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Strange But True S04E03
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00:24Good evening.
00:26Time travel has long been
00:28a source of endless fascination
00:30from HG Wells' The Time Machine
00:32to Hollywood films
00:34like Back to the Future. There have been
00:36some great yarns, but that's
00:38all they are, exciting fiction.
00:40However, in a special
00:42programme tonight, we meet a man
00:44who claims that not only is time
00:46travel possible, but that he was
00:48employed to do it.
00:50This is not the colourful claim of a New Age
00:52mystic, but the assertion of a
00:54distinguished US Army officer
00:56whose journeys into the past were
00:58carried out as part of a top-secret
01:00government programme.
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01:08We saw ourselves standing
01:10in the passenger cabin of this
01:12aircraft.
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01:18And we kept watching this
01:20aircraft explode.
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01:24We would be asked to go back again
01:26to the moment just before it exploded.
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01:30We would be able to try to pinpoint
01:32where this explosion took place.
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01:38In 1988, David Morehouse, a major
01:40in the United States Army,
01:42was assigned to a new post
01:44at a top-secret unit of military intelligence.
01:46Discreetly housed in two wooden sheds
01:48on an army base at Fort Meade in Maryland,
01:52the unit was so clandestine
01:54that Morehouse didn't discover
01:56what went on there until he met
01:58his commanding officer.
02:00Peering at me across the top of his knuckles,
02:02he said,
02:04What we do here, young man,
02:06is select and train individuals
02:08to transcend time and space.
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02:12Now that you're in the room,
02:14change your perspective.
02:16Move up ten feet
02:18and tell me what you see.
02:22To view persons, places or things
02:24remote in time and space
02:26and to gather and report intelligence
02:28information on the same.
02:30And when he said that,
02:32I nearly fell out of the chair.
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02:36David Morehouse was an outstanding
02:38young officer with an exceptional record.
02:40A company commander
02:42with the Rangers,
02:44the Army's elite fighting division,
02:46he was destined to wear stars.
02:48But four months prior to reporting
02:50to Fort Meade, Morehouse's glittering
02:52career nearly ended.
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02:59During a training exercise
03:00in the Jordanian desert,
03:02a stray round struck him in the head.
03:04The bullet should have killed him,
03:06but miraculously it lodged
03:08in his helmet.
03:10As he lay unconscious on the desert floor,
03:12Morehouse claims he had a vision
03:14of an angel bearing a message.
03:16Words that were given to me
03:18were essentially this.
03:20You have chosen the wrong path in life
03:22and you are to choose a new path
03:24and that is to be a path of peace.
03:26I had no idea what those kinds of words meant.
03:30I was not some starry-eyed New Age guru.
03:34I was a shaved head, ranger,
03:36company commander, special operations
03:38infantryman.
03:42After the accident, Morehouse
03:44began to be haunted by a series
03:46of terrifying hallucinations
03:48and out-of-body experiences.
03:50The nightmarish episodes kept coming
03:52more and more frequently.
03:54I felt I was out of control.
03:56I could not handle this on my own anymore.
04:00Have you had any of these
04:02hallucinations recently, Major?
04:04Well, the other day I was out camping
04:08with my boy and, well,
04:10it's kind of difficult to explain.
04:12I mean, it was just like I was tuning
04:14into a different frequency or something.
04:16I thought I could see into the eyes of my son.
04:20I thought I could see into his life,
04:22into his future.
04:24It was just a jumble of signs, visions.
04:28I don't know, maybe I am just going nuts.
04:32In desperation, Morehouse consulted
04:34an army psychologist fully expecting
04:36to be diagnosed as mentally ill.
04:46Take a look at these.
04:48Let me know what you think in the morning.
04:52To his amazement, Morehouse
04:54discovered that far from being invalided
04:56out of the army, he was being recruited
04:58as a psychic spy.
05:00Night, sir.
05:02The psychologist suspected
05:04that the blow from the bullet
05:06had released a latent psychic ability.
05:10Late into the night,
05:11Morehouse poured over the transcripts
05:13from Operation Grillflame,
05:15a covert espionage program.
05:17There was an individual referred to
05:19as a monitor
05:20and an individual referred to
05:22as a viewer.
05:23The viewer was describing
05:25events, persons and places
05:28distant in time and space
05:30to the monitor.
05:34One of the most chilling accounts
05:36was reading the viewer
05:37saying to the monitor,
05:38I think I am outside the building
05:40where you want me to be now.
