Oddity Shop

Kara Perakovic and Zach Palmer

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.

  1. 7h ago

    The Villisca Axe Murder House: Unsolved Mystery, Still Haunting Today.

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is keeping with the Axe Murder Trend.  Eight people are alive after a small town church program in Villisca, Iowa. By morning, the Moore family and two visiting children are gone, the house is staged in ways that make your skin crawl, and the investigation is already falling apart. The Villisca Axe Murders are infamous for the brutality, but what keeps pulling us back is the weirdness: covered mirrors, covered faces, a killer calm enough to move through the home and even cook food, then vanish with no conviction ever coming. We walk through what’s known about the 1912 timeline, the victims, and the suspect list that still fuels true crime debates today. We also talk about why these family-in-bed attacks feel connected to other unsolved axe murder cases, and how a lack of forensic tools plus a contaminated crime scene can lock a case into permanent limbo. Check out our website for all episode references  Get All Your Spiritual Supplies From Mystic Moons On Etsy, or Check out their Facebook Support the show The 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! 616.320.4935 JOIN 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.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: 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.

    47 min
  2. May 28

    The Devil In Devon: Satan's Footprints In The Snow

    Welcome 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 Facebook Support the show The 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! 616.320.4935 JOIN 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.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: 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.

    39 min
  3. May 21

    The Hinterkaifeck Murders: Mystery Remains On The Farm

    Welcome 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 Facebook Support the show The 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! 616.320.4935 JOIN 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.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: 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.

    35 min
  4. May 7

    30 East Drive: The Black Monk of Pontefract

    Welcome 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 Facebook Support the show The 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! 616.320.4935 JOIN 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.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: 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.

    35 min
  5. Apr 30

    The Great Lunar Hoax of 1835: Bat People on The Moon!

    Welcome 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 Facebook Support the show The 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! 616.320.4935 JOIN 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.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: 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.

    33 min
  6. Apr 23

    Spontaneous Human Combustion: Tales That Turn To Ash!

    Welcome 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 Facebook Support the show The 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! 616.320.4935 JOIN 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.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: 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.

    40 min
  7. Apr 16

    The Scole Experiment: Seances in Norfolk, England!

    Welcome 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 Facebook Support the show The 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! 616.320.4935 JOIN 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.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: 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.

    35 min
4.9
out of 5
62 Ratings

About

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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