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Mar 2023
38m 36s

Excited and Scared at the Same Time

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
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Outside for recess, more than 60 students at the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe reported seeing an unknown craft and strange creatures in a thicket of trees beyond their playground. Soon, researchers would arrive and begin to record the children's testimony. Or were they also shaping it?

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