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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes similarities run in the family, and other times a close group of people end up thinking alike. Either way, they make great tales for the Cabinet.

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0:00.0

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:07.2

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

0:13.1

just waiting for us to explore.

0:16.2

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

0:27.7

Coincidences happen all the time.

0:30.2

If you've taken a tour through the Cabinet of Curiosity's before, I'm sure you've noticed

0:34.7

a few.

0:35.7

Tales of unexpected meetings are people in the wrong place at the wrong time.

0:41.4

Sometimes those coincidences are just that.

0:43.9

The unintended consequences of a random choice, lining up with a specific moment.

0:49.4

No premeditation, no effort.

0:52.0

These things, as some might say, just happen.

0:56.7

And sometimes the coincidence we find ourselves in is a little too perfect, almost as if fate

1:02.0

had been planning it all along.

1:04.0

That's how 17-year-old Erskine Eben might have described what happened to him.

1:09.1

Erskine was a teenager in 1975.

1:12.3

He went to school, hung out with his friends, and he swam in Bermuda's shimmering blue

1:17.0

water every day.

1:18.8

You know, usual teenager stuff.

1:21.2

Okay, maybe not exactly typical, because Erskine lived in Bermuda, a group of islands

1:26.1

often thought of as paradise.

1:28.6

White sandy beaches, water so clear you can see straight to the bottom, and more than

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