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00:01Glowing objects that hovered in the night sky,
00:07determined homesteaders who disappeared without a trace,
00:12and an engineering marvel that may have triggered a deadly curse.
00:20If you've ever traveled around the United States,
00:23you surely have seen some of the vast landscapes that make the country so unique.
00:29From desert mazes and towering mountain ranges to winding rivers and dense forests,
00:35the land is covered with open spaces that are a sight to behold.
00:41But amidst the majesty of these beautiful places are some surprisingly haunting mysteries,
00:50frightening tales of lost civilizations, deadly curses,
00:56and legends of giant creatures that once roamed the plains.
01:00What dark secrets do the remote regions of America hold?
01:06Well, that is what we'll try and find out.
01:08Henderson, Nevada, March 13, 1997.
01:26At 6.55 p.m., police, in this small desert city,
01:32receive reports of a massive, V-shaped, unidentified flying object in the night sky.
01:38Over the next three hours, the craft is witnessed by thousands of people
01:43as it journeys southeast into the state of Arizona.
01:46Because most of the sightings were reported by the residents of Phoenix,
01:50the incident is known as the Phoenix Lights.
01:58For me, it was just another night.
01:59I was at home.
02:00I was upstairs in our bedroom.
02:02And I'm lying in bed.
02:04I see three lights pop up.
02:06I grab my video camera.
02:08I run outside on the balcony.
02:10And I did capture video affirmations of these lights or actual craft arranged in a V or triangle.
02:20We're talking mile to eight miles wide, gliding silently, some at a distance, but most at rooftop level.
02:32Some people said they could have thrown a rock at it. It was that close.
02:36Phoenix is a city of about five million people.
02:40And here they are looking up and seeing this immense UFO flying at fairly low altitude quite slowly.
02:51This was a sighting on almost unprecedented scale.
02:57The giant V-shaped object reportedly hovered above Phoenix for three hours
03:02before it finally disappeared over the horizon.
03:04The Phoenix Lights incident made headlines across the country.
03:12Many eyewitnesses were convinced that what they saw was not a man-made airplane,
03:18but rather an extraterrestrial spacecraft.
03:24Lots of people saw this.
03:26You have a lot of general consistency with how this was reported.
03:31But you had skeptics saying,
03:34well, the thing that people saw going down the state was actually just aircraft.
03:38And then a spokesperson from the National Guard made an announcement and said,
03:43yeah, those lights that people saw over the city,
03:46that was actually flares that we dropped by A-10 Warthog aircraft.
03:52Not if you talk to the witnesses.
03:54There were a number of witnesses who were quite adamant that this was extraterrestrial.
03:59And one of the witnesses turns out was actually the governor of the state,
04:03Fives Hymington.
04:04As a pilot and a former Air Force officer,
04:07I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man-made object that I'd ever seen.
04:14With the Phoenix Lights phenomenon,
04:16what's really exciting is that more and more credible people have come forward.
04:20All I knew is that it was so beyond anything I ever imagined being here on this earth.
04:29To date, the Phoenix Lights phenomenon has never been recreated or explained.
04:37While the Phoenix Lights is one of the most extraordinary UFO encounters in history,
04:43it is just one of many mysterious sightings that have taken place in the state of Arizona.
04:50According to the National UFO Reporting Center,
04:54there have been approximately 5,000 UFO reports in Arizona,
05:00going all the way back to the 1940s.
05:02On July 7, 1947,
05:08William A. Rhodes, an amateur photographer,
05:11saw an elliptical metallic object.
05:15He managed to capture two excellent photographs of this object at very low altitude.
05:22And he sent them into the Arizona Republic newspaper,
05:26which published them on the front page.
05:29And if you look at these photographs,
05:32you can see that they show a very solid-looking metallic gray object at low altitude.
05:38These photographs have never been debunked.
05:41So this is a very important case.
05:44There was what I believe is a genuine UFO crash that occurred in Kingman, Arizona in May of 1953.
05:54This was apparently the recovery of it virtually intact downed flying saucer.
