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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
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4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Two remarkable people and two scientific mysteries, each with an exciting journey and an unpredictable ending.
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| 0:00.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:07.2 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:13.1 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:27.8 | Most of us have had a shocking experience before. |
| 0:30.8 | Not a surprising or unexpected experience, but a shocking one. |
| 0:35.6 | If you can remember your childhood, it probably involved a balloon, some shag carpet and a pair |
| 0:40.6 | of wool socks. |
| 0:41.9 | All you had to do was drag your feet and then watch as that balloon magically stuck to |
| 0:46.2 | your head until you zapped your friend with your finger, that is. |
| 0:50.3 | But not everyone has been limited to tools such as carpet and balloons. |
| 0:55.0 | No, some people have had much more power at their disposal, and no one, it seems, had |
| 1:00.0 | more than a 14-year-old French girl named Angelique. |
| 1:04.0 | She was born in 1831 in the town of La Perryier, and as far as I can tell, her early years |
| 1:09.4 | were unremarkable. |
| 1:10.8 | But in 1845, something changed. |
| 1:13.4 | She had been working with other women in a clovier that manufactured gloves on oak weaving |
| 1:18.0 | frames, and for a very long while, things were normal and safe. |
| 1:22.8 | And suddenly, all of that changed when she reached for the oak frame, and it moved |
| 1:27.2 | away from her hand. |
| 1:29.3 | Some of the women working near her claimed that even if she simply stood near the equipment, |
| 1:33.6 | it would vibrate and rattle as if an invisible hand were thrashing it around. |
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