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 was a cold that went deeper than the snow-covered streets and

ice-laden rivers, straight to the city's heart. A young woman had been murdered, and the

details were straight out of an Edgar Allan Poe story.

The victim was a 20 year old named Teresa Hollander

and she had been killed while crossing the cemetery of St Nicholas Church.

The murder weapon? A grave steak.

According to newspaper reports, the small metal plaque had been pulled from the earth and used to bludgeoned Theresa to death.

When her father found her frozen body the next morning, her eyes were wide open, staring up in a final expression of horror.

It was this fact, oddly enough, that gave investigators hope. Recent scientific discovery suggested that the human eye was capable of recording images,

much like a camera.

Since Theresa's eyes were open in the moment of death,

it stood to reason that the last thing she ever saw was

likely the face of her attacker.

If the image could be replicated, investigators would have the killer dead to rights.

Now most people hearing this story today would be quick to write this off as foolishness. An eye is not a camera, they would reason, and they don't record images.

But that's not entirely true.

Eyes and photography have a lot more in common

than you might think.

Both have a mechanism for controlling

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