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Untold Earth
There’s Something Weird Going On With the Northern Lights
Season 2
Episode 4
The awe-inspiring visuals of the aurora borealis have fascinated humanity for centuries, but its most enduring mystery lies not in what we see but what some have claimed to hear for generations. Although such accounts have long been dismissed by modern science, could it be that these stories were right all along?
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