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.

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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. A lot of us probably grew up with childhood pets, dogs, cats, goldfish, hamsters, maybe a lizard or a snake, if you were the adventurous type,

that is. And if you're anything like me, your pets were more than just animals. They were

friends. They were part of the family.

That's how it was for the person at the center of this story too.

Her name was Mary Sawyer.

She was born on her family's farm in Sterling, Massachusetts in 1806, and at 10 years old she developed a curiously close

relationship with one of the farm animals. One afternoon in 1816 Mary was

out doing chores with her father when she stumbled on a tiny white figure

laying in the grass. It was a baby lamb. It had been abandoned by its mother and now it was

curled up there, sick, frail and helpless. Mary begged her father to let her bring

the lamb home and try to nurse it back to health. He said, okay, so she scooped up the animal

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