Welcome to AirNManky'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.

In the 1930s, JB Rein and his wife, Luisa, explored a new frontier in the field of psychology.

They started a program at Duke University examining whether subjects possess something called

extra-sensory perception.

Also known as ESP, this new field of study, which is often referred to as parapsychology,

was ridiculed by professors and academics.

Experiments were conducted using a special deck of cards with one of five different shapes

printed on each.

Subjects would try to guess what shape was on the other side of the card without being

able to see it, and the results were, well, mixed.

Still, that didn't stop Rein and others from testing the limits of the human mind.

Looking back though, it might be fair to say that they probably should have looked

a little lower.

Joy met her husband less while the two were still in high school.

They had gone to a party together and ended up dancing all night.

Although it wasn't his skills on the dance floor she remembered years later, it was his

manly, musky smell.

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