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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Mary’s Got a Gun

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.58.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Some of us are extraordinary because of where we came from, while others work hard to become that way.

Order the official Cabinet of Curiosities book by clicking here today, and get ready to enjoy some curious reading!

 

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.

0:05.8

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0:06.6

Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,

0:15.3

autobiographies, true crime, and more.

0:19.3

Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their

0:22.6

flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start

0:28.4

listening. Terms apply. Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of IHeart Radio and grim and mild.

0:42.5

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:46.3

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

0:55.0

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosities.

1:06.3

History is everywhere, in the ground, in our landscape, even in our skin.

1:12.4

That was the lesson Adrian Target hoped to impart to his newest class project.

1:17.2

The 42-year-old teacher had been looking for a way to immerse his students in the history

1:21.7

of the local area. He'd spent his entire life in the Sleepy County of Somerset in England

1:27.3

and had long ago

1:28.5

given himself over to its rustic charms.

1:31.4

But his students' eyes glazed over whenever he told them that their home was the

1:35.2

birthplace of cheddar cheese, or that it laid claim to Great Britain's oldest road.

1:40.2

As much as these facts fascinated him, engaging younger minds required something a bit more personal,

1:46.6

and that's when the perfect opportunity fell into his lap.

1:50.2

In the spring of 1997, Mr. Target learned that a documentary film crew was in the area,

1:55.7

dredging up a century-old mystery for a new television show. It was a story that he knew well. Ninety-four years

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