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VIDEO

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Drone LA street with cars

 

TT Jacki driving

20210220 LA CA 02@ 01:57:32:22

 

 

SFX: city ambience

 

VO: At the start of the pandemic I reported for Dateline on the devastating impact covid 19 was having on the homeless population – here where I live in Los Angeles

3.        

IN CAR PTC

 

 

 

 

 

20210220 LA CA 02@ 00:13:21:13

PTC: Over the past year, the impact of COVID has only gotten worse…..for everyone. We’ve lost 22 million jobs and the unemployment rate here peaked at 21%.

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FILE: LIB 140420 RTV HEALTH CORONAVIRUS USA HART ISLAND @ 2:26

 

FILE: LIB 270820 RTV GLOBAL RACE USA WISCONSIN SHOOTING UGC@0:23

 

FILE: LIB 230620 RTV MINNEAPOLIS POLICE USA @ 00:02:05:08

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VO: In Los Angeles alone, 20,000 people have died from COVID-19, with over half a million deaths nationwide...

 

 

 

 

 

 on top of that it’s been a year marred by violence…. division …..and lies.

 

Upsot: police! Fuck you.

 

VO: With little faith left in the institutions designed to protect them, many Americans are seeking answers from the spiritual world

 

Araceli (32:17):

This year has really brought me closer to God

 

Bryan (00:27:09):

I think people are afraid.  

 

28:41  And so some people choose to find a solution in religion as a way to alleviate those fears and anxieties

[WR1] 

VO:  I want to find out what’s behind this religious recovery and whether solace can be found in the supernatural.

 

Marci (00:49:24):

I feel like a lot of clients are seeing things or hearing things that are not in the normal.

 

33:58

CHAD: for years having a paranormal experience was nothing you really shared

 

 

5.        

TITLE: The Fight for America's Soul

By Jacki Huntington, Will Reid and Adam Rosenberg

TITLE SHOT

 

6.        

LA FOOD BANK

REEL: 20210219 LA CA 01

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Woman directing cars

Cars being loaded

La 1 @   00:55:05:18

Upsot: Number 4

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Cars lining up - 00:53:14:23

 

VO: Its 8am in LA. For many people, this line up has replaced the weekly trip to the grocery store

9.        

VOX POP – CHRIS

 

 

[01:43:29] Chris: times are hard, things have been crazy with the whole  COVID thing, it's risen up pretty badly

10.    

WS Jacki and Michael

VO: Before the pandemic LA Foodbank fed 300,000 people monthly CEO Michael flood said that number has increased to 900,000

11.    

MICHAEL FLOOD

 

MICHAEL FLOOD

3:20 What the pandemic has done, It's just put a lot of people out of work. So that's just put this pressure on the budgets for families and individuals to meet all their basic needs. So we're seeing a lot of people come through these types of distributions who are new to need. They've never sought food assistance in their entire life

12.    

 

VO: People like 45 year old single mum, Araceli, have had to rely on handouts from NGO’s  

13.    

Araceli in car

Upsot:

Woman: How many in your house?

 

Araceli: Two.

 

Araceli (03:02):

I am a mom to an eight year old. Who's had a 25 year career and politics And ever since COVID it's been a year that I haven't worked and so I find myself using the LA regional food bank to be able to put food on the table for me and my little family.

14.    

Araceli in car getting food

 

 

 

 

 

Araceli in car getting food

 

 

 

 

 

IV

Araceli (22:50

I got the food bank for food and then my cell phone and I'm deferring the utilities because it's not enough

 

Araceli (27:49):

I am like completely defeated, feeling helpless. I, for the first time in my life with no money, no hope insight. But when my friends and I got together and we started to pray for each other, you know, they had people who started COVID uncles, cousins, friends, all that then is when I started to regain that faith and strength again. 

15.    

 

 

 

General America vision

VO: Araceli’s faith is remarkable, but it’s not unique.

