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.

It's been argued that one of the only jobs a person can get wrong and still keep is that

if a TV news media orologist.

If a weather person said it was going to be sunny in 75 but you should have brought your

parka and a snow shovel, you might think twice about believing them in the future.

What happens less and less these days though as modern technology allows forecasters to

better track weather patterns and storm paths up to the minute.

But back in 1838, that wasn't the case.

And yet Irish astrologer and meteorologist Patrick Murphy still managed to shock London

with a forecast nobody could have predicted.

Well, nobody except Patrick.

He had come to England from Cork, Ireland in 1822.

A few years later he launched his first publication titled An Inquiry Into The Nature and Cause

of Myasma of 1825.

Myasma is defined as a vapor or fume that causes disease like those coming off of a swamp.

It's also used to describe an unsavory atmosphere.

Patrick followed up his first book with a new one in 1830 entitled, Routiments of the

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