You're listening to an I-Heart podcast.

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 IHeartRadio 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.

Over the years, between this show and my other podcast lore, we've talked about a number of cryptids,

miraculous creatures that made their presence known a handful of times before vanishing into legend.

Some of these creatures have been readily identified.

Others remain insubstantial, impossible to pin down by either science or superstition.

In August of 1817, a pair of women were walking along the harbor at Cape Ann, not far from Gloucester, Massachusetts.

One of them saw something strange in the water, and she stopped a stare.

There seemed to be a great creature moving through the water, and she stopped a stare. There seemed to be a great

creature moving through the water, not a fish or a trap shark, but something more like an

enormous life serpent. When they told their neighbors what they had seen, it was dismissed out of

hand as a fanciful tale. They'd both let their imaginations get the best of them. But four days later, near

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