the same owl,
but Tommy mentioned that his memory of the owl was wrong
and that he didn't see it anymore.
It was some sort of false recollection.
The question is,
if under hypnosis, will the others feel the same way?
Will they see what he saw?
We have to proceed with extreme caution.
What happened here remains unexplained, like Will.
Abel?
I heard what happened. I just wanted to make sure you were okay.
Hey. You flew all the way up here?
That's all right. That's okay.
I'm worried about you.
You didn't have to. I'm fine.
Yeah? Yeah.
You want to talk?
I can't. I can't cancel my schedule.
Theresa, good morning. Can you transcribe this for me, please?
Do you want me to cancel your meetings?
No, no. Thank you.
So, how you feeling?
I feel like I just need to start my day.
Yeah.
Maybe it's... You think it's
time that you, maybe, stepped back?
Maybe consider it a sabbatical?
I love that word.
It doesn't actually sound like what it means, which is "time off."
Abbey, listen, you need to step away for perspective,
clarity on what's happened.
I mean, you can't continue like this.
No, I can, and I have to.
It's the only thing I have within my power.
It's all I have left, is to continue,
to find out what's causing all of this.
I can't... I don't...
I don't believe that it can be just chalked up to coincidence,
what happened to Will, what happened to Tommy and his family.
I don't.
(SIGHS)
Not in this town.
Do you mind if I stay on a bit?
Just kept an eye on you,
since you're not too keen on doing it yourself?
It's all right.
(EXHALES)
So, lots to talk about.
What happened to Tommy?
I can't discuss...
He's dead. You should be able to discuss everything.
It had something...
I believe that it had something to do with his sleeping habits.
We're really worried, obviously.
It's the second suicide in a couple of months.
I understand.
We want you to hypnotize me, too.
We need to know if there's anything I'm not remembering,
and I feel...
We feel like the best thing to do is to face it.
We've already thought it over.
If you want to undergo this,
we're gonna have to go about this very delicately.
Would it be all right if a colleague of mine, Dr. Campos,
came in to observe?
Yeah, sure.
Okay.
ABBEY: Five. Deeper, deeper. You're totally relaxed.
Four, three, two and one.
So, when was the last time you had trouble sleeping?
Last night.
And do you remember seeing anything unusual last night?
An owl.
ABBEY: Tell me about the owl
REAL ABBEY: Tell me about the owl
It's a beige owl
Its eyes are big, like
I don't know It doesn't look like a normal owl
It doesn't look like a normal owl.
(INHALES SHARPLY)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
Scott?
There is no owl. It's not...
Honey, honey, honey, wake up
You hear that? Wake up
She's not She's not waking up
Someone's outside the door.
Tell me what you see.
Something's out there.
Can you see who it is?
Not who, what. I know what they are.
They come all the time since I was little.
What are they?
(DOORKNOB RATTLING)
(WHIMPERING)
They're gonna open the door.
They get in without setting off the alarm.
I armed it. I know... I know I did.
I thought they only come when I think about them,
but I wasn't thinking about them tonight.
(GURGLING)
Okay, Scott, I'm gonna count to three, and you're gonna wake up.
One, two, three!
Scott! Scott! Scott, wake up!
(GASPS)
(REAL SCOTT COUGHING)
Here you go. Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
It's unbelievable.
It doesn't make any sense.
Scott, you don't have to rush.
Whenever you're ready, you can tell us what you saw.
I saw them.
Who's them?
They're not from here.
What do you mean?
I can't describe it. I can't see what's in my own mind.
I can't control it.
All I can see is the owl, but I...
I know it's not an owl, but I...
I remember the smell, like a... Like a putrid cinnamon.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
The worst part
was the voice inside my head, like
'Cause they talk to you
so you can hear them, but
They also talk inside your mind,
like you're connected or something.
And they take me away to somewhere, but I can't remember,
and I can't remember what they do to me.
Okay, okay, Scott, that's enough for today.
I'm so sorry.
It's gonna be all right.
Cindy, under the circumstances,
I'm going to contact Sheriff August
to let him know that we've met
and let him know that we've had this session.
Yeah, please do.
Okay.
Now, I know why did what he did
Why?
