Otherworld
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About this podcast
Otherworld tells real stories of people who have experienced something paranormal or unexplainable. Host Jack Wagner takes an open minded and journalistic approach to the subject matter and aims to uncover some of the biggest mysteries of the world and how people react to it.
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- The Laguna Beach Robot [Patreon Preview] · 13 minIn 2006, Jason and Stephanie were walking down to a nearly deserted Laguna Beach around midnight when they found something sitting at the bottom of the boardwalk stairs, close…
- Episode 193 - Hide and Seek · 43 minWhen Kady and her roommates move into a house off campus they start experiencing visits from a spirit they come to call Jen. One night, while playing their own unique version of…
- Three Entities [Patreon Preview] · 9 minIn this bonus episode, Chris shares his experience growing up in a haunted home in Whitehall, Pennsylvania. After moving into an old twin house in 2000, his family was plagued by…
- Episode 192 - The Lakehouse Pt. 3 · 57 minJen's mother has an experience that serves as the final straw in the house but the effects of the time spent there linger on long after they've left. Years later, Jen finds out…
- Episode 191 - The Lakehouse Pt. 2 · 35 minIn Part 2, the paranormal activity in the house escalates as Jen and the family share an experience during dinner. Soon, misfortune follows anyone who sets foot in the house, and…
- Episode 190 - The Lake House Pt. 1 · 46 minA move to a Tennessee gives Jennifer and her family a fresh start, but they soon find that the house they've been offered as part of a deal to fix it up has a dark past that is…
- Episode 189 - Spirit Belly · 58 minAbbey, has always had somewhat of a sixth sense that she refers to as her "Spirit Belly" and after a strange incident while driving with her friend Mo, the two seem to share the…
- Episode 188 - Susan · 55 minGrowing up in rural Washington, Nate forms a close friendship with his strange younger neighbor, Kyle. One day, Kyle reveals that he’s being haunted by a woman named Susan who…
- King of the Shadow People [Patreon Preview] · 6 minThis bonus episode comes from a guy named Josh who emailed us saying that he saw "the king of the shadow people" as a kid. Growing up on an isolated farm, Josh was haunted by…
- Episode 187 - Penny for the Guy · 39 minGrowing up in a small town in Northwest England, Sarah and her friends lived by a local legend: if you didn’t get off the ground when a train passed, “the little man” would find…
- Episode 186 - Rotating Home · 1 h 12 minWhen Ethan returns home from Iraq, he and his wife, Janean, grow close with his Army buddy, Mark. But after a night of watching a horror movie with friends, the group decides to…
- Eyes in the Window [Patreon Preview] · 10 minIn this bonus episode, Bre talks about something she saw throughout her life, in different forms, that she named “Bobby” in hopes of making it seem a bit less scary. It all…
- Episode 185 - Longs Peak · 1 h 0 minWhile hiking the treacherous Longs Peak mountain in Colorado, Alex comes across a fellow hiker who seems eerily out of place.Map of Alex's Route on Longs PeakCheck out our…
- Dream Machines with Will Dowd [Patreon Preview] · 13 minIn this Patreon episode, I talk with Will Dowd, an author and poet who trained as a science writer at MIT, about the year he spent experimenting with Dormio. This MIT-developed…
- Episode 184 - The Post · 49 minShortly after moving into a new home on a large plot of land, John notices a T-post with no indication of what it might be marking. When he starts seeing a ghostly figure showing…
- Episode 183 - Beneath the Bayou · 59 minAfter a violent altercation with her boyfriend, Corinne moves into a house on a bayou island that her grandfather left to the family, hoping for a fresh start. But soon after…
- Jack & Chelsea [Patreon Preview] · 14 minFor Jack & Chelsea, what began as an exciting move into a charming, historic Cincinnati house full of parties and roommates devolved into a nightmare. At first, strange things…
- Episode 182 - Close to Home · 1 h 8 minDuring covid, Charlotte and her partner are hanging out in the backyard when they see something strange in the distance that slowly makes it's way uncomfortably close.Then, Sam…
- Episode 181 - The Accident · 55 minWhile working at a summer camp Finn is in a freak accident that leaves him with a severe leg injury with lasting complications. Years later, while training to become a massage…
- Saving the Integratron Archive [Patreon Preview] · 13 minIn this episode, I’m joined by Daniel Paul, Theo Schafer, and Theo Krantz to celebrate the culmination of our year-and-a-half-long side quest to preserve a major piece of…
- Episode 180 - The Treehouse · 50 minAfter his family moves into an old hunting cabin outside of San Diego, David strikes up a friendship with someone that may not be amongst the living. Once renovations begin on…
- Island Lore with Caribbean Mystics [Patreon Preview] · 8 minGabby Querrard and Paulina Creque of the podcast Caribbean Mystics join Jack on Patreon to discuss local paranormal stories from their home, the Virgin Islands, and the Caribbean…
- Episode 179: The Other Sam · 1 h 2 minWhile in high school, Forrest befriends a boy named Sam, who begins exhibiting strange behavior. During their hangouts, Sam sometimes seems to slip into an alternate personality…
- Episode 178: Beyond the Wall Pt. 2 · 55 minIn Part 2 of Beyond The Wall, Nina returns to her body and finds herself still held captive, in a new location and severely injured after an unknown amount of time has passed. In…
