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For a few months in 1942 the city of Pascagoula, Mississippi faced a new fear. As World War II raged on for its third year; what kept these folks up at night was not the threat of bombs but the possibility of losing their hair... to the Phantom Barber. 

Hair for cash? Hair for religion? Hair for pleasure? Why was a man sneaking into people's homes at night and cutting off locks of hair? 

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