Kat & Jethro Gilligan Toth

The Box of Oddities

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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 unn...

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Kat & Jethro Gilligan Toth

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BOX027: #Crazy Duck Lady 28.06.2018 38:54

Selfies with a corpse and a fire that was started in 1962 and is still burning out of control today. Victorian Post-mortem photos and the decades long underground fire still burning in Centralia, Pa. In this, the 27th BOX. Enjoy responsibly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX026: Wrapping A Pig In A Nightgown 25.06.2018 34:42

OMG! Grandpa just burst into flames! Also, why you have a fish face. Spontaneous human combustion and Evolutionary traits will still share with our most ancient ancestors. Inside the 26th BOX. Open carefully. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX025: Glitter And Bits Of Fish 21.06.2018 30:10

This week in the 25th Box, walking around all dead and stuff. Also, is it art if it explodes? Walking Corpse Syndrom and a really dangerous piece of art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX024: A Hat Full Of Lasagna 18.06.2018 32:43

What can we do with all this left over corpse? And never open an umbrella inside? Why? Unconventional commercial uses of dead bodies and the origin of superstitions. Inside the 24th BOX. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX023: Some Of You Will Not Like This. It's Awful. 14.06.2018 31:25

Precriptions and treatments from the days of yore. And enemies within. Disturbing early medical proceedures and the wonderful world of parasites. This week in Box 23. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX022: Mickey Mouse Has Weird Pants 11.06.2018 36:08

Has our timeline been altered? That would explain a lot. Also, bound together by flesh for life. The Mandella Effect and the tragic lives of The Hilton Sisters inside the 22nd BOX. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX021: Gangbanged By Fire Ants 07.06.2018 31:29

This week inside the 21st Box: Training snails and digging up dead rock stars. Can they really swap the memories from one snail to another? And the exhumation of 50's Rock and Roll star The Big Bopper. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX020: Never Blind Date A Clown 04.06.2018 33:58

In The 20th Box, Jethro tells the story of some of the weirdest coincidences in history and Kat talks about that scream we have all heard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX019: Reading By The Light Of Your Open Wound 31.05.2018 36:59

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX018: Fat Shamed By A Robot 28.05.2018 40:27

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX017: So Jazzed About Hand Farts 21.05.2018 34:16

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX016: It's a Japanese Panties Scam! 14.05.2018 33:41

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX015: Nobody Expects A Pokey Stick In The Butt 07.05.2018 31:26

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX014: Wearing Only Underpants On The Tundra 30.04.2018 32:51

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX013 Hey! Don't Eat that Slaughterhouse Runoff! 23.04.2018 35:31

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX012: A Horrifying Day at The Grocery Store 16.04.2018 35:59

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Box011: Never Leave a Prosthetic Leg at The Travelodge 09.04.2018 42:18

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX10: Screamed At By A Hobo 05.04.2018 39:12

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX009: Proctologist or Munitions Expert? 02.04.2018 33:27

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX008: Wait. You Believe In The Moon? 26.03.2018 41:59

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX007: The Pants Free Episode 19.03.2018 41:21

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? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX006: Sorry There Are Pubic Hairs On The Flush Lid 13.03.2018 26:50

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX002: Old Corpse, New Corpse 06.03.2018 33:57

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX005: A Quick Whack To The Noggin With A Croquet Mallet 06.03.2018 37:24

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BOX003: Don't Put Your Feces Covered Finger In My Bullet Hole 06.03.2018 30:07

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices