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Nov 2022
58m 25s

Mythology Classic: The Flying Dutchman

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Stories of ghost ships are as old as mythology itself… Now we’re bringing life to one of the most famous of them all: the Flying Dutchman. It vanished sometime in the 1600s, only to reappear as a specter that foretells doom for anyone sailing along South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope — once known as “The Cape of Storms.” This episode originally aired on Mytholo ... Show More
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