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The Box of Oddities

The Webby Award-winning “Box of Oddities” is a podcast that delves into the strange and mysterious aspects of our world, exploring topics ranging from bizarre medical conditions to unsolved mysteries, and from paranormal phenomena to strange cultural practices from around the world. With a focus on oddities, curiosities, and the macabre, each episode is a journey into the unknown, where hosts Kat and Jethro Gilligan Toth share their love for unusual stories and inject their humor and commentary. From the strange history of medical practices to chilling true crime stories, to natural (and unnatural) events, “The Box of Oddities” satisfies your thirst for the weird and the unusual, offering an informative and entertaining look into the dark and mysterious corners of our world.
JIMMY KIMMEL, ABC-TV says, “Should you be the type who has an interest in weird stuff, this is a fun thing to allow in your head!”

“Truth is stranger than fiction, and the Box of Oddities is the strangest of all!” -SLUGGO, SIRIUS XM LITHIUM

“Kat & Jethro wring humor from bizarre, macabre and perplexing places.” -BOSTON MAGAZINE

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Inbox Of Oddities #060 Oct 03, 2025

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Real emails. Unreal stories.

Welcome to the Inbox of Oddities, where the freaks write in and the universe delivers receipts.

Inside Kat & Jethro’s inbox, the stories are weirder than fiction and more human than a wax museum marriage meltdown. Listeners write in with tales of time capsules that issue ominous relationship advice, McDonald's orders that align perfectly with the Boo Effect, and ghosts that wait until just after the photo op to let the camera work.

This is where:

🦴 A family suggests a romantic day trip to a museum of bones and an immersive fever dream called Factory Obscura.
🎧 A listener finds out about her breast cancer thanks to a podcast tangent and a snowball metaphor.
🍔 A woman named Debbie from a real place called Tittybong, Australia, gets a McDonald’s code that literally spells “BBOO” while listening to Box of Oddities in a hospital parking lot.
📚 A grammar snob gets absolutely humbled by Merriam-Webster.
📦 A man rediscovers a cassette tape he buried in 1996, warning himself not to marry someone who hates museums.
🐟 A boy once caught a trout with his nose, apparently.
🧀 And someone wants to dress as “Shelly’s aunt” for Halloween, glowing blue and handing out cheese curds. No further context provided. And none needed.

These are the unfiltered dispatches from the cult of curiosity, the church of weird, and the global freak family of The Box of Oddities.

It’s like rummaging through a haunted junk drawer filled with love notes, medical mysteries, and cryptid keychains.

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll maybe question the space-time continuum.
This is Inbox of Oddities.

📬 Want in? Share your strange life stuff with Kat & Jethro here: curator@theboxofoddities.com

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Dewey Decibel System of the Damned Oct 01, 2025

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Why does the Peoria Public Library seem to come with a return policy on souls? And what chilling new clues have surfaced in the decades-old vanishing of the Martin family in Oregon? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro dig deep into two mysteries that refuse to stay buried.

First, explore the haunted stacks of one of America’s eeriest libraries—where more than just overdue books linger in the shadows. Then, journey into the Pacific Northwest as fresh evidence reopens the haunting cold case of a family that seemingly vanished into thin air over 70 years ago.

Ghosts, disappearances, and just enough dark humor to make your spine giggle—this episode has it all. Tune in for tales that are spooky, bizarre, and 100% alphabetized for your paranormal convenience.

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Exhuming Is Hard Sep 29, 2025

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What happens when you dig up Charlie Chaplin 11 weeks after his death? In this episode, Kat and Jethro wade into the bizarre tale of Chaplin’s posthumous kidnapping—complete with a ransom plot and a phone call that started with, “We have Charlie.” Spoiler: It’s not a prank if the coffin is real.

Then, ever looked at your fingers and thought, “Why... these?” We crack open the secrets of evolutionary biology to uncover the latest strange DNA findings about how human fingers evolved—and why fish might deserve credit for your ability to do jazz hands.

A corpse goes on tour and your thumbs have a fishy backstory. It’s another day in the Oddiverse.

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Inbox Of Oddities #59 Sep 26, 2025

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REM Sleep, Clock Curses, and Alien Heat Lightning

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In this listener-powered episode of The Box of Oddities, JG and Kat crack open the inbox and out pour... auditory hallucinations, ghost clocks, spontaneous astral projection, and the shocking truth about “heat lightning.” (Spoiler: it’s probably aliens.)

First, a listener shares how her dreams are so vivid and reality-bending due to Narcolepsy that she’s genuinely not sure which world is real—relatable, terrifying, and yes, somehow still funny. Then, a cursed wall clock starts ticking every time someone dies. No batteries. No mercy. Just 12 minutes of tick-tock you're next.

Meanwhile, someone else swears that a strange sky phenomenon isn’t just distant thunder—it’s the government covering up UFO joyrides. (Can’t argue with that logic.) You’ll also hear about a haunted hallway birth involving Richard Simmons, dolphin-whale linguistics, astral projection lessons, and what happens when massage therapists listen to BoO during bodywork sessions (spoiler: they cry, and so do you).

