They Walk Among Us | The Human-Alien Hybrid Program

This episode of the Y Files is brought. to you by Kate Wallet. Helen Latrell. grabbed the girl's arm to stop her from. falling. Her skin felt wrong. It was. cold and spongy like raw mushrooms. Then the sunglasses slid down the girl's. face, and for the first time, Helen saw. her eyes. They were large, too large, and they were dark green with vertical. pupils like a cat. Helen couldn't look. away when the girl's thoughts flooded. directly into her mind. She was. terrified. Her daughter's roommate.

wasn't human. And the Air Force colonel. who arranged for the two to live. together knew exactly what he was doing. [music] He needed a roommate who would. never see what Rachel really looked. like. He found Helen's daughter, Marissa, a girl who was legally blind. But the Colonel had a problem. Marissa's. vision was coming back.

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her vision at 13, a complication from. childhood diabetes. That would make. going to college challenging. In the. fall of 1972, Marissa got a small. apartment near American River Junior. College in Sacramento, where she studied. occupational therapy. The place was. clean and quiet. The only problem was. the rent. Her disability check barely. covered groceries. She needed a roommate. and she needed help getting to class. Her college counselor, Laya Ross, handled both problems. Marissa came to. her office looking for a tutor. That.

same morning, a student named Bobby had. signed up for a part-time tutoring job. When Laya compared their schedules, she. found that they had the same classes. So. Bobby got a job and Marissa got a guide. who can walk her to class and read her. the lecture notes. So that's one problem. solved. Next, the roommate. Laya was in. her office about to begin a search when. there was a knock on her door. A tall. man in casual clothes stood in the. doorway. Next to him, a thin girl. wearing wraparound sunglasses and an.

oversized hat. The girl looked thin and. frail, almost sickly. The man introduced himself as Colonel. Harry Nadian. [music] His daughter. Rachel had just registered for classes. They needed help finding a roommate. Rachel nodded at Laya and said, [music]. "It is a pleasure to meet you. I am. called Rachel." "This concerned Laya, but the colonel seemed normal enough, and maybe Rachel was just odd." Either. way, both girls were quiet and polite, and Rachel's appearance wouldn't matter. to a blind roommate. Harry wrote a check.

on the spot, half the rent, and all. utilities in advance. Laya couldn't. believe her luck. Bobby appeared the. same day Marissa needed a tutor and. Harry arrived just as she was about to. start looking for a roommate. But none. of this was coincidence. This was all. carefully orchestrated. Now the. experiment [music] was ready to begin.

Living with Rachel took some adjustment. Rachel was nice enough, but her speech. was strange. She said she'd grown up in. another country, but she didn't say. which one. Rachel knew nothing about normal life. She'd never heard of Simon and. Garfuncle. She didn't know what sports. were. She referred to people as males. and females. She sounded clinical and. detached. She said she'd only met four. people before Marissa, a reading. instructor, and two nurses on the base. where Harry worked. No friends, no. family besides Harry. It was like she.

had no [music] past before 1969. But Marissa also had a secret of her. own. Her vision was coming back now. It. fluctuated. Some days were better than. others, but she [music] was definitely. improving. Before everything was dark, but now she could make out shapes. [music] and blurry outlines. She could. see light and shadows. But she didn't. tell anyone. Not Bobby, not her mother, not her counselor, Laya. If people found. out she could see, they would ask. questions. The disability payments might. stop. Harry might move Rachel somewhere.

else. And Marissa needed this. arrangement. The rent was covered, [music] the apartment was quiet, and she. finally had independence. So, she kept. playing blind and kept asking for help. she didn't always need. But she watched. Rachel whenever she could. For the first. few days, Rachel spent most of her time. in her room. But eventually, she would. sit in the living room and talk. Marissa. had already seen enough to know Rachel. had long reddish blonde hair, but it was. a color that she didn't have a name for. Rachel wore a big hat and sunglasses all. the time. But when Rachel thought.

