Glitch in Reality & Ghost in the Family Tree

What if the world didn’t move smoothly—but jumped from moment to moment like a broken film reel? Meet LM, the woman who could see colors, faces, and objects clearly but couldn’t see them move. Her rare neurological condition, akinetopsia, revealed something astonishing about how the brain constructs reality.

Then, an adopted man searching for his biological mother discovers that she had spent nearly 50 years at the center of one of Massachusetts’ most haunting unsolved mysteries. The Lady of the Dunes finally had a name—but identifying Ruth Marie Terry was only the beginning.

Along the way, Kat accidentally crosses into Canada, gets caught with a stun gun, and briefly becomes an international weapons smuggler while looking for a thrift store.

Motion blindness, a cold case solved through genetic genealogy, and the most stressful grouse sighting in recorded history. It’s The Box of Oddities! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices