Welcome to AirNManky'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.

When a child breaks a window, there's usually a complicated story behind what happened.

Like how the wind blew the ball away, and then a bird caught it, and dropped it as it

was flying over the house, which sent it crashing through the window.

Never mind the bat in the kid's hand.

Richard Sharp Shaver also had some wild stories in his back pocket.

Born in Virginia in 1907, Richard eventually grew up to work in a factory, where one day

in 1932, he experienced a bizarre event.

It was around that time that he realized that his welding gun had become calibrated in

such a way that it gave him the ability to hear other men's thoughts.

Not only that, apparently the signal was so strong that he was able to hear demonic

beans deep below the surface of the earth as they tortured other people.

Now the story behind how he came to possess these powers changed almost every time he

told it, but he always swore that it was true.

Richard eventually had to quit his job at the factory.

He also gave up his home.

As he put it, he became a hobo for several years before writing the letter to the popular

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