Welcome to Erin Mankie'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.

As we get older, we tend to think about the things that could have been.

Lives we could have led.

Choices we could have made.

Careers and loves and kids that never were.

We like to think that we made the choices we did because, ironically, we never really

had any choice to begin with.

And had things been slightly different, that dead end office job might have been a movie

studio, or a startup, or a career as a best-selling author.

Of course, we'll never know what could have been because, well, we never got the chance

to live it.

But Charlie knew.

He knew because he'd been obsessed with the possibilities.

But sadly, others did not share that obsession.

Charlie was a professor from London, England.

He taught mathematics at Cambridge for almost 10 years, but it wasn't his passion.

His mind was often elsewhere, either on writing his next bestseller, or working on his brand

...