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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BOX184: At The Cost Of A Goat's Eyelid
In this episode, the discovery of a 95,000,000 year old snake and strange sex stories from human history. BOX184 is now available in your grocer's freezer.
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Crime Salad: https://www.himalaya.com/crimesalad
Out of the Shadows: https://www.himalaya.com/Out
Invisible Choir: https://www.himalaya.com/choir
33 min
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BOX183: Picnic By The Cesspit
Jethro talks about a city that filled it's nearby lake with dead bodies and human waste for 600 years. And then Kat tells us about how lives were saved with a spoon. BOX183 is one more than Box182.
40 min
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BOX182: Worth Its Weight In Whale Vomit
In this episode, Kat warns us to think twice before eating at a salad bar. Then, Jethro tells us about some horrible things happening in graveyards around the world right now. BOX182 is as fresh as a mountain meadow.
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Obscura: https://www.himalaya.com/obscura
True Crime Historian: https://www.himalaya.com/TrueCrime
Crime Salad: https://www.himalaya.com/crimesalad
Out of the Shadows: https://www.himalaya.com/Out
Invisible Choir: https://www.himalaya.com/choir
41 min
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BOX181: Bones In The Plaster
Amazing discoveries modern technology has recently revealed from artifacts unearthed in Pompeii. And then, the stories of several real life cyborgs! That's right, cyborgs!
37 min
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BOX180: Journey Of The Incorruptible Waxy Man
Kat tells us about the Incorruptibles. Saints whose bodies defy decomposition. Then, Jethro has the inside scoop on crop circles. Are they messages from our future? BOX180. Now available in easy to use single serving containers.
52 min
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BOX179: Peter and His Rat Gallows
In this episode Jethro tells us about a Swiss couple who disappeared in 1941 without a trace until a very strange discovery in 2017. And then Kat tells us the sordid tale of Russian Tzar Peter III. Or as we like to call him, "Peter The Not So Great". Please do not put BOX179 in your mouth as it contains small parts that may pose a choking hazard.
33 min
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BOX178: Clothes Hangers And Horseshoes
Are the Beale Papers a map to a yet undiscovered treasure in Virginia? Kat investigates. And then Jethro presents the shocking and unexpected history of the chastity belt. Box178 is available and sanitized for your protection.
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1. Out of the Shadows: https://www.himalaya.com/Out
2. Obscura: https://www.himalaya.com/obscura
3. Crime Salad: https://www.himalaya.com/crimesalad
4. Invisible Choir: https://www.himalaya.com/choir
5. True Crime Historian: https://www.himalaya.com/TrueCrime
44 min
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BOX177: Mummies In His Cargo Hold
Could The Curse of The Pharaoh be real? Jethro investigates. And then, Kat explores why everyone in a town mysteriously died in one night.
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1. Out of the Shadows: https://www.himalaya.com/Out
2. Obscura: https://www.himalaya.com/obscura
3. Crime Salad: https://www.himalaya.com/crimesalad
4. Invisible Choir: https://www.himalaya.com/choir
5. True Crime Historian: https://www.himalaya.com/TrueCrime
36 min
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BOX176: It Smells Like Hot Dogs & Tires In Here
Are doppelgangers real? Kat explores the story of Emilie Sagee, a woman who was literally beside herself. And then Jethro warns us that grocery stores are engaged in mind control experiments that attempt to manipulate our decision making. It's BOX176 and that's fine by us.
41 min
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BOX175: Dangling From The Window
Benjamin Franklin was a sexy, sexy man. And a bit odd. And then, after missing for 30 years, it's back. Fangs and all. The freaky side of Ben Franklin and the rediscovery of the Fanged Mouse Deer.
36 min
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BOX174: Is That A Chainsaw In Your Pants?
Get paid for sleeping on the job! And then, if they think you're dumb they'll take your uterus. Some of the strangest jobs that you personally can get and the shocking history of Eugenics. It's BOX174 and it's sanitized for your protection.
41 min
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BOX173: A Tapeworm Called Reggie
In this episode, Kat discovers amazing and somewhat disturbing facts about worms. Then, Jethro shares the story of a woman who fell from the sky nearly two miles and survived. Box173 is now cleared for takeoff on Runway 3a. Please fasten your seatbelts.
44 min
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BOX172: The Gospel According to Jeff Goldblum
In the first episode back from the live tour, Jethro talks about some weird stuff they dug up in a vacant lot next to the old London Hospital and Kat talks about studies that suggest there is a very high likelihood that there is life on other planets.
33 min
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BOX171: The Halloween Special Pt. 2
The second fun sized installment on The Halloween Special! Thanks to everyone who sent in their stories!
26 min
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BOX170: The Halloween Special Pt. 1
It's our second annual Halloween Special featuring your stories of the strange, the bizarre, the unexpected! Part two will be available Halloween night!
28 min
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BOX169: I'm Dead, But What a View!
He was missing for 13 years. Medical experts were shocked by what they saw when he was found. And then, did you know you can go to jail for chewing gum? A most bizarre discovery in the Polish Woods and the extremely strict laws of Singapore.
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30 min
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BOX168: Thank You For Not Burning My Entrails
Kat has researched the world's most bizarre towns and their unexpected and interesting histories. Then, Jethro describes the horrifying execution of William Wallace, the story that the movie Braveheart did not tell you. It's gross.
41 min
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BOX167: Eating Corn Dogs On The Roof
Ever wonder what your dog is really thinking? Thanks to science, we now know! Also, why are there over 100 toddlers and 200 llamas buried in my yard? What we've learned by training dogs to lie still in an MRI and the excavation of a mysterious ancient burial ground in Peru.
43 min
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BOX166: Cows Licked The Paint Off My Car
Jethro attempts to answer the question, "why do men have nipples?" Then, Kat details some really weird things that are going on inside your body right now. Ask your doctor if BOX166 is right for you.
37 min
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BOX165: Skeletons In The Bath
Some extremely weird things have happened on Mars. And what is fear? The unbelievable results caused by ancient Martian storm damage and the reason our brain tells us to fear certain things almost universally.
39 min
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BOX164: Can I Have Your Liver Then?
The gruesome fate met by crew members of a squadron of World War Two fighter planes shot down in the South Pacific. Then, a baffling murder scene that launched one of the largest and most complex investigations in Japanese History.
42 min
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BOX163: Irritable Vowel Syndrome
She was whacked in the head and woke up with a German accent. Also, a guy in the 1850's who crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope. But not the way you think. An exploration of Foreign Accent Syndrome and the white-knuckle story of The Great Blondine.
46 min
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BOX162: Fiddlin' About In The Fridge
They had diametrically opposing personalities. The problem was they were conjoined twins. Then, let's dig up a mass grave in Russia. The shocking story of Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova and the exhumation of a mass grave full of 13th century Mongol Horde victims.
36 min
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BOX161: Random Corpse Text
By all means, handle that package with care! Also, beware of those who knock on the door of your museum in the middle of the night. The weird things that they allowed to be shipped in the early days of The U.S. Parcel Post and the brazen art theft of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
36 min
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BOX160: Skeletor Was Misunderstood
These ladies literally glowed in the dark. And then, at four years old he disappeared for eight months. But when he returned, was it really him? The shocking story of "The Radium Girls" and the disappearance and mysterious reappearance of Bobby Dunbar.
43 min