About this episode
Kat and JG share a collection of bizarre and humorous listener stories, exploring themes of the strange and unexpected.
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 hear about a hidden message painted beneath a bathroom floor declaring that Toby is not the Scranton Strangler, a dog-grooming boo effect involving unfortunate timing and an even more unfortunate canine gas attack, and a listener who uses a real human skull named Esther to motivate children to do their chores. The Freak Family also shares strange sandwich creations, debates the wisdom of squeeze jelly versus homemade preserves, discusses eerie stories from hospice care and apparent returns from the dead, and explores the odd psychological phenomenon of imagining what podcast hosts look like before seeing them in real life. Along the way, there are stories about haunted houses, Dorothea Puente's infamous Sacramento boarding house, hidden messages left for future generations, anglerfish romance, ghost writers becoming actual ghosts, and a surprisingly successful rhyme for "gaping flesh wound." As always, Inbox of Oddities delivers a strange mix of humor, weird history, listener…
People in this episode
Hosts: Kat, Jethro Gilligan Toth
Topics covered
- listener stories
- humor
- paranormal
- true crime
- bizarre experiences
- psychological phenomena
Keywords
- listener stories
- humor
- paranormal
- true crime
- bizarre
- psychological phenomena
- haunted houses
- dark humor
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Inbox of Oddities
Places: Scranton, Sacramento
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