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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Well-Oiled Machine

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

Society & Culture, History

4.58.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

If you get one message from today's tour of the Cabinet, it should be that people—and the things they make—are often curious.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

0:08.7

and Mild.

0:13.0

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

0:16.3

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

0:22.2

just waiting for us to explore.

0:25.4

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

0:30.0

Not everyone likes receiving mail.

0:38.6

At least not when it has things like pre-approved or final notice printed on the front of the

0:42.9

envelope.

0:43.9

About receiving a handwritten letter or a postcard in an age of email and text messages,

0:48.8

a few things feel that special.

0:51.3

Unless you lived in Colford in Gloucestershire, England during the Christmas of 1923.

0:55.3

While the residents were opening holiday cards from loved ones, there was something else

0:59.7

tucked into their mailboxes.

1:01.9

Postcards.

1:02.9

But these weren't quickly dashed off scribbleings from friends in exotic locations.

1:07.1

They had come from one anonymous source, a person living right under their noses.

1:12.9

On these postcards, the sender had written offensive messages, some even included obscene

1:18.0

images.

1:19.0

According to an article in the Daily British Wig printed at the time, these postcards

1:23.0

were described as, and I quote, full of the most horrible, vulgar, coarseness.

1:28.9

They'd been arriving since July of that year, and were so grotesque in nature, no paper

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