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.

It might be a blur in the sky, or a strange round craft zooming by that captures the

attention of people on the ground.

The authorities try to pass them off as weather balloons and military training exercises,

but not everyone can be dissuaded so easily.

They know what they've seen.

The problem is, while everyone is looking up, they miss what's going on down below them.

You see, not all unidentified objects, fly.

In 1803, Japanese fishermen off the coast of Hitachi Province noticed something floating

adrift in the ocean.

It was a ship of some kind, though it didn't resemble any ship they'd ever seen before.

It was about 11 feet tall and 18 feet wide.

It resembled a giant wooden pot more than a boat.

It was also fitted with rectangular crystal windows around its rosewood top half.

The bottom half was coated in copper plates.

The fishermen hooked it and brought it to shore with them.

Now that they could get close enough, they were able to peek inside.

Strange writing had been scribbled on the inner walls of the vessel.

They were also bedsheets, some meat, a bit of cake, and a bottle of water.

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