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Rolling Hills Asylum in Bethany, NY once housed a diverse mixture of tragic cases and dark personalities.

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Thriller novelist Marcus Sakey knows good stories—and bad behavior. Now Marcus goes from city to city to identify three crimes or criminals that reveal the real character of the place.

Best-selling author Whitley Strieber's terrifying encounter with "visitors" at his family's cabin in 1985 set off an exploration of one of the most fascinating and frightening real stories of alien abduction ever recorded, and now will be revealed in an all new Shock Docs: The Visitors on Travel Channel and discovery+ on September 5th.

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