- Episode 177: Beyond the Wall Pt. 1 · 1 h 0 minIn 1989, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nina was on the street outside her workplace when she was approached by a man identifying himself as a police officer. He said…
- Summer Camp [Patreon Preview] · 11 minThis is a short preview of a patreon bonus episode that features two stories, both about camping. If you want to hear the full version, you can hear it right now at…
- Episode 176: Flesh of the Gods · 56 minWhen Andrea loses her grandmother and is plunged into the depths of grief, she calls out and asks her for a sign. To her surprise, she woke up that night in another realm with…
- Episode 175: I Met God in a Burger King Parking Lot · 1 h 4 minPaul was driving up to Virginia to see his girlfriend at the time when he came across a hitchhiker. This man asked to be dropped off at a Burger King close to where Paul was…
- The Hat Man Project Project [Patreon Preview] · 12 minIn this patreon episode, Jack and Trevor McFedries try to help Tim, the creator of the Hat Man Project, recover the website and restore one of the largest collections of Hat Man…
- Episode 174: Save The Garden · 1 h 21 minWhen Mary was 18 years old she woke up paralyzed in the middle of the night to strange troll-like beings surrounding her bed, while a different, taller being observed from the…
- The Tip of Atlantis [Patreon Preview] · 16 minIn this patreon episode, comic book and storyboard artist Mike Feehan (DC Comics, Marvel Studios) joins the show to unpack the bizarre life of Geoff Stirling, a media mogul once…
- Episode 173: Homecoming Night · 31 minWhen it's homecoming night at Matteson's high school, he decides to throw the afterparty for his tight-knit group of friends in his backyard. Living in a small, rural town, he…
- Episode 172: Sector X · 54 minWhenever Eric and his high school friends had free time, they enjoyed exploring abandoned places, especially Arnold Heights, a deserted former military housing community. During…
- Episode 171: The Widower · 1 h 1 minWhen Ashley was only 11 years old, she moved back to her parent's home country of Mexico. While the transition was difficult at first, she came to love her new life. Most of all…
- Freddy [Patreon Preview] · 14 minOne day when Frank was 14 growing up in Tampa, FL, his dad came home from work and started talking about some guys from work who had a ghost in their office. Apparently…
- Episode 170: The Restaurant Mimic · 41 minAs a teenager, Tatum decided to take up a job at a small family-owned restaurant in Carlisle, Pennsylvania that was originally a historic pre-civil war home. As a nod to the…
- Episode 169: The Company Retreat · 42 minWhen Casey's place of work is celebrating its' ten year anniversary, the company decides to have a fun getaway retreat for all their employees. Except, for some unidentifiable…
- Episode 168: The Ghost Box · 57 minBeth had a career working in the paranormal entertainment industry and was typically called in to be the "resident skeptic", someone who can call a person's bluff and inspect the…
- Girl in the Fog [Patreon Preview] · 7 minWhen Ryan and his mom Lorri moved into an inexpensive rental home out in the San Tan Valley Arizona, they thought they just scored a great deal. They weren't told anything about…
- Episode 167: The Stalker Pt. 4 · 1 h 3 minAfter months of interviewing Clara and still feeling that many questions about Michael remained unanswered, Jack finally decides to speak with Marc, the “esoteric detective.”…
- Episode 166: The Stalker Pt. 3 · 1 h 2 minAfter months of being relentlessly stalked to the point of deteriorating mental and physical health, Clara receives a mysterious email from an "esoteric detective" named Marc who…
- Episode 165: The Stalker Pt. 2 · 46 minAfter a series of increasingly unsettling encounters with Michael, Clara decides to cut off all contact and move on. That is, until she comes home to her roommates alarmed by a…
- Episode 164: The Stalker Pt. 1 · 44 minClara, a Canadian filmmaker, has a brief encounter with a timid man at a small French film festival and soon moves on with her life. Months later, he unexpectedly reaches out…
- Dream Stealer [Patreon Preview] · 12 minA woman named Mia shares a story about a whirlwind romance she had with a mysterious guy named James, who claimed to be able to view the dreams of people he sleeps next to…
- Episode 163: Benny · 36 minCaro and their girlfriend, Charlotte, live in rural northern Arizona, just south of the Navajo Nation. One night, while driving to Charlotte’s house, Caro spotted her standing in…
- Episode 162: Fair Warning · 47 minOn a normal school night while having dinner with family, Kristina's 13 year-old brother, Jay, casually recounts how he saw his death in a dream and that he knew it was coming…
- The Life of John Dee [Patreon Preview] · 12 minI am once again joined by Wolf to dive into the life of an Otherworldly figure from history, this time we are discussing John Dee. I knew almost nothing about John Dee…
- Episode 161: From Now On · 1 h 0 minIn 2006, Michael was in his early 30s living in New York City as a Tibetan Buddhist Novice Monk. It was an average afternoon in his apartment when he retreated to the bedroom to…
- Interview with Tyler McBrien · 1 h 2 minIn 1980, a mysterious granite monument was erected in Elbert County, Georgia. Commissioned by an anonymous person under the pseudonym R.C. Christian, and inscribed with…
- Episode 160: The Runaway · 30 minTired of being made the subject of abuse and trouble after moving to Utah, Antonio decided to runaway from home. Despite this being a habitual occurrence for him, this night was…
