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.

There is so much about our world we still have yet to understand.

The oceans of this planet for example remain mostly unexplored, at least 80% of them,

and there are artifacts that have been discovered throughout history that continue to defy explanation.

The Anticathera mechanism, which has been called the oldest analog computing device ever

found, was discovered in an ancient shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island of the same

name.

There isn't anything else like it, especially from the era in which it was made.

There are also the drop of stones.

10,000 year old discs found in Chinese caves in 1938.

They were analyzed and experimented on by experts from all over the world, but no conclusion

was ever drawn as to the reason for their being there.

But some unexplained phenomena hit a little closer to home, like Ditan Rock.

Ditan Rock's existence was first recorded by Reverend John Danforth back in 1680.

Danforth was a colonist who sketched the carvings he found on the side of the rock.

Macarvines, known as petroglyphs, were comprised of various lines and geometric shapes.

Although Danforth's interpretation wasn't too accurate when compared with other descriptions

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