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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.

For the past two years, on the second Wednesday of every month, a plate of 15 to 20 half-peeled bananas has appeared on the corner of Abbey Road and Wenzor Avenue in Beeston, a small town in the

Midlands of England.

Residents have been baffled as to the reason they keep appearing, and to many the mystery is less important than the mess the bananas leave in the street.

One such resident, Claire Short, decided to try to reason with the mysterious gifter in

a note left in the banana's usual location reading,

please respectfully no more bananas.

The notes had no effect.

The next month, the bananas were there again.

And it brings to mind another such mystery concerning the final resting place of one of

America's most beloved authors.

On October 3rd of 1849, a man in crisis appeared outside of Gunner's Hall, a busy tavern

in Baltimore, Maryland.

It was a dreary day, and the place was packed to the gills.

At first glance, the patrons took the man as another drunkard due to his rumpled appearance

and his day's demeanor.

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