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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Double Trouble

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Some people are bound together across time, while others are bound by blood. In both cases, the ties that bind have a way of keeping us in rhythm. Whether that's good or bad, we'll leave up to you.

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0:00.0

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:07.2

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

0:13.1

just waiting for us to explore.

0:16.2

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

0:27.8

Let's use all kinds of methods when predicting the outcomes of presidential elections.

0:32.7

Poles are the most common, but often unreliable way of taking the pulse of a nation.

0:37.7

However, in the 1940s, the people didn't rely on poles or data to predict who might sit

0:43.0

in the Oval Office.

0:44.6

They relied on Lady Wonder.

0:47.3

She was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1924 and raised by Claudia Fonda, who took her

0:52.7

in like a mother.

0:54.1

She affed her by bottle every day, using their time together to teach her new things.

0:59.6

Lady Wonder spent most of her time working with Claudia, learning the letters of the alphabet

1:03.8

with the help of children's blocks.

1:05.9

But Lady also loved children.

1:08.1

She often played with them, letting them hide objects in the nearby pastures so that she

1:12.1

could go over later and find them.

1:14.1

And she did so, every single time without fail.

1:17.7

Except there was something strange about Lady.

1:20.3

For one, she was a horse, but that wasn't what set her apart from others.

1:24.0

She stood out because she seemed to always know what someone was going to do right before

1:28.4

they did it.

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