The Box of Oddities

Ghosts on the Ferris wheel and solving crimes the old timey way. The bloody history of the abandoned Lake Shawnee Amusement Park as well as the early days of forensic science. All carefully tucked inside the 29th Box. No purchase necessary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inside the 28th BOX, a bunch of ladies kick poacher ass. And then Grandpa tells you where he buried the body. The all women anti poaching unit in Zimbabwe and disturbing last words of the dying in this episode of The Box Of Oddities. Restrictions apply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On this episode of The Box Of Oddities, Kat and Jethro discuss extreme body modifications. So extreme that Jethro gets woozy. And what was it like to fall asleep in 1927 and not wake up until 1969? Could the “Sleeping Plague” ever return? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of The Box Of Oddities, Kat and Jethro discuss the exhumed, severed head of Lee Harvey Oswald and the strange, dead body known as The Somerton Man that mysteriously appeared on a beach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices