Prepare to venture to venture to the darkest most haunted locations once again.

About 4 o'clock in the morning it felt like the hand of God touched the castle.

The whole thing just shook. Brace yourself for a

supernatural journey unlike any other. It felt like there were other guests go

staying with us that we could not see.

Listen to Haunted Road season five on the I Heart radio app, Apple

podcasts or wherever you get your favorite shows.

Well. shows.

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 of Curiosities. In the United States, many people celebrate the 12 days of Christmas, or at the very least they're familiar with the holiday song

that features ladies dancing, lords a leaping, drummers drumming, and all manner of

bird species. In Iceland however they celebrate the 13 days of Christmas, and rather than gifts from a true love,

each day consists of a visit from one of the 13 Yule Lads.

The Yule Lads are kind of like a big group of brotherly Santa clauses if St. Nick was a troll with an affinity for theft and mischief.

The legend goes something like this.

On each of the 13 nights leading up to Christmas,

Icelandic children were told to place a single shoe on their window sill.

If they'd been good that year, they would wake up to a shoe filled with delicious candies.

If not, they would find their footwear chock full of rotten potatoes.

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