132: Time-Slip Artifacts: Modern Objects in the Ancient World - Volume 1

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623: Witnesses of: Black Eyed Kids, Phone Calls from the Dead, The Cursed Heart

Gather round for three campfire stories investigators cannot explain.A dead man's phone calls thirty-five times in twelve hours, guiding rescuers through wreckage to his body. The phone battery should have died. The phone was never found.A heart transplant patient inherits his do ...  Show more

622: COMPILATION: Staff Picks A to Z: From Aliens to Zombies, From Giants to Gobekli Tepe

This special compilation brings together ten staff favorites that question everything we think we know about reality. From the dark corridors of DARPA where future technology is born to the frozen wastelands of Antarctica where Admiral Byrd allegedly encountered an advanced civil ...  Show more

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