In 1996, two dead men were found on a hilltop in Brazil with strange lead masks.

It's been a mainstay of bizarre mysteries among a number of communities, the UFOologists,

the end of Times crowd, even experimental drug culture.

Today, we're going to look at this old mystery, but this time, through the lens of how I

go about producing a Skeptoid podcast episode.

That's up next, UnSkeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, solving the lead masks of Vintem Hill.

For a long time, I've wanted to do an episode that doesn't just give the results of my findings,

but instead follows the process of researching and putting together an episode.

A lot of times that's hard to do, because most subjects include way more information

than can be squeezed into 12 minutes.

Much less include my research and development process.

But I finally got one that's just right.

It came from Brazil back in 1966, when the bodies of two men were found on a hillside.

By itself, it might not have been a very interesting case for the police, until they examined

the bodies.

Each item that they found made the case stranger and stranger.

It became known as the lead masks of Vintem Hill.

The idea first came in through my email, as most subjects do, from a listener who'd heard

of it and thought it sounded interesting.

Dead bodies found on a hilltop in Brazil wearing strange lead masks.

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