Welcome to AirNManky'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.

Many people go their entire lives on a single track.

They go to school, find a comfortable career and stay in that career until it's time to

retire.

But every once in a while, someone gets tired of their daily grind.

They yearn for something else, something more fulfilling than what they were trained

to do.

Like Robert Norman, Robert was born in Daytona Beach, Florida in 1942.

His father was a carpenter while his mother worked as a waitress.

Robert loved animals and when faced with an injured squirrel or a snake, he wouldn't

hesitate to take them in and nurse them back to health.

He once kept a baby alligator in his bathtub until it was healthy enough to release back

into the wild.

Robert dropped out of school once he reached the ninth grade and went to work with his

father as a carpenter.

A mishap with one of his tools though resulted in the partial loss of his left index finger.

But the injury didn't keep him from joining the Air Force when he was 18.

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