Donuts for the Dead

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this chilling and hilarious episode of The Box of Oddities, Jethro unwraps the eerie legend of Albuquerque’s haunted KiMo Theatre and its resident ghost—a little boy named Bobby whose tragic death in a 1951 boiler explosion left more than scorch marks behind. From phantom footsteps to mysteriously vanishing donuts, discover why local performers never dare take the stage without leaving sweets for Bobby. Then, Kat dives headfirst into one of pop culture’s most persistent conspiracies: Is Elvis Presley really dead? From DEA badges and bathroom mysteries to witness protection plots and alien abduction theories, this deep dive separates fact from fever dream. Join The Box of Oddities for an unforgettable mix of history, hauntings, and hilarity, where the paranormal meets pop culture. This Box contains the following ingredients:KiMo Theatre ghost story, Albuquerque haunted theater, Bobby KiMo ghost, Elvis Presley conspiracy, Elvis is alive theory, haunted theaters, ghost legends, paranormal podcast, The Box of Oddities, Jethro and Kat Tabor, ghost stories, pop culture mysteries, Elvis death theories, weird history podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	What follows may not be suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised.
0:35.4	The world is full of stories.
0:38.3	Stories of mysteries, of curiosities, of oddities.
0:48.3	Join Cat and Jethro Gilligan Toth for the strange, the bizarre, the unexpected, as they lift the lid and
0:59.1	cautiously peer inside the box of oddities.
1:04.4	It's the most wonderful time of the...
1:08.9	Well, it's not quite the moment.
1:10.2	It's getting close to the holiday season.
1:13.5	And Catwin, this is kind of a big deal for us.
1:17.2	She got all of our Christmas totes out of storage.
1:20.0	Well, we had storage units, as you know, for all of our stuff.
1:24.5	And we had unloaded almost all of it, but we had held off on the Christmas stuff because,
1:29.9	one, we didn't know where we were going to put it.
1:32.3	And two, I didn't want to.
1:34.8	And I think it's important to note that we had to get a separate storage unit just for
1:40.3	our Christmas decorations.
1:42.1	So yesterday I made the pilgrimage to the storage unit and I emptied it out by myself.
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