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The Box of Oddities

Kat & Jethro Gilligan Toth

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

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All Episodes

21:47

Inbox Of Oddities #75

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2026/02/13

On this Friday the 13th edition of Inbox of Oddities, Kat and Jethro open the mailbag and let the Freak Fam take the microphone. From Ohio to Australia, Wisconsin to Vermont, listeners share experiences they can’t quite explain—and aren’t sure they want to.A woman who lives alone wakes up to find coins appearing on her nightstand… even after setting up a camera to prove nothing happened. A listener describes hearing her beloved dog—gone just hours before—return one last time, warm and unmistakably

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32:05

Unexplained Human Presence Detected

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2026/02/11

In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro wander into one of the strangest phrases ever to appear in official U.S. government records: “Unexplained human presence detected.” Buried inside real Freedom of Information Act documents, this calm, clinical line appears again and again across decades of federal incident reports—acknowledging signs of human movement, interaction, and intention… without ever finding a human being. What does it mean when trained professionals confirm a presence,

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36:52

Ancient Rome, Quantum Time, and the Dead Next Door

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2026/02/09

Could ancient Romans really talk to the dead—and did they build a device to help them do it?In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro tumble headfirst into one of archaeology’s strangest unsolved mysteries: the Roman dodecahedron. These small bronze objects—covered in holes, studded with knobs, and found almost exclusively in frontier regions of the Roman Empire—have baffled historians for centuries. No instructions. No records. No explanation. Just geometry… and silence. We explore

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23:07

Inbox Of Oddities #74

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2026/02/06

The Inbox of Oddities is where the strange, the personal, and the unexplained land when listeners finally decide, “Okay… I should probably tell someone about this.”This episode —stories of disconnected intercoms that answer anyway, phone numbers that refuse to stay in the past, quiet paranormal moments, accidental synchronicities, emotional confessions, and deeply human encounters with the bizarre. Some messages are funny. Some are tender. Some sit uncomfortably in that space where coincidence

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30:59

Legally Dead But Still Breathing

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2026/02/04

When Bureaucracy Kills You on Paper and the 1906 exorcism of Clara Germana Cele.What if you woke up one morning and discovered the government had already buried you—on paper? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro explore the quietly terrifying phenomenon of bureaucratic death: real cases in which living people were officially declared dead due to clerical errors, missing-person rulings, or database failures—and then found it nearly impossible to prove they were alive again

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33:05

Yellow Pencils and Dead Phone Lines

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2026/02/02

Why did Henry David Thoreau care so much about pencils—and why did some phone numbers keep ringing long after they were disconnected?In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro wander into two stories that shouldn’t be connected… but somehow are. First, we look at the surprising industrial legacy of Henry David Thoreau, long before Walden Pond. As a young man working in his family’s pencil business, Thoreau applied chemistry, precision, and quiet rebellion to fix America’s worst

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23:23

Inbox Of Oddities #73

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2026/01/30

The Inbox of Oddities is back, and this one is packed wall-to-wall with listener stories that refuse to sit quietly in the corner. From strange family rules that outlive their original reasons, to rooms that seem to rearrange themselves when no one is looking, this episode drifts through the liminal spaces where memory, coincidence, and something else overlap. You’ll hear about a sealed bedroom no one ever used, estate-sale finds that may have come with unexpected passengers, familiar landscapes

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31:52

The Montauk Radio Transmissions That Were Never...

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2026/01/28

What happens when a military base shuts down… but the signals don’t?In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro dig into a strange, documented mystery tied to Camp Hero in Montauk, New York—a Cold War radar installation officially decommissioned in the early 1980s. Years after the gates were locked and the radar went dark, amateur ham radio operators began logging unexplained voice transmissions seemingly originating from the abandoned site. These weren’t bursts of static or pirate

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45:39

Hidden In The Basement of Danvers State Hospital

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2026/01/26

What happens when a wall hides more than it should? In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro explore two unsettling, very real stories where history was quietly sealed away—literally and figuratively. First, we descend into the forgotten basement of Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts, where renovation crews in the 1990s uncovered a bricked-over corridor that didn’t exist on any blueprints. Inside were intact treatment rooms, restraint fixtures, and medical equipment from an era

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28:33

Inbox Of Oddities #72

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2026/01/23

Inbox of Oddities returns with a collection of listener stories that live in the unsettling space between coincidence and something more. A clock that refuses to keep proper time after changing hands. An apartment with footsteps, furniture sounds, and faint classical music—despite being officially unoccupied. A sleep paralysis experience involving a towering shadow figure with blinding white eyes. A lone dress shoe appearing in a hospital elevator with no explanation. From strange childhood remarks

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32:17

Haunted Objects and a 50-Year Cold Case Finally Solved

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2026/01/21

In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro explore how some mysteries don’t announce themselves with screaming headlines or dramatic hauntings—but instead settle in quietly and refuse to leave.The episode slips into dark territory with the true and well-documented case of the Hexham Heads—two crude stone carvings unearthed by children in a backyard in 1970s England. What followed were subtle but persistent disturbances: unexplained knocking, moving objects, and a growing sense that the

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39:33

What Happens to the Dead When a Town Is Abandoned?