06:01The witnesses came out and this was quite a significant case.
06:07And then probably the most famous of the many UFO sightings Arizona has had
06:12is the Travis Walton abduction experience from 1975.
06:17It took place in November of that year and made national news.
06:22And so Arizona has its own long history of anomalous activity, for sure.
06:32According to researchers, Arizona is one of several locations around the globe
06:38where UFO sightings are reported far more often than normal.
06:43These places are referred to as UFO hotspots.
06:49There do seem to be certain areas where these unusual or unknown things are seen more than others.
06:56So, for example, Catalina Island off the coast of L.A. has an incredible high-density number of very bizarre things.
07:06It's definitely a place where there has been documented and recorded high-level of UFO activity.
07:17What we see in these areas is a disproportionately large amount of UFO activity.
07:23That's absolutely what we're seeing here in Arizona.
07:28Arizona has played a very powerful role in our understanding of the UFO phenomena.
07:35There is a vast history in Arizona of UFO anomalous sightings.
07:42And people ask me, do you believe in UFOs?
07:46For someone who has had an unexplained phenomena experience, it isn't a belief, it's a knowing.
07:56Could Phoenix and other areas of the American Southwest be hotspots for unexplained phenomena?
08:04The possibility seems even more likely when you consider the strange tale of a mysterious visitor who may have had a hand in causing a native civilization to simply vanish.
08:17You can't vanish.
08:28Set into the high cliffs of Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado is what many consider to be America's biggest mystery.
08:36A mystery carved in solid rock.
08:44Cliff Palace, as it has come to be known, contains more than 150 chambers connected by extensive ramps and stairways.
08:53According to most archaeologists and historians, it was constructed almost a thousand years ago by a tribe of ancestral Pueblo known as the Anasazi.
09:10The ancestral Pueblo are a people that grew up in the Four Corners area of the United States.
09:17They're actually in an area called the San Juan Basin, where they spent most of their culture's history, all the way into Paleo-Indian times, which is about 12,000 years ago.
09:31They're a culture we call basket makers, and they did most of their cooking and gathering in pit houses in weaved baskets.
09:40I think one of the things that's the most admirable about the ancestral Pueblo is their ability to live in such a resource-poor environment.
09:52It was highland desert, there were not many natural plants to eat, it was very difficult to grow corn, there were not a whole lot of animals to hunt, and yet they found a way to live in that niche and survive.
10:07Starting in the ninth century, the Anasazi expanded their civilization by building massive structures throughout the southwest.
10:18First in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, and later in the cliffs of Mesa Verde.
10:23There was a big explosion in the kind of architecture they were making, and its scale and its sophistication.
10:35There were already tens of thousands of little communities, but now they started building these gigantic buildings.
10:42We call them great houses, and they were apartment complexes, but on a scale that the Pueblo had never made.
10:51Hundreds of individual rooms would make up these great houses, and they could be upwards of five stories tall.
10:59For years, people studying the Anasazi have wondered how a simple group of people developed into an advanced civilization so quickly.
11:13But perhaps an even more intriguing question is, why would those same people go to such great lengths to build incredible structures, only to abandon them?
11:25And then, during the 1200s, very mysteriously, suddenly, it disappeared.
11:32When archaeologists looked at these remains at the time of the civilization disappearance, it was very sudden, as if people just grabbed what they could and took off.
11:41The people just up and left. They left behind all of their belongings, and there is evidence that this activity occurred very quickly.
11:54It was almost as if they left behind ghost towns.
11:57So what really happened to the Anasazi? We know that drought must have been a factor, because there were periods when there was virtually no rain.
12:12We can say they left for drought reasons, but if these perfectly good places were good again after the drought, why didn't they come back?
12:21It had to be more than just a practical, well, we can't plant here anymore.
12:28If it wasn't drought that forced the Anasazi to leave their cliff dwellings, then what was it?
12:36According to some anthropologists, the answer may lie in their own mythology, in a tale about a shadowy, supernatural figure known as the Gambler.
12:49The story of the Gambler tells of a very powerful figure. He challenges all the people of the Four Corners region to these gambling matches, and he always wins.
