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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 lunatics, catastrophic weather, medical breakthroughs with body counts, funeral industry nightmares, and a frog that turns its own skeleton into a weapon.

This one swings hard between horror, wonder, tragedy, and absolute disbelief — because history, once again, refuses to behave.

📂 CASE FILES THIS WEEK:

🎬 Case File #53: Haunted Film Sets
Suzi takes us through Hollywood productions where the horror didn’t stay on screen — fires, deaths, lightning strikes, and sets that may have been genuinely cursed.

🦴 Case File #54: William Buckland
Gavin introduces the Oxford genius who helped invent paleontology… and also tried to eat his way through the entire animal kingdom. Including, somehow, the heart of a king.

🌪️ Case File #55: The Joplin EF5 Tornado
Suzi covers one of the deadliest tornadoes in modern American history — a story of unimaginable destruction, and a community that refused to stay broken.

🩻 Case File #56: The Invention of the X-Ray
Gavin tells the story of the discovery that let humanity see inside itself for the first time… and the pioneers who paid for that miracle with their bodies.

⚰️ Case File #57: Mad Morticians
Suzi guides us through the strange, unsettling, and occasionally criminal history of the funeral industry — from Victorian corpse photography to modern crematory scandals.

🐸 Case File #58: The Hairy Frog
And finally, Gavin introduces nature’s most unhinged evolutionary choice: a frog that breaks its own bones to create claws. Because apparently that’s a thing that exists.

Six files. Zero chill.
Welcome to Episode 10.

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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 Vesta La Viesta. Gavin introduces a spiritualist who found fame during the Golden Age of Mysticism… and then committed to a very specific kind of long-distance love.
Case File #49: Pope Francis & The Dove Incident. Suzi covers the 2014 peace-dove release that immediately turned into a sky mugging, broadcast live from the Vatican.
Case File #50: The Dolphin Language Experiments. Gavin dives into the NASA-funded attempt to teach dolphins English, featuring LSD, a flooded house, and a relationship dynamic no one saw coming lmao.
Case File #51: Olga of Kiev. Suzi brings you the patron saint of revenge: boats, bathhouses, weaponized birds, and a body count that somehow ends in sainthood.
Case File #52: “Mike” The Headless Chicken. Gavin tells the true story of a rooster who lived 18 months without a head and went on tour, proving you don’t need a brain to become a celebrity.

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🏷️ TAGS: #OdditiesDepartment #WeirdHistory #HistoryPodcast #ComedyPodcast #WTFHistory #Spooky #ScienceGoneWrong #Vatican #OlgaOfKiev #HeadlessChicken #DolphinExperiment #Martians

Stay curious. Stay weird. And please… don’t pet the dolphin, he has mommy issues.

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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 wars over a bucket?

We go hard with this one. We've unpacked a whole lot of female rage, more cats, fashion, a whole lot of war, and a huge medeival "I told you so".

📂 IN THIS EPISODE:

• Case File #42: The Origin of the Chainsaw. Suzi reveals the horrifying truth: the chainsaw wasn't invented for trees. It was invented by doctors... for childbirth. (Trigger Warning: It’s a medical nightmare).
• Case File #43: The Lioness of Brittany. Gavin tells the story of Jeanne de Clisson, a widow who sold everything to buy three black warships and spent 13 years being an absolute menace to the French Crown out of pure female rage.
• Case File #44: Pope Gregory IX vs. Cats. The story of how one Pope decided cats were agents of Satan, ordered them exterminated, and accidentally rolled out the red carpet for the Black Death.
• Case File #45: The Invention of the High Heel. Men, you did this to yourselves. Gavin explains how high heels started as masculine military gear for short kings before men decided they were "too painful" and dumped them on women.
• Case File #46: The War of the Bucket. That time Bologna and Modena went to war, killed thousands of people, and held a grudge for 700 years... all over a stolen wooden bucket.
• Case File #47: Eleanor of Aquitaine. The ultimate medieval "I told you so." When the King of France divorced her for not producing a son, she married his rival and immediately built an empire of male heirs.

🎧 LISTEN & SUBSCRIBE: If you enjoyed this tour through the hot mess of history, please rate and review us on your favorite podcast platform! It helps us keep the lights flickering.

🏷️ TAGS: #OdditiesDepartment #WeirdHistory #TrueCrime #MedicalHistory #ChainsawOrigin #PirateQueen #MedievalHistory #Podcast #Comedy #Spooky

Stay curious. Stay weird. And seriously... don't Google "Symphysiotomy."