
Otherworld
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.
Episodes
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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 convinced he was possessed. But after fleeing into the dark one night, he encountered something massive waiting in the yard. Full episode available at www.patreon.com/otherworld

Ep 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 so ingrained that even at 18, Sarah still did her best to obey the rules. But on Bonfire Night, a failed attempt to get off the ground leaves her face-to-face with the legend itself

Ep 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 particularly terrifying effect on Mark.Check out our MerchFollow us on: InstagramFor business inqu
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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 pair of glowing red eyes staring at her from the window.Full episode is available at www.patreon.com/otherworld

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 PeakCheck out our MerchFollow us on: InstagramFor business inquiries contact: OtherworldTeam@unitedtalent.comIf you have experienced something paranormal
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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 hypnagogia, the in-between state at the edge of sleep, then plays a sound to influence your dream and wakes you before you forget it. After a genetic disorder took away his ability to

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 research and finds that the post might indicate the location of a grave. Check out our MerchFollow us on: Instagram

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 experiencing a series of increasingly disturbing unexplainable phenomena. Check out our MerchFollow us on: Instagram
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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 easy to write off... hearing strange sounds, or an entire load of laundry vanishing then things escalated quickly, culminating in multiple events that made these two confident tha

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 night of stargazing to find something terrifying trespassing in the yard.Check out our MerchFollow us on: Instagram

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 volunteer to demonstrate a lesser known technique called myofascial release. Days after the demonstration, he has a mind-bending experience that leaves him stunned and altered.Check out o
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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 dive into the Integratron and its creator, George Van Tassel, eventually led me out to the desert to meet a man named Don McKinney. Don was holding on to an incredible archive, including

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 family member has experiences that lead them to look back on the property as full of happy but haunted memories.Check out our MerchFollow us on:
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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 discusses her family's own incredible backstory, which involves lost treasure, gold doubloons, ghost visitations, haunted roads, and mysterious graveyard rituals. As if that weren't enough,

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 psychically know things that he otherwise shouldn't.. Then, one night, Forrest encounters a terrifying being that may be connected to Sam's strange abilities.Check out our Merch

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 death, she uses her intuition, the supernatural experience she just had, and memories of the 1984 BBC detective series "Miss Marple" to make a harrowing escape.Warning: This series c

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 questioning in regard to her boyfriend, which made sense given the people her boyfriend was involved with at the time. She got into the police car, and as they drove through the streets o
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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/otherworldCamp Wolfeboro: At Boy Scout camp 14-year-old Ryan and a small group of scouts set out to test a local ghost story about a fatal accident near the river. Standing by the camp's bridge in total darkness, they w

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 Andrea is invited by family to attend a retreat in Mexico, and finds herself participating in a ceremony with a very powerful and culturally significant mushroom called teonanácatl, or "

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 Life and have some words with him." Confused, but intrigued, by this cryptic statement Paul agreed to take this hitchhiker to his destination. Once at Burger King, a man approached P
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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 available at www.patreon.com/otherworld

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 vivid experience she did her best to pass it off as a bad dream. About 6 weeks later, Mary comes to learn that she is pregnant and some time after this, has another puzzling experienc
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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 Time." Feehan, who is currently co-directing an upcoming documentary about Stirling, explains how the businessman weaponized his television network, NTV, to elevate human consciousness.

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 his friend Bobby pulls in with another silhouette trailing behind him, he innocently assumed it was his younger brother tagging along, only for the mysterious identity to be reveale

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 explorers who warned them to stay away from an area known as "Sector X," which was rumored to be haunted by the spirit of a grieving father who went on a murderous rampage after his son

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 meaningful relationship with her grandfather whose life was full of grand stories. It wasn't until she was older though, that her grandfather confessed a traumatic moment in his life tha
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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 air around this office, which was actually much more of an industrial parking lot and drywall storage facility. The guys named this ghost 'Freddy' and one day, Frank's dad decided t

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 photo of the original family who had resided in the home, but it was rumored among the staff that it was this family that was haunting the place. It wasn't long into working there that

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 a feeling that something bad is going to happen. She pushes the feeling aside and tries to make the most out of the trip until she no longer can.Check out our Merch

