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.

If certain people channeled even a fraction of their energy and dedication into noble

pursuits, the world would be a better place.

People like Alan Abel.

Born in Zane's Velojio in August of 1924, Abel learned how to be successful from his father,

who owned a small shop in town.

To help boost his numbers, Mr. Abel would artificially limit sales of unsolved items to give

customers a sense that supply was low, and it worked every time.

Alan carried that know-how with him to college and graduated from Ohio State University with

the bachelors in education.

He wanted to shape the minds of America's youth, a dream that eventually expanded into

helping corporate bigwigs improve their golf swing, quite literally.

In the 1950s, he took a job teaching executives from Westinghouse about how different ballet

positions could help them do better at their game, similar to how American football players

took up ballet to be lighter on their feet during the game.

In 1964 and 1968, Abel started a campaign to get a then-unknown grandmother from the

Bronx elected president of the United States.

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