Welcome To The Show
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Last published Thu, Aug 27, 2020
Welcome to the town of Palermo! Inside, a carnival awaits. Games, challenges and weirdly fabulous attractions await.
Spiders crawling out of a woman's mouth, a strong man, a funhouse, mirror mazes, and more. The most tourist attracting place though, is under the red and white flaps of a tent.
A show awaits, revealing people who seem to be having supernatural abilities. Any normal person would dismiss these as "really good special effects." But are they really? Were all those pieces of magic and power just fake? What is under that trapdoor in which the performers make their entrance?
All will be answered if you just sit back, relax, and welcome, to the show.
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