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TIL about Amy Carlson, a woman who claimed to be God. She also claimed she was Cleopatra , Jesus, and Harriet Tubman in past lives and communed with a council of aliens made up of celebrities like Robin Williams, Tupac, Chris Farley, and Carol Burnett. She died in 2021.

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