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 being played.When she was invited to work on a television project about a mysterious device that allows one to contact the dead, she assumed her usual discerning stance. That is, unti
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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 lease, but it didn't take long for the property to speak for itself.
It started a few weeks in, when Ryan woke up in the middle of the night to a strange green fog billowing out of hi

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 that Michael’s mysterious past, and resulting life after pursuing Clara, may be much darker and entangled with the occult than he could have expected.
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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 on putting an end to Michael's pursuits. Anxious to find relief in her situation, she carefully obliges to his help along with the assistance of eccentric energy healers.
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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 apartment claiming to know her. Soon, Michael’s presence begins to seep into every corner of Clara’s life, revealing a far more ominous obsession than she ever imagined.
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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 script. Happy to support and connect with a fellow artist, she agrees to a call and then to a meet-up, only to find herself drawn into an increasingly prolonged and threatening situation
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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 many other unexplainable things that take place during their surreal and short lived romance.
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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 cat, Benny. As the search unfolded, they both realized something felt seriously off. It was then that they saw an unnatural and inhuman figure sprinting across the road.
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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, but as time went on and Jay continued to insist on his premonition, the family grew concerned.
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![The Life of John Dee [Patreon Preview]](https://images.castfire.com/image/661/0/0/0/0-8523413.jpg)
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 be doing his best to catch me up on the John Dee's fascinating and mysterious life.
To listen to this episode, and the 2nd part next week, sign up at www.patreon.com/otherworld

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 that, at some point, he woke up from his meditation in his 15 year old body, in Bainbridge, Washington, back in 1990.
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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 apocalyptic event, it quickly became the focus of many widespread conspiracy theories. Over the years, its critics ranged from locals frustrated by the site’s notoriety to those who claime

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 hiding from family and the police, he looked up to the sky and saw a large, dark, silent craft taking up the entirety of the sky.
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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 mysterious audio files. You can catch it in theaters now.

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 a mysterious old woman barging into the apartment. Meanwhile, Shelby in New Orleans, must endure the night in a windowless, pitch-black room that harbors a dark and threatening pres
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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 is out now on The Otherworld Patreon

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 threatening dreams about a curly, red-haired woman in their closet. When he shared these dreams with Lacey, a mysterious heirloom doll that she was gifted many years earlier and kept stored

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.
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Here For You [Patreon Preview]
Following her college graduation, Liz spent two years traveling the U.S., working on farms and communal living spaces as part of the WWOOF program. During a stay in Boulder, CO, she attended a school focused on psychic techniques, where she was trained in visualization exercises and energy work. Surprisingly, this is not where Liz had her otherworldly encounter.
The main story centers on a period

Episode 156: Deer in the Headlights
Phoebe in Utah and Pat in Ohio both share their experiences of witnessing deer-like creatures while driving about their town. Strangest to them, was how uncannily they resembled actual human beings and what their origins or existence might mean for the towns they live in.
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Into the Crypt with Soleil [Patreon Preview]
Soleil from our recent two Folly Beach series joins me to discuss another wild experience she had while growing up that starts when her mom takes a small Civil War relic that she found in the ruins of an old fort on Folly Beach.
Listen to the full thing, and Folly Beach Pt 1 & 2 on The Otherworld Patreon

Episode 155: Fatherhood
After the separation of her parents, Nina's father, Mike, bought and moved into an old 1950s house in Austin, Texas. From the start, Nina immediately felt something very off in the house as if another presence already lived there. Mike's attempts to quell her fears so that she wouldn't be too afraid to visit him were thwarted when Nina finally saw what was too great and too real to ignore.
After,
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Folly Beach Pt. 1 [Patreon Preview]
In August 2023, Soleil went to Folly Beach in South Carolina with her husband and two friends to catch the end of the Perseid meteor shower. While stargazing, Soleil noticed a light in the sky that transitioned from a blue triangle to a vivid, flashing "rainbow" strobe that appeared to respond to her thoughts. This moment began a profound shared experience between the group of friends on the beach

