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Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

Whiskey Soured

Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Society & Culture

4.58.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Whether it's a ridiculous disagreement, or an unbelievable source of information and warning, there are amazing events to ponder on 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.

0:28.1

Examples seem especially in tune with the world in a way that humans can't begin to comprehend.

0:33.2

In 2010, a nursing home made headlines when the cat it kept on its premises was believed

0:38.7

to have successfully predicted the deaths of 50 patients simply by sitting with them

0:44.0

in their final hours.

0:46.4

Scientists were baffled, but it was clear that the cat knew something nobody else did.

0:52.7

Such occurrences sound far-fetched, but they're actually quite common.

0:56.8

Scientists and dogs have been able to detect pregnancies, illnesses, and severe weather

1:01.7

all before their humans ever realize what's going on, and perhaps the greatest evidence

1:07.0

of such intuition happened in China in 1975.

1:12.4

The City of High Kings, one million citizens, had never experienced a major environmental

1:17.3

event.

1:18.3

It was your average city, with a dynamic skyline filled with buildings of all shapes and

1:22.8

sizes, shops, restaurants, offices, apartments, all within walking distance of the Aodong Bay.

1:30.4

Sysmologists had threatened the possibility of an earthquake over the previous few months,

1:34.8

but it had never materialized, so when they came back with another dire warning, no one

1:39.8

cared, like the villagers who heard the boy cry wolf the city's people had stopped listening.

1:46.7

Then in February of 1975, residents noticed something bizarre going on around the city.

1:52.6

It had been a particularly cold winter that year, and large bodies of water had frozen

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