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PODCAST

Oddity Shop

Kara Perakovic and Zach Palmer

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.

society & culture

All Episodes

21:05

Halloween Special: Haunted House Showdown!!

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2025/10/31

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 Southern Gothic lore, the Stanley Hotel and its Shining-fueled chills, and

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57:32

Oddball Guests: Jeff Fent and His Haunted Hardware

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2025/10/30

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, he’s also recognized for his craftsmanship in creating specialized

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55:02

Ouija Come From? : Haunted Origins of Talking Boards

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2025/10/23

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 become a planchette, and see how Charles Kennard and Elijah Bond turned

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39:36

The Demon House: A Possession In Gary Indiana

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2025/10/16

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 chillsA 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 terrifying crescendo of levitation claims, guttural voices, and a DCS

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48:33

The Leshy: Vodka-Loving Protector of The Woods

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2025/10/09

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 forest animals, manipulate weather, and mimic familiar voices to lure travelers

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47:51

Oddity Shop Origins: 400 Years of Cabinet Curiosities

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2025/10/02

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, filling his house with fossils, ancient coins, and exotic artifacts collected while

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44:08

Mary Toft: The Woman Who Gave Birth To Rabbits

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2025/09/25

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-midwife John Howard became convinced of the phenomenon and documented the strange

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42:58

Sundown Towns: The Horrors of Racism Still Endure

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2025/09/18

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 people and other minorities weren't allowed after dark• These towns existed

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44:47

Pope Lick Bridge: Dangers of Searching For The Goatman

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2025/09/11

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 Creek in Fisherville, Kentucky, this active train bridge has become the site of dozens of tragic accidents

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44:09

Waverly Hills: Kentucky's Famously Haunted Sanitarium

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2025/09/04

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 HillsThe 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 who suffered and died within its walls. What began as a modest school on a hilltop transformed into one of

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46:38

Cryptid Mayhem Part 2: More Lessor Cryptids

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2025/08/28

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 venture into the fetid swamps of Florida to track the Skunk Ape – a bipedal, ape-like creature whose

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52:19

Time's SlipINN: Time Slips, Disappearing Inns, and...

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2025/08/21

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 vacationing in France in 1979 serves as our central mystery. After staying overnight at a quaint, rustic inn

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58:03

The Roswell Incident: UFO Crash, Cover Up and Conspiracy

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2025/08/14

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 story truly takes flight when rancher Mac Brazel discovers bizarre debris on his New Mexico property.When

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70:59

Marilyn Monroe: American Icon's Death Shrouded in...

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2025/08/07

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 later.We pull back the curtain on the resilient, intellectual woman hidden behind the carefully

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53:58

LHC Particle Accelerator: ConCERNing Physics and...

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2025/07/31

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 unsettling questionsWhy does a statue of Shiva —the Hindu deity of

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32:07

Paranormal Postcards 6: More Eerie Tales From Our...

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2025/07/28

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 youJamie'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 hospital. Wildlife photographer Jennifer shares how she felt

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63:22

The Kennedy's Dark Legacy: Conspiracies, Karma, and...

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2025/07/24

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 ambition.From the Bay of Pigs fiasco to the Cuban Missile Crisis, from

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64:07

Oddball Guests: Ken Boggle's Tarot and TEA!

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2025/07/17

Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: THE Ken BoggleEver 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 a haunted Kentucky childhood to paranormal television history. These

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55:22

Spectrophilia: Till Death Do Us... Wait, That Won't Work

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2025/07/10

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 curiosity and paranormal experience. Our deep dive takes you through centuries of

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44:47

Vanishing Points: Earth's Most Isolated Places

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2025/07/03

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 journey to seven of the planet's most remote locations, from the frozen

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