Marissa couldn't see, [music] she'd. sometimes take the hat and glasses off. Rachel had high cheekbones, thin, slanted features. She was pretty. Then there was the food. Rachel's food. was strange. She was on a special diet, so her food was delivered in small. cardboard boxes every few weeks, [music]. but there was never a delivery truck, never a knock on the door. The small. boxes just appeared. One morning, Rachel. left early for class, leaving Marissa. alone in the apartment. So, she grabbed. her magnifying glass and one of the food.

boxes in the refrigerator. It was white. cardboard. The only marking was a small. red triangle with three horizontal black. lines running through it. She'd never. seen a logo like that before, but the. same triangle logo was on the jugs of. water that also appeared with the. deliveries. She opened the box. Inside. looked kind of like [music] chopped. spinach. It was green and mushy, but it. didn't smell like spinach. It smelled. like decaying wet grass. One day, Marissa asked Rachel for a taste, but. Rachel said no. She said the food would.

make [music] her sick. Then there was. the bathroom incident when Rachel tried. to take her own life. One afternoon, Marissa came home and. smelled something metallic. Rachel was. standing over the bathroom sink making. strange rhythmic wheezing sounds. >> [music]. >> Then Marissa saw what happened. Rachel. had cut her wrists.

But Rachel's blood looked strange. It. was pink and watery, not red and thick. Marissa quickly grabbed Rachel's arm to. try to stop the bleeding. Then she felt. the cuts start to move. Rachel's skin. was healing. Within seconds, the cuts. were gone. Marissa wanted to call someone, but. Rachel said no. No doctors, no. hospitals, nobody could know. But she. promised something like this would never. happen again. One morning, Marissa left class early. and headed home. When she got to her. building, she saw a big black car parked.

out front. And the license plate was. strange. It was completely blank except. for that same red triangle logo that's. on Rachel's food. Marissa opened the door and heard voices. in the kitchen. They were low and deep. Two men speaking to Rachel in formal. official sounding sentences. Through the. kitchen doorway, she saw shapes at the. table. Two figures in dark suits and. hats. One had a black case open. After. they left, Rachel said they worked with. Harry at the base and checked on her.

every 2 weeks. A few weeks later, Marissa was in her room when she heard. them enter the apartment without. knocking. She heard furniture scrape. across the floor. Then the men were. shouting. And for the first time, Rachel. screamed, but it was not that robotic. sound from the early days. Her scream. sounded [music] human, and she was. terrified. Rachel. >> That night, Marissa called her mother, Helen. Told her everything. The healing. wounds, the food deliveries, [music] the. men in dark suits. Marissa waited for.

her mother to say she was crazy. Marissa. knew she sounded crazy. But Helen wasn't. surprised by any of it. Helen grew up in Rome, New York, a small. town outside Udica. She spent as much. time as she could in the woods. That's. where she'd go to see the light. She. first saw the light when she was 8. A.

shining ball of blue hovering just above. the ground. The most beautiful blue. she'd ever seen. She should have been. afraid, but she wasn't. Something about. the light made her feel calm and safe. For 5 years, she'd sneak off to the. woods to see the blue light. And every. time she did, she got closer and closer. to it. And when she was 13, she finally. reached out and touched it. And that's when everything changed.

And for the first time, the light spoke. with thoughts directly into her [music]. mind. >> They want to know if I'd like to have a. baby. And I said, "Of course not. I'm. too young." And they said, "That's all. right. You don't have to have one now. Later you'll have one and when you do it. will look like you but it will be like. them. Ellen asked who them was but she didn't. get an answer. She just got a feeling of. a vast intelligence beyond anything she.

could understand. That was the last time. Helen saw the blue light. 7 years later. Helen got married and moved to a new. town. The blue light faded into memory. mostly forgotten. But the promise it. made when she was a girl was about to. come true. Early spring 1951, a woman Helen had. seen around the neighborhood invited her. for a walk. Helen's husband was out of.

town, so she thought some company might. be nice. During her walk, the woman said. she needed to make a quick stop to see a. friend. She led Helen to an old office. building. Inside, it looked like a. doctor's office. Then the woman. disappeared down the hall. A doctor came. out and insisted on examining Helen. He. [music] said she didn't look well, so. she reluctantly agreed. Helen laid down. on the examination table, and as soon as. her head touched the surface, she was. [music] blinded by a blue light. >> They tell me to hold still, be quiet.

