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Speaker 1: You're listening to the third and final part of Unexplained,

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Speaker 1: Season six, episode twenty seven. All that we See. John

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Speaker 1: Keel turned on his flashlight and pointed it into the

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Speaker 1: entrance of the power plant, illuminating the cavernous space beyond. Then,

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Speaker 1: with Connie and Keith following close behind, the three of

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Speaker 1: over the ground could be heard as they carefully picked

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Speaker 1: their way through the debris and puddles. A sudden crack

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Speaker 1: For Connie and Keith, it was just too much to take.

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Speaker 1: Deciding they'd gone far enough, they stayed back close to

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Speaker 1: Having searched most of the ground floor, Keel found a

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Speaker 1: sound while listening out for any sign of movement. Sadly

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Speaker 1: for him, however, the place appeared completely deserted. Neither Connie

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Speaker 1: hearing the skin crawling scream from outside the building. The

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Speaker 1: Tears were streaming down her face. She saw it again,

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Speaker 1: cried Keel, as he and Keith helped Connie out of

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Speaker 1: A few minutes later, however, he was surprised to find

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Speaker 1: of the sight. Mary Hire explained excitedly that they'd just

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Speaker 1: heard something heavy and metallic crashing to the ground when

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Speaker 1: some one spotted a silhouetted figure running away from the

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Speaker 1: and had heard nothing. My ear, cried Mary Mallet, suddenly

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Speaker 1: shattering the silence. I think it's bleeding. Keel shone the

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Speaker 1: seeping out of her ear. With no idea what an

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Speaker 1: earth could have caused such a thing, and out of

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Speaker 1: concern for the young woman, Keel suggested they call it

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Speaker 1: a night, and so one by one they headed back

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Speaker 1: to their vehicles and made their way back home. As

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Speaker 1: Keel followed the others toward the highway, however, he couldn't

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Speaker 1: stop thinking about what had just occurred. Was Mary's bleeding

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Speaker 1: directed at them by the apparent entity. A clue perhaps

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Speaker 1: as he continued driving forward, the feeling quickly abated, almost

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Speaker 1: as if the fear had been triggered by his proximity

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Speaker 1: and this time I tried it on foot. Keiel's breath

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Speaker 1: his two thousand and two books The Mothman Prophecies. Now

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Speaker 1: he was on foot, Keel was apparently able to feel

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Speaker 1: Keel then took a few steps back, and once again

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Speaker 1: What on earth could this be, he thought to himself.

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Speaker 1: Was it an accidental confluence of ultrasonic waves, perhaps affecting

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Speaker 1: that someone or something near by was targeting him? Though

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Speaker 1: also account for Mary Mallet's bleeding ear earlier in the night.

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Speaker 1: Keel then stared out at the empty stretch of road

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Speaker 1: John returned to the same spot, but by then whatever

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Speaker 1: Satisfied he'd found all that he could, he then headed

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Speaker 1: made his goodbyes to Linda Scarborough and her family before

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Speaker 1: making his way to Mary Hire's office. Having been impressed

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Speaker 1: by her open mindedness to the events, Keel asked her

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Speaker 1: to her too, and returned home to New York. As

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six drew to a close, the bizarre events

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Speaker 1: For Mary Hire and John Keel, who later became good friends,

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Speaker 1: those first peculiar sightings in November nineteen sixty six proved

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Speaker 1: his own book on the subject, the Mothman Prophecies. As

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Speaker 1: in the wake of those first mothman sightings. Mary Higher

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Speaker 1: As time went on, these unusual events seemed to occur

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Speaker 1: And then, just over a year since the first apparent

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Speaker 1: had simply been trying to warn us about it. What then,

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Speaker 1: the absence of any irrefutable empirical evidence, as is often

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Speaker 1: eyewitness accounts with which to discern truth from falsehoods. Most

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Speaker 1: would not unreasonably conclude that any reports of winged humanoid

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Speaker 1: often intrigues me about these kinds of stories, perhaps more

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Speaker 1: more popular the story. Once something has captured the imagination,

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Speaker 1: of information, much like the invisible guerrilla experiment, as discussed

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Speaker 1: when we age, as our sense awareness narrows, we essentially

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Speaker 1: place that any of us have ever been. The emergence

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Speaker 1: more profoundly. This has nothing to do with color at all.

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Speaker 1: The color of an object does not exist in and

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Speaker 1: When light hits the ball, depending on its molecular structure,

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Speaker 1: much our brains compensate for the difference. And since there

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Speaker 1: color of anything. The twenty fifteen viral phenomenon of the dress,

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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Kant made the distinction between phenomena as being something

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