You'd have to have seen it,
felt it, what it is.
What is it?
The worst.
Of what?
That you could... You could ever imagine.
Come on. Babe, let's go home.
We're going home.
What the hell was that?
Abel.
Hmm?
Do you believe in abduction theories?
What do you mean, like kidnappings?
Yeah. No. No, not...
(EXCLAIMS) Not kidnappings, but abduction, as in...
You don't mean alien abductions, do you?
Well, you know, I think that might be what we just heard.
When you look at the statistics, they're pretty impressive.
I mean, Will was kind of into that, and he did a little research.
You know, there are over 11 million people
that have either reported seeing
or know someone who has seen UFOs since the 1930s.
The idea of any of this stuff being real is... You can't...
Come on, Abel. I mean, when something
boasts 11 million witnesses...
You know, that would win any court case in the world.
Well, and there are just as many
explanations and reasons.
Weather balloons, atmospheric effects, optical illusions.
In this case, perhaps, hypnocognic hallucinations.
Listen, we have to deal with hard, empirical evidence
and facts. We can't...
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Abbey! Abbey. The tape.
The tape you gave me this morning...
Wait. Slow down. Slow down, Theresa.
What is it? Did you listen to it?
I don't... I don't know what this is.
I don't know what's going on.
I don't want to listen to it again.
(ABBEY ON RECORDING)
That was weird.
(HEAVY BREATHING)
(DOOR CREAKING)
(ABBEY GROANING)
(SCREAMING)
Abbey?
(SCREAMING CONTINUES)
(GARBLED SPEECH)
(RECORDING ENDS)
That's you?
That's not my voice.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
That's not me.
OSUNSANMl: After you heard that, what did you, like
How did you react?
After the initial shock,
I was in denial
It couldn't be me, my voice
So, what happened next?
I went through what I could hold onto
Which were what?
Which were the facts
I went home to try and recount
what happened during the recording
(GLASS BREAKING)
I was sleeping in my bed
when my door opened
(DOOR CREAKING)
Someone or something came into my room
Did it cause that somehow?
Some kind of allergic reaction?
How long had it been there?
But whatever, whoever it was, I fought it
(ABBEY SCREAMING)
But it was too strong, and it took me away
The moment it became too real
was when I looked down at the floorboards
and I saw scratches leading all the way to the door
I put myself back together
I was determined to figure out what it was,
what came into my room,
what it was saying, where it took me,
and what it did to me
I listened to that tape over and over
to figure out anything,
something to explain what it was
It wasn't Latin
It wasn't Greek
It wasn't any language that I had heard before,
and I felt it was the key
to everything that was happening
to me, to Will,
and everyone else in Nome
And then I found exactly what I was looking for
AWOLOWA: Hello? ABBEY: Hello.
Is this Dr...
Awolowa Odusami
Yes, this is he
Hi, I was wondering,
are you familiar with a person named Dr. William Tyler?
No, I'm not I'm sorry
Okay.
May I ask who's speaking?
I'm...
Will you tell me your name?
(PHONE RINGING)
(EXHALES)
Hello? AWOLOWA: Listen,
there was a man who called me from this number
He called himself John
There's no John here.
Exactly, I know
What was he... Why was he calling you?
He wanted to have a history lesson on ancient languages
Look, I...
That was my husband that you talked to,
and he's been murdered.
Dr
AWOLOWA: I'm sorry I'm sorry to hear that
he listened to me
Yeah.
He didn't judge me
or try to analyze me
I just... I need...
He just listened
I need you to hear me out.
And then he flew over to Nome
I thought it was Akkadian, but it's not.
It's Sumerian. I'm sure of it.
This is widely considered by my peers
to be the Holy Grail of dead languages,
but we haven't deciphered the entire lexicon.
(SPEAKING SYLLABLES OF SUMERIAN WORDS)
"Our creation" is the last two words.
I'm not sure of the first two.
"Examine" is the first word.
The last word is "ruin" or "destroy."
"Our creation," "examine," "ruin," or "destroy."
Ruin, destroy who?
It's an incomplete translation.
We can't be sure of exactly what's being said.
But whatever it is, it sounds aggressive.
