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Legends 39: Have Love Will Travel (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2024-10-28 04:01:01 +0000 UTCHistory has left us with countless stories of ghosts that stay in one place. But every now and then, our spectral neighbors uproot themselves and do a bit of traveling, leaving us with stories that are much more frightening than the rest.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Alex Robinson, and research by Jamie Vargas.
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Ross R
So good! Great job, guys.
