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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach has a Culty Horror Story to tell. A quiet ski town near Montreal. A house fire that looks like tragedy. Then investigators step next door and find something that blows the case open: multiple victims, stabbing, and a three-month-old infant murdered with a stake. From that first horrifying scene, we follow the trail into one of the strangest and most disturbing cult stories of the late 20th century: the Order of the Solar Temple. We walk through how Joseph Di Mambro, a lifelong con artist with a taste for secret societies, builds the foundation, and how Luc Jouret, the warm and magnetic speaker, becomes the recruiting engine. The group mixes Knights Templar mythology, Rosicrucian mysticism, theosophy, and the promise of “ascended masters,” all wrapped in theatrical rituals and escalating tiers of secret knowledge tied to donations.   What follows is a multi-country chain of deaths in Quebec, Switzerland, and France, with scenes set on fire, bodies arranged in ritual patterns, and evidence that not everyone went willingly. We also wrestle with the questions that still linger: suicide or murder, who was truly in charge at the end, and why nobody is successfully prosecuted. See our website for all episode references  It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara has a vampiric tale just in time for spooky season. A dead farmer falls off a wagon, breaks his neck, and gets buried like anyone else. Then the village starts saying he’s back at night, choking people in their sleep and leaving a trail of sudden deaths. We’re heading to 1720s Serbia on the Habsburg military frontier, where fear travels fast, folklore runs deep, and the modern idea of the “vampire” hasn’t been sanitized into pop culture yet.  We tell the story of Arnold Paole, a former border militia fighter who insists he survived an attack by a Slavic vampire and tried to cleanse himself with a grim ritual involving grave soil and corpse blood. When villagers demand an exhumation, what they claim to see sets off the classic anti-vampire response: staking, decapitation, burning, and ashes dumped into the river. Years later, another wave of deaths forces the Austrian government to send military doctors to investigate, leading to a report titled Visum et Repertum that spreads across Europe and ignites Enlightenment-era debate.  Come along for the ride, and try not to lose any sleep! It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is telling a 200 year old legend  We said “Bell Witch” and our audio immediately stopped recording. Coincidence or the most on brand technical glitch we’ve ever had? Either way, we’re finally tackling one of the most famous American ghost legends: the Bell Witch haunting of Adams, Tennessee, and why the story still refuses to settle into one clean version. We walk through the earliest encounters on the Bell property in 1817, when John Bell and his family report strange animals, a mysterious girl in green, and then the classic escalation inside the house: scratching, knocking, dragging sounds, shaking beds, and the kind of physical attacks that make you wonder how anyone slept at all. Then the haunting turns intelligent. The noises become whispers, and the whispers become a clear woman’s voice that answers questions and eventually claims to be “Old Kate Batts’ witch,” pulling a real neighbor into the legend and raising all kinds of uncomfortable questions about blame, reputation, and small-town fallout. Subscribe for more creepy history and paranormal deep dives, share this with the friend who loves haunted places, and leave us a review with your Bell Witch take. What do you think “Kate” really was? It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara is giving us glimpses of the future from the past! A doctor reads other people’s nightmares for a living and starts wondering if they’re not just nightmares. We’re talking about a real, short-lived experiment from 1960s Britain: the British Premonitions Bureau, a project that tried to time-stamp dreams and visions before disasters happened and treat them like evidence instead of folklore. If you love paranormal history, psychical research, and true stories that sit on the edge of science, this one gets under your skin fast.  We start with psychiatrist Dr. John Barker at Shelton Hospital in Shropshire and his obsession with a terrifying idea tied to “voodoo death” and extreme stress: can fear shut the body down, and could a premonition trigger that collapse? Then we head straight into the shadow of the Aberfan disaster, where reports of foreboding, strange luck, and chilling precognitive dreams raise the question Barker can’t drop: coincidence, memory tricks after trauma, or something real in the human mind.  If you’ve ever had a dream that later felt uncomfortably true, we want to hear it. Subscribe for more strange history, share this with your favorite oddball, and leave us a review so more listeners can find the shop. It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach has a killer story for y'all!  A sealed bottle of headache medicine is supposed to mean safety, not a death sentence. When Susan Snow takes two Excedrin capsules for a brutal headache and dies within minutes, investigators find cyanide at the center of the case. Panic spreads fast because America has already lived through the Tylenol tampering nightmare, and no one knows if more poisoned bottles are sitting on store shelves waiting for the next victim. We follow the investigation as it swerves toward Stella Nickell who calls police to say her husband Bruce died the same way after taking Excedrin. That single phone call becomes a turning point, pulling Bruce’s “natural causes” death back into the spotlight and raising questions about motive, life insurance policies, and whether this was a calculated attempt to make one murder look like a larger product-tampering spree.  