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.

As a child, Larry had dreams of soaring high above the clouds.

After all, he was from Los Angeles, a place where people from all over the world came

to follow their great big dreams and find great big success.

Larry applied for the United States Air Force after high school in the hopes of becoming

a fighter pilot, gliding through the sky and zooming past the clouds were all he wanted

to do.

The Air Force couldn't help him, though.

Now with his terrible eyesight, he was rejected and eventually found work as a trucker,

as well as a part-time gig at a television studio.

Two jobs about as far from the sky as you can get without working on a submarine.

But his boyhood dreams never really went away.

He remembered a trip to a military surplus store in his teens where he saw weather balloons

hanging from the ceiling.

The kind meteorologists send into the atmosphere to take readings of air pressure, temperature,

and humidity.

They were strong, made of rubber, and meant to carry heavy loads.

They would have to do.

Larry and his girlfriend forged a requisition from the TV studio for 45 weather balloons

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