 

According to a recent report by PEW, almost one third of Americans say their faith has grown stronger during the pandemic.

 

They say its African Americans leading this return to religion

 

 Sfx + journey music

 

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BLACK CHURCH

03 Lafayette LA

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So with well over half of Americas black community living in Americas southern states, I’m heading to Louisiana….

 

a state with a long history of hardship… and religious devotion.

18.    

Alex on stage

01:02:07

UPSOT: Every time a believer steps on the scene there has to be an acknowledgement that we serve a living God and we believe in him because what he loves us. (GOOD ENERGETIC RANT)

19.    

Church

Streaming today to their 1000 or so followers…  the Destiny of Faith church in Lafayette, is on the frontline of this religious revival. 

20.    

ALEX giving a sermon cont.

 

02:28:00

When the pandemic came we definitely saw a lot of people choose to go deeper.

 

02:29:00 We saw more commitment increased by those who are already on the path.

21.    

Alex giving Sermon on stage

UPSOT -  There's so much going on that has put pressure on relationships. Not just any relationship, but on godly relationships

22.    

SUPER[WR1] 

Alexander: (01:56:29)
We were getting calls. We were getting messages. We were hearing from our families. And what we were hearing from them is that, Hey, I not only missed this, but I need this, the fellowship, the community, the comradery coming together as one, encouraging each other through the Bible, through the word of God // People were missing it

 

Upsot: Alex preaching

 

Alexander: (01:57:23)
Whenever you choose to lean into those things, that can encourage you, that it bears fruit in your life. Sometimes the best type of fruit is just getting through a full day with joy, waking up and feeling peace instead of anxiety.

23.    

 

Upsot: Bryan

 

But not all religious Americans are returning to traditional institutions

24.    

THE EXORCIST

3 mins

25.    

Detail in temple to open scene

 

05.3 Cartersville GA Pt 3

Bryan giving Sermon yelling at camera

 

00:57:50:09 I would go into a church and see a plaque with who donated what… big phreaking deal!

 

00:58:14:06 That’s what’s wrong with it, that the kind of mentality that’s driven people away, it’s all about money now!

26.    

Bryan is former

This is the one of a kind Saint Nicholean Church in Georgia.

 

It’s run by Bishop Bryan.

 

Upsot:

 

His church is an offshoot Catholicism, minus the rigid rules

 

It’s a new age take on spirituality and its gaining popularity.

27.    

Master IV

 

 

 

 

 

Bryan (00:25:15):

We went from, I'd say maybe 50 to a hundred people that were interested in our live stream. To hundreds. And even now I'd say that our viewership is in the thousands

 

Upsot: We simulcast it.

 

Bryan (00:27:09):

I think people are afraid.

 

28:41  And so some people choose to find a solution in religion as a way to alleviate those fears and anxieties that the world presents because there is something other worldly about it and there's a lot of peace and confidence that comes from a faith in a God that is taking care of you. You don't necessarily get that from a therapist.

 

Bryan (01:10:1

Before I was a, a priest. I was I, I worked in clinical psychology, you know, I mean, my degree is actually in psychology, not in religion.

28.    

05.1 Cartersville GA Pt 1

VO: besides alleviating anxieties, as a priest and a psychologist he’s actually much better known for a controversial ritual that he performs.

29.    

 

59:56 There is a subset of behaviour that seems to be spiritually motivated behaviour that does not seem to respond to medication, does not respond to traditional psychotherapy and things that normally would work for re you know, for, for conditions that are well known and well established, don’t work for this subset of people.

30.    

I have downloaded the clip its in Third party

 

Courtesy of Ghost Adventures – TLC/Discovery[WR2] 

VO: Bryan performs exorcisms – a spiritual and religious practice that involves evicting demons from a person who is said to be possessed

 

Upsot: June was big month

 

VO: During COVID he says demand for exorcisms has skyrocketed… he now has a backlog of 500 cases.