It'll be over soon. Nobody will ever. know. I want to fight. I want to get off. the table, but I can't move. The light. pushes me down, but I'm not tied [music]. down. I just I just can't move. >> The light came closer and closer. Then. Helen felt it in her body. >> I feel like they're putting something. inside of me. It hurts. It hurts so bad.

>> Then nothing. When she opened her eyes, the light. [music] was gone. and the woman who. brought her there was standing right. next to her, ready to walk her home. Helen was too groggy to argue. Helen was. in pain for 2 days. 6 weeks later, she. realized she was pregnant. But that was. impossible. Her husband was out of town. >> They say the child will be like any. other. Since it's my first, I won't know. the difference.

>> She told herself the visit to the doctor. wasn't real, just a bad dream. But she. remembered what the light had promised. It will look like you, but it will be. like them. 9 months later, Marissa was. born. In 1955, Air Force recruit Harry Nadian. received orders for specialized. training. His assignment, [music] ATIC,

Aerospace Technical Information Command, a highly classified unit responsible for. investigating unidentified flying. objects and alien intelligence. The classroom was small, six airmen, one. instructor, no windows. The lieutenant. opened a folder marked with a single. word, [music] magic. Inside were. photographs, crashed spacecraft in the. desert, bodies recovered from the. wreckage, small, gray, [music]. definitely not human. Harry was assigned to a facility called.

Four Corners. Nowhere near the actual. Four Corners region. This one was in the. Nevada desert, a sister installation to. Area 51. Officially, it didn't exist. Trespassers were shot on site. Four. corners didn't look like much, and that. was intentional. The real base was. underground. >> [music].

[music]. >> power levels are fluctuating. Doctor, [music]. >> increase the core flow. We must. stabilize the reaction immediately. >> Within a few months, Harry discovered he. had a gift. He could communicate. telepathically with the grays. [music]. Most humans couldn't do this. Our minds. are too cluttered. But Harry's mind was. open and the aliens [music] noticed. They began requesting him specifically, first [music] as an observer, then as an.

interpreter, then as a liaison between. the visitors and human scientists. By. 1966, Harry was in command of the entire. facility. That's when he met Chisky, their leading geneticist. Chisky. understood both human and alien. genetics. [music] That's because he was. a hybrid. Human DNA spliced with an. alien from the Zeta system. Chisky. looked similar [music] to Rachel. He was. small and thin. He had large blue eyes. and pale yellow skin. According to. Chisky, all humans were engineered. >> You were designed [music] to be.

harvested. Your DNA, your genetic. diversity, we [music] built that into. you. Every generation we return. We take. samples. [music]. We make improvements. We have been doing. this since before your species could. write. >> Designed to be harvested. Huh? You're. basically organic freerange farm to. table humans for alien ships. >> Well, Harry asked why they needed human. DNA. Shisky explained his species had. been cloning themselves for too long. They'd lost the ability to [music].

reproduce naturally. Humans shared the. same genetic heritage going back. millions of years. Harry finally. understood how important his assignment. was. The hybridization program wasn't. about creating soldiers or slaves. It. was about saving a dying species. >> [music].

