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 side of human life.

From coffins and skeletons to weapons and destruction.

Museums are brimming with the ominous.

But sometimes we get so lost in far-off history

that we don't realize there are nefarious tales behind the museums themselves. If we look a little closer, we might find stories

marked with scandal and controversy, and if we look closer than that, we might uncover long-forgotten

curses.

In 2011, United States Customs Agents sorted through incoming packages.

As they examined various items, they paused at one that was particularly heavy.

The label said that it was from the United Arab Empire. caused at one that was particularly heavy.

The labels said that it was from the United Arab Emirates

and that it contained had made clay tiles from Turkey.

Needless to say, something felt a little off.

Maybe it was the weight of the package or maybe it was the recipient. The package, you see, was addressed to Hobby Lobby. Hobby lobby runs a chain of craft supply stores and while the agents thought that it might have made sense for the

company to order tiles they wouldn't have expected those tiles to be

handmade from Turkey. The agents were suspicious. They shook the package like a

child would rattle an unopened Christmas present and noticed the contents felt bulkier than a set of tiles would

suspicious they sliced through the packaging tape and looked inside. What they saw, astounded them.

Over the next few days, customs seized more packages like this one.

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