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Behind ‘The Mystery Man’ and the Shroud of Turin

Filipe d’Avillez
Oct 17, 2022
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Behind ‘The Mystery Man’ and the Shroud of Turin

All over the world men use their garages to store things their wives know they will never use again: weights, mountain bikes, model train sets. But only one man can claim to have kept a physiologically and anatomically correct, life-sized model of a tortured and crucified 33-year-old man in his garage.

For eight years.

That “Mystery Man,” as the Spanish a…

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