I'm sorry, but none of this is any making sense.
It's a verbalized recording
of the Sumerian language.
Now, we're talking about the oldest language in human history
for whatever reason recorded in your room.
What was happening? What was being done to me?
What is unsettling is that whatever it is,
the vocals, they don't sound...
Ordinary. Human?
Whoa. Whoa, whoa. Stop. Stop. Stop.
Okay? Let's not fuel any more of these fires.
Now, there's any number of reasons
for the distortion in the voice.
I'm not jumping to any conclusions,
but her voice sounded fine.
The tape could have been recorded over, for one,
and part of the old tape could still be heard.
No, I don't recycle tapes.
Well, maybe this time you did.
And that still does not explain
why that voice is speaking a language
that predates Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Now, I've studied the Sumerian civilization for most of my career,
and what I have found is intriguing.
You can go into any Sumerian exhibit
and see what I am about to tell you
Drawings of rockets that look like Apollo launching into the sky
Etchings and sculptures of men in spacesuits
and what look like oxygen masks
And this artwork was created in the fourth millennium B.C.E.,
4,000 years before Christ walked the Earth.
"Genesis," Noah's ark, to name a few
Both of these stories existed in Sumer
6,000 years before the Bible was written
"Genesis" came from the Sumerian epic of creation
Noah's ark came from the Sumerian deluge
The alien-god legend has its basis,
its origins, in Sumerian history
You can find everything I've described in a museum right now
You know, it is one thing to entertain wild theories,
but quite another to invest in them.
Yes, and you're entitled to that reaction,
but as I said from the beginning, I draw no conclusions.
I'm dealing in facts.
Now, this is drawn from thousands of years
of data research and collection.
How this is put together is open to debate.
(PHONE RINGING)
ABEL: Do you honestly believe you were forcibly
removed from your bedroom
by members of an alien race?
(PHONE CONTINUES RINGING)
Hello? CINDY: Abbey, can you come over? It's Scott
Something's wrong He wants you to come over He
Cindy? Hold on a second. Just take a deep breath.
Hi, Cindy. Hey.
This is Dr. Odusami. He's here to help.
Good morning.
Come in.
Scott?
What took you so long?
I'm sorry. I came as quick as I could.
Last night was...
(SHUSHES) Calm down.
Calm down? Scott.
How can I? You don't...
Scott. Scott, I'm here, all right?
Now, you've gotta try and breathe for me. You have to calm yourself,
because I cannot help you if you're all wound up.
I don't want to talk about it, but I have to.
Have to, have to, have to...
I have to, I have to, I have to...
Scott, why are you...
I have to.
What is this? How did you get this?
I don't know. I didn't know it was there. I just...
Okay. Can we set up the camera, please?
No, no, no, no, no. I don't need anyone...
I don't want this getting out.
Scott, we need to record what's happening.
We need to record this session for study,
so we can find out what's going on with you.
Okay, I don't want to go under.
Well, we don't have to do that.
Just try and relay whatever you remember.
There's things I have to remember, but I...
But I can't. I can't without...
You know what? We can put you under a very light hypnosis.
Okay?
But if you're worried...
I have to. I have to remember.
I have to get this out of my head.
It feels like it's just dug in there
and I can't think straight anymore.
(SHUSHING)
It's okay. It's okay.
I have to...
I'll do it.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
Okay.
(MUTTERING)
Are we ready?
Okay.
(SCOTT HYPERVENTILATING)
It's okay. Okay?
(SHUSHING)
Relax. Just relax.
There's a lot of people in the room with you now
You're not alone
Relax
By the time I reach one, you will be asleep
Five, four,
three, two,
one
(SCREAMING) Scott?
(CINDY SCREAMING)
(GASPING)
(SCOTT ROARING)
(DISTORTED SPEECH)
(REAL CINDY WHIMPERING)
(MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
But where are we going?
North Carolina.
North Carolina? Mmm-hmm.
What's in North Carolina?
Us, by tomorrow.
But I have a game tomorrow.
(PHONE RINGING)
Pack your bags.
Hello? I don't think she feels like talking to you right now.
Mommy? Yeah, baby.
What's wrong?
Nothing, sweetie.