Episode 154: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 2
After Jake's spiritually healing and transcendent journey through another realm with the medicinal use of Ibogaine, he is now prepared to undergo another journey with 5meo DMT where he discovers more about the reality of this existence, and afterwards, comes to terms with the pain he has been dealt.
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Episode 153: Down the Silver Strand Pt. 1
Jake is a Navy veteran who sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) while operating a .50-caliber machine gun during his 10 years as a SWCC.
The symptoms of the TBI were debilitating and impacted all areas of his life. As Jake’s condition continued to worsen over time, he began to believe the only way out of his pain might be ending it all, until his doctor introduced him to the ancient healing me
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The Antique Story Anthology [Patreon Preview]
This is a short preview of a patreon bonus episode, to hear the full thing and last week's patreon episode "Grand Canyon Orbs" you can sign up for the Otherworld Patreon
In this episode our producer Haley Pehrson interviews two people with short stories that both take place in antique stores. The first one may not necessarily be paranormal... but it's an extreme case of coincidence with several l

Episode 152: Phantom Channel
In the first part of this episode, Beau, an audio engineer and music producer, agrees to record a few singles with their roommate’s band at an old converted barn turned recording studio, and what begins as an unexplained whispering soon escalates into the manifestation of a tall, cloaked figure appearing directly before them.
In the second part, Xavier and Connor are crashing at a noise house fil

Episode 151: Heyburn Lake
After craving a night away from the kids and the city, Jerry and his wife, Chelsea, drove out to the backroads near Heyburn Lake in northeastern Oklahoma. The rural landscape was deeply familiar to Jerry, who had grown up in the area. As they slowly drove down the dark roads, something completely unidentifiable emerged in front of them, a large, iridescent, four-legged creature crossing their path

Episode 150: The Overpass
Chris Nasrallah, a Palestinian-American raised in Sleepy Hollow, New York, was troubled by a recurring nightmare throughout his childhood taking place near the overpass of where he grew up. 20 years later, he came to experience the truth of this dream.
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Bonus: The Night Before Christmas
During the holidays at the height of the pandemic, Andrea traveled to Yuba County, California to visit her family. Desperate for a proper bed instead of sleeping on her parent's couch, she booked a cheap nearby hotel for the night. From the moment she entered the room, something felt off, but she chalked it up to the hotel's dinky conditions and went on with her night, until she found herself ambu
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Otherworldly Advice with Wendy [Patreon Preview]
I am joined by Wendy and Harmony for a brand new type of Patreon episode, one where we take calls from listeners about the great dilemmas they are facing and do our best to give advice. In this episode, we cover a mysterious moldy house, an anonymous warning letter, grandparents freebasing cocaine, and a mom hoping to help her 21 year old son.
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Episode 149: Saint George
When Julia and John rented an unsuspecting Airbnb for a work trip to St. George, Utah, they expected a completely ordinary week. Almost immediately, Julia began to feel as though she was being watched inside the house. Unsure whether she was imagining these experiences, she kept it to herself. But when John found himself alone in the rental, he experienced something he absolutely couldn't explain

Episode 148: Athena
Athena had just moved into her first rental with four roommates from college and was excited to start off her sophomore year in what she believed to be was the perfect house in the neighborhood she always dreamed of. It was only a few weeks into living there when Athena and her roommates began noticing strange occurrences, from unexplainable noises to electronics going off. When they all decide to
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The Plant Scientist [Patreon Preview]
In this two-part patreon only series about a 24 year old plant scientist named Michael whose life is turned upside down by a strange series of paranormal events and a chance encounter with a mysterious Italian-American man named Rafael. I am putting out an extra-long preview for all of you in hopes of luring you behind the paywall. If you like what you hear, both episodes are out this week!
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Episode 147: The Mimic
After graduating college, Evelyn and Cassandra moved into an old house owned by Cassandra’s sister, sharing the space with a handful of friends. As they settled into the place, they soon all experienced strange occurrences of catching glimpses or hearing sounds they were certain came from one of their roommates, only to discover that person was out of the house, in a different room altogether, or
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The Little People [Patreon Preview]
A fisherman named Chris, deep in the Canadian wilderness, discovered a strange ring of footprints in the winter mud, including several impossibly small ones, far from anywhere a person could realistically be. When he posted about it online, a friend replied with an explanation that tied the encounter to both the supernatural and First Nations beliefs.
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Interview with Jessica Hundley
Jessica Hundley is a writer, filmmaker, and creative director whose journalistic work spans music, film, and the arts. She is the creator, author, and series editor of Taschen’s ongoing multivolume project, The Library of Esoterica, an expansive anthology that traces esoteric philosophies, mystical practices, and occult traditions through the visual history of art and media. Each volume delves int

