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.

When we're young, we tend to fear the prospect of death.

We haven't lived our lives yet, and we don't know what awaits us on the other side, if

there even is another side.

Those who have lived long fulfilling lives, however, might see death as the next frontier.

After all, they've seen and done it all over here.

The idea of the unknowing might not seem so terrifying to them.

But in the 1920s, one man set out to prove the unprovable by doing the unthinkable.

His name was Thomas Bradford, a professor in Detroit, Michigan.

Bradford held a number of jobs over the course of his life.

He dabbled in acting, sports, and engineering.

But later on, he found himself swept up in the spiritualism movement that had captivated

people during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

He was one of the many individuals who conducted and attended sayances, attempting to communicate

with spirits from beyond the grave.

An interest that no doubt had been catalyzed by the loss of his wife some time earlier

as well.

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