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00:00...emotion, human emotion, that is often essential to our very survival.
00:05Our biological drive to stay safe is designed to help protect us from danger, both real and imagined.
00:13We might be startled or even amused at times by loud noises, dark places, or confined spaces.
00:21But what happens when the stuff of nightmares is not a dream, but instead a terrifying reality?
00:31Well, that is what we'll try and find out.
00:48All over the world, various cultures practice a period of mourning between the time of a person's death and when they're finally laid to rest.
00:56This is the time to pay respects, to process one's loss, and in some cases, to quell the fear that the dearly departed might still be alive and prematurely placed six feet under.
01:11The fear of being buried alive was a fairly common fear up until 20th century medical practices meant fewer people were in fact buried alive.
01:22It was most common in 18th and 19th century Europe and America.
01:29Mostly due to the medical practices and the burial practices at the time, this was when medical diagnoses could get things wrong.
01:39And people were in fact buried alive, and stories of that became sensationalized, and therefore the panic would spread.
01:49In the 19th century, the great fear of being buried alive was partly because this was the age of cholera.
01:58Cholera causes severe diarrhea, which can deplete all the electrolytes in your body, and in extreme cases, can induce a coma.
02:05So sometimes people appear dead, and they're actually in this sort of vegetative state, and they can come out of it, but if you bury them, then you've buried them alive, and that is a terrible death.
02:20Historically, the thought of being trapped in a wooden box beneath thousands of pounds of dirt with no possibility of escape was so widespread that this fear was actually given a name.
02:30It's called taphophobia.
02:34Taphophobia is the idea of simply just the fear of being buried alive.
02:39Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote about premature burial, was terrified of being buried alive.
02:45Frederick Chopin, the composer, wanted to be stabbed in the heart and bled out to make sure that he was dead when doctors believed that he was.
02:53And even George Washington was so afraid of being buried alive that he had written in his will that his body had to remain in bed for three days after they thought he was dead to make sure that he didn't come back.
03:06It was estimated by the 1890s that some 2% of people being buried were buried alive.
03:15Now, this is a gross exaggeration, no doubt, but it was believed at the time, enough so that organizations like the London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial was founded in 1896.
03:29Then they lobbied Parliament for greater diligence on the part of doctors to make sure that doctors were verifying death.
03:37Despite doctors' best efforts, it was simply difficult at the time to determine whether a person was alive or dead.
03:46And so in order to ease people's minds, authorities in Europe were forced to take drastic measures.
03:55Vienna, Austria.
03:58Within this storied city lies the Vienna Central Cemetery, the second largest cemetery in the entire world.
04:05In the heart of the cemetery stands a small building that today houses a museum.
04:10But in the 19th century, it was referred to as a lichen house.
04:16The lichen house was a kind of mortuary where corpses were kept for a period, typically about three days,
04:25and watched over by attendants to make sure that a person was truly dead and wouldn't be buried alive in a state of coma or catalepsy.
04:35Those who worked at the lichen house, the undertakers mainly, could ensure that people are not being buried alive.
04:41They had several measures they could use, for example, a hard step knife.
04:46And there was basically a treatment that you could order by doctors.
04:50And then one doctor had the possibility, the option, and the privilege to step the knife into your heart
04:57to make sure that you're not going to be buried alive.
05:00In modern times, it may sound a little disturbing to hear that doctors once stabbed their patients
05:06in order to determine whether they were alive or dead.
05:10But the truth is that the hysteria about being buried alive was so prevalent
05:14that an entire industry sprang up to help calm such fears by producing bizarre contraptions
05:20that were known as safety coffins.
05:23If you were afraid of being buried alive, the solution was the safety coffin.
05:28And this began very simply with a bell tied to a string that went down under the earth into the coffin.
05:35And if you were buried alive and you woke up in a coffin, you could pull that string,
05:39the bell would ring, and hopefully somebody would hear it and come dig you out.
05:44And this tradition is where we get the expression saved by the bell.
05:47And if you had more money, safety coffins could get more elaborate.
05:52They could add air tubes, they could add windows so you would have some lights inside the coffin.
05:58And there were even cases of people buried with a key in their pocket
06:02so they could unlock the casket from the inside if this happened.
06:05There were loads of patents taken out for these safety coffins.
06:11And they would include devices like little flags that could be raised.
06:16Sometimes safety coffins included food or water.
06:19They would have breathing tubes.
06:21They might even include periscopes.
06:24One of the best known ones really belonged to a doctor named Timothy Clark from Vermont.
06:30He came up with his own safety coffin device.
06:34He had a set of stone stairs installed next to his grave
06:39that could be opened up by a concrete block that was sitting beside it.
06:43That way, anyone could get down to rescue him if he needed to be rescued.
06:48But the real kicker to the whole thing was that he had a glass window installed directly over his face,
06:56set into the stone.
06:57However, he died in 1893, and the doctors did not make a mistake.
07:02He really was dead.
