Are you prepared to venture to the darkest, most haunted locations in the world?

It was all solid black like shadow.

As your host, Amy Bruny, I'm ready to take you on a spine-tingling journey through the unknown.

There was a man sitting in the corner, she saw him, and then it was gone.

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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 Curiosities.

Defeat. It's not something any of us hope to encounter in life, but for almost all of us,

it is inevitable. However, for military commanders, defeat has mortal consequences. Every move,

every choice on the battlefield means some men will die. Commanders just have to hope that they

make enough right choices so that casualties are limited and victory is secured.

In 1904, there was one naval commander who unfortunately made all the wrong choices.

His defeat was so total that it changed the course of history and is still studied to this day.

Admiral Zinovi Mad Dog Rosasvensky was known for his strong command style.

As the leader of Russia's Baltic fleet, it was on him to oversee a huge number of ships in the

oceans north of Europe. Everything changed in February of 2004, though, when Japanese Admiral

Togo Heachiro led an assault on the Russian port authority in modern-day

northeastern China. The Japanese were tired of the Russians encroaching on land and resources

in the Yellow Sea. The Russians were used to being the strongest power in the region,

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