The Inbox Of Oddities #054

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Live Show Tickets Here! In this special Inbox of Oddities episode, Kat and JG open the floodgates of freaky listener tales—and what flows out includes bisexual ghost grandmas, haunted Roombas, bloody Marys topped with entire chickens, and one particularly vengeful jar of pickles. Jesse shares a deeply moving dream visitation from her long-passed grandma. Meanwhile, emails pour in featuring cursed karaoke nights in Alaskan dive bars, “Cockfinder Generals,” and a proposed reality show called Extreme Embalming. Yes, it’s a competition. No, there are no tools. Also: A haunted underground tour, the horrors of organic chemistry correction, a taxidermied squirrel causing electromagnetic chaos, and a jar of pickles that clearly had an axe to grind. Whether it’s grief, giggles, or ghostly grandmas—we're unsealing every oddity in this jam-packed episode of listener gold. #BoxOfOddities #QueerGhosts #DreamVisitation #InboxOfOddities #HauntedRoomba #CockfinderGeneral #ExtremeEmbalming #BisexualGrandma #BloodyMaryMadness #PickleRevenge #TrueWeird #ComedyPodcast #FreakNation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to From Beneath the Hollywood Sign. If you love old movies, Hollywood history, or the golden age of filmmaking, you've come to the right place. This is the podcast that talks about amazing stories of Tinseltown from another era and fascinating conversations with writer Steve Kubine and actress writer Nan McNamara.
0:16.7	So Steve, did Ava Gardner and Howard Hughes have a good relationship?
0:21.1	Well, they did until he dislocated her jaw.
0:23.8	What?
0:24.3	Well, don't worry. She hitting back with an ashtray.
0:26.4	From beneath the Hollywood sign is the gin joint for you.
0:30.9	Have you ever wondered how inbred the Habsbergs really were?
0:35.0	What women in the past used for birth control, or what Queen
0:39.3	Victoria's nine children got up to. On the History Tea Time podcast, I profile remarkable
0:45.9	queens and LGBTQ plus royals explore royal family trees and delve into women's medical history
0:53.3	and other fascinating topics.
0:55.8	Join me every Tuesday for History Tea Time, wherever fine podcasts are enjoyed.
1:03.7	This feels very box of oddities coded, if you know what I mean.
1:08.8	Okay.
1:09.9	This is a meme that someone sent me.
1:12.0	The eldest child, a nanny, she's five, has a game where she sits us all in a circle
1:16.8	and gives us each a coin with a sticker on one side.
1:19.7	Anyways, if we flip our coin and it lands sticker side up, we have to the...
1:24.6	We have to touch the dead bee she keeps in a piece of Tupperware under her bed.
1:31.0	That is a freak in the making.
1:35.0	That's tremendous.
1:36.7	Oh my God.
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