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Kat & Jethro Gilligan Toth
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
BOX202: Brains Are Terrifying
It was the smell that tipped them off. It was a horrifying discovery at a Yale University research lab. And then, the weird behind the scenes quirks and kinks of royal family members. It's BOX202. Action figures sold separately.
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54:2124/02/2020
BOX201: Dragging The Goat Carcass
Can viable sperm be extracted from a dead man's corpse and then successfully used? And what national pastime requires the use of a headless goat carcass? The answer to these questions and more on BOX201.
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50:0620/02/2020
BOX200: Does Our House Smell Like This To Everyone?
After two weeks on the road, Kat and Jethro burst through the door, drop their suitcases and stumble into the studio to record BOX200. It's a Box that includes the story of a demonic exorcism gone terribly wrong and a story of the scientifically proven power of grave dirt. It's BOX200. Did I say that already?
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42:5317/02/2020
BOX199: A Ziplock Baggie Full of Salt
What are your final wishes once you shuffle off this mortal coil? These people had some highly unusual requests. Then, weird things people have overdosed on. It's Box 199! The highest number Box as of today!
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41:0413/02/2020
BOX198: Does Uranus Have Rings Around It?
Scientists say they may have made a stunning discovery on the surface of Neptune. And then, a series of unfortunate coincidences that truly define irony. It's BOX 198. Moisten needle before inserting.
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33:1310/02/2020
BOX197: Kyle Was A Misunderstood Seaman
A seemingly small mistake can lead to disastrous results. Jethro gives us some awful examples. Then Kat tells us about the most deadly disease on the high seas and how it could turn you into something that resembles a zombie. BOX197. Contents may settle during shipment.
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44:2606/02/2020
BOX196: Cabbages And Condoms
Some of the world's most bizarre dining experiences one can have. Then, John Parker was possibly the worst police officer ever and made a lot of very bad decisions. One changed the world forever. And not in a good way. BOX196. Apply only to affected area.
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45:1603/02/2020
BOX195: All Hail Our Frog-Robot Overlords
A huge advance just announced in the field of robotics has Jethro freaked out. Kat has the story of a hometown vigilante group and how they dealt with a guy who terrorized them for decades. BOX195. Be there.
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45:4930/01/2020
BOX194: Door To Door Monkey Salesman
What are the mysterious spherical shaped objects found in New Zealand? Then, what do serial killers do when they aren't serial killing? The Moeraki Boulders and the unexpected hobbies of serial killers. It's BOX194. Available at fine podcast outlets worldwide.
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43:5027/01/2020
BOX193: Arcade Games And An Omelette
Bell bottoms, hitch hiking and murder: The Troy Leon Gregg story. And then a rare disease that eats your face. It's BOX193. Now available in convenient single serve pouches.
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47:0323/01/2020
BOX192: Just Pee On It And See What Happens
Kat tells us about a little known event involving Marilyn Monroe. Then, Jethro relates some horrible practices that passed for personal hygiene throughout history.
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34:4020/01/2020
BOX191: Leaving Notes For The Dog
Jethro tells us about a routine medical procedure conducted in 1966 that forever ruined the lives of twin brothers in living in Canada. Also, art and dead bodies. What do they have in common? Kat explains. BOX191 is vine ripened and table fresh.
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41:4816/01/2020
BOX190: The Last Time I Touched a Monkey
The mysterious 1930 disappearance of two year old Mary Agnes Moroney and the strange circumstances surrounding it. And then, that time in 1869 when a couple of well-diggers unearthed a 10 foot tall petrified man in some guy's orchard. BOX190 is one more than BOX189.
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44:2913/01/2020
BOX189: Kind Of Weird And Pokey
In BOX189, Jethro learns how a dead guy in a gardening shed inspired a winter festival and Kat looks examines an animal so strange that it's been described as a mammal that has scales like a reptile and a gizzard like a bird.