07:04Safety coffins may seem like a quaint fad from a bygone era that has no relevance in our world today.
07:12But believe it or not, there have been some recent cases in which people appear to have been mistakenly buried alive.
07:20Being buried alive is very, very rare, at least in our own time.
07:26But it does still occasionally happen.
07:28As recently as 2018, there was a case in Brazil where a woman woke up in her grave
07:35and is thought to have survived for 11 days there.
07:38Being buried alive doesn't happen nearly as often as it used to.
07:43But if you think about it, waking up in a coffin would be probably one of the most terrifying things that could ever happen to you.
07:49The very idea that a small mistake due to negligence or misdiagnosis could cause one to be buried alive
07:59is a terrifying thought.
08:02But it's often what we can't see that instills fear the most.
08:05Like in the case of an ancient predator who still lurks beneath the ocean's surface
08:12with a frightening history of hunting for human flesh.
08:18Beach Haven, New Jersey, July 1st, 1960.
08:2725-year-old Charles Van Sant is swimming in the brisk Atlantic waters off the coast of this resort community
08:33when he's suddenly attacked by a massive shark.
08:41Lifeguards pull Van Sant from the water and see that his left thigh has been stripped of its flesh
08:47by a massive set of razor-sharp jaws.
08:51The story is that they had to almost wrestle him away from the shark
08:54as they pulled him ashore with the shark following him still.
08:57His father, who was a doctor, operated on him or tried to save his life,
09:01but he died of a flesh wound to bite on his thigh, actually.
09:06And loss of blood.
09:09The gory death of Charles Van Sant
09:11was the first recorded fatal shark attack in U.S. history.
09:17And then, on July 6th, a mere five days after Van Sant was killed,
09:23there was another attack along the Jersey shore.
09:27Charles Bruder, who's a 27-year-old Swiss native who was in the army,
09:33went for a swim and 1,200 feet out in the middle of the day
09:37was attacked and bitten by what appeared to be about an eight- or nine-foot great white shark
09:43that severed his legs and a part of his torso.
09:46By the time the lifeguards got out there,
09:49there was hardly anything to lift into the boat.
09:52This second deadly attack was widely reported in newspapers across the country
09:57and set off a nationwide panic.
10:01Many people believed it was no longer safe to swim in the ocean off the coast of New Jersey.
10:07And several beaches were closed by the authorities.
10:11The public reaction was hysterical.
10:13There were calls all the way up to President Wilson.
10:16Woodrow Wilson had a cabinet meeting
10:18and talked to the early men who founded the Coast Guard
10:21about eradicating all the sharks on the East Coast.
10:24Bounties were given by towns and cities,
10:27and anybody that could kill any shark could get $100.
10:31You had fishermen going out, catching and killing sharks.
10:35And it wasn't just in New Jersey.
10:38It was all up and down the eastern seaboard
10:40and even infiltrated into the coastal states, Texas, Louisiana,
10:46and as far as the Pacific Coast of North America.
10:52Less than one week after Charles Breuder was killed,
10:55on July 12th, three more people were attacked
10:59by what many witnesses claimed was an eight- or nine-foot shark.
11:04Curiously, all five of these incidents took place
11:07along a 50-mile stretch off the coast of New Jersey
11:10because of their proximity
11:12and the similarities between eyewitness accounts
11:16many began to wonder whether the horrific attacks
11:19could have been the work of a single killer shark.
11:24The New Jersey attacks are so strange
11:27because sharks don't kill people with any kind of regularity
11:30and nobody witnesses it with any kind of regularity
11:32when it happens.
11:33But the concept of a rogue shark
11:35that kills or injures one person
11:37and that gets a taste for human flesh
11:40and goes after another like a serial killer,
11:43the Jersey Shore may be the best evidence we have
11:45that that's ever happened.
11:46On July 14th, 1916,
11:49two weeks after the first fatal attack,
11:52a taxidermist named Michael Schlazer
11:54caught a seven-and-a-half-foot,
11:56325-pound great white shark
11:59off the northern end of the Jersey Shore.
12:03After cutting open its stomach,
12:06authorities found what appeared to be
12:07partially digested human remains.
12:11There are many who believe
12:13that this great white shark
12:15was responsible for all five attacks
12:17that took place,
12:19four of which were fatal.
12:21Fatal shark attacks on humans
12:23are seldom predatory for feeding.
12:27So what was going on
12:28that would cause a series of five attacks
12:31over a 11-day period
12:33what was behind all of this?
12:36People panicked.
12:38No one wanted to go in the ocean.
12:41So its effect on individuals,
12:43citizens, was enormous.
12:46And it was something that,
12:48to this day,
12:50still has an effect on us.
12:51The 1916 Jersey Shore attacks
12:55helped to popularize the notion
12:56of sharks as deadly man-eaters.
13:00More than 50 years later,
13:02the killings inspired the 1974 novel
13:04Jaws by Peter Benchley,
13:05which became the basis
13:07of the blockbuster film
13:09made by Steven Spielberg
13:10that terrorized generations of beach-goers.