31.    

Jacki and Bryan looking at emails

Jacki: what are these people saying?

 

[00:09:58] Bish Bryan:  I have a daughter who has multiple personalities she's been in several mental facilities in the past few weeks she keeps saying abnormal things and she says and she said she sees dead people, she switches between being really sweet and really aggressive. We believe there is an evil spirit in her we are not sure what else to do

 

00:11:08]  the daughter is the one with the problem but the family member is the one contacting us that's a very good sign because typically speaking…. they would be running from me and not want to have anything to do with me and not be calling churches

 

 [00:11:39] The major concern though is of course is mental health facilities put that's not uncommon

 

[00:11:55] Bish Bryan: Demonically possessed people can sort of behave that looks like a dissociative identity disorder or schizophrenia.

 

 

Jacki (00:50:20):

How much of a percentage of these people would you say are experiencing actual possession and how many are, are just experiencing a mental illness?

 

Bryan [00:19:58] The ratios are pretty much the same its usually between 70 and 80% I'm more of a mental nature of which would mean that they would be better served looking at traditional  therapists.

 

Day 5.1 02:15:48:07

Jacki: A lot of people think of Exorcism as a fictional thing.. how do you respond to that.

 

Cartersville 5.2@ Bryan (00:48:07):

So for science to come say, it's just all your head. It's ridiculous. Of course it's all in your head, but how has anything else, not all in your head.

 

Cartersville 5.2@ Bryan (48:15)

It's just as real and it affects them as, as much as anything external would and you can interact externally, you can interact with them. And that's what we do.

 

32.    

Bryan getting his religious things together for an exorcism.

VO: Bryan says he’s not surprised by the influx of people seeking his services, thanks to a tumultuous 2020

33.    

From master IV – cover with  Bryan getting thing ready

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

05.1 Cartersville GA Pt 1 @ Bryan (00:31:10):

I do think America is spiritually ill, I think most of the world is spiritually ill in various degrees.

 

Bryan (00:32:32): 

We have neglected the spiritual reality of our nature for so long. And we have been taught largely by the secularization of our society to marginalize it. It's not really necessary, or it's a nuisance. 

34.    

 

Tonight Bryan is visiting a client who says they are possessed and Sister Mary Joan is coming along to administer the appropriate treatment

35.    

Actuality - EXT

Jacki packing car with Sister Mary Jane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MJ (01:55:03):

I call this my go bag. My gear bag. I used to be in law enforcement that I repurpose for this.

 

Jacki (01:54:36):

There's this sword in there?

 

MJ (01:54:37):

it's a dagger. Mostly used for ceremonial dagger, but it is a blessed templar dagger..

 

 

MJ: (01:57:07)
These are exercised Holy water and then I've got blessed salt here too. If we, God forbid use all of our Holy water, we can make more with exercise salt.

 

 

36.    

Sun setting  + day to night

VO:  In 2018 The Vatican released a statement saying the number of exorcisms carried out globally was rising…

 

They stopped short of giving figures

 

But Bryan believes there’s thousands of exorcisms performed in the US each year…

 

Upsot: arriving at Bevs house

 

37.    

Exorcism

 

38.    

Walking into Bevs house in dark

Upsot @ 02:08:27:09

Sister MJ: Hi, nice to meet you sweetheart.

 

We’re not using the clients real name – to protect her identity – we’ll call her cathy

39.    

 

Vo: Before they initiate any exorcism rituals, Bryan wants to hear Cathys story and assess her mental health

40.    

Bryan  + Bev in living room

[02:16:32] Bryan: So you had a dream about an angel that called himself and angel but didn't give a name I'm not the sort of the catalyst

 

Bev: That's where everything started.

 

41.    

 

Cathy claims a demon has been talking to her for years… but since the pandemic, it’s become unbearable.

42.    

Bryan  + Bev in living room

[02:42:19] Bryan: Can you hear this audibly like the way you’re hearing my voice now?

