Glitch in Reality & Ghost in the Family Tree
What if the world didn’t move smoothly—but jumped from moment to moment like a broken film reel? Meet LM, the woman who could see colors, fa...
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The Box of Oddities
The Box of Oddities is a Webby Award-winning podcast with over sixteen million downloads. Hosts Kat and Jethro Gilligan Toth bring their irreverent brand of humor and unique chemistry to an...
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Before Your First Memory & Valley Of The Calls
Your brain was listening before you ever took your first breath. Newborns can recognize their mother’s voice—and even stories heard in the w...
Inbox Of Oddities #95
The Freak Family has been busy. This week on Inbox of Oddities, Kat and JG crack open the listener mailbag and discover a funeral urn that c...
Is My Red Is Your Red?
What if your brain suddenly decided that words had colors? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro dive into one of neuroscie...
Oscar Wilde, Dutch Schultz & Sad Nipples
What were someone's last words really supposed to reveal? During the Victorian era, people believed a person's final moments exposed the tru...
Bat People, Lunar Beavers & Human Skin Books
Freak Family Favorites: Bat People, Moon Hoaxes, and Museums That Shouldn't Exist This Freak Family Favorites episode comes straight from th...
The Silence Between the Signals
Long before smartphones and satellites filled the sky with signals, early radio experimenters were hearing something they couldn't explain....
Echoes in the Clay, Monsters in the Water
Could an ordinary clay pot be the oldest recording device in human history? On this episode of The Box of Oddities, JG explores one of archa...
Inbox of Oddities #94
Inbox of Oddities: Lettuce Lotion, Florida Organ Recitals & Envelopes Full of Crap It's time to open the Inbox of Oddities, where the Freak...
The Strange Birth of the Jesus Machine
When Benjamin Franklin's Ghost Designed a Machine and the strange story of The Underwater Orchestra. What happens when people become convinc...
Dinosaurs,Viagra, & Bubble Wrap
What do dinosaur fossils, Bubble Wrap, Super Soakers, Viagra, and Bob Ross have in common? More than you'd think. In this episode of The Box...
Inbox Of Oddities #93
A stranger vanishes into a dead-end Savannah alley, leaving behind a lesson that will last a lifetime. A grieving listener receives possible...
Copper Age Cobblers & College Con Artists
The Mysterious Cave of Ancient Shoes & Georgia Tech's Imaginary Graduate This week on The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro uncover one of arc...
Time Eats Everything
What if an advanced industrial civilization existed on Earth millions of years before humans... and every trace of it has been erased? In th...
Inbox Of Oddities #92
The inbox of Oddities is overflowing with unforgettable listener stories this week. A terrifying real-life child abduction that ended in a m...
The Corpse In The Lighthouse
What happens when the most isolated lighthouse in the world becomes a floating prison with a corpse... and what if one of history's stranges...
The X-Files Mystery That Actually Happened
The Village Where People Slept for Days and How a DNA Test Solved a 73-Year-Old Missing Child Case. What would you do if people in your town...
Founding Fathers Gone Wild
What do Benjamin Franklin's naked "air baths," George Washington's near-zombie resurrection, and Lyndon B. Johnson's infamous pants phone ca...
Ghosts Beneath the Basement
Beneath an ancient house in York, England, an apprentice heating engineer wasn't searching for ghosts—he was installing a boiler. Instead, h...
Lost Bodies & Fake Nutmeg
There was a time in America when shipping a dead body by railroad was as routine as sending a trunk of luggage... until somebody misplaced t...