THE WYOMING INCIDENT - When Television Becomes Terror

THE WYOMING INCIDENT - When Television Become...

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POPOBAWA - Zanzibar’s Shapeshifting Demon

Bi Mwanaidi has washed the dead for thirty-one years and has never been afraid of a body. Then she finds the same tiny puncture beneath the eyelid on three bodies that seem to have nothing in common. And then a living man comes to her gate and asks her to prepare his body before ...  Show more

SIGBIN - The Backward-Walking Blood-Sucker of the Philippines

It walks backward, with its head hung between its hind legs. It claps its enormous ears like a hand. And it doesn't drink your blood from your throat. It drinks it from your shadow. This week we're headed to the Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines, for the legend of the Sigbi ...  Show more

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