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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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome 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.
The Oddities Department is hosted by Gavin. The show has published 13 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Haunted Museum Tour Week 2: VVitches" (20 October 2026, 125 minutes), "Einstein's Brain Heist, Operation Mincemeat, Medieval Torture Devices, Cocaine Jazz Rats" (16 October 2026, 93 minutes), and "The Odditorium: Ep 1" (16 October 2026, 85 minutes).
The Oddities Department publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 108 minutes across 13 episodes.
Booking probability for The Oddities Department is 44%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Oddities Department requires a Pod Score of 81 or higher. The Oddities Department's contact route on record: verified email.
Gavin hosts The Oddities Department, a history podcast with 13 episodes published.
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Episode #30
For centuries, humanity has been fascinated by witches. We've feared them, hunted them, blamed them for everything from failed harvests to mysterious illnesses, and developed some truly disgusting methods of keeping...
Episode #18
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...
Episode #29
The regular museum tours have wrapped up for the evening, but there's still plenty happening behind the scenes. Welcome to THE ODDITORIUM , the brand-new after-hours variety show from The Oddities Department, where...
Episode #28
Some places have a history so dark that even death doesn't seem to empty the rooms. This week, The Oddities Department kicks off four weeks of spooky tours with THE HAUNTED MUSEUM , exploring two legendary landmarks...
Episode #27
Technology has always had a strange habit of outrunning the people who build it. This week, The Oddities Department is diving into two stories about machines, intelligence, and the increasingly blurry line between human...
Episode #26
Welcome back to The Oddities Department , where history gets strange, science gets stranger, and questionable medicine has apparently been trying to kill us for centuries. In Episode 26 , we cut the ribbon on The...
Episode #25
Welcome back to The Oddities Department, where history gets strange, science gets stranger, and humanity continues proving that absolutely nothing is too weird to document. In Episode 25, we open the museum doors to...
Episode #24
Welcome back to The Oddities Department, where history gets strange, science gets stranger, and humanity once again proves it cannot be trusted with animals, paperwork, or a government budget. In Episode 24, we open the...
Episode #23
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...
Episode #22
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>This week on <b>The Oddities Department</b>, history gets wet, explosive, misrepresented, and unclaimed.</p><p>In <b>Episode 22</b>, Gavin and Lindsay take you through four bizarre oddities...
Episode #21
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>This week on <b>The Oddities Department</b>, history gets underground, overconfident, tentacled, and fully airborne.</p><p>In <b>Episode 21</b>, Gavin and Lindsay take you through four bizarre...
Episode #20
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>This week on <b>The Oddities Department</b>, history gets feral, airborne, spiritually cleansed, and deeply inappropriate.</p><p>In <b>Episode 20</b>, Gavin and Lindsay take you through four...
Episode #19
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>This week on <b>The Oddities Department</b>, Gavin and Lindsay drag you through four exhibits that somehow connect royal anatomy, prehistoric swamp forests, death rituals, and one of the worst...
Episode #18
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In Episode 18 of <b>The Oddities Department</b>, we take you through four wildly unsettling (and occasionally hilarious) exhibits where history, science, and human curiosity collide in the most...
Episode #17
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>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.</p><p>This week’s tour is unstable from the...
Episode #16
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In Episode 16, we explore a collection of <b>unbelievable historical moments</b> that will keep you on your toes...</p><p>• The <b>Great Molasses Flood of 1919</b>, one of the strangest...
Episode #15
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p><b>Episode 15 of The Oddities Department cracks open another tour of historical chaos.</b></p><p>This week’s tour contains six stories that are equal parts fascinating, horrifying, and deeply...
Episode #14
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>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.</p><p>This week’s crate...
Episode #13
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Episode 13 of <b>The Oddities Department</b> takes us way in the back of the museum, and it gets weirder by the minute. </p><p>This week’s crate contains six stories that history couldn't keep...
Episode #12
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p><b>EPISODE 12: </b></p><p>Welcome back to <b>The Oddities Department</b>, where the paperwork is optional and the back halls are absolutely not OSHA-compliant.</p><p>This week’s unauthorized...
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