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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Over a Barrel

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

People are always trying to push the barriers of what's possible. How those stories end, however, is always more than a little curious.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:06.6

There's a vile sickness in Abbas town.

0:10.4

You must excise it.

0:12.8

Dig into the deep earth and cut it out.

0:16.7

From IHeart podcasts and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky,

0:20.0

this is Havoc Town. A new fiction podcast set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe, starring Jewel State and Ray Wise.

0:29.1

Listen to Havoc Town on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:38.2

Welcome to Aaron Manky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, A Production of IHeartRadio and Grim and Mild.

0:46.9

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:50.7

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, just waiting for us to explore.

0:59.5

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

1:07.0

Niagara Falls isn't the tallest waterfall in the world. There are roughly 500 others that are

1:16.5

taller, but Niagara stands out from all of them for a few specific reasons. First, it churns a lot of

1:22.9

water, with over 6 million cubic feet going over the crest line every minute,

1:32.2

and with it also goes 60 tons of minerals that are dissolved into a fine powder,

1:34.9

giving the water its unique green color.

1:40.7

Though over 8 million people visit the falls each year, it's much more than just a tourist site. The Niagara River provides drinking water and hydroelectricity to over a million

1:45.7

people in both the United States and Canada. The falls draw many people to their majestic

1:50.9

and breathtaking waters. These are folks who come to admire what the earth has naturally created

1:56.2

and what has endured for thousands of years. But Niagara also attracts attention seekers who want

2:02.5

nothing more than to go down in history for dangerous and foolish stunts, and down is exactly

2:08.4

where many end up, including one Charles Stevens. Stevens was born in 1862, and he was from

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