The Box of Oddities

Vote Box of Oddities For People's Choice Award Here! Live Show Info And Tickets Here! What do ancient Egyptians, Romanian grandmas, and angry Pac-Man ghosts have in common? They all want a bite to eat—from beyond the grave. This episode of The Box of Oddities serves up a global smorgasbord of traditions where feeding the dead isn’t just a metaphor—it’s a full-course afterlife buffet. From wine funnels into Roman tombs to a perfectly seasoned rotisserie chicken in New Orleans, we explore the bizarre and touching ways humanity has kept its ghostly loved ones well-fed. Then things get... heated. We dive deep into the strange world of arousal non-concordance—when your body throws a party your brain didn’t RSVP to. You’ll meet people who climax during ab workouts, from brushing their teeth, or from reading a particularly spicy footnote. It’s not consent. It’s just neurology being weird again. Two tales. One episode. Ancient snacks, ghost etiquette, and involuntary fireworks. You’ll laugh, cringe, and maybe never look at funeral biscuits or fitness routines the same way again. 🕯️👻🥖💀🧠💦The Box of Oddities: Curiously bizarre. Weirdly informative. Always hungry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote Box of Oddities For People's Choice Award Here! Live Show Info And Tickets Here! 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote Box of Oddities For People's Choice Award Here! Live Show Info And Tickets Here! 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are up for a Listener's Choice Award! Vote Here! 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. Tickets and Info on The Box of Oddities Live Tour Here! #BoxOfOddities #CharlieChaplin #GraveRobbery #TrueWeird #EvolutionFacts #ScienceIsWeird #ComedyPodcast #HumanEvolution #JazzHandsFromFish #WeirdHistory #OddlyFascinating #BonesAndBuffoonery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

REM Sleep, Clock Curses, and Alien Heat Lightning Vote Box of Oddities For People's Choice Award Here! Live Show Info And Tickets Here! 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vote Box of Oddities For People's Choice Award Here! Live Show Info And Tickets Here! 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Click To Learn More About The Box of Oddities Fall Tour Now Underway! 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. #WeirdFacts #StrangeAnimals #PodcastDiscovery #TheBoxOfOddities Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tickets for our live show here! INBOX OF ODDITIES: The Cat, the Cursed Doll & the Powerline PhallusNow 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. #BoxOfOddities #InboxOfOddities #HauntedCat #PorcelainDollProblems #MailmanMagic #SpontaneousGlowUp #TattoosBeyondTheGrave #WWIIWhiskers #RainingDildos #BooEffect #StayFreaky #PodcastLife #TrueWeird #FreakFlagFly Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LIVE SHOW TIX HERE 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. #TimeSlip #UrbanLegends #WeirdHistory #PodcastLife #BoxOfOddities Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

👉 LIVE SHOW TICKETS 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. #WeirdHistory #TrueCrimePodcast #MedicalMystery #ResusciAnne #BoxOfOddities #StrangeButTrue #DarkHistory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. #BoxOfOddities #WeirdPodcast #LifeAfterDeath #ParanormalHumor #GhostGuest #DeadButChatty #TrueWeird #OddityOfTheDay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Step right up, oddity enthusiasts! In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro unpack a carnival curiosity, an uncontacted tribe, and maybe—just maybe—aliens. First, meet Schlitzie the Pinhead, the sideshow legend whose life was stranger and more poignant than the posters ever revealed. Then, we sail (metaphorically, of course) to the forbidden shores of North Sentinel Island, home to the Sentinelese people—an isolated tribe whose fierce independence has baffled explorers for centuries. And finally, we peer into the cosmos to ask: are those weird signals really signs of extraterrestrial life, or just our toaster acting up again? Equal parts bizarre, fascinating, and hilarious, this episode will have you marveling at humanity, mystery, and the universe itself. Tickets to the live fall tour here! #WeirdHistory #TrueCrimeAdjacent #PodcastLife #AlienLife #CarnivalHistory #UnexplainedMysteries #BoxOfOddities Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're on our way to opening night for our live fall tour. It all kicks off in Seattle on Wednesday Night at Emerald City Comedy Club. Tickets and all location info available here! Step into