WEBVTT - S05 Episode 5: When Love Breaks Down (Pt. 1 of 2) 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:15.440 Sharon couldn't sleep. It was Jay, her boyfriend, who suggested 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:17.640 she stayed at his house while he was out of town, 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.320 and since she was currently between apartments, it made perfect sense. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.680 But Sharon had been reticent. It wasn't that she didn't 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:28.920 like the house. It was positively charming in its Bavarian 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.559 timber framed style, nestled high among the hills and trees 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:37.199 of LA's Benedict Canyon. In fact, the couple, who'd been 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.200 seeing each other for almost a year, had spent many 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.400 happy hours there together, often in the company of their 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:47.640 many glamorous friends, spending long lazy days by the pool, 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:53.080 drinking and getting high. But being there alone and at 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:58.880 night was an entirely different proposition. The place, located at 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.640 ninety eight sixty Eastern Drive, was built sometime in the 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.240 Prohibition era and once belonged to Hollywood film producer and 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:11.480 writer Paul Byrne. In nineteen thirty two, Burne's marriage to 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.200 Jean Harlowe, one of the major film stars of the 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:19.880 day and twenty years his junior, brought him to public prominence. However, 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.800 it was the events that occurred in their home two 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.640 months later that would seal his place in Hollywood infamy. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.800 Burne's butler, John Carmichael, was inspecting the house early one 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:34.959 morning when he found Burne lying naked in the dressing 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:40.680 room adjacent to Jean Harlowe's bedroom. Assuming he'd collapsed, Carmichael 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.480 rushed to his help, only to find to his horror 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:46.920 that Burne was lying dead in a large pool of blood. 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:51.440 Carmichael saw the single bullet wound in his head, then 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:55.440 looking up the large splattering of blood and soft tissue, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:02:00.320 still wet and clinging to the ceiling, Sharon host and 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.560 turned in bed, opening her eyes. She couldn't help but 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.800 stare at the entrance to that small adjacent room, just 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.480 visible in the dark, where Burne's blood soaked body had 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.040 once lain. There had long been rumors that the house 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.959 was haunted, that her mystery surrounding Burne's death had caused 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.880 his restless soul to wander and had become trapped in 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:25.760 that big, eccentric house of his. It was partly what 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.919 had drawn Jay to the house in the first place 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.120 when he bought it two years back in nineteen sixty three. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.680 Sharon had never let it bother her until now, that is, 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.840 She tried to push it all from her mind and 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.639 get back to sleep. But couldn't escape that creeping sensation 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:49.120 that those creeks outside the door weren't just creaks but footsteps, 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:55.400 and they were getting nearer. You're listening to unexplained, and 0:02:55.480 --> 0:03:07.000 I'm Richard McClean smith. Paul Burne's death was determined to 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.480 be a suicide after investigators found not only a gun 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.520 in his hand, but an apparent suicide note left at 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:18.919 the scene for his wife. It read, dearest dear, Unfortunately, 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:21.880 this is the only way to make good the frightful 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.239 wrong I've done you and wipe out my abject humiliation. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.920 I love you, Paul. You understand that last night was 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:36.800 only a comedy. Only something didn't quite fit that misspelling 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.720 of unfortunately from a successful writer perhaps, or was it 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.880 something more. The day after Paul Burne's body was discovered, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.440 a woman boarded the Delta King riverboat in San Francisco, 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:52.840 heading for Sacramento. In the early hours of the following day, 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:57.920 the woman, Dorothee Millet, Paul Burne's first wife, was seen 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.600 standing alone on the top deck, staring out to see 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:06.200 and clearly in some distress. A few hours later, a 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.080 night watchman found a pair of shoes and a woman's 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.160 coat on deck, close to where Dorothee had been seen. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.839 By the time the boat docked the following morning, Dorothee 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:22.040 had completely vanished. Milette's disappearance soon hit the news, with 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.760 many speculating she had in fact killed Paul Byrne and 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:30.040 faked her own death to get away. This speculation was 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.720 given greater credence when rumors emerged that Byrne had been 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.960 entertaining a mystery woman at his home the day before 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:42.760 his body was found. Years later, producer Samuel Marks, Burne's 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.479 friend and colleague at MGM Studios, who employed both Jean 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.159 Harlowe and Paul Byrne, made the stunning revelation that when 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.719 Burne's butler first found the body, he called the studio 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:58.719 before the police. Their response, according to Mars, was to 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:02.479 dispatch Marks into another the colleague, Irving Thalburk, to the 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:07.000 house to assess the situation before the police arrived. Their aim, 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.760 allegedly was to protect the reputation of Jean Harlowe, their 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:14.440 newest and brightest young star. Harlowe was said to have 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.960 been staying at her mother's house the night Burne died. 