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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

One item on the tour today can fit in your room, while the other takes up an entire community. Both of them, however, are worth the price of admission.

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0:00.0

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:07.2

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

0:13.1

just waiting for us to explore.

0:16.2

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

0:27.7

Everyone needs a home.

0:29.8

As we plant roots where we're born, choosing to stay among what's safe and familiar.

0:34.4

Other times we have to leave one home in order to find another where we can be accepted

0:38.4

and thrive.

0:40.3

George Colby was in search of such a place in 1875 when he left his home in Pike, New

0:45.6

York.

0:46.6

George was a transmedium, someone who would speak as though the dead were communicating

0:51.2

through them during a seance.

0:53.3

He traveled all over the country conducting sessions and giving readings to the public,

0:58.0

but it was during a stay in Iowa when his travels took him on a journey he'd never expected.

1:04.3

He'd been contacted during one of his seances by a Native American spirit called Seneca.

1:09.4

Seneca told George to go to Florida.

1:12.0

It was there where he was meant to establish a community for others like him, mediums,

1:17.4

psychics, and other spiritual men and women who would flock to this place to practice

1:22.0

their craft, making a home for themselves apart from a world that called them hacks and

1:26.7

frauds.

1:28.7

As he made his way south, George contracted a bad case of tuberculosis.

1:33.2

By the time he'd reached his destination, he was in bad shape and close to death.

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