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.

Picture of Valentine's Day card.

You probably see pink and red hearts, maybe a fun rhyme.

Maybe one of those postcards printed for students to hand out in class, Snoopy or some superhero,

saying, be my Valentine, ready to be passed along with some candy hearts and a shy smile.

It's a sweet tradition.

But for a day celebrating the chance to turn a private crush into something more, Valentine's

Day wasn't always so sweet.

And of course, there have always been people who didn't exactly feel warm fuzzies every

time that day came around.

So what's in it for them?

Well the Victorians had an answer for that.

Recently a historian looking through a British museum found a leather bound volume of Valentine's

cards from around 1870.

The kind of display book that a salesman would bring to stationary stores to show business

owners what they could bring there to their shelves on Valentine's Day.

The first half of the book is predictable.

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