 

Bev: Yes

 

02:38:27] Bev: Yes but it talks to me 24/7

 

Bryan: you're hearing voices right now?

 

Bev: just the one voice

 

Bryan: It's always the same voice?

 

Bev:  yes

43.    

Quick cuts of questions.

 

Add shot of Bevs husband

Bryan: Do you feel like you’re being watched all the time?

 

Bev: Yes

 

[02:31:56]  Bryan: Have you ever levitated

 

Bev: no

 

02:39:18] Bryan: Any spontaneous fires

 

Bev: No

 

Bryan: Any changes to you hair colour that wasn’t intended?

 

Husband: No

 

[02:37:07] Bryan: Any foul odors like the smell of sulphur, Excrement rotting flesh.

 

Bev: no

 

[02:43:41] Bryan:  How about physical attacks, like punching biting hair pulling and sexual assaults

 

Bev: I don't know how to put this, but he's told me he has already had relations with me

 

44.    

 

VO: Bryan doesn’t think Cathy is possessed – so rather than full exorcism, Bryan’s decided to give Beverly some pastoral care

45.    

Bev gets blessed

 

Upsot @ 00:45:07:01

Bryan: In the name of the father the son and the holy spirit, peace be on this home and all who dwell with in.

46.    

Bryan doing godly things to Bev

 

 

Bryan: (01:08:19)
She didn't respond to anything in a way that a person who's oppressed or possessed would

47.    

 

Shots of Bev and husband

 

 

 

05.3 Cartersville GA Pt 3

Bryan: 01:08:06
There was absolutely no need for exorcism, and it would have been inappropriate for me to even suggest it because honestly there was nothing demonic in her case that I could find.

48.    

Bev on couch

01:22:42:21

05.3 Cartersville

Bish Bryan: I do think something within your physiology is leading you to have this disturbance

 

01:37:07:04

Bryan: It could be so many factors, but I do think it is important for you to go to psychologist and Christian counsellor, maybe not a psychiatrist

 

01:43:05:01

Bryan: Let’s try that, exorcism not appropriate, not needed.

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PSYCHOLOGIST

04 Carrollton GA

2 mins

50.    

Jacki driving shots

VO: I want to understand how the events of 2020 are affecting Americas psyche and whether Bishop Bryan’s overflowing inbox, is a result of deteriorating mental well-being

 

51.    

Drone shot of University of West Georgia

VO: I’m at the University of West Georgia with Dr Christine Simmonds – Moore.

 

She’s an expert in the psychology behind  spirituality and paranormal experiences.

 

Upsot: meet and greet

 

She says the pandemic has significantly increased anxiety within the population

52.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shots of “general Americans” on a street.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALT GRABS

04 Carrollton GA@ 05:35

We're living with dying on a daily basis, actually living with loss, living with these big questions about existence. And, you know, when is this going to end? This whole sense of a lot lack of control, I think in people's lives and is impacting them a lot

 

04 Carrollton GA@ 21:00

You know, no surprises really that you're going to see increases in anxiety and depression and then all the effects on sleep .

 

Jacki (34:20):

Yeah. Is there any therapeutic value to religion and spirituality?

 

Christine (34:28):

Absolutely. It provides a sense of control for people.

 

13:14

Christine : Also I think in times of stress, there's evidence that people do become more magical in their thinking. So they, they do tend to sort of see connections that may or may not be there.

 

Christine 28:23

So paranormal, spiritual, religious, conspiracies, all of those things are magical ways of thinking and experiencing the world. And again, if people are having more experiences that they're trying to sort of make sense of them with different frameworks that are available to them.

 

53.    

02 Lafa @ 00:08:22:05

But America already had a predisposition for magical thinking

 

54.    

GFX:

 

Plate:  2 Lafayette

@ 00:11:39:06 0

 

Text: 45% of Americans believe in ghosts and demons…

 

 

 

A pre-COVID poll showed that 45% of Americans believe in a spirit world of ghosts and demons…

 

 

55.    

