Oddity Shop

Kara Perakovic and Zach Palmer
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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.

  1. 7h ago

    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? 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.

  2. 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. 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.

  3. 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 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.

  4. Jul 9

    The Cold War Car That Became A Monster

    A black sedan crawls along at walking speed, matching you step for step, with windows you can’t see through and curtains that feel like eyes. That’s the doorway into one of the strangest Cold War urban legends ever whispered across Eastern Europe: the Black Volga. And here’s the twist that makes it stick under your skin, the car wasn’t imaginary. The Volga was a real Soviet luxury vehicle, which means the fear didn’t start as pure fantasy. It started with something people actually saw on their streets.  We dig into why this story took root in Poland and across the former Soviet bloc, where government surveillance and controlled media created the perfect conditions for rumors to become “truth.” When information disappears, people fill the blanks with whatever explains the danger, and the Black Volga becomes a catch-all symbol for vanishings, power, and the sense that you’re never really alone. From there, the legend evolves fast: secret police kidnappings, priests as villains, Satanist rituals, and finally the devil himself, complete with red eyes, horns under streetlights, and license plates that may or may not read 666.  The part that lingers isn’t whether any version is factual. It’s how fear works. We talk about why kids and adults remembered this as lived experience, how panic burns ordinary moments into permanent memory, and why every generation builds new monsters out of the same instincts. When you finish listening, tell us what your hometown warning story is, then subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review so more oddballs can find us. 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.

  5. Jun 25

    Fear Caught On Tape: The Pascagoula Alien Abduction

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is getting us all abducted. A secret tape recorder in a sheriff’s department. Two exhausted, terrified men left alone in a cold room. And a few minutes of audio that still makes UFO researchers stop and listen 50 years later. We’re digging into the Pascagoula, Mississippi alien abduction, a 1973 Gulf Coast story that starts with a normal after-work fishing trip and ends with a hovering craft, paralyzing force, and a clinical “scan” that feels more like procedure than science fiction. We walk through who Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were before that night and why their backgrounds matter when people debate witness credibility.  What keeps pulling us back is the aftermath. Instead of waiting days, they report immediately, and the police try to catch them in a lie by recording them in private. The result is a raw snapshot of panic and disbelief that’s hard to wave away, even if you lean skeptical.  Listen now, then tell us where you land: physical abduction, psychological event, or something we don’t have language for yet.  See 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.

  6. Jun 18

    Lurking in the Trees: The New Hampshire Woods Devil

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara is lurking for cryptids in New Hampshire. What’s worse, seeing the thing or feeling it? We head deep into Northern New Hampshire folklore and cryptid history with the New Hampshire Woods Devil, a legend tied to campers, hunters, hikers, and truck drivers who report glowing eyes, impossible movement, and the heavy feeling of being watched. We break down the reported description, the sensory clues, and the behavior that makes it feel intelligent rather than animal. We also dig into the leading explanations: a regional Bigfoot variant, a paranormal shadow entity, a forest elemental, or just darkness and isolation playing tricks on the brain. If you’ve ever been deep in the woods at night, you already know why this story sticks. Subscribe for more weird stories, share this with your favorite camping buddy, and leave a review if you want to help the shop grow. See 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.

  7. Jun 11

    The Rosenheim Poltergeist: Spirit? Psychic Energy? SLIding?

    Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is Taking a Tour to Bavaria for a Poltergeist Tale. Your phone rings at work. You pick up. Static. It rings again. Static. Then it starts happening hundreds of times a day and the line begins dialing out by itself. That’s where we start before the story gets even stranger: lights flicker, fluorescent fixtures sway like someone shoved them, and the office goes from “annoying electrical problem” to “why are papers sliding off desks when nobody is near them?” We head to 1967 Bavaria for the Rosenheim Poltergeist, one of the most infamous haunted office cases on record. A law office full of practical, detail-obsessed people tries everything you’d expect: phone technicians, electricians, repairs, replacements, and engineering checks. Nothing stops the ringing, the outages, the surges, or the physical disturbances. Then parapsychologist Hans Bender steps in with a research method: observe, document, correlate, and refuse a tidy ghost story until the facts earn it. His conclusion lands on recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, a stress-linked theory that frames poltergeist activity as an unconscious human effect rather than a spirit.  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.

  8. Jun 4

    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.

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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
    209
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Oddity Shop
  • Show Website
    Oddity Shop