Welcome to AirNenky'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.

Earworms.

There are those songs you get stuck in your head and just can't seem to shake.

I'll spare you the torture of mentioning the names of a few, knowing what sort of impact

they might have on your day.

But I think we can all agree that earworms exist and can really burrow their way into

our minds.

There's no science behind it from what I can tell.

It just seems that every so often, a composer happily stumbles upon a few notes, arranged

in just the right way that produce an almost infectious tune.

Kids love to share them, adults love to hate them, and everyone does their best to avoid

them if they can.

One early version of an earworm started out life in France in the early 1700s.

It was a folk song written to lament the death of the first Duke of Marburel, who had been

rumored to have died during a battle in 1709, even though his death wasn't true, the

song struck a chord and stuck around.

For many decades it floated on the fringes of French society, known only by a few.

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