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One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries
Release Date: 03/26/2024
One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries
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info_outlineIn the 1960s, one hopeful British psychiatrist hoped he could prevent disaster—not with science, but with the supernatural. For a number of years. Dr. John Barker’s “Premonition Bureaus” collected psychic visions with a single goal: stopping tragedy before it could strike.
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