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Buried alive in total darkness with no way to escape.
Invisible forces with demonic intent that control your mind and body.
And ordinary objects with supernatural powers that leave a trail of death
and destruction.
Fear to universal emotion, human emotion.
It is often essential to our very survival.
Our biological drive to stay safe is designed to help protect us from danger,
both real and imagined.
We might be startled or even amused at times by loud noises, dark places, or
confined spaces.
But what happens when the stuff of nightmares is not a dream, but instead a
terrifying reality?
That is what we'll try and find out.
All over the world, various cultures practice a period of mourning between
time of a person's death and when they're finally laid to rest.
This is the time to pay respects, to process one's loss.
And in some cases, to quell the fear that the dearly departed might still be
alive and prematurely placed six feet under.
The fear of being buried alive. It was a fairly common fear up until 20th
century. Medical practices meant fewer people were in fact buried alive.
It was most common in 18th and 19th century Europe and America.
Mostly due to the medical practices and the burial practices at the time. This
was when medical diagnoses could get things wrong.
And people were, in fact, buried alive. And stories of that became
sensationalized. And therefore the panic would spread.
In the 19th century, the great fear of being buried alive was partly because
this was the age of cholera.
Cholera causes severe diarrhea, which can deplete all the electrolytes in your
body, and in extreme cases can induce a coma.
So sometimes people appear dead, and they're actually in this sort of
state, and they can come out of it. But if you bury them, then you've buried
them alive, and that is a terrible death.
Historically, the thought of being trapped in a wooden box beneath
pounds of dirt with no possibility of escape was so widespread that this fear
was actually given a name.
It's called taphophobia.
Taphophobia is the idea of simply just the fear of being buried alive.
Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote about premature burial, was...
terrified of being buried alive.
Frederick Chopin, the composer, wanted to be stabbed in the heart and bled out
to make sure that he was dead when doctors believed that he was.
And even George Washington was so afraid of being buried alive that he had
written in his will that his body had to remain in bed for three days after they
thought he was dead to make sure that he didn't come back.
It was estimated by the 1890s that some 2 % of people being
buried were buried alive.
Now, this is a gross exaggeration, no doubt, but it was believed at the time,
enough so that organizations like the London Association for the Prevention of
Premature Burial was founded in 1896.
Then they lobbied Parliament for greater diligence on the part of doctors to
make sure that doctors were verifying death.
Despite doctors' best efforts, it was simply difficult at the time to
whether a person was alive or dead.
And so in order to ease people's minds, authorities in Europe were forced to
take drastic measures.
Vienna, Austria.
Within this storied city lies the Vienna Central Cemetery, the second largest
cemetery in the entire world.
In the heart of the cemetery stands a small building that today houses a
But in the 19th century, it was referred to as a lichen house.
The lichen house was a kind of mortuary where corpses were kept for a
period, typically about three days, and watched over by attendants to make sure
that a person was truly dead and wouldn't be buried alive in a state of
catalepsy.
Those who worked at the Leichenhaus, the undertakers mainly, could ensure that
people are not being buried alive.
They had several measures. They could use, for example, a heart -step knife.
And there was basically a treatment that you could order by doctors. And then
one doctor had the possibility, the option, and the privilege to step the
into your heart to make sure that you're not going to be buried alive.
In modern times, it may sound a little disturbing to hear that doctors once
stabbed their patients in order to determine whether they were alive or
But the truth is, the hysteria about being buried alive was so prevalent that
entire industry sprang up to help calm such fears by producing bizarre
contraptions that were known as safety coffins.
If you were afraid of being buried alive, the solution was the safety
And this began very simply with a bell tied to a string that went down under
earth into the coffin. And if you were buried alive and you woke up in a
you could pull that string, the bell would ring, and hopefully somebody would
hear it and come dig you out.
And this tradition is where we get the expression, saved by the bell.
If you had more money, safety coffins could get more elaborate. They could add
air tubes.
They could add windows so you would have some lights inside the coffin.
And there were even cases of people buried with a key in their pocket so
could unlock the casket from the inside if this happened.
There were loads of patents taken out for these safety coffins, and they would
include devices like little flags that could be raised.
Sometimes safety coffins included food or water. They would have breathing
tubes. They might even include periscopes.
One of the best -known ones really belonged to a doctor named Timothy Clark
Vermont. He came up with his own safety coffin device.
He had a set of stone stairs installed next to his grave that could be opened
by a concrete block that was sitting beside it. That way, anyone could get
to rescue him if he needed to be rescued.
But the real kicker to the whole thing was that he had a glass window installed
directly over his face, set into the stone.
However, he died in 1893, and the doctors did not make a mistake. He
dead.
Safety coffins may seem like a quaint fad from a bygone era that has no
relevance in our world today.
But believe it or not, there have been some recent cases in which people appear
to have been mistakenly buried alive.
Being buried alive is very, very rare, at least in our own time, but it does
still occasionally happen.
As recently as 2018, there was a case in Brazil where a woman woke up in her
grave and is thought to have survived for 11 days there.
Being buried alive doesn't happen nearly as often as it used to, but if you
think about it, waking up in a coffin would be probably one of the most
terrifying things that could ever happen to you.
The very idea that a small mistake due to negligence or misdiagnosis Could
one to be buried alive?
Is a terrifying thought.
But it's often what we can't see that instills fear the most.
Like in the case of an ancient predator who still lurks beneath the ocean's
surface with a frightening history of hunting for human flesh.
Beach Haven, New Jersey, July 1st, 1960.
25 -year -old Charles Van Sant is swimming in the brisk Atlantic waters
coast of this resort community when he's suddenly attacked by a massive shark.
Lifeguards pull Van Sant from the water and see that his left thigh has been
stripped of its flesh by a massive set of razor -sharp jaws.
The story is that they had to almost wrestle him away from the shark. They
pulled him ashore with the shark following him still.
His father, who was a doctor, operated on him or tried to save his life, but he
died of a flesh wound to a bite on his thigh, actually, and lots of blood.
The gory death of Charles Van Zandt was the first recorded fatal shark attack in
U .S. history.
And then, on July 6th, A mere five days after Van Sant was killed,
there was another attack along the Jersey Shore.
Charles Bruder, who's a 27 -year -old Swiss native who was in the Army, went
a swim and 1 ,200 feet out in the middle of the day was attacked and bitten by
what appeared to be about an eight or nine foot great white shark.
It severed his legs and a part of his torso.
By the time the lifeguards got out there,
There was hardly anything to lift into the boat.
This second deadly attack was widely reported in newspapers across the
and set off a nationwide panic.
Many people believed it was no longer safe to swim in the ocean off the coast
New Jersey.
And several beaches were closed by the authorities.
The public reaction was hysterical. There were calls all the way up to
Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson had a cabinet meeting and talked to the early men who founded the
Coast Guard about eradicating all the sharks on the East Coast.
Bounties were given by towns and cities, and anybody that could kill any shark
could get $100.
You had fishermen going out catching and killing sharks, and it wasn't just in
New Jersey. It was all up and down the eastern seaboard.
and even infiltrated into the coastal states, Texas, Louisiana, and
as far as the Pacific coast of North America.
Less than one week after Charles Bruder was killed, on July 12th, three more
people were attacked by what many witnesses claimed was an eight - or nine
shark.
Curiously, all five of these incidents took place along a 50 -mile stretch off
the coast of New Jersey.
Because of their proximity and the similarities between eyewitness
many began to wonder whether the horrific attacks could have been the
single killer shark.
The New Jersey attacks are so strange because sharks don't kill people with
kind of regularity and nobody witnesses it with any kind of regularity when it
happens. But the concept of a rogue shark that kills or injures one person.
then that gets a taste for human flesh and goes after another like a serial
killer. The Jersey Shore may be the best evidence we have that that's ever
happened. On July 14, 1916, two weeks after the first fatal attack, a
taxidermist named Michael Schlaeser caught a 7 1⁄2 -foot, 325 -pound great
shark off the northern end of the Jersey Shore.
After cutting open its stomach, authorities found what appeared to be
digested human remains.
There are many who believe that this great white shark was responsible for
five attacks that took place, four of which were fatal.
Fatal shark attacks on humans are seldom predatory for feeding.
So what was going on that would cause a series of five attacks over a...
11 -day period, what was behind all of this?
People panicked.
No one wanted to go in the ocean.
So its effect on individuals, citizens, was enormous.
And it was something that, to this day, still has an effect on us.
The 1916 Jersey Shore attacks helped to popularize the notion of sharks as
deadly man -eaters.
