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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. Ferrys occupy a strange place in our culture.

Few people can really say where they come from or why we like them.

We just all accept the idea of cute little people with wings.

They're very popular in paintings and garden sculptures.

One painter in particular made a career out of depicting fairies,

although his work gives us little insights into the human fascination with them.

In fact, his career only deepens the mystery surrounding fairies

as he was inspired to paint them while he was locked up in an asylum.

Born in Chatham, England in 1817, Richard Dad was always seen as a little

bit frail and sensitive, but his parents thought that was just the price he paid for being

an artistic prodigy. He started painting at the age of 13 and enroiled in the Royal Academy of Arts

at the age of 20. Many of his contemporaries were content to paint the mundane, rolling green

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