the strange corridors of history, science, and the downright unsettling in this episode of The Box of Oddities. We begin with chilling first-hand accounts of modern-day psych wards—stories so bizarre you’ll wonder if they belong in a horror film rather than medical records. Then, travel to Japan, where researchers once tried to create a mouse-human hybrid (spoiler: nature was not impressed). Finally, dig into the dirt—literally—as we uncover the weird and unsettling artifacts unearthed beside the old London Hospital, where history refuses to stay buried. Equal parts creepy, hilarious, and fascinating, this episode is a perfect storm of the macabre, the curious, and the completely inexplicable. Buckle up—because reality is much stranger than fiction, and we’re handing you the shovel. #WeirdHistory #StrangeScience #OdditiesPodcast #MouseHumanHybrid #CreepyDiscoveries #PsychWardHorrors #TheBoxOfOddities Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tickets and info for our live fall tour here! In this gloriously chaotic edition of The Inbox of Oddities, Kat and Jethro dive face-first into the mailbag, where listeners spill the weirdest tea — from traumatic boardwalk entrapments to unsettling yardwork sexism. You'll hear tales of: 💔 Newly-minted relationship arguments (20 years single and diving in headfirst? What could go wrong?)🦷 A near-death experience inside the mouth of a giant shark… on purpose📿 The glow-up of the "booger green" birthstone Peridot🔥 An alcoholic beverage so chaotic it involves fire, suction, and danger (a drink or a curse?)🎢 Baseball mascots, birthday BOO effects, emotionally complicated yard tools, and a former hot dog dog named Jack Also featured: thunder envy, Johnny Eck feels, and listener arguments about listening to BOO while falling asleep. (Is it a comforting lullaby or auditory chaos gremlins in your dreams?) This is what happens when your audience is as delightfully weird as your podcast. And we wouldn't have it any other way. 🧠 Oddities, empathy, and emotional damage — all in a tidy digital package. 🎧 Listen now and fly your freak flag high! #BoxOfOddities #InboxOfOddities #FreakFlagFlying #BOOEffect #WeirdPodcast #SharkMouthTrauma #PeridotPower #StrangeButTrue #CouplesTherapyWithLaughTracks #OddlyComforting #PodcastRecommendations #TrueWeirdness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

n this episode, Kat and Jethro sprint headfirst into the shadows—twice. First, they investigate the chilling legend of the Black Flash of Provincetown—a mysterious, caped figure that terrorized the streets of Cape Cod in the late 1930s. Was it a prankster in a leotard or a supernatural harbinger of doom? Why did it smell like ammonia and make jumps that defied Newtonian physics? And most importantly: who keeps giving cryptids Olympic-level track abilities? Then, they shift into far darker territory with the haunting story of Lonnie Franklin Jr., better known as the Grim Sleeper. For decades, he preyed upon the vulnerable and voiceless in Los Angeles, slipping under the radar due to chilling indifference and systemic failure. How did one of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history go unnoticed for so long—and what finally led to his capture? From shadowy specters to real-life horrors, this episode explores the thin, fraying line between folklore and fear, myth and monster. Listen now—if you dare. Get tickets and information for our live shows here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We Did a Live Show and Nobody Stopped Us (Part II)” The chaos continues. This is Part Two of our very first live Box of Oddities show, recorded at the iconic Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville—and it only gets weirder from here. In this half of the show, we answer burning questions like:🔹 Can The Box of Oddities ruin a perfectly good comedy club?🔹 What happens when Jethro's hat meets a deeply confused audience member?🔹 And why didn’t anyone give us a time limit? With unscripted detours, real-time gasps, and possibly illegal levels of audience participation, this episode captures everything you didn’t know you needed from a live podcast event. 💀 And remember: this is just a taste of what’s to come. Our fall tour kicks off September 10th in Seattle, then we’re storming through:Portland • Oklahoma City • Atlanta • Philly • Appleton, WI • Louisville • and we close it all out with a haunting Halloween night show in Chicago. Come see what all the strange noise is about. 