13:15But despite their bad reputation,
13:18the truth is that sharks rarely killed.
13:21Humans.
13:23According to statistics
13:24gathered by the International Shark Attack File,
13:27on average,
13:28there are only five fatal shark attacks
13:31worldwide per year.
13:33So why does the belief persist
13:35that some sharks
13:36are a serious threat to humans?
13:42Sharks, unsurprisingly,
13:45have terrified people forever
13:47because sharks live an enormous amount
13:50of their life out of sight.
13:52Unlike terrestrial species
13:53that we can see,
13:55sharks live underwater,
13:56and the only time
13:57that we really interact with sharks
13:58is when they come to the surface,
14:00and that tends to be
14:01in antagonistic circumstances
14:02with people.
14:03Traditional island cultures
14:05have had multiple deities
14:07that have shark appearance,
14:09and that comes from an inherent fear
14:12that we are at risk of sharks.
14:14They have this power of life
14:16or death over us.
14:19Sharks are apex predators.
14:21The idea that sharks
14:23can be celebrated in their culture
14:25might seem a bit odd.
14:26After all, they do kill people.
14:27But there's a couple things to consider.
14:29One is that they are recognized
14:31as apex predators,
14:32and this is something
14:32that people often aspire to.
14:34Also, the idea that these
14:36are apex predators,
14:37and you'd better understand them.
14:40Over the years, sharks,
14:42especially white sharks,
14:43have been portrayed as killers.
14:45Unfortunately,
14:46people are killed
14:47from time to time.
14:49It has been postulated
14:51that white sharks hunting
14:53have similarities
14:54into the tactics
14:55utilized by serial killers.
14:59Serial killers use
15:00what is referred to
15:01as an anchor point,
15:02which is where they will sit
15:04and watch
15:05and pick their victim.
15:08White sharks do the same thing.
15:11White sharks like to hunt stealth
15:13where the intended victim
15:15can't see them.
15:17A lot of people often
15:19look at sharks
15:20and think that there's
15:20nothing going on.
15:22But great whites
15:23are intelligent animals.
15:25We've watched great whites
15:26attack seals,
15:27and you'll find
15:29the older great whites
15:30will pick out
15:31specific individuals,
15:32usually young ones.
15:35It's very methodical.
15:37So it is 100% possible
15:40that some sharks
15:42like the taste of people.
15:44Are there certain sharks
15:46that specifically
15:47and methodically
15:49hunt people?
15:51Some marine biologists
15:52have suggested
15:53it's possible.
15:55But if this theory is true,
15:56then what's even more disturbing
15:58is that a killer shark
16:00may keep stalking people
16:02for a very long,
16:04long time.
16:06Great whites can live
16:07to be 80-plus years old.
16:09There's some accounts
16:10of specimens being over 100.
16:13They study their subjects
16:14just like a serial killer.
16:16They learn from their mistakes
16:18just like a serial killer.
16:20That's terrifying.
16:21coming face-to-face
16:24with a predator
16:25like a great white shark
16:26would be terrifying,
16:28to say the least.
16:30Just imagining
16:31an encounter
16:32with a dangerous creature
16:33can trigger
16:34our primal fear
16:35of being overtaken
16:36by something much stronger
16:37than us.
16:39Like,
16:39in the case of a
16:40powerful presence
16:42that can possess
16:44the human soul.
16:50Bavaria,
16:51West Germany,
16:511973.
16:56Annalise Mikel,
16:58a 20-year-old student
16:59at the University of Würzburg,
17:01claims that she's hearing
17:02disembodied voices
17:03and seeing
17:06visions
17:07of the devil.
17:10Before long,
17:11her family comes to believe
17:12that Annalise
17:13suffers from a condition
17:15that defies
17:16understanding.
17:19Demonic possession.
17:22Annalise Mikel
17:23was indeed
17:25tormented
17:26by a possessing something.
17:28She spoke
17:29in a horrendously
17:30growly voice.
17:32Ah!
17:33Oh, yeah.
17:35Heiraten dürfen sakhnet
17:37auftracht von der
17:39bin der dritte im Bunde.
17:41Her eyes
17:44seemed to go black
17:45and she had
17:48a great aversion
17:49to holy statues,
17:51which are a great
17:51many in the house
17:52because they were
17:53very high as Catholics.
17:57And she was taken
17:59to a doctor
18:00who said
18:01she might be epileptic
18:02and she was taken
18:05to a psychiatrist
18:07and nothing changed
18:10in her life.
18:11In fact,
18:11she was getting worse
18:12and worse.
18:13Her family believed
18:15from the beginning
18:16she was possessed.
18:17The Catholic Church
18:18accepted that framework
18:19and engaged
18:20in the exorcism.
18:23Ultimately,
18:24Annalise Mikel died
18:25of starvation
18:26and dehydration
18:27over the course
18:28of numerous exorcisms.
18:30This was a case
18:31where that belief
18:32directly led
18:34to her death.
