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Sometimes the strangest stories aren’t dramatic. They’re subtle. Ordinary. And impossible to shake.
In this episode of Inbox of Oddities, Kat and Jethro share listener stories that live in the uncomfortable space between coincidence, memory, and something quietly off. These are not tales of screaming ghosts or shadow figures—but moments where reality seems to hesitate, update itself, or fail to line up the way it used to.
Listeners write in about objects reappearing exactly where they were already searched for, buildings that forget which lights should be on, paintings that appear to change over time, and memories that don’t match the physical evidence left behind. One message describes a calm, reassuring voice coming through a baby monitor. Another recalls a grandmother’s unsettling phrase: “Not everyone comes back the same way.”
Along the way, Kat and Jethro reflect on anxiety, aging memory, and the thin line between perception and certainty—mixing empathy, humor, and curiosity in the way only The Box of Oddities can. There are also moments of levity from the Freak Family: accidental near-microwaved laptops, quicksand metaphors, Australian heatwaves, rescued kookaburras, haunted municipal buildings, and the strange bond that forms when thousands of people start noticing the same small weird things.
This episode isn’t about answers.
It’s about the feeling you get when nothing is wrong… but nothing is entirely right either.
If you’ve ever had the sense that the world quietly shifted when you weren’t looking—this one’s for you.
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By Kat & Jethro Gilligan Toth4.8
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Sometimes the strangest stories aren’t dramatic. They’re subtle. Ordinary. And impossible to shake.
In this episode of Inbox of Oddities, Kat and Jethro share listener stories that live in the uncomfortable space between coincidence, memory, and something quietly off. These are not tales of screaming ghosts or shadow figures—but moments where reality seems to hesitate, update itself, or fail to line up the way it used to.
Listeners write in about objects reappearing exactly where they were already searched for, buildings that forget which lights should be on, paintings that appear to change over time, and memories that don’t match the physical evidence left behind. One message describes a calm, reassuring voice coming through a baby monitor. Another recalls a grandmother’s unsettling phrase: “Not everyone comes back the same way.”
Along the way, Kat and Jethro reflect on anxiety, aging memory, and the thin line between perception and certainty—mixing empathy, humor, and curiosity in the way only The Box of Oddities can. There are also moments of levity from the Freak Family: accidental near-microwaved laptops, quicksand metaphors, Australian heatwaves, rescued kookaburras, haunted municipal buildings, and the strange bond that forms when thousands of people start noticing the same small weird things.
This episode isn’t about answers.
It’s about the feeling you get when nothing is wrong… but nothing is entirely right either.
If you’ve ever had the sense that the world quietly shifted when you weren’t looking—this one’s for you.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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