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Legends 53: Lunacy (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2025-05-12 04:01:01 +0000 UTCLegends are all around us. But few topics in the world of folklore do as good a job of illuminating our flawed nature as humans that the stories hanging over our heads.
Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Alex Robinson and research by Cassandra de Alba.
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Lexy
Loved this episode
