👂 Every week, hosts Katrina Walls and Jethro Gilligan Toth sit down and surprise each other with stories of the strange, the odd, and the macabre. A surprising tale or bizarre conspiracy awaits you in The Box of Oddities, taking you along into a world of mysterious encounters and unnatural occurrences. From the paranormal to crime to cultural practices, the podcast covers everything strange in our world — and judging by the podcast’s 1k+ episodes since launching in 2018, there’s plenty of all that to explore.

In these sub-hour episodes, you can expect engrossing storylines, interesting facts, deep dives, theories, insightful references, and occasional sitdowns with exciting guests. Despite describing eerie and unsettling topics, the hosts keep it light, cracking jokes and keeping it casual but nonetheless riveting. The podcast will wow you with its range of topics, spotlighting historical accounts and deep cuts of forgotten oddities from around the world.

Ever heard of zombie deer? This phenomenon is explored in a Halloween-special episode. The host dives into chronic wasting disease, originally witnessed in the forests of North America and later in Scandinavia and South Korea. The infectious wildlife malady, dubbed by the hosts as not just a forest plague but a “forever plague,” eats away at the brains of deer, leaving them “vacant-eyed” and zombie-like. The prion disease has no cure, and can survive for decades in plants, water, and dust. Not scary enough for you? There’s a theoretical risk that the disease can make its way to humans.

An ancient conspiracy fanatic? A horror junkie? A science buff? Into mysticism? The Box of Oddities has you covered, and then some. There’s also no shortage of content about paranormal phenomena, cannibalism, vampirism, bizarre medical conditions, and things you never even knew existed. Space, aliens, time travel, and strange scientific discoveries also get their fair share of spotlight on this podcast. The hosts also get into the psychology of mystery and our long-documented itch to uncover the hidden and the unknown.

If you’re inclined to learn about the dark and mysterious corners of our world, The Box of Oddities will more than impress you.

WHERE TO LISTEN- You can tune into The Box of Oddities on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | iHeart | Amazon Podcasts | Podbay | Castbox.

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