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Jun 2021
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S05 Episode 17: The Wondering

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By all accounts, Robert Taylor wasn’t a man prone to exaggeration. Certainly, encounters of the strange were the furthest thing from his mind when he headed out to work on the outskirts of Livingston, in Scotland, one chilly morning in November 1979. 

Soon, it would be all people would want to talk about...

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