Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

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 Curiosity's.

Those of us with hidden talents often discover them accidentally.

For example, Raj Mohan Nair of India lost his mother when he was very young.

Not wanting to live without her, he grabbed hold of a high tension wire attached to an

electrical transformer, but he was not injured.

The electricity that would have killed another human being simply passed through him without

causing any harm.

Since then, he's discovered his body is capable of handling multiple amps of electricity with

only minor side effects.

The average human can't even withstand a tenth of an amp without serious injury, or

death, which makes Nair something of a modern miracle, like a character out of a comic book

who has developed a superpower.

William McKenna's superpower, though, was not so much impressive as it was off-putting.

McKenna was born around 1868 in Long Island, New York.

His childhood is something of a mystery, but what we do know is that he got a job at

Myers-Glass factory in Brooklyn when he was just 14.

McKenna was on his lunch break one day, when he noticed a strange, but enjoyable, new

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