Oddity Shop

Oddity Shop

This podcast examines the oddities of the world...Cryptids to Conspiracies, Cults to Curiosities, Myths to Mysteries, and so much more! Stop by the shop, where the bizarre is always on sale... Each week your curators, Kara Perakovic and Zach Palmer will be opening the shop and sharing stories with you.

Episodes

July 31, 2025 53 mins

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach is deep diving in CERN, Particle Physics, and Conspiracies!

What happens when the brightest scientific minds on Earth build a machine that can tear apart the very fabric of reality. The scientific achievements of CERN  and the Large Hadron Collider are undeniable. But, as we delve deeper into this world of quantum strangeness, we discover ...

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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

Jamie's story stops us in our tracks—after her grandfather passed away following complications from heart surgery, she received a mysterious text message showing a single Bud Light beer.  Just the day before, Jamie had promised her grandfather they'd share a beer when he got out of the h...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is telling us all about the Dark Side of The Kennedy Family.

The story of John F. Kennedy isn't just presidential history—it's a Shakespearean tragedy filled with shocking secrets and devastating consequences. Our deep dive uncovers the dark reality behind America's "Camelot" myth and the price paid for political a...

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Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: THE Ken Boggle

Ever wondered what it's really like to communicate with spirits and read the cards? Psychic medium Ken Boggle doesn't just pull back the curtain—he tears it down with refreshing candor and heart.

The star of Hulu's Emmy-nominated "Living for the Dead" shares his remarkable journey from...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach is talking all about Love from Beyond the Grave!

Have you ever felt a presence in your bedroom late at night? A cold touch when no one was there? For most, these moments spark fear – but for some, they spark romance.

Spectrophilia – sexual or romantic attraction to ghosts – exists in a fascinating limbo between psychological curio...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is taking us on a fieldtrip to Earths Poles of Inaccessibility.

Ever wonder what it feels like to stand somewhere so far from civilization that your closest neighbors are astronauts floating above you in space? That's the reality at Point Nemo,  just one of the extraordinarily isolated places we explore in this episode.

We jo...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach is talking about a WW2 Tragedy he found he has a personal connection to!

Have you ever experienced those spine-tingling moments when seemingly unrelated events align perfectly, revealing something profound you never knew you were searching for? That's exactly what happened during Zach's visit to Normandy, France.

The day...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is talking about the spookiness at her favorite place to get some R&R: Michigan's Mackinac Island 

This charming Michigan destination may be famous for its fudge, horse-drawn carriages, and Victorian charm, but beneath its picture-perfect exterior lies one of the most supernaturally active locations in the Midwest.

Long b...

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June 12, 2025 71 mins

Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: Tiktok's Very Own - Lauren The Mortician!!!

Lauren pulls back the curtain on the mortician's daily routine—a constantly shifting landscape far from the stereotypical gloom many imagine. From meeting with families and visiting cemeteries to performing embalmings and navigating the emotional terrain of grief, she finds purpos...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach is Krack-in' open the Lore of Sea Monsters.

The Kraken has haunted sailors' dreams for centuries – a colossal tentacled beast capable of dragging entire ships beneath the waves. From its origins in 13th century Norse sagas to scientific discoveries in our modern era, we track the evolution of this legendary sea monster and uncove...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is talking all things Skinwalkers, Listen at your own Risk!

The shadows between what we know and what we fear are often populated by entities that defy explanation. This week, we venture into territory that makes even the most seasoned paranormal enthusiasts uncomfortable – the realm of the skinwalker.

Following our previous explo...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is talking all things Wendigo, Listen at your own Risk!

Ever felt that chill down your spine while alone in the woods? That primal instinct warning you something's watching from just beyond the tree line? You might have narrowly avoided one of the most terrifying entities in indigenous folklore.

The line between natural fear ...

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Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest and Crop Circle Maker under the alias, Citizen D

What happens when you discover that crop circles are made by humans—but the mystery only gets deeper? In this riveting conversation  we're taken behind the veil of one of modern folklore's most enduring enigmas. 

For decades, elaborate patterns appearing overnight in ...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach is chatting all about the mysteries of Crater Lake.

 Join us as we plunge into the mysteries of Crater Lake, Oregon – a place where the veil between worlds seems eerily thin.

We explore the lake's many enigmas: the Old Man of the Lake (a tree that has inexplicably floated upright for over a century), mysterious islands where ...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara has the Famous Mystery of D.B. Cooper.

"I have a bomb." These four words, scribbled on a note passed to flight attendant Florence Schaefer on November 24, 1971, launched the most famous hijacking case in American history. 

The mysterious passenger in seat 18E ordered bourbon and soda before revealing his demands: $200,000 in unmar...

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Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week, Sam Baltrusis stops by to talk about his books, relationship to Lizzie Borden, Men in hats, and so much more!

The conversation with Sam Baltrusis begins with an unexpected spectral scream—just seconds before our recording starts—setting the perfect tone for an exploration into the world of a man who walks confidently between realms. As a journalist, author ...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach, As promised has the solved tale of the Identity of Jack The Ripper

The mystery that has perplexed investigators and captivated true crime enthusiasts for over a century has finally been solved. Jack the Ripper, the shadowy figure who terrorized London's Whitechapel district in 1888, now has a name backed by science: Aaron Kosminski.<...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your curator Kara has the tale of the cursed Iceman.

Two German hikers made a startling discovery in the Ötztal Alps in 1991 that would forever change our understanding of the Copper Age—and potentially unleash a deadly curse.

This remarkably intact mummy (The Iceman) provides an unprecedented window into prehistoric life. But the story takes a dar...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your curator Zach is finally covering the case of Lizzie Borden

The infamous Lizzie Borden axe murders stand as one of America's most enduring unsolved crimes—a bloody double homicide that shocked the nation and continues to fascinate more than a century later. We dissect the gruesome events of August 4, 1892, when Andrew Borden and his second wife Abb...

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your curator Kara has a story for you dear deer oddballs

Something watches you from the edge of the forest. At first glance, it's just a deer—but look closer. Those legs bend wrong. Its eyes face forward like a predator's. And it's looking right at you.

The "Not Deer" phenomenon has been terrifying travelers on dark rural r...

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