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Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, A production of IHeart 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 Curiosity's.

If you're a fan of reality TV, then you might have seen the British television show World's Most Dangerous Roads.

The host travels some of the most treacherous roads the world over, taking viewers through

hairpin turns at Dizzying Heights.

Or maybe you're a fan of

deadliest catch, a series that follows crab fishermen braving rough weather and rogue waves

out on the Bering Strait. We have long had a fascination with dangerous jobs and those who

perform them, like Ronan. He spent years working a deadly job as well. But unlike

reality stars, he doesn't do it for the money. In fact, he doesn't get paid at all. Every day,

he risks his life to help make communities safer, and he does it for free. On a hot April morning

in 2025, Ronan arrived at the commune of Chua Aram in Cambodia, where

he'd been working for the past four years.

His job is perilous, and few are qualified to do it.

He arrived at the edge of a vast grassy valley barked by a series of metal poles.

These poles hold up a grid of high wires that Ronan uses to move across the field

section by section. It's taken years to canvas the entire area, but all he has left now is a

small section in the corner by the jungle tree line. For safety, his partners clip him into a bright

red harness so that his feet barely touch the ground. And then, light as air,

he makes his way, Mission Impossible style across the grid, searching for any indication that

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