Are you prepared to venture to the darkest, most haunted locations in the world?

It was all solid black like shadow.

As your host, Amy Bruny, I'm ready to take you on a spine-tingling journey through the unknown.

There was a man sitting in the corner, she saw him, and then it was gone.

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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 Curiosities.

The past is a foreign country.

Author L.P. Hartley coined this phrase in 1953, in the opening

lines of his book, The Go Between. An instantly iconic simile, it describes how alien even our

own history looks to ourselves. With enough time, history just becomes archaeology. But if human

history is a foreign country, natural history is like

another planet. Cleopatra lived closer in history to the invention of the iPhone than the

construction of the great pyramids. Your lifespan is closer to your great-great-grandparents than

a Tyrannosaurus Rex was to a stegosaurus. And after the passage of so much time, it requires an immense act of imagination to fill the gaps left by time.

When you enter a natural history museum, for example, one of the first sites you're likely to see is a fully assembled dinosaur skeleton.

They're impressive, eye-catching, and give a sense of immediacy and scale to the

past that might otherwise elude us. We can easily imagine what it would be like to be in

that thing's presence, even if our species never overlapped. But what we don't often think

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