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Beyond the Doc: Do You Believe It?

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Aired: 01/06/2015
02:55
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Rating: NR

From shrunken heads to chewing gum statues to woolly mammoth hair, the Ripley's Warehouse in Florida contains 10,000 bizarre artifacts that grew from Robert Ripley's original collection.

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Beyond the Doc: Do You Believe It?

Archivist Edward Meyer leads a tour of Ripley's unbelievable collection of oddities.

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