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Oddity ShopOddball Holidaze: We Got You a Murder! (Michigan True Crime)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 warning signs people ignored, and the moments of courage that finally cracked the case.We walk through the shifting “safe” culture of a...
2025-12-2544 min
Oddity ShopTen days In A Madhouse: Nellie Bly is Committed to Blackwell IslandWelcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Kara Has Gone Mad with Nellie BlyWe 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 the ice-cold intake baths to rancid meals and nights spent shivering under thin blankets, we revisit the details she recorded and the people...
2025-12-1156 min
Oddity ShopOddball Guests: Jeff Belanger On Lore and Life LessonsWelcome 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 traces his path from teenage encounters near the Warrens’ Connecticut home to crafting TV stories that ask the only question that matters: why he...
2025-12-041h 18
Oddity ShopThe Fox Sisters: From Tiny Knocks To A Global MovementWelcome 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 America and Europe, offering something people craved: a way to keep love alive with tangible signs, moving tables, and messages you could feel and...
2025-11-201h 03
Oddity ShopThe Corn Husk Witch: Brooding Hag or Harvest Queen?!?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 warnings into campfire stories. What began as the Corn Mother, a sacred spirit kept safe in the final sheaf, evolves across time in...
2025-11-0637 min
Oddity ShopOddball Guests: Jeff Fent and His Haunted HardwareWelcome 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 paranormal investigation equipment, like custom ghost boxes, and for his appearances in documentaries and TV programs including Por...
2025-10-3057 min
Oddity ShopThe Demon House: A Possession In Gary IndianaWelcome 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 worker’s report that still sparks debate.Finally, we follow Father Mich...
2025-10-1639 min
Oddity ShopOddity Shop Origins: 400 Years of Cabinet CuriositiesWelcome 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 working as a royal garden to Seattle's Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, which opened in 1899, and still operates today w...
2025-10-0247 min
Oddity ShopSundown Towns: The Horrors of Racism Still EndureWelcome 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 (and some still maintain these attitudes) across all regions of the U.S., not just the South•...
2025-09-1843 min
Oddity ShopWaverly Hills: Kentucky's Famously Haunted SanitariumWelcome 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 America's most notorious haunted locations, where pain lingers in the very bri...
2025-09-0444 min
Oddity ShopCryptid Mayhem Part 2: More Lessor CryptidsWelcome 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 overwhelming stench of rotting meat and methane makes witnesses physically ill. Descend into the mines of C...
2025-08-2846 min
Oddity ShopTime's SlipINN: Time Slips, Disappearing Inns, and Liminal SpacesWelcome 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 with oddly outdated features, they were shocked to discover on t...
2025-08-2152 min
Oddity ShopMarilyn Monroe: American Icon's Death Shrouded in SecrecyWelcome 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 constructed facade and meticulously walk through the timeline of her final day, exposing the contradictions that h...
2025-08-071h 11
Oddity ShopThe Kennedy's Dark Legacy: Conspiracies, Karma, and CursesWelcome 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 civil rights reluctance to Vietnam escalation, Kennedy made powerful enemies across Washington's corridors of power. His...
2025-07-241h 03
Oddity ShopVanishing Points: Earth's Most Isolated PlacesWelcome 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 Antarctic wasteland where a solitary bust of Vladimir Lenin faces Moscow in si...
2025-07-0344 min
Oddity ShopGhosts of The Grand: Hauntings on Mackinac IslandWelcome 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 locations in the Midwest.Long before European settlement, the Anishinaabe people considered this island sacred ground – a "thin place" where the boundary between physical and spiritual worlds narrows. They named it after the Great Turt...
2025-06-1951 min
Oddity ShopOddball Guests: Lauren The MorticianWelcome 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 emotional terrain of grief, she finds purpose in helping people through their darkest moments. Yet it's her spiritual encounters that truly captivate: footsteps of a child echoing through an empty morgue at 2AM, mysterious ban...
2025-06-121h 11
Oddity ShopWendigo VS. Skinwalker Pt 2: Unmasking Ancient TerrorsWelcome 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.Following our previous exploration of wendigos, we now turn to these shapeshifting entities from Navajo tradition, respectfully referring to them as "flesh pedestrians" throughout our discussion. We trace their origins as...
2025-05-2957 min
Oddity ShopWendigo VS. Skinwalker Pt 1: Unmasking Ancient TerrorsWelcome 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 line between natural fear and supernatural threat blurs as we dive deep into the Wendigo – a creature born from humanity's darkest moments of desperation. This cannibalistic entity stands at...
2025-05-2248 min
Oddity ShopThe Skyjacker Who Vanished: The Case of D.B. CooperWelcome 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 revealing his demands: $200,000 in unmarked bills, four parachutes, and a flight plan to Mexico City. After the passengers were safely released in Seattle, the hijacker – who purchased his ticket as "D...
2025-05-0159 min
Oddity ShopOddball Guests: Sam Baltrusis on Ghost Writers and Paranormal MonstersWelcome 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 between realms. As a journalist, author of 18 paranormal books, and psychic medium, Sam brings a unique combination of investigative rigor and psychic sensitivity to his work.The disc...
2025-04-241h 02
Oddity ShopUncovering the Iceman: The 5,000-Year-Old Cursed MummyWelcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your curator Kara has the tale of the cursed Iceman.Two German hikers made a startling discovery in the Ötztal Alps in 1991 that would forever change our understanding of the Copper Age—and potentially unleash a deadly curse.This remarkably intact mummy (The Iceman) provides an unprecedented window into prehistoric life. But the story takes a darker turn when we examine what happened after Ötzi's discovery. Seven people connected to the Iceman have met untimely deaths—from car accidents and avalanches to rare...
2025-04-1049 min
Oddity ShopLurking in the Dark: The Not-Deer PhenomenonWelcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your curator Kara has a story for you dear deer oddballsSomething watches you from the edge of the forest. At first glance, it's just a deer—but look closer. Those legs bend wrong. Its eyes face forward like a predator's. And it's looking right at you.The "Not Deer" phenomenon has been terrifying travelers on dark rural roads across America, from the Appalachian mountains to the forests of Oregon. These entities appear to be deer upon first glance, but something is...
2025-03-2755 min
Oddity ShopE.A. Koetting: Online "Magician" Influencer Incites Murder and MayhemWelcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your curator Kara is talking about Internet Influencers, Summoning Demons...and MUDERCould the allure of dark magic lead one down a dangerous path? We explore this chilling curiosity with a look into the life of EA Koetting, a figure enshrined in controversy within the occult community. Our conversation takes a solemn turn as we remember Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, whose celebration turned into tragedy, prompting us to question the broader implications of sinister influences.Koetting's narrative blurs the...
2025-03-1350 min
Oddity ShopGhostly Emails: The Digital Afterlife and Mysterious Messages From BeyondWelcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your curator Kara has a tale that will have you checking your email inbox for spooky messages Ever wondered if your tech gadgets could bridge the gap between the digital world and the afterlife? Our journey takes a curious twist as we tackle the tech challenges of setting up YouTube TV for Kara's parents, navigating the minefield of passwords and updates with comedic flair. But what's tech without a hint of the paranormal? We ponder whether spirits could hack emails, just like humans do...
2025-02-2752 min