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Are you prepared to venture to the darkest, most haunted locations in the world?

It was all solid black like shadow.

As your host, Amy Bruny, I'm ready to take you on a spine-tingling journey through the unknown.

There was a man sitting in the corner. she saw him, and then it was gone.

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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 Curiosities.

Our imaginations are drawn to the unknown, whether that's the open expanse of the night sky or the deepest depths of the ocean.

We're primed to wonder what secret realms lie just beyond our comfort zone.

Those realms are the source of some of our most potent myths and stories.

And few places have the same enduring mystery as a cave or a well.

It's like a portal into the innards of the planet.

Will refreshing water bubble up from a fissure in the earth?

Or will it be hot lava?

Anything seems possible.

In the 1980s, a curious story emerged from the frozen reaches of Siberia.

People claimed that a Russian research expedition had made a terrifying discovery.

They had drilled a hole nine miles deep, discovering a strange hollow pocket of air.

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