13:03And in these stories, the people give away their goods, eventually they're giving away even their homes and their food, and eventually themselves as slaves to this powerful gambler figure.
13:15And in their mythology, they say the Gambler is the one who taught them how to build these great houses, and asked them to do it basically in terms of slavery. They were then his to command.
13:30Eventually in the story, the gods decide that the Gambler has overstepped. He has become full of hubris. He's behaving in a way he shouldn't. So he's eventually defeated and banished from Chaco Canyon.
13:46So when the Gambler was finally defeated, it's said that he laid some kind of curse on the land. He said, I will kill you with lightning, and I will send war and disease among you. May the cold freeze you, may the fire burn you, may the waters drown you.
14:07Some groups say he opened up some kind of vortex, and because there was so much badness and so much suffering, everyone made the decision to leave and never go there again.
14:22Many cultures have tales of a wily trickster, someone who cheats people out of hearth and home before laying a curse on their village and vanishing in a puff of smoke.
14:37Would the Anasazi's legend of the Gambler have actually been based on a real-life event?
14:44I went into museum collections and I found hundreds of gambling pieces excavated from Pueblo Benito and the other buildings in the canyon.
14:52Things like dice or pieces used in different guessing games. There's a lot of archaeological evidence for gambling at Chaco Canyon.
15:00And I do think the stories are literal in the sense that it was a major aspect of the society. It has to do with actual people, historical events.
15:11Does archaeological evidence of gambling mean the Anasazi legend of the Gambler is simply a parable about the dangers of unchecked vice?
15:20Or were the Anasazi forced to flee from their homes after being tormented by some sort of dark, supernatural force?
15:27Very often, abandoned villages or abandoned sites are held to be haunted by the ghosts.
15:34This is probably a very widespread notion that when a civilization collapses, very often something went wrong.
15:40And it's not purely physical, it's something spiritual.
15:44Today, Pueblo people will go to Chaco and they will honor their ancestors there.
15:49But some groups of them say that there was a very bad thing that happened there and that their ancestors for a long period of time didn't go there and they wanted nothing to do with it.
16:01Lovelock, Nevada, 1911.
16:11Inside a narrow cave, two miners are searching for bat guano, a key ingredient in making fertilizer.
16:19But as they head deeper into the darkness, they make an unexpected discovery.
16:26They find more than 40 human skeletons, some of which are abnormally large.
16:35In 1911, giant bones were found in Lovelock Cave, large human skulls and skeletons that measured between seven and eight feet in height, which for ancient man would have been rather significant.
16:53This caused a sensation and one of the strange things about the discoveries in Lovelock Cave is that the skeletons were often found with red hair.
17:04And so it does seem like there are a different kind of people than the Native Americans from that area.
17:12Although many of the large bones found in Lovelock Cave were unfortunately lost to time, for decades, the number of skulls were preserved at a local museum.
17:22Until about 10 years ago, there were four very large skulls on display inside the museum.
17:31These were then removed and ceremonially buried.
17:34What's also interesting is that over 100,000 artifacts were excavated from Lovelock Cave.
17:42The strange thing is that many of the artifacts were huge.
17:44Like, you have giant-sized sandals, like a 15-inch long shoe, which is size 29 US, which would fit someone who's about nine feet tall.
17:57And even pieces of clothing, which were so big, looked as though they were worn by giants.
18:03The idea that giant bones were actually found in a cave in Nevada may sound far-fetched to some.
18:10But the truth is that there were many such discoveries reported during the Wild West.
18:18In the southwestern United States, there's several very strange stories of these dead corpses or skeletons being found regularly.
18:28In terms of the reports of giants, this is a compelling motif.
18:33People were fascinated by this idea of a giant race that had lived here previously.
18:38And this connects to a lot of biblical belief that tended to be fairly literal back in the day.
18:42And the Bible talks about back when there was a race of giants that lived among the earth.
18:49And so, for many people, in the Wild West, when you see some skeletons dug out of the earth that seemed to corroborate this,
18:57this was an affirmation of literal biblical beliefs as well.
