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.

The world is enormous.

There are places humans have never laid eyes on, and where modern technology has never

reached.

Though we have charted much of the globe over the centuries, there was a time when certain

areas we know today were considered exotic, places where the cultures were so different

that when someone from one of those lands stepped foot in the west, they caused quite a

stir.

Enter The Man from Formosa.

During the 18th century, his story was one of mystery and intrigue.

He had been kidnapped by a French Jesuit from his home in Formosa, a country off the

coast of China.

The missionary had whisked him back to Europe to convert him to Catholicism, but the

man from Formosa worshipped the sun and the moon instead, so he refused to convert and was jailed.

He escaped before being captured again, then got away once more and fled to the Netherlands.

Dutch soldiers who apprehended him attempted to convert him to Calvinism instead, but he

continued to resist.

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