Tales of the Unexpected: A Grab Bag of Odd Stories

True Crime Campfire by True Crime Campfire

May 15, 202653:08Society & Culture

People can be pretty strange. And not just people—as we’ll see in one story of this week’s episode, you can add all our extended family of primates to that. If you have a big brain and opposable thumbs, there’s a good ch...

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