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Mar 2023
57m 29s

The Grief Vampires

THE THINKING ATHEIST
About this episode
Skeptic and debunker Susan Gerbic joins the show to talk about celebrity psychics who prey on the grieving and vulnerable. Her team has spent years exposing these "grief vampires," and we discuss.

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