You Can’t Argue With a Beaked Mammal

The Box of Oddities

John Elliott and Kat Walls

Comedy, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Learn More About Our Upcoming Live Shows! In this episode, Jethro dives face-first into one of the most perplexing murder investigations in modern history—complete with bizarre circumstances, inexplicable evidence, and a twist so jaw-dropping it left seasoned detectives cross-eyed. It’s a true crime story that starts strange and somehow gets stranger. Meanwhile, Kat digs up the mystery of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna—a creature that sounds like it was designed by a committee of science fiction writers and hallucinating zoologists. It has a beak. It lays eggs. It’s covered in spines. And it hasn’t been officially spotted since 1961. Is it extinct, mythical… or just extremely introverted? It’s true crime meets cryptid chic in a brand new episode of The Box of Oddities—where the inexplicable isn’t a bug, it’s the main feature. If you would like to advertise on The Box of Oddities, contact advertising@airwavemedia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:39.8	Go on, it's your go.
0:43.2	18 plus UK ends 21st of October.
0:45.5	Selected menu items.
0:46.5	At may be required.
0:47.3	May depend on winning moment.
0:48.5	See victor rules.co.uk.
0:50.3	What follows may not be suitable for all audiences.
0:53.1	Listener discretion is advised.
0:56.3	The world is full of stories.
1:00.2	Stories of mysteries.
1:02.9	Of curiosities.
1:06.1	Of oddities.
1:08.8	Join Cat and Jethro Gilligan Toth for the strange, the bizarre, the unexpected,
1:17.3	as they lift the lid and cautiously peer inside the box of oddities.
1:25.0	We hadn't been to a movie in a theater for a couple of years because in Ecuador,
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