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.880 Mars claimed to have witnessed Thalburk tampering with the scene. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.560 It isn't known to what extent it was tampered with, 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.640 if it was at all, though it's been suggested that 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.760 the gun found in Burne's hand by police had not 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:42.599 been there when the butler first found his body. A 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:47.200 week after Millet disappeared, two fishermen working on the Sacramento 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.080 River found her body floating face down in the water. 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.679 Over the next few days, a number of stories were spun, 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.960 some alleging that Dorothy had murdered her husband. After discovery, 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.479 he changed his will so that Harlowe would be the 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:07.040 sole beneficiary. At that time in her life, Millet, who 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:09.800 had been plagued by ill health and recently spent time 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:14.240 in a sanatorium, had become entirely dependent on Burne's financial support. 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.200 Friends of Burne's, however, spoke of his struggles with depression 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.640 due to the publicity surrounding his marriage to Harlowe, and 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:26.680 how he previously contemplated suicide, while at the same time 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.360 MGM Studios apparently worried by the fallout to Harlowe. Should 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.560 it be proved that Burne had been cheating on her, 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:38.159 supposedly made their own attempts to muddy the waters, allegedly 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:42.160 implying that Burne's failure to satisfy his wife sexually had 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:46.520 driven him to suicide. Burne's death was said by some 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.240 to have put a curse on the house, with at 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.400 least one other person rumored to have committed suicide there 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:55.679 and another drowning in the pool since it had happened. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.679 Perhaps it was this that was racing through Sharon's mind 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.600 as she heard yet another creak coming from out in 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:06.360 the hallway. Powerless to resist the thought of Burne's bloodstained 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:11.239 body lying naked only yards away, the blood splattered ceiling, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:17.880 and his vacant, dead eyes. Enough was enough. Sharon switched 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:22.040 on the light and sat up in bed. Just then, 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.520 a sudden movement outside the bedroom caught her eye. As 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.720 she peered out into the darkness beyond, she saw, to 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.480 her horror that something was out there hovering in the doorway. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:39.080 It was a man, Shortisian stature, with a small mustache 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.200 and a strange look on his face. He looked exactly 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:48.400 like Paul Byrne. Sharon could only watch in terror as 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.760 the man burst suddenly into the room, moving wildly about 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.680 the place at double speed. Sharon leapt from the bed, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:08:00.320 grabbed her robe, and ran shrieking into the hallway, Fleeing 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:04.240 to the stairs. Sharon raced down the steps, only to 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:08.480 be confronted by an even more hideous sight, a body 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.280 tied up with rope at the bottom of the stairs, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.360 just visible in the darkness, with its throat slit wide 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:26.080 open and blood gushing out of it. Sharon screamed as 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.720 she hurried through into the living room, slamming the door 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:31.200 shut behind her as she struggled to come to terms 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.520 with what was happening. Surely it was a dream, she thought, 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.160 as she paced manically about the room. It was just 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.880 one of those all two real, lucid dreams that emerge 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.319 when the mind flutters about in that liminal space between 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:49.440 sleep and wakefulness. But what was that figure tied up 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.440 to the stairs. It looked so familiar, she thought, Was 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.640 it Ja or had it in fact been a vision 0:08:56.880 --> 0:09:01.160 of herself? Deciding she wanted a d she heard a 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.240 voice echoing from a distant place, telling her to look 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.320 at the bookshelf and convincing her further that it was 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.680 just a dream. Moving to the shelves, she found herself 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.040 frantically searching for something, despite having no idea what she 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.240 was looking for. But as she ran her fingers along 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:22.720 the books, she found a button and pressed it. With 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.720 a click, the bookshelf popped open to reveal a secret 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:31.080 bar space behind. Grabbing a bottle from within, she quickly 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:35.600 poured herself a drink. As she gulped it down, she 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:40.400 became transfixed by the wallpaper lining the bar inside. Reaching 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.920 out to touch it, she couldn't help but tear a 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:46.320 piece of it away, revealing a copper panel behind it. 