Welcome to Erin Mankie'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.

Ask an educator why they got into teaching and they'll probably tell you that their career

was a calling.

They wanted to help students achieve their dreams and be the best versions of themselves

they could be.

But in Echo Park, California in 1952, a stranger wandered into the classroom at Ellissian Heights

Elementary and changed lives in a very different way.

He didn't have a name, just a white and gray fur coat on his back.

And he barely spoke.

He just kind of napped around the classroom wherever and whenever he liked.

The stranger left the school the day after he'd arrived without a word and then came back

the following morning as though nothing had happened.

No one had hired him.

He wasn't a substitute teacher and he wasn't part of the administration staff.

He simply walked up and down the school's hallways as he pleased, poking in and out of

classrooms, sleeping in random areas of the building like he owned the place.

He practically moved into the school, then surprisingly nobody had any problem with it.

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