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.

In 1969, the British rock band The Zombies scored a chart-topping hit with Time of the Season,

hoping to capitalize on their fame, a U.S. tour was quickly booked and tickets sold.

The only problem? The zombies no longer existed.

But that, of course, wouldn't stop the managers at Delta Promotions.

All they had to do to cash in was Raise the Zombies from the Dead.

The band that would become the zombies first met as schoolboys at St. Albans, a city on the outskirts of London.

They had a few modestly successful hits in 1964, but found it hard to get their songs on the

charts in the UK, and especially difficult in America.

Seeing the writing on the wall, the band decided to call it quits in December of 1967.

The band's American label, Date Records, released a few of the band's singles post-breakup,

hoping to recoup some of the cost of recording.

These failed to chart as well, until a last-ditch effort, a song called Time of the Season,

was released in the U.S. in 1968, and suddenly the song was playing on every radio station,

and the name The Zombies was on every DJ's lips.

Somehow, some way, the Zombies finally had a hit. The The The Zombies was on every DJ's lips. Somehow, some way,

the zombies finally had a hit. Unfortunately, they were already a ghost of a band. Most of the five members had moved on to other music projects, and as this was 1969, word of their American

success didn't reach many of them for months. Back in the U.S.,

however, venues and tour managers wanted to capitalize on the zombie's success. So one company,

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