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What It Was Like
One Cursed Shipwreck and Four Mysterious Deaths
Season 1, Ep. 51
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In the early 1960s, Melbourne businessman Marshall Gibson salvaged a handful of brass portholes from a shipwreck and gave them to his friends. Over the next few years, many of these men, including Marshall himself, died in a series of strange accidents. In this episode, his son David examines the claim that the portholes were cursed.
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