Ovaries And Oddities

This week on Ovaries And Oddities we’re diving into the dark history of the Ouija Board! How it may or may not have killed its inventory and led to dozens of other murders…. What topic should I cover next? Until next week, Ivanna Brookes More of the podcast: Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities

In the 1800s, you could have your wife committed with a single signature. All you needed was just a doctor willing to sign a piece of paper. This episode covers three things: the 4,000-year-old myth that women’s minds were controlled by their wombs, the real documented reasons women were locked away in 19th century asylums, and the horror story of Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia… o...

During World War II, thousands of girls and women across Asia were forced into Japan’s military slavery system. Many were teenagers. For decades, survivors were ignored, silenced, and told their stories didn’t matter. In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we’re discussing the history of the comfort women, the women who survived, and the activists who spent their lives fighting to make sure th...

Was Albert Einstein’s wife smarter than him? Did history erase yet another brilliant woman standing beside a famous man? In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we’re diving into the infuriating history of women whose work was ignored, minimized, stolen, or credited to men. From Mileva Marić, Albert Einstein’s first wife and intellectual partner, to Rosalind Franklin’s crucial role in uncovering...

Imagine having to undergo surgery in the 1800s. No anesthesia and your survival rate less than 50%. Between your doctor not sanitizing anything ,including not washing his hands between surgeries, gangrene or other infections, and blood loss. It was an uphill battle. Plus pain medicine may or may not have been a bottle of brandy. Would you survive the operating table? See you next week, Ivanna Broo...

Checkout Instagram & Facebook for daily content @ OvariesAndOddities 12 ships docked in Sicily but most of the sailors were dead. Over the next 5 years between 20-50 million people died of this mysterious plague. Waking up with a fever where your skin is burning, your body is shaking, your head feels like it’s splitting open, and then all of your lymph nodes are the size of eggs. Within days,...

In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we’re diving into the horrors of Victorian London, from arsenic wallpaper and poisonous beauty products to deadly sewage, contaminated drinking water, cholera outbreaks, overcrowded streets, workhouses, doss houses, the four-penny coffin, and the infamous two-penny hangover. The Victorian era gave us some of the most iconic aesthetics in history, but behi...

In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we uncover the dark medical history of J. Marion Sims, the doctor credited with shaping modern gynecology through experimental surgeries on enslaved Black women, including Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey. These women, now often remembered as the Mothers of Gynecology, endured painful procedures without meaningful consent, while history preserved Sims’ name and...

Checkout Ovaries And Oddities everywhere 🎧 In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we’re diving into the dark history of female hysteria: the centuries-old belief that women’s emotions, desires, pain, rebellion, and mental health struggles could all be blamed on the uterus. From the ancient idea of the “wandering womb” to Victorian-era medical treatments, asylum culture, and the disturbing ways...

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Listen to full episodes of Ovaries And Oddities on Spotify, YouTube, Facebook, and Apple Podcasts 🎧 What if I told you that the same country that prides itself on freedom, once locked up over 120,000 of its own people for their ancestry? The United States had concentration camps. And not in some distant past… but during World War II. Families. Children. Entire communities… stripped of everything...

Listen to Ovaries And Oddities, wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 Today we are going back to 1828 Edinburgh, Scotland! Where two men Burke & Hare turn death into a business. Killing 16 people, 12 women, 2 disabled children, and 2 men. They had a strict method and lured vulnerable individuals into their lodges, with the promise of a safe place to stay and alcohol. Why did they do this? They sol...

Have you heard of corpse medicine? In today’s episode of Ovaries And Oddities we dive into corpse medicine throughout history. For centuries in Europe, people believed that the human body itself could be medicine. From mummy pills and skull medicine to drinking blood. Let’s dive in See you next week, Ivanna Brookes All the places to find me: Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities

Should I do more of these? Or baked history live streams? Would you give your body to science? What if I told you that in 1788, a mob stormed a hospital… dragged doctors into the streets… and set the equipment on fire? This is the true story of the Doctors’ Riot of 1788 in New York City This episode dives into the dark truth behind early medical practices, grave robbing, and the terrifying moment...

Check out Ovaries And Oddities on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, IG, TikTok & Facebook Imagine going to the doctor for anxiety… and leaving with an ice pick shoved through your eye socket. In the 1940s and 50s, this wasn’t a horror movie plot. It was a medical procedure performed tens of thousands of times across the United States, often on women, children, and people who were simply considered “dif...

Check out @ovariesandoddities on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, TikTok, Instagram & Facebook What if I told you there was a queen who may have killed 50% of her kingdom… using ritual poison trials… and history still can’t decide if she was a monster or a woman refusing to let Europe colonize her? See you next week, Ivanna Brookes

🎙️ Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & everywhere you stream. Urban legends aren’t just stories… some of them are rooted in real murders, real disasters, and real violence. In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we uncover the disturbing true events behind some of the most terrifying urban legends ever told: - The Vanishing Hitchhiker -The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs - The Mothman -Sl...

Check out @ovariesandoddities on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, TikTok, Instagram & Facebook Vampires didn’t start with Twilight. Long before Dracula, entire villages were digging up graves, staking corpses, and burning bodies during the 18th-century “Great Vampire Epidemic.” In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we’re tracing the complete history of vampirism, from ancient blood to drinking demo...

What does a human body taste like… and why have people throughout history been driven to eat one another? From the horrifying Nazino Island tragedy in Stalin’s Soviet Union, where thousands were abandoned and left to starve… To the shocking World War II incident involving captured American pilots and Japanese officers… To the misunderstood ritual cannibalism of the Korowai people in Papua, Indones...

Check out @ Ovaries And Oddities on youtube, instagram, Facebook and TikTok Everybody’s so creative, but did we really need to be this creative with medieval torture devices. I mean we’ve got the: 00:46 Intro 01:43 The Rack 02:57 Scolds Bridle 05:40 Head Crusher 07:32 Rat Torture 09:10 Brazen Bull 11:30 Outro See you next week, Ivanna Brookes

🔔 Subscribe for weekly episodes of Ovaries and Oddities Follow on @ Ovaries And Oddities Instagram, Tiktok & Facebook! In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we explore the hauntings of Kenyon College, one of the most haunted college campuses in America. From the tragic 1905 death of Stuart Pierson on the railroad trestle, to the devastating Old Kenyon Fire of 1949 that claimed nine student...

🔔 Subscribe for weekly episodes of Ovaries and Oddities 🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Instagram, Tiktok & Facebook! In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we dive deep into the chilling legend of the Blood Countess, separating historical fact from gothic horror. Explore the life of Elizabeth Báthory, her rise to power in 16th-century Hungary, the shocking accusations that made he...

Checkout @ Ovaries And Oddities on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify & Apple Podcast In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we examine the chilling 1985 disappearance of eight-year-old Cherrie Mahan, who vanished while walking home from a school bus stop in rural Pennsylvania. With eyewitness accounts of a suspicious van, decades of unanswered questions, and a family still searching for j...

Checkout @ Ovaries And Oddities on TikTok, Instagram & Facebook In the 1870s, a quiet Kansas homestead hid one of the most disturbing family secrets in American history. Travelers would arrive for a warm meal, a soft bed… and never be seen again. This episode dives into the chilling true story of the Bloody Benders; a family of serial killers who used isolation, manipulation, and brutal violen...

Check Out Ovaries And Oddities on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Tiktok, Instagram & Facebook The Golden State Killer terrorized California for decades under multiple aliases, the Visalia Ransacker, East Area Rapist, and Original Night Stalker. In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we break down every phase of his crimes, how he escalated from burglary to brutal murder, and how forensic genealogy...