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
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
The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tal...
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
The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy pers...
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
The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your cree...
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, r...
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 w...
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 ...
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 th...
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 trace...
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 classr...
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 Americ...
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 acco...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Kara is talking about corn...and witches!
The fields get quiet first. Then the air thins, the leaves rasp, and every step seems to wake something older than the rows. We follow that feeling straight into the legend of the Corn Husk Witch, a figure braided from European harvest rites, Native American teachings, and the American habit of turning...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. Today, We have for you, our Annual Halloween Special Episode!!!
Its our favorite day of the year. The Oddity Shop door creaks open and you get to choose what’s waiting on the other side. We turned Halloween into a haunted house showdown, pitting three legendary locations against each other and asking you to crown the scariest: The Myrtles Plantation with its Souther...
Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: Investigator And Haunted Hardware Creator - Jeff Fent!
Jeff Fent is a respected paranormal investigator, preservationist, and caretaker known for his dedicated work maintaining and restoring historic haunted locations such as Madison Seminary, The Enchanted Church, and several other reportedly haunted properties.
Beyond caretaking, h...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach has the Tale of Ouija's Origins.
A century ago, a simple board promised something enormous: a chance to keep talking after goodbye. We follow that promise from candlelit parlors to factory floors, then through a single film that rewired an entire culture’s imagination. Along the way we meet the Fox sisters, watch automatic writing bec...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Kara has a Possession Story guaranteed to give you chills
A boy “walked” up a hospital wall, nurses took notes, and a police captain left a rental house convinced something was terribly wrong. We trace the Gary, Indiana Demon House case from its first oddities—swarms of black flies in midwinter, booted steps from a dark basement—to the terrifyi...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach has the Slavic Lor of the Leshy.
The Leshy is a powerful woodland spirit from Slavic folklore who protects the forest and punishes those who disrespect nature. This shapeshifting entity exists in a state of duality, neither wholly good nor evil, embodying the wild and unpredictable essence of the forest itself.
He can control fore...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Kara is finally tracing the origin of the oddity shop!
We trace the fascinating 400-year history of oddity shops and cabinets of curiosities, from royal gardeners collecting exotic artifacts to modern establishments displaying genuine mummies with bullet holes.
From John Tradescant the Elder created the first public oddity museum, fill...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach brings you the Story of Mary Toft.
We delve into the bizarre 1726 case of Mary Toft, a poor English woman who convinced doctors and even King George I that she was giving birth to rabbits.
• Mary Toft, a poor illiterate woman from Surrey, claimed to give birth to animal parts and rabbits following a miscarriage
• Local man-mid...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Kara is telling us all about Sundown Towns.
We delve into the disturbing reality of sundown towns across America, exploring how these racially exclusive communities didn't just disappear with the Civil Rights movement but continue to exist in both explicit and implicit ways today.
• Sundown towns were communities where Black peopl...
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