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When reporter Ralph Izzard, zoologist Charles Stonor and photographer Frank Hodgkinson heard rumors that a mysterious, dino-like creature lived in the swamps of India’s Assam Region, they resolved to find and capture the beast themselves.

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For thousands of years, men, women, and children were brutally killed, and their bodies were unceremoniously dumped into the peat bogs of northern Europe. Did these people die by murder, capital punishment, or human sacrifice? The answers remain submerged in ancient waters and peat.

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For decades, people harvesting peat from bogs uncovered frighteningly fresh-looking bodies. But beginning in the mid-1950s, researchers began to realize that these bog bodies were astonishingly well-preserved remains from the Iron Age, containing clues about long-dead cultures.

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Although the scientific community refused to accept the existence of a sixth sense, in the 2000s researcher Daryl Bem sought to design the perfect test to measure ESP ability. His persuasive results changed the course of psychological research forever.

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Does a sixth sense like precognition, telepathy, or telekinesis really exist? That’s what researcher J.B. Rhine set out to determine in the 1930s with a series of experiments into extra-sensory perception. But his controversial results would only spur more questions.

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Mummies and legends of ancient curses have gone hand-in-hand since the dawn of the field of Egyptology. In the first half of the 19th century, over a dozen people died after coming into contact with the tomb of the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh, King Tut. Even today, the viability of “King Tut’s Curse” is hotly debated. 

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When Howard Carter and his team of archaeologists first stepped into the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, they broke new ground in our understanding of ancient Egypt. Did they also unleash a curse? For years to come, strange events and unresolved deaths would plague those who explored the site.

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