About this episode
This episode features bizarre listener stories and humorous discussions on oddities and strange occurrences.
From mysterious grocery store receipts and disappearing coffee mugs to retro TV references, creepy elevator buttons, and an opossum in a tutu… this week’s Inbox of Oddities is gloriously unhinged. JG and Kat share listener stories about strange “Boo Effects,” deep-fried toga nights, ghostly office buildings, haunted coffee routines, geese laws in Illinois, and why there should absolutely be separate knives for peanut butter and jelly. Plus: vintage soup cans worth “$250,000,” Camino del Santiago pilgrimages, cremation tattoos, and the ongoing debate over whether crumbs belong in butter. Also in this episode: A listener discovers a mysterious “$0.00” item on a receipt from a lonely Pennsylvania grocery store A warm cup of coffee vanishes… then reappears hours later Kat and JG discuss electric chair photo booth ideas for oddities festivals Retro shout-outs to CBS Radio Mystery Theater, RuPaul's Drag Race, and The Banana Splits Adventure Hour theme song Dog photos, Boo Effects, and the Freak Family at its absolute finest It’s weird. It’s warm. It’s wonderfully ridiculous. 🎧 New episodes of The Box of Oddities drop every Monday and Wednesday. Keep flying that freak flag. Learn more…
People in this episode
Hosts: Kat, Jethro Gilligan Toth
Topics covered
- listener stories
- strange occurrences
- ghosts
- weird phenomena
- humor
- retro references
Keywords
- Boo Effects
- ghostly office buildings
- cremation tattoos
- vintage soup cans
- electric chair photo booth
- deep-fried toga nights
- haunted coffee routines
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CBS Radio Mystery Theater, RuPaul's Drag Race, The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
Places: Pennsylvania, Illinois
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