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There's a vile sickness in Abbas town.

You must excise it.

Dig into the deep earth and cut it out.

From IHeart podcasts and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky,

this is Havoc Town. A new fiction podcast set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe, starring Jewel State and Ray Wise.

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Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet Cabinet of Curiosity's, A production of IHeartRadio 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 Curiosities.

The Cabinet of Curiosities is no stranger to premature burials. In the past, for example, we've

covered safety coffins, built with bells and other mechanisms to let those on the surface know

the person below them was not, in fact, deceased. We've also told stories of people who were

accidentally buried alive and rose from the dead to scare the pants off their living relatives.

John McIntyre, however, is a different kind of burial story entirely.

He lived in Edinburgh in the early 1800s, a time when body snatching was an easy way for ne'er-do-wells to make the money.

People, often men, would dig up freshly

deceased bodies and sell them to medical schools, which were in desperate need of cadavers for

educational purposes. It was a competitive industry, and body thieves, or resurrection men,

as they were called, resorted to inventive ways to pilfer corpses without anyone noticing.

For example, one method involved digging a hole about 20 feet away from the grave that was

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