We're just gonna go take a little break, okay?
It's Abel.
Tell him I'll call him back.
She'll call you back.
He says he has to talk to you. I'll call you back, Abel.
He's already on his way.
Are we gonna see Grandma and Grandpa?
No, baby, Grandma and Grandpa are gone, remember?
Yeah, they're with Daddy.
I mean Grandpa and Grandma Lilly.
No, we're not going to see them, either.
But why not?
Baby, I'm just gonna sit you down right here,
and you've gotta let Mommy pack, okay? Thank you.
It's 'cause of Dad, huh?
Ronnie, I really need you to help me right now, okay?
Please take your sister into her room
and help her get ready, okay?
Thank you.
RONNIE: Mom?
ABBEY: Yeah?
What did you do?
(BANGING ON DOOR)
Hold on!
What happened to Scott?
August, I'm sorry.
He's paralyzed from the neck down.
Three of the vertebrate in his neck are completely severed!
Huh?
I don't know. Huh?
You were there.
I can't explain it. I can't...
Tell me what happened.
How'd he break his back?
I put him under, and there was something...
Something was inside of him
that twisted his body, and that...
Something was inside of him,
and it twisted his body?
And you have proof of this?
It didn't record. It was all distorted.
Abbey...
(EXHALES)
How in God's name am I supposed to believe this?
I know what I saw.
Yeah, what you saw?
I know what I saw. What you saw?
Abbey, what you're doing is hurting people,
very obviously!
Now, my heart goes out to you, it really does,
what you've been through. I understand that,
but you leave me no choice.
You have the right to remain silent.
What?
Anything you say or do can and will
be held against you in a court of law.
ABBEY: No, stop. Stop.
AUGUST: You have the right to an attorney.
August.
August, please, don't do this.
Ryan! Sheriff, no.
Ryan, you can't. Please. You can't...
You can't take me away from my children. August, please, don't.
August. August, I know what this looks like.
I know what this looks like, but I was there.
I saw it.
You were there, and you saw what?
What did you see?
Well, it's the kind of thing that...
Well, you'd have to have seen it.
No. Bullshit.
Now, this woman is not capable of committing
any physical harm to any man.
AUGUST: I don't know what she is capable of...
She's not capable. You know. You know. Hey!
Just calm down for a second and hear me out.
I know that what's happening here in Nome is frightening.
I know it is.
But whatever you do, you cannot arrest her
for something you don't understand
just because you're terrified. Come on.
You're pushing it. You're pushing it.
I mean, I was there. I saw it.
Now you're gonna take her away from her children
for something that she did not do.
Come on. Come on.
Let's just calm down.
Please. Please.
You will be under 24-hour supervision,
and you will not leave these premises.
If you touch that doorknob, I will arrest you!
ABBEY: I understand. Thank you.
You're coming with me.
Thank you.
Hey, look after your mom. It's okay, sweetheart.
Ronnie.
This is Ryan, sir. I'm stationed in front of the Tyler home.
Over.
AUGUST ON RADIO: Roger that
REAL ABBEY: But they said they were questioned by Chief
reminded him about the disappearances
OSUNSANMl: What about them?
Homicides, missing people
Dozens of them
It's been happening there since the 1960s,
and the FBI have been dropping in from time to time
Would you say...
OSUNSANMl: What did they find?
REAL ABBEY: Nothing It's inconclusive
To this day, nothing has been solved
What do you think it means?
How do you put it in perspective?
They have different categories
for these types of things
Different levels
An encounter of the first kind,
that's when you see a UFO
The second kind is when you see evidence of it:
Crop circles, radiation
The third kind is when you make contact
But the fourth kind,
there's nothing more frightening than the fourth
You see, that one is when they abduct you
And I think it's all part of the same thing
It's all connected,
to Will, the missing people,
to everything in Nome
If this type of thing was happening to Nome,
to me, I think
it's happening to other people
Not just there, but all over the world,
in towns, cities
Most of them don't even know it
Know they're abducted?
How could they know?
How could they remember what they're being forced to forget?
What the hell?
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(REAL RYAN SPEAKING)
(GASPING) Holy shit
(POLICE SIRENS WAILING)
Where are they?