More than 50 years later, the killings inspired the 1974 novel Jaws by Peter
Benchley, which became the basis of the blockbuster film made by Steven
Spielberg that terrorized generations of beachgoers.
But despite their bad reputation, the truth is that sharks rarely kill humans.
According to statistics gathered by the International Shark Attack File, on
average,
There are only five fatal shark attacks worldwide per year.
So why does the belief persist that some sharks are a serious threat to humans?
Sharks, unsurprisingly, have terrified people forever because sharks
live an enormous amount of their life out of sight, unlike...
terrestrial species that we can see.
Sharks live underwater, and the only time that we really interact with sharks
when they come to the surface, and that tends to be in antagonistic
circumstances with people.
Traditional island cultures have had multiple deities that have shark
appearance, and that comes from an inherent fear that we are at risk of
They have this power of life or death over us.
Sharks are apex predators.
The idea that sharks can be celebrated in their culture might seem a bit odd.
After all, they do kill people.
But there's a couple things to consider. One is that they are recognized as apex
predators, and this is something that people often aspire to. Also, the idea
that these are apex predators, and you'd better understand them.
Over the years, sharks, especially white sharks, have been portrayed as killers.
Unfortunately, people are killed from time to time.
It has been postulated that white sharks hunting have similarities into the
tactics utilized by serial killers.
Serial killers use what is referred to as an anchor point, which is where they
will sit and watch and pick their victim.
White sharks do the same thing.
White sharks like to hunt stealth, where the intended victim can't see them.
A lot of people often look at sharks and think that there's nothing going on.
But great whites are intelligent animals. We've watched great whites
fields. And you'll find the older great whites will pick out specific
individuals, usually young ones.
It's very methodical. So it is 100 % possible that some sharks
like the taste of people.
Are there certain sharks that specifically and methodically hunt
Some marine biologists have suggested it's possible.
But if this theory is true, then what's even more disturbing is that a killer
shark may keep stalking people for a very long, long time.
Great white can live to be 80 plus years old. There's some accounts of specimens
being over 100.
They study their subject just like a serial killer. They learn from their
mistakes just like a serial killer.
That's terrifying.
Coming face to face with a predator like a great white shark would be terrifying
to say the least.
Just imagining an encounter with a dangerous creature can trigger our
fear of being overtaken by something much stronger than us.
Like in the case of a powerful presence.
They can possess the human soul.
Bavaria, West Germany, 1973.
Annalise Michel, a 20 -year -old student at the University of Würzburg, claims
that she's hearing disembodied voices and seeing visions of
the devil.
Before long, her family comes to believe that Annalise suffers from a condition
that defies understanding.
Demonic possession.
Annalise Mikkel was indeed tormented by a possessing something.
She spoke in a horrendously growly voice.
Her eyes seemed to go black.
And she had a great aversion to holy statues, which are a great many in the
house, because they were very high as Catholics.
And she was taken to a doctor who said she might be epileptic.
And she was taken to a psychiatrist.
Nothing changed in her life. In fact, she was getting worse and worse.
Her family believed from the beginning she was possessed.
The Catholic Church accepted that framework and engaged in the exorcism.
Ultimately, Anneliese McKell died of starvation and dehydration over the
of numerous exorcisms.
This was a case where that belief directly led to her death.
What we cannot say for certain is what was really...
going on. I can't say that she for sure was not possessed or for sure was.
The story of Annalise Miquel is perhaps the best known case of an alleged
demonic possession.
But what happened to her?
Was she actually possessed by demons?
And if so, how does one identify when a person's mind and body have been taken
over by Satan?
During the course of my career, I've witnessed a number of cases of
in my life, but I definitely started as a skeptic. I certainly never thought I
would see anything sort of paranormal or diabolic.
A priest, who I guess knew I was Catholic, I don't exactly know how he
name, but he came to my office when I was at Cornell Medical College.
And he said, Dr. Gallagher, I'd like you to evaluate someone
for me who I think has a demonic attack.
And I said, well, with all due respect, Father, you know, I'm an academic
psychiatrist and I'm pretty skeptical of those sort of things. And I remember
what he said to me. He said, you're the perfect man for the job because we want
somebody who's skeptical.
Of course, in the years since, you know, 25 plus years, I've seen so much that
I'm not a skeptic anymore.
