The X-Files Mystery That Actually Happened

The X-Files Mystery That Actually Happened

The Village Where People Slept for Days and How a DNA Test Solved a 73-Year-Old Missing Child Case. What would you do if people in your town simply... fell asleep without warning? In this edition of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro investigate one of the strangest medical mysteries of the modern era: the "sleeping village" of Kalachi, Kazakhstan, where healthy adults and children suddenly collapsed into days-long sleep, vivid hallucinations, and memory loss. Was it a virus, radiation from abandoned uranium mines, or something even stranger? Then, in honor of Independence Day, we take a quick tour of the world's newest nations and discover just how young some countries really are. Finally, an incredible true story that sounds almost impossible: a six-year-old boy kidnapped from a California park in 1951 is finally identified and reunited with his family more than seventy years later—all because a niece became curious about the results of a consumer DNA test. Mysterious illnesses, forgotten nations, astonishing reunions, and the wonderfully weird true stories that make the world far stranger than fiction... it's another unforgettable trip inside The Box of Oddities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Boys Who Refused to Become Monsters

The Boys Who Refused to Become Monsters

What happens when six teenage boys are stranded on a deserted island for more than a year? Forget Lord of the Flies. The true story of the boys of Ata reveals something far more surprising—and far mor...

24 Aug 32min

Inbox Of Oddities

Inbox Of Oddities

A listener dreams that Mothman shows up at her patio door—and refuses to let him inside because of his dust. Aerial arts may have accidentally cured another Freak’s lifelong motion sickness. And a wom...

21 Aug 22min

Buried for 246 Years—and Finally Identified

Buried for 246 Years—and Finally Identified

He Vanished at 14. DNA Found Him 246 Years Later—and Why So Many Towns End in “Kill” A teenage soldier vanished during one of the American Revolution’s most devastating defeats. Nearly 250 years late...

19 Aug 34min

Charlie No-Face & The Jesus Mothership

Charlie No-Face & The Jesus Mothership

A glowing faceless figure stalks the lonely roads of western Pennsylvania—or so the legend goes. But behind the terrifying tale of Charlie No-Face was Ray Robinson, a real man whose tragic childhood a...

17 Aug 37min

Horse Manure Apocalypse

Horse Manure Apocalypse

HORSE MANURE CRISIS! And Victorians Crawl Inside Dead Whales for a Bizarre Cure! A Freak Family Favorite returns! First, the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894—and the very real fear that cities would...

14 Aug 35min

Glitch in Reality & Ghost in the Family Tree

Glitch in Reality & Ghost in the Family Tree

What if the world didn’t move smoothly—but jumped from moment to moment like a broken film reel? Meet LM, the woman who could see colors, faces, and objects clearly but couldn’t see them move. Her rar...

12 Aug 32min

Before Your First Memory & Valley Of The Calls

Before Your First Memory & Valley Of The Calls

Your brain was listening before you ever took your first breath. Newborns can recognize their mother’s voice—and even stories heard in the womb—but could any of those experiences survive as actual mem...

10 Aug 37min

Inbox Of Oddities #95

Inbox Of Oddities #95

The Freak Family has been busy. This week on Inbox of Oddities, Kat and JG crack open the listener mailbag and discover a funeral urn that can preserve the voice of the person inside it, a legendary ...

7 Aug 22min

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