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The ODDentity Podcast Host Janine Mercer discusses the paranormal, the strange, and the downright weird. Available wherever you binge your podcasts!

You can also find The ODDentity Podcast on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg0oyWGmoKl7o9a-WaDHmkQ?view_as=subscriber

19/07/2024

Hello dear listeners! The podcast returns on August 4th. Stay tuned!

“The Silent People” in Finland. Would you visit?
15/06/2024

“The Silent People” in Finland. Would you visit?

3239 likes, 57 comments. “This field has almost 1000 creepy scarecrows. It's called "The Silent People" 👀”

A little ruin p**n for your Thursday morning. Lol I love this stuff.
16/05/2024

A little ruin p**n for your Thursday morning. Lol I love this stuff.

Check out FactsUnveiled’s video.

Creepy cute little ASMR channel on TikTok. 😴
03/05/2024

Creepy cute little ASMR channel on TikTok. 😴

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Celebrate the little victories. 🖤😎
28/04/2024

Celebrate the little victories. 🖤😎

New Episode!S11 Ep. 4: In a Dark Wood https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-k72y5-15f98b5Hello dear listeners and thanks again f...
28/04/2024

New Episode!
S11 Ep. 4: In a Dark Wood

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-k72y5-15f98b5

Hello dear listeners and thanks again for tuning in. This week I present to you a haunting tale by Bernard Capes entitled “The Thing in the Forest,” published in 1915.

At this point in the season, I’ll be taking a little break to focus my attention on my other passion project, my literary journal. The slush pile is quite deep, per usual, so I’ll be returning after the summer issue drops on July 1.

At that point, only two episodes remain for the season, a researched episode and my end of season interview. Stay Spooky and I’ll be back soon. 😊

Hello dear listeners and thanks again for tuning in. This week I present to you a haunting tale by Bernard Capes entitled “The Thing in the Forest,” published in 1915. At this point in the season, I’ll be taking a little break to focus my attention on my other passion project, my literary jour...

20/04/2024

Kind of burnt out today. Lots going on. New episode next week!

It’s situations like these that make me simultaneously fear for the future of the human race and appreciate the innocenc...
28/03/2024

It’s situations like these that make me simultaneously fear for the future of the human race and appreciate the innocence and goodwill of people. This may be a pompom, but bet it’s the happiest, well fed pompom around.

The funny discovery was made at a wildlife hospital in Cheshire, England, who have now named the pom-pom 'Hoglet'

Ruh Roh!He would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling kids!
22/03/2024

Ruh Roh!

He would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling kids!

17/03/2024

Feeling under the weather so the new episode will be released next week. 🤒

The ODDentity Podcast returns! S11 Ep. 8: Listener Stories is now available! Hope you all enjoy listening. Stay Spooky! ...
03/03/2024

The ODDentity Podcast returns!

S11 Ep. 8: Listener Stories is now available! Hope you all enjoy listening. Stay Spooky! 💀

‎Show The ODDentity Podcast, Ep S11 Ep. 1: Listener Stories - Mar 3, 2024

11/02/2024

The podcast returns on 3/3!! 💀 Currently editing several listener subs for the first episode of the new season!

Do you remember this one? “The House that Died” from an old Halloween noises cassette tape. I remember listening to this...
05/02/2024

Do you remember this one? “The House that Died” from an old Halloween noises cassette tape. I remember listening to this story over and over as a kid, though a woman was reading the story on my version. Anyway, still a great blast from the past (1994.) 🎃 (00:01:35-00:13:50)

Distribution MADACY, Inc. [No Date Printed]SIDE 1 (0:00) - Full length story complete with sound effects!SIDE 2 (15:10) - Spine Chilling / Hair Raising / He...

Gotta take time to breathe and focus. Meditation with Estelle.  😁
18/01/2024

Gotta take time to breathe and focus. Meditation with Estelle. 😁

4188 likes, 149 comments. “Estelle wishes you live laugh love Namaste 🌱”

01/01/2024

Wishing you all a happy and prosperous 2024!

