Welcome to AirNmenky'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.

Science fiction author Isaac Asimov once noted that people are entirely too disbelieving

of coincidence.

Faced with a strange intersection of unrelated events, we tend to react in one of two ways.

We either shrug these coincidences off and move on, or we study them obsessively.

The crew of the SS St. Paul had no reason to believe in coincidences when they encountered

the HMS Gladiator.

At least, not yet.

The Gladiator was a worship of the British Royal Navy.

It had been launched in 1896 at a Portsmouth, England and boasted a crew of 250 officers.

On the afternoon of April 25, 1908, the Gladiator was steaming into port off the Isle of

Whites at a speed of roughly three knots, or just over three and a half miles per hour.

The crew couldn't see much with the snowstorm blowing outside, including other ships.

As the Gladiator headed up the Solent, a channel between the northern coast of the Isle of Whites

and the southern coast of England, a foghorn blared out in the distance.

It wasn't uncommon for ships to pass through this area, however, there was no way to see

what was approaching until it was too late.

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