Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosities, a production of I Heart 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. Chances are that you've heard of someone being visited by a loved one

after they've passed away. Maybe your friend thought that he smelled the distinctive scent of his grandpa's pipe,

or your sister swore that she could hear grandma calling her inside.

Maybe you yourself felt your childhood dog, cuddling up next to you in bed years after they went to

that great dog park in the sky. But whether you think it's your imagination or not, these

visitations often feel like someone you love just wants to see you one more time.

For Mary, seeing her dead daughter Zona at the foot of her bed was far from heartwarming,

especially when Zona's ghost told her mother exactly who had killed her.

On January 23rd of 1897, a raspish shoe was working in his blacksmith shop in Greenbrier County,

West Virginia.

He asked a local boy to check in on his wife of three months, Zona Heister's shoe,

and asked if she needed anything from the market.

To the boy's horror, when he opened the door of the shoe's house, he found Zona lying dead on the floor.

The next few hours went by quickly.

Erasmus rushed to the house as soon as he heard the news.

By the time the doctor arrived to examine the body body he had already laid her out for a funeral.

He dressed Zona in a long dress with a high stiff collar and a long veil tied under her chin.

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