Oddball Guest: Jonathan Robinson on Hypnosis and Past Life Regression
Oddball Guest: Jonathan Robinson on Hypnosis and Past Life Regression
We’re joined by Jonathan Robinson to talk past life regression, hypnotherapy, and how the theta state can open a door to memories, metaphors, and emotional roots you didn’t know you were carrying. Jonathan breaks down what hypnosis actually feels like, why it’s closer to guided meditation than Hollywood mind control, and how subconscious healing can create fast shifts in confidence, performance anxiety, and persistent phobias.
The Strangeness Of Superstitions: Tiny Rituals to Subdue Fear
The Strangeness Of Superstitions: Tiny Rituals to Subdue Fear
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach is helping you avoid bad luck?
Ever catch yourself pausing at a ladder, hesitating over a mirror at night, or flicking salt over your shoulder without thinking? We follow those tiny instincts back to their roots and find practical safety tips, ancient theology, battlefield math, and the human need to feel in control.
Through it all, we keep returning to the core question: do these superstitions and rituals change outcomes, or do they simply steady our hands? Maybe both.
If this journey through ladders, mirrors, matches, and midnight whistles sparked a memory or challenged a belief, share the episode with a friend who needs a good story. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us the one superstition you refuse to test.
Out Of Body!: How Astral Projection Took Shape
Out Of Body!: How Astral Projection Took Shape
Astral projection didn’t just appear with candles and a playlist. We pull the thread through time to see how humans learned to imagine the self as detachable, mobile, and returnable, then tried to turn that idea into practice. From Egypt’s Ba, a bird-headed emblem of movement, to the Zoroastrian Arda Viraf’s supervised tour of heaven and hell, the early record reveals a sturdy pattern: induction, separation, journey, return, and testimony.
Then Robert Monroe added method. He described the vibrational state, founded the Monroe Institute.
The lab pushed back and helped, too. Neuroscientists can trigger out-of-body sensations by stimulating the temporoparietal junction, while near-death experiences across cultures repeat the same structure with different symbols. So which is it—spirit or synapse?
Is The Earth Hollow?: Conspiracy, UFOs, and...Nazis!
Is The Earth Hollow?: Conspiracy, UFOs, and...Nazis!
We turn our attention below our feet and follow a breathtaking trail through ancient myth, Enlightenment science, wartime secrets, and modern UFO lore to ask whether an advanced civilization could be thriving inside the Earth.
Greek gateways to the underworld, Mayan cenotes lined with ritual offerings, Norse craftsman-dwarves, and the powerful thread of Agartha from Hindu and Buddhist traditions all point to a living world beneath the surface.
The plot thickens in the polar night. Nazi occult expeditions to Tibet, the Arctic, and Antarctica fed persistent rumors of hidden bases and vanished U-boats. After World War II, Admiral Richard E. Byrd led Operation Highjump, a massive Antarctic push that ended far earlier than planned, fueling speculation. We unpack the controversial “Byrd diary” that describes a warm valley inside the ice, a radiant inner sun, telepathic hosts, and disc-shaped craft alarmed by nuclear tests.
Shag Harbor: UFO's Underwater Adventure in Nova Scotia
Shag Harbor: UFO's Underwater Adventure in Nova Scotia
A quiet harbor. Four steady lights on the water. Yellow foam blooming across the surface as something descends without a splash. We revisit the Shag Harbor incident of 1967—not as a dusty legend, but as a near‑perfect template for how we think about USOs and transmedium craft today. No wreckage. No debris. Just witnesses, a Coast Guard search, Navy sonar tracking deliberate underwater movement, and official paperwork that coolly labels it “unidentified.”
Got your own UFO or USO encounter? We want to hear it. Tap play, share this with a curious friend, and drop a review if the Oddity Shop keeps your brain buzzing.
The Witching Hour: Why Is 3AM So Terrifying!?
The Witching Hour: Why Is 3AM So Terrifying!?
