Treasure Island
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
One tale of tricks, and another of treasure. Both are more than entertaining, and both are part of today's tour through the Cabinet.
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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. |
| 0:27.9 | The scene is believing. |
| 0:29.6 | It's a well-known phrase that has come to mean the opposite of its original intent. |
| 0:33.8 | Writer and physician Thomas Fuller originated the quote in 1732 when he said, |
| 0:38.9 | scenes believing, but feelings the truth. |
| 0:41.9 | Meaning your eyes may deceive you, but what you can touch and feel will be the true test |
| 0:46.2 | of what's real. |
| 0:49.0 | Students and faculty at Cornell University got a test in truth in the early 1920s. |
| 0:54.0 | After a major storm coated the campus in snow, someone noticed a set of footprints. |
| 0:58.9 | Large footprints, bigger than any human could make. |
| 1:02.1 | The prints started on campus and traveled until they reached nearby BB Lake, where they |
| 1:06.9 | stopped. |
| 1:08.2 | The lake had frozen over, but something had opened up a wide hole in the ice. |
| 1:12.8 | Presumably whatever creature had made the footprints. |
| 1:15.7 | A zoologist at the university rushed to the scene and identified the kind of animal |
| 1:19.4 | that could have made such imprints, and such a large hole in the ice. |
| 1:23.9 | It was, he said, a rhinoceros. |
| 1:27.7 | Authorities were called in to drag the water for a body. |
| 1:30.2 | The local paper announced that a rhinoceros had drowned in BB Lake, and nobody on campus, |
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