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 comment ...
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From the Webby Award-winning creators of The Box Of Oddities Podcast comes The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth. Friends since childhood, Lindsay Schnebly and Jethro Gilligan Toth have always shared a love for stories of people doing ridiculously dumb things. They found it wildly amusing as young boys. They still do today. This is your invitation to pour a strong drink and join them for true stories that are tragically hilarious.
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REM Sleep, Clock Curses, and Alien Heat Lightning Vote Box of Oddities For People's Choice Award Here! Live Show Info And Tickets Here! In this listener-powered episode of The Box of Oddities, JG and Kat crack open the inbox and out pour... auditory hallucinations, ghost clocks, spontaneous astral projection, and the shocking truth about “heat ligh…
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Vote Box of Oddities For People's Choice Award Here! Live Show Info And Tickets Here! What do a 100-million-year-old hammer and the equator’s midlife crisis all have in common? This episode, obviously. JG takes a swing at the London Hammer—a tool encased in ancient rock that either proves time travel, or that geology just likes messing with us. The…
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The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth is awildly entertaining podcast that revels in people's absurd and often hilarious mistakes. In each episode, hosts Schnebly and Toth delve into true stories of misadventures and miscalculations, from everyday blunders to spectacular gaffes. With a keen eye for the funny side of human error, they explore how e…
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Click To Learn More About The Box of Oddities Fall Tour Now Underway! Imagine remembering every single day of your life in crystal-clear detail — sounds like a superpower, right? Well, in this episode of The Box of Oddities, we dive headfirst into the rare and unsettling condition known as hyperthymesia, where the human brain refuses to forget anyt…
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Tickets for our live show here! INBOX OF ODDITIES: The Cat, the Cursed Doll & the Powerline Phallus Now streaming: A listener episode so delightfully bizarre it made our cat salute an old war photo. 🕵️♂️ Is your cat channeling classified WWII intel? 🫣 Did your porcelain doll bury forks in your yard? 🔵 Has your aunt started glowing blue near deep f…
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LIVE SHOW TIX HERE Imagine taking a wrong turn and winding up in a version of your hometown that doesn’t—and maybe never did—exist. That’s exactly what happened to Carol Chase McElheney when she stumbled into a bizarre time slip in Riverside, California—a place both familiar and terrifyingly wrong. Was it a glitch in the matrix, a parallel universe…
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Episode #174 of The Shallow End is anything but shallow! Jethro has the story of a Florida Man who robbed a gas station – but proved to be the single kindest man never to do so. So how did the cops have time to show up and catch him in the act? Well, it’s all about being polite, isn’t it! Then Lindsay goes down under (both geographically and in gas…
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👉 LIVE SHOW TICKETS Step into the bizarre with this episode of The Box of Oddities—where medical mysteries, immortal mannequins, and murderous sausage kings collide. First, we unravel one of the strangest medical cases in modern history: Patient AB, who discovered the voices in her head weren’t a symptom, but a life-saving alarm system. Then we puc…
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DEAD GUY TALKS Against all odds (and several known laws of biology), Thomas Morelli, who died in a car crash in the late 1970s, joins us in the Box to chat about the minor inconvenience of being deceased. Yes, he died. But he got better. Tune in for a jaw-droppingly bizarre tale of life after death and why being pronounced dead isn’t always the end…
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Pinheads, Forbidden Islands, and Possible Aliens
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Step right up, oddity enthusiasts! In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro unpack a carnival curiosity, an uncontacted tribe, and maybe—just maybe—aliens. First, meet Schlitzie the Pinhead, the sideshow legend whose life was stranger and more poignant than the posters ever revealed. Then, we sail (metaphorically, of course) to the fo…
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This week, Jethro and Lindsay are both in Seattle for the opening night of The Box of Oddities Fall Tour! 🎉 The bad news? We’ll be dipping back into the Audio Vault once again for another classic episode. The good news? A brand-new, fresh-from-the-audio-oven episode will be waiting for you next week. Thanks for hanging with us while we hit the road…
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We're on our way to opening night for our live fall tour. It all kicks off in Seattle on Wednesday Night at Emerald City Comedy Club. Tickets and all location info available here! Step into the strange corridors of history, science, and the downright unsettling in this episode of The Box of Oddities. We begin with chilling first-hand accounts of mo…
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Tickets and info for our live fall tour here! In this gloriously chaotic edition of The Inbox of Oddities, Kat and Jethro dive face-first into the mailbag, where listeners spill the weirdest tea — from traumatic boardwalk entrapments to unsettling yardwork sexism. You'll hear tales of: 💔 Newly-minted relationship arguments (20 years single and divi…
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n this episode, Kat and Jethro sprint headfirst into the shadows—twice. First, they investigate the chilling legend of the Black Flash of Provincetown—a mysterious, caped figure that terrorized the streets of Cape Cod in the late 1930s. Was it a prankster in a leotard or a supernatural harbinger of doom? Why did it smell like ammonia and make jumps…
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Because it’s Labor Day week and we’re all emotionally wearing flip-flops, we’re rolling out a classic from the vault — one of your faves, featuring the ever-delightful Kat! First up, JG tells the cautionary tale of two friends who loved pranking each other… until one of them decided to take things a skosh too far. What starts as harmless hijinks qu…
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Live From Nashville: Our First Mistake (Part II)
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We Did a Live Show and Nobody Stopped Us (Part II)” The chaos continues. This is Part Two of our very first live Box of Oddities show, recorded at the iconic Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville—and it only gets weirder from here. In this half of the show, we answer burning questions like: 🔹 Can The Box of Oddities ruin a perfectly good comedy club? 🔹 W…
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Live from Nashville: Our First Mistake (Part I)
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Step right up, Freaks—our fall tour is upon us! To celebrate the fast-approaching Opening Night on September 10th in Seattle, we’re cracking open the dusty crypt of our very first live show ever, recorded at the legendary Zanies Comedy Club in Nashville. This is Part One of that historic, slightly unhinged evening—complete with spontaneous crowd re…
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The Box Of Oddities Live Fall Tour. Get your Tickets Here! Deep in northern Maine, the Haynesville Woods hold more than just trees—they harbor chilling tales of phantom hitchhikers, eerie roadside encounters, and a legend that makes even seasoned locals uneasy. But that’s only half the weirdness. This episode of The Box of Oddities also dives into …
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The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth is a wildly entertaining podcast that revels in people's absurd and often hilarious mistakes. In each episode, hosts Schnebly and Toth delve into true stories of misadventures and miscalculations, from everyday blunders to spectacular gaffes. With a keen eye for the funny side of human error, they explore how …
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Our Live Fall Tour Starts on September 10th! More Info Here! The Circus of Lost Children & The Drunken Battle of Karansebes Step right up for one of the strangest rides in history—this episode of The Box of Oddities brings you the hauntingly peculiar tale of the Circus of the Lost Children, a traveling show with mysteries darker than the big top sh…
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