Oddity Shop

A black sedan crawls along at walking speed, matching you step for step, with windows you can’t see through and curtains that feel like eyes. That’s the doorway into one of the strangest Cold War urban legends ever whispered across Eastern Europe: the Black Volga. And here’s the twist that makes it stick under your skin, the car wasn’t imaginary. The Volga was a real Soviet luxury vehicle, which m...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is getting us all abducted. A secret tape recorder in a sheriff’s department. Two exhausted, terrified men left alone in a cold room. And a few minutes of audio that still makes UFO researchers stop and listen 50 years later. We’re digging into the Pascagoula, Mississippi alien abduction, a 1973 Gulf Coa...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara is lurking for cryptids in New Hampshire. What’s worse, seeing the thing or feeling it? We head deep into Northern New Hampshire folklore and cryptid history with the New Hampshire Woods Devil, a legend tied to campers, hunters, hikers, and truck drivers who report glowing eyes, impossible movement, and...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is Taking a Tour to Bavaria for a Poltergeist Tale. Your phone rings at work. You pick up. Static. It rings again. Static. Then it starts happening hundreds of times a day and the line begins dialing out by itself. That’s where we start before the story gets even stranger: lights flicker, fluorescent fix...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is keeping with the Axe Murder Trend.  Eight people are alive after a small town church program in Villisca, Iowa. By morning, the Moore family and two visiting children are gone, the house is staged in ways that make your skin crawl, and the investigation is already falling apart. The Villisca Axe Murde...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is trekking through the English Country Side. The Devil’s Footprints of 1855. A winter storm wipes Devon clean like a blank page, and by morning someone has written a message across it in hoof prints. Not a scattered trail, not a looping animal track, but a single-file line that seems to march straight t...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara has an unsolved murder. Footprints in fresh snow lead straight to a farmhouse… and then stop. No trail away. That single detail captures why the Hinterkaifeck murders still get under our skin a century later: a remote Bavarian farm, a family with a dark private life, and a killer who may have been closer...

Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: Jessica Knapik, paranormal investigator and co-host of What’s Up Weirdo. She’s the rare guest who can talk travel planning, horror movies, and haunted attachments without losing the plot or the jokes. If you’re into haunted locations, paranormal podcasts, horror movie recommendations, Her dog Toad,...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is taking us to the most haunted home in England. A teenage girl jolts awake after midnight with invisible pressure crushing her throat, her bed shaking like something is trying to throw her off, and dark red finger marks blooming on her neck. That moment is the turning point in the case of 30 East Drive...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is Taking Us to The Moon! A New York newspaper once got thousands of people to believe there were bat-like humanoids living on the moon, and the wild part is how reasonable it sounded at the time. We walk through the Great Moon Hoax of 1835, the infamous run of articles published by the New York Sun that...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach may just burst into flames! In this episode walk through one of the strangest forensic mysteries on record: the 1951 death of Mary Reeser in St. Petersburg, Florida, where investigators found a small burn zone, a greasy smoky odor, a clock stopped at 4:20 a.m., and roughly 10 pounds of ash where her chai...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is blending Science and Seance. A pitch-black basement. A small table.  Were chatting about the Scole Experiment, one of the strangest and most controversial cases in modern paranormal research, and we’re taking you through it step by step.  We start in Scole, Norfolk, where a dedicated séance room is bu...

Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: Hypnotherapist Jonathan Robinson of  Journeys Into Past Lives !  We’re joined by Jonathan Robinson to talk past life regression, hypnotherapy, and how the theta state can open a door to memories, metaphors, and emotional roots you didn’t know you were carrying. Jonathan breaks down what hypnosis ac...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach is helping you avoid bad luck? Ever catch yourself pausing at a ladder, hesitating over a mirror at night, or flicking salt over your shoulder without thinking? We follow those tiny instincts back to their roots and find practical safety tips, ancient theology, battlefield math, and the human need to fee...

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...

 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 h...

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, May...

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 tran...

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, aski...

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...

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 tha...

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 que...

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 ca...

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 voicemai...

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...