Welcome to Air and Mankies, Captain 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.

If you're a fan of true crime documentaries, you know a lot of stories follow a similar

pattern.

A killer is caught, convicted, and carted off the prison to serve a life sentence.

Rarely do we hear stories about what happens after someone goes to jail.

But there's one man who's famous for what he accomplished behind bars.

His work, which was all done while he lived in solitary confinement, cemented him as

one of history's most prolific self-taught scientists.

And it earned him the nickname, The Bird Man of Elcatraz.

His real name was Robert Stroud.

He was born in Seattle, Washington in 1890, but he dropped out of school and ran away

to Alaska when he was just 13 years old.

And well, he did not walk the streets in narrow.

In 1909, 18-year-old Robert killed a man in a bar fight.

He pled guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

He spent three years at McNeil Island before being transferred to Levinworth, a facility

notorious for its poor living conditions and cruel treatment of inmates.

Robert hated Levinworth.

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