Welcome to AirNenky'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.

Newcomers to a community are often intriguing, especially when that community is small and

everyone knows one another.

For example, new neighbors can either be a blessing or a curse depending on how loud

they play their music or how rambunctious their children are.

Strange is difficult to accept and what is new is often mistaken for bad.

But sometimes a fresh face is just what a sleepy town needs to jolt at a wake.

And that's exactly what one small English town got in 1817 when Almond's Burry welcomed

a certain royal figure.

It began when a local cobbler found a strange young woman on his doorstep.

Her clothes made it clear she was not from around town.

She wore what people of a time had described as exotic, including a turban which had been

wrapped around her head.

The cobbler asked if there was anything he could do to help the struggling young woman.

She replied in a language he had never heard before, but through hand gestures she was

able to convey that she was in need of food and shelter, which was also evident by her

condition.

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