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
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
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
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
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
