Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach is going to keep you up at night

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.

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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Kara has cult story that will make your skin crawl...with ants!

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.

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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.

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