19:02Is it really possible that a race of giants once inhabited the Old West?
19:08As the numerous discoveries reported throughout the 1800s suggest?
19:14And if so, was evidence of these giants recovered in Lovelock Cave?
19:23Perhaps a clue can be found by examining the history of the indigenous Paiute people
19:29who have inhabited the Nevada desert for centuries.
19:33A woman named Sarah Winnemucca, who was a descendant of Chief Winnemucca of the Paiutes,
19:39wrote a book in the 1800s and recounted her people's battle with this race of giants, the Sitika.
19:46Now, what's fascinating about this is that she says that it was an actual battle, not part of tribal lore or mythology, but something that actually occurred.
20:00The Sitika were red-haired and lived in the mountains near the Paiute nation, and they were cannibals.
20:07According to the Paiutes, they naturally grew tired of being cannibalized, and they confronted these giants.
20:16A war was started between the giants and the Paiute people.
20:23For three years, they battled one another.
20:26The last of the giants hold themselves up in the Lovelock Cave.
20:31And the Paiute people stuffed the openings with a bunch of brush and firewood and lit the place on fire.
20:38And that was the end of the red-haired giant cannibals.
20:46What's also interesting is that when the discovery was made in 1911 at Lovelock Cave,
20:53they also found evidence of extreme burning, which took place near the entrance to the cave.
20:59So this matches the story almost precisely.
21:04And again, we have evidence of red hair because Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins actually saved some of the hair and sewed it into a mourning dress, which she used when she gave lectures.
21:15And so the story of the Paiutes defeating the giants then suddenly became a reality.
21:21For many, the evidence in support of the Paiute story about the red-headed giants is compelling.
21:27Not only because of what was found in the Lovelock Cave, but also because there have been reports of giant bones being discovered in other places throughout the western Nevada desert.
21:42If you go back and look through the records, you can find numerous accounts of bones, skeletons, and giant-sized artifacts that have been found in this area.
21:52In 1904, it was reported that an 11-foot-tall skeleton was found.
21:59And then we have accounts in 1931 of an eight-and-a-half-foot skeleton that was reported.
22:05And so, the fact is, you have the stories, you have the skeletal evidence, and you have the artifacts.
22:11And even the legends that prove this was a real story of giants in this area.
22:18To be sure, the Paiutes believed this to be a historical truth.
22:23People might dismiss them as just folklore, but again, who's to say that it didn't happen?
22:28Of course, there were ethnic conflicts.
22:29There were ethnic conflicts.
22:30So, this has been a real important part of many, many people's historical beliefs and how they think about their own history.
22:36The thought of red-haired, man-eating giants roaming the American Southwest is a bit unnerving.
22:48But there's another more recent story from the deserts of Nevada that is also unsettling,
22:54because some believe that an attempt to harness the raging waters of the Colorado River may have awakened a deadly curse.
23:09Clark County, Nevada, September 30th, 1935.
23:14With the country in the grips of the Great Depression,
23:17President Franklin D. Roosevelt presides over the dedication ceremony
23:21of one of the most extraordinary engineering projects in United States history.
23:28The Hoover Dam.
23:31There were thousands of people.
23:34And at that time, the people who came to listen to the President dedicate it
23:41understood that it was more than just a dam.
23:44They were standing on a structure that they had built with their own blood and sweat and tears.
23:54We are here to celebrate the completion of the greatest dam in the world.
24:01Named for President Herbert Hoover, who was in office when construction began in 1931.
24:07The Hoover Dam is located in the Black Canyon region of the Colorado River.
24:11Officials believe that a dam in this area could help manage flooding of the Colorado River,
24:18provide a much-needed reservoir of fresh water,
24:21and be a source of hydroelectric power.
24:24There was just one problem.
24:26In order to tame the Colorado River,
24:30the engineers would have to construct a more ambitious dam than had ever been created before.
24:37Here you have the Colorado River, one of the wildest and most untamed waterways in the world,
24:44and you want to tame it, you want to control it,
24:48so that you can provide dependable water storage, hydroelectric power, irrigation.
