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 a midday nap can launch us into a tantrum. We don't want to sleep. We want to stay up so that we don't miss anything. As we get older, that desire to remain awake

bleeds into the nighttime hours until we find ourselves welcoming the sunrise with a crowd of drunken revelers we met the night before.

Then we hit adulthood and the only thing we want to do is lay in bed and sleep or watch reruns of the

office until we nod off.

But one woman allegedly got to live the dream in more ways than one, so to speak.

Her name was Carolina Olson, born in 1861 in Sweden. She was the second oldest of five children, but didn't attend school like her four other brothers.

Her mother took care of the house and felt Carolina should learn to help as well,

so Mrs. Olson kept her at home.

On top of the household chores, she also taught her how to read and write.

When Carolina was 14, she finally started attending school like the other children.

Things were going smoothly for about a month until one day she

came home in immense pain. Her tooth hurt, but her mother didn't believe that that was the

cause of her ailment. She felt that Carolina was under the influence of witchcraft or an evil spirit.

So she told her to sleep it off.

What her mother didn't realize though was that the toothache would be the least of the girl's problems.

Carolina tucked herself in and fell asleep.

The next morning, she was still asleep.

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