I don't know.
I tried to tell you... You don't know?
I want the video played back.
Sir, it didn't record.
It did, but nothing came out.
Come on! Bullshit!
Ryan, pull yourself together, man.
(ABBEY SOBBING)
Calm down. Mom. What the hell happened?
They took my baby. They took her.
Who?
They took my baby. What is she talking about?
Someone kidnapped Ashley.
Okay, I want this entire house searched.
I want everybody inside, outside
going through these premises top to bottom.
Ronnie, what'd you see?
Nothing. I came in here and she was gone.
What's going on here? August, listen to me.
I'm listening.
A beam of light came down,
and they took her into the sky.
They took my little girl up into the sky. I saw it!
Through the ceiling?
August, I saw it!
Through the ceiling?
Yes. They took her through the ceiling.
What is this craziness?
What the hell is going on here?
I couldn't stop it.
Okay. Everybody clear this room!
I want everybody out of here
except Ronnie and Abbey!
Ronnie, sit down right there, please. Okay?
Abbey, you sit down. Please sit down. My baby.
Okay? Sit here. I want to talk to you, okay?
You just tell me.
Listen, less than five hours after I arrest you,
your daughter goes missing.
I told you.
Yeah, but that's horseshit.
We know that that's not real.
Tell me what happened.
You had an officer outside my house.
Yes, we had an officer outside.
What did he see? He didn't see anything.
He says that the videotape wasn't playing. Now, just tell me.
Where is she? Listen, Abbey!
What did he see?
Get him in here right now! You listen to me now.
You know what's real! I want to know what he saw.
You know what's real! You had an officer outside my house!
God damn it! Where is she?
(GLASS SHATTERING) You were supposed to protect us!
Abbey, where is she, God damn it? You tell me where she is!
Where is Ashley? Where is she?
Mom! Can't you stop?
It's okay. It's okay.
RONNIE: Please, just stop!
Abbey, you haven't been right in the head since Will.
You just haven't been right in the head.
You haven't found his killer.
What?
You still haven't found his killer.
No, Abbey, we have. Yes, we have.
He's still out there. He's still out there.
No. Listen, I'm removing him from your custody.
No. Yes, I am,
and find a lawyer, because you've run out
of all the goodwill I've got, okay?
ABBEY: He's not gonna take you away.
Guys, get in here. We're removing Ronnie from Abbey's custody!
ABBEY: No. No, you're not! You will not...
RONNIE: Let go! ABBEY: You will not.
No. No. Let go!
No. No, no. Baby, baby, no!
Let go. Let go.
No, no. You're not taking my boy!
RONNIE: I'm sorry. You're not taking my boy!
OFFICER: He'll be safe! He'll be safe!
You're not taking my boy!
(SOBBING)
God!
My babies!
Why are you doing this?
REAL ABBEY: All I realized, that they weren't going to be able to find her
That I would have to do it on my own
OSUNSANMl: But you couldn't leave
No, that's not what I mean I had to
To find a way to go directly to them,
directly to the source
ABEL: I know what I saw, but I...
I can't accept it. I can't.
So please don't ask me to, because I can't.
I still have to do this.
But Scott, you...
Is this the right way?
I don't know.
I don't have a choice.
Yeah. I know you don't.
ABEL: Your eyes are feeling heavier.
Seven, six,
five, four,
three, two
and one.
Abbey? Yes.
Let's go back three days, to Tuesday,
when you were giving dictation in your bedroom.
Yes. Good.
Now, what happened after you finished your dictation?
Remains unexplained, and worse, unsolved,
like Will
Are you sleeping?
Yes
What happened next?
There's an owl.
The owl
It's looking down at me. It's looking down at me
Is it the same owl your patients see?
Yes. Yes
It's smiling. It's smiling
I don't like it when it smiles.
I don't like it when it smiles
What do you mean, smiling?
I don't know what I mean.
I don't know what I mean
I don't want to know. I don't want to know
Well, it's too late to forget what you already know.
Tell me what you see.
It's not an owl. It's not an owl
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(ABBEY GASPS)
(SCREAMING)
God, help me! Help me!
No
No! No!
Help me! Help me!