There are very strict criteria which clearly have to be present
to distinguish the case from a psychiatric or a medical disorder.
You have to see something that is inexplicable in terms of purely
science.
Things that could not possibly manifest in somebody who doesn't have a diabolic
attack.
The first case sent to me was a woman who claimed that she would be lying in
bed and she would be pummeled by invisible forces.
She and her husband were convinced.
that she was attacked by demons.
So we did a number of medical tests on her because she had bruises all over her
body.
And at the end of my evaluation, since she was a very sane, lovely woman,
I said to the priest, look, this doesn't seem like a medical or psychiatric
case. It doesn't seem possible.
Mysterious bruises.
inflicted by invisible forces.
While that may sound like something out of a Hollywood horror movie, the truth
is that the counts of possession have been recorded for thousands of years.
Any scholar can tell you cases of demonic possession go all the way back
Bible, when Jesus had to cast the demon out of a man into a herd of swine, who
then ran off of a cliff and into the water. Very famous story in the Bible.
And stories of demonic possession, they're not confined to Christianity.
The idea of possession is inherently tied to the idea of Satan and demons,
it's an attempt by Satan to take over your personality, to ultimately control
you.
Satan's end game, according to the Bible, is to draw as many people away
Christ as possible. So his end game is to get as many people to move from God
him. So his ultimate role is as a tempter.
The film The Exorcist is believed to have really brought attention to the
of possession, but it's not that those ideas started with The Exorcist. Those
ideas spread with The Exorcist.
The Exorcist was actually based on a real case.
It was a 12 -year -old boy who was possessed, not a girl.
How did he get possessed?
Using a Ouija board for months.
Start doing something occult. That creates an inner vulnerability to evil.
You're using magic that does not come from the Lord. You might not know this,
but you're actually invoking the powers of Satan, whether you believe it or not.
Most people who are possessed, in a sense, they've invited it in, wittingly
unwittingly.
Possession is the most dramatic attack of a demon upon a human being.
And in a way, spiritual warfare should be a concern of everybody.
that we're all sort of in a battle in our own souls between goodness and evil.
It's frightening to think that a person can be controlled by an evil entity.
And while it's difficult to determine if possession is a spiritual or a
psychological phenomenon, and perhaps even more terrifying,
It's the biological aberration that can turn the deceased into the walking dead.
Lestera, Haiti, 1980.
In this small village, Angelina Narcisse was going about her day when she was
approached by a man claiming to be her brother,
Clairvius. It may sound like a heartwarming tale of reunion, but there
one problem.
Clairvius Narcisse had been dead and buried for nearly 20 years.
Clairvius was a Haitian man born in 1922.
In the year 1962, he went to a hospital.
His symptoms had been a severe fever, fatigue, and he'd been coughing up
His heart stopped, and he stopped breathing, and was declared dead and
Twenty years later, a man claiming to be Clairvius showed up at his village and
approached his family.
In many respects, his story did check out. He bared a physical
resemblance to the deceased. He went by a nickname that was only known to him
and his sister when they were very little kids.
And so he was able to relate certain details of...
his former life that seemed to add up.
But if Clairvius Narcisse died and was buried, then how on earth was he alive
and able to track down his sister almost 20 years later?
Well, according to Clairvius, the reason he was not lying dead in his grave was
that a voodoo priest had transformed him into a zombie.
In Haiti, a zombie is an individual who's had their soul stolen by sorcery,
causing them to be sort of flung into a perpetual place of purgatory through
this incredible transition of death, rebirth, and return to the living,
induced by the folk poison known as a poud zombie.
It was a plethora of ingredients, including various plants and the toxin
fish. It selectively blocks sodium channels and nerves, bringing on
until the moment of death.
And yet critically, if you get through that, you have nothing to worry about.
This fascinating poison had made people appear to be dead.
In Haitian folklore specifically, the zombie is not a villain but a victim.
In these cases...
people are turned into zombies and forced to work on sugar cane plantations
Haiti, and also in the Caribbean, but primarily Haiti.
And this has been a legend going back many, many years, centuries, in some
cases, certainly since the slave trade.
And it was all considered to be just sort of a legend until 1980, when
Narcisse emerged.
He told the story, it made huge news, as you can imagine, because this was a
first. personal account of somebody who was a former zombie, right? So this is
wild. This is crazy.
