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Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, A Production of IHeart 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 Curiosity's.

Violet sat in the parlor of Welsh Dr. Edward Hughes-Jones.

He was twice her age, but she was professing her love for him.

He was so kind and so generous.

She was an heiress.

Her first husband was a soldier who died at sea, but his fortune wouldn't become hers until her 25th birthday, which was still years away. In the meantime, Dr. Jones

was offering to support Violet financially. They would become engaged and she would pay him back

tenfold in just a few years. She was so grateful,

she burst into tears and embraced him. With the help of Dr. Jones and other generous locals,

Violet was able to live the life befitting an heiress in the early 20th century. She stayed in a manor

home in Wales and wore fine fur coats and expensive jewelry.

One appraiser remarked that she had the finest collection of diamonds he had ever seen.

More than anything, Violet loved fast cars, and she acquired a collection of top-of-the-line

automobiles. She raced them through the countryside, and her maintenance bills grew to

thousands of pounds each year, the equivalent to hundreds of thousands of dollars today.

But happiness is always fleeting, isn't it?

And in Violet's case, her lavish lifestyle was destined to have an expiration date.

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