CHAD AND STEVEN

 

56.    

Lafayette LA Pt 1

 

 

 

Jacki walking to front door

VO: I’m back in Louisiana to MEET a couple, who at the height of the COVID-19 Pandemic reported what Dr Christine would call, magical thinking.

 

00:00:03] Jacki:  Hi i'm jacki,

 

Chad: how are you 

 

Jacki:  I'm good how are you

 

[00:00:11] Steven: come on in it's cold

57.    

EXT house

VO: Chad a Steven recently bought this 1840’s house. Shortly after moving in, things got weird.

58.    

Walking into house

00:01:57] Steven: so people had been coming by do the house knocking on the door asking "hey is this house haunted" of course we didn't feel anything

 

[00:02:05] Jacki:  They just knock on your door

 

[00:02:09] Steven: they were just random people

59.    

Walking into lounge room.

VO: Their first of several experiences was these antique clocks that hadn’t worked in decades, suddenly coming back to life.

60.    

Talking in lounge room looking at clocks

00:09:40:00

Chad: definitely not a coincidence, more than just two clocks going off in the same room

 

00:05:16:18

Chad: I’ve always been one for a ghost story, but I’ve never experienced anything myself, and truly I knew something had just happened, there was a presence in this house that I’d never felt before

 

Steven: It was undeniable.

 

61.    

Lafayette LA Pt 1

 

Detail around the house?

 

Steven (00:41:32):

I feel like especially in this St Mary parish area, you've, you've heard more and more and more stories of the paranormal. ….  it's more prevalent than it was, I'd say a year ago.

 

43:04 CHAD:  I also think, you know, with, with this pandemic, we've got a lot of deaths involved and a lot of, a lot of uncertainty that I think kind of stirs up emotions personally that I believe can maybe be connected with the other side.

62.    

Ext house

 

Standing around table

 

Steven illustrating how the candle flew out of the holder

 

00:15:45:03

Steven: There was another time, much later that this candle literally pops up and down, there’s no way even if I hit the table that it could pop out.

 

00:19:26:18

Steven: So as all of this was coming in, we thought we should get some professional help with this because we aren’t ghost experts so we contacted Louisiana Spirits, it was pretty reputable.

 

**Breath**

 

63.    

GHOST HUNTER MARCI

2.5 mins

64.    

Jacki Driving

VO: I’m on my way to meet the team behind Louisiana spirits as they prepare for an investigation at Chad and Stevens place tonight.

65.    

01.2 Lafayette LA Pt 2

 

 

 

[00:00:06] Jacki: Hey Marci!

 

[00:00:09] Marci: nice to meet you! This is chance. Come on in!

66.    

 

Marci is school teacher by day, ghost hunter by night.

 

She says demand for their paranormal investigations has never been higher.

67.    

 

Marci (00:48:50):

We've definitely seen an uptick for, for my group personally.

 

Marci (00:49:24):

because people are home more so they're more aware of their surroundings. And I feel like a lot of clients are seeing things or hearing things that are not in the normal.

68.    

Jacki and Marci sitting on couch

 

 

Shots of equipment

VO: Marci and her team rely on a mix of store bought and home-made equipment to investigate paranormal claims.

 

Upsot: CHANCE: It works on electromagnetic fields and if anything comes near it, it goes off

 

It’s not purely scientific – but by collecting and collating data, Marci attempts to be as credible as she can.

69.    

Jacki and crew leaving Marcis place

00:36:34:03

Marci: I say we pack up and head out

70.    

GHOST HUNTING

3 mins

71.    

Sunset shot

House shot fade

 

02 Lafayette LA

Marci Master IV

 

Marci and crew getting to Trowbridge house and setting up

 

MARCI // thought track

34:52: As a paranormal investigator, we need the data. So if we go into an investigation and we have a piece of equipment going off, we're having a personal experience at the same time, we capture a photo at the same time or an EVP at the same time, we can put all of that together, kind of like a puzzle and create the scenario, the situation that may have happened right then.

