Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

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.

The people that we see on TV and movie screens today often started from humble beginnings.

Kathleen and Percy Carey, for example, lived with their sons in a Volkswagen van for a

short time while Percy was looking for work.

He finally found a job at a tire factory working in the accounting departments and the boys

took jobs as janitors and security guards at the factory in exchange for living in the

house that the company moved them into across the street.

But eventually one of those boys broke out of his uniform and went on to great to claim,

because everyone knows who Jim Carey is now.

In the mid-1960s, Martin Luther King Jr and his wife, Coretta Scott King, were already

well known.

They had marched on Washington in 1963, where Martin delivered one of the greatest and

most famous speeches in American history on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Their words and actions were being heard and felt across the country as black men and

women fought for their civil rights.

And yet, despite their fame and calls for unity, the Kings were often persecuted because

of their race.

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