♪ i'm into you let 'em wonder how we got this far 'cause i don't really ♪ ♪ need to wonder at all yeah after all this time i'm still into you ♪ ♪ some things just some things just make sense and one of those is you and i some things just ♪ ♪ some things just make sense and even after all this time ♪ ♪ i'm into you baby not a day

goes by that i'm not into you i should be over ♪ ♪ all the butterflies but i'm into you and baby even on our worst nights ♪ ♪ i'm into you let 'em wonder how we got this far 'cause i don't really ♪ ♪ need to wonder at all yeah after all this time i'm still into you i'm still into you i'm still into you ♪ >> paramore. thanks to tom cruise and kesha. want to apologize to matt damon. ewith ran out of time. "nightline" is next. good night!

tonight on "nightline," is this a guardian angel at work? from surviving a terror attack to sky diving from space. conquering the worst with a little help from above. is it devine intervention or hallucinations? hill billys, life in the fast lane and he wouldn't have it any other way. billy ray cyrus talks about marrying off his superstar daughter miley. and hollywood glamour. tonight, secrets from behind the scene of abc's hit show.

>> is it other worldly or a synapse in the brain. some people reported an overwhelming sense of calm piercing through the panic. it's re350e9edly desdriebd as spiritual, even divine. could it be the work of guardian angels? we have some very surprising answers. >> i can't hear, i can't hear. >> reporter: in a moment of mayhem, for in that instant of exquisite fear. >> i looked at my air gauge and thought okay, this is it. >> human beings often report being comforted by an invisible companio companion. >> only my guardian angel could have saved me from such an accident like that.

>> reporter: nick never felt alone, though lost for days in a california canyon. >> did you at any point give up hope? >> no, never. i had my buddy who died last year by my side. i felt his presence. >> and the last words felix baumgartner heard enroute to setting the world sky diving record were those. >> okay, here we go. and our guardian angel will take care of you. >> again and again and again. my guardian angel was here. who is the guardian angel? >> well, that's the great mystery, isn't it? >> john geiger, exporer and author has been investigating this phenomenon for years. his book "the third man factor" lays out his theory. >> the story is always similar. there's a sense of another being, a presence very vividly. there's never any fear or panic when this being appears. there's just a sense of calm,

peace. >>. >> reporter: it happened to stephanie schaub. >> i'm about as religious as a piece of wood. >> reporter: while cave diving she suddenly lost her guide rope. in an instant, her life was on the line. >> i suddenly realized i was in trouble. i could hear my heart bouncing in my ears. and i just kind of sat down on the floor and started crying. i never cried under water before. >> reporter: only weeks before stephanie's husband had died in a diving accident in the red sea. and now alone, she's facing her own dark death. >> reporter: suddenly t >> suddenly the cave brightened up. >> reporter: the words of her husband -- believe you can, believe you can't. either way, you're right.

>> i thought i saw was a white thread. my guide line is white. so i floated up and lo and behold it was my line. he was there for me in a way. in an emotional way. >> reporter: so how was stephanie's experience to be explained? >> isn't this just possibly an hallucination? >> no, i don't think so it is an hallucination. i think what people are experiencing is a very, you know, concrete survival mechanism that is, you know, part of our human heritage. >> reporter: geiger believes in a life threatening crisis, our minds experience both the terror of the moment and the peace of perspective. >> the brain is sort of able to stand back from that and rise above, and it rationally figures out a way to help this person get through that. >> reporter: so the guardian angel is us? >> the guardian angel is us.

>> reporter: in extreme cases, our sub conscious companion appears to take the form of physical or spiritual entity. rose marie believes this photograph is proof of a guardian angel who helped her escape from a near fatal car accident. john geiger doesn't see it that way. >> when i see pictures like that, i'm skeptical. >> reporter: and yet voices seem almost common place. >> n >> they'll always say i heard a voice. well, is it audible? no. so there's a communication that's happening inside them. >> reporter:s sometimes the communication isn't with sound but with images. a few weeks ago, marty and his two teenage boys were skiing in colorado. wide open spaces, perfect for a man with an extreme case of claustrophobia. but then, an avalanche. >> i saw it just coming towards

me. it's really fast and i couldn't do anything. my goggles ripped off. then i had snow coming down my throat. i couldn't breathe for 15 seconds. >> for me, when i was hit by the snow and i was turned inside out in this complete blackness, i was sure i was going to die. >> reporter: but instead of being paralyzed by his claustrophobia, marty's mind delivered an even more chilling vision and a reason to fight his way free. >> i could see myself literally at denver international airport out on the tarmac watching him go in an old fashioned pine box hand 757. i could see that very clear. >> reporter: where did that image come from? >> i have no idea. >> driven by that haunting image, marty made his decision. battling through the snow, he was able to search for and reunite with his sons. and just last week in boston, steve burns standing at the finish line when the first bomb

exploded made a split-second decision to turn away from where the next bomb would wreak its havoc. i know that one second difference and six inches to the right, it could have been a whole different outcome for myself. the guardian angel was definitely over my shoulder that day. >> reporter: left unanswered, of course, is why so many others never found their guardian an l angels. still, all these cases remind us it can be a rough universe out there. to sewer vooif it, a l-- surviv little help from an invisible companion might be essential. >> this capacity, this sense that we are not alone. >> reporter: "nightline" in new york. >> our thanks to jay. coming up next, the famous head of a wildly famous house hold. billy ray cyrus shares secret of fame and miley's wedding plans.

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he's got million s of record sales to his name, a fully stocked trophy case and one exceedingly famous daughter. billy ray cyrus shares his secrets for dealing with tawdry gossip in the tabloids and mile's engagement. we traveled to nashville to speak with the icon and superstar dad.