Whether it’s clock-based death omens or the weirdly uplifting side of functional neurological disorders, this Inbox delivers what your brain craves: weird, real, and unreal tales from the wonderfully odd corners of the BoO family.

Listen now... or risk becoming the sixth tick of the clock.

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London Hammer Time Sep 24, 2025

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What do a 100-million-year-old hammer and the equator’s midlife crisis all have in common? This episode, obviously.

JG takes a swing at the London Hammer—a tool encased in ancient rock that either proves time travel, or that geology just likes messing with us. Then, Kat walks us through the wild world of misplaced landmarks, where entire places are technically in the wrong spot thanks to 18th-century surveyors eyeballing things like “latitude” and “reason.”

We also visit the equator... and then shift 179 feet to the left because, oops, science did it again.

It’s an episode full of mislocated facts, ancient anomalies, and the sobering realization that the Earth is bad at geometry.

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The Curse of Perfect Memory Sep 22, 2025

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Imagine remembering every single day of your life in crystal-clear detail — sounds like a superpower, right? Well, in this episode of The Box of Oddities, we dive headfirst into the rare and unsettling condition known as hyperthymesia, where the human brain refuses to forget anything. (Spoiler: it’s not as fun as it sounds — birthdays, bad haircuts, and all). Then, buckle up for a trip into the wild world of the Bush dog — a pint-sized predator that looks like an otter, smells like vinegar, and leaves biologists scratching their heads. Why does nature keep inventing creatures that seem like inside jokes? Tune in for laughter, weird science, and the kind of trivia that will make you both the life of the party and a little unsettling to sit next to.

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Inbox of Oddities #58 Sep 19, 2025

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INBOX OF ODDITIES: The Cat, the Cursed Doll & the Powerline Phallus
Now streaming: A listener episode so delightfully bizarre it made our cat salute an old war photo.

🕵️‍♂️ Is your cat channeling classified WWII intel?

🫣 Did your porcelain doll bury forks in your yard?

🔵 Has your aunt started glowing blue near deep fryers?

📮 And is it weird that a mailman on Cape Cod delivered mail to a McCraken the exact moment we said McCraken? (Spoiler: Yes.)

📸 Plus: raining dildos, haunted tattoos, spontaneous human luminescence, and a deeply emotional story involving three margaritas, a live show, and someone being cradled like a baby by Kat.

🚨 This Inbox of Oddities is a hall of fame mash-up of the freaky, the funny, and the forehead-slappingly bizarre. Listener tales that defy explanation, reason, or basic OSHA guidelines.

📬 No topic is off-limits—from interdimensional feline agents to maple vodka root beer floats and the international hunt for Mr. Pibb. You need this in your brain.

📲 Listen now. Let the odd wash over you.

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Lost In Time, Found In A Tutu Sep 17, 2025

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Imagine taking a wrong turn and winding up in a version of your hometown that doesn’t—and maybe never did—exist. That’s exactly what happened to Carol Chase McElheney when she stumbled into a bizarre time slip in Riverside, California—a place both familiar and terrifyingly wrong. Was it a glitch in the matrix, a parallel universe, or just an exceptionally creepy case of bad directions? Meanwhile, in Anchorage, Alaska, a completely different kind of magic was at work: Linny Pacillo and the Anchorage Parking Fairies. Armed with wings, tutus, and a sense of rebellion, these whimsical enforcers fought parking meters with glitter and sass. From cosmic slip-ups to tutu-clad protest, this episode of The Box of Oddities Podcast dives into the weird, wonderful, and wildly unexpected. Buckle up—it’s a ride through the absurd that only Box of Oddities can deliver.

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Murder, Mannequins, and Mystery Meat Sep 15, 2025

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Step into the bizarre with this episode of The Box of Oddities—where medical mysteries, immortal mannequins, and murderous sausage kings collide. First, we unravel one of the strangest medical cases in modern history: Patient AB, who discovered the voices in her head weren’t a symptom, but a life-saving alarm system. Then we pucker up for the story of Resusci Anne, whose face has been kissed over 300 million times since her mysterious death more than a century ago. Finally, we sink our teeth into the chilling tale of Adolph Louis Luetgert, the infamous “Sausage King of Chicago,” whose legacy is as greasy as it is gruesome. Weird history, true crime oddities, and unbelievable science—this episode has it all.

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"I DIED IN THE 70s. GOT BETTER." Sep 12, 2025

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DEAD GUY TALKS

Against all odds (and several known laws of biology), Thomas Morelli, who died in a car crash in the late 1970s, joins us in the Box to chat about the minor inconvenience of being deceased. Yes, he died. But he got better.

Tune in for a jaw-droppingly bizarre tale of life after death and why being pronounced dead isn’t always the end of your public speaking career.

The Box of Oddities. Where dying is just a plot twist.

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