The Box of Oddities

Inbox Of Oddities #055

15 Aug 2025

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Live Fall Tour Information! Inbox of Oddities: Hands, Spirits, and Shoes Full of Baileys This week, your favorite weird mailbag is overflowing. From...

Consensual Face-Punching

13 Aug 2025

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TICKETS FOR THE LIVE FALL TOUR HERE! Somewhere in the shadows of the 1990s UK, an unsettling rumor spread: men and women posing as social workers, kn...

The Party After Death

11 Aug 2025

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The Box Of Oddities Live Fall Tour Starts Sept. 10 In Seattle and Ends Halloween Night In Chicago! Learn More Here! In this delightfully morbid Box o...

Caution: May Contain Human

08 Aug 2025

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Freak Family Favorite: “Would You Like Guac With That Foot?” In this Box of Oddities classic, we revisit one of the most disturbingly delicious ...

You Can’t Argue With a Beaked Mammal

06 Aug 2025

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Learn More About Our Upcoming Live Shows! In this episode, Jethro dives face-first into one of the most perplexing murder investigations in modern hi...

A Salad That Eats You

04 Aug 2025

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Tickets for the Live Tour Here! What do you get when a carnivorous plant develops a taste for rodents and a whole country uploads itself to the cloud...

The Inbox Of Oddities #054

01 Aug 2025

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Live Show Tickets Here! In this special Inbox of Oddities episode, Kat and JG open the floodgates of freaky listener tales—and what flows out inclu...

Mystery in Motown, Chaos in the Clouds

30 Jul 2025

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Learn More About The Box of Oddities Live Tour! In this spine-tingling episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro dive headfirst into two tales t...

Misguided Medical Enthusiasm

28 Jul 2025

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Live Show Tickets! Learn More Here! How do you survive a 47-story fall? Ask Alcides Moreno—a window washer who defied gravity, logic, and most of t...

Horse Manure, Dead Whales & LSD

25 Jul 2025

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Tickets for The Box of Oddities Live Tour Here! In this Freak Family Favorites episode of The Box of Oddities, we investigate three very different wa...

Ghost Ships & Drowning Pools

23 Jul 2025

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LIVE SHOW TIX HERE Set sail into the strangest corners of history and mystery in this episode of The Box of Oddities! First, we weigh anchor in 18th-...

Postmortem Chic

21 Jul 2025

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Box of Oddities Live National Tour September 10 - October 31, Halloween Night. Learn More Here! In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethr...

Inbox Of Oddities #053

18 Jul 2025

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Learn More About The Live Fall Tour Tickets! INBOX OF ODDITIES #053– “Wall Wig & The Certified Bird Whisperer” 🕳️ Welcome to the weirdest...

Death By Pastry

16 Jul 2025

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Learn More About The Box of Oddities Live Fall Tour HERE! What do you get when you mix a royal smorgasbord, a deadly dessert, and a man whose name so...

Shovel First, Ask Questions Never

14 Jul 2025

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Find out more about The Box of Oddities Live! In this delightfully disturbing episode of The Box of Oddities, we unearth two baffling tales that defy...

Inbox Of Oddities #052

11 Jul 2025

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Learn More About Box Of Oddities Live Show Tickets! A skull bequeathed to a favorite coworker. A traffic cone worshipped like a divine orange messiah...

Rot Fail & Caesar's Revenge

09 Jul 2025

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LIVE SHOW TICKETS HERE Did you know there was a time when trees never rotted? In this flaming-hot episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro unea...

Hex Marks & Tooth Thieves

07 Jul 2025

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The Box of Oddities Live Show. Learn More Here! The Cursed Life of Moll Dyer & the Tooth Fairy’s Bizarre Backstory In this episode of The Box of O...

Resurrecting George Washington

04 Jul 2025

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Box of Oddities Live Tour Tickets! Learn more! Resurrecting George Washington, the First Lady Freak Files, and other patriotic tales. This Independe...

When Pants Attack

02 Jul 2025

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The Box Of Oddities Live Show Tickets Here! In this episode of The Box of Oddities, things get combustible—literally. First, we unravel the bafflin...

Freakshow Fighter

30 Jun 2025

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See The Box of Oddities Live! Get Your Tickets! In this deeply strange and oddly inspiring episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro unearth the...

Inbox Of Oddities #052

27 Jun 2025

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Live Show Tickets Here! Buckle in, Founding Freaks — it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet of bizarre in this Inbox of Oddities episode! A 12-year-...

Father, Son & Holy Toast

26 Jun 2025

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See The Box of Oddities Live! Learn More Here! Is that the Virgin Mary in your waffle, or are you just hungry for divine intervention? In this episod...

An Island Full of Ghosts

23 Jun 2025

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The Box of Oddities Live! Learn More Here! Stranded, forgotten, and surprisingly resourceful—this week on The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro unear...

Ben Franklin Was a Freak

20 Jun 2025

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In this edition of Freak Family Favorites, Kat and Jethro peel back the powdered wig to reveal Ben Franklin’s freakier side—lightning rods and dip...

A Man Who Vanished And A Woman Who Refused To

18 Jun 2025

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LIVE SHOW TICKETS HERE! What do a vanished German tourist and an indestructible socialite have in common? Absolutely nothing—except they’re both ...

Brains, Blood, and Bureaucrats

16 Jun 2025

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LIVE SHOW TICKETS HERE! The Brainiac Butcher & Presidential Plot Twists In this delightfully disturbing episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jeth...

Dad Vengeance: A Father’s Day Tale

13 Jun 2025

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Live Show Tickets! Father’s Day Bonus: The Relentless Father – The André Bamberski Story When 14-year-old Kalinka Bamberski died under mysterio...

Meat Honey and the Church of Horrors

11 Jun 2025

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Get your tickets for The Live Show here! Beneath the stone floors of a London church, a chilling discovery sent Victorian society into a frenzy—and...

Afterlife Interior Design Tips

09 Jun 2025

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Fall 2025 Tour Tickets Here! What do you get when you cross a brain surgery patient with an out-of-body experience and a ghost-repelling paint color?...

Inbox Of Oddities #051

06 Jun 2025

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🎧 "THE POSSESSED CAT & THE BATHROOM SQUIRREL” 🐈🧀🧻 In this utterly unhinged installment of Inbox of Oddities, we tackle the most importa...

Survival, Psychosis, and Other Fun Group Activities

04 Jun 2025

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Live Show Tickets Here! Ever shared a delusion so hard it needed a group chat? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro explore the tru...

Casserole Of The Dead

02 Jun 2025

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LIVE SHOW TIX HERE! Time Travel Insurance and Unusual Post-Funeral Food Traditions: Ever worried about getting stuck in the 17th century without pro...

Inbox Of Oddities #049

30 May 2025

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⁠Tickets to The Live Shows Here! The Inbox of Oddities #049: “The Tooth Collector of Apartment 3B” 🚨BREAKING: Squeaky hiccups have been ent...

March of the Crabs, Descent of the Angels

28 May 2025

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See The Box Of Oddities Live! In this delightfully peculiar episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro explore two phenomena that are equal parts...

Frozen Lovers, a Doomed Czar, and the Devil’s Footprints

26 May 2025

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Tickets to The Live Shows Here! In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we chip away at the icy mystery of Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, a Swiss co...

Inbox Of Oddities #048

23 May 2025

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Live Show Tickets Here INBOX OF ODDITIES: - “The Ghost in the Toothbrush Cup” In this kaleidoscopic journey through the wonderfully weird, Kat a...

Mind Over Modem

21 May 2025

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Fall Tour 2025 Tickets Here! Imagine controlling tech with your mind and watching a Viking ship burst through a flaming amphitheater — no, you're n...

Screaming And Flailing About

19 May 2025

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LIVE SHOW TICKETS HERE! Was Herophilus a medical pioneer… or Alexandria’s most ambitious serial dissector? In this episode of The Box of Oddities...