05:42What are your directions?
05:43And the monitor saying to the viewer,
05:45pass through the wall
05:47and describe the contents of the room.
05:50Pass through the wall
05:52and describe the contents of the room.
05:54Those were hair-raising words.
05:56For 20 years, the US government
06:01had invested millions of dollars
06:03into a series of ultra-classified projects
06:06like Operation Grillflame.
06:08Psychics were recruited
06:10to gather military intelligence
06:12through a process called remote viewing.
06:15Morehouse first learned to control his brain waves
06:20to enter an altered or semi-hypnotic state,
06:23unlocking the door to the unconscious.
06:26Then as his mind separated from his physical body,
06:29he claims he was able to remote view,
06:32to travel in time and space
06:34and view people and events from the past.
06:37And I would drop through this tunnel.
06:40And the sensation was so physically overwhelming to me
06:43that often I began to get nausea.
06:48Having entered an altered state,
06:50the remote viewer is ready to begin his assignment.
06:53The monitor gives him the coordinates of the target.
06:57Your coordinates are 2-1-7-5 and 0-1-6-9.
07:05Access the target and describe its location.
07:08The coordinates are random.
07:10They don't relate to any physical object.
07:12They simply act as a psychic map reference,
07:15the essential trigger for a remote viewer.
07:18You begin to drop into this target area
07:21and things become perceivable by you.
07:24You're seeing the colors,
07:26you're smelling the smells and tasting things.
07:28Now move 200 feet to your right.
07:32The monitor begins steering you around
07:35in this particular target area.
07:36You actually move about in the target area
07:39in this ghost-like phantom form
07:41that's projected forward or backward in time and space.
07:47And that's what a remote viewing session is like.
07:51After 18 months intensive training,
07:53Morehouse became fully operational.
07:55He now began to work on highly sensitive targets,
07:58political and military.
08:03In February 1988,
08:04US Marine Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins,
08:07working for the United Nations in Beirut,
08:09was taken hostage.
08:14A year later, the CIA put an urgent question
08:16to the remote viewing unit at Fort Meade.
08:19Was Higgins alive or dead?
08:21Morehouse and his colleagues set to work.
08:25Guided only by a series of random coordinates,
08:28Morehouse began to see images of a small enclosed room.
08:35I realized that there is a person here,
08:37a living, breathing organism in this room.
08:40I'm beginning to feel exactly what this individual feels
08:44at this target site.
08:46scared, sick, in pain, hurt, anguished, turmoil.
08:53I want you to move forward in time.
09:00About 24 hours.
09:03I want you to access the mind of this person.
09:08Travelling through time and space,
09:10Morehouse believes he penetrated the hostage's cell.
09:13This classified report states he was able to confirm
09:16Higgins was alive but in great distress.
09:19He was later executed.
09:22Opening these conduits into the unconscious mind
09:24is a tremendous blessing and a tremendous curse.
09:31What do you do when you go home at night?
09:33What does your wife say to you?
09:34How was your day at the office, honey?
09:36Certainly you bring home far more than a briefcase full of papers.
09:40And that's the downside of being involved in this very bizarre world
09:44of psychic spying.
09:48Late one night in December 1988,
09:50all members of the remote viewing team
09:52were summoned for an emergency session.
09:54What's up?
09:55I don't know, they called us all in.
09:57You've got to be kidding, they need all of us?
09:58Yep, the whole team.
09:59But that never happens.
10:01Serious stuff, huh?
10:02He sure is.
10:04And, uh, you can forget that party of yours.
10:06We're here till we finish.
10:11Your coordinates are 0307 and 7102.
10:20Access the target and describe what you see.
10:23There was a tremendous amount of pain involved with this particular target.
10:43We saw ourselves standing in the cabin of this aircraft.
10:46And we kept watching this aircraft explode.
10:54And then we would be asked to go back again and to relive it again.
10:58Go right back to the moment just before it exploded again
11:01and be able to try to pinpoint where this explosion took place.
11:08Hours later, the target of the mission was revealed to the team.
11:11What we were looking at was Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland,
11:19which we were forced to relive over and over again.
11:24And it was literally within hours of that aircraft exploding in mid-air
11:29that the remote viewers were providing information
11:32to the Defense Intelligence Agency that stated that
11:35there was an explosion that took place in the front left quadrant
11:38of this aircraft below the passenger line and in front of the wings.
