Fatima Crime

Dr. Peter Chojnowski believes the Vatican concealed the disappearance of Sister Lucy of Fatima. Now he is trying to bring that story to the screen.

The pre-production soundtrack video for Fatima Crime is on YouTube. The first half plays with English subtitles; the second half repeats without them.

youtube.com/watch?v=TU6MyTtV69w

The True Seer on the left. The Impostor on the right.

“Dan Brown, Author of The Da Vinci Code, has nothing on this TRUE Movie Plot.” So says Dr. Peter Chojnowski, the Catholic philosopher and researcher who has spent the better part of a decade investigating one of the most startling claims in modern religious history, that Sister Lucy dos Santos, the last surviving seer of the Fatima apparitions, was replaced by an impostor sometime around 1958.

It is worth noting that the Da Vinci Code is fiction, and one that many Catholics regard as blasphemous. Fatima Crime is neither. The Sister Lucy Truth investigation has produced over a dozen independent forensic reports, from a forensic artist, an oral surgeon, and a handwriting expert, all bearing on the same question: are the women in the photographs before and after 1958 the same person? The reports are available in full at sisterlucytruth.com and are linked at the end of this article.

Dr. Chojnowski’s working title for the feature film he hopes to make is Fatima Crime. The main song written for its soundtrack is called “Where Did You Go, Lucia?” In December 2024, the Sister Lucy Truth team posted a pre-production music video for that song to YouTube. It has been viewed nearly 9,000 times. What follows is a review of that video.

“The woman who, at the age of 10, predicted the greatest public miracle since the Resurrection, was ‘disappeared,’ in one way or another, by forces that would have had to have the go-ahead from the Vatican. I am sorry, but, what is not exciting and newsworthy here?” — Dr. Peter Chojnowski / sisterlucyfilm.com

“The following is a Pre-Production Soundtrack for a film to promote the Sister Lucy Truth Investigation.”

The video opens with a plain title card on a black screen. No music yet, no images, just those words and a thin horizontal line beneath them. It is a modest announcement for what turns out to be a carefully crafted piece of visual storytelling.

What You See

The investigator’s archive box, lid thrown back.

The first image after the title card is an archive box, lid thrown open. Dozens of old photographs, nuns in habits, child shepherds, group portraits captioned in careful block letters, lie scattered across one another in dim light. A vintage camera sits at the edge of the frame. Beneath the photographs, handwritten documents. A key.

It sets the tone for everything that follows. This is a video built around photographs, real historical photographs, and the question of what they do and do not reveal about a woman whose identity, the Sister Lucy Truth investigation argues, was taken from her.

Lucia dos Santos, Fatima, 1946.

A period photograph from the Sister Lucy Truth archive.

The three Fatima children.

A nun’s figure seen through the frame of a photograph.

Two figures in a rocky landscape, glimpsed through a photograph frame.

A face seen through the photograph frame.

A Marian statue of Our Lady of Fatima presides over the investigator’s desk.

Viewers responded:

@JBQ86 (youtube.com/@JBQ86) “Very powerful photographs with a warm smile that we never see. Lucia was a peasant with deep emotions. Is it any wonder that the Mother of God chose to speak through her?”

The young Lucia as a child shepherd.

Lucy’s family, 1919. Her mother Maria Rosa is seated; Lucia stands behind her. Behind from left are Lucia’s brother Manuel, her sisters Maria (holding her daughter Gloria Lucia), Caroline, and Gloria.

A later “Sister Lucy” meeting Cardinal Ratzinger, placed beside an earlier portrait. The woman on the left is the Impostor.

Viewers responded:

@renee1741 (youtube.com/@renee1741) “I remember when I saw pictures of her when she was still alive and older... something felt off even though I didn’t know what. Seeing the comparison of the later Lucia to the original makes it so obvious that it’s a different person. But whyyyyyyy!!???”

Sister Lucia in February 1947 in the garden of the Sardao College of the Dorothean Sisters, with a model of the statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary carved by Father Thomas McGlynn, O.P.

Lucia dos Santos, a solitary portrait.

The investigator’s desk.

Two Faces, One Name

The same desk, flooded with red light.

Two nuns with a priest walking on a Fatima street. Lucia, the true Seer, is on the left.

A group photograph seen through the layered photo-frame device.

Another layered group photograph.

Two small portraits of Lucia dos Santos placed side by side.

Viewers responded:

@kathleenprice662 (youtube.com/@kathleenprice662) “The implications of this are so deeply disturbing and dreadful it just about took my breath away the first time I heard and saw the evidence. To be sure, she is not poor Sister Lucy now, I would wager she was glad to go to be with God and the Queen of Heaven.”

Both photographs are of the true Seer, Lucia dos Santos. The photograph on the right shows Lucia as a Carmelite in the convent of Coimbra.

Lucia is kneeling by a stream, saying the rosary.

A close-up portrait.

A photograph surrounded by documents.

Viewers responded:

@kewpified (youtube.com/@kewpified) “When I learned of this, it really broke my heart. What did Lucia go through before she was replaced? Lord have mercy!”

The Charcoal Portraits

The most cinematically accomplished sequence is also its most emotionally direct. An artist’s hand is shown drawing in real time, a charcoal pencil moving across white paper, a face pulling itself out of nothing, feature by feature. The eyes come last. The video does not rush any of it.

The act of drawing stands in for the investigation itself, the patient and deliberate recovery of a person. When the portrait is sufficiently complete, text appears beneath two figures side by side: “The True Seer” and “The Impostor Lucy.”

An artist’s hand renders a full-figure portrait from a historical photograph.

The portrait taking shape.

“The True Seer” and “The Impostor Lucy.”

The pencil working on the eyes.

The charcoal portrait is nearing completion.

