Mythbusters · Season 1 · Episode 12 · Originally Aired January 25, 2004
Break Step Bridge. This myth states that a formation of marchers can actually match the harmonic frequency of a bridge, causing it to buck wildly and eventually collapse. The most notable instance of this, though caused by wind and not marching soldiers, is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which in 1940 went into wild convulsions before collapsing spectacularly into the river below.
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Ghost Whisperer · Season 1 · Episode 8 · Originally Aired November 11, 2005
In this episode, Jim is the one who gets a turn at the ghosts, as one of his patients comes back to visit. It turns out that he only wants to use Jim to get to Melinda however. Still, the experience isn't just fun and games, as the ghost is full of emotion, and it's not sugar and spice.
The man was just released from prison for killing a man during a bank robbery, and he is apparently on his way to beg forgiveness from the parents of the man he killed. But he can't make it as his motorcycle is run off the road and then the ambulance blows a tire and he dies on the way.
In the end the family of the man he killed won't grant the forgiveness he seeks, so Melinda and Jim track down his estranged wife and son, and find the forgiveness in them instead, and also find that the man's son is the one who turned him in, which makes him proud, proud that his son has the strength that he did not have to do what is right.
