Let's Get Metaphysical
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Many of the curious things in history are only curious when compared to world around them, as these two stories suggest.
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| 0:00.0 | Prepare to venture to venture to the darkest most haunted locations once again. |
| 0:06.0 | About 4 o'clock in the morning it felt like the hand of God touched the castle. |
| 0:11.0 | The whole thing just shook. Brace yourself for a |
| 0:15.1 | supernatural journey unlike any other. It felt like there were other guests go |
| 0:21.6 | staying with us that we could not see. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen to Haunted Road season five on the I Heart radio app, Apple |
| 0:27.5 | podcasts or wherever you get your favorite shows. |
| 0:30.9 | Well. shows. |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosities, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild. |
| 0:40.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:45.0 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:52.0 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities. Everyone believes that their kids are special, but in August of 1846 a couple couple in Nova Scotia, Canada had a truly extraordinary baby. |
| 1:16.1 | Her name was Anna Haining Swan, and she was born weighing 16 pounds. |
| 1:21.3 | To put that in perspective, the average newborn weighs about 7 pounds. |
| 1:25.3 | Anna Swan was huge and it seems like she would never stop growing. By the time she was |
| 1:30.8 | six years old Anna was taller than her mom. At 11 she |
| 1:34.3 | towered over her dad too. She finally topped out at 17 years old, by which point she |
| 1:39.7 | stood at a whopping 7 feet 11 inches tall and weighed over 400 pounds. As you might imagine, |
| 1:46.8 | being nearly 8 feet tall pose some logistical problems, especially in the 1800s, |
| 1:52.1 | the world just wasn't built to accommodate a person of Anna's size. |
| 1:55.0 | It was hard for her to get around, hard to make friends, and practically impossible to get a job. |
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