In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals.

Putting bad guys away.

There's no feeling like it.

Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton.

Scracella took me to the precinct and alive.

20 men eventually walked free.

Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence,

Louis Scarsella finally tells his story, and so does Derek Hamilton.

Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. guests.

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. It's hard to comprehend what we see sometimes. What might seem like something strange or other

worldly could be nothing more than a trick of the light or a clear and obvious hoax.

For example, that famous 1934 photograph of the Lochness monster, it's nothing but a picture of a children's toy, cast and shadow.

And all over social media, a computer stabilized version of the infamous Bigfoot footage has been

circulating, except it doesn't look like a mythical creature traipsing through the forest anymore.

It looks like a guy in a costume.

But for a pair of Ohio police officers, what they saw one early morning in April of 1966 was not a hoax,

and it wasn't their eyes playing tricks on them either.

It was real and it ruined their lives.

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