As alchemists were persecuted over time, their teachings became the basis of myths and legends. But these stories had a darker purpose — to hide the secrets alchemists had discovered.

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What happened to the ancient alchemists and their writings? Over thousands of years, practitioners tried to turn metals into gold and obtain immortality. Instead, they developed a precursor to pharmacology and chemistry. But that may not be all… 

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In the 1970s, astronomers noticed something odd in the Milky Way. Somehow, the entire galaxy was moving in the wrong direction. It was being pulled by a mysterious force — one that defied the laws of physics.

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In a small Texas town in 1936, two hikers discovered a perplexing artifact: a modern hammer encased in ancient rock. It was an archaeological mystery — and it might be proof that humans and dinosaurs once walked side-by-side.

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In 1943, the U.S. government seized eight trunks of Nikola Tesla's papers. Years later, they returned just six trunks to his family. The government said the missing papers were a result of consolidation… but perhaps they'd actually stolen some of Tesla's most incredible inventions.

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Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Nikola Tesla revolutionized electricity. He spent his days sketching countless incredible inventions, accumulating 8 trunks full of notebooks. Upon his death, the U.S. government seized his papers. Was it a routine investigation — or something more sinister?

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After the Sutton family's incredible encounter with aliens, their story ignited a pattern of encounters across the American South during the 1950s. Was it an invasion — or a hoax?

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Near midnight on August 21st, 1955, the entire Sutton family burst into the police station in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. They claimed to have been in a shootout with extraterrestrial creatures. When police investigated the Suttons' land, they found no evidence… until the aliens came back.

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After an experimental treatment helped sleeping sickness patients, doctors had new clues about the origin of the disease. But would they be able to stop a new outbreak?

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As WWI raged across Europe, diseases spread along with it. One of them was a strange pandemic that turned victims into living statues — conscious, but unable to communicate. Fifty years later, some of them woke up. 

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