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Otherworld
Otherworld
270 episodes
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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Episode 190 - The Lake House Pt 1
A 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 seeping into the present. Check out our…
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Episode 189 - Spirit Belly
Abbey, 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 gift together. Years later, while on…
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Episode 188 - Susan
Growing 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 speaks to him and has given him special…
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King of the Shadow People [Patreon Preview]
This 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 strange shadow figures and a mother who was…
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Episode 187 - Penny for the Guy
Growing 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 you and follow you home. The warning was…
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Episode 186 - Rotating Home
When 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 play with a Ouija board, which has a…
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Eyes in the Window [Patreon Preview]
In 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 started when she was a little kid and saw a…
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Episode 185 - Longs Peak
While 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 Peak Check out our Merch Follow us on: Instagram For…
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Dream Machines with Will Dowd [Patreon Preview]
In 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 device detects the moment you slip into…
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Episode 184 - The Post
Shortly 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 itself on his property, he does some…
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Episode 183 - Beneath the Bayou
After 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 settling in, she and her roommates begin…
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Jack & Chelsea [Patreon Preview]
For 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 began happening that were infrequent and…
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Episode 182 - Close to Home
During 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 and her friend Sophie head home after a…
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Episode 181 - The Accident
While 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 therapist, his teacher uses him as a…
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Saving the Integratron Archive [Patreon Preview]
In 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 paranormal history. What started as a deep…
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Episode 180 - The Treehouse
After 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 the house activity ramps up and each…
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Island Lore with Caribbean Mystics [Patreon Preview]
Gabby 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 region as a whole. Paulina also…
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Episode 179: The Other Sam
While 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, one that possesses the ability to…
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Episode 178: Beyond the Wall Pt. 2
In 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 these crucial moments between life and…
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Episode 177: Beyond the Wall Pt. 1
In 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 that he needed to take her in for…
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Summer Camp [Patreon Preview]
This 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 www.patreon.com/otherworld Camp Wolfeboro: At Boy…
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Episode 176: Flesh of the Gods
When 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 her called answered. Some years later…
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Episode 175: I Met God in a Burger King Parking Lot
Paul 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 heading and said that he was "going to meet…
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The Hat Man Project Project [Patreon Preview]
In 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 encounters ever assembled. Full episode…
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Episode 174: Save The Garden
When 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 doorway. Though deeply unsettled by this…
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The Tip of Atlantis [Patreon Preview]
In 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 dubbed the "Weirdest Canadian of All…
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Episode 173: Homecoming Night
When 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 knew everyone who was set to show up. When…
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Episode 172: Sector X
Whenever Eric and his high school friends had free time, they enjoyed exploring abandoned places, especially Arnold Heights, a deserted former military housing community. During one visit, they met another group of…
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Episode 171: The Widower
When 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, this move allowed her to develop a…
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Freddy [Patreon Preview]
One 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, something was making coins materialize from thin…
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Episode 170: The Restaurant Mimic
As 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 building's heritage the restaurant kept a…
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Episode 169: The Company Retreat
When 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 reason, Casey is dreading the trip and has…
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Episode 168: The Ghost Box
Beth 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 surroundings to ensure no tricks were…
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Girl in the Fog [Patreon Preview]
When 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 the house's history before signing the…
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Episode 167: The Stalker Pt. 4
After months of interviewing Clara and still feeling that many questions about Michael remained unanswered, Jack finally decides to speak with Marc, the “esoteric detective.” Their conversation leads Jack to discover…
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Episode 166: The Stalker Pt. 3
After 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 claims to have been working diligently…
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Episode 165: The Stalker Pt. 2
After 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 strange man who let himself into their…
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Episode 164: The Stalker Pt. 1
Clara, 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, eventually asking for feedback on his…
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Dream Stealer [Patreon Preview]
A 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. Eventually, this happens with Mia, along with…
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Episode 163: Benny
Caro 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 the road calling out for her missing…
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Episode 162: Fair Warning
On 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 for him soon. Everyone brushed this off,…
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The Life of John Dee [Patreon Preview]
I 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 previously, and in this two part episode Wolf will…
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Episode 161: From Now On
In 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 do his regular meditation practice only…
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Interview with Tyler McBrien
In 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 guidelines for rebuilding society after an…
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Episode 160: The Runaway
Tired 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 completely different. As Antonio was…
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Bonus: Otherworld x Undertone
Jack is joined by the Otherworld team for a behind the curtain look into our experience making this show. Special thanks to A24 and the new movie Undertone, which follows a paranormal podcaster who becomes haunted by…
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Episode 159: A Room on the Road
This episode follows two different working musicians as they go on tour and find themselves spending their nights in less than ideal circumstances. Colm, in Barcelona, is shocked to find objects moving on their own and…
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Otherworldly Advice with Wendy & Harmony [Patreon Preview]
Wendy and Harmony join for another installment of Otherworldly Advice, a patreon series where we take calls from listeners who are facing a wide range of predicaments and do our best to give advice. The full episode…
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Episode 158: Heirloom
When Connor and his wife Lacy left Mormonism, the religion they were both raised in, it pushed Connor to adopt a strict, hard-lined atheism as his worldview. This was until Connor found himself having dark and…
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Episode 157: Every Piece in Place
While taking his dog to the park, Vincent takes a moment to look up at the sky and longingly asks to who or whatever might be up there to make themselves known to him. Weeks later, his call is answered. Check out our…
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