According to Clairvius, he had been paralyzed by a voodoo priest.
This was a result of being drugged, and this paste mixture that he
was forced to consume kept him in this death -like toper.
Narcisse is buried, and...
The priest then dug him up from his grave and enslaved him on a sugar cane
plantation for 20 years.
From the Haitian point of view, the fate of a zombie is said to become an
indentured servant.
And losing your soul, losing your identity, your personal autonomy,
make this a fate worse than death.
The story of Clairvius Narcissus being buried and then revived as an undead
zombie made headlines around the world.
Numerous experts investigated the case in hopes of shedding light on what
exactly took place.
The first question on everyone's mind was whether Clairvius had only appeared
be dead because he was drugged, or if there was some truth to the idea that he
actually died.
and then was revived by the power of voodoo.
What made the case of Narcisse unique was one single thing. He had been
pronounced dead in an American -directed philanthropic institution, the
Schweitzer Hospital.
And his family members had witnessed the death and authenticated it at the time.
So all these lines of evidence led scientists to go public in the 1980s,
saying they felt they had found the first medically verifiable instance of
zombification.
The doctors who had initially declared Narcisse dead were no longer at the
hospital 20 years later when he returned.
However, many doctors looked into his case and did tests and proved that it
in fact him.
why the premature diagnosis and why he was buried prematurely is unknown.
And where he was for 20 years is unknown.
But there are photos of him sitting on his own gravestone.
There are many theories as to what caused Clairvius Narcisse to be declared
and then seemingly brought back to life.
Ultimately, what happened to him remains a mystery.
But many Haitians are convinced.
the Clavius did, in fact, rise from the grave.
And for some, his story is a reminder that the distinction between the living
and the dead may not be as clear -cut as we commonly think.
When we imagine zombies in the 21st century, we tend to imagine the dead
from the grave to prey upon the living. That is not the case in Haitian voodoo
practices.
Zombification in voodoo was not something that was done to the dead. It
something that was done to the living.
It was turning the living into a fugue -like state, a death -like state.
But they were not reanimated corpses.
Narcisse never doubted that he'd become a zombie.
In Haiti, a zombie is a complete pariah who walks the edge between life and
death and will do so for the rest of their existence.
And so this idea that a person could be brought back to life
fills all of us with mystery and trepidation and dread.
The prospect that any of us could become a reanimated husk of our former selves
is a haunting image.
But just how one joins the ranks of the walking dead is debatable.
Is it a biological response?
A psychological phenomenon?
Or could there really be something to the power of a deadly curse?
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Just outside the city, on a normal suburban street, in an ordinary
is the home of Greg and Dana Newkirk.
From the outside, their home is not much different from any other house on the
block. Get some fork action going on. But inside, it contains something
quite extraordinary.
Because there is a room in the basement that is filled with a collection of
strange objects sent by people from all over the world that are believed to be
cursed.
Greg and I lead normal lives, and we go about our life the same way that
everyone else does.
We just happened to be caretakers for very strange objects.
The way that we got started collecting cursed objects was complete accident.
It wasn't something that we had set out to do.
Never would have imagined myself doing this.
We were just interested in general weirdness.
My wife and I investigate all manner of high strangeness, and we were both very
interested in the idea of cursed objects.
We slowly gained a reputation as being particularly good people for this.
And so anytime anyone had a problem with an artifact, they would come to us and
say, I don't know what to do with this. This thing is affecting my life.
Will you just take it off my hands? It'd be easier to just give it to you and
let you deal with it.
So we built up this collection of very bizarre things.
Visitors to the Newkirk's home are given ample warning.
that the basement is filled with objects that are cursed.
We have a lot of haunted robes. But curiously, every day, the new curts
requests from people who are eager to view their cursed collection.
You'd think with cursed objects you'd want to avoid them, but there is a draw
them.
When an object is said to be cursed, another word you could use is special.
It's special. If this chair is cursed, it's different from every other chair in
the world.
And that makes it unique, that makes it interesting, and that draws our
attention every single time. And the fact that that specialness is that it
people, that appeals to a certain macabre streak that we all have as human
beings.
People think of cursed objects as being kind of fun and spooky.
