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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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Great Lakes Mysteries, Elmer McCurdy, Vodou & A Real Life Oddity
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…
Mammoth Cave, The Bone Wars, Paul the Octopus & Balloon Animal Mania
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…
Nuns Gone Wild, Idaho's Beaver Drop, Ogoh-Ogoh & Nyepi, The Newport Sex Scandal
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…
King Ferdinand’s Royal Rooster, Prehistoric Trees, Unusual Body Disposal Methods & Tobacco Smoke Enemas
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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The Oddities Department has published 22 episodes since December 2025, covering topics in Comedy, History.
The Oddities Department is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 30m.
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