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 IHeart Radio 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.

Every form of arts has to earn its legitimacy.

Whether it's theater, film, comic books, or video

games. For some reason, it's a very human trait to look down upon emerging forms of

entertainment as lesser to what came before. Theater seems like the most prestigious medium

in modern entertainment, but there was a time when the theater was seen as a disreputable

place where actors were

seen as little better than thugs. In 1597, theaters throughout London closed due to an outbreak

of the plague. For those of us who can remember the year 2020, this sounds familiar. An actor named

Richard Burbage ran his own theater company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men,

and when theaters reopened later that year, the company was anxious to get back to work.

But there was a problem.

Although Richard owned the theater they performed at, literally just called The Theater,

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