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In this playful sleep diversion, we explore the origin of phrases such as "butter someone up" and "sleep like a baby." A simple yet effective way to steer your brain away from busy or anxious thinking into a soft, soothing series of random facts... 

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Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie is a classic whodunit featuring the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. In this first chapter, we follow Poirt from France to England and back as he gets swept up in the mysterious murder of a wealthy financier. The case is filled with twists: a mysterious mistress, a long-lost love, a secret identity, and rivalries over money and power...

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Originating from ancient Celtic traditions, Halloween marks a time when people believed the boundary between the living and the dead was particularly thin. Today, it is viewed as a playful holiday and exploration of themes around fear and mortality, celebrating both the mystery of the unknown and the imagination...

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Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart recounts the murder of an old man, caused not by personal animosity but by an obsessive disgust of the man's "vulture-like" eye. Poe is an often misunderstood master of the macabre whose stories and poems illuminate the dark recesses of our minds. In this short story he reaches beyond what is self-evident to explore guilt, terror and madness... 

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The Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950s were a series of manipulations between contestants and show producers who rigged TV quizzes to benefit themselves. Occurring during a time in which public confidence in television was not yet established, the scandals rocked the broadcast industry and led to special inquiries by the US Congress...

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Originally published over 100 years ago, at a time when mystery and the unknown intermingled with the metaphysical, this ghost story brings us into a boarding house in New York City. Famously afflicted with occult wonders, this house hides secret terrors that may or may not be seen... 

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The Salem Witch Trials were one of Colonial America's most notorious cases of mass hysteria. All in all, more than two hundred people were accused between February 1692 and May 1693. Thirty were found guilty and nineteen were executed. The trials have been described as a vivid cautionary tale about the dangers of isolationism, religious extremism, false accusations, and lapses in due process. 

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Tonight’s story is about a real-life witch hunter, Matthew Hopkins, who exploited the fears and hysteria that surrounded the occult during the 17th century in England to satisfy his own perverse views on so-called sinners. Self-proclaimed "WitchFinder General," he and his associates were responsible for more people being hanged for witchcraft than had been in all the previous 100 years combined. #WikiSleep #WitchHunter #Sleep #ScaryStory #Witchcraft #MentalHealth 

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Zombies as we know them have their origins in Haitian and African folklore, where they were believed to be reanimated corpses controlled by sorcerers. The concept evolved in pop culture through the 20th century, gaining prominence in George A. Romero's 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead." Romero's movie marked the shift from voodoo-based zombies to the modern, flesh-eating and contagious kind undead. Since then, zombies have become a staple in horror literature, films and video games, representing societal fears and anxieties, while also providing a platform for creative exploration of the undead theme...

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In part two of Myths & Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, we learn about Reah, the division of the worlds and the origin of humans. It's a fascinating exploration of the true meaning of myth and what lies beneath... 

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