Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach Is telling the dark tale of the plague!

Twelve ships slid into Messina’s harbor and history snapped. We follow the Black Death from its quiet beginnings in Central Asian rodents to the siege of Kaffa, where corpses were catapulted over walls and panic sailed for Sicily.

What arrived in 1347 was more than a disease; it was a trio of killer plagues—bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic—moving along the arteries of medieval trade and faith, turning crowded markets and cathedral squares into corridors of grief. You’ll hear how Yersinia pestis adapted to fleas, how Mongol movements amplified spread, and how lancing buboes and burning incense were no match for a pathogen that could leap from breath to breath.

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Kara has another movie review: "The Ring".

A voice counts to nine, pauses, and screams. That image pulls us from modern horror back to a legend that refuses to be quiet, as we explore the eerie thread connecting The Ring to the story of Okiku and the ten plates at Himeji Castle. We open with a simple question, if you were wronged and then died, would you seek justice or revenge, and use it to unpack how different cultures shape their ghosts: Yurē as the mournful echoes of unfinished lives, and Onryō as injustice turned into action.

If you love folklore, film, and the way stories carry memory across centuries, this one’s for you. Press play, share it with a horror-loving friend, and then tell us: given the choice, do you haunt or help? And if the show made you think, leave a rating and review so more curious minds can find us.

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Welcome to the Oddity Shop.

This Month, While we start to make new episodes for 2026, please enjoy some of our Favorite Guest Episodes that got buried in with the backstock!

Up This Week: Our Conversation with TikTok Famous Lauren The Mortician

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