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The Box of Oddities

The Box of Oddities

著者： Kat & Jethro Gilligan Toth
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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 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© 2023 Eleven Eleven llc ノンフィクション犯罪 社会科学
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  • Interstellar Nonsense & Exploding Plastic

    Interstellar Nonsense & Exploding Plastic
    2025/10/08
    Or: How to Dismantle a UFO Cult and Melt Your Hairbrush at the Same Time Before Kat and Jethro usher in a spooky new host-swap adventure for Paraween, they’re here to crack open a box full of unhinged history and semi-combustible materials. 🛸 First up, Jethro introduces us to Dorothy Martin, a mild-mannered 1950s suburbanite who claimed to be receiving alien transmissions from the planet Clarion. According to her, the world was going to end—on Christmas, no less—but a group of spiritually-chosen humans (her Facebook group before Facebook) would be rescued by aliens. The spaceship never showed, the apocalypse got postponed, and psychologists lurking in the background coined the term “cognitive dissonance” to explain why nobody changed their minds. 🔥 Then Kat takes us on a wild ride through the volatile origins of early plastics—from celluloid billiard balls that exploded on impact, to asbestos-infused radios, and styrofoam that probably still exists in a landfill near you. It’s the horrifying, chemically unstable backstory of the objects we once thought were glamorous, but were really just slow-burning environmental crimes. Also featured:🎃 A sneak peek at next week’s Paraween: Invasion of the Host Snatchers episode with Christine Schieffer from And That’s Why We Drink🎸 Band names so questionable they might qualify as minor felonies🏓 Ping pong balls that (thankfully) don’t explode anymore Because when belief systems collapse and plastics ignite, you know you’ve found your people. Vote Box of Oddities For People's Choice Award Here! Live Show Info And Tickets Here! #TheBoxOfOddities #PlasticHistory #UFOCult #CognitiveDissonance #PodcastRecommendations #WeirdHistory #ClarionAliens #ExplodingBilliards #Parapods #Paraween #AndThatsWhyWeDrink #CultPsychology #OddlyHuman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    35 分
  • Spectral Snacks & Rogue Orgasms

    Spectral Snacks & Rogue Orgasms
    2025/10/06
    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
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    40 分
  • Inbox Of Oddities #060

    Inbox Of Oddities #060
    2025/10/03
    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
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    24 分
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