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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 Curiosity's.

Growing up, everyone got bored in school from time to time.

One of the things that can make for an especially uninteresting class is learning seemingly useless information.

When in life will we ever use long division or understand tectonic plate subduction or

need to recall all 50 state capitals. Well, there was

one young girl in 2004 who paid attention to seemingly useless information in her school,

and it ended up saving dozens of lives. Tilly Smith's parents saved all they could to take her

and her sister away on a Christmas holiday to Thailand.

They thought that it would be a nice break from the cold winter in England, and they had

never been able to take the girls on a holiday before.

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