What's In Your Walls?

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Get Tickets to The Box Of Oddities Shows Live HERE! When contractors cracked open the aging walls of a 120-year-old department store, they expected dust, maybe a few old rats with top hats. What they didn’t expect was a discovery so bizarre it had the building inspector saying, “Yeah… I’m gonna need backup.” In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro peel back the drywall on a mystery that’s been sealed for over sixty years. Then: before TikTok influencers and Times Square billboards, there were the banner girls—humans turned mobile advertisements, parading products on their bodies with the same enthusiasm as a sandwich board at a conspiracy convention. What happened when marketing met mayhem? You’ll have to hear it to believe it. Tune in for strange secrets, forgotten history, and the kind of content that makes you mutter, “What the weird?” under your breath in public. If you would like to advertise on The Box of Oddities, contact [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	Hello, this is Matt and McKinley from History Dispatches.
0:37.7	We are the father-son duo bringing you the weird, the wild, the wacky, and the craziest tales from across time.
0:43.3	From the Ice Bowl to the Great Heathen Army.
0:45.9	And the head of Oliver Cromwell.
0:47.6	The same head they kept on a pike for three years?
0:50.2	Yep, all here on History Dispatches.
0:52.8	New episodes every weekday. Find out more at History Dispatches. New episodes every weekday.
0:54.7	Find out more at History Dispatches.com or wherever you get your podcast app.
1:00.5	What follows may not be suitable for all audiences.
1:03.2	Listener discretion is advised.
1:05.8	The world is full of stories.
1:10.5	Join Cat and Jethro Gilligan Toth for the strange, the bizarre,
1:17.3	the unexpected, as they lift the lid and cautiously peer inside the box of oddities.
1:27.0	Just coming up the stairs is exhausting.
1:29.3	I'm still not used to the altitude.
1:31.3	We've been here nearly two years.
1:33.2	And I get winded putting my socks on.
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