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Shattered Souls

Thinking Sideways: Boy in the Box

Shattered Souls

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Education

4.34.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2013

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In Philadelphia on February 25th, 1957 a would-be peeping tom discovers a box with the body of a young boy in it. The boy has never been identified, despite diligent work from many different organizations. Who was this boy, and why was he killed?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Steve here. You are listening to one of our original 26 episodes. If you listen to any of our new episodes, you're gonna notice that we're sounding a little different in these ones.

0:11.0

Yeah, there's a reason for that. There is. They've been remastered. They have been remastered. Because they had a really annoying hum.

0:17.0

Yeah, I mean, a huge thanks to listener James for doing almost all of the legwork on this thing.

0:23.0

You'll also notice if you had listened to what we're calling the last 26 episodes before, and you're re-listening now, the music and sound effects are gone.

0:32.0

Yes, we've gone back to straight audio. So, be warned. We sound a little different today than we do in what you're about to listen to.

0:39.0

Yeah. Bye.

0:41.0

Bye.

0:43.0

Thinking Sideways.

0:46.0

I don't understand.

0:48.0

Don't not go to it.

0:50.0

You never know.

0:52.0

Take the picture, take the photo, take the photo, it's fine.

0:54.0

What's that?

0:55.0

The stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.

1:00.0

Hi, welcome. This is Thinking Sideways, the podcast. I'm Devon.

1:05.0

I'm Steve. I'm Joe.

1:06.0

We're gonna talk about another mystery.

1:09.0

Like we always do.

1:11.0

We like a good mystery.

1:12.0

Yeah, and this one is totally on my, like, par of things I like.

1:18.0

You know, we've talked about this. I like weird, mysterious noises and weird, mysterious deaths.

1:24.0

And this is a weird, mysterious death.

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