The Box of Oddities

Welcome back to Inbox of Oddities, where the Freak Family takes over the show. This week, Kat and JG dive into a collection of hilarious, bizarre, and unexpectedly heartfelt listener stories. You'll ...

12 Juni 23min

Before refrigeration changed the world, entire communities depended on winter itself. Every year, workers ventured onto frozen lakes and rivers to harvest massive blocks of ice destined for ice houses...

10 Juni 29min

For a few strange weeks in the summer of 1817, hundreds of New Englanders gathered along the Massachusetts coast to watch something moving through the Atlantic. Experienced fishermen, ship captains, a...

8 Juni 26min

The Freaks Take Over: Mall World Dreams, Ghostly Habits & One Last Joke from Mom This week on Inbox of Oddities, the Freak Family responds in force. Kat and Jethro dive into a flood of listener stori...

5 Juni 20min

What happens when an entire city becomes convinced the dead are being stolen from their graves? And what if the rumor turns out to be both wrong... and horrifyingly right? In this episode of The Box ...

3 Juni 33min

What happens when a luxury ocean liner sinks... but refuses to stop claiming victims? And why do communities around the world crown queens of hot dogs, herring, pumpkins, and wild turkeys? In this ep...

1 Juni 33min

Dream malls. Butterfly people. Funeral teddy bears. Grocery store grief rehearsals. This episode of The Box of Oddities: Inbox of Oddities spirals gloriously from the hilarious to the unexpectedly emo...

29 Maj 30min

In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro explore the disturbing rise of AI-fueled psychological spirals, including real documented cases of people convinced that artificial intelligence ...

27 Maj 37min