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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Dear Diary

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Some items that belong in the Cabinet might not be real, but that's not going to stop us from sharing their story.

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0:00.0

Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

0:09.0

and Mild.

0:13.4

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:16.7

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

0:22.5

just waiting for us to explore.

0:25.7

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

0:29.7

A journal is a sacred thing.

0:39.5

It holds our deepest, darkest secrets.

0:41.6

It doesn't judge us, it doesn't betray our trust, and it doesn't hold a grudge.

0:46.0

A journal or a diary can be our best friend, as long as it doesn't fall into the wrong

0:50.8

hands, that is.

0:52.8

During the 1950s, Norma's husband had encouraged her to keep a diary of her own.

0:57.3

She was a bit of a social butterfly, often attending lavish parties and meeting fun

1:01.7

and interesting people.

1:03.3

He thought it would be good to save those stories for posterity.

1:07.1

So Norma started writing down her encounters.

1:09.8

Except unlike most people who kept their private thoughts hidden from the rest of the world,

1:14.2

Norma had no qualms about sharing hers with almost everyone she met.

1:18.4

A close friend of hers named Robert claimed to have seen the diary for himself.

1:22.7

He wrote about his time with Norma and the thing she'd allegedly written about.

1:26.7

Unfortunately, days after he'd caught a glimpse of it, she died.

1:31.0

Ever since then, the circumstances surrounding her death have been discussed and debated.

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