Welcome to Erin Mankie'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.

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Destruction has a way of leaving a trail through history.

Not just in the stories we continue to tell, but also in the physical evidence we can uncover,

if we dig deep enough.

For example, deep, deep below the streets of modern London, there's something called

the Buddhica Destruction Layer.

This small layer of red in the earth is a physical reminder of Queen Buddhica's spectacularly

deadly revolt against the Roman Empire.

The cities as old as London have plenty of layers.

They're usually all that remains of the land's extensive past, from old Roman roads to

long lost defeated kings buried under parking lots.

They've slowly been built up and become the London we know today.

Unfortunately, many of those layers, most in fact, were created by fire.

Fires were a common part of life, especially in a world before hydrants and organized

fire departments.

Instead residents had to organize rapidly to take water from the nearest source, usually

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