The Oddities Department
Welcome to The Oddities Department, the podcast where history gets weird, science gets weirder, and Gavin and Suzi gleefully drag you into the strangest corners of the universe. Every episode dives into 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.
Episodes
13 episodes
The Mississippi Scheme, Princess Caraboo, The Corpse Queen, The Berners St. Hoax, Bizarre Animal Mating & Diogenes The Cynic
Episode 13 of The Oddities Department takes us way in the back of the museum, and it gets weirder by the minute. This week’s crate contains six stories that history couldn't keep locked up. We start with The Mi...
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Episode 13
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1:39:32
A Naked Medium, A King & His Nerds, Bavarian Beer Riots, 10 Unusual Deaths, Retrograde Menstruation & A Tumor + A Surprise
EPISODE 12: Welcome back to The Oddities Department, where the paperwork is optional and the back halls are absolutely not OSHA-compliant.This week’s unauthorized tour proves, once again, that history is j...
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Episode 12
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1:43:14
An Edible Zoo, The RMS Carmania, Booty Bombs, Henrietta Lacks, A Tank Drivin' Baddie, & The Radium Girls
EPISODE 11 — The Oddities DepartmentThis week… history and modern history fully loses its mind.Suzi and Gavin crack open six case files that feel less like real events and more like something a sleep-deprived historian made...
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Episode 11
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1:25:21
Haunted Film Sets, William Buckland, The Joplin Tornado, The Invention Of The X-Ray, Mad Morticians & The Hairy Frog
Welcome back to the staff-only basement of the museum… where the lights flicker for reasons we don’t investigate anymore.In Episode 10, we open a crate packed with cursed productions, scientific lunatics, catastrophic weather, medical br...
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Episode 10
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1:44:27
A Mystic, An Alien, Pope Francis, A Dove, A Dolphin, Olga Of Kiev, & A Headless Chicken
We’ve unpacked cosmic delusion, bird violence, ethically bankrupt science, peak female rage, and one of the most profitable headless animals in American history.📂 IN THIS EPISODE:Case File #48: Madame Vesta La Viesta. Gavin introd...
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Episode 9
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1:23:02
A Chainsaw, A Woman Scorned, Plague Cats, A High Heel, A Bucket & Eleanor of Aquitaine
In this episode, Suzi and Gavin pry open the crates that prove history is actually a fever dream we can't wake up from. Tonight, we are exploring horrific surgical tools turned lumberjack hardware to wars over a bucket? We go ...
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Episode 8
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1:41:54
A Bear, A Mystery House, Corn Flakes, A Teenage God Emperor, A Futuristic Warning & The Judas Goat
In Episode 7 of The Oddities Department, we travel all over the world, and back and forth through time to show you some of history's wildest oddities. In this episode, we cover:Case File #36: Wojtek The Bear.
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Episode 7
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1:26:48
A King, An Antarctic Surgeon, Female Rage, An Antique Space Computer, Alien Hands & The Emperor Of San Francisco
In Episode 6, Gavin and Suzi crack open the "Staff Only" files to explore what happens when biology, technology, and monarchy go horribly wrong.We travel from the frozen isolation of Antarctica, where a surgeon faces an impossible ...
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Episode 6
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1:45:41
A Potato, A Glass Princess, A Lobotomy, Timothy Dexter & An Alien
🎧 Episode 5 — When Humans Get Confident and Reality Gets CreativeIn this episode of The Oddities Department, we open six case files that prove one uncomfortable truth: humans are very confident… and very often wrong.We star...
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Episode 5
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1:28:25
A Diamond, A Harpoon, A Lot Of Cobras, An Astronomer & A Boxing Octopus
🗂️ EPISODE 4 — When Will We Ever Learn?In Episode 4 of The Oddities Department, we explore what happens when humans encounter something strange, dangerous, or misunderstood and confidently make it worse.This episode spans centur...
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Episode 4
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56:41
A Snail, A Zombie, 2 Twins, 2 Ships, A Whale and A Goat
In this episode of The Oddities Department, Gavin and Suzi crack open another drawer in the archives and wander straight into the wonderfully weird corners of history, biology, coincidence, and human incompetence.We kick things ...
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Episode 3
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53:33
A Tooth, An Emu, A Foot, A Vibrator, A Rave and A Brewery
In Episode 2, Gavin and Suzi dive headfirst into some of the strangest, funniest, and most bewildering stories history and science have to offer. We start with the explosive tale of the tooth that literally detonated, then dance straight...
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Episode 2
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52:50
A Beetle, A Rooster, A Cat, An Alchemist and a Mummy
Step inside The Oddities Department, where history gets weird, science gets weirder, and Gavin and Suzi open the drawers of the bizarre for your listening pleasure. In this debut episode, we’re diving headfirst into five real stories...
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Episode 1
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