>> In September 1969, a huge craft spiraled. out of control over the desert. Harry. led the recovery team to the crash site. The wreckage was still burning when they. got there. Three bodies in the debris, small, gray, dead on impact. But Harry. saw movement in the rear compartment. He.

entered the burning craft and pushed. through the smoke. He found a sealed. door and touched what looked like a. control panel. It opened. A tiny, frail. figure was trapped under a fallen. equipment panel, smaller than any gray. Harry had ever seen. And different. Humans can't tell the sex of a gray by. looking at them, but this little being. was definitely female. and her eyes were. strange, not the solid black orbs of the. typical grays. Her eyes were a soft dark. green, rounded at the inner corners and. angling up toward her temples. And her.

eyes had depth. [music] They were almost. human, except for the pupils that were. vertical slits like a cat or. >> people. >> or reptilian, right? Harry understood immediately she was. part human. He carried her out of the. wreckage and brought her back to four. corners. Underground at level 8, Chisky. examined her. He'd been expecting new. arrivals from the hybridization program. >> She is from my star system, possibly. even my planet. She is a hybrid, but her. blood contains human DNA markers. The.

three who died were her family. [music]. She is now alone. With proper care, she. could become quite humanized, more so. than any hybrid I have seen. >> She had traveled from Zeta Reticuli to. learn to live among humans. Now her. family was dead, and she was alone. Harry made a decision the moment he. looked into her green eyes. He would. raise her as his daughter. He named her. Rachel.

The adoption required approval from. ATICH HQ and the National Security. Council. Harry made his case. Rachel was. the first young hybrid, the first. female, and the most humanlike hybrid. they'd ever seen. If anyone could. integrate into society, it was Rachel. The approval came within hours. Too. fast, Harry thought, but he didn't. complain. Then the work began. At sent a. language expert to work with Rachel. She.

learned to form sounds into words, then. words into sentences. Chisy developed. Rachel's food, a dark green nutrient. paste. She couldn't digest meat or. processed food. The food was packed in. white boxes marked with a red triangle, the symbol of the humanization project. Rachel looked almost human, but not. human enough that people wouldn't. notice. So, she was given hats and. scarves to hide the shape of her head, always long sleeves to cover her thin. arms and sunglasses. She would always. have to wear sunglasses. And after 3.

years of training, Rachel was ready. >> 3 years of training, the pass is human. I know a few tech company CEOs that. might want to take that course. >> Harry received transfer orders, liaison. duty at an Air Force base in California, a desk job perfect for a single father. raising an unusual daughter. He enrolled. Rachel at American River Junior College, but she couldn't live alone. She needed. a roommate, someone patient, someone. kind, and someone who wouldn't ask. questions, someone who couldn't see what. she really looked like.

Harry was [music] surprised the housing. coordinator had the perfect match. A. legally blind girl, quiet, patient, desperate for a roommate who would pay. half the rent. Harry thought this was an. amazing coincidence or a stroke of good. luck. He had no idea that Attic had been. watching Marissa for months. Helen drove to Sacramento to see. Marissa, and she wanted to see this.

roommate for herself. Marissa introduced. them at the door. Rachel was polite, soft-spoken, and strange. She wore an. oversized hat and a wrapound sunglasses, even inside. Her voice was flat and. careful, like she was reading from a. script. Helen tried to shake her hand, but Rachel flinched. She didn't want to. be touched. Later near the kitchen, Rachel tripped on a bump in the carpet. Helen grabbed her arm to stop her from. falling. And in that moment, everything. Helen believed about the world changed. Rachel's skin, her eyes, the flood of.

fear directly into her mind. Helen let. go. Rachel pulled up her sunglasses and. ran back to her room. Helen left and sat. in the car for 20 minutes, confused and. unsettled. She had no idea this was an. experiment. She also didn't know the. experiment had failed. That night, Rachel contacted Harry. He arrived at. the apartment the next morning and. called a meeting. All four of them. [music] He told them everything. The Air. Force, the classified training, the. underground base, the crash [music]. spacecraft, the humanization project, an. experiment to see if hybrids could.

integrate [music] into human society. >> She's supposed to be like people, but. she can't do it. [music] She tries and. it doesn't work out. She doesn't look. the same. No matter what she does, she. can't pull it off. and she says, "I. sound funny. I try to talk like the. other people and I cannot do it.". >> Marissa spoke [music] first. She said. she didn't want Rachel to leave. Rachel. had been kind to her, patient. Marissa. didn't care what she looked like. Then. Rachel said something that shocked.

