Welcome to AirNManky'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.

Make enough people mad and they'll associate your name with whatever awful thing you

did forever.

When the Civil War and the abolition of slavery wiped out much of his tobacco business,

Dr. Samuel Mud teamed up with John Wilkes Booth.

It was Dr. Mud who fastened a splint around Booth's broken leg and helped him escape.

Though the saying did not originate with him, the doctor is often linked to the insult.

Your name is Mud.

Charles Cunningham was another man with an unfortunate name and he had only himself to blame.

Cunningham was a land agent, a high-ranking member of an estate who managed the landowner's

property by collecting rents and supervising maintenance.

Cunningham worked for a man named John Criteon, Third Earl AirN.

Lord AirN had come from a family dripping with aristocracy.

He was also a member of the House of Lords as well as a knight of the Order of St. Patrick,

but he would go on to be remembered most as the man who hired Charles Cunningham.

Cunningham was a well-educated man who had joined the military when he was only 16.

His travels with the 39th foot regiment took him from London to Belfast and finally to

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