11:47And in fact, when the evidence was made known,
11:50that was indeed where an explosion took place.
11:55The remote viewing program takes a more sinister turn,
11:58putting David Morehouse under tremendous pressure.
12:01He has to decide whether he is prepared to use his gifts as a weapon of death.
12:08U.S. Army officer David Morehouse has undergone intensive training to become a psychic spy.
12:18But the onset of the Gulf War forces him to search his own conscience.
12:25In November 1990, Saddam Hussein threatened to destabilize the Middle East.
12:30America's need for military intelligence was paramount.
12:32At Fort Meade, David Morehouse and his colleagues were now asked to use their psychic powers to a more sinister end.
12:43Saddam Hussein actually accused the United States openly in the media of using or employing psychics against him.
12:51And everyone looked at him and just thought, what a mad man.
12:54But in actuality, we were indeed targeting him psychically.
13:00Morehouse vehemently opposed this new strategy known as remote influencing.
13:05He believed it was an unjustifiable use of the remote viewer's abilities.
13:09When I realized that we're reaching out to kill with it,
13:12I felt that I had a moral and an ethical responsibility to violate my security oath
13:16and to tell the story about this to the American people.
13:20Morehouse decided to go public.
13:23But the tale of the Pentagon's involvement in psychic espionage was already beginning to emerge.
13:29In 1995, the CIA admitted the existence of Operation Grillflame and its predecessors.
13:36In the wake of the negative publicity which followed, the remote viewing unit was closed.
13:40Morehouse continued with his campaign to reveal the true story and met the full force of the intelligence community.
13:49The entire military structure of the Criminal Investigation Division came after me
13:54and unraveled every aspect of my life.
13:57This took a tremendous toll on my family.
14:01My children were beside themselves. They were emotionally disturbed.
14:05My wife and I would be separated as a result of this.
14:08But I persisted in telling this story because I felt that truth was the only thing that I had
14:15that was an anchor and a tether in my life.
14:18Faced with the possibility of a 40-year jail sentence for breaking his security oath,
14:24Morehouse reluctantly chose the only alternative available to him.
14:30Tearfully, with my father standing by my side, I tendered my resignation,
14:34ending 18 years of more than honorable service to this country.
14:40It cost me a family.
14:42And it cost me a career to tell the truth.
14:47Despite his humiliating expulsion from the army and the breakup of his marriage,
14:52David Morehouse remains a passionate supporter of remote viewing.
14:55But he's determined it should be used for humanitarian rather than aggressive purposes.
15:01For so long, this was just hidden away.
15:04It should be something that's brought out to help all of humankind,
15:08not being sequestered away as a weapon of war or as an espionage tool.
15:12Carteret, New Jersey, a residential suburb on the outskirts of New York.
15:19Earlier this year, a local man went missing.
15:22We weren't concerned for about the first couple days that there was any suspicion of foul play.
15:28But then after we actually got into the investigation, then it became a little bit of a more serious matter.
15:34We tried everything. We looked everywhere. We talked to everyone.
15:39In this case, it was like he just disappeared off the face of the earth.
15:44The investigation was running into the ground.
15:47As a last resort, Deputy Chief Nagy approached David Morehouse.
15:52He persuaded him to come to Carteret to hold a remote viewing session at the police station.
15:57I had no idea what it was that I was looking at.
15:59I just obviously knew by nature of the fact that I was working in, working with a police department,
16:05that it obviously had to be something sinister.
16:08I hope this is okay for you, Dave.
16:11Looks fine, Dennis. Thanks.
16:19Ready, Dave?
16:24Here are the coordinates.
16:256-5-7-1-9-3-0-4.
16:34Access and describe the current location of a missing person.
16:41I began stepping into the ether.
16:48And the longer I stayed in there working on the target,
16:50the more clear the vision became about what the target looked like.
16:56And I just started unraveling this thing, looking through the eyes of a dead man.
17:03He was in there for about 90 minutes.
17:06He came out almost a completely different person.
17:10It was as if he worked an eight-hour shift.
17:12Gentlemen.
17:15This is Dave Morehouse.
17:17As you know, Dave's helping us with our investigation.
17:19He's just concluded a remote viewing session on the case, so listen carefully.
17:24Thanks, Das.
17:26The first thing I want to say is that remote viewing is not infallible.
17:31I don't want you guys thinking it's the answer to all your prayers, because it isn't.
