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Beginning in the 1940s, ordinary people started to hear an invasive, low-frequency sound that consumed their lives. No matter where The Hum surfaces, only about 2% of any population can hear it—and its source is never clear.

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From around 1905 until his mysterious death in 1916, Grigori Rasputin held immense influence over the royal Romanovs. Despite the unsavory rumors that dogged him, his reputation as a healer and mystic gained him prominence… and a few enemies along the way. 

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He was the most talked-about man in Russia at the turn of the 20th century. Grigori Rasputin’s life reads like a twisted fairy tale, but even the most well-studied historians have a hard time separating the man from the darkness of his many myths.

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In the late '70s, the Men in Black shifted strategies from intimidation to disinformation. They traded black suits for polo shirts and became known as Mirage Men, becoming even more dangerous than their predecessors.

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The Men in Black may be more than a Hollywood film franchise… Reports of mysterious government agents silencing witnesses of alien activity on Earth date back to the '40s. To this day, nobody knows what the agents’ real intentions were—or if they were even human.

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When the Mary Celeste was found drifting in the Atlantic Ocean in 1872, the ship was mostly intact, and in good condition. Many believed its crew’s disappearance must have had violence at its root… But maybe the ship itself—and its cargo—held the real answer. 

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After its crew’s disappearance in 1872, speculation about the Mary Celeste ran rampant. But this wasn’t the first unusual and troubling incident in the American trade ship’s history—and some wondered whether the ship was cursed from the very start… 

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In 1966, Lorraine Fuller found her son, the eponymous frontman of The Bobby Fuller Four, dead under mysterious circumstances. His bandmates and family suspected foul play—and the list of suspects runs the gamut from the LA mafia to notorious cult leader Charles Manson.

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For almost two decades, thousands of anonymous, threatening letters plagued the small town of Circleville, Ohio. From unsolved murders to illicit affairs, the many mysteries behind the terror campaign still confuse anyone who dares tug at their loose threads.

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