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2026/01/19

What happens when a town disappears—but the dead are left behind? This episode begins with a familiar American disaster: Centralia, Pennsylvania, the coal town that has been burning underground since 1962. Most people know the story of the smoke, the buckling roads, and the evacuation. Far fewer know what happened after the living left—when the cemeteries remained, sitting directly above an active underground fire. We explore how burial grounds like the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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26:26

Inbox of Oddities #71

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2026/01/16

Sometimes the strangest stories aren’t dramatic. They’re subtle. Ordinary. And impossible to shake.In this episode of Inbox of Oddities, Kat and Jethro share listener stories that live in the uncomfortable space between coincidence, memory, and something quietly off. These are not tales of screaming ghosts or shadow figures—but moments where reality seems to hesitate, update itself, or fail to line up the way it used to. Listeners write in about objects reappearing exactly where they were already

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35:34

The Devil’s Book, the Zodiac’s Name, and Other...

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2026/01/14

What if two of America’s most infamous unsolved murders were never separate at all?In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Jethro explores a startling new claim that uses artificial intelligence, cryptography, and old-fashioned detective work to suggest a single suspect may link the Zodiac Killer and the Black Dahlia—two crimes long thought to belong to different eras and different monsters. At the center of the theory is the Zodiac’s infamous Z13 cipher, a short, taunting code that promised to

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37:52

Shocking Carnival Exhibits and Cambrian Nightmares

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2026/01/12

What do carnival sideshows, government paperwork, and half-billion-year-old nightmare creatures have in common?In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro explore three very different corners of history where certainty was offered in place of understanding—and where things were far stranger than advertised. First, they step into the vanished world of early 20th-century hygiene exhibits: traveling carnival attractions that promised education but delivered fear. Set up alongside Ferris

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27:02

Inbox of Oddities #70

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2026/01/09

Inbox of Oddities is back with another lovingly chaotic collection of listener stories, strange coincidences, quiet creepiness, and accidental comedy. In this episode, Kat and Jethro share a perfectly timed real-life oddity involving a disappearing blood bus, because sometimes the universe has a sense of humor—and it’s not always kind. From there, the Freak Fam delivers. A childhood bedroom that made everyone feel watched—but never threatened. A night security guard who hears a humming tune no one

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36:58

Consciousness, Simulation, Reality, Physics, Laughter...

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2026/01/07

What if reality doesn’t fully exist unless you’re paying attention to it?In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro tumble headfirst into some of the strangest intersections of consciousness, physics, philosophy, and fatal laughter. We explore the unsettling ideas of nuclear physicist Thomas Campbell, whose “My Big TOE (Theory of Everything)” proposes that reality itself may function more like a simulation—rendered only when observed, driven not by matter, but by consciousness itself

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39:21

The Tridactyl Mummies: Three Fingers, Metallic...

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2026/01/05

What if a haunting didn’t involve ghosts — but the lingering smell of carnival food? This episode of The Box of Oddities opens with an unsettling sensory mystery tied to a long-demolished amusement park, then plunges into one of the most stubborn and controversial archaeological puzzles of modern times: the tridactyl mummies of Peru.Discovered near the Nazca region, these small humanoid mummies feature three fingers, three toes, elongated skulls, and internal anatomy that does not appear to be the

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30:22

Inbox Of Oddities #69

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2026/01/02

This week on Inbox of Oddities, Kat and Jethro open the mailbag to stories that blur the line between coincidence, consciousness, and the truly unexplainable. From an apartment building where the elevator refuses to stop on one occupied floor, to a deeply moving firsthand account of near-death experience, angelic visitation, and spiritual awakening, these listener submissions linger long after the episode ends. You’ll also hear eerie workplace anomalies that feel like time slips, mysterious

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34:14

Bodies Left Behind: The True Story of Alabama’s...

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2025/12/31

In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro Gilligan-Toth begin the new year by pulling apart something we all use but rarely question: the calendar. From Julius Caesar’s ego-driven timekeeping decisions to the leap year, misplaced months, and how entire civilizations quietly agreed on when the year should begin, it’s a surprisingly strange history of how humans try — and often fail — to organize time itself.But once the clock runs out, the episode takes a much darker turn. Jethro

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