Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Kara is talking about corn...and witches!

The fields get quiet first. Then the air thins, the leaves rasp, and every step seems to wake something older than the rows. We follow that feeling straight into the legend of the Corn Husk Witch, a figure braided from European harvest rites, Native American teachings, and the American habit of turning warnings into campfire stories. What began as the Corn Mother, a sacred spirit kept safe in the final sheaf, evolves across time into a crackling guardian who walks the edges at dusk, reminding us that gratitude is not optional when you live by the land.

If folklore, harvest history, and a little seasonal dread are your thing, hit play and join us in the rows. Then tell us: is she a protector, a monster, or a mirror? Subscribe, leave a review, and share this one with a friend who loves spooky season and old-world lore.

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. Today, We have for you, our Annual Halloween Special Episode!!!

Its our favorite day of the year. The Oddity Shop door creaks open and you get to choose what’s waiting on the other side. We turned Halloween into a haunted house showdown, pitting three legendary locations against each other and asking you to crown the scariest: The Myrtles Plantation with its Southern Gothic lore, the Stanley Hotel and its Shining-fueled chills, and the Villisca Axe Murder House where an unsolved crime still echoes in the walls.

We kick things off with a full video experience—costumes, set dressing, and a game-show format that keeps the tension fun and the stakes high. Be sure to check this one out on YouTube for the full video experience!

Cast your vote for the champion of terror and tell us where you’d actually spend the night. Watch the full video on YouTube, subscribe to catch more spooky stories, and leave a review with your pick—Myrtles, Stanley, or Villisca?

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Welcome to a Very Special Episode of The Oddity Shop! In The Shop This Week we have a special guest: Investigator And Haunted Hardware Creator - Jeff Fent!

Jeff Fent is a respected paranormal investigator, preservationist, and caretaker known for his dedicated work maintaining and restoring historic haunted locations such as Madison Seminary, The Enchanted Church, and several other reportedly haunted properties.

Beyond caretaking, he’s also recognized for his craftsmanship in creating specialized paranormal investigation equipment, like custom ghost boxes, and for his appearances in documentaries and TV programs including Portals to Hell and Fairfield County Infirmary: The Forgotten.

We have a lovely conversation from the start of his interest in the paranormal, to working with The Haunted collector. Jeff shares how we came to start making his Ghost Boxes, and shares plenty of spine chilling stories of the properties he investigates and deeply cares for

You don't want to miss this one Oddballs! Oh, and Happy Halloweeeeeeeen!!

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach has the Tale of Ouija's Origins.

A century ago, a simple board promised something enormous: a chance to keep talking after goodbye. We follow that promise from candlelit parlors to factory floors, then through a single film that rewired an entire culture’s imagination. Along the way we meet the Fox sisters, watch automatic writing become a planchette, and see how Charles Kennard and Elijah Bond turned a parlor method into a mass‑market icon—only to have William Fuld claim the credit and build an empire that outlived him. The history is twisty, but it’s also deeply human: people searching for answers when life doesn’t give them one.

Whether you see the board as a tool, a trap, or a beautiful piece of folk art, the core is connection—how we reach for each other when words run out. If you enjoyed this deep dive into spiritualism, talking boards, cultural myths, and the science of belief, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review to help other curious minds find us. What are your rules for using one?

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Kara has a Possession Story guaranteed to give you chills

A boy “walked” up a hospital wall, nurses took notes, and a police captain left a rental house convinced something was terribly wrong. We trace the Gary, Indiana Demon House case from its first oddities—swarms of black flies in midwinter, booted steps from a dark basement—to the terrifying crescendo of levitation claims, guttural voices, and a DCS worker’s report that still sparks debate.

Finally, we follow Father Michael Maginot’s blessings and three exorcisms, the family’s departure from Carolina Street, and the strange finale where Zak Bagan's buys the property, films Demon House, and demolishes it, preserving only soil and fragments in a museum.

Whether you approach the case as spiritual warfare, psychological contagion, or a hard-to-classify mix, the documented trail forces a serious look at how communities respond when a home becomes a hazard. If this story hooked you, share it with a friend, follow the show, and leave a review with your take: hoax, horror, or something in between?

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach has the Slavic Lor of the Leshy.

The Leshy is a powerful woodland spirit from Slavic folklore who protects the forest and punishes those who disrespect nature. This shapeshifting entity exists in a state of duality, neither wholly good nor evil, embodying the wild and unpredictable essence of the forest itself.

He can control forest animals, manipulate weather, and mimic familiar voices to lure travelers deeper into the woods. Also known to have a particular fondness for vodka, tobacco, and bread as offerings.
No only does he form pacts with hunters, guiding them to game as long as they continue making offerings and take only what they need, he sometimes takes children who are mistreated, unbaptized, or lost into the forest.

In case you ever run into one, listen on for some protection methods, including turning clothes inside-out, walking backward, carrying iron, and leaving offerings.

The core lesson of the Leshy is about respecting nature and understanding boundaries between civilization and wilderness.

References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leshy
• https://www.reddit.com/r/slavic_mythology/comments/ibek0o/the_leshy/
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/leshy
• https://cult-of-the-lamb.fandom.com/wiki/Leshy
• https://allthatsinteresting.com/leshy
• https://www.thoughtco.com/leshy-4774301
• https://www.reddit.com/r/CultOfTheLamb/comments/1kps78y/is_there_a_lore_reason_leshy_keeps_saying_this_to/
• https://allthatsinteresting.com/leshy
• https://www.thoughtco.com/leshy-4774301

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Kara is finally tracing the origin of the oddity shop!

We trace the fascinating 400-year history of oddity shops and cabinets of curiosities, from royal gardeners collecting exotic artifacts to modern establishments displaying genuine mummies with bullet holes.

From John Tradescant the Elder created the first public oddity museum, filling his house with fossils, ancient coins, and exotic artifacts collected while working as a royal garden to Seattle's Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, which opened in 1899, and still operates today with attractions including Sylvester the mummy, confirmed through CT scans to be a real human preserved with arsenic. Modern oddity shops continue to fascinate us with their blend of history, mystery, and the macabre!

What is your favorite oddity!?

Join us for the Gothic Garden Party in the Flint Cemetery on October 4th if you're in the area - Victorian costumes encouraged!

Refs:

• https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/the-museum/the-ark-gallery/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musaeum_Tradescantianum
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tradescant_the_Elder
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tradescant_the_Younger
• https://lukehoney.typepad.com/the_education_of_a_garden/2012/05/the-tradescants-and-south-lambeth.html
• https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/ordinary-visitors-evidence-handling
• https://britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/collections/history-17thcentury.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Saltero%27s
• https://u

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach brings you the Story of Mary Toft.

We delve into the bizarre 1726 case of Mary Toft, a poor English woman who convinced doctors and even King George I that she was giving birth to rabbits.

• Mary Toft, a poor illiterate woman from Surrey, claimed to give birth to animal parts and rabbits following a miscarriage
• Local man-midwife John Howard became convinced of the phenomenon and documented the strange births
• The story reached King George I, who sent several royal physicians to investigate
• Medical theory of the time suggested "maternal impression" could explain animal births if a woman was traumatized during pregnancy
• The hoax unraveled when a porter was caught smuggling rabbits into Mary's quarters
• The scandal ruined the reputations of several prominent doctors who had been fooled

Leave a bunny emoji in a hole if you've heard this story before, or if you know of other historical medical hoaxes that are equally bizarre. The most important thing you can do for us is to creep with your little oddballs!

References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Toft
• https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1htm1pp/til_of_mary_toft_who_in_1726_became_the_subject/
• https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/aug2009.html
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mary-toft-gave-birth-to-rabbits

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