Podcast
Oddity Shop
Hosted by Kara Perakovic and Zach Palmer · EN
Welcome to The Oddity Shop Podcast — your weekly dose of creepy, odd, weird, strange, and downright bizarre stories from around the globe.
Each week, your curators Kara and Zach open the shop to explore cryptids, conspiracies, cults, urban legends, paranormal encounters, unsolved mysteries, and the strangest stories you’ve never heard.
Step inside… and remember: Creep it Real, ya oddballs.
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The Devil In Devon: Satan's Footprints In The Snow
1w ago00:38:34Tap to summarizeWelcome 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 through the countryside for miles, ignoring fences, walls, and common sense. Small cloven hoof prints with consistent spacing, reports of the trail continuing over rooftops and up vertical surfaces, and moments where it appears to stop at front doors before showing up behind homes. As newspapers and clergy latch on, the story spreads from local shock to a national obsession, with investigators collecting sketches, witness reports, and attempted explanations.If you like paranormal history, unexplained phenomena, cryptid lore, and true mysteries that still don’t have a clean answer, hit play, share this with your favorite skeptic, and then subscribe and leave us a review so more oddballs can find the show.Check out our website for all episode references Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their FacebookSupport the showThe Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode!616.320.4935JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here!Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!!Visit our Website to learn more!Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.comwww.OddityShopPodcast.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.
Transcribe →The Hinterkaifeck Murders: Mystery Remains On The Farm
2w ago00:34:51Tap to summarizeWelcome 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 than anyone imagined. In this episode we unpack how six people were murdered near Munich in 1922 with no confirmed killer to this day. The story isn’t just “unsolved true crime.” It’s a knot of motives and warning signs: an incest conviction that isolates the family, bitter paternity disputes, and a household full of fear. We talk through the reports of attic footsteps, a missing house key, strange footprints that don’t return, and a newspaper no one ordered. Is it a haunting, a stalker, or a “frogger” secretly living in the attic or basement? That question becomes even darker once you learn what happens next. If you love unsolved mysteries, historical crime, and paranormal-adjacent dread that might have a real-world explanation, hit play.Check out our website for all episode references Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their FacebookSupport the showThe Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode!616.320.4935JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here!Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!!Visit our Website to learn more!Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.comwww.OddityShopPodcast.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.
Transcribe →Oddball Guests: Jessica Knapik and Her Weirdo Adventures
3w ago01:00:57Tap to summarizeWelcome 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, and the real logistics of living a weird life, this one is for you. To Find Jessica:FacebookInstagramSubscribe, share the episode with your most paranormal friend, leave a review, and tell us what haunted place you’d road trip to first?To Find Jessica, Check out her LinktreeGet All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their FacebookSupport the showThe Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode!616.320.4935JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here!Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!!Visit our Website to learn more!Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.comwww.OddityShopPodcast.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.
Transcribe →30 East Drive: The Black Monk of Pontefract
4w ago00:35:05Tap to summarizeWelcome 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 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, a modest brick house that’s earned a lasting reputation as one of the most haunted homes in England and even Europe. We open the door on the Black Monk of Pontefract, tracing how a family’s “new home routine” turns into classic poltergeist activity: knocks that seem to answer back, flickering lights, objects moving on their own, unexplained pools of water, strange foam from taps, and footsteps that grow louder until neighbors and police can’t ignore them. If you’re into haunted house stories, paranormal investigation, poltergeists, and the messy line between skepticism and belief, hit play, then subscribe, share this with your favorite oddball!Check out our website for all episode references Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their FacebookSupport the showThe Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode!616.320.4935JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here!Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!!Visit our Website to learn more!Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.comwww.OddityShopPodcast.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.
Transcribe →The Great Lunar Hoax of 1835: Bat People on The Moon!
