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Nov 2021
1h 3m

The Dark Secrets Behind The Wizard of Oz

Morbid Network | Wondery
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For this Holiday week, we wanted to bring you a lighter (?) episode, although it’s really not so light at all! Alaina’s kids have gotten super into the Wizard of Oz and so she decided to do dive into the dark happenings during filming. All kinds of atrocities went down and we are pretty confident that you’ll never watch this movie the same! Sorry…. we mean y ... Show More
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