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You wanna hear a really creepy ghost story?\\xa0 Well\\u2026actually\\u2026a really creepy satanic possession story\\u2026or something?\\xa0Try this on for size:\\xa0Guy gets really good at his job.\\xa0 So good that he\\u2019s given a cameo doing his job in one of the biggest horror movies of the century.\\xa0 A movie whose set became legendary for weird accidents, injuries, fires \\u2013 even deaths! \\u2013 during its making\\u2026and a few years later, same guy gets arrested for knocking his gay hook-up over the head with a frying pan and then stabbing him to death\\u2026and to top it off, same guy seems to be pretty much the person who killed at least six other unidentified men, dismembering them, then packing them into garbage bags that get thrown into the Hudson River. Not very believable.\\xa0 Except that it\\u2019s a true story.\\xa0It\\u2019s the story of Paul Bateson, the alcoholic radiological technologist whose delicate, caring manner in performing the cerebral angiography procedure on children at New York University Medical Center caught the eye of film director William Friedkin, who cast Bateson as the technologist performing the procedure on the character of young Regan MacNeil, the possessed girl at the center of Friedkin\\u2019s film adaptation of William Peter Blatty\\u2019s \\u201cThe Exorcist.\\u201d\\xa0Seems like quite the feather in Mr. Bateson\\u2019s cap \\u2013 something to build a highly successful career on.\\xa0 Right?\\xa0Unfortunately, no.\\xa0Troubled from youth and battling alcoholism his entire life, Bateson fell deeply into his addiction in the years following the release of the movie, and ended up losing is job at NYUMC.\\xa0Now working odd jobs and trying to find a way to get back to working in radiology, Bateson fell off the wagon again in 1977 and, in one weird, wild night, he met, hung out with, drank with, went home with, and then murdered renowned Variety film journalist Addison Verrill in Verrill\\u2019s New York City Apartment.\\xa0The circumstances around Bateson\\u2019s capture and arrest are fascinating, and Melissa recounts the twists and turns in that case \\u2013 including Bateson\\u2019s release on Parole and his subsequent fade-away into obscurity, where even though someone using his name and Social Security Number was certified as deceased in 2018, it can\\u2019t be proven to be the same person.\\xa0 Weird.\\xa0\\xa0But wait, there\\u2019s more \\u2013 a lot more.\\xa0\\xa0You see, it turns out that during the 1970s prior to Bateson\\u2019s arrest, there had been a string of murders of young men in New York \\u2013 six altogether \\u2013 each of whom had been murdered and mutilated, their cut-up bodies placed in garbage bags and tossed into the Hudson River.\\xa0 To this day, tragically, not even one of these men has been identified by anyone.\\xa0 And no one has ever been arrested in their murders.\\xa0\\xa0But even more compelling is the fact that all of the garbage bags all six of those young men\\u2019s bodies were found in bore the mark of the place they came from:\\xa0\\xa0New York University Medical Center.\\xa0\\xa0Follow Melissa into this dark hole of mystery, creepy movie sets \\u2013 and even a side trip into Melissa\\u2019s and Producer Mark\\u2019s own personal adventures into telekinesis! \\u2013 on this most fascinating episode.\\xa0\\xa0Remember, if you have a tip of any kind that can help solve a crime or any mystery whatsoever,\\xa0 you can call Melissa on the TIP-STER HOTLINE at (832) TIP-STER (832-847-7837) or send an email to jttipsters@gmail.com.