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 hair-brains' scheme or wild new idea is typically met with the same reaction, when

pigs fly.

To many, the idea of airborne livestock is unheard of.

After all, it's not like pigs have wings, do they?

However, organizers of the 1930s St. Louis International Air Exposition needed something

new to enthrall audiences.

Now you wouldn't think that an air show in 1930s Missouri would need a gimmick to keep

spectators entertained.

Pilots performing aerial tricks overhead should have been enough, but the people demanded more.

They wanted to see something they'd never seen before, so the show organizers looked for

a new act.

Something bold, something daring, something bizarre, and that's when they turned to Ali.

She went up on February 18th of 1930 in a Ford trimotor.

The three engine prop plane traveled a total of 72 miles from Bismarck, Missouri to St.

Louis.

People on the ground watched in awe as a team of scientists and a farmer named Ellsworth

W. Buntz went up along with her.

Buntz crouched beside her, with a bucket, and his hands ready to pull on her udders.

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