Ovaries And Oddities

Ivanna Brookes

True Crime, Dark History & The Paranormal! Let’s get spooky 👻 Find Ovaries And Oddities on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram & Facebook.

  1. 37m ago

    The WWII Crime They Tried to Erase from History

    During World War II, thousands of girls and women across Asia were forced into Japan’s military slavery system. Many were teenagers. For decades, survivors were ignored, silenced, and told their stories didn’t matter.In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we’re discussing the history of the comfort women, the women who survived, and the activists who spent their lives fighting to make sure the world never forgot what happened.See you next week,Ivanna BrookesMore of the podcast:Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities#comfortwomen #wwii #worldwar2 #darkhistory #historypodcast #womenshistory

    20 min

  2. Jun 11

    Albert Einstein’s Wife Was Smarter Than Him

    Was Albert Einstein’s wife smarter than him? Did history erase yet another brilliant woman standing beside a famous man? In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we’re diving into the infuriating history of women whose work was ignored, minimized, stolen, or credited to men. From Mileva Marić, Albert Einstein’s first wife and intellectual partner, to Rosalind Franklin’s crucial role in uncovering the structure of DNA, Lise Meitner’s overlooked contribution to nuclear fission, and Margaret Keane’s husband literally pretending to paint her famous artwork. This episode is about the audacity of men and the women history tried to erase. Until next week, Ivanna Brookes In this episode: Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić Rosalind Franklin and Photo 51 Lise Meitner and nuclear fission Margaret Keane and the Big Eyes paintings The Matilda Effect Follow Ovaries and Oddities for more dark history, medical horror, and historical true crime. More of the podcast: Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities

    19 min

  3. Jun 4

    60% Death Rate & Queen Victoria Used Chloroform For Childbirth

    Imagine having to undergo surgery in the 1800s. No anesthesia and your survival rate less than 50%. Between your doctor not sanitizing anything ,including not washing his hands between surgeries, gangrene or other infections, and blood loss. It was an uphill battle. Plus pain medicine may or may not have been a bottle of brandy. Would you survive the operating table? See you next week, Ivanna Brookes More of the podcast: Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities

    15 min

  4. May 28

    God Killed 33% of Europe To Raise Minimum Wage

    Checkout Instagram & Facebook for daily content @ OvariesAndOddities 12 ships docked in Sicily but most of the sailors were dead. Over the next 5 years between 20-50 million people died of this mysterious plague. Waking up with a fever where your skin is burning, your body is shaking, your head feels like it’s splitting open, and then all of your lymph nodes are the size of eggs. Within days, that lump could turn black. Your fingers, toes, lips, or nose could darken. And in medieval Europe, there was no urgent care or antibiotics. So today we’re talking about the Black Death See you next week, Ivanna Brookes 🖤 More of Ovaries And Oddities: Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities black death, bubonic plague, medieval history, medical horror, dark history, plague doctor, history podcast

    15 min

  5. May 21

    Victorians Slept in Coffins & Ate Poison on Purpose

    In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we’re diving into the horrors of Victorian London, from arsenic wallpaper and poisonous beauty products to deadly sewage, contaminated drinking water, cholera outbreaks, overcrowded streets, workhouses, doss houses, the four-penny coffin, and the infamous two-penny hangover. The Victorian era gave us some of the most iconic aesthetics in history, but behind the pretty dresses and gothic architecture was a city filled with poverty, disease, pollution, human waste, toxic products, and social systems that punished people simply for being poor. See you next Thursday, Ivanna Brookes Victorian London, Victorian era, dark history, arsenic wallpaper, Scheele’s Green, Paris Green, Victorian beauty standards, Victorian poverty, workhouses, doss houses, two penny hangover, four penny coffin, cholera, Great Stink, River Thames, John Snow cholera, Broad Street pump, Joseph Bazalgette, Victorian sanitation, medical horror, historical horror, Ovaries and Oddities

    18 min

  6. May 14

    He Experimented on Enslaved Women Without Anesthesia

    In this episode of Ovaries & Oddities, we uncover the dark medical history of J. Marion Sims, the doctor credited with shaping modern gynecology through experimental surgeries on enslaved Black women, including Anarcha, Lucy, and Betsey. These women, now often remembered as the Mothers of Gynecology, endured painful procedures without meaningful consent, while history preserved Sims’ name and buried theirs. See you next week, Ivanna Brookes

    15 min

  7. Apr 30

    Prescribed “O’s” For Female Hysteria

    Checkout Ovaries And Oddities everywhere 🎧 In this episode of Ovaries and Oddities, we’re diving into the dark history of female hysteria: the centuries-old belief that women’s emotions, desires, pain, rebellion, and mental health struggles could all be blamed on the uterus. From the ancient idea of the “wandering womb” to Victorian-era medical treatments, asylum culture, and the disturbing ways women were controlled in the name of medicine, this episode exposes how medical misogyny shaped women’s lives for generations. See you next week, Ivanna Brookes Linktr.ee/ovariesandoddities female hysteria, Victorian hysteria, female hysteria history, Victorian medicine, women’s history, medical misogyny, medical horror, dark history, history of medicine, women and mental health, asylum history, Ovaries and Oddities

    14 min

  8. Apr 23

    Wigs To Hide STDs!

    medicalhorror, darkhistory, disturbinghistory, creepyhistory, morbidcuriosity, fyp, viralvideo, trendingnow, didyouknow, syphilis, victorianera, medicalhistory, oldmedicine, ovariesandoddities, darkfeminine

    12 min
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True Crime, Dark History & The Paranormal! Let’s get spooky 👻 Find Ovaries And Oddities on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram & Facebook.

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  • Creator
    Ivanna Brookes
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    61
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Ivanna Brookes
  • Show Website
    Ovaries And Oddities

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