The Oddities Department
Welcome to The Oddities Department, the podcast where history gets weird, science gets weirder, and Gavin and his crew 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
18 episodes
Einstein's Brain Heist, Operation Mincemeat, Medieval Torture Devices, Cocaine Jazz Rats
In Episode 18 of The Oddities Department, we take you through four wildly unsettling (and occasionally hilarious) exhibits where history, science, and human curiosity collide in the most chaotic ways imaginable.🧠 Einstein’s Bra...
The Silent Twins, Defenestration, The Gympie Gympie Tree, The Duality Of A Spy, Booty Hole Eel & Tarrare
Episode 17 of The Oddities Department is what happens when the museum staff quits, the exhibits get hostile, and absolutely no one is left in charge.This week’s tour is unstable from the jump.We begin with June and Jen...
The Horrific History of Beauty, Ann Hodges & The Meteorite, Mary Toft & The Rabbit Births, Johan de Witt, The Black Death "Cures"
In Episode 16, we explore a collection of unbelievable historical moments that will keep you on your toes...• The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, one of the strangest disasters in U.S. history • The only confirmed case of...
Nellie Bly, The King Of Sting, Dildos, Casanova, Oysters, The Cadaver Synod & Operation Cat Drop
Episode 15 of The Oddities Department cracks open another tour of historical chaos.This week’s tour contains six stories that are equal parts fascinating, horrifying, and deeply, deeply hilarious.We begin with The Story ...
The Kentucky Meat Shower, Juliane Koepcke, Dublin's Whiskey River, Mad Hatters, Chiropractic's & The Great Camel Experiment
Episode 14 of The Oddities Department drags us even deeper into the archives, where the case files smell faintly of meat, whiskey, and very poor decision-making.This week’s crate contains six stories that should have stayed under lock an...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
