Odd Folks Home
Odd Folks Home steps into the lives of the intriguing customers that frequent Obscura Antiques & Oddities. These oddball customers are taking us into uncharted territories, as they tour their own home, showing off their unusual collections. These odd characters have a passion and expertise for their collections of scientific artifacts. Our guides will recount tales of their favorite collections, from antique automatrons to taxidermied beasts. In this show no two collections are the same! After years of careful hunting, these collections have shocking monetary and scientific value.
- 2012-2013
- 1 season
- Discovery Science Channel
- Reality
Odd Folks Home steps into the lives of the intriguing customers that frequent Obscura Antiques & Oddities. These oddball customers are taking us into uncharted territories, as they tour their own home, showing off their unusual collections. These odd characters have a passion and expertise for their collections of scientific artifacts. Our guides will recount tales of their favorite collections, from antique automatrons to taxidermied beasts. In this show no two collections are the same! After years of careful hunting, these collections have shocking monetary and scientific value.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
Blood, Pet, & Shears
Wed, Nov 21, 2012 22 mins
A model mortician who stitches clothing the same way she stitches dead skin; an artist who shuns paint in favor of a medium he'd simply die without; and a curious woman who collects sculptures from the bowels of her pet.
Episode 2
Dead as a Toenail
Thu, Nov 22, 2012 22 mins
A couple whose love for one another is second only to their love of deathly danger, a beguiling lady who preserves pieces of her friends & family in a most peculiar way and a man who lives to surround himself with the ending of life.
Episode 3
Death & Taxidermy
Fri, Feb 1, 2013 22 mins
Edgar shares an eccentric fellow who has let the skeletons out of his closet and into his abode, a precious lady who harvests highways for her reanimating pleasure and a man whose bizarre obsession with a dead inventor conjures harmonies from the past.
Episode 4
Night of the Living Robots
Fri, Feb 1, 2013 22 mins
Today, Edgar shares: a mysterious director who puts the sin into cinematography; a quirky clan with an insatiable appetite for bizarre golden-aged goodies; and a devilish master of disguise who prefers life behind a veil to facing it in his own skin.
Episode 5
Blow Off Some Steampunk
Sat, Feb 23, 2013 22 mins
Edgar shares a couple whose Victorian passion is fueled by the steam of sci-fi, a virtuoso who is comforted more by the occult pieces he crafts than the notes he produces and a man who satisfies his primal nature by sewing up his animal instincts.
Episode 6
When a Man Is a Woman
Fri, Mar 1, 2013 22 mins
Today Edgar shares a walking work of art who has created one identity from two souls, a collecting couple whose passion for each other can only be measured in volts and a macabre yet romantic young woman who introduces bone articulation into her love life