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Welcome to Aaron Menke's Cabinet of Curiosity's, A Production of IHeart Radio 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 Curiosity's.

Lawrence stepped outside of his Philadelphia apartment one afternoon to find a box of seemingly discarded objects. This was not uncommon in his neighborhood, where people often left

old furniture or boxes of books out for passers-by to pick through.

Lawrence took a look inside. A couple of knick-knacks, including a bronze statue,

lay on top of something massive and sparkly. He dug through the box, unearthing an enormous

crystal ball. To Lawrence, it looked like a prop from a movie or a Halloween costume, the sort of fortune teller

or witch might use. He made to move the box to his garage, but he found that it was so heavy

that he had no choice but to drag it. Lawrence had no use for the knick-knacks, but he knew someone

who would love the crystal ball. His friend, Kim Beckles, cleaned Lawrence's house for him occasionally.

Kim liked a joke about being a witch and was all too happy when he presented her with

the crystal ball the next time he saw her. Six months later, a man nicknamed Al the

Trash Picker passed through Lawrence's neighborhood, hunting for items to pawn.

Al and Lawrence weren't close friends, but he had given

Al a key to his garage and told him to take anything that he wanted to sell. That day, Al

picked up the bronze statuette that Lawrence had found next to the crystal ball. Al didn't have

much use for it either, but he knew that the old adage was true. One man's trash is another man's

treasure. Al slipped the statue

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