Is My Red Is Your Red?
What if your brain suddenly decided that words had colors? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro dive into one of neuroscience's strangest documented phenomena: a woman who suffered ...
5 Aug 35min
Oscar Wilde, Dutch Schultz & Sad Nipples
What were someone's last words really supposed to reveal? During the Victorian era, people believed a person's final moments exposed the truth about their soul. Families gathered around deathbeds with...
3 Aug 29min
Bat People, Lunar Beavers & Human Skin Books
Freak Family Favorites: Bat People, Moon Hoaxes, and Museums That Shouldn't Exist This Freak Family Favorites episode comes straight from the recommendations of the Freak Family, and it's packed with...
31 Juli 39min
The Silence Between the Signals
Long before smartphones and satellites filled the sky with signals, early radio experimenters were hearing something they couldn't explain. Giant antennas stretched across fields captured strange repe...
29 Juli 39min
Echoes in the Clay, Monsters in the Water
Could an ordinary clay pot be the oldest recording device in human history? On this episode of The Box of Oddities, JG explores one of archaeology's most captivating ideas: the theory that ancient po...
27 Juli 32min
Inbox of Oddities #94
Inbox of Oddities: Lettuce Lotion, Florida Organ Recitals & Envelopes Full of Crap It's time to open the Inbox of Oddities, where the Freak Family always delivers the unexpected. This week, Kat expl...
24 Juli 24min
The Strange Birth of the Jesus Machine
When Benjamin Franklin's Ghost Designed a Machine and the strange story of The Underwater Orchestra. What happens when people become convinced they can build a messiah out of magnets, copper, and ele...
22 Juli 27min
Dinosaurs,Viagra, & Bubble Wrap
What do dinosaur fossils, Bubble Wrap, Super Soakers, Viagra, and Bob Ross have in common? More than you'd think. In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Jethro introduces the astonishing true story...
20 Juli 38min