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:52.439 She pulled another strip, and then another. Finishing her drink, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.120 Sharon made her way back to the hall. Peering out 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.680 toward the bottom of the stairs, she caught sight of 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.200 the horrifying figure once more, still tied up to the banister, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:07.680 its neck still gushing with blood. Then a movement upstairs 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:10.880 drew her attention to the peculiar man again, who was 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.600 now moving about on the landing. It's only a dream, 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:19.120 she reminded herself, closing her eyes. Sharon jumped onto the 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.080 stairs and sprinted back to the bedroom, closing the door 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:26.360 quickly behind her. Then the sound of another voice calling 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:30.920 her name from somewhere getting louder and louder, a voice 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:36.079 she recognized immediately as Jay's, and then she opened her eyes. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.760 Sharon awoke to find herself back in bed, hearing the 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:51.640 sound of Jay's voice calling from downstairs. Moments later, he 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:55.360 was at the door, greeting her with a smile. Sharon 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.240 laughed with relief as she tried to explain the peculiar 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:01.800 nightmare she'd been having. She was still explaining it to 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.079 him as the couple made their way downstairs for breakfast, 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.160 when Sharon caught sight of the mess in the living room. 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.200 The bookcase bar was open and at the base of 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.679 it was a small pile of wall paper ribbed out 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:21.559 from the inside. It was certainly a compelling story, thought Dick, 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:27.160 But what does it mean? Asked Sharon. 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Will you Survive the 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:13.439 Curse of the blair Witch By nineteen sixty eight, Sharon 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:17.800 and Jay were no longer together. In nineteen sixty five, 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:22.520 not long after that horrifying experience in Jay's house. Sharon 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.240 had traveled to Europe to shoot the occult horror mystery 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.640 Eye of the Devil. Having fallen in love with London 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.000 in the process, she decided to stay awhile once filming 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.520 had ended. It was there that she was first introduced 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:40.080 to Roman, an up and coming film director from Poland. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.360 Having established himself in nineteen sixty two with his breakout 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:49.040 film Knife in the Water. Roman was looking to cast 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.840 his latest film, The Fearless Vampire Killers, when it was 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.640 suggested to him that he considers Sharon for a part. 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.240 The Fearless Vampire Killers was to be a power of 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.160 the British horror films of the day, epitomized by the 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:07.960 famous Hammer Film Productions. The role of Sarah Schargle, the 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.480 daughter of an innkeeper who would eventually turn into a 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.880 vampire herself, was to provide the romantic interest of the 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.480 film's lead character, which, as it happened, would be played 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:22.760 by Roman. After much persuasion by the film's executive producer, 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:26.600 Marin Ransohoff, who also had a stake in Sharon's career, 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.720 Roman finally agreed to offer her the role. Though they 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.840 clashed at first, through the course of filming in nineteen 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:38.400 sixty six, the pair embarked on an affair. Before long 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.080 they were immersed in the thick of swinging sixties London together, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.440 bouncing from one party to the next, hanging with all 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.720 the bright young stars in Soho or along the King's Road, 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:53.040 at all the most fashionable clubs and bars. Roman made 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.359 it clear early on that he was not the monogamous type, 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.160 but Sharon, who would have preferred him to be, could 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.480 resist way she felt about him. Though he was a 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.080 little on the short side, she had been seduced by 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:09.000 his sheer sense of inner conviction and confidence. He seemed 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:13.760 beyond manipulation in a way, utterly self assured and resistant 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:18.280 to external forces. That he was unwilling to even countenance 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:22.400 dedicating himself to her alone, she reasoned, was merely further 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:27.480 evidence of his beguiling free spiritedness, and London for her, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.240 in the increasingly rare social circles that she was beginning 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:35.560 to find herself in, was intoxicating, populated, as she said, 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.600 with free thinkers feeling their way through life and leaving 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.520 an impression on the times. Being the daughter of a 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.600 United States army officer. Sharon, who was by then twenty four, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.320 reveled in the youthful rebellion and urgency of the day. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.920 It was a mind expanding revolution of color and thought, 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:59.840 catalyzed by a ubiquity of pot and other mind altering 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:04.400 substances that only served to further expose the rigid status quo, 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:10.480 and she was at the epicenter of it all five 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:14.320 thousand miles away, another young woman had also just secured 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:18.560 the part of a vampire in a somewhat less auspicious production. 