18:35What we cannot say
18:36for certain
18:37is what was really
18:38going on.
18:39I can't say
18:40that she for sure
18:41was not possessed
18:42or for sure was.
18:43The story
18:45of Annalise Mikel
18:46is perhaps
18:47the best known case
18:48of an alleged
18:49demonic possession.
18:52But what
18:53happened to her?
18:55Was she actually
18:56possessed by demons?
18:59And if so,
19:00how does one identify
19:01when a person's
19:02mind and body
19:02have been taken over
19:04by Satan?
19:07During the course
19:08of my career,
19:09I've witnessed
19:10a number of cases
19:11of possession
19:11that have made my life.
19:12But I definitely
19:14started as a skeptic.
19:16I certainly never
19:16thought I would
19:17see anything
19:19sort of paranormal
19:21or diabolic.
19:26A priest,
19:28who I guess
19:28knew I was Catholic,
19:30I don't exactly know
19:31how he got my name,
19:32but he came to my office
19:33when I was at
19:34Cornell Medical College
19:36and he said,
19:37Dr. Gallagher,
19:38I'd like you to
19:39evaluate
19:41someone
19:43for me
19:44who I think
19:46has a demonic attack.
19:48And I said,
19:49well,
19:50with all due respect,
19:51Father,
19:53you know,
19:53I'm an academic
19:54psychiatrist
19:55and I'm pretty
19:56skeptical of those
19:57sort of things.
19:58And I remember
19:59what he said to me,
20:00he said,
20:00you're the perfect man
20:01for the job
20:02because we want
20:03somebody who's skeptical.
20:05Of course,
20:06in the years since,
20:07you know,
20:0725 plus years,
20:08I've seen so much
20:10that I'm not
20:11a skeptic anymore.
20:14There are very
20:15strict criteria
20:16which clearly
20:18have to be present
20:20to distinguish
20:21the case
20:23from a psychiatric
20:24or a medical
20:25disorder.
20:26You have to see
20:27something that
20:28is inexplicable
20:29in terms of
20:31purely materialist
20:33science.
20:34Things that could
20:35not possibly
20:36manifest in
20:38somebody who
20:40doesn't have
20:40a diabolic attack.
20:43The first case
20:44sent to me
20:45was a woman
20:46who claimed
20:47that she would
20:49be lying in bed
20:50and she would
20:51be pummeled
20:52by invisible
20:54forces.
20:57She and her husband
20:58were convinced
20:59that she
21:01was attacked
21:03by demons.
21:05So we did
21:06a number
21:07of medical
21:07tests on her
21:08because she
21:09had bruises
21:09all over her
21:10body.
21:12And at the
21:12end of my
21:13evaluation,
21:14since she was
21:14a very sane,
21:16lovely woman,
21:17I said to
21:19the priest,
21:20look,
21:20this doesn't
21:21seem like
21:22a medical
21:23or psychiatric
21:24case.
21:24It doesn't
21:25seem possible.
21:27Mysterious
21:27bruises
21:28inflicted
21:30by invisible
21:30forces.
21:31While that
21:32may sound
21:33like something
21:33out of a
21:34Hollywood horror
21:34movie,
21:36the truth
21:36is that
21:37the counts
21:37of possession
21:38have been
21:39recorded for
21:40thousands of
21:40years.
21:43Any scholar
21:44can tell you
21:45cases of
21:45demonic possession
21:46go all the way
21:47back to the
21:47Bible.
21:48When Jesus
21:50had to cast
21:50a demon out
21:51of a man
21:52into a
21:52herd of swine
21:53who then ran
21:55off of a cliff
21:55and into the
21:56water,
21:56a very famous
21:56story in the
21:57Bible.
21:58And stories
21:59of demonic
21:59possession,
22:00they're not
22:00confined to
22:01Christianity.
22:03The idea of
22:04possession is
22:05inherently tied
22:05to the idea
22:06of Satan
22:06and demons
22:07and is an
22:08attempt by
22:09Satan to
22:09take over
22:10your personality,
22:11to ultimately
22:11control you.
22:13Satan's end
22:14game,
22:14according to
22:14the Bible,
22:15is to draw as
22:16many people
22:16away from
22:17Christ as
22:17possible.
22:18So his
22:18end game
22:19is to get
22:20as many people
22:21to move
22:21from God
22:22to him.
22:23So his
22:23ultimate role
22:24is as a
22:24tempter.
22:25The film
22:28The Exorcist
22:29is believed
22:30to have
22:30really brought
22:31attention to
22:32the idea
22:32of possession,
22:33but it's not
22:33that those
22:34ideas started
22:35with The
22:35Exorcist,
22:36those ideas
22:37spread with
22:38The Exorcist.
22:40The Exorcist
22:41was actually
22:42based on a
22:42real case.
22:44It was a
22:4412-year-old boy
22:45who was
22:46possessed,
22:47not a girl.
22:48How did
22:49he get possessed?