[music] Helen. >> I have never had a mother. I do not know. what a mother is supposed to be. I wish. you were my mother. >> Helen said that was sweet [music] and. almost dismissed it. But Rachel had more. to say. Maybe you do not remember. Someday you will remember. >> Suddenly, Helen felt something she. couldn't explain. Recognition. Harry saw. the feeling flash across Helen's face. Then he asked about the moment she. caught Rachel's arm and looked into her. eyes. Did Rachel say anything to her?

[music] Helen said no. Not out loud. Harry nodded slowly. He had to say. something else. The truth about Helen. For years, [music] Helen struggled to. piece together the memories of what. happened between Marissa and Rachel all. those years ago. So, she underwent. hypnotic regression with Dr. June. Steiner. The regressions unlocked. everything. Helen remembered being in.

the girl's apartment [music] standing in. the kitchen. Rachel was there. She. looked at Helen and said, "I want to. show you where I live.". >> [music]. >> Rachel walked to the kitchen window, but. when Helen looked, it wasn't the street. outside. It was a white corridor. Rachel. put her finger against the glass and. told Helen to [music] do the same. When. their fingers touched the window, the. kitchen dissolved. Suddenly, she wasn't. in the apartment. She was underground in. a round room lined with tanks. Inside. the tanks were babies floating in green.

liquid. They had pale skin and long, thin [music] limbs. >> This This is where I came from. But. there was much more to Rachel's story. than just a hybrid Harry had adopted. >> Oh god. [sighs]. That I had a child that wasn't what I. thought it was. [music] When I looked in. Rachel's eyes, that's why I thought they. were so beautiful. She was maybe trying. to tell me something then. Maybe she was. [music] trying to tell me the truth. The. embryo extracted in 1951 was taken to. Zeta Reticuli, grown in a tank filled.

with green liquid, modified with. extraterrestrial [music]. DNA, then returned to Earth. Rachel's. alien family had brought her back, back. to the planet [music] where her human. side had come from, back to the woman. who was her mother. Helen looked into. Rachel's eyes and felt recognition. because somehow she knew, because a. mother always knows. Helen sat with the. truth. Rachel was her daughter, taken. from her and grown on another world, returned to Earth in a craft that. crashed in the [music] desert. But there.

was more. Rachel also had DNA from the. Colonel. Harry was Rachel's genetic. father and her adoptive father, which. meant Marissa and Rachel shared the same. biological mother. They were. halfsisters. [music]. Harry had wondered back in 1972 if it. was all really a coincidence how Marissa. appeared at exactly the right moment, how everything lined up so perfectly. It. wasn't a [music] coincidence. At knew. who Helen was. They knew about the. embryo. They knew Marissa was Rachel's. halfsister [music] before anyone else. did. Even her tutor, Bobby, with his.

perfectly matching schedule had been. placed. The humanization project had. specifically reintroduced Rachel to her. own family. [music] They wanted to see. what would happen when a hybrid. encountered her biological relatives, whether a connection would form, whether. that connection could be controlled. Helen finally understood [music] the. blue lights, the missing time, the. surgery. It wasn't luck. It was a. breeding program. Three generations of women bred like lab. rats. [music] But lab rats are. disposable. So with the failure of the.

humanization experiment, [music] the. military began tying up loose ends. And. they would start with Rachel. Near the end of the spring semester, Rachel [music] disappeared. She left a. note taped to her mirror. >> Dear Marissa, I will [music] miss you. very much, but I have left you a special. gift to remember me by. Love, Rachel.

