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Episode 26: Brought Back

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Clervius Narcisse's Story

The story of Clervius Narcisse has perplexed scientists and historians for decades. He claims to have been poisoned by his brother over a property dispute. The men who dug him up were led by a priest called a bokor, he says. In the 1980s, Harvard sent an ethnobotanist named Wade Davis to investigate the mysterious drug.

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