Are you prepared to venture to the darkest, most haunted locations in the world?

It was all solid black like shadow.

As your host, Amy Bruny, I'm ready to take you on a spine-tingling journey through the unknown.

There was a man sitting in the corner, she saw him, and then it was gone.

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Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of IHeart Radio and grim and mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities.

In the 1960s and 70s, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were in a race for control, for nuclear

power, for outer space, and of course, for our minds.

But I'm not talking about propaganda or even ideology.

I'm talking about how, in 1970, one lone housewife in Russia set off a new type of cold war,

where two world powers tried to create

weapons of psychic destruction. Sometime in the early 1970s, tapes smuggled out of the Soviet

Union made their way to the CIA. One video recorded on March 10th of 1970 quickly became

an object of fascination to the agency.

The tape showed 44-year-old Nina Kulina, a housewife and former Red Army soldier,

in an observation room somewhere in Leningrad.

Sitting in front of her on a table was a tiny, still-beating heart.

The heart had been taken from a frog just minutes before, and placed in a solution

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