Viewers responded:

@ambrosemclaren145 (youtube.com/@ambrosemclaren145) “Sr. Lucia is probably the greatest martyr of the 20th century. Pray for us, Sr Lucia, to persevere unto the end. Amen.”

@BryanKirch (youtube.com/@BryanKirch) “Thank you, Lucia. Your suffering will not be in vain!”

The Song

The video is set to an original song, “Where Did You Go, Lucia?”, composed for the Fatima Crime soundtrack. YouTube’s auto-transcription garbled some lines, and corrections are forthcoming. The opening verse:

In the quiet halls of the sacred place

She whispered prayers with a gentle grace,

But shadows moved in the candlelight,

Took your life in the dead of night.

Lucia knew the secret and the pain.

Her fear, it always did remain.

But evil came and took her life,

Left an impostor who stole her name.

The chorus:

Where did you go, Lucia, pure and bright?

Who took your life into the night?

We seek you now through lies and deceit.

In the silence, your innocence we meet.

Her words of love, the message died.

Angels wept, a silent cry.

Those who tried to silence her with fear,

Yet her face remains forever here.

In sacred whispers and silent tears

Her truth will live for future years.

Though shadows hide the light they stole,

Her message lingers in our soul.

Viewers responded:

@bluelotus4606 (youtube.com/@bluelotus4606) “This gives me goosebumps. I can’t get Sister Lucia out of my mind. It is as if the Blessed Mother is telling me to pray, pray, pray for the world whilst my heart sees Sister Lucia suffering, tormented, frightened and abandoned in her last days on this earth, except for the Lord and the Blessed Mother.”

@theresacapps3714 (youtube.com/@theresacapps3714) “A beautiful haunting song about a beautiful Saint... a child of God.”

@MellisugaHelenae-j8s (youtube.com/@MellisugaHelenae-j8s) “OMG! This song is so heartbreaking, her story so sad. Holy Spirit, please give justice!”

A Marian statue of Our Lady of Fatima amid a burning cityscape.

The final sequence shifts in scale. The three child seers appear against the imagery of fire and a ruined world. The imagery draws directly from Our Lady’s own words at Fatima on July 13, 1917, when she warned the children:

“If my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have much to suffer, various nations will be annihilated.” — Our Lady of Fatima, July 13, 1917

The three child seers of Fatima, Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta.

“God Knows What Happened to Lucia dos Santos.”

“We Are Attempting to Find the Truth.”

The video ends on a single title card: “In the silence, the truth is what we seek.”

Fatima Crime — Who Will Be the Courageous One to Take on This Epic Film Project? Contact Dr. Chojnowski: justicepc@yahoo.com

“Our biggest need at this point is a Producer and help with fundraising.”

“Be part of this Epic Film that brings Justice to Sr. Lucia dos Santos, the Seer of Fatima!”

“Dan Brown, Author of Da Vinci Code, has nothing on this TRUE Movie Plot, Fatima Crime.” — Dr. Peter Chojnowski justicepc@yahoo.com

“We only reach out to a director, producer, and sponsor who will take up a story that uncovers a plot like the world has never seen,” Dr. Chojnowski wrote alongside the video. “Who will be the courageous one?”

The feature film he envisions is called Fatima Crime. Its story begins with a child, a ten-year-old shepherd girl who in 1917 predicted what he calls the greatest public miracle since the Resurrection. What happened to her decades later, Dr. Chojnowski contends, is a crime that reached to the highest levels of the Vatican.

“This grave fact of history is not just meant for the Main Stream Media. It is a fact that is meant for the ‘Big Screen’ Main Stream Media.” — Dr. Peter Chojnowski

Viewers responded:

@jimlubeskie4312 (youtube.com/@jimlubeskie4312) “Dr. Peter, please, please contact Mel Gibson. I know he would want to be a part of this film!!!”

@mazara8344 (youtube.com/@mazara8344) “Lucia was a Portuguese citizen. The evidence should be brought to the legal authorities in Portugal for a criminal investigation. If she was replaced, an impostor used her identity to vote in elections. They need to determine what happened to Sr Lucia.”

@carmelasantoli4514 (youtube.com/@carmelasantoli4514) “God will vindicate these souls in the end. All secrets, lies, deceptions, false history hidden for centuries shall be exposed for all to see.”

@joaquimcarreira1144 (youtube.com/@joaquimcarreira1144) “I’m from Portugal. 3 miles from Fatima and I’ve known this. Thank you to you all for putting this out.”

A face drawn and redrawn until it can no longer be ignored.

“If you would like to be part of this Indie Film Production, contact Dr. Peter Chojnowski at sisterlucytruth.org/contact

The Sister Lucy Truth YouTube channel.

For Those New to the Fatima Investigation

The Sister Lucy Truth team has commissioned over a dozen independent forensic reports. Three of the principal experts and their reports are listed here, available in full on their website:

Lois Gibson — Forensic Artist. One of the world’s most recognized forensic artists, Gibson conducted a detailed facial comparison of photographs of Sister Lucy before and after 1958.

sisterlucytruth.com/the-experts-3/

Dr. Joseph Mascaro — Oral Surgeon. A forensic dental and facial analysis examining structural differences between the two women.

sisterlucytruth.com/plastic-surgeon-single-2/

Bart Baggett — Forensic Handwriting Expert. Among the world’s leading handwriting analysts, Baggett examined documents attributed to Sister Lucy across different periods.

sisterlucytruth.com/handwriting-analysis-single/

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To get involved in the production of Fatima Crime, contact Dr. Peter Chojnowski at justicepc@yahoo.com or sisterlucytruth.org/contact. More information at sisterlucyfilm.com. Watch the pre-production soundtrack video at youtube.com/watch?v=TU6MyTtV69w