Needlework
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Today's curious adventure will require setting foot on a boat or two, but the journey will be worth it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm |
| 0:08.7 | and Mild. |
| 0:13.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:16.3 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:22.2 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:36.8 | Some things are just destined for problems, the Titanic, with a Hindenburg, or a recent |
| 0:42.1 | curiosity here of U-1206, the War War II German sub that was forced to surface after |
| 0:48.4 | its captain flushed the onboard toilet. |
| 0:51.2 | These were all man-made vessels that seemed fated to fail. |
| 0:54.9 | However, in 1820, Kentucky, the launch of a new ferry meant the public would be faced |
| 1:00.5 | with one more doomed craft. |
| 1:02.7 | Except this one wasn't felled by a bathroom mishap or a nice burg. |
| 1:06.8 | What happened aboard this particular ferry was much worse, not just for those who wrote |
| 1:10.7 | it, but also for the men who built it. |
| 1:13.9 | It was the brainchild of Kentucky merchant and entrepreneur Moses Tussi, who thought |
| 1:18.8 | that he could make good money by starting his own ferry service along the Ohio River. |
| 1:23.4 | This ferry would shuttle people and cargo from Tussi Town, Kentucky, named after his family, |
| 1:29.0 | to Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and back. |
| 1:32.0 | But Moses needed help getting his new business off the ground, so he hired a man named William |
| 1:36.7 | McGregor. |
| 1:37.7 | McGregor and his 14-year-old daughter, Eleanor, were new in town. |
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