When a Florida family found a strange metallic globe in a field back in 1974, they didn't

know it yet, but they had just created something that turned into an internet legend, and

they hadn't even dreamed of the internet yet.

It's called the Bet's Mystery Sphere, and articles and videos all over the internet

credited with an amazing range of supernatural powers.

Let's examine this sphere for ourselves, and see if any of these powers are real.

That's up next, UnSkeptoid.

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It was March 27th, 1974, and members of the Bet's family were in Florida, inspecting

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