22:50Using a
22:51Ouija board
22:51for months.
22:53Start doing
22:54something occult.
22:55That creates
22:55an inner
22:55vulnerability
22:56to evil.
22:59You're
23:00using magic
23:00that does
23:01not come
23:01from the
23:02Lord.
23:02You might
23:02not know
23:03this,
23:04but you're
23:04actually
23:04invoking
23:05the powers
23:05of Satan,
23:06whether you
23:07believe it
23:07or not.
23:09Most people
23:09who are
23:10possessed,
23:12in a sense
23:12they've invited
23:13it in,
23:14wittingly or
23:15unwittingly.
23:16Possession
23:17is the
23:17most dramatic
23:18attack
23:20of a demon
23:21upon a human
23:22being.
23:23And in a
23:23way,
23:24spiritual warfare
23:27should be a
23:28concern of
23:28everybody.
23:30That we're
23:31all sort of
23:31in a battle
23:32in our own
23:34souls between
23:35goodness and
23:36evil.
23:36people.
23:42It's
23:42frightening
23:43to think
23:45that a person
23:46could be
23:46controlled
23:47by an
23:47evil entity.
23:49And while
23:49it's difficult
23:49to determine
23:50if possession
23:51is a
23:51spiritual
23:52or a
23:53psychological
23:54phenomenon,
23:55and perhaps
23:55even more
23:55terrifying,
23:57it's the
23:58biological
23:58aberration
23:59that can
24:00turn the
24:00deceased
24:01into the
24:03walking
24:03dead.
24:07Vestera
24:08Haiti,
24:081980.
24:10In this
24:10small village,
24:11Angelina Narcisse
24:12was going about
24:14her day when she
24:14was approached by
24:15a man claiming
24:16to be her
24:16brother,
24:17Clairvius.
24:19It may sound
24:19like a heartwarming
24:20tale of reunion,
24:21but there was
24:21just one
24:22problem.
24:24Clairvius Narcisse
24:25had been dead
24:26and buried
24:27for nearly
24:2820 years.
24:30Clairvius was
24:31a Haitian man
24:32born in 1922.
24:34In the year
24:341962,
24:37he went to
24:38a hospital.
24:40His symptoms
24:40had been a
24:41severe fever,
24:43fatigue,
24:43and he'd been
24:44coughing up
24:44blood.
24:45His heart
24:46stopped,
24:47and he stopped
24:48breathing,
24:49and was declared
24:50dead and buried.
24:5220 years later,
24:54a man claiming
24:55to be Clairvius
24:56showed up
24:57at his village
24:58and approached
24:59his family.
25:00In many respects,
25:02his story
25:03did check out.
25:05He bared
25:05a physical
25:06resemblance
25:07to the deceased.
25:09He went
25:09by a nickname
25:10that was only
25:11known to him
25:12and his sister
25:13when they were
25:13very little kids,
25:15and so he was
25:16able to relate
25:17certain details
25:18of his former
25:20life that seemed
25:21to add up.
25:23But if
25:24Clairvius Narcisse
25:25died and was
25:26buried,
25:27then how
25:27on earth
25:28was he alive
25:28and able
25:29to track
25:29down his
25:30sister
25:30almost 20
25:31years later?
25:32Well,
25:33according to
25:34Clairvius,
25:35the reason he
25:36was not lying
25:36dead in his
25:37grave was that
25:39a voodoo priest
25:41had transformed
25:42him into a zombie.
25:44zombie.
25:45In Haiti,
25:46a zombie is an
25:47individual who's
25:48had their soul
25:49stolen by sorcery,
25:50causing them to
25:51be sort of
25:52flung into a
25:53perpetual place
25:54of purgatory
25:55through this
25:56incredible transition
25:58of death,
26:00rebirth,
26:00and return to the
26:01living,
26:03induced by the
26:04folk poison
26:05known as a
26:06pood zombie.
26:07It was a
26:07plethora of
26:08ingredients,
26:09including various
26:10plants and the
26:12toxin from a
26:13fish.
26:14It selectively
26:15blocks sodium
26:16channels and
26:17nerves,
26:18bringing on
26:18paralysis until
26:20the moment of
26:20death.
26:22And yet,
26:23critically, if you
26:24get through that,
26:25you have nothing
26:27to worry about.
26:28This fascinating
26:30poison had made
26:32people appear to
26:34be dead.
26:34In Haitian folklore
26:37specifically,
26:38the zombie is not
26:40a villain but a
26:41victim.
26:42In these cases,
26:43people are turned
26:44into zombies and
26:45forced to work on
26:47sugar cane
26:47plantations in
26:48Haiti, and elsewhere
26:49in the Caribbean,
26:50but primarily Haiti.
26:52And this has been
26:53a legend going back
26:54many, many years,
26:56centuries, in some
26:57cases, certainly
26:58since the slave
26:58trade.
26:59And it was all
27:00considered to be
27:01just sort of a
27:01legend until 1980,
27:03when Clairvius and
27:04Narcisse emerged.