72.    

Crew getting equipment ready

 

 

 

 

 

02:03:43] (marci blows out candle)

[01:26:52] Marci: I definitely want a camera in the two rooms on the third floor.

 

Marci talking into radio

[01:40:38] Marci: UPSOT ok camera 4, 3, 5, 8 and 1 are on now they look good.

 

73.    

Moody dark shots

VO: First up Marci tries to capture what’s called

EVP, electronic voice phenomena.

 

02:17:39:19 Marci: its ok to come and talk to us

 

VO: It’s the act of recording extremely low volume audio in hope that a spirit responds to a question.

 

02:15:49:03 Marci: is there a child up here?

 

02:18:51:11Marci: do you like chad and steven? Do you like what they’ve done to the house?

74.    

02:43:36:20

Jacki dancing for camera

VO: So far no response on audio – so next they try camera that can supposedly detects spirits.

75.    

01.2 Lafayette LA Pt 2

Chance in kitchen with home made camera

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

02:43:21:06 Chance: you can see its mapping her.

 

02:43:28:03 Chance: See how it moves on her and that’s what were going to be looking for

 

02:45:30:08 Jacki: do you think any of this proves there’s an afterlife?

 

[02:40:40]  Chance: we've had instances with this machine SLS where they actually moved out of the way when we tell them all raise their arms you can see them raising whatever that's kind of hard to debunk when there's a question responding, so I would say yes.

 

Upsot: Chance walking up stairs

 

[02:51:27] Chance: Anybody up here can you show yourself, this machine will let us know your here it won't hurt you

 

***crickets****

76.    

Marci wraps up the night

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXT house – fade down

AFTER 5 HOURS THEY’VE FOUND NO CLEAR EVIDENCE OF SPRITUAL ACTIVITY

 

[02:55:19] Marci: ok guys I think we've done enough investigating tonight I think we have enough evidence I think we should go and see everything down and rap.

 

MUSIC FADE DOWN

77.    

MORNING

EXT offices

VO: But, the next day Marci tells us to get over to their offices …. 

 

01:03:39] Marci: that's a piece of evidence right there

 

They’ve found something in their audio recordings

 

01:06:24] Marci: that's definitely a female voice saying who are you talking to... That's a great catch. It's great because chance asked the question then the equipment went off then we have what sounds like to me a response “who are you talking to”.. definitely isolate that one and keep it!

 

78.    

 

VO: Homeowners Chad and Steven told chance about Chloe – a former deceased servant they believed could be haunting their home..

79.    

Jacki listens to Audio recording

01:16:17] Chance: Is Chloe up here

 

[01:16:18]  Jackie reacts

 

Upsot: Is Chloe up here

 

Chloe: yes

 

[01:16:38] Jacki: what? 

 

[01:21:04] Jacki: it's hard for me to trust that that there's like our real evidence-based foundation to understanding what's in these recordings

 

[01:21:14] Marci: right

 

[01:21:18] Jacki: but I also don't know what would prove to me that it's real

 

[01:21:20] Marci: the proof is for instance we only have a male presence in a room and there’s a female response, then how would you explain that?

 

[01:38:34] Jacki: what does this mean to you?

 

[01:38:34] Chance: I was always interested in eth unknown and this is bringing some of the unknown into my realm like Chole telling me yes that open my eyes that opened my eyes, I was listening back to that and thinking maybe there is something unknown, not maybe, but she did she answer me there is something there.

 

[02:05:52] MARCI: I think it comes down to people's beliefs I think that when you finally have something happened to you I definitely think it changes your mind about things (end scene grab)

 

80.    

AD BREAK

 

81.    

MICHAEL SHERMER - SKEPTIC

3 mins

82.    