22/12/2023

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday, whatever your traditions may be. Wishing you the happiest of holidays and brightest, shiniest New Year! 🎄

I won’t get around to recording a Christmas episode, but here’s a haunted holiday story to keep the creepy Christmas vibes alive. 🙂

See you in the new year!

The Signal Man
Charles Dickens

https://shortstoryamerica.com/pdf_classics/dickens_the_signal_man.pdf

Hope you have a hallucinogenic Christmas? 😜🐓Just to update. This is marked as satire and there’s no real proof that this...
15/12/2023

Hope you have a hallucinogenic Christmas? 😜🐓

Just to update. This is marked as satire and there’s no real proof that this ever actually happened. Still, a pretty interesting story. Who makes this s**t up? lol

🤣 This is pretty hilarious.
18/11/2023

🤣 This is pretty hilarious.

There was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a strange tradition.

Whenever there was a death in the family, someone had to go out to the hives and tell the bees of the terrible loss that had befallen the family.

Failing to do so often resulted in further losses such as the bees leaving the hive, or not producing enough honey or even dying.

Traditionally, the bees were kept abreast of not only deaths but all important family matters including births, marriages, and long absence due to journeys. If the bees were not told, all sorts of calamities were thought to happen. This peculiar custom is known as “telling the bees”.

The practice of telling the bees may have its origins in Celtic mythology that held that bees were the link between our world and the spirit world. So if you had any message that you wished to pass to someone who was dead, all you had to do was tell the bees and they would pass along the message.

The typical way to tell the bees was for the head of the household, or “goodwife of the house” to go out to the hives, knock gently to get the attention of the bees, and then softly murmur in a doleful tune the solemn news.

Little rhymes developed over the centuries specific to a particular region. In Nottinghamshire, the wife of the dead was heard singing quietly in front of the hive,

“The master's dead, but don't you go; Your mistress will be a good mistress to you.”

In Germany, a similar couplet was heard,

“Little bee, our lord is dead; Leave me not in my distress”.

But the relationship between bees and humans goes beyond superstition. It’s a fact, that bees help humans survive. 70 of the top 100 crop species that feed 90% of the human population rely on bees for pollination.

Without them, these plants would cease to exist and with it all animals that eat those plants. This can have a cascading effect that would ripple catastrophically up the food chain.

Losing a beehive is much worse than losing a supply of honey. The consequences are life threatening.

The act of telling the bees emphasizes this deep connection humans share with the insect.

Art: The Bee Friend, a painting by Hans Thoma (1839–1924)

Art Bell on shadow people (45 mins in just in case you wanna skip!). Thought I’d add this for anyone who might want to f...
17/11/2023

Art Bell on shadow people (45 mins in just in case you wanna skip!). Thought I’d add this for anyone who might want to further explore shadow people and The Hat Man.

Listen to 2001-05-31 - Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Shadow People - Dr. Morgan Spence by 718 on

Happy Halloween, everyone! Hope your day is full of tricks and treats. 🎃 🖤
31/10/2023

Happy Halloween, everyone! Hope your day is full of tricks and treats. 🎃 🖤

Her body and belongings are expected to remain radioactive for the next 1500 years! https://www.facebook.com/story.php?s...
27/10/2023

Her body and belongings are expected to remain radioactive for the next 1500 years! https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=729556499213732&id=100064781650290&mibextid=cr9u03

Tomb of chemist Marie Curie in the Pantheon in Paris. The tomb is lined with three centimeters of lead to protect the public from radiation, as the scientist's remains are radioactive to this day.

Curie was a French-Polish scientist who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 and the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1911. This makes her the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win twice, and the only person to win in two different sciences.

Curie is most famous for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium and for coining the term "radioactivity." What she didn't know at the time was that she was slowly killing herself by carrying radium tubes in her pockets. She would be constantly studying in her lab and at home, even admiring its glow at night.

She died in 1934 due to aplastic anemia.

Curie's body, along with her personal belongings (cookbooks, clothes, furniture, lab notes), are expected to remain radioactive for the next 1,500 years.

It’s a-LIVE! 😁
24/09/2023

It’s a-LIVE! 😁

‎Society & Culture · 2023

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