The Box of Oddities

The Missing Head Behind David Attenborough’s Pub

September 14, 2026·42 min
Episode Description from the Publisher

A forgotten 1952 Pan Am crash helped shape the safety briefing you hear on every flight—and now, 74 years later, the Clipper Endeavor has been found 2,000 feet beneath the Atlantic. Then: a skull discovered during a renovation connected to David Attenborough leads back to one of Victorian London’s most gruesome unsolved-for-131-years murder mysteries. A lost airliner, a missing head, and the very specific reason you should never inflate your life vest inside the plane. This is Box of Oddities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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