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.400 By nineteen sixty seven, Susan had been living in San 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:31.280 Francisco for just over a year when she took a 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:34.040 job as a go go dancer, working at a number 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.639 of clubs on the North Beach Strip. Nights were long, 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.080 usually running from four pm till two in the morning, 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.960 before moving on to the next club to dance until 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.960 dawn in the hope of maybe being spotted by a 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:51.320 talent agent. It was while dancing one night that Susan, 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:55.040 only eighteen years old at the time, was introduced to 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:59.520 Anton LeVay. Levy and his followers had been causing a 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.720 stir with the recent establishing of his Church of Satan. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.040 Though many found the group alarming. In truth, it was 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.760 little more than an individualist occult movement that practiced magic, 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.920 more opposed to the orthodoxes of Christianity than in thraw 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:20.280 to any actual Satan. Lavay was developing a production based 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.280 around the idea of a witch's Sabbath and was looking 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.359 for women to play the part of alluring scantily clad 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:32.720 vampires who would terrorize the audience as the sabbath was conducted. Susan, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:37.399 needing the money, had reluctantly taken the job, often relying 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.960 on acid in order to find the courage to perform. 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.280 Though the show was a hit, it had come at 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.600 a moment of crisis for Susan. Having become heavily immersed 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.480 in the San Francisco scene, her drug use had steadily intensified, 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:56.760 and her health, both mental and physical, was shot. Four 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.959 months later, she had a breakdown and was admitted to hospital. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.240 As someone who felt she'd spent her whole life looking 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.919 for somewhere to belong, it was clear that where she 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:11.120 was then wasn't it. Her collapse was a wake up 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.000 call that brought her to the more mellow confines of 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:18.240 hate Ashbury, a counterculture mecca and the center of what 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:28.720 would later become known as the Summer of Love. It 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:31.320 was while walking along the streets of hate Ashbury one 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:35.840 afternoon that Susan bumped into Barbara, an old friend from 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:40.720 her hometown of Los Banos. Susan had always thought Barbara 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.840 a little square, so was surprised to find her there, 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:48.280 of all places. But Barbara had evolved somewhat from the innocent, 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:52.840 seeming farm girl Susan had thought her to be. With 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:56.639 the political turmoil of nineteen sixties America, lurching from the 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:00.040 successful Civil Rights movement one moment to being my I 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.240 had in an increasingly messy war in Vietnam the next, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.440 many Americans were beginning to question just what a free 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:12.919 world was. Exactly what was happening in hate Ashbury offered 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.679 a glimpse of a different world, a world that was 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:19.160 no longer bound by the restrictive social conventions of the day, 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.560 a place in which, often with the aid of LSD 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:27.520 and marijuana, you could shed every label, tag, and assumption 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:32.880 that had ever weighed you down. Like Susan, Barbara had 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:36.160 also been drawn there by its alluring promise of new 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:40.200 ways to exist. She invited Susan back to the house 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.680 she was living in to meet her new family, as 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:46.320 she called it. The house was a large, two story 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.880 townhouse on the corner of Oak and Lyon Street, right 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:55.280 next door to Janis Joplin's home. Once there, Barbara showed 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.440 Susan around the property and introduced her to the ten 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:01.160 other people that were living there as part of the commune, 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:05.120 one woman for each man, but Susan noticed there were 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:10.399 presently six men to only five women. Susan sat and 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:12.960 smoked part with them as they explained to her how 0:21:13.000 --> 0:21:17.280 it worked. They all shared everything in common except each other, 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:22.320 with the man to woman pairings being strictly monogamous. They 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:25.400 made money by selling dope on the street, with each 0:21:25.400 --> 0:21:28.600 man being a dealer and the women tasked with finding 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:32.800 people to sell it to. When Barbara suggested Susan move 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:35.879 in with them to make up the numbers, she jumped 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:45.720 at the charts. Having wrapped up production on The Fearless 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:49.879 Vampire Killers, Roman and Sharon had returned together to Los Angeles, 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:53.840 unable to find somewhere to settle down, due in part 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:57.240 to Roman's reluctance to become too rooted anywhere, but also 0:21:57.359 --> 0:22:00.720 their naturally transient work life. The couple rented a room 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:03.560 at the Chateau Marmont before moving into a