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listening. Terms apply. 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 Curiosities.

Drive across America, and you'll find a landscape haunted by the past.

Off lonely stretches of highway, there are ghost towns that went suddenly boom and bust,

or that just dried up like desert sand.

Many are no more than a mile marker with an unusual name, like Feltown, Alabama, or Zizek's

California.

And the state of Texas has no shortage of bizarrely named ghost towns of

the Rhone, Caput, turpentine, even bucksnort. But take a drive through hill country in

central Texas and you just might stumble on an odd little ghost town with an even odder name.

We're talking, of course, about Blowout Texas. A group of settlers from Kentucky reportedly set up shop in the area way back in 1854.

Comanche Creek flowed nearby, providing fresh, clean water for cooking and irrigation.

But farming wasn't the primary reason they chose the area.

Instead, it was the bats.

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