Drone shot LA @ 00:45:14:13

 

 

 

01:47:56:06

Sun through trees/gravestone

VO:  I’m back in LA, I’ve arranged to meet with a guy who takes a more sceptical approach to Gods and ghosts.

 

UPSOT: Michael listening to audio

 

Michael Shermer is a science historian and founder of the sceptics society…

83.    

Michael Shermer in Office listening to audio on laptop

 

 

 

 

03:40:56:09

Jacki: Tell me what you think about the work that paranormal investigators do?

 

Michael Shermer: (11:46)
So the ghost hunters, what we call this anomaly hunting. So they just go and instead of predicting, this is what we're going to test. We're going to look, we're going to do this instead. They just see what happens. And then anything anomalous that stands out, they go there, that's it? No, sorry in science, you have to make predictions and then test it. Not, let's just see what happens and then we'll call whatever weird it happens. That's it. That's the thing we're looking for. That's after the fact.

 

84.    

 

VO: But when it comes to making sense of the world around us–answering big, existential questions – even science isn't there yet.

85.    

20210219 LA CA 01 @ 03:07:13:01 

 

Jacki walking with Michael Shermer in cemetery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LA 01 @ 02:55:01

Michael:

I'd say we've come a long ways in 500 years of science since the scientific revolution, but there's still a lot we don't know

 

03:07:39

Michael: We use these words like paranormal, supernatural as kind of linguistic placeholders. Here's this mystery I'm going to call it that, but that's not an explanation we still want exactly. How does it work?

 

VO: Believing in the supernatural requires a leap of faith – and an increasing number of Americans are taking that leap thanks to the fallout of 2020.

 

Michael Shermer (03:38):

But it's understandable that you know, with so many people dying above the base rate of, you know, how many people die normally from old age and flus and other diseases cancer in particular, you know, that the number is quite high above that. And that's what I think is pushing people, particularly in families that have been hit by COVID where they become at least temporarily more religious, more spiritual looking for some kind of stability.

 

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Araceli

 

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Araceli and son praying at home

 

UPSOT - Jacki: (06:26)
Our father who art in heaven, lead us from temptation

 

Araceli is back home after visiting the food bank and she’s grateful for the handouts that are helping her and her son Gabriel get back on their feet

 

UPSOT: Saying prayer

 

Not only has Araceli been out of work, but she got COVID-19 and was seriously ill.

 

At her lowest point she thought she wouldn’t be around to raise her son.

 

AT HOME

Jacki (00:34:10):

And who's this. Okay. Wow. That's very good. Now why did mom survive Covid?

 

Son: Because you believed in GOD ? very good.

 

Araceli: He surprises me every time with the faith I think it cause he has it do deep.

 

Araceli getting food out of boxes

 

Upsot: You know where’s the rice goes, in the cabinet on the bottom.

 

Blessed, yet broke… it’s the little wins, that are keeping Araceli going

 

00:31:46:11 ( funny moment)

Araceli: A whole gallon of milk! There’s rarely any milk, we were so excited about this, there’s rarely any milk so this is really really wonderful!

 

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Walking out side pitting up balloons

 

 

 

 

kids birthday party 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Araceli talking with friend

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walking of with Gabriel / flowers in hair sequences.

Upsot : 00:40:47:03

Putting up balloons and one gets accidently let go

 

VO: And despite the setbacks today, she’s determined to give Gabriel a birthday party to remember

 

Upsots of birthday party

 

Araceli (32:17):

this year has really brought me closer to God, it's bought me to pray more, not pretty alone for the first time. I think I find praying with my friends, even though they're different denominations you know, from Buddhism Muslim, Christian, you know, we're all together in this.

 

Araceli (31:10)

What's kept me healthy in the way that I've been able to have a better attitude and just be more positive has been just my faith.

 

33:16

I feel positive and I feel like, okay, I, I have hope now  I have hope.

 

 


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