The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd
Unusual Rituals
Season 1 Episode 7
The star of Ghostbusters, Blues Brothers and Trading Places opens up a cabinet of curiosities to reveal the strangest-but-true stories in human history. Here, he examines the notion of using human bones as a 'miracle cure' for gout and hears tales of living mummies being buried alive and a truly bizarre Victorian way to lose weight - using tapeworms
The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd airs on Sky History at 9:00 PM, Saturday 15 March. (Subtitles.)
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Dan Aykroyd
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