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 rare neurological condition, akinetopsia, revealed something astonishing about how the brain constructs reality. Then, an adopted man searching for his biological mother discovers that she had spent nearly 50 years at the center of one of Massachusetts’ most haunting unsolved mysteries. The Lady of the Dunes finally had a name—but identifying Ruth Marie Terry was only the beginning. Along the way, Kat accidentally crosses into Canada, gets caught with a stun gun, and briefly becomes an international weapons smuggler while looking for a thrift store. Motion blindness, a cold case solved through genetic genealogy, and the most stressful grouse sighting in recorded history. It’s The Box of Oddities! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Letter That Fell From the Sky

The Letter That Fell From the Sky

A letter disappears in one of the deadliest tornadoes in American history—then turns up 130 miles away. In 1925, the catastrophic Tri-State Tornado destroyed the Indiana home of Will Jones. Among the...

30 Sep 35min

San Francisco’s Buried Ships & Bizarre Toilet World Records

San Francisco’s Buried Ships & Bizarre Toilet World Records

What if the streets beneath San Francisco aren’t sitting on solid ground at all—but on the remains of abandoned ships? During the California Gold Rush, crews deserted vessels by the hundreds, leaving...

28 Sep 32min

Inbox Of Oddities #101

Inbox Of Oddities #101

The Inbox of Oddities is open, and the Freak Family has delivered another beautifully strange collection of listener stories. This time, Kat and Jethro dive into an accidentally perfect sign at a spa...

25 Sep 18min

Cursed Bread and Pink Dolphins

Cursed Bread and Pink Dolphins

A quiet French town is hit by a wave of sickness, terror, and impossible visions after its residents eat the same bread. Were the horrors of Pont-Saint-Esprit in 1951 caused by ergot poisoning, contam...

23 Sep 30min

The Dinosaur Tree & The Blue Mountains Mystery

The Dinosaur Tree & The Blue Mountains Mystery

An accidental Australian takeover of The Box of Oddities begins with Vegemite and somehow ends with a prehistoric mystery and a disappearance that only gets stranger. First, buried in ancient Austral...

21 Sep 30min

Inbox Of Oddities #100

Inbox Of Oddities #100

Halloween is creeping closer, and the Inbox is filling up with teeth, doppelgängers, bizarre coincidences, pet opossums, and the kind of heartfelt notes that make Kat and JG question whether they dese...

18 Sep 20min

Ghosts in Your DNA

Ghosts in Your DNA

There are ghosts in your DNA—entire lost populations whose names, languages, and worlds vanished, yet whose genetic fingerprints are still moving through people alive today. Then: the deeply unsettlin...

16 Sep 31min

The Missing Head Behind David Attenborough’s Pub

The Missing Head Behind David Attenborough’s Pub

A forgotten 1952 Pan Am crash helped shape the safety briefing you hear on every flight—and now, 74 years later, the Clipper Endeavor has been found 2,000 feet beneath the Atlantic. Then: a skull disc...

14 Sep 42min

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