Aaron Mahnke's Cabinet of Curiosities
From the creator of the hit podcast Lore comes a new, bite-sized storytelling experience. Each twice-weekly episode features two short tales that take listeners on a guided tour of the unbelievable, the unsettling, and the bizarre.
Episodes
Humans have been around on the planet long enough that one of the most eerie things to experience is the absence of other people. Today's tour puts two such moments on display.
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Some academicsThe Talking Dead discover groundbreaking concepts, while others become them. Today's tour should explain exactly what we mean.
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Some traditions are held onto a bit more tightly than others—both literally and figuratively.
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Extraordinary beginnings for some commonplace bits of our culture. Today tour should be painless.
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It's difficult to know exactly what's going on inside the minds of the people around us. But if these Cabinet stories are any indication, perhaps we should be a bit worried?
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The brain works in mysterious ways, as is demonstrated by both exhibits on our tour of the Cabinet today.
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Let's take a curious tour of some amazing inventions.
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You might be surprised by just how powerful a bit of history can be, as these curious tales attest.
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Great amounts of time and distance are spanned in this tour of curious personalities.
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Curious people tend to rise to the top. Today's subjects are no exception.
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Some individuals have tried very hard to stand out on the pages of history, and many have succeeded in very unique ways.
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Let's tour a pair of curious stories that are joined by a simple element: human language.
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Often times, it's not uniqueness that makes people curious, but their similarities. Today's tour should reveal exactly what we mean.
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There's a lot of extraordinary adventure hidden behind the lives of two individuals with plain, ordinary names.
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Today's curious adventure will require setting foot on a boat or two, but the journey will be worth it.
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The world is out there, waiting for us to take control and explore it. How people have done that in the past, however, was sometimes a little curious.
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We humans always try our best to understand the world around us. Sometimes that leads to new benefits, and sometimes it leads to misunderstandings.
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One curiosity in our world is how minds change over time. And the two exhibits on our tour today should help you understand why that's so easy to love.
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Some people are inventive, while others can't seem to get it together. How their stories play out, though, can always be curious.
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Sometimes you can find what you're looking for, and sometimes you can't. Either way, the process can be a little curious.
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