Are you prepared to venture to the darkest, most haunted locations in the world?

It was all solid black like shadow.

As your host, Amy Bruny, I'm ready to take you on a spine-tingling journey through the unknown.

There was a man sitting in the corner, she saw him, and then it was gone.

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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 Curiosities.

World War I was a uniquely violent conflict.

It existed at a strange intersection between

the past and the future, where horses and swords clashed on the battlefield with tanks and

machine guns. As much of that dichotomy wreaked havoc on the battlefield, it also caused

problems at home. Civilian life struggled to keep up with rapid changes in technology.

And in 1917, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the past and the future collided to disastrous results.

During this time, Halifax was already a prosperous Atlantic Harbor town.

In fact, it was the closest large North American port to Europe.

As such, thousands of ships passed through, carrying weapons, supplies, and soldiers for the war.

The city grew quickly, without much planning for it.

The small stretch of harbor that the community crowded around was called the Narrows.

It was a name that was accurate, and, as it turns out, also an ominous warning.

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