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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today's tour will give us all a chance to enjoy some music and a good book. But the experience won't be what you expect it to be.

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0:00.0

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:07.2

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

0:13.1

just waiting for us to explore.

0:16.2

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

0:27.5

To paint like Da Vinci, to sculpt like Rodan, skills like those take years, often decades

0:33.8

to acquire, and they don't just happen, such talents require intense practice before

0:39.1

one even comes close to matching the grates.

0:42.6

For Rosemary Brown though, who had been born in London in 1916, her dream was to write

0:47.5

music like the masters, Bach, Chopin, Beethoven.

0:51.9

But Rosemary didn't even play an instrument until she was in her 30s when she started

0:56.2

taking lessons on a secondhand piano.

1:00.2

That wasn't her first foray into music though.

1:02.8

When she was seven, she was visited by a composer who told her that he would make her famous,

1:07.5

that she would write music heard all over the world.

1:10.2

His name was Franz Liszt, and he died over 30 years earlier.

1:15.9

That would be Rosemary's only contact with Liszt or any other ghostly composer for 25

1:21.1

years, until her adult piano lessons.

1:24.3

Soon after, she got married and had a child, and then the lesson stopped.

1:29.3

It seemed her interactions with the spirit world had ended too, which was surprising given

1:33.6

her family's history of paranormal activity.

1:36.9

Rosemary's parents and grandparents, among other members of the family, were all said

1:41.3

to be psychic.

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