E783 - Living Shadows and The Maura Murray Mystery

In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro wander into two deeply unsettling mysteries—one quietly strange, the other heartbreakingly unresolved.

First, we travel to Victorian London, where police reports, medical notes, and newspaper clippings from the late 19th century describe something profoundly wrong: shadows that didn’t behave. Ordinary people reported silhouettes that lingered after they moved, climbed walls, hesitated in hallways, or crossed rooms on their own. These weren’t ghost stories or sensational fiction. They appeared alongside lost umbrella notices and municipal complaints, filed under phrases like “unusual visual disturbances” and “irregular li...