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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.

It was a clear spring day in 1876, and Mrs. Crouch was outside in the front yard of her home making soap.

She took a gray scoop of lye from the barrel to her right and added it to the kettle over a fire in front of her.

And then she reached over to her left and cut off a big white piece of hog fat from the block she had placed there.

She then added this to the kettle as well, and then started to stir.

And as she watched the solution boil, she thought that it looked like it could use a bit more

animal fat.

She reached her hand back over to the table, but was shocked when a mysterious, red, gelatinous

substance suddenly splattered against the top of her hand, staining the white animal fat beneath.

Now, at first, she thought that she might have been injured somehow, or that someone, maybe

her husband, was throwing some sort of food at her.

When she looked around, though, there was nobody in sight.

But what she did see made her stomach churn.

More red globs of mysterious substance were falling all over her yard.

They smacked against the fence, the porch, and the roof with a sickening squelch, and they weren't

being thrown. No, they were falling from the sky.

Now, I have to pause for a moment for just a little bit of housekeeping.

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