house in 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:08.000 Benedict Canyon in the Hollywood Hills. The house, which they 0:22:08.000 --> 0:22:11.600 rented from Oscar winning actor Patty Duke, quickly became a 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:15.360 regular hangout for the couple's burgeoning and increasingly high profile 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.320 group of friends, everyone from Steve McQueen and Dennis Hopper 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:23.080 to Candice Bergen and Mia Farrow, from the Mummers and 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:27.399 the Pappas to Jim Morrison. The house was so often 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:32.040 visited people soon became accustomed to Sharon and Roman's relaxed nature, 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:36.080 where the door seemed permanently open, so that almost anyone 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:40.600 could come and go as they pleased. As part of 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.520 the agreement to rent the house, the couple had agreed 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:47.280 to look after Patty's English sheep dock. When one morning 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:52.320 it bolted out of the property, giving chase, Roman tracked 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.560 it to a house a little further down the road. 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:58.720 The house was being used by members of the Process 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:03.080 of the Final Judgment, otherwise known simply as the Process. 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:08.040 The group was a religious movement of sorts established in 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:12.359 London in nineteen sixty six, inspired in part by scientology 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:18.040 Alister Crowley and the work of psychologist Alfred Adler. There 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.600 were rumors that they participated in the farious rituals, but 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:24.480 Roman knew little of that, only that they were well 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:28.720 known for keeping large Alsatian dogs as pets, a fact 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:31.720 he became plainly aware of that day when, on seeing 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:34.520 him draw near to the property, two of them chased 0:23:34.600 --> 0:23:39.280 him into a nearby garage in desperation, as the dogs 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:43.560 barked manically outside, the traumatized Roman was forced to break 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.440 a window before leaping out the back of the building 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:57.360 and hurriedly making his escape. Back in San Francisco, Susan's 0:23:57.400 --> 0:24:01.720 commune was attracting the attention of the FBI. One day, 0:24:02.160 --> 0:24:05.479 while out with two of the men, Susan realized they 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:09.159 were being followed by a couple of plainclothed officers. The 0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:12.479 group decided to split up, with Susan high tailing it 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.480 in one direction and the others heading off in another. 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:20.719 When Susan returned to the house later that afternoon, a 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:23.920 little stone from a joint she just smoked, she heard 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:26.880 the sound of a guitar and some one singing coming 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:31.560 from one of the rooms above. Following the sound. She 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:34.920 drifted softly up the stairs in her bare feet toward 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:38.159 the doorway of the living room. There, sat on the 0:24:38.200 --> 0:24:42.800 sofa was a Shortish man, clean shaven, with long dark hair, 0:24:43.560 --> 0:24:47.240 playing the guitar. He was dressed in a white T shirt, 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:51.159 blue jeans, and sandals, and had multi colored beads draped 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:55.080 around his neck. On either side of him sat a woman, 0:24:55.560 --> 0:24:58.240 while on the ground other women sat at his feet 0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:02.359 as they watched him, his eyes closed and head tilted back, 0:25:03.040 --> 0:25:07.600 singing gently into the air. The room, thick with the 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:11.080 smell of pot and incense, was hazy with smoke that 0:25:11.280 --> 0:25:13.919 curled and played with the soft light of the afternoon. 0:25:15.240 --> 0:25:19.280 Susan couldn't take her eyes off the man. Just then, 0:25:19.400 --> 0:25:22.720 for a moment, he opened his eyes and fixed her 0:25:22.760 --> 0:25:25.919 with his stare, as if beckoning her to go in. 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:36.879 Unable to resist, Susan stepped inside and took a seat 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:40.320 at the singer's feet, looking up at him from below. 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:44.480 Lit up behind by the soft afternoon light, he looked 0:25:44.560 --> 0:25:48.400 like an angel. She was still staring at him when 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:51.439 she realized he was no longer singing, but talking to 0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:55.520 the woman next to him. Just then, a thought popped 0:25:55.560 --> 0:25:58.359 into her head that she would like to play his guitar. 0:25:59.560 --> 0:26:02.399 Without having said a word, the man turned to her 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:07.200 suddenly and said, why don't you play it. Susan was shocked. 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:11.399 Had he just read her mind in that moment, she 0:26:11.480 --> 0:26:14.439 knew immediately that this was the thing she'd been looking for. 0:26:15.480 --> 0:26:19.440 Without thinking, Susan smiled at the man and then bent 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:24.399 down and kissed his feet. Just then, the sounds of 0:26:24.480 --> 0:26:28.760 Jefferson Airplane began to emanate from a record player. Lured 0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:32.960 by the rhythm, Susan pulled herself up and began to dance. 0:26:34.040 --> 0:26:37.639 Unbeknownst to her, the man put down his guitar and 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:41.879 walked over to join her. Moving in close behind, he 0:26:42.000 --> 0:26:46.000 leant in and whispered in her ear. No two actions 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:49.920 are the same. Everything is new. Let it be new, 0:26:50.240 --> 0:26:54.959 he said. Before long, they were fused, mirroring each other's moves. 0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:58.600 At one point, it seemed to Susan that they'd even 0:26:58.720 --> 0:27:03.800 traveled through each other's bodies. The music swelled, growing in 0:27:03.880 --> 0:27:07.800 speed and intensity, and their movements did the same, becoming 0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:14.200 more and more wild, until suddenly the music stopped. You're beautiful, 0:27:14.520 --> 0:27:19.080 said the man. I'm Susan, she said in reply, who 0:27:19.119 --> 0:27:25.560 are you me? Said the man? I'm Charlie. Charlie Manson. 0:27:30.320 --> 0:27:33.359 You've been listening to part one of Unexplained, Season five, 0:27:33.560 --> 0:27:37.879