Oddity Shop

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...

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 misc...

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 co...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach brings a strong warning, Stay off The Pope Lick Trestle. The terrifying legend of the Pope Lick Monster has claimed more lives than any other American cryptid. Not through supernatural attacks, but by luring thrill-seekers to their deaths on a deadly railroad trestle. Standing 90 feet above Pope Lick Cre...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is diving deep into the halls of Waverly Hills The gothic spires of Waverly Hills Sanatorium pierce the Kentucky sky like a warning – some places never truly empty, even long after their residents have gone. Built in 1910 as a tuberculosis hospital, this imposing structure holds the echoes of thousands w...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach is doing a part 2 of the lessor cryptids! Hidden beneath America's seemingly ordinary landscapes lurk creatures most cryptid hunters never discuss. While Bigfoot and Mothman steal the spotlight, these lesser-known monsters deserve their moment in the moonlight. Join curators Kara and Zach as they ve...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is going down the Time Slip Rabbit Hole. What happens when the places we visit completely vanish from reality? That's the unsettling question at the heart of our exploration into time slips - those rare moments when people seem to step briefly into another era. The story of two British couples vacat...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Zach is covering the Infamous 1947 Roswell UFO Crash in our 150th Episode!!!! The mystery begins when pilot Kenneth Arnold spots nine crescent-shaped objects flying at impossible speeds over Washington State, coining the term "flying saucer" and kickstarting America's UFO obsession. But the sto...

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is telling us all about the life and death of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe's story goes far beyond the blonde bombshell image that captivated America. Behind the platinum hair and breathy voice was a brilliant, wounded woman whose mysterious death still haunts our cultural imagination sixty years...

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...

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 s...

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" myt...

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...

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...

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 exp...

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 t...

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 locat...

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 emotiona...

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 t...

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. F...

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...

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 patte...

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)...

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 rev...

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 betw...