Why Would Someone Fake a Mummy's Gun Wound? - a podcast by Smithsonian Channel

Late 19th-century sideshows specialized in curiosities like mummies to attract crowds. And curiosities didn't come bigger than Sylvester, who was supposedly killed in a gunfight.

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