Welcome to AirNManky'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.

The camera doesn't hide a thing.

It's an unblinking eye until the second it's shutter closes, and then time is frozen

in an instant.

The camera doesn't editorialize, it doesn't care what's in front of it or what the subject's

beliefs are.

The camera simply captures a moment, whatever happens to cross its path is then preserved

forever.

One set of photographs though are important not because of what they captured, but because

of what they lost.

The incident occurred in October of 1937 on the island of Seljan, what is known today

as Sri Lanka.

That's when four men had bain their way through the jungle to the Kateragma temple.

An artist Mr. Brook Farar was accompanied by three others.

There was the photographer, G.A. Smith, his assistant Mr. D. Zowah, and a Sri Lankan government

official who oversaw the expedition.

The group had come to photograph and film what was going on at the temple as part of

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