Welcome to AirNmenky'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.

Beneath the church in Rome are small chapels adorned with the skeletal remains of 3,700

Capuchin Friars, Skulls, Femers, you name it.

Really, it's all on display, from doorways and walls to ceiling art.

Visitors come face to face with the dead.

You can even buy postcards to send a friend's back home if you're so inclined.

That's not the darkest church attraction though.

There's one other.

Visit the Basilica San Giovanni and you'll learn about a particularly dark and corrupt

moment in the church's past.

You see, Bishops, Cardinals and a host of other ecclesiastical attendees filled the

Basilica in January of 897 for a synod, basically a court of the church, to try one of their

own.

Formosis dressed in papal robes was unable to speak at his trial, so a decan spoke for him.

Heated in his chair, Formosis didn't move, not even during the earthquake that shook

and damaged the Basilica.

He showed no emotion as Pope Stephen VI screamed at him, demanding answers.

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