>> Marissa sat on Rachel's empty bed. [music] and read the note. Then she. stopped. She wasn't using her magnifying. glass. She looked around the room, the. furniture, [music] the window, the. sunlight. Everything was sharper than it. had been in years. Rachel could heal. wounds in seconds. She healed herself. after the crash. Now she'd done. something else. Rachel healed Marissa's. eyes. Marissa's retinas had been. destroyed by diabetes when she was 13. For 6 years, she'd been legally blind. Now she could read street [music] signs.

She could see faces. She could finish. college. She could complete most of the. work for her master's [music] degree. Rachel had given her sight back, but she. couldn't heal the diabetes. When Marissa was 38, [music] she died. from complications of the disease she'd. fought since childhood. But for 18. years, she could see. [music] That was. Rachel's gift. The colonel chose Marissa. because she was blind. He needed a. roommate who would never see what Rachel. really looked like. Rachel undid that. She healed the very condition that.

protected her cover. She chose her. sister [music] over the mission. And. that was the final betrayal. The humanization project made a mistake. The scientists wanted their hybrids to. simulate human emotion. They needed them. to blend in, to smile at the right time, to laugh at a joke. But they didn't.

really want them to feel, just pretend. to feel. Real emotion is dangerous. Real. emotion creates loyalty. And loyalty to. family is a threat to the mission. Rachel crossed that line. She loved. Marissa and Helen. She called Helen. mother. She called Marissa's sister. She. stopped reporting back to the base and. started protecting her new family. The. men in black noticed. The reports grew. more alarming with each visit. >> Subject displays emotional attachment to. roommate. Subject refers to H Latrrell.

as mother. Subject has ceased regular. reporting. >> But Harry saw it coming. He watched. [music] his daughter becoming more. independent, more attached to her human. life. He tried to protect her. He tried. to smooth things over with AIC. But the. colonel knew how the military handled. compromised assets. You don't fix them. You liquidate them.

2 years after leaving the apartment, Rachel was dead, pushed down a flight of. [music] stairs. >> She cared too much about me and Marissa. She was only allowed to go so far, and. she went beyond that point. It wasn't. time yet for that to happen. Then she. was gone. According to Helen's regression, the. order came from the military or the. government. [music] And the colonel knew. it was coming. He was connected with her. death, but not directly responsible. He. wasn't even there, but he agreed it.

needed to be done. But Harry loved her, but he had orders. And somewhere along. the way, he convinced himself that. Rachel's death was necessary for the. greater good of the project. But he was. wrong. Years later, Helen learned that the. Colonel no longer believed the. humanization project was good for. mankind. He thought it became dangerous. that the hybrids were being used. But by. then it was too late for Rachel. But. Harry could still do one thing. [music]. He could make sure someone eventually. told the truth. That's why he told Helen. everything. He couldn't save his.

daughter, but he could make sure [music]. that she wasn't forgotten. [music]. No. No. [laughter].

A blind student finds a roommate with. mushroom skin and green eyes. Her. father, an Air Force colonel, reveals. she's a human alien hybrid part of a. government experiment. That's the story. Helen Latrell tells in her book Rachel's. Eyes. And Helen says this is 100% a true. story. What is it? >> The main problem is everything comes. from Helen's books. >> There's always a book, >> right? And Helen wrote a few of them, but they're all sort of a rehash or a. small expansion of the same story. >> Cash grab.

