Sudden Savant Syndrome Pt. 2

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Sudden Savant Syndrome Pt. 2

FromUnexplained Mysteries

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47 minutes

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Mar 19, 2020

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How does trauma birth genius? Is it related to the mind's ability to heal itself or latent powers encoded in human DNA? Or possibly, is it evidence of past lives?

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Mar 19, 2020

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“We don’t know.” answers too many questions. But in this podcast, we don’t take “we don’t know” for an answer. Every Thursday, Unexplained Mysteries investigates the greatest mysteries of history and life on earth, because the answer “we don’t know” is always the scariest. Unexplained Mysteries is part of the Parcast Network and is a Cutler Media production.

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