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Nov 2022
34m 36s

Family Death Trap

Studio71
About this episode

Thanksgiving is meant to be a time reserved for counting your blessings, expressing your thanks, and to celebrate those you call family. But not all families look like the happy stock photos in a picture frame. Some households are fighting, plagued with ill fortune, or suffer from familia curses. For some, going home for the holidays with family is a death trap. 


First, deadly family feud 

Followed by ancient apparitions 

Then, the wish of death

Finally in our featured story, whistle and die


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