Shell Shocked
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Setting an incredibly record is a great way to be included in the Cabinet of Curiosities, and both of our stories today manage just that.
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| 0:00.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
| 0:07.2 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
| 0:13.1 | just waiting for us to explore. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
| 0:27.9 | There's a reason so many people have searched the world for the Holy Grail, a cup from which |
| 0:32.5 | Jesus drank at the last supper. |
| 0:34.8 | To sit from the cup is to gain eternal life, they say. |
| 0:38.4 | Other legends of immortality have been passed down through the ages as well. |
| 0:42.2 | The ancient Greeks wrote about a special water in Africa belonging to a people known as |
| 0:46.4 | the Macrobians. |
| 0:47.9 | The water was said to allow these Macrobians to live well beyond 100 years of age. |
| 0:54.2 | We know that story better today thanks to Conquistador Ponce de Leon, who famously went |
| 0:58.8 | in search of it during the mid 1500s. |
| 1:01.8 | Because of his expedition, the concept of a fountain of youth has spread throughout |
| 1:05.5 | the world as something of a common legend. |
| 1:08.6 | However, Ponce de Leon looked for the fountain of youth on an island off the coast of Florida |
| 1:13.4 | when he should have been searching the kingdom of Tonga. |
| 1:16.3 | The Polynesian sovereign state, 1100 miles off the coast of New Zealand, was once home to |
| 1:21.6 | a great king. |
| 1:23.2 | Tui Malila came to power in 1777. |
| 1:26.8 | It was at that time when he met James Cook, a British captain of the Royal Navy, who was |
| 1:31.6 | the first European explorer to have ever set foot on the shores of such exotic places |
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