Show Notes
Halloween is creeping closer, and the Inbox is filling up with teeth, doppelgängers, bizarre coincidences, pet opossums, and the kind of heartfelt notes that make Kat and JG question whether they deserve any of you.
This week: a listener wakes from wisdom-tooth surgery determined to show Kat and JG her teeth, a mysterious ambulance/fire-alarm “Boo Effect,” a license plate coincidence involving the word Gordita, and a pet opossum named Myrtle with absolutely no survival instincts. Plus, a listener suggestion sends the hosts down a dark historical path toward Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries.
And, of course, the ninth annual Box of Oddities Halloween special is coming. Have a spooky story? Record it and send it to [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
More from The Box of Oddities
In this Halloween-season episode of Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro explore a grisly chapter of New England folklore: the 1817 exhumation of Dartmouth student Frederick Ransom. As tuberculosis—then called consumption—devastated his Vermont family, his father followed a desperate “vampire” remedy: Frederick’s heart was removed from his grave and burned in a blacksmith’s forge.
Edgar Allan Poe’s Rattling Skull & The Honeymoon Murder at Acadia National Park
The Box of Oddities Halloween Special Preview: True Ghost Stories, Haunted Houses & Unexplained Encounters
Can riding a train actually drive you insane? And why have cultures around the world spent centuries telling stories about women with teeth in places teeth absolutely do not belong?
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