Inbox Of Oddities #73

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

Comedy, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Inbox of Oddities is back, and this one is packed wall-to-wall with listener stories that refuse to sit quietly in the corner. From strange family rules that outlive their original reasons, to rooms that seem to rearrange themselves when no one is looking, this episode drifts through the liminal spaces where memory, coincidence, and something else overlap. You’ll hear about a sealed bedroom no one ever used, estate-sale finds that may have come with unexpected passengers, familiar landscapes that suddenly no longer exist, and the unsettling moment when reality feels just slightly… misaligned. There are haunted ashes, unexplained footsteps, missing trees, objects found hidden inside walls, and those deeply unnerving childhood moments when kids say things they absolutely should not know. Along the way, we also share stories of medically fragile rescue animals, odd family traditions, and the quiet, human instinct to notice when the world doesn’t behave the way it’s supposed to. These aren’t big, flashy hauntings. They’re the subtle ones—the kind that linger. The kind that make you pause in a doorway and wonder if something shifted while you weren’t paying attention. All stories are shared by listeners, in their own words, because sometimes the strangest things happen to perfectly ordinary people. Welcome to the Inbox.Fly that freak flag proudly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So we're learning more about our new neighborhood.
0:05.2	Apparently, our apartment is right below some kind of a clogging organization.
0:11.0	You might hear some of what's going on upstairs.
0:14.9	I don't, literally, I don't understand what they do all day, but it is loud and clunky.
0:24.0	Yeah. So for the new year, I made a bingo card, a 2026 bingo, and one of the squares is apartment living woes. And so I'm going to
0:32.4	check that off today because, wow, it's loud. Yeah, it's like they're constantly moving furniture.
0:36.9	I'm not really sure what's
0:37.9	going on. You know, I get it. People got to live, but why are they moving furniture? Like every day,
0:44.6	all day, and wearing clogs. At least I'm halfway to a bingo now. Yeah, that's true. Speaking of moving
0:50.3	things around, though, as we mentioned not long ago, I did finally get the studio settled.
0:56.6	And yes, it did take me five months.
0:59.7	But we were touring and stuff.
1:01.7	Yeah, yeah, we're just kind of getting our feet under ourselves.
1:04.4	In fact, we're going to do a studio tour for patrons, and that's going to happen relatively soon we've got so
1:13.6	many things that people have brought us over the years from oddities to unusual little gifts to
1:19.9	stuff that we've collected on our own at auctions and stuff we've got a really cool microscope
1:25.3	from the 1920s at an auction and it's still got slides in it.
1:30.6	And I'm afraid to open the slides because it might be some sort of infectious bacteria.
1:35.7	It's not even in the studio, babe.
1:37.5	I know.
1:38.5	We have to make some more room.
1:39.5	But we've got a shrunken head in here.
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