24:54Well, when I think of the Hoover Dam, I'm impressed that we actually moved the river to build the dam.
25:01And they had to divert the river through tunnels, through the mountain sides, or on either side.
25:06So you have a dry bed that you can build the dam on, and then bringing the river back just amazes me.
25:10Built in just five years, two years ahead of schedule, the Hoover Dam is a staggering 726 feet tall.
25:23At the time of its construction, it was the tallest dam ever built,
25:28the costliest water project ever undertaken,
25:30and home to the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world.
25:39Never before ever in history had there been that much concrete placed and poured in one spot.
25:47And enough concrete went into the construction of the dam
25:52that you could build a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York.
25:56The Hoover Dam changed the face of the nation,
26:00allowing for the explosive growth of cities like Las Vegas and Los Angeles,
26:06and fueling the country's recovery from the Great Depression.
26:10But some have suggested that the Hoover Dam represents not just an engineering success story,
26:17but also humanity's desire to bend the forces of nature to our will.
26:24The construction engineer, Walker Young, was widely quoted at one time as saying,
26:32the Lord put that canyon there.
26:35All we had to do was find it.
26:38That speaks to a very kind of Judeo-Christian philosophy,
26:44that human beings were the paramount creatures.
26:48And so we're going to impose our needs on nature and we're going to control nature.
26:59The flooding power of rivers is something that humankind has been contending with since there has been humankind.
27:04And in a lot of ways, the more we're able to restrain what have often been understood as the unrestrainable forces of nature,
27:17the more we suspect that maybe something superhuman is taking place there.
27:22Was the construction of the Hoover Dam motivated by our need to harness, control, and ultimately have power over Mother Nature?
27:33There are many who believe that to be the case.
27:36And as evidence, they point to a curious memorial that was placed next to the dam.
27:44An intricate celestial star map intended to send a message to future generations.
27:50The celestial star map is an amazing piece of art deco where laid into the ground is a star map with brass discs named after certain stars.
28:05And the purpose of that was really just one thing.
28:09It was to fix in astrological time the very moment, the month, the day, the minute, the second, that Hoover Dam was dedicated.
28:20The builders of the Hoover Dam certainly believed that their creation would be an everlasting testament to their triumph over the Colorado River.
28:30But what happens when the forces of nature defy our attempts to control them in ways that we can't foresee?
28:40Lake Mead is the man-made body of water created by the Hoover Dam.
28:46And what's interesting is that Lake Mead is actually one of the most deadly recreational areas that we have in this country.
28:56People drown mysteriously.
28:59So many people end up dying there.
29:02One of the fascinating things about Lake Mead are these methane or gas pits.
29:08And methane basically comes when vegetation decomposes.
29:12Now, one of the things that Lake Mead did is cover up a lot of vegetation because you make a lake where there wasn't a lake before and what you had before was stuff growing.
29:20So you can get these periodic releases of the methane gas that's been generated under the water from the vegetation decomposing.
29:29When the methane bubbles up to the surface, what can happen is if a boat is over that methane bubble, it basically will lose all buoyancy and just sink like a rock to the bottom of the lake.
29:41So by building the lake over this land, we may in fact have created a very dangerous situation and sort of set up the lake itself to basically be a death trap.
29:50I think if you reflect back to when the engineers were making the Hoover Dam, it's often portrayed as trying to control nature.
30:00The focus was on the dam and we probably weren't even asking questions about the larger impact on nature because it would have been too hard to calculate or worry about.
30:09The challenge with engineering and science is always the unintended consequences.
30:13For the most part, people are driven by this desire to make things better.
30:21Did the ambitious plan to create the Hoover Dam and Lake Mead overlook the possible consequences of messing with Mother Nature?
30:31The same might be said for a group of ill-prepared English settlers whose pioneering spirit may have cost them their lives.
30:41Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, North Carolina.
30:52More than 400 years ago, this was the site of a colony called Roanoke.
30:57The first English settlement in North America.
