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Our dreamscapes can be terrible, wonderful, and truly bizarre. What if we could control them? In the late 1800s an aristocrat studying sleep became legendary for his ability to direct his dreams. A century later, researchers broke new ground with their studies of the cycles of slumber. 

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In 18th-century England, inbred sheep are afflicted with a disease that leaves them with an unscratchable itch. In New Guinea, a group of indigenous people blame sorcery for “kuru,” a disease causing tremors and uncontrollable fits of emotion. By the 1980s, scientists discovered they shared a groundbreaking link — one that could help explain why an Italian family was dying of insomnia. 

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Generations of a Venetian family succumbed to a mysterious illness that stopped them from entering a state of deep rest. Without sleep, they died. Faced with an early and terrible death, members of the family grew determined to unlock the secrets of their wicked inheritance. 

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War veterans, celebrated wolf hunters, even the king’s own gunbearer all tried to slay the blood-thirsty Beast of Gévaudan. It was finally brought down in 1767, three years and dozens of deaths after it first appeared. Some believe it was a werewolf, or perhaps a serial killer in disguise. An autopsy of the monster points to a possible royal conspiracy.

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Villagers in 18th-century France suffered through a years-long spree of grisly attacks from an unstoppable predator they couldn’t identify. The carnage was so bad, one bishop claimed the beast was a punishment from God. 

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After Roberto Calvi’s mysterious death in 1983, his wife Clara immediately rejected the idea that he had killed himself. She argued instead that he was murdered for threatening to expose a powerful organization’s criminal ties. The only question was: Which one?

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Roberto Calvi was a notorious banking bigwig whose criminal co-conspirators included a Vatican archbishop, a man known as “The Shark,” and the Mafia. By the time his body was found underneath a bridge in London, his empire was coming undone, and his death was ruled a suicide. But was it? 

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As eyewitness accounts start cropping up in the mainland, the chupacabra becomes less like a spiny alien-reptile, and more like a mangy coyote. But chupa-believers hold firm, and theories abound. Maybe the creature was invented by NASA. Maybe it was an extraterrestrial. Or maybe the real vampire was something else entirely.

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Vicious fangs, leathery wings, and the lingering scent of sulfur... These are the terrifying encounters and conspiracy theories that have breathed life into the legend of Puerto Rico’s blood-sucking chupacabra.

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The origins of this treasure hunt are as complex as the ciphers themselves. Who really was the man behind the codes? And why are they seemingly still eluding the most advanced cryptographers in the world?

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