Apr 3000:33:16Tap to summarizeWelcome 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 claimed Sir John Herschel had a next-level telescope capable of spotting lunar forests, temples, strange animals, and “Vespatrilo Homo” flying around like it was normal field research. The story didn’t spread because people were dumb. It spread because it was written like science, released in a bingeable series, and backed by names that sounded impossible to question. From there, we connect the dots to today’s world of viral posts, “trust me bro” sources, and even AI-generated answers that sound authoritative while being totally wrong. Listen now, then subscribe, share with a fellow oddball, and leave a review.Check out our website for all episode references Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their FacebookSupport the showThe Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode!616.320.4935JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here!Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!!Visit our Website to learn more!Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.comwww.OddityShopPodcast.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.
Transcribe →Spontaneous Human Combustion: Tales That Turn To Ash!
Apr 2300:40:26Tap to summarizeWelcome 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 chair once sat. From there, we zoom out into the unsettling pattern behind spontaneous human combustion reports, including historical cases like Countess Cornelia Brandi and modern controversies like the Irish ruling that officially recorded spontaneous human combustion as a cause of death.Listen now, share it with your most skeptical friend, and leave a review if you like our weird little shop. What’s your best theory for spontaneous human combustion?Check out our website for all episode references Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their FacebookSupport the showThe Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode!616.320.4935JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here!Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!!Visit our Website to learn more!Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.comwww.OddityShopPodcast.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.
Transcribe →The Scole Experiment: Seances in Norfolk, England!
Apr 1600:35:00Tap to summarizeWelcome 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 built. Over years of sittings, the group reports classic physical mediumship phenomena: floating lights in total darkness, voices that don’t match anyone in the room, objects sliding across the table, bells ringing, and “apports” that seem to appear from nowhere. Then the Society for Psychical Research shows up. With experienced researchers observing dozens of sessions, the story shifts from spooky tale to attempted documentation and a formal write-up that becomes the famous Scole Report. Listen, then tell us where you land: genuine paranormal activity, brilliant illusion, or something we don’t have language for yet.Check out our website for all episode references Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their FacebookSupport the showThe Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode!616.320.4935JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here!Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!!Visit our Website to learn more!Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.comwww.OddityShopPodcast.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.
Transcribe →Oddball Guest: Jonathan Robinson on Hypnosis and Past Life Regression
Apr 900:54:24Tap to summarizeWelcome 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 actually feels like, why it’s closer to guided meditation than Hollywood mind control, and how subconscious healing can create fast shifts in confidence, performance anxiety, and persistent phobias.If you’re curious about spiritual healing but still skeptical, this conversation keeps it practical: even if you label it imagination, the question is whether you feel freer afterward.To Contact Jonathan:WebsiteInstagramLinktreeEmail - info@journeysintopastlives.comGet All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their FacebookSupport the showThe Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode!616.320.4935JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here!Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!!Visit our Website to learn more!Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.comwww.OddityShopPodcast.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.
Transcribe →The Strangeness Of Superstitions: Tiny Rituals to Subdue Fear
Apr 200:41:05Tap to summarizeWelcome 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 feel in control. Through it all, we keep returning to the core question: do these superstitions and rituals change outcomes, or do they simply steady our hands? Maybe both.If this journey through ladders, mirrors, matches, and midnight whistles sparked a memory or challenged a belief, share the episode with a friend who needs a good story. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us the one superstition you refuse to test.Check out our website for all episode referencesGet All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their FacebookSupport the showThe Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode!616.320.4935JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here!Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!!Visit our Website to learn more!Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.comwww.OddityShopPodcast.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.
Transcribe →Out Of Body!: How Astral Projection Took Shape
Mar 2600:34:14Tap to summarizeWelcome 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 of movement, to the Zoroastrian Arda Viraf’s supervised tour of heaven and hell, the early record reveals a sturdy pattern: induction, separation, journey, return, and testimony.Then Robert Monroe added method. He described the vibrational state, founded the Monroe Institute.The lab pushed back and helped, too. Neuroscientists can trigger out-of-body sensations by stimulating the temporoparietal junction, while near-death experiences across cultures repeat the same structure with different symbols. So which is it—spirit or synapse? Check out our Website for All Episode References Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their FacebookSupport the showThe Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode!616.320.4935JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here!Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!!Visit our Website to learn more!Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.comwww.OddityShopPodcast.comDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.
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