17:33But it can give you that extra bit of information, that missing bit of the jigsaw to push your investigation further.
17:41He came out with what we call an intelligence product.
17:45Now bear in mind that he had no idea of knowing that this was a missing child, a missing an adult,
17:50a senior citizen who might have lost their memory, a male, a female.
17:55He had none of this. He just knew missing person.
17:57The missing individual is, I believe, white, middle-aged male, local to this area.
18:04I got a strong feeling that he's the victim of a homicide.
18:08I also got a very strong sensation of water, a sense of drowning.
18:14Maybe the body was dumped in a storm drain or a culvert.
18:19If, as Morehouse claimed, the missing man had been murdered and dumped in the waterways near Carteret,
18:27the chances of police finding his body would be slim.
18:31It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
18:33I mean, there's just, you know, acres and acres and acres of undeveloped waterfront property here.
18:39If a person's body was dumped in here, it could almost never be found.
18:43But one of Morehouse's sketches was uncannily precise.
18:50It was to shift the focus of the investigation to one spot in particular.
18:55The sketch that really shook me up was of standing, watching myself in apparitional form,
19:03stand amongst the reeds on the shoreline of this inland waterway.
19:08And I remember seeing this fleeting image of this large building with a smokestack.
19:18I got a river here.
19:20This theme of water won't go away.
19:23Reeds here, factory complex.
19:26Does this look familiar to any of you?
19:28What do you think?
19:30This could be that spot by the abandoned dock.
19:33It was a very frightening thing for me to reveal that sketch to the police officers
19:37and to have probably half of them stand up and say, I know where this place is.
19:44The police immediately took Morehouse to the area of the Carteret waterfront,
19:48which resembled his drawing.
19:52I found the spot and said, this is it.
19:57This is where I stood.
19:58This is where I stood in apparitional form in the ether and looked across this water to that factory, to that power plant and said, his body is somewhere around here.
20:11The police searched the area but found nothing.
20:14Three weeks later, the body of the missing man surfaced a few hundred yards downstream,
20:18precisely where the current would have taken it had the body been dumped at the site of Morehouse's drawing.
20:25Whether it was Major Morehouse looking through the eyes of a dead man or being in the same location,
20:32the fact is there was a remote viewing to that location.
20:36No one knows how it works, they just know that it works.
20:43That a random set of eight numbers can produce a scene remote in time and space, location and date.
20:55It's chilling to me to come back to see how accurate the remote viewing session is.
20:59And it's frightening. It's absolutely frightening to think that this potential has been locked up as a weapon of war and as an intelligence collection tool,
21:08when this is really where it ought to be used, is to assist law enforcement officers here and throughout the world to solve cases such as this one.
21:16Two months later, David Morehouse has returned to Carteret.
21:20Now, if you go back to this training process that we talked about...
21:25He's been invited back to teach police officers the techniques of remote viewing.
21:30Whatever this is a photograph of inside of here, that's not what you're going to be looking at.
21:35You're not going to work this photograph. You're going to transcend time and space.
21:40These guys deal with life on the streets and now you're talking to them about entering an altered state and stepping into the ether and gleaning targeting data, etc.
21:48But I was amazed how well these police officers did.
21:53They were accurately describing targets remote in time and space that they had never seen or heard or had no idea.
22:01A lot of people will think you're crazy or you're a lunatic or you're off the wall.
22:06But all I can say is if they took the course, they were trained in it at the end of the training, they'll know. They'll be convinced.
22:13A freak accident in the Jordanian desert had repercussions that no one could have predicted.
22:23If I could turn back time to 1987 in that desert floor, I would duck.
22:32But fate and destiny didn't present me with that.
22:39The apparent psychic ability that was released eventually led to Morehouse losing everything he held dear.
22:47His family, his career, his name.
22:50But he recognizes that there are benefits from his involvement in the murky world of psychic spying.
22:56He claims he has a rare gift which he is happy to pass on to others.
23:00Remote viewing is the greatest gift that we can give human beings.
23:06We can either wander through the next 50 years of life somewhat lost and confused.
23:15Or we can have this ability to become hyper-intuitive and to know the answers to things without really knowing how we know it.
23:23And that's what I see the future being.
23:25The police at Carteret, New Jersey have yet to complete their remote viewing course.
23:34Only then will they be able to put David Morehouse's extraordinary claims to the test.
23:39HG Wells would have loved it.
23:42Good night.
23:43Good night.
23:46Withdark Brč³½