(BOTH SCREAMING)
Help me! Help!
ABEL: Abbey, what is it?
God, help me
There are too many of them It burns It hurts!
(BOTH SCREAMING)
(DRILL WHIRRING)
No, no! Please! Stop it No
(GASPING)
(SCREAMING)
It's sticking into my shoulder.
(ROARING)
(REAL ABBEY SPEAKING)
(REAL ABBEY SCREAMING)
OSUNSANMl: So what happened in that room?
They came,
and we were
We were
They abducted us
All of us, but brought us back that same night
We don't remember where they took us
or what they did to us
Even with hypnosis, it's black
Your voice, or its voice,
said it was God
What do you believe?
I believe
It's hard, but I believe
the things I've seen,
the presence I've felt
inside of me
is beyond anything you can imagine
It was
hopelessness,
so it cannot be God,
but it can
It can pretend to be
And what about Ashley?
What about
And what about your daughter?
She
I had to recover from that night
It took me a couple of days to wake up
(DOOR OPENING)
ABBEY: Abel...
It's...
It's okay. It's okay.
What is this?
Look, I have to apologize.
I...
I'm sorry, I really hate to have to do this
when you're in this condition that you're in.
It's okay.
AUGUST: So,
well, I still have that question for you, Abbey.
How did Will die?
He was murdered.
No, Abbey.
Abbey, he's going to show you something that will upset you,
but it has to be done.
Understand?
This is the head of a man
who used this gun.
Okay?
Yeah. It was suicide, Abbey. It was suicide.
He took a pistol, shot himself in the head.
There was no intruder.
There was no knife. Just him with his pistol at the side of your bed.
He's not that man. He wouldn't do that. He wouldn't do that.
He wouldn't do that to us. He wouldn't do that to his family.
Tell him he's wrong. Tell him.
I'm a psychologist, and I would have known... Christ.
I would have known if he was gonna...
ABEL: Abbey, Abbey.
You can't blame yourself
for something that was going on in his head.
Who knows what he'd learned, what he didn't share,
and finally what broke him?
AUGUST: Now you know the reality.
I'm gonna ask you for the last time. Tell me.
What happened to Ashley?
Tell me. Abbey.
You know what happened. You experienced it.
But we came back and she didn't. Abel.
Tell him. Tell him what happened.
Something took my daughter.
I don't know what. I don't... I don't know how.
I don't know what it was, but you have to believe me.
You have to believe me, please.
Please.
It's difficult to go back.
ABBEY: Go back?
Back over the line from fiction to reality.
You can't just stop being insane whenever you want to.
It's the kind of thing that stays with you forever.
OSUNSANMl: So Will committed suicide?
Yes
Your credibility How do you expect me or the audience
to believe anything you're saying,
if you actually hallucinated
the murder of your husband?
They weren't hallucinations
I just couldn't
It can be difficult to face the truth,
and with Will,
that's how I dealt with it
And no matter what you believe,
the recordings do not lie
We were talking about things that aren't normal
is dead back is broken
And Ashley, she's still gone
These are hard facts
They do appear to be
No, God damn it, they are!
You can sit here and speculate,
but I have to keep hope alive
I have to believe in what we're doing,
my story,
that it will help
I have to believe
that she's still alive somewhere,
that she's safe
I have to believe that there's a chance
that I'm gonna see her again,
hold her again,
hear her voice
I just want my little girl back
She's all I have
Let's stop there
(CRYING)
Dr Tyler,
we're done for the night
(INAUDIBLE)
Someone else is interested in Nome, as well.
Since the 1960s, there have been
over 2,000 visits to Nome by the FBI,
the highest in Alaska.
Second is Anchorage,
with a population 76 times larger than Nome.
The FBI have paid them 353 visits.
In the end, what you believe is yours to decide.
MAN 1: UFO Reporting Center
MAN 2: Yeah, I got a doozy for you
Okay
Gonna put me into the hospital, I tell you that
What happened?
I'm a truck driver
I had a load to Salt Lake City from Banning
I pulled over, didn't I got out of the truck, kind of stretched
I looked up at the stars,
and I saw these two
There were quite a few of them that were kind of low,
and they were, like, flickering
You know, what could they be?