>> the person you learn when you hang out with billy ray cyrus, it's going to be fast and a little bit dangerous. this is all your property? >> yes. >> reporter: what's it for? >> for me and you to go play in. >> reporter: the famous dad took me on a four-wheeling tour of his family's 500-acre farm outside of nashville. opening up about overnight fame, scandal -- >> there's things i would do different. >> reporter: and oh, yeah, his famous daughter. >> is she growing up too fast? >> this is the way it was meant to be, this is the way it happened. >> reporter: there's things this he thinks all comes with the territory. out with a new book "hill billy heart" and an album "change my mind" he's taking time to look through the rear-view mirror.

when you became famous very quickly, you said you felt trapped. are you still trapped? >> life will always be a little different. i feel like i'm billy cyrus from 2317 flat woods, kentucky. >>. >> reporter: it's fra that address he had dreams of becoming a professional baseball player. and he almost was. >> somewhere around that time i heard a voice, buy a guitar and find the purpose in your life. i wanted to be known as the next elvis presley. that's a double-edged sword. >> reporter: after years of playing dive club, cyrus wasn't sure if that dream would ever come true. but finally, he landed a record deal, and he was handed a song that he thought could be a hit. >> when i heard the demo, kind of chugging on the guitar

like -- ♪ ♪ you can tell the world you never was my girl ♪ ♪ you can burn my clothes up when i'm gone ♪ ♪ oh, you can tell your friends just what a fool ♪ ♪ i've been >> but even he could never imagine how big it would get. snoert don't break my heart my achy breaky heart ♪ >> reporter: a monster hit on both the country and pop charts. ♪ my achy breaky heart >> reporter: it seemed like all of america was line dancing. who is this guy sporting the mullet and taking country music by storm. >> i asked my manager if i could go over and apologize to dolly martin that the tabloid said we're together. i laid that tabloid down there and she looked at it and said honey, [ bleep ] sells record. >> reporter: it was around that time that the song was on fire that cyrus' daughter was born.

her nickname was smiley. they dropped the s. >> is this your daughter? >> that's miley's boyfriend, willie nelson. >> that says it all. she still looks exactly the same. >> reporter: in the years since, so much has been written about the cyrus family, it seemed there would be little left for billy ray to write himself. but as we expore his property together, i get a chance to see another side of cyrus, away from the glare of hollywood. >> are you going to dance again? "dancing with the stars"? >> no. that was one of the things that we try to learn from our mistakes. >> reporter: but even as his autobiography hits stores, there's still another chapter to be written. when you write a book like this, things can change. in the book, you know and think

and believe that she's going to get married to liam. >> i know as i was writing the book, i wanted to keep that particular moment as open-ended as possible. i didn't know the answer. >> reporter: do you think they will? >> i don't know. i play it by ear. >> reporter: does she still listen to you? do you try to give her direction? don't make this mistake or that mistake? or is she making her own decisions? >> i don't tell anybody how to live. anybody. >> reporter: as we talked about his daughter, billy ray wanted to play me a song. he wrote it for mile lee just as she was finding stardom as hannah montana. ♪ everything i've always wanted ♪ >> it's that moment as a father, you think you're ready to let go and you realize, maybe i'm not. so it goes like this. ♪ she says things

are falling in place ♪ ♪ it feels like they're falling apart ♪ ♪ i paint this big old smile on my face ♪ ♪ to hide my aching heart ♪ baby get ready ♪ ♪ don't go >> 20 years after billy ray cyrus finally realized his dream of being a star, he's still learning the lessons of what fame can really bring. for "nightline," i'm bob woodruff in nashville. >> nice. bobby are billy ray. our thanks. now from hill billys to fame. i had enough of feeling embarrassed about my skin. [ designer ] enough of just covering up my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i decided enough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. it's clinically proven to provide clearer skin. [ rv guy ] enbrel may not work for everyone -- and may not clear you completely, but for many, it gets skin clearer fast, within 2 months,

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rece recently, i got to travel to the set for a role of a lifetime. you know the saying, i'm not a doctor, but i play one on tv. well, i'm a journalist, and i'm playing one on tv. on abc's hit show "revenge." >> the lovely and beguiling ms. emily thorn. the back stabbing drama around the uber rich grason family. >> you never can tell with people, can you? >> indeed. >> madeline stowe who plays the frosty victoria, matriarch of the gracen family. >> behind the saeps you see what a daily grind it is, long hours, week after week.

>> i keep saying she has a personality disorder. it's an illness. she do . >> she does have a great deal of humanity. >> but all the dooeous plots are hatched in the minds of the writers who love to take their actors out for a dramatic hill ride. >> how do you keep the twist own the turns? >> i'm not going to lie. it's kind of a challenge. >> i bet. >> we're twisting ourselves trying to figure out the twist and the turns. that's part of the fun. it's a ride we get to ride as well. >> i'm shown to my trailer, then wardrobe and hair and makeup where i upgrade to the "revenge" version of myself. for my first scene, i interview the king and queen of the hamptons court. apparently, i'm not horrible. >> every time, you're nailing

it. just keep doing what you're doing. >> okay, okay. that's good advice. i'm freaking out. >> you killed it. >> oh, good, thank you. >> reporte . >> someone else who kills it week after week is jack quarter. >> it feels like you're making 10 seconds of television over 10 hours. >> it's just a few minutes each dr 12-hour day. >> as you'll see on sunday. poor jack has his heart broken yet again by that vixen emily who repeatedly dumps him in order to take down the gracen family by reromanomancing danie. >> you're this generation's john-john and caroline. >> i don't know about that last part, but i won't deny it i'll thrilled to be back with emily. >> for the rest of the episode, tune in sunday for "revenge." thanks for watch