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Welcome to The Oddities Department, an IMDb Listed podcast where history gets weird, science gets weirder, and Gavin and his museum crew gleefully drag you into the strangest corners of the universe. Every episode takes you on a tour full of 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.
Unknown Host hosts The Oddities Department, a comedy show with 23 episodes published.
This week on The Oddities Department, history gets cosmic, reincarnated, frozen, and deeply classified. In Episode 23, Gavin and Lindsay take you through four bizarre true stories from the stranger corners of science, hi
Send us Fan Mail This week on The Oddities Department , history gets wet, explosive, misrepresented, and unclaimed. In Episode 22 , Gavin and Lindsay take you through four bizarre oddities from the stranger corners of hi
Send us Fan Mail This week on The Oddities Department , history gets underground, overconfident, tentacled, and fully airborne. In Episode 21 , Gavin and Lindsay take you through four bizarre true stories from the strang
Send us Fan Mail This week on The Oddities Department , history gets feral, airborne, spiritually cleansed, and deeply inappropriate. In Episode 20 , Gavin and Lindsay take you through four bizarre true stories from the
Send us Fan Mail This week on The Oddities Department , Gavin and Lindsay drag you through four exhibits that somehow connect royal anatomy, prehistoric swamp forests, death rituals, and one of the worst medical ideas hu
Send us Fan Mail 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 im
Send us Fan Mail 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
Send us Fan Mail 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
Send us Fan Mail 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 be
Send us Fan Mail 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 th
Send us Fan Mail 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
Send us Fan Mail 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
Send us Fan Mail EPISODE 11 — The Oddities Department This 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-d
Send us Fan Mail 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 lunatic
Send us Fan Mail 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
Send us Fan Mail 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 war
Send us Fan Mail 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
Send us Fan Mail 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
Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Episode 5 — When Humans Get Confident and Reality Gets Creative In this episode of The Oddities Department , we open six case files that prove one uncomfortable truth: humans are very confident… and v
Send us Fan Mail 🗂️ 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 wors
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The Oddities Department is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under Comedy (comedy) and has published 23 episodes.
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