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42:3209/01/2020
BOX188: The Torso Wore A Maroon Turtleneck
The Mystery surrounding a Himalayan lake full of human skeletons. Then, they've identified a headless body found in a Idaho cave. What they learned was completely unexpected. BOX188 was created using only the highest quality ingredients that meet FDA guidelines.
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42:3406/01/2020
BOX187: Bury Me By The Ikea Parking Lot
Treasures of immense value that were discovered accidentally and some of the most macabre museums in the world. BOX187 was lovingly handcrafted by a small group of podcast loving gnomes native to the northeast region of Scandinavia.
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39:0102/01/2020
BOX186: Black Market Bones Are A No-No
Back from holiday break, Kat and Jethro talk about the mysterious case of Don Decker, aka The Rain Man. Also, celebrity body parts and bizarre things that happened to them. BOX186 is the final BOX of the year.
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45:2430/12/2019
BOX185: Let's put On Togas And Fry Stuff
BOX185 contains a fine selection of interesting topics that you can throw in during awkward moments at holiday parties. (or anytime, really) Jethro discusses the bizarre and interesting histories of common foods while Kat shows us how numbers can be weird.
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43:1319/12/2019
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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37:4016/12/2019
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.
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44:3212/12/2019
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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46:1409/12/2019
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!
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42:1505/12/2019
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.
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56:3802/12/2019
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.
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38:1028/11/2019
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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49:0325/11/2019
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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41:1521/11/2019
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.
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45:3318/11/2019
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.
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41:0414/11/2019
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.
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45:3011/11/2019
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.
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48:5307/11/2019
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.
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37:5204/11/2019
BOX171: The Halloween Special Pt. 2
The second fun sized installment on The Halloween Special! Thanks to everyone who sent in their stories!
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30:5031/10/2019
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!
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32:3628/10/2019
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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35:2324/10/2019
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.
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45:4721/10/2019
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.
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47:3117/10/2019
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.
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42:2514/10/2019
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.
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43:4710/10/2019
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.
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47:0507/10/2019
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.
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50:5103/10/2019
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.
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41:2630/09/2019
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.
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40:4826/09/2019
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.
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47:3323/09/2019
BOX159: A Most Horrific Plumbing Issue
It was way worse than your typical stubborn, greasy kitchen clog. And what's nine feet tall, covered in feathers and stalks you in your troubled, restless dreams? Archaeologists find something weird clogging an ancient Roman Sewer and then a look at some big ass birds.
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38:3719/09/2019
BOX158: Ghosts Who Wear Corduroy
She changed the world with her feet. Then, what is it really like working at a cemetary? The unexpected story of Kitty Smith and strange, unexplainable stories from cemetary employees.
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37:4416/09/2019
BOX157: Subterranean Billiard Tournament
Something weird is showing up in the streets of Calgary. And what's up.. or under... this town in Australia? BOX157 gives you the answers. But also some additional questions that we can't answer.
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43:5912/09/2019
BOX156: Sniffing The Flat Screen
How a pair of socks helped solve a decades old murder. And then, instant Karma's gonna get you! The Denise Sharron Kulb Murder and stories of people who got what they deserved.
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41:5209/09/2019
BOX155: Send In The Clown's Corpse
Ok Freaks, this one is weird. The strange and surprising history of masturbation. Then the story behind and directions to a place that you can view a clown that has been dead for over a century. You're welcome!
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39:2305/09/2019
BOX154: Afterlife Beef Jerky
Are you my mummy? And then a story full of hot air. The unexpected reasons for mummifying animals in ancient Egypt plus answering the question of who was really the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air. The answer may surprise you.
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38:5602/09/2019
BOX153: Set The Burrito Trap!
Can a 92 year old woman actually give birth? And who was that guy and what was he trying to sell me? A odd medical condition that causes very unusual births and a guy who made a million dollars selling stuff that everybody already had for free.
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42:2029/08/2019