Goat Gland Doctor, Legend of the Red Ghost, Easter Island

Hanging in storage at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka is what appears to be a well-worn naval uniform. It actually belonged to a physician who practiced a bizarre and infamous surgery using the testicles of goats. What common malady was this operation said to cure? And did it really work? 

The U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum in Fort Lee, Virginia displays a brass bell that was linked to legendary beast known as the Red Ghost. What was this terrifying creature? And how did it come to stalk the Arizona desert? 

Within the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. stands an immense stone figure from a little-known corner of the globe. Who made this mysterious statue? And what role did it play in the collapse of an ancient civilization?

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