Sacrifice never tasted so sweet.

Music: Lying Here Helpless (www.danielbirchmusic.com)

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Down in the mud, everything has a price.

What if enlightenment cost everything?

Music: Trees in the Wind by Daniel Birch (www.danielbirchmusic.com)

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The Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies—While Alive

The Gruesome and Excruciating Practice of Mummifying Your Own Body

The Bizarre and Unappetizing Buddhist Monk Practice of Self-Mummification

The Ancient Process of Self-Mummification | by Andrei Tapalaga ✒️

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The war burns itself out, leaving only cinders, dead men, and their orphans. What legacies are left behind? What terrible wounds will never heal? And will we learn from the past to save the present?

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No one is safe from the smell of brimstone and gunpowder as local families are drawn into the fight for America's soul. And as Union and Confederate forces turn Gettysburg into Hell on Earth, they invite the Devil himself to hold court on a throne of bone and blood.

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When the fires of war burn, how much blood does it take to douse the flames?

158 years ago, America's sons tore themselves to shreds in the small farm town of Gettysburg, turning the once peaceful place into a slaughterhouse. With simmering dissension again dividing the United States, what lessons do the ghosts of Gettysburg have to teach their wayward ancestors? And what terrible harvests does hate sow in the fertile killing fields?

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After a long journey, it's time to come home.

Locations:

• Lewes, DE

What terrors await just beyond the blacktop?

Locations:

Cape Henlopen State Park

Delaware Seashore State Park

Lum's Pond State Park

Milford Neck Wildlife Area

Slaughter Beach

Fort Delaware State Park

What happens when the monster is closer than you ever imagined?

Locations:

Dover, Delaware

Newark, Delaware

Georgetown, Delaware

What lurks in the shadows?

Locations:

Lewes, DE

The Burnt Swamp

Prime Hook Wildlife Refuge

New Castle County

Frederica, Delaware