Flamboyant Bigfoot

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Unveiling the Odd: Funeral Home Secrets, Quantum Minds & Perception Mysteries In this mind-bending episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat, and Jethro dive into four peculiar topics that will leave you questioning everything. First, a strange discovery at a Seattle funeral home—what was unearthed, and how does it tie into the Civil War? Then, journey to the heart of Russia's enigmatic Lake Baikal, a place with secrets as deep as its waters. Next, we explore the mind-blowing Orch OR theory that suggests your brain might actually be a biological quantum computer, shaping your reality as you perceive it. And finally, we'll look closer at the fascinating world of perception phenomena—how our senses might be fooling us in ways we never expected. Tune in for an episode packed with oddities and fresh perspectives on the strange, the mysterious, and the downright bizarre! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.9	What follows may not be suitable for all audiences.
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1:15.2	The world is full of stories.
1:20.2	Join Cat and Jethro Gilligan Toth for the strange, the bizarre, the unexpected, as they lift the lid and cautiously peer inside
1:33.3	the box of oddities.
1:35.3	As you know, a little more than a year ago, we made the decision to move to Ecuador,
1:40.3	and we love it here, but we've had to get used to some of the local customs. And I'm thinking
1:47.7	specifically of the New Year's Eve custom where guys dress up and drag and then pull ropes
1:56.9	across the road and make you stop until you give them money. I was thinking about the one where people dress dummies up and bring them into the streets and light them on fire.
2:06.6	It looks like a real person.
2:08.6	It's a little upsetting at first.
2:10.6	First time I saw it, I was like, what, oh, oh, hmm, shit, okay, drop and roll.
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