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The Box of Oddities

The Thing Under the Pyramids

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

Society & Culture, True Crime, Comedy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro begin exactly where all great mysteries begin: with a frozen burrito and a deeply personal kitchen ritual that absolutely does not need to exist—but does anyway. From there, things escalate quickly. What starts as a discussion of oddly satisfying micro-rituals (the kind everyone has but no one can justify) turns into a deep dive beneath the sands of Egypt, where recent radar imaging claims suggest something massive and geometric may exist far below the Pyramid of Khafre. We’re not talking about a hidden chamber or a forgotten hallway. We’re talking about enormous cylindrical shafts, spiraling downward hundreds of meters, arranged with unsettling precision. Are these structures real? Are they geological accidents? Or are they deliberately engineered spaces—older than the pyramids themselves—designed for purposes we no longer understand? Kat and Jethro explore theories ranging from ancient engineering marvels to acoustic resonance chambers capable of inducing altered states of consciousness. Chanting, vibration, infrasonic frequencies, and architecture as a mechanism for transcendence all enter the chat. Along the way, the conversation veers (as it always does) into related oddities: Stonehenge acoustics, the Dyatlov Pass mystery, binaural beats, and the idea that sound itself may have been one of humanity’s earliest tools for altering perception and brushing up against the unknown. Then, just when you think you’re safe, we go underwater. Meet the Bobbit worm—also known as the bearded fireworm—a real, very ancient, nightmare-fuel marine predator that hides in sand, senses vibrations, and snaps prey in half with terrifying speed. Equal parts fascinating and horrifying, this ten-foot ambush worm becomes an unexpected mirror to the episode’s earlier themes: ancient design, patience, hidden systems, and things that wait quietly beneath the surface until the moment they strike. This episode blends humor, history, speculative science, biology, and the deeply human urge to find meaning in rituals, structures, and creatures that predate us by millions—or even billions—of years. From kitchen counters to subterranean spirals to venomous sea monsters, The Box of Oddities asks the question it always asks best: not just what might be down there—but why the idea of it makes us so uncomfortable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Grownups, if there's a child in your life who is interested in, curious about, or fascinated by people in places from history,

0:07.5

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0:12.4

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0:34.8

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1:00.9

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1:05.3

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1:10.6

The Box of Oddities. The Box of Oddities.

1:15.0

I don't know how to explain this, and I don't know if it makes sense to anybody, because it doesn't make sense to me.

1:24.4

Okay.

1:25.2

But there is something that I love to do, and I cannot tell you why.

1:31.2

And I have examined it.

1:33.3

Still no answers.

1:34.9

Okay.

1:35.1

I don't understand it, but here we go.

1:39.5

If I have something that I have to put on a plate, like let's's say for instance, I'm going to heat up a frozen burrito.

1:45.9

Okay.

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