🎟️ Tour dates & tickets here! #BoxOfOddities #LivePodcast #WeirdAndLive #HauntedComedy #PodcastTour #ZaniesNashville #TrueCrimeWithWeirdVibes #FallTour2025 #PartTwoWeirder #OddityOverload #BoxOfOdditiesLive Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Step right up, Freaks—our fall tour is upon us! To celebrate the fast-approaching Opening Night on September 10th in Seattle, we’re cracking open the dusty crypt of our very first live show ever, recorded at the legendary Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville. This is Part One of that historic, slightly unhinged evening—complete with spontaneous crowd reactions, bizarre true tales, and the kind of peculiar energy that can only come from telling weird stories into a microphone in front of a room full of strangers who voluntarily came to hear them. (What were they thinking?) Part Two drops Monday, but for now, consider this your exclusive backstage pass into the traveling circus of the Box of Oddities Live Tour. And yes—we’re coming to a city near(ish) you:🎤 Seattle • Portland • OKC • Atlanta • Philly • Appleton, WI • Louisville • and we wrap it all up Halloween Night in Chicago (costumes encouraged, hauntings possible). Come for the live show weirdness, stay because you forgot how to leave. 🎟️ Get tickets and tour info here: TICKETS! #BoxOfOddities #LivePodcast #WeirdHistory #OddFacts #TrueCrimeComedy #ParanormalPodcasts #SeattleEvents #PodcastTour2025 #CuriouslyWeird #ZaniesLive #BoxOfOdditiesLive #FallTour #HalloweenInChicago Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Box Of Oddities Live Fall Tour. Get your Tickets Here! Deep in northern Maine, the Haynesville Woods hold more than just trees—they harbor chilling tales of phantom hitchhikers, eerie roadside encounters, and a legend that makes even seasoned locals uneasy. But that’s only half the weirdness. This episode of The Box of Oddities also dives into the surprisingly destructive world of stone stacking in national parks. Sure, it looks “Zen” on Instagram, but it’s wreaking havoc on delicate ecosystems and confusing wildlife who didn’t sign up for your rock art project. From haunted highways to misguided cairn enthusiasts, this episode proves once again that the world is stranger (and funnier) than you think. 👉 Listen now and get your fix of paranormal chills, environmental oddities, and the kind of stories that make you the most interesting person at dinner parties. #HauntedWoods #ParanormalPodcast #NationalParks #BoxOfOddities #TrueWeird Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our Live Fall Tour Starts on September 10th! More Info Here! The Circus of Lost Children & The Drunken Battle of Karansebes Step right up for one of the strangest rides in history—this episode of The Box of Oddities brings you the hauntingly peculiar tale of the Circus of the Lost Children, a traveling show with mysteries darker than the big top shadows themselves. Were these wandering performers guardians of misfits, or something far more unsettling? Then, hold onto your bayonets (and maybe your Schnapps ®) as we march straight into the Battle of Karansebes—arguably the most disastrously hilarious military blunder ever recorded, where an army accidentally defeated itself before the enemy even arrived. From eerie carnival lore to slapstick battlefield chaos, this episode proves truth really is stranger than fiction. Tune in, laugh, shiver, and marvel at the oddities history tried to sweep under the rug. New episodes twice a week—subscribe to The Box of Oddities wherever you get your podcasts! #WeirdHistory #Oddities #PodcastComedy #CircusOfTheLostChildren #BattleOfKaransebes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fall Tour Info And Tickets Here! Inbox of Oddities: Shopping Cart Poltergeists, Boo Fuel & Other Listener Oddventures In this listener-fueled episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro wade waist-deep into the beautifully bizarre world of freaks, phantoms, and fuel price coincidences. A rogue shopping cart with a vendetta. A gas station receipt that channels numerological energy. A haunted laundry hamper that eats only left socks. Oh, and someone may or may not be living with a phantom roommate obsessed with dish duty. We also hear from a listener who nearly lost their lunch to Kat’s discussion of PUS, meet a comedy-loving ghost lurking near a lady-part sculpture, and discover that “Box of Oddititties” might be the next big merch drop. Plus: hot booze from Alaska, an invitation to drink in Salisbury, and urgent metaphysical questions about what happens if you fall through the center of the Earth (spoiler: you bounce). It’s an entire spectrum of listener weirdness—from haunted carts to heartfelt duck farts—all lovingly unboxed by your fellow freaks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices