Oddity Shop

Kara Perakovic and Zach Palmer
  • 4.8 (62)
  • Society & Culture
  • Updated Weekly

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. 5d ago

    The Bell Witch: When a Legend Outlives the Evidence

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is telling a 200 year old legend  We said “Bell Witch” and our audio immediately stopped recording. Coincidence or the most on brand technical glitch we’ve ever had? Either way, we’re finally tackling one of the most famous American ghost legends: the Bell Witch haunting of Adams, Tennessee, and why the story still refuses to settle into one clean version. We walk through the earliest encounters on the Bell property in 1817, when John Bell and his family report strange animals, a mysterious girl in green, and then the classic escalation inside the house: scratching, knocking, dragging sounds, shaking beds, and the kind of physical attacks that make you wonder how anyone slept at all. Then the haunting turns intelligent. The noises become whispers, and the whispers become a clear woman’s voice that answers questions and eventually claims to be “Old Kate Batts’ witch,” pulling a real neighbor into the legend and raising all kinds of uncomfortable questions about blame, reputation, and small-town fallout. Subscribe for more creepy history and paranormal deep dives, share this with the friend who loves haunted places, and leave us a review with your Bell Witch take. What do you think “Kate” really was? It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! 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.

  2. Sep 10

    British Premonitions Bureau: John Barker's Early Warning System

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara is giving us glimpses of the future from the past! A doctor reads other people’s nightmares for a living and starts wondering if they’re not just nightmares. We’re talking about a real, short-lived experiment from 1960s Britain: the British Premonitions Bureau, a project that tried to time-stamp dreams and visions before disasters happened and treat them like evidence instead of folklore. If you love paranormal history, psychical research, and true stories that sit on the edge of science, this one gets under your skin fast.  We start with psychiatrist Dr. John Barker at Shelton Hospital in Shropshire and his obsession with a terrifying idea tied to “voodoo death” and extreme stress: can fear shut the body down, and could a premonition trigger that collapse? Then we head straight into the shadow of the Aberfan disaster, where reports of foreboding, strange luck, and chilling precognitive dreams raise the question Barker can’t drop: coincidence, memory tricks after trauma, or something real in the human mind.  If you’ve ever had a dream that later felt uncomfortably true, we want to hear it. Subscribe for more strange history, share this with your favorite oddball, and leave us a review so more listeners can find the shop. It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! 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.

  3. Aug 27

    Stella Nickells: Excedrin, Cyanide, and Murder

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach has a killer story for y'all!  A sealed bottle of headache medicine is supposed to mean safety, not a death sentence. When Susan Snow takes two Excedrin capsules for a brutal headache and dies within minutes, investigators find cyanide at the center of the case. Panic spreads fast because America has already lived through the Tylenol tampering nightmare, and no one knows if more poisoned bottles are sitting on store shelves waiting for the next victim. We follow the investigation as it swerves toward Stella Nickell who calls police to say her husband Bruce died the same way after taking Excedrin. That single phone call becomes a turning point, pulling Bruce’s “natural causes” death back into the spotlight and raising questions about motive, life insurance policies, and whether this was a calculated attempt to make one murder look like a larger product-tampering spree.  We also share a wild personal twist: Zach meets someone connected to Bruce’s family who may help us add new context in a future follow-up. Listen now, then subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review. Where do you land on this one: airtight guilt or too many gaps? It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! 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.

  4. Aug 13

    Psychotic Breaks: Delusions, Psychosis, or Something Else?

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara showing us what happens when the brain misfires. Something about “signs” can feel irresistible: the repeating numbers, the lyric that hits too hard, the stranger’s smile that lands like a message. But what happens when that certainty escalates into a full-blown alternate reality? We’re back from our break with a topic that sits right at the crossroads of faith, paranormal curiosity, and mental health: how do we tell the difference between a genuine spiritual experience and psychosis? If you’re into the high strange, this conversation is a grounding reminder: sometimes the most important question isn’t “Is it paranormal?” It’s “Is that person okay?” Listen, share this with a friend who loves spooky stories and psychology. It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! 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.

  5. Aug 6

    The Phoenix Lights: Arizona's Biggest UFO Sighting

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach has a new Hometown UFO Story. A clear March night over Arizona turns strange fast: thousands of people report a huge, silent V-shaped object drifting across the sky, big enough to swallow sections of starlight. We’re breaking down the Phoenix Lights, the 1997 UFO sighting that refuses to stay neatly filed under “misidentification,” especially when the earliest reports start far north and then track steadily toward the Phoenix metro area with eerily consistent details. Then it gets political. Former Governor Fife Symington publicly jokes about the sightings, only to later admit he personally saw something he couldn’t explain, reigniting debate about credibility, memory, and public messaging.  If you love UFO history, mass eyewitness events, Arizona mysteries, and the messy space where skepticism meets “okay, but what was that,” this one’s for you. Subscribe, share the episode with a fellow sky-watcher, and leave a review with your best theory: flares, secret tech, or something else? It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! 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.

  6. Jul 30

    Haunted Spaghetti: When The Breadsticks Come With Footsteps

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara is taking us on a haunted food tour. Spaghetti is supposed to be comfort food. So why do multiple spaghetti restaurants have decades of ghost stories, full-body apparitions, and the kind of after-hours noises that would make any sane person quit mid-shift? Tracking three locations tied to the Old Spaghetti Factory and the Spaghetti Warehouse. In Gastown, Vancouver, staff and visitors describe a uniformed tram conductor appearing inside a trolley car you can actually dine in, plus a prankster “little red man” and sightings of a child spirit. In Houston, we unpack the tragic elevator-shaft legend, reports of footsteps and moving objects, and the creepy shoulder-tap stories. In Duarte, California, the building’s past as a 1909 schoolhouse drives the haunting, including lights switching, hallway voices, and an intercom laugh that is nightmare fuel. Listen, share with a friend who loves ghost stories, and leave a review if you want more haunted location deep dives. Then answer this for us: when you die, what type of restaurant are you haunting, and why? It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! 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.

  7. Jul 23

    MH flight 370: The Disappearance of a Malaysian Airlines Flight

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is talking about a more recent mystery in the skies. A passenger jet doesn’t vanish like a magic trick, yet Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 does exactly that. We follow the night MH370 leaves Kuala Lumpur for Beijing like any routine long-haul flight, then slips out of the world’s grasp after one calm sign-off: “Good night, Malaysian 370.”  We break down what’s known versus what’s assumed: how air traffic control handoffs work, why transponders matter, and what it means when military radar later suggests a dramatic U-turn and a route that still follows navigational waypoints. We also dig into the satellite “handshake” pings that push the search into the Indian Ocean, one of the most unforgiving places on Earth to find wreckage, evidence, or answers.  From there, we lay out the main MH370 theories without pretending any one of them is airtight We end with our honest take, why the details make us lean away from a paranormal explanation, and why this case still rattles us every time we board a plane. If you have a theory, we want it. Subscribe, share this with your most detail-obsessed friend, and leave a review so more listeners can find us. See Website for all episode references. It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! 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.

  8. Jul 16

    The Three Kings Ritual: Summoning Spirits From Reddit!

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara is Summoning the Queen and Fool From Reddit. “Please don’t actually try this.” That’s the line that launches one of the strangest artifacts of internet horror culture: the Three Kings ritual. What starts as a 2012 r/nosleep post quickly turns into a step-by-step blueprint loaded with specificity: three chairs, two mirrors angled just right, a candle, water, a fan, an alarm set for 3:30 a.m. We dig into why the ritual hits differently than classic dare-style games like Bloody Mary.  Then we get honest about the psychology: sleep deprivation, anticipation, suggestion, and the “felt presence” phenomenon that makes people swear someone is in the room with them. Are the Queen and the Fool external entities, archetypes, or just your own mind answering back under pressure? We read the original post’s instructions and unpack why the ritual can feel dangerous even if nothing supernatural is happening.  Listen, share this with a friend who loves Reddit horror and paranormal rituals, and subscribe so you don’t miss what we cover next. After you hear the rules, what do you think: spiritual encounter or perfectly engineered mind game? See Website for All Episode References It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! 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.

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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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  • Creator
    Kara Perakovic and Zach Palmer
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    214
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Oddity Shop
  • Show Website
    Oddity Shop

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