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But before we had time
to take in what they meant...
...the Withers video
came out.
-Is it good?
-It's great.
-Can I have a look?
-Yeah, be careful.
Cathy and Doug
were at the dam...
...on April 3rd,
the same day...
...the Bob Smeet
photo was taken.
-Careful!
-What do you think I'll do?
Be careful.
Take my hand, babe.
lt was a couple
of months later...
...at the end of July...
...when we were looking
at our footage...
...that we'd shot at the dam
and kind of crossed...
There's a figure
in the background...
...which we identified
as Bob Smeet...
...which interested us
because we thought:
''Oh, it was the same day
he was there...
...when he captured the image
people were talking about.''
Then we went through
all our footage...
...to see if we'd captured
the figure as well...
...and we did.
To see if the camera saw
what Bob saw.
We did find a figure
in the background...
...like the image that
had been described...
...in his picture.
We looked more closely...
l got in right
on the computer...
...and from what could...
...have looked like
a female figure...
...from a long way away,
up close and tight...
...you could see it was
neither female or Alice.
It was Mathew.
Do you guys believe
in ghosts?
No. No.
This is where I was...
...when the Bob Smeet
photo was taken.
l was wearing Alice's jacket.
l looked up and l saw
a man on the hill...
...who turned out
to be Bob Smeet...
...and l didn't want
to be in the photo.
So, l walked off
through the bush...
...l didn't see there was
also a couple filming...
...who turned out
to be the Withers.
When this came out,
Dad came to me...
...and asked me
if I'd been involved...
...in anything else
and I didn't want to lie.
So, I told him.
I told Dad I was responsible
for the image...
...of Alice in the hallway
and the bedroom...
...and that I created
the April 28th photo...
...and the sance image.
I told him what I'd done.
I got two photos.
A photo of Alice
in the backyard...
...and I composited
the images.
That's a photo
l took of Alice.
Mum kept talking about
getting Alice exhumed...
...and she was keen
on this idea...
...of identifying her body.
So, l knew that without
more evidence...
...it wasn't going to happen.
l made the photograph.
I just used
an old video of Alice...
...and I played that
on the T. V.
I had the T. V. up
on the bookcase...
...it was as simple
as rotating the mirror...
...so that the reflection
of the T. V. came up.
so I cropped out the edges...
...and I filmed that.
Same with the kitchen...
...and the bedroom,
what you see is Alice...
...on a television
in a mirror.
It wasn't about
trying to trick people.
I guess something
was better than nothing.
Do you think what you did
made it worse for June?
l think that...
Yeah. Yeah, l probably did
make it harder for her...
...but that wasn't
my intention.
l'm not quite so sure
about his reasons.
l don't know that l...
...totally...
l don't want to say l don't
believe what he said...
...I'm just not convinced
that he really knows...
...why he did it.
When it all came out...
...people wanted
to do stories, books...
...women's magazines,
the whole lot.
We just didn't know
how to handle it.
We had to protect Matty,
protect ourselves...
...protect Allie's memory.
We just didn't have
any experience...
...dealing with this interest
in something so personal...
...that people are
making incredibly public.
The Palmers weren't
coping well at all.
Things were very bad.
It was tough.
This was like the end
of hope for all of us...
...but especially for June.
She just really wasn't
ready to let Allie go.
She needed to hang on
to her a bit longer...
...and I don't think
...but she was devastated.
She's an interesting girl.
She seemed to not get on
with June so well.
l thought they're quite alike.
lt's interesting how the two of
them did not get on so well.
They always seemed
very much alike.
You could see that Alice
took a lot after June.
after Alice's death...
...perhaps a sense
of deprivation...
...they shared.
Thanks for that.
June was, still is...
...keeps to herself a lot...
...and it became clear
that Alice did that too.
The sense of privacy,
the sense of their own life...
...that they'll choose
to share or not.
It's wonderful when
your children come...
...and that new expression
that you have...
...but as a mother
you always have doubts...
...that you're not doing
enough or the right thing.
I can only blame myself.
It comes from me.
It came from my mother.
I've never been able to...
I've never been able
to give myself wholly...
...to June.
I feel June is
a little like that too...
...that she couldn't give
herself wholly to Alice.
I hope Alice did know
how much I loved her.
I guess I held something
back a little as she grew.
That would be
the saddest thing...
...to think
she might not know.
Ray suggested that Mathew
accompany him...
...on one of his country
Victorian tours.
He was doing consultations...
...and Mathew jumped
at the chance.
I think I realized
when I was away...
...how much I missed Alice.
That I was never going
to speak to her again.
I guess that's something
all of Ray's clients...
They want to talk to someone
And so did I.
I was one of Ray's clients
in a way as well.
-Is the shot at you?
-No.
-Let's see what happens.
-What do you think?
It's going to hit me
and I'm going to get angry.
That's what'll happen.
No!
Watch yourself.
What are you doing
in my room?
I don't know.
When me and Ray
went on the tour...
...we left the two
rented cameras...
...where they were
in the hallway.
I was sure there was still
something in the house.
Obviously because we were
away for three days...
...we couldn't change
the tapes or anything.
We were probably
going to get...
...about a day and a half
of footage...
...but we left them running.
We got back August 22nd.
At which point,
we checked the tapes.
Only Russell and I
were in the house...
...when these images
were recorded.
We couldn't have had
anything to do with them.
a ghost in my house.
Alice's ghost.
Do you believe in ghosts?
Didn't used to.
lt's a hard thing to prove
or disprove.
l think...
Yeah, sometimes l think
maybe they do exist.
There are ghosts everywhere.
lt's a scary world.
l don't know why
it's important...
...like, how it helps people
to deal with loss...
...by making up stories
about ghosts or whatever.
It's a real question mark
over everything.
I went back and reviewed
all the footage...
...that had come before.
All the material taken
inside the house...
...following Alice's death.
It was while I watched
Mathew's June 1 3th...
...hallway material again,
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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