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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BOX019: Reading By The Light Of Your Open Wound
What happens to a person when they're locked in a dark closet for 24 years? And why did the wounds of some Civil War soldiers glow blue as they lay on the battlefield? The strange story of Blanche Monnier and The Angel Glow phenomenon in the 19th Box.
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BOX018: Fat Shamed By A Robot
You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave. Also, what's with all the airport Nazi art? Inside the 18th Box you'll find details on the dark history of The Cecil (suicide) Hotel and the weird conspiracies surrounding The Denver Airport!
38 min
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BOX017: So Jazzed About Hand Farts
This week, the smell of corpses is driving down my property value. Also, stop eating hobos. The Body Farm and The People Eater of Venezuela in the 17th Box. Proceed with caution.
32 min
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BOX016: It's a Japanese Panties Scam!
In the 16th Box, Jethro talks about that time he was in a coma and explores what it's like for others who came out of a coma. Also, Kat has new info on D.B Cooper!
32 min
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BOX015: Nobody Expects A Pokey Stick In The Butt
This week in The 15th Box: If you're going to hold a public execution, at least clean up after yourself. Also, let's get stoned! Horrific historic torture methods and a new exciting discovery at Stonehenge.
29 min
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BOX014: Wearing Only Underpants On The Tundra
It started as a ski hike and ended in bizarre, unexplained multiple deaths. And, babies have been born in strange places, but coffins? The Dyotlov Pass incident and Coffin Birth this week in The Box.
31 min
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BOX013 Hey! Don't Eat that Slaughterhouse Runoff!
In Box 13, Did he really eat THAT? And, Wednesday is blue and smells like lasagna. Tarrare, the French showman with unusual eating habits and the strange world of synesthesia in this weeks box.
34 min
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BOX012: A Horrifying Day at The Grocery Store
Did Queen Victoria wear Price Albert out in the sack? And why did Joseph Stalin want to crossbreed chimps and humans? The naughty side of Queen Victoria and the crossbred "Human-zee" this week in The Box.
34 min
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Box011: Never Leave a Prosthetic Leg at The Tra...
Hey, don't put body parts in my salad! Also, 18 Months after she died, he dug her up and moved her in with him. The most bizarre laws ever proposed and The Macabre Tale of Count Carl von Cosel and his "Love Mummy", inside Box 11.
40 min
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BOX10: Screamed At By A Hobo
Jethro relates a deathbed experience that he personally witnessed. One that changed him forever. And then, did former First Lady Dolly Madison sleep her way to the top? Deathbed Visions and The secret side of the First Ladies. This week inside The Box.
37 min
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BOX009: Proctologist or Munitions Expert?
He was a huge Football Star. But he says it wasn't really him. And, "They laughed when I sat down at the Cat-Piano". On this episode of The Box Of Oddities, Kat and Jethro discuss dissociative identity disorder and The Katzenklavier: The Cat-Piano.
31 min
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BOX008: Wait. You Believe In The Moon?
Is a 9 year old baseball prodigy the reincarnated spirit of Major League legend Lou Gerhig? He believes so. Also, Kat discusses penises. At length. This week, “The Boy Who Knew Too Much” & The Icelandic Penis Museum. Don't forget to visit the gift shop.
40 min
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BOX007: The Pants Free Episode
On this episode of The Box Of Oddities, Kat and Jethro discuss chronically preserved human bodies. Will the first defrosted person be resurrected in the next 10 years? One expert says yes. And did we almost have a zombie president?
39 min
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BOX006: Sorry There Are Pubic Hairs On The Flus...
On this episode of The Box Of Oddities, Kat and Jethro discuss the horrible, terrible, no good life of the guy who invented the Saxophone. And then, the most bizarre, unfortunate and ironic deaths to ever happen. He died how? What a way to go!
25 min
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BOX005: A Quick Whack To The Noggin With A Croq...
On this episode of The Box Of Oddities, Kat and Jethro discuss Acquired Savant Syndrome. Get a head injury and become a genius. And can dancing kill you? Yes it can. And it did. Find out more about The Dancing Plague Of 1518. Next stop Funky Town
35 min
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BOX002: Old Corpse, New Corpse
On this episode of The Box Of Oddities, Kat and Jethro discuss living fossils, species that date back millions of years and the strange but true afterlife journey of Elmer McCurdy.
32 min
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BOX003: Don't Put Your Feces Covered Finger In ...
On this episode of The Box Of Oddities, Kat and Jethro discuss cellular memory. After your transplant, do you bring home more than just the organ from the hospital? Also, our cheese loving, murderous seventh President, Andrew Jackson.
28 min
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BOX004: Extreme Body Mods & The Sleeping Plague
On this episode of The Box Of Oddities, Kat and Jethro discuss extreme body modifications. So extreme that Jethro gets woozy. And what was it like to fall asleep in 1927 and not wake up until 1969? Could the “Sleeping Plague” ever return?
38 min
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BOX001: A Sawed Skull & Pants Poetry
On this episode of The Box Of Oddities, Kat and Jethro discuss the exhumed, severed head of Lee Harvey Oswald and the strange, dead body known as The Somerton Man that mysteriously appeared on a beach.
39 min