574: Project Redsun: NASA's Secret Manned Missions to Mars

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624: Ancient Prophecies Predicted Hitler's Rise and Fall

For centuries, prophets across different lands described the same coming disaster. A German leader would rise with a voice that could move nations.Ancient Jewish scribes embedded something strange in their text—Hebrew letters that pointed to a specific year: 1946. That October, t ...  Show more

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

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