Welcome to AirNenky'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.

Humans are curious by nature.

We're driven to explore our world and challenge what we know about our existence.

Through the centuries we've charted lands and oceans, we've invented and built a wide

array of transportation methods to take us to far away places.

Not just horizontal travel, in 1953, two men reached the summit of Mount Everest, and

in recent years we've sent humans in submersibles through the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.

And then there's space.

We've been to the moon and landed probes on Mars.

Despite the jokes, the moon is not made of cheese, although the ancient Greeks did exile

a philosopher for believing the moon was just a giant rock and not a god.

Which reminds me, we've believed a lot of crazy things about the Earth over the years,

and it's taken centuries to dispel a lot of those notions.

But in early 1800s America, we were still exploring and had a lot of questions.

Curiosity is a good thing, after all.

Captain John Cleaves Simes Jr. was a military captain who had served in the War of 1812.

He was well educated and well read.

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