We also share a wild personal twist: Zach meets someone connected to Bruce’s family who may help us add new context in a future follow-up. Listen now, then subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review. Where do you land on this one: airtight guilt or too many gaps? It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara showing us what happens when the brain misfires. Something about “signs” can feel irresistible: the repeating numbers, the lyric that hits too hard, the stranger’s smile that lands like a message. But what happens when that certainty escalates into a full-blown alternate reality? We’re back from our break with a topic that sits right at the crossroads of faith, paranormal curiosity, and mental health: how do we tell the difference between a genuine spiritual experience and psychosis? If you’re into the high strange, this conversation is a grounding reminder: sometimes the most important question isn’t “Is it paranormal?” It’s “Is that person okay?” Listen, share this with a friend who loves spooky stories and psychology. It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach has a new Hometown UFO Story. A clear March night over Arizona turns strange fast: thousands of people report a huge, silent V-shaped object drifting across the sky, big enough to swallow sections of starlight. We’re breaking down the Phoenix Lights, the 1997 UFO sighting that refuses to stay neatly filed under “misidentification,” especially when the earliest reports start far north and then track steadily toward the Phoenix metro area with eerily consistent details. Then it gets political. Former Governor Fife Symington publicly jokes about the sightings, only to later admit he personally saw something he couldn’t explain, reigniting debate about credibility, memory, and public messaging.  If you love UFO history, mass eyewitness events, Arizona mysteries, and the messy space where skepticism meets “okay, but what was that,” this one’s for you. Subscribe, share the episode with a fellow sky-watcher, and leave a review with your best theory: flares, secret tech, or something else? It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara is taking us on a haunted food tour. Spaghetti is supposed to be comfort food. So why do multiple spaghetti restaurants have decades of ghost stories, full-body apparitions, and the kind of after-hours noises that would make any sane person quit mid-shift? Tracking three locations tied to the Old Spaghetti Factory and the Spaghetti Warehouse. In Gastown, Vancouver, staff and visitors describe a uniformed tram conductor appearing inside a trolley car you can actually dine in, plus a prankster “little red man” and sightings of a child spirit. In Houston, we unpack the tragic elevator-shaft legend, reports of footsteps and moving objects, and the creepy shoulder-tap stories. In Duarte, California, the building’s past as a 1909 schoolhouse drives the haunting, including lights switching, hallway voices, and an intercom laugh that is nightmare fuel. Listen, share with a friend who loves ghost stories, and leave a review if you want more haunted location deep dives. Then answer this for us: when you die, what type of restaurant are you haunting, and why? It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is talking about a more recent mystery in the skies. A passenger jet doesn’t vanish like a magic trick, yet Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 does exactly that. We follow the night MH370 leaves Kuala Lumpur for Beijing like any routine long-haul flight, then slips out of the world’s grasp after one calm sign-off: “Good night, Malaysian 370.”  We break down what’s known versus what’s assumed: how air traffic control handoffs work, why transponders matter, and what it means when military radar later suggests a dramatic U-turn and a route that still follows navigational waypoints. We also dig into the satellite “handshake” pings that push the search into the Indian Ocean, one of the most unforgiving places on Earth to find wreckage, evidence, or answers.  From there, we lay out the main MH370 theories without pretending any one of them is airtight We end with our honest take, why the details make us lean away from a paranormal explanation, and why this case still rattles us every time we board a plane. If you have a theory, we want it. Subscribe, share this with your most detail-obsessed friend, and leave a review so more listeners can find us. See Website for all episode references. It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara is Summoning the Queen and Fool From Reddit. “Please don’t actually try this.” That’s the line that launches one of the strangest artifacts of internet horror culture: the Three Kings ritual. What starts as a 2012 r/nosleep post quickly turns into a step-by-step blueprint loaded with specificity: three chairs, two mirrors angled just right, a candle, water, a fan, an alarm set for 3:30 a.m. We dig into why the ritual hits differently than classic dare-style games like Bloody Mary.  Then we get honest about the psychology: sleep deprivation, anticipation, suggestion, and the “felt presence” phenomenon that makes people swear someone is in the room with them. Are the Queen and the Fool external entities, archetypes, or just your own mind answering back under pressure? We read the original post’s instructions and unpack why the ritual can feel dangerous even if nothing supernatural is happening.  Listen, share this with a friend who loves Reddit horror and paranormal rituals, and subscribe so you don’t miss what we cover next. After you hear the rules, what do you think: spiritual encounter or perfectly engineered mind game? See Website for All Episode References It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

