Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosities, a production of I Heart 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. You go on a blind date with a friend of a friend and

five minutes into cocktails discover that they share your birthday. You dream about

someone you haven't thought about in years and then get a call that they have

passed away. Your partner asks you to pick up a specific shampoo brand from the

store and all of a sudden you start seeing

seeing commercials for it everywhere.

Odd little coincidences like this happen all the time.

History is full of them, but when they appear out of the blue, it can feel downright uncanny.

Take the story of 10-year-old Laura Buxton. In June of 2001,

Laura was in Staffordshire, England celebrating her grandparents 50th wedding anniversary.

And on a whim, Laura's grandfather suggested that they release one of the gold Mylar balloons that were decorating the grounds.

Laura would attach a note to the balloon with instructions to contact her.

If they were lucky, someone would get in touch

and they'd find out exactly how far their balloon had gone.

Well, that balloon traveled 140 miles south before

landing in a hedge in the county of Wiltshire. A farmer found it and read the

attached note and then he headed next door. As chance would have it, this farmer was

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