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EPISODE · Feb 6, 2026 · 1H 44M

Haunted Film Sets, William Buckland, The Joplin Tornado, The Invention Of The X-Ray, Mad Morticians & The Hairy Frog

from The Oddities Department · host Gavin & Suzi

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.🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.Send us Fan Mail

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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 W...

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