31:01Roanoke is known as the Lost Colony because it was mysteriously abandoned in 1590.
31:08And the colonists vanished without a trace.
31:13The Lost Colony remains this mystery that's at the very heart of the origin of our nation.
31:19People remain fascinated by Roanoke because we know so little about the place.
31:24We know what happened in Jamestown.
31:27We know what happened at Plymouth.
31:29But Roanoke is this mystery because we don't know what happened.
31:32When we think about the founding of the United States of America, we think of it in this fairly linear way.
31:40That colonists showed up, they settled, they moved west, America.
31:44And really, it turns out that there were a number of false starts in how this country got started.
31:50And one of those was the colony at Roanoke.
31:55This was a group of people who showed up and were ready to settle.
32:00But what happened to that colony is one of the big unanswered questions of American history.
32:06What happened to the Roanoke colonists?
32:12Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the events in the late 16th century that led to their fateful disappearance.
32:21In the 1580s, England was a very small, poor, struggling island that really wanted to get in on the game of colonizing the Americas.
32:32Because that's where the money was.
32:35The English were looking at the Spanish ships coming back laden with gold and various commodities from their empire, if you like, in Mexico, South America, Florida.
32:43And, of course, that was making the Spanish very powerful.
32:47Essentially, it was a case of if we don't find our own source of wealth in this new world, we could be sort of overrun by our enemies.
32:55In 1587, an English mapmaker named John White was commissioned to found a new colony on Roanoke Island, which had been claimed by a British expedition to the New World two years earlier.
33:08After an arduous two-month voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, White and 117 colonists landed on Roanoke Island.
33:18The people who chose to come along on this ill-fated expedition were middle-class people from London.
33:27So they were eager to find new lands because to have land in England meant everything.
33:33That's what gave you status.
33:34But they knew they needed more supplies and more colonists in order to succeed, in order to thrive.
33:42So John White decided to return to England in order to get those needed supplies and colonists.
33:49On August 25th, 1587, only three months after first arriving on Roanoke, John White set sail for England.
33:58He planned to return with aid in less than six months.
34:03But a series of conflicts with the Spanish Navy would delay White's return mission for three long years.
34:11In August of 1590, John White returns to Roanoke Island.
34:16They anchor offshore.
34:18And when they arrive, it's dark and it's too late for them to go ashore.
34:22But John White is happy because he sees a fire in the distance and he assumes that the settlers are there waiting for him.
34:30Maybe even have seen his ship and have lit a bonfire in order to guide him in.
34:36The next morning, White came ashore, expecting to find the colonists there to welcome him back.
34:42But to his surprise, there was no sign of them.
34:46The entire settlement was completely abandoned.
34:50John White gets back to Roanoke, but there's no sign of anyone.
34:54And he finds all the houses have been taken down.
34:57And in their place is a very, very well-built, defensible fort.
35:02So, a little bit of a mystery.
35:04You've got this new fort that wasn't there in 1587 when he last saw them.
35:09And the place is deserted.
35:12Where have they gone?
35:14Eventually, John White came across a cryptic clue as to the whereabouts of the colonists.
35:18He found the word Croatoan mysteriously carved into a wooden post.
35:26John White told the colonists when he left in 1587 that if they were to abandon the settlement, that they should leave a secret token, as he called it, behind, so that he would know where to find it.
35:36And this seemed to be the answer.
35:39Here was Croatoan carved onto the post.
35:41Croatoan was what we call Hatteras today, an island about 50 miles to the south.
35:46It's also the name of the tribe of Native Americans who lived on the island.
35:53But when John White prepared to set sail to search for the colonists, a storm blew in and damaged his ship.
36:00And he was forced to return to England.
36:04Unfortunately, John White was never able to return to the New World to search for the lost colonists.
36:11But in recent years, archaeologists have carried out extensive excavations to try and solve this 400-year-old mystery.
36:23Archaeologists have been digging on Hatteras, what was called Croatoan, and they have come up with some remarkable evidence.
36:29The first most important piece of evidence found was a gold ring that was made in Elizabethan times.
