BOX146: Junk In Her 18th Century Trunk

The Box of Oddities - A podcast by Kat & Jethro Gilligan Toth

A common food that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. Then, how did a homeless woman in the 1790s get all of that gold? Was she really an alchemist? The Killer Rice epidemic and the mysterious story of Barbara Erni, "The Golden Boo" inside BOX146. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices