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.

Dreams can tell us a lot about ourselves, our fears, our worries, and our hopes for the

future.

In fact, the link between dreams and the future is stronger than we might think.

Before a landslide of coal waste buried as school in Wales in 1966, the students had reported

dreaming about dying just days before it happened.

116 children and 28 adults were lost in that disaster.

Perhaps the most famous pre-cognitive dream occurred in 1865.

President Abraham Lincoln told his wife and some associates about a dream he'd recently

had where he'd seen his own dead body laying before him in the White House.

Two weeks later, the casket holding his real corpse was placed in the exact same spot.

But dreams don't always tell us when we're going to die.

Sometimes they can spark inspiration, likely did for Elias Howe.

Elias' legacy is far more generous than he probably deserves.

He's often described as a civil war hero, a brilliant inventor and a cherished native

of Connecticut.

In reality, he was a union private at the age of 40 who lost credit on many of his inventions

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