The Oddities Department
Welcome to The Oddities Department, an IMDb Listed podcast where history gets weird, science gets weirder, and Gavin and his museum crew gleefully drag you into the strangest corners of the universe. Every episode takes you on a tour full of bizarre true stories, cursed artifacts, questionable science experiments, forgotten folklore, and so many “wait… WHAT?” moments. If you love learning things that make you clutch your pearls, laugh, or rethink reality, you are in the right place.
The Oddities Department
Latest Episodes
Technologia Tour: Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence, Cyborg Data Centers "The Meat Cloud"
Technology has always had a strange habit of outrunning the people who build it.This week, The Oddities Department is diving into two stories about machines, intelligence, and the increasingly blurry line between human thought and the te...
Strange Cures & Questionable Remedies Tour: Graham Crackers, Orgone Energy & Dog Poop Medicine
Welcome back to The Oddities Department, where history gets strange, science gets stranger, and questionable medicine has apparently been trying to kill us for centuries.In Episode 26, we cut the ribbon on The Odditorium...
The Relationship Between Pussy Cats & Humans, The Cloacal Kiss, Sheela-na-Gig & History's Biggest Mystery: The Holy Foreskin
Welcome back to The Oddities Department, where history gets strange, science gets stranger, and humanity continues proving that absolutely nothing is too weird to document.In Episode 25, we open the museum doors to four exhibits involvin...
Bat Bombs, Military Penguins, The Lead Mask Mystery, and the Blue People of Kentucky
Welcome back to The Oddities Department, where history gets strange, science gets stranger, and humanity once again proves it cannot be trusted with animals, paperwork, or a government budget.In Episode 24, we open the museum doors to fo...
The Sirius Problem, Dorothy Eady, Ötzi the Iceman & MK-ULTRA
This week on The Oddities Department, history gets cosmic, reincarnated, frozen, and deeply classified.In Episode 23, Gavin and Lindsay take you through four bizarre true stories from the stranger corners of science, history, mystery, an...
