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What Do We Know About Crop Circles?
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- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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The What Do We Know About? series explores the mysterious, the unknown, and the unexplained. Are the geometric field patterns fact, myth, or legend?
Presenting What Do We Know About: an exciting new addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? series!
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