Washed Up
Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.5 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Today's tour is all about identity. One tale is about a man without one, while the other is about a man who invented a new one. Either way, they make for great additions to 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 | There's an old joke about how everything in Australia wants to kill you. |
| 0:32.1 | From honey bees to eastern brown snakes to bullsharks, it seems every living creature was designed |
| 0:37.8 | to inflict the most damage possible on the local population. |
| 0:42.8 | But there is one death on record there that can't be blamed on the wildlife. |
| 0:46.9 | The victim's identity is still a mystery today, known only by where the police found him, |
| 0:52.0 | on a beach south of Adelaide, Australia near Sumerton Park. |
| 0:56.0 | It's unlikely though that he was killed by a snake or a shark because there were no |
| 0:59.8 | bite marks anywhere on his body. |
| 1:03.3 | When the police found him on the morning of December 1st, 1948, he was lined face up |
| 1:08.3 | in the sand with his legs crossed at the ankles. |
| 1:11.4 | At first glance, he looked to be sleeping, but as the officers got closer, they realized |
| 1:15.8 | the situation was far worse. |
| 1:19.2 | They searched the body for identification, a wallet or a driver's license, anything to |
| 1:24.4 | help their investigation. |
| 1:26.4 | What they found instead was an unlit cigarette resting on his collar, a collection of unusual |
| 1:31.1 | artifacts in his pockets, including an unpunched second-class train ticket to Henley Beach, |
| 1:36.6 | about 11 kilometers away, an unused bus ticket, an American hair comb, some chewing gum, half |
| 1:43.1 | a pack of cigarettes, and a matchbox. |
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