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Mysteries at the Museum

Failed Assassination of JFK, Max Factor, Martian Monkey

The Belmont Public Library in Belmont, New Hampshire has in its collection a small pin that is connected to a devious plot that threatened the country's most famous family. The Hollywood Museum in Hollywood, California displays a bizarre contraption that was designed by apioneer in the glamorous world of silver screen beauty. And in Decatur, Georgia, the Georgia Bureau of Investigations Museum has preserved evidence of a bizarre being that some believed was evidence of a close encounter.

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