Inbox Of Oddities #047

16 May 2025

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Tickets to our Live Shows Here!⁠ Kat and Jethro crack open the email vault and unleash a tsunami of weirdness in this edition of Inbox of Oddities!...

Haunted Highways and Trouser Trauma

14 May 2025

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Tickets to our Live Shows Here! Get ready for a joyride into the bizarre! In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we swerve down an East Texas road h...

Gone Girl, Gone Town

12 May 2025

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In this episode of The Box of Oddities, the astonishing true story of Kara Robinson—abducted in broad daylight and held captive by a serial killer- ...

DUNG, DEATH & THE DEAD RETURNED

09 May 2025

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LIVE SHOW TICKETS HERE! New dates being added! EPISODE REWIND: Step into the creaky time machine as we dig up some gloriously odd gems from the arch...

Caffeine and Chronoportals

07 May 2025

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Get your live show Tickets and details HERE! Step into a timeline tangle and sip the strangest origin story ever brewed in this episode of The Box of...

The Great Sausage Uprising

05 May 2025

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Get Tickets For The Box Of Oddities Live Show Here! This time on The Box of Oddities, we chew through two stories that will leave your brain deliciou...

Inbox Of Oddities #046

02 May 2025

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Get Tickets to The Box Of Oddities Shows Live ⁠HERE!⁠ In this Inbox of Oddities, we unbox your weirdest true stories—and maybe a haunted Viking...

Where the Dead Walk: Corpse Roads and Haunted Hotels

30 Apr 2025

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Get Tickets to The Box Of Oddities Shows Live ⁠HERE!⁠ Pack a lunch and maybe an exorcist—this episode of The Box of Oddities is going full ghos...

What's In Your Walls?

28 Apr 2025

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Get Tickets to The Box Of Oddities Shows Live HERE! When contractors cracked open the aging walls of a 120-year-old department store, they expected d...

Inbox Of Oddities #046

25 Apr 2025

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TIX TO BOX OF ODDITES LIVE SHOWS ARE NOW ON SALE HERE! Welcome to Inbox of Oddities, where reality takes a smoke break and the inbox bursts open with ...

Frozen Beards & Floating Saucers

23 Apr 2025

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In this episode of The Box of Oddities, your curiosity is about to be abducted—possibly by a 19th-century mermaid in a UFO-shaped boat. First, we pl...

Space Cult And The Arachnid Queen

21 Apr 2025

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The Psychology of Heaven's Gate and Nan Songer, The Spider Lady What makes a person trade all earthly belongings for a pair of Nikes and a one-way ti...

Inbox Of Oddities #044

18 Apr 2025

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The Portal Opens at 2:13 PM (And Smells Like Popcorn) In this curiously chaotic installment of Inbox of Oddities, the freaks are flying high, the lawn...

Of Blooms and Bookworms

16 Apr 2025

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In this episode, Jethro explores Tulip Mania, the 17th-century Dutch financial disaster that saw people selling their homes for tulip bulbs. Yes, actu...

Three Legs & A Fish Storm

14 Apr 2025

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The question is, what do a three-legged man and a biblical seafood storm have in common? Absolutely nothing—except they’re both real and demand ...

Freak Family Friday: Inbox of the Damned

11 Apr 2025

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This week on The Box of Oddities, it's Freak Family Friday—our sacred ritual of opening the email portal and unleashing your most unsettling, hilari...

Jury Duty For Clams

09 Apr 2025

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Why does a six-story elephant loom over the Jersey Shore like a Victorian kaiju? And what kind of dystopian mollusk surveillance program is Poland run...

Guarding History, Birthing Chaos

07 Apr 2025

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In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we begin with the extraordinary life—and tragic death—of Khaled al-Asaad, the Syrian archaeologist who cou...

Inbox of Oddities #043

04 Apr 2025

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Inbox of Oddities #043: The Duck, the Frog, and the Glitch in the Gas Station Matrix In this electrifying edition of the Inbox of Oddities, the Freak...

Haunted Balls and Human Endurance

02 Apr 2025

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What do a mysterious metal orb and a sadistic ultramarathon have in common? They’re both ready to ruin your weekend—and they’re both in this epi...

