WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.000 The record of famous charlatans and frauds is cluttered with the names of those who have earned their living by pretending to be psychic. 00:06.000 --> 00:12.000 And there are men, like Mr. Harry Price, who have devoted their lives to exposing the fraudulence of that claim. 00:12.000 --> 00:18.000 But even Mr. Price himself has never been able to solve the riddle of the woman named Eileen Garrett, 00:18.000 --> 00:22.000 the woman who knew things which no living person could have told her. 00:22.000 --> 00:26.000 It was dawn on the morning of October 5, 1930. 00:26.000 --> 00:33.000 In the skies over the town of Beauvais, France, the British dirigible R101 was cruising through a heavy fog. 00:33.000 --> 00:38.000 Those early risers who chanced to be in the streets of Beauvais saw through the heavy mists 00:38.000 --> 00:43.000 the vague cigar-shaped outlines of the dirigible as she moved lazily along her course. 00:43.000 --> 00:48.000 A moment later, they witnessed the sudden and terrible catastrophe. 00:48.000 --> 00:53.000 It was over in an instant. 00:53.000 --> 01:00.000 The R101 was now but a thousand fragments of burning wreckage falling earthward. 01:00.000 --> 01:05.000 An investigation was ordered to determine the cause of the dirigible's tragic fate. 01:05.000 --> 01:08.000 It was conducted in great secrecy. 01:08.000 --> 01:14.000 And finally, the officer in charge of the investigation prepared a report, a high-level report, 01:14.000 --> 01:19.000 a highly confidential report. 01:19.000 --> 01:26.000 There can be no doubt, sir, that the R101 and her crew were the victims of gross incompetence 01:26.000 --> 01:30.000 on the part of those responsible for her construction. 01:30.000 --> 01:34.000 Her elevator jammed as a result of the use of faulty materials, 01:34.000 --> 01:41.000 and our much-wanted combination of carbon and hydrogen, which we have kept so secret, 01:41.000 --> 01:46.000 proved to be not only a bad fuel, but a highly hazardous one. 01:46.000 --> 01:53.000 And thus, the true story of the crash of the R101 became a military secret of the First Order. 01:53.000 --> 01:57.000 At least, that is what the investigating officer assumed. 01:57.000 --> 02:02.000 But one night, after he had returned to London, he dropped into a tavern for a glass of ale. 02:02.000 --> 02:07.000 Sitting at the bar beside him was a man engaged in earnest conversation with his drinking companion. 02:07.000 --> 02:10.000 Gross incompetence, that's what it was. 02:10.000 --> 02:16.000 Maybe they were using for fuel some fool combination of carbon and hydrogen. 02:16.000 --> 02:20.000 The officer put down his glass and tapped the man sharply on the shoulder. 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 May I ask your name, sir? 02:22.000 --> 02:25.000 Vinayam. Why, it's Garrett, that's what it is. 02:25.000 --> 02:29.000 I'm very much afraid, Mr. Garrett, that I'm going to have to order your arrest as a spy. 02:29.000 --> 02:32.000 The information you were imparting to your friend is a military secret. 02:32.000 --> 02:35.000 Heaven knows how you laid hands on it. 02:35.000 --> 02:37.000 I can tell you how I laid hands on it, sir. 02:37.000 --> 02:41.000 I got it from your wife. She's what you might call psychic, sir. 02:41.000 --> 02:43.000 She told me all about the R101. 02:43.000 --> 02:45.000 Only it wasn't her talking. 02:45.000 --> 02:49.000 It was the voice of Lieutenant Irwin talking through her. 02:51.000 --> 02:56.000 And then Garrett proceeded to describe how three days after the crash of the R101, 02:56.000 --> 03:01.000 his wife had claimed to be under the control of what she called an entity, 03:01.000 --> 03:05.000 the disembodied voice of the late flight lieutenant H.C. Irwin. 03:05.000 --> 03:18.000 Useful lift, too small. Elevator jammed. Gross lift, badly computed. 03:18.000 --> 03:25.000 Disexorbitant scheme of carbon and hydrogen absolutely arrived. 03:26.000 --> 03:33.000 Every fact included in the officer's confidential report had come slowly and haltingly from the lips of Mrs. Garrett. 03:33.000 --> 03:38.000 And to this day, no amount of investigation has disproved Mrs. Garrett's claim 03:38.000 --> 03:42.000 that she had obtained her knowledge from the dead flight commander. 03:42.000 --> 04:10.000 A claim incredible, but true.