The clock flips to 3:00 and the room feels different, quieter, heavier, charged. Is that the veil thinning or just your brain finally quiet enough to notice what’s always there? We dive deep into the witching hour with a mix of curiosity, folklore, and hard science, asking whether 3 a.m. is truly a doorway for demons, a sanctuary for witches, or the time human attention becomes razor sharp.
By the end, 3 a.m. feels less like a threat and more like a threshold. If you wake in that window, you can anchor with a breath, say a prayer, or journal what rises. The power isn’t outside you; it’s in the space the world gives back when everything else goes quiet.
The Anthill Kids: Roch's Cult of Pain and Punishment
The Anthill Kids: Roch's Cult of Pain and Punishment
What happens when a childhood shaped by violence meets a hunger for absolute authority? We follow the rise and collapse of the Anthill Kids, the Canadian cult built by Roch Thériault, a man who reinvented himself as a prophet after being rejected by his church. He promised salvation through obedience and suffering, then engineered a world where sleep was rare, food was scarce, and isolation was total.
We walk through the mechanics of control—how isolation, exhaustion, and fear erode judgment. You’ll hear about Solange Boiliard’s tragic death after a grotesque “exorcism,” the children raised amid coercion and pain, and the chilling calculus that reframed abuse as spiritual growth. Most importantly, we center the courage of Gabrielle, who endured years of terror, escaped after a partial amputation, and told everything to authorities. Her testimony ended the commune and put Thériault away, proving that one voice can crack even the tightest grip.
The Black Death: A Journey Through the Medieval Bubonic Plague
The Black Death: A Journey Through the Medieval Bubonic Plague
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach Is telling the dark tale of the plague!
Twelve ships slid into Messina’s harbor and history snapped. We follow the Black Death from its quiet beginnings in Central Asian rodents to the siege of Kaffa, where corpses were catapulted over walls and panic sailed for Sicily.
What arrived in 1347 was more than a disease; it was a trio of killer plagues—bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic—moving along the arteries of medieval trade and faith, turning crowded markets and cathedral squares into corridors of grief. You’ll hear how Yersinia pestis adapted to fleas, how Mongol movements amplified spread, and how lancing buboes and burning incense were no match for a pathogen that could leap from breath to breath.
Origin Of "The Ring": Yurei Vs Onryo and Okiku's 10 Plates
Origin Of "The Ring": Yurei Vs Onryo and Okiku's 10 Plates
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Kara has another movie review: "The Ring".
A voice counts to nine, pauses, and screams. That image pulls us from modern horror back to a legend that refuses to be quiet, as we explore the eerie thread connecting The Ring to the story of Okiku and the ten plates at Himeji Castle. We open with a simple question, if you were wronged and then died, would you seek justice or revenge—and use it to unpack how different cultures shape their ghosts: Yurē as the mournful echoes of unfinished lives, and Onryō as injustice turned into action.
If you love folklore, film, and the way stories carry memory across centuries, this one’s for you. Press play, share it with a horror-loving friend, and then tell us: given the choice, do you haunt or help? And if the show made you think, leave a rating and review so more curious minds can find us.
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Happy New Year: Oddball Traditions From Around The Globe
Happy New Year: Oddball Traditions From Around The Globe
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Zach is Springing you into the New Year with some wild traditions
Midnight isn’t just a timestamp; it’s a thin place where old stories exhale and new ones rush in. We packed our bags and crossed borders to explore how different cultures welcome the year: by smashing plates, hanging onions, racing with suitcases, counting grapes to a chiming clock, ringing 108 temple bells, burning human-sized effigies, and throwing coins into a house lit bright as noon.
Along the way we share origins, folklore, and the practical “why” behind each tradition, then stitch them into a respectful, irreverent New Year relay race you can adapt at home. It’s part history lesson, part party plan, and fully about intention you can sense: noise for cleansing, flame for closure, circles for fortune, bells for release.