27:06He told the story,
27:07it made huge news,
27:08as you can imagine,
27:09because this is a
27:10first-person account
27:11of somebody who was
27:12a former zombie,
27:13right?
27:13So this is wild,
27:14this is crazy.
27:17According to Clairvius,
27:19he had been paralyzed
27:20by a voodoo priest.
27:22This was a result
27:23of being drugged,
27:25and this paste mixture
27:28that he was forced
27:29to consume kept him
27:31in this death-like
27:32toper.
27:33Narcisse is buried,
27:36and the priest then
27:39dug him up from
27:40his grave,
27:41and enslaved him
27:43on a sugarcane
27:44plantation for 20 years.
27:47From the Haitian
27:48point of view,
27:49the fate of a zombie
27:51is said to become
27:52an indentured servant.
27:54And losing your soul,
27:56losing your identity,
27:57your personal autonomy,
27:59combined to make this
28:00a fate worse than death.
28:03The story of Clairvius Narcisse
28:05being buried
28:06and then revived
28:07as an undead zombie
28:08made headlines
28:10around the world.
28:12Numerous experts
28:13investigated the case
28:14in hopes of
28:15shedding light
28:16on what exactly
28:17took place.
28:19The first question
28:20on everyone's mind
28:22was whether Clairvius
28:23had only appeared
28:24to be dead
28:25because he was drugged,
28:26or if there was
28:28some truth
28:29to the idea
28:31that he actually died
28:32and then was revived
28:34by the power of voodoo.
28:36What made the case
28:39of Narcisse unique
28:40was one single thing.
28:42He had been pronounced dead
28:44in an American-directed
28:47philanthropic institution,
28:49the Schweitzer Hospital.
28:51And his family members
28:53had witnessed the death
28:54and authenticated it
28:56at the time.
28:57So all these lines
29:00of evidence
29:01led scientists
29:02to go public
29:03in the 1980s
29:05saying they felt
29:06they had found
29:07the first medically
29:08verifiable instance
29:09of zombification.
29:11The doctors who had
29:14initially declared
29:15Narcisse dead
29:17were no longer
29:18at the hospital
29:1820 years later
29:19when he returned.
29:21However,
29:22many doctors
29:22looked into his case
29:24and did test
29:25and proved
29:26that it was in fact him.
29:28Why the premature diagnosis
29:30and why he was buried
29:32prematurely
29:33is unknown
29:33and where he was
29:36for 20 years
29:37is unknown,
29:38but there are photos
29:39of him sitting
29:39on his own gravestone.
29:41There are many theories
29:45as to what caused
29:47Clairvius Narcisse
29:48to be declared dead
29:49and then seemingly
29:50brought back to life.
29:52Ultimately,
29:52what happened to him
29:53remains a mystery.
29:55But many Haitians
29:56are convinced
29:57that Clairvius
29:59did in fact
30:00rise from the grave.
30:04And for some,
30:05his story is a reminder
30:07that the distinction
30:08between the living
30:09and the dead
30:10may not be as clear cut
30:12may not be as clear cut
30:12as we commonly think.
30:15When we imagine zombies
30:16in the 21st century,
30:18we tend to imagine
30:19the dead rising
30:20from the grave
30:21to prey upon the living.
30:23That is not the case
30:24in Haitian voodoo practices.
30:26zombification in voodoo
30:28was not something
30:30that was done to the dead.
30:31It was something
30:32that was done
30:32to the living.
30:33It was turning
30:34the living
30:35into a fugue-like state,
30:38a death-like state,
30:39but they were not
30:41reanimated corpses.
30:43Narcisse never doubted
30:45that he'd become a zombie.
30:47In Haiti,
30:48a zombie is a complete pariah
30:49who walks the edge
30:51between life and death
30:52and will do so
30:53for the rest
30:54of their existence.
30:55And so this idea
30:57that a person
30:59could be brought back
31:01to life
31:02fills all of us
31:04with mystery
31:04and trepidation
31:06and dread.
31:06The prospect
31:09that any of us
31:10could become
31:10a reanimated husk
31:11of our former selves
31:12is a haunting image.
31:16But just how one joins
31:18the ranks
31:18of the walking dead
31:19is debatable.
31:21Is it a biological response?
31:24A psychological phenomenon?
31:27Or could there really
31:28be something
31:29to the power
31:30of a deadly curse?
31:36Cincinnati, Ohio.
31:39Just outside the city
31:41on a normal suburban street
31:43in an ordinary neighborhood
31:44is the home
31:46of Greg and Dana Newkirk.
31:49From the outside,
31:50their home is
31:51not much different
31:52from any other house
31:53on the block.
31:54Let's get some work
31:55action going on.
31:56Yeah.
31:56But inside,
31:58it contains something
32:00quite extraordinary.
32:01because there is
32:04a room in the basement
32:05that is filled
32:06with a collection
32:06of strange objects
32:08sent by people
32:09from all over the world
32:11that are believed
32:12to be cursed.