>> It feels like it. There's nobody around. to confirm any of it. Marissa died. before the book was written. Colonel. Nadian has never been found. And in. later books, his name changes a little. bit. Helen's encounter happened in 1972. Her hypnosis didn't happen until 1998. 26 years is a long time, especially for. memory. And hypnosis is controversial. It can create false memories just as. easily as it recovers real ones. >> Hypnosis can create false memories, huh? Well, so can cable news. At least.

hypnosis doesn't have commercials for. erectile dysfunction. Not that I noticed. that. >> Helen describes classified projects like. Magic and Pounce. But all this. information was circulating in UFO. literature long before her aggressions. All the names were changed. There's no. record of the apartment or that roommate. arrangement. But there is one piece of. physical evidence that's in one of. Helen's books. Investigators contacted. American River Junior College. The. college sent the letter back on official. stationary confirming that a student.

named Rachel Nadian attended classes. there in 1972. That was the smoking gun. But not so. fast. When investigators went back to. follow up, the letter [music] was gone. The employee who signed it was. transferred and the college files listed. no record of anyone named Rachel Nadian. It was like she was erased from history. But there are some things that are true. Helen Latrell is real. She wrote the. book under her own name and faced. decades of ridicule without changing her. story. Her therapist, Dr. June Steiner,

staked her reputation on this case. And. Helen was warned years before the book. came out that if she ever spoke of the. humanization project, harm would come to. her and her family, but she published. anyway. And others who knew Marissa. remember Rachel. I remember her saying. that Rachel couldn't go out in the sun. She wore sunglasses all the time, even. indoors. Apparently, her skin had an odd. texture. Rachel didn't eat regular food. She had to eat special food that came in. little white boxes.

Then Marissa told me that the girl. disappeared, that she didn't know where. she went, that this roommate just was. gone. Helen's story stays consistent. [music]. Her descriptions of Rachel's skin and. eyes never change. False memories. usually shift over time, but Helen's. didn't. Her emotional response was also. very intense. Sobbing, trembling. She. was in genuine distress. Trauma. therapists say those reactions are hard. to fake. The evidence doesn't prove the.

story is true. A single [music] witness, recovered memories, no physical proof. Any prosecutor would throw this case. out. But if the story were fabricated, the details should shift. The witnesses. should contradict each other. They. don't. Now, skeptics say Helen has PTSD. from [music] growing up in an unstable. household, a violent marriage, and she's. experienced something through the only. framework that she could make sense of. Or maybe she's telling the truth. Whatever Rachel was, hybrid, human, or.

[music] something else, she mattered. She wanted to belong. She learned to. speak our language and walk through our. world. Rachel formed bonds. She healed. her sister's eyes. She felt compassion, empathy, and love. She became human in. all the best ways possible. And that's. the tragic irony of this story. She. became more human than the people who. raised her. And then they killed her for. it. [music].

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that you are appreciated. [music]. >> [music]. >> I played Philippia in Area [music] 51. A. secret code inside the Bible said I. would. [music]. I love my UFOs and paranormal fun as.

well as music. So [music] singing the. like I should. then another conspiracy theory becomes. the truth my friends. and [music] it never [singing] ends. No it never ends. [music]. [music] I fear the crap guy. I got stuck. inside Mel's home with MK out. I feel.

only two unaware. [music]. Did Stanley Cubrick fake the moon. landing [singing] alone on a film set of. shadow [music] people there? The well just spoke the smiling man I'm. told and his name was cold. But I can't. [music] agree. I'm dancing with the. and your fish on Thursday.

[music] night. and. all through the night. All I ever wanted [music] was to hear. the truth. all through the night. >> [music].

[music]. >> The math man silence and the solar storm. still come to a gather the secret. [singing] city underground. Mysterious number stations, Planet. Circle, [music] Project Stargate, and. what the Dark Watchers [singing] found. in a [music] simulation. Don't you worry. though, the black night sat at a light. So I can't believe I'm dancing [music].

with the fish. on Thursday nights when they chase you. and. all through the night. All I ever wanted was to [music] hear. the truth of one. through the night. [music] on Thursday. That's when they. change you and my. life.

All [music] I ever wanted was to hear. the truth. W. [music] to dance. Your girl loves to dance on the dance. floor because [music] she is a camel.

Came to dance when the feeling is right. on the wasting time. [music]. [music].