Meat Cravings & Butterfly Effects

31 Mar 2025

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In this episode of The Box of Oddities, things get weird—fast. First, JG explores the chilling legend and even chillier reality of Wendigo psychosis...

Inbox Of Oddities #042

28 Mar 2025

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What do a duck with refined musical taste, a prophetic child, a phantom couch with mom-guilt, and a mysterious man named “Lars” (who pays in silve...

Penguins, Nazis, & Copper Noses

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Operation Highjump and Tycho Brahe Was Antarctica the site of a secret Nazi UFO battle? And did a 16th-century astronomer really keep a pet elk... th...

Nobody Dies Naturally Here

24 Mar 2025

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In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat, and Jethro unbox a double dose of historical weirdness and cultural curiosity. First, meet Gebhard Leber...

Inbox Of Oddities #041

21 Mar 2025

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The Inbox of Oddities is a delightful bonus episode where Kat and Jethro dive into the treasure trove of listener emails, comments, and messages sent...

Terror in the Desert, Mystery at Sea

19 Mar 2025

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In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we unravel two wildly bizarre tales that will leave you questioning reality itself. First, Jethro dives into t...

Mummified Outlaw to Ghostly Whispers

17 Mar 2025

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Elmer McCurdy Won’t Stay Dead & Sapphire Sandalo on the Spirit World What happens when an Old West outlaw refuses to stay buried—literally? The s...

Inbox Of Oddities #040

14 Mar 2025

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The Inbox of Oddities is a delightful bonus episode where Kat and Jethro dive into the treasure trove of listener emails, comments, and messages sent...

The Machine Elves Say Hi

12 Mar 2025

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What do interdimensional beings and the freakiest game of evolutionary Jenga have in common? Absolutely nothing—except they’re both on today’s e...

Secret Labs & a Flapper With a Badge

10 Mar 2025

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Plum Island and Alice Clement Is a top-secret government island harboring bioengineered nightmares? Probably. But does it also have weirdly aggressiv...

Inbox Of Oddities #039

07 Mar 2025

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The Inbox of Oddities is a delightful bonus episode where Kat and Jethro dive into the treasure trove of listener emails, comments, and messages sent...

Full Throttle Toilet Paper

05 Mar 2025

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The Toilet Bowl Parade & A Call from the Dead—Strange But True! What do a parade of toilets and a phone call from beyond the grave have in common? ...

Phantom Signals & the World’s Oldest Profession

03 Mar 2025

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Ghost Transmissions from the Vietnam War and The History of Prostitution Some say the dead don’t speak—but what if they broadcast? In this episode...

Frozen Solid, Feathered Giants, and Final Words

28 Feb 2025

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In this episode of Freak Family Favorites, we ask the following question: What happens when a person literally freezes solid and somehow lives to te...

Parachute Pants & Killer Ants

26 Feb 2025

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The Lakewood Artillery Shell Incident & Nature’s Tiny Assassins What do you do when a giant artillery shell crashes into your backyard? If your a...

Have Another Lard Sandwich

24 Feb 2025

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Strap in for a ride through the bizarre and the badass! In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we set sail on the doomed T-36 barge—because what’...

Inbox Of Oddities #038

21 Feb 2025

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The Inbox of Oddities is a delightful bonus episode where Kat and Jethro dive into the treasure trove of listener emails, comments, and messages sent...

A Warlord’s Curse & Ghosts of the Savannah

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Doom Unleashed – Timur’s Cursed Tomb & the Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo Some legends are just old stories… and then some prove themselves terrifyi...

Death by Winter, Theft by Haircut

17 Feb 2025

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The Starlight Tours, aka The Saskatoon Freezing Deaths and The Phantom Barber In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we unravel the haunting case ...

Inbox Of Oddities #037

14 Feb 2025

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The Inbox of Oddities is a delightful bonus episode where Kat and Jethro dive into the treasure trove of listener emails, comments, and messages sent...