32:16Greg and I lead
32:17normal lives
32:18and we go about
32:20our life
32:20the same way
32:21that everyone else does.
32:22We just happen
32:24to be caretakers
32:25for very strange objects.
32:27The way that we got started
32:29collecting cursed objects
32:30was complete accident.
32:32It wasn't something
32:33that we had set out to do.
32:35Never would have imagined
32:36myself doing this.
32:38We were just interested
32:39in general weirdness.
32:43My wife and I
32:44investigate all manner
32:46of high strangeness
32:47and we were both
32:49very interested
32:50in the idea
32:51of cursed objects.
32:53We slowly gained
32:54a reputation
32:55as being particularly
32:56good people for this.
32:58And so anytime anyone
32:59had a problem
32:59with an artifact,
33:00they would come to us
33:02and say,
33:02I don't know what
33:03to do with this.
33:04This thing is
33:05affecting my life.
33:06Will you just
33:07take it off my hands?
33:08It'd be easier
33:08to just give it to you
33:09and let you deal with it.
33:10So we built up
33:11this collection
33:12of very bizarre things.
33:15Visitors to the Newkirk's home
33:17are given ample warning
33:18that the basement
33:20is filled with objects
33:21that are cursed.
33:22We have a lot of haunted robes.
33:27But curiously,
33:28every day,
33:29the Newkirk's receive requests
33:30from people
33:31who are eager to view
33:32their cursed collection.
33:35You'd think with cursed objects
33:36you want to avoid them,
33:38but there is a draw to them.
33:41When an object is said
33:42to be cursed,
33:42another word you could use
33:43is special.
33:44It's special.
33:45If this chair is cursed,
33:46it's different from
33:47every other chair in the world.
33:49And that makes it unique,
33:50that makes it interesting,
33:51and that draws our attention
33:53every single time.
33:53And the fact that
33:54that specialness
33:55is that it hurts people,
33:57that appeals to a certain
33:58macabre streak
33:59that we all have
34:00as human beings.
34:03People think of cursed objects
34:04as being kind of fun
34:06and spooky,
34:07but working with them,
34:08it feels a lot less about that
34:10and a lot more about
34:12that kind of heavy responsibility
34:13to keep some of these objects
34:15with us under lock and key
34:17and maybe out of
34:18the wrong hands
34:19and maybe in a place
34:21that's safer not only
34:22for everyone else,
34:23but for them.
34:25The Newkirk's collection
34:27includes several objects
34:28that are considered
34:29to have the power
34:30to inflict harm
34:31on anyone who comes near them.
34:35This is the cursed deer skull.
34:38We drove down to Nashville
34:39to pick up from a woman
34:41who saw this in an antique store
34:43and took it back to her office
34:46and almost immediately
34:47her employees started getting sick.
34:50One of her employees
34:51was hit by a car
34:52and then the wall
34:54that this was hanging on
34:55actually fell down
34:57and took half of the building
34:58with it.
34:58There are certain objects
35:01specifically in our museum
35:03that without people knowing
35:04why they feel
35:05the way that they feel,
35:07they will definitely have
35:09heart palpitations,
35:10anxiety.
35:11We've had people
35:12almost faint.
35:14We've had people
35:15throw up.
35:15We've had people dry heap.
35:17People have very visceral
35:19physical reactions
35:20to being around
35:21some of the objects.
35:21Among the cursed objects
35:26in the Newkirk's collection
35:28is a deadly ring
35:30that is claimed
35:31to kill anyone
35:31who wears it.
35:33A Bible
35:34used during
35:35a failed exorcism
35:37and a doll
35:38that is believed
35:39to spread illness
35:41wherever it goes.
35:43But of all the cursed objects
35:45the Newkirks
35:46have come across,
35:47there is one
35:48that is so harrowing
35:49they refuse to keep it
35:51in their collection.
35:53It is an unsettling
35:54wooden effigy
35:55known as
35:56the Crone.
35:58The Crone
35:59really is
36:00the definition
36:01of kind of a cursed object.
36:03It is a carved statue
36:04of a woman.
36:06Someone
36:07at some point in time
36:08took this object
36:10and attached the noose
36:11and the nails.
36:13It was given to us
36:14by some hikers
36:15who found it
36:16in the Catskills
36:17off the beaten path
36:18in a cave.
36:19They took it home
36:22and initially
36:23started to experience
36:24really frightening things.
36:26Their animals
36:27were behaving strangely,
36:28they were finding
36:29wet footprints
36:30on the ground
36:30and they didn't
36:32know what to do.
36:33Someone who we had
36:34worked with previously
36:35put them in contact
36:36with us
36:37and after,
36:38you know,
36:39having some communication
36:40with them
36:40they sent the Crone
36:42to us.
36:42people who would
36:44get near the Crone
36:45they would be just
36:47overwhelmed
36:48with anxiety.
36:50This guy
36:51came all the way
36:53from Canada
36:53to come and see
36:54the Crone.
