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.
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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.
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.