Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Humans have, historically, shown themselves to be risk-takers. But in one particular branch of folklore, many of those gambles have come at the hands of a very sinister otherworldly third party.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing by Alex Robinson and research by Jamie Vargas.
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