36:55He begged us
36:57to take it out
36:58of the box
36:58almost immediately.
37:02His eyes roll up
37:03in the back of his head
37:04and he starts to bleed
37:05from his mouth
37:05and he has
37:07a violent seizure
37:08and he has to be
37:09taken out
37:10by the paramedics
37:11and that's when
37:12Dana and I
37:12looked at each other
37:13and we said
37:13we have to do
37:14something about this.
37:18The Catskill Mountains
37:20October 2018
37:22After a string
37:25of frightening incidents
37:26Greg and Dana Newkirk
37:27are convinced
37:29that a strange object
37:30in their possession
37:31known as
37:32the Crone
37:34is cursed.
37:37So they've traveled
37:38to this remote region
37:39of upstate New York
37:40to free themselves
37:42of the evil object.
37:46The Crone
37:46is one of the objects
37:48that does fall
37:49into that very small
37:50category of objects
37:51that we didn't feel
37:52like we could handle.
37:54It got to a point
37:55where the Crone
37:56was just too dangerous
37:57for even us
37:58to take care of
37:59and what we wanted
38:00to do was
38:01bring her back
38:03to the Catskills
38:04which is where
38:05she's from.
38:09To remove
38:10the Crone's curse
38:11the Newkirk's plan
38:12was to return
38:13to the area
38:13where it was
38:14originally found
38:15by two hikers
38:16many years before
38:17at which point
38:19they would remove
38:20the nails
38:21embedded in the Crone
38:23in a cleansing ritual.
38:25We wanted to bring
38:27her back
38:28and every time
38:29a nail was pulled out
38:30the intention
38:31was that we were
38:32pulling that curse
38:34out of the object.
38:36We hiked
38:37into the woods
38:38for miles
38:39and I set up
38:43a circle.
38:44The idea of setting
38:45up a circle
38:46was basically
38:47just to create
38:47an energetic space
38:49for containing
38:49this ritual.
38:50and the whole
38:52time we were
38:52doing this
38:53we were hearing
38:54footsteps
38:55and strange
38:58sounds that
38:59weren't animals
38:59around our circle
39:00but we couldn't
39:04see anything.
39:06We were
39:07absolutely terrified
39:08but we start
39:09performing the ritual
39:10I pull the nails
39:12out.
39:13Soon as that
39:14happens
39:14we feel this
39:16almost electric
39:17pop in the air.
39:20When we were done
39:22every coyote
39:23on the mountain
39:23just started
39:24howling
39:25and the ritual
39:27was finished
39:27and what we
39:28were looking at
39:29was just a
39:30block of wood
39:31and we just
39:32kind of knew
39:32that we had
39:33done what we
39:34went there to do.
39:37Scholars of religion
39:38have long known
39:39the power of ritual
39:40that when a group
39:41of people get
39:42together and engage
39:43in the same set
39:44of actions
39:44believing that
39:45there's our
39:46supernatural origin
39:47behind them
39:47that brings
39:48people together.
39:50and so
39:51special movements
39:52that you need
39:52to go through
39:53special sayings
39:55or songs
39:56that you need
39:56to do
39:57it's incredibly
39:59powerful phenomena
40:00that can help
40:01rid us of the
40:02devil
40:02or whatever
40:04other force
40:05has cursed
40:06us.
40:07Is it possible
40:08that ritually
40:10cleansing the
40:11crone
40:11removed its
40:12curse?
40:14Perhaps
40:15curse, but
40:16of course
40:16it all depends
40:17on whether
40:18you believe
40:19curses are
40:19real in the
40:21first place.
40:22Whether you
40:23believe in
40:24cursed objects
40:25or don't
40:25believe in
40:25cursed objects
40:26they can still
40:27have a power
40:28over you.
40:29What that
40:30power is,
40:31to what extent
40:33that is,
40:33how it kind
40:34of comes out,
40:35who knows?
40:37but they're
40:39still powerful
40:39objects no
40:40matter how
40:40you look
40:40at it.
40:42For people
40:43who don't
40:43believe in
40:44curses,
40:44what I would
40:45say is,
40:46keep believing
40:47they're not
40:47real.
40:48That's the
40:49best defense
40:50you have
40:50against a
40:51curse,
40:51is to not
40:53feed it.
40:53So,
40:56what do
40:57you think?
40:58Is there
40:59good reason
40:59we should
40:59take heed
41:00of our
41:00primal fears
41:01and follow
41:03intuition
41:03when our
41:04heart starts
41:05to race
41:06and we
41:06tremble
41:06and thoughts
41:08turn to
41:08dread
41:09and impending
41:10danger?
41:11There are
41:11good reasons
41:12for our
41:12body and
41:13mind to
41:13protect us
41:14from obvious
41:15risks,
41:16but exactly
41:17why we've
41:18become frightened
41:18of dark
41:19entities,
41:20unseen evil
41:21and unholy
41:23objects
41:23may be
41:25better left
41:26unexplained.
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