And then it occurred to me, maybe I'm seeing a UFO
MAN 3: Portland Air Traffic Control Tower in Portland, Maine
Yes, sir
I guess I have a UFO report
What they drew, and these four people pretty much agree that,
actually, what they drew, it looked like a fedora hat
WOMAN 1: I saw something spectacular in the sky last night
that I have no explanation for
In fact, I'm sure as many as 50 to 100 people saw it
in different areas last night
I'm sure it had as many as 20 pulsating red lights,
one white light in the front of it
MAN 4: Like I said, it was about 100 feet from me
To me, it looked about, like, something
Like I said, right I remember seeing it, but after that it just
I don't exactly remember too much
MAN 5: I could see this very bright red light,
and it would change to kind of a blue light,
and the reflection off the clouds
MAN 1: Yes?
And I could also hear this very loud buzzing noise
WOMAN 2: My daughter is seven years old,
and she said it was in the shape of a square
She said she's seen four red lights in the corner
and a white one in the middle
MAN 6: Okay We had an aircraft at 35,000 feet westbound
They reported sighting four objects
Three of them were at his altitude
and one of them was a lot lower
MAN 7: We observed an unknown phenomenon this morning,
about 1600 Zulu,
and we observed it for about 10 to 15 minutes
The targets were approximately 200 miles
west of San Francisco over the water
They flew in what appeared to be unison,
approximately 90 miles apart
Their speed was in excess of 2,000 knots
They did a high-speed run for about 75 miles,
made a very abrupt slowdown,
and then a 180-degree turn,
and tracked back northbound
in excess of 2,000 knots
WOMAN 3: It had fire-engine red lights,
Kelly green lights, orange lights
It would shut all them lights down and turn a bright white
It was zigzagging in and out
It was shooting from one side of the sky to the other side
It was almost as if it was rolling
MAN 8: After eight to 12 seconds of this boiling,
we saw an object come up out of the water
and go straight up into the air
It was a circular-shaped object
MAN 9: To give you a brief on it,
I was dispatched on a UFO sighting
When I arrived, what I saw was a real large craft
in the air, circular
I would say it was at least 25 yards wide,
or in diameter actually, it would be,
and it was hovering over a house, and it was motionless
MAN 10: They're real bright, like a star,
and when it gets closer to you, it gets dimmer
Then when it lands, it goes into a big, big orange,
kind of like looking at the sun or something
MAN 1: Uh-huh
And then when the light goes out,
it's like you turned down a kerosene lamp
MAN 11: What exactly happened was,
it was myself and a friend were flying
I'm a commercial pilot MAN 1: Yes
And we saw this object, and it wasn't bright like a light
It was shining like polished aluminum,
or polished metal Yes
MAN 12: Like a point source that was emanating
several shafts of black light
It was like negative light
There's gotta be several hundred people that saw it
MAN 13: We had an aircraft that sighted a UFO
The pilot reported an object passed
approximately one eighth of a mile in front of the aircraft
It was described as being box-shaped
WOMAN 4: And as soon as I pulled over, this object came straight at us,
straight to our vehicle It was huge This thing was huge
It was black, huge It had these triangle lights on it
MAN 14: I have never been a believer of UFOs in my entire life,
and I just seen a minimum of nine this morning
with my own eyes,
and, I mean, I am a believer
One orange, and at least nine of the bright, bright moving lights
WOMAN 5: I was just staring at it, stopped
in my vehicle, and it started to move,
and it had lights down each side of it, like a triangle
MAN 1: Yes? And then, next thing I know,
I didn't take my eyes off the damn thing It was gone
WOMAN 6: My little brother, he's three, he'll be four next month,
last night he started talking to my parents,
and I just got done talking with him
He told my dad, "You have to lock the door,
"'cause the creatures are gonna come get me,"
and he said, "The men in the stars,"
he said, "they're coming to get me"
They follow him When he goes outside,
he says, "The star follows me
"The star follows me"
MAN 15: You'd have to experience this
in order to believe me
I'm afraid to walk outside I need help
I don't know how to deal with this It's so strange
I'm frightened to go to sleep
What if they come back?
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