A black sedan crawls along at walking speed, matching you step for step, with windows you can’t see through and curtains that feel like eyes. That’s the doorway into one of the strangest Cold War urban legends ever whispered across Eastern Europe: the Black Volga. And here’s the twist that makes it stick under your skin, the car wasn’t imaginary. The Volga was a real Soviet luxury vehicle, which means the fear didn’t start as pure fantasy. It started with something people actually saw on their streets.  We dig into why this story took root in Poland and across the former Soviet bloc, where government surveillance and controlled media created the perfect conditions for rumors to become “truth.” When information disappears, people fill the blanks with whatever explains the danger, and the Black Volga becomes a catch-all symbol for vanishings, power, and the sense that you’re never really alone. From there, the legend evolves fast: secret police kidnappings, priests as villains, Satanist rituals, and finally the devil himself, complete with red eyes, horns under streetlights, and license plates that may or may not read 666.  The part that lingers isn’t whether any version is factual. It’s how fear works. We talk about why kids and adults remembered this as lived experience, how panic burns ordinary moments into permanent memory, and why every generation builds new monsters out of the same instincts. When you finish listening, tell us what your hometown warning story is, then subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review so more oddballs can find us. It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is getting us all abducted. A secret tape recorder in a sheriff’s department. Two exhausted, terrified men left alone in a cold room. And a few minutes of audio that still makes UFO researchers stop and listen 50 years later. We’re digging into the Pascagoula, Mississippi alien abduction, a 1973 Gulf Coast story that starts with a normal after-work fishing trip and ends with a hovering craft, paralyzing force, and a clinical “scan” that feels more like procedure than science fiction. We walk through who Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker were before that night and why their backgrounds matter when people debate witness credibility.  What keeps pulling us back is the aftermath. Instead of waiting days, they report immediately, and the police try to catch them in a lie by recording them in private. The result is a raw snapshot of panic and disbelief that’s hard to wave away, even if you lean skeptical.  Listen now, then tell us where you land: physical abduction, psychological event, or something we don’t have language for yet.  See our website for all episode references! It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Kara is lurking for cryptids in New Hampshire. What’s worse, seeing the thing or feeling it? We head deep into Northern New Hampshire folklore and cryptid history with the New Hampshire Woods Devil, a legend tied to campers, hunters, hikers, and truck drivers who report glowing eyes, impossible movement, and the heavy feeling of being watched. We break down the reported description, the sensory clues, and the behavior that makes it feel intelligent rather than animal. We also dig into the leading explanations: a regional Bigfoot variant, a paranormal shadow entity, a forest elemental, or just darkness and isolation playing tricks on the brain. If you’ve ever been deep in the woods at night, you already know why this story sticks. Subscribe for more weird stories, share this with your favorite camping buddy, and leave a review if you want to help the shop grow. See our website for all episode references. It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This Week, Your Curator Zach is Taking a Tour to Bavaria for a Poltergeist Tale. Your phone rings at work. You pick up. Static. It rings again. Static. Then it starts happening hundreds of times a day and the line begins dialing out by itself. That’s where we start before the story gets even stranger: lights flicker, fluorescent fixtures sway like someone shoved them, and the office goes from “annoying electrical problem” to “why are papers sliding off desks when nobody is near them?” We head to 1967 Bavaria for the Rosenheim Poltergeist, one of the most infamous haunted office cases on record. A law office full of practical, detail-obsessed people tries everything you’d expect: phone technicians, electricians, repairs, replacements, and engineering checks. Nothing stops the ringing, the outages, the surges, or the physical disturbances. Then parapsychologist Hans Bender steps in with a research method: observe, document, correlate, and refuse a tidy ghost story until the facts earn it. His conclusion lands on recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis, a stress-linked theory that frames poltergeist activity as an unconscious human effect rather than a spirit.  Check out our website for all episode references  It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is keeping with the Axe Murder Trend.  Eight people are alive after a small town church program in Villisca, Iowa. By morning, the Moore family and two visiting children are gone, the house is staged in ways that make your skin crawl, and the investigation is already falling apart. The Villisca Axe Murders are infamous for the brutality, but what keeps pulling us back is the weirdness: covered mirrors, covered faces, a killer calm enough to move through the home and even cook food, then vanish with no conviction ever coming. We walk through what’s known about the 1912 timeline, the victims, and the suspect list that still fuels true crime debates today. We also talk about why these family-in-bed attacks feel connected to other unsolved axe murder cases, and how a lack of forensic tools plus a contaminated crime scene can lock a case into permanent limbo. Check out our website for all episode references  It Can't Be People!  Click above - Get your copy now! Support the show The Shop's phone lines are open! Give us a call and leave a voicemail (Or two!) with your creepy personal tale/oddity, and it could be featured on a future episode! 616.320.4935 JOIN US ON PATREON: Click Here! Join the Oddity Shop on Patreon for Day Early Access to Episodes and tons of bonus content!!! Visit our Website to learn more! Email Us at: oddityshoppodcast.com www.OddityShopPodcast.com Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. Affiliate programs are designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to the partner site.