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Oct 2018
36m 53s

Ghosts of War

Studio71
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In this episode, Sapphire takes you to haunted battlefields all over the world. First in Bulgaria, where Vasil has a close encounter with the legendary Samodiva. Then, to an abandoned civil war railway in Louisiana, an unsettling military base in Singapore, the uninhabited home of a deceased soldier in the Philippines, and the mechanic shop of a former soldier on the East Coast.

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