Bodies Left Behind: The True Story of Alabama’s Memorial Mound

E766 - Bodies Left Behind: The True Story of Alabama’s Memorial Mound

Published: December 31, 2025

Duration: 34:14

In this episode of The Box of Oddities, Kat and Jethro Gilligan-Toth begin the new year by pulling apart something we all use but rarely question: the calendar. From Julius Caesar’s ego-driven timekeeping decisions to the leap year, misplaced months, and how entire civilizations quietly agreed on when the year should begin, it’s a surprisingly strange history of how humans try — and often fail — to organize time itself.

But once the clock runs out, the episode takes a much darker turn.

Jethro dives into the true story of the Memorial Mound in Bessemer, Alabama...