But working with them, it feels a lot less about that and a lot more about
kind of heavy responsibility to keep some of these objects with us under lock
and key and maybe out of the wrong hand and maybe in a place that's safer not
only for everyone else but for them.
The Newkirk's collection includes several objects that are considered to
the power to inflict harm on anyone who comes near them.
This is the cursed deer skull.
We drove down to Nashville to pick up from a woman who saw this in an antique
store and took it back to her office, and almost immediately her employees
started getting sick. One of her employees was hit by a car, and then the
that this was hanging on actually fell down and took half of the building with
it.
There are certain objects specifically in our museum that... Without people
knowing why they feel the way that they feel, they will definitely have heart
palpitations, anxiety.
We've had people almost faint. We've had people throw up. We've had people dry
heave.
People have very visceral physical reactions to being around some of the
objects.
Among the accursed objects in the new Kirk's collection is a deadly ring that
claimed to kill anyone who wears it.
A Bible used during a failed exorcism.
And a doll that is believed to spread illness wherever it goes.
But of all the cursed objects the Newkirks have come across, there is one
is so harrowing, they refuse to keep it in their collection.
It is an unsettling wooden effigy known as the Chrome.
The Chrome really is the definition of kind of a cursed object.
It is a carved statue of a woman.
Someone at some point in time took this object and attached the noose and the
nails.
It was given to us by some hikers who found it in the Catskills off the beaten
path in a cave.
They took it home and initially started to experience really frightening things.
Their animals were behaving strangely. They were finding wet footprints on the
ground, and they didn't know what to do.
Someone who we had worked with previously put them in contact with us,
having some communication with them, they sent the crone to us.
People who would get near the crone, they would be just overwhelmed with
anxiety.
This guy came all the way from Canada to come and see the crone.
He begged us to take it out of the box, almost immediately.
His eyes roll up in the back of his head, and he starts to bleed from his
And he has a violent seizure, and he has to be taken out by the paramedics.
And that's when Dana and I looked at each other, and we said, we have to do
something about this.
The Catskill Mountains, October 2018.
After a string of frightening incidents, Greg and Dana Newkirk are convinced
that a strange object in their possession known as the crone is cursed.
So they've traveled to this remote region of upstate New York to free
of the evil object.
The crone is one of the objects that does fall into that very small category
objects that we didn't feel like we could handle.
It got to a point where the crone was just too dangerous for even us to take
care of.
And what we wanted to do was bring her back to the Catskills, which is where
she's from.
To remove the crone's curse, the Newkirch plan was to return to the area
it was originally found by two hikers many years before, at which point they
would remove the nails embedded in the crone.
in a cleansing ritual.
We wanted to bring her back, and every time a nail was pulled out, the
was that we were pulling that curse out of the object.
We hiked into the woods for miles, and I set up a circle.
The idea of setting up a circle was basically just to create an energetic
for containing this ritual.
The whole time we were doing this, we were hearing footsteps and strange
that weren't animals around our circle.
But we couldn't see anything.
We were absolutely terrified. But we start performing the ritual. I pull the
nails out.
Soon as that happens, we feel this almost electric pop in the air.
When we were done, every coyote on the mountain just started howling.
And the ritual was finished, and what we were looking at was just a block of
wood. And we just kind of knew that we had done what we went there to do.
Scholars of religion have long known the power of ritual, that when a group of
people get together and engage in the same set of actions, believing that
there's a supernatural origin behind them, that brings people together.
And so special movements that you need to go through, special sayings or songs
that you need to do.
It's incredibly powerful phenomena that can help rid of the devil or whatever
other force has cursed us.
Is it possible that ritually cleansing the crown removed its curse?
Perhaps.
But of course, it all depends on.
Whether you believe curses are real in the first place.
Whether you believe in cursed objects or don't believe in cursed objects, they
can still have a power over you.
What that power is, to what extent that is, how it kind of comes out,
who knows?
But they're still powerful objects, no matter how you look at it.
For people who don't believe in curses, what I would say is, Keep believing
they're not real.
That's the best defense you have against a curse.
To not feed it.
So, what do you think?
Is there good reason we should take heed of our primal fears?
And follow intuition when our heart starts to race and we tremble and
turn to dread and impending danger?
There are good reasons for our body and mind to protect us from obvious risks.
But exactly why we've become frightened of dark entities, unseen evil and unholy
objects, may be better left unexplained.
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