36:38This was big news because it seemed to indicate the possibility that at least one of the colonists had been on Croatoan Island.
36:46And then another competing team was digging on Hatteras Island.
36:51And what they found was really intriguing.
36:53They actually discovered the hilt of an Elizabethan-era sword that was found in a Native American village.
37:01Now, whether or not this is something that belonged to a lost colonist remains to be seen.
37:08It's possible some did survive long enough to have a family and that there would have been assimilation with the Croatoans.
37:15And yet, considering how much archaeology that's been done, we have no skeletons.
37:20Where are they?
37:23That is a mystery.
37:25If we had found dead bodies scattered or obvious signs of a siege or an attack, that would be the answer that we need.
37:32We get this word, Croatoan.
37:35But did people actually make it there?
37:37Where did they go?
37:39What happened to this group of settlers?
37:43It's the ambiguity that really keeps this legend alive.
37:50Hudson Valley, New York, 2017.
37:55Contractors begin uncovering a series of strange artifacts while renovating a string of 18th century houses in the area.
38:04Mummified animals, dismembered dolls, broken knife blades, strange bottles filled with human hair, bent nails, and silver pins.
38:17And all concealed within hidden nooks and voids throughout the old homes.
38:24The artifacts are so unnerving that many began to wonder who had placed them throughout the homes.
38:32And perhaps more importantly, why?
38:34After looking at a number of instances of these either intentional deposits or objects that were located in strange places, shoes, animal parts, bottles with usual contents in them, certain patterns that seem to be prevalent throughout the area became apparent.
38:57We see them in England and in the Netherlands and in Germany where a lot of the people who settled in New York State originally came from.
39:06And so it's clear that people brought their folk beliefs and folk religion with them when they moved across the Atlantic Ocean.
39:12Evidently in all these cases, there was a very strong belief in the agency of evil to affect people's everyday lives, particularly in a number of stories that related to fears of illness or of the potential for curses to access houses through openings.
39:33Particularly to fireplaces, doors, windows, that kind of thing.
39:42The more you look, the more you find of these objects and it becomes increasingly clear that the numbers of objects that we have found which go into their thousands is really just the tip of the iceberg.
39:52But were these strange objects carefully collected and hidden in order to invoke a deadly curse or as a means of preventing one?
40:05I think what people were really focused on was finding ways of turning that harmful magic around and either repelling it or trapping it or thwarting it in some way from getting into their houses.
40:14So a local sort of white witch or wizard could be paid to produce a charm for you and the charm would eventually be concealed on your property as a trap essentially to impale any negative energies coming into the house looking to attack you and stop it from going further into the house where it might do you harm.
40:29While such arcane practices may seem like the stuff of fairy tales and fantasy, is it possible that mystical talisman and other charms can actually protect people from the deadly effects of curses?
40:46Things that are mysterious if we put it in the right narrative, then we have a semblance of control or understanding even though we made up the story.
40:57The explanations may not be very sound, but they still give us some comfort.
41:04Maybe these curses are created by us, by our imagination, by us trying to deal with the mystery of nature.
41:12And then it actually comes to life because we bring the curse to life by attaching our mind to it collectively.
41:20So just what should we make of these odd and unsettling tales?
41:27Could the strange lights hovering over Phoenix, Arizona be aliens?
41:33Could the strange에 Be aliens?
41:34It's that strange and late in rural areas.
41:35But the strange thing there that might be aliens?
41:36Do we realize why humans....
41:37It makes no doubt that view of those Omega Egyptians are full of this beast.
41:38It's the kong-Fauna CIubließen.
41:39Could the strange to surprise us?
41:40Or if it helps us, other people know them.
41:41révite jungich, theücht a druический 달ブr villig, or learn them...
41:44It's the EttorePlation bunny's where the hell?
41:46idente Scott, I support Earth hits 200 stars, the idea of the moon, five astronauts in the same clips,
41:50It's the gong in the moon, 15 double o'clock in the next year,
41:51Goodlinj.
41:55And if we do we start seeing these there, if we realize someone canbulτίate us.
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