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. Have you ever wondered who lived in your home before you did or what the land was used for before your home was built there?

Most of the time the answer is nothing unusual.

Before you and your family there was another family.

Or before someone built the house there was probably empty land or farmland or an orchard.

Sometimes there are more shocking stories though, like people finding artifacts in

their cellar walls or a burial ground discovered in their backyard.

It makes you think. You never really know the story of the space you occupy.

Who was there or what they did? But in the early 90s some water-side communities in Virginia and Maryland

got an answer to this question that they never expected.

It started in 1989 when a fleet of trucks rolled on to the culvert peninsula on Virginia's

eastern shore.

The peninsula juts into Chesapeake Bay,

which is a pretty elaborate body of water.

Its inlets reach into the land like veins,

the shorelines look like crackling ice on a window.

It makes a lot of people wonder how the bay got that way.

But the people in these trucks weren't thinking about that. You see, these were

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