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A Disappearance from the Ocean View Hotel

In 1926, a wildly popular evangelical preacher named Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach, in front of the Ocean View Hotel. When her body wasn’t found, she was presumed to have drowned. There’s just one curious thing: Over the next few weeks, people kept on seeing her.

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  Why Is There a Statue of Columbo in Budapest?

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  The Coffee Palace (Classic)

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  Ashley House (Classic)

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  The Bible with a Massive Portrait of a Devil Inside

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  The Mysterious Drones at Langley Air Force Base

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  Dylan’s Mailbag: Trips We’d Never Go On, the First Places in the Atlas, an…

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  We Want To Hear From You: Love & Travel

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  The Super Museum (Classic)

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  The Wall of Sound

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  Where We Would Spend Our Last Day Before the Apocalypse

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  How to Dine Like an Ancient Philosopher

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  The Library on the Border

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  National Parks Week: Discovery Tree

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  National Parks Week: The Allagash Four

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  National Parks Week: Montezuma Well

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  National Parks Week: Yellowstone’s Zone of Death