Your Brain Wants to Travel & Your Face Wants to Betray You

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mad Travelers Syndrome & The Science of Blushing Ever woken up convinced you're supposed to be somewhere else—like, on another continent? In this e...

A Serial Killer Mystery & The Worst Medical Advice Ever

10 Feb 2025

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A Serial Killer & Tobacco Where?! – Box of Oddities What do an elusive serial killer and some genuinely questionable medical practices have in commo...

Tripping Cavemen, Turnip Attacks, and Everest’s Ghostly Hikers

07 Feb 2025

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In this episode of Freak Family Favorites, we ask, Did Magic Mushrooms Make Us Human? And Why Is That Guy Getting Pelted with Turnips? In this mind-be...

Time Travel & Gangster Hideouts

05 Feb 2025

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What if time travel wasn’t just science fiction? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we unravel the mind-bending concept of the Tipler Cylinder...

Patient X & The Apollo 11 Doomsday Speech

03 Feb 2025

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In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we explore two mind-boggling tales: the eerie case of Patient X, a medical mystery so bizarre it left doctors ...

Inbox & Favorites: A Freaky Fusion of the Bizarre and Beloved

31 Jan 2025

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In this special hybrid episode, we’re combining the best of both worlds—The Inbox of Oddities and Freak Family Favorites! This episode kicks off w...

Inside The Wall

29 Jan 2025

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What if the universe had a plan… or at least a wicked sense of humor? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we unravel a jaw-dropping tale of a li...

Chatting Up The Dead

27 Jan 2025

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What do AI, augmented reality, and an antique telegraph inside a casket have in common? They’re all part of humanity’s centuries-old obsession wit...

Inbox Of Oddities #036

24 Jan 2025

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The Inbox of Oddities is a delightful bonus episode where Kat and Jethro dive into the treasure trove of listener emails, comments, and messages sent...

Sniff The Moon

22 Jan 2025

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What prowls the dark Wisconsin backroads, leaving behind tales of terror and… maybe a little fur? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we sink ou...

The Devil’s in the Details

20 Jan 2025

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Prepare to clutch your pearls and adjust your tinfoil hats as The Box of Oddities dives into the dark, dramatic, and downright bizarre! In this devil...

Inbox Of Oddities #035

17 Jan 2025

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The inbox of Oddities is a delightful bonus episode where Kat and Jethro dive into the treasure trove of listener emails, comments, and messages sent...

Aimlessly Chasing Firetrucks

15 Jan 2025

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What do a wildly beloved school cat and a baseball player with a firetruck obsession have in common? They’re both delightfully odd and waiting for y...

Jobling’s Tarred Corpse

13 Jan 2025

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What do a grisly public execution and a pack of socially conscious canines have in common? They’re both waiting for you in this delightfully strange...

Inbox Of Oddities #034

10 Jan 2025

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The Inbox of Oddities is a delightful bonus episode where Kat and Jethro dive into the treasure trove of listener emails, comments, and messages sent ...

Mutant Amphibians with Sparklers

08 Jan 2025

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Ever felt like tossing a message in a bottle was a hopeless romantic gesture? It could happen. In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we dive into th...

Mothman's Fine Booty

06 Jan 2025

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What if that familiar face isn’t so familiar after all? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, we delve into the eerie world of mimics—ghostly or...

Inbox Of Oddities #033

02 Jan 2025

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The Inbox of Oddities is a special bonus episode of The Box of Oddities podcast, where we delve into the treasure trove of our listeners' emails, mess...

A New Year Celebration of the Bizarre

30 Dec 2024

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Join Kat and Jethro in this special New Year episode of The Box of Oddities, where they revisit some of the most intriguing topics from past New Year ...

Inbox Of Oddities #032

26 Dec 2024

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The Inbox of Oddities is a special bonus episode of The Box of Oddities podcast, where we delve into the treasure trove of our listeners' emails, mess...

Twas the Fright Before Christmas: Haunted Toys Unwrapped

23 Dec 2024

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Get ready for a holiday treat that’s anything but merry and bright! In this special Christmas episode of The Box of Oddities, we unwrap a chilling a...