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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.

A Good Magic Show. A good magic show will leave you wondering how the magician pulled off their tricks.

Often the answer is sleight of hand or optical illusions, but there are some tricks that even world-class scientists haven't been able to explain.

In 1973, a team of scientists at the Stanford Research Institute led a man down a hallway of a research lab. He had flown in from overseas for a very special set of experiments.

The researchers took the man to a small, windowless room at the center of the building.

It was double-walled and acoustically and electrically shielded,

which meant that no sound, lights, or signals could get in or out of the room.

They sat the man down at the table and gave him a pencil and a piece of paper,

and then they locked the door behind them as they left.

The scientists gathered in a room down the hall, flipped through a dictionary, and selected

a word at random, brunch. Then one of the scientists took up a pencil and drew a bunch of grapes.

Once he was done, he took the drawing down the hall and taped it to the outer wall of

the experiment room. There was no way that the test subject could see the drawing down the hall and taped it to the outer wall of the experiment room.

There was no way that the test subject could see the drawing with his own eyes,

but he claimed that if it was physically close enough to him, he could see it in his mind's eye, thanks to his skills and extrasensory perception.

The scientist pressed the intercom button and told the test subject that it was

time to begin the experiment. He listened through a one-way audio circuit as the test subject

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