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Oddity Shop
Author: Kara Perakovic and Zach Palmer
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Welcome to The Oddity Shop Podcast — your weekly dose of creepy, odd, weird, strange, and downright bizarre stories from around the globe.
Each week, your curators Kara and Zach open the shop to explore cryptids, conspiracies, cults, urban legends, paranormal encounters, unsolved mysteries, and the strangest stories you’ve never heard.
Step inside… and remember: Creep it Real, ya oddballs.
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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Kara will be separating our souls from our bodies! Astral projection didn’t just appear with candles and a playlist. We pull the thread through time to see how humans learned to imagine the self as detachable, mobile, and returnable, then tried to turn that idea into practice. From Egypt’s Ba, a bird-headed emblem of movement, to the Zoroastrian Arda Viraf’s supervised tour of heaven and hell, the early ...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week we are opening the doors and sharing YOUR stories back to you! We start off with Joe's story of his childhood house filled with monsters, shadows and so much more. Then Danny kicks it into high gear with his recorded story of a truly haunted doll...That may have even tried to kill him. Finally, we wrap it up with a heartfelt story from Melinda where she recounts the times her passed family members have popp...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach is taking us to the center of the earth! We turn our attention below our feet and follow a breathtaking trail through ancient myth, Enlightenment science, wartime secrets, and modern UFO lore to ask whether an advanced civilization could be thriving inside the Earth. Greek gateways to the underworld, Mayan cenotes lined with ritual offerings, Norse craftsman-dwarves, and the powerful thread of...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Kara is taking us under the Sea and into the Stars. A quiet harbor. Four steady lights on the water. Yellow foam blooming across the surface as something descends without a splash. We revisit the Shag Harbor incident of 1967—not as a dusty legend, but as a near‑perfect template for how we think about USOs and transmedium craft today. No wreckage. No debris. Just witnesses, a Coast Guard search, Navy sona...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach is going to keep you up at night The clock flips to 3:00 and the room feels different, quieter, heavier, charged. Is that the veil thinning or just your brain finally quiet enough to notice what’s always there? We dive deep into the witching hour with a mix of curiosity, folklore, and hard science, asking whether 3 a.m. is truly a doorway for demons, a sanctuary for witches, or the time h...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Kara has cult story that will make your skin crawl...with ants! What happens when a childhood shaped by violence meets a hunger for absolute authority? We follow the rise and collapse of the Anthill Kids, the Canadian cult built by Roch Thériault, a man who reinvented himself as a prophet after being rejected by his church. He promised salvation through obedience and suffering, then engineered a wo...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach Is telling the dark tale of the plague! Twelve ships slid into Messina’s harbor and history snapped. We follow the Black Death from its quiet beginnings in Central Asian rodents to the siege of Kaffa, where corpses were catapulted over walls and panic sailed for Sicily. What arrived in 1347 was more than a disease; it was a trio of killer plagues—bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic—moving ...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Kara has another movie review: "The Ring". A voice counts to nine, pauses, and screams. That image pulls us from modern horror back to a legend that refuses to be quiet, as we explore the eerie thread connecting The Ring to the story of Okiku and the ten plates at Himeji Castle. We open with a simple question, if you were wronged and then died, would you seek justice or revenge, and use it to unpack how ...
Welcome to the Oddity Shop. This Month, While we start to make new episodes for 2026, please enjoy some of our Favorite Guest Episodes that got buried in with the backstock! Up This Week: Our Conversation with TikTok Famous Lauren The Mortician Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their Facebook Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a...
Welcome to the Oddity Shop. This Month, While we start to make new episodes for 2026, please enjoy some of our Favorite Guest Episodes that got buried in with the backstock! Up This Week: Our Conversation with Exie Smith Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their Facebook Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 6...
Welcome to the Oddity Shop. This Month, While we start to make new episodes for 2026, please enjoy some of our Favorite Guest Episodes that got buried in with the backstock! Up This Week: Our Conversation with the Sam Baltrusis! Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their Facebook Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future ep...
Welcome to the Oddity Shop. This Month, While we start to make new episodes for 2026, please enjoy some of our Favorite Guest Episodes that got buried in with the backstock! Up This Week: Our Conversation with the amazing, Lauren Haunts Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their Facebook Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future ...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Zach is Springing you into the New Year with some wild traditions Midnight isn’t just a timestamp; it’s a thin place where old stories exhale and new ones rush in. We packed our bags and crossed borders to explore how different cultures welcome the year: by smashing plates, hanging onions, racing with suitcases, counting grapes to a chiming clock, ringing 108 temple bells, burning human-sized effigies, a...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Christmas, your Curator Kara is gifting us all a Michigan True Crime Story. \We revisit the Michigan co-ed murders across Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti in the late 1960s, where a clean-cut college student hid behind charm and familiarity while women disappeared. This isn’t a lurid deep-dive into a killer’s mystique. It’s a careful retelling of the victims’ lives, the warning signs people ignored, and the moments of courage ...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach has a Dark Christmas Cannibal Legend. Somewhere in the borderlands between France and Germany a scarecrow waits by the road. We follow the threads of Hans Trapp, the “Christmas cannibal,” from his roots in the very real Hans von Trotha. A petty, powerful baron who feuded with an abbey and defied the Pope, to the folklore figure who haunts December nights with straw-stuffed sleeves and a sharpen...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Kara Has Gone Mad with Nellie Bly We open the doors to Blackwell’s Island, once home to New York’s almshouse, workhouse, penitentiary, and the infamous asylum, and follow the razor‑sharp path of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, better known as Nellie Bly, whose undercover reporting forced the public to look straight at what it wanted to ignore. From the ice-cold intake baths to rancid meals and nights spent...
Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: Adventurer, Author, Speaker, And So Much More - Jeff Belanger! What if the ghost’s unfinished business isn’t theirs at all, but ours? We sit down with author, researcher, and longtime Ghost Adventures writer Jeff Belanger for a fast, funny, and deeply humane tour of the paranormal that treats legends like cultural sermons. Jeff traces his path from teenage encounters near the Warrens’ Connecti...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach has a Tale of Madison Ohios Haunted Seminary. Step into the seminary’s timeline: a mid-1800s school that became a Civil War refuge, a home for veterans and nurses under the Ohio Women’s Relief Corps, and later a patchwork of care facilities, government offices, and a work-release site. Each era left a distinct emotional charge, from classrooms buzzing with youthful focus to rooms filled with gr...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Kara is Cracking into the Fox Sister's Story. Two sisters who turned raps in the dark into a movement that rewrote how we grieve. We follow Maggie and Kate Fox from Hydesville’s tiny room to roaring theaters, where audiences asked questions and the walls answered back. As their older sister Leah took the reins, seances spread across America and Europe, offering something people craved: a way to keep...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach has chilling tale of Survival and Tenacity. A bad day can spiral fast. Were heading to 1972 and a chartered flight over the Andes that never made its landing. The crash of Flight 571 left a rugby team, family, and friends in brutal cold with little food, less shelter, and a strong will to survive. What follows is a stark, deeply human account of ingenuity and ethics under pressure. We don’t se...



















