For over six years, the past and the curious has been winning fans sharing stories of real people from the past and making people smile.

I'm Mick Sullivan, author of I.C. Lincoln's Underpants, which is a book about, well, famous people's underwear.

You'll find all of those stories and much, much more in the 100-plus episodes of the past and the curious that are currently available, find it in all the usual podcast places.

The past and the curious with Mick Sullivan, that's me.

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It's 11.30 p.m. and sleep will not come.

It's a school night and you know if you can't get some shut-eye soon, you're going to be exhausted in the morning.

You've punched and plumped your pillows and you've tossed and turned with your blankets and sheets so much that it looks like a tornado hit your bed.

All of the tips that you've heard over the years about beating insomnia are rushing through your head at once.

You've tried counting backwards by threes. You read through the most boring looking book you could find on your bookshelf.

You took five deep breaths in and five deep breaths out like ten times now.

You've even tried meditating, but nothing is working.

The numbers on your clock keep ticking up.

Now it's 11.40, 11.45, 11.50, 11.59 midnight.

At this point you would settle for anything just to get some sleep.

Well, what if there was a mythical entity that had the power to do that?

A being that could put you into an enchanted slumber that could fill your dreams with visions of the most spectacular things you could imagine.

Here's a hint. He's often talked about in the same conversations as other magical beings like the tooth fairy.

I'm talking about the Sandman.

I'm Elise Parisien, and we're going to unravel the mysteries of the realm of dreams on this episode of Unspookable.

Take a minute to think about some of the things that you need to make it through the day.

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