Episode 146: Slain in the Spirit
When Alli’s father, a New York pilot, is furloughed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, her family turns to a new Evangelical church in search of comfort and meaning. For pre-teen Alli, the sudden shift in faith and the strict new customs are disorienting as she is just trying to keep the peace and please her parents. But when a guest preacher comes into town to perform a "Slain in the Spirit" c

Episode 145: The Residency
When Tim is accepted into an arts residency in rural New York, he’s thrilled to finally have time to focus solely on his paintings. But that opportunity is taken from him when, during one of his first nights, what he initially believes is an intruder appears in his room. This sets off a dark depression in Tim's life and numerous other unexplainable encounters until he is finally offered help by wa
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Max [Patreon Preview]
In 1998, after Di and her friend play with a Ouija board, she starts noticing a male presence following her that she calls Max. She begins to feel like Max is stalking her. As the days pass, it becomes harder to ignore, until one terrifying night when his presence becomes undeniable after this entity crosses the line in a very serious way.
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Episode 144: The Yellow-Eyed Boy
When Mitch first notices the small, mysterious handprints of a child on the glass door to his basement bedroom he is immediately suspicious. He attempts to dismiss the strangeness of this phenomenon until one night, what starts off as a frightening dream, turns into a horrifying reality as he meets the source of his suspicions. What follows is an ongoing series of events in the house that seem to

Episode 143: The Granny Flat Pt. 2
After Kacey’s departure, David and Steven find themselves in an escalating battle against this evil entity that refuses to let them go. As the entity’s power grows, it casts an ever-darkening cloud over their lives, manifesting in their relationships and tormenting their family. The brothers must find a way to exorcize this demon out of their lives for good.
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Episode 142: The Granny Flat Pt. 1
David is excited to hang out with his older brother, Steven, and Steven’s new girlfriend, Kacey, in their granny flat. But when he suddenly hears the anguished, disembodied scream of a young woman, Kacey notices his fearful confusion and reveals she can hear the lost spirit too. Soon, the brothers are forced to confront the dark, malevolent forces invading their lives.
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Episode 141: The Pharmacist
When she was 25, Melissa began working at a home health pharmacy in her hometown of Loma Linda, California, a city known for its large population of Seventh-day Adventists. Having grown up in that church, which rejects the existence of ghosts, Melissa was a firm skeptic who laughed off any talk of spirit hauntings. But soon after starting her new job, strange and unsettling events began to unfold

Episode 140: Ross Bay Cemetery
During her mother’s long battle with cancer, Sierra moved back to Victoria, BC to be closer to family. Living in the shadow of her mother’s passing, she couldn’t shake the feeling that the veil between worlds had grown thin. That eerie sense deepened one night when Sierra and her friend Marnie took a walk through their local cemetery and experienced something that should not have been possible.

Episode 139: Holy Warfare
Mike, an army medic, was feeling tired one afternoon and decided to get some rest. As he scrolled on his phone in bed, he noticed a dark, shadowy figure enter his room and begin to crawl into his bed. When the figure vanished into thin air, Mike was thrust into the most violent and terrifying nightmare of his life. The visions seemed to be guided by a dark entity that began to take control of him.

Episode 138: ZAZA
In 1996, Kendra and her high school friends used a Ouija board in an attempt to contact the spirit of John Lennon. At first, it seemed to be working—but as the messages grew darker and more threatening, it became clear that whoever, or whatever, they were speaking to did not have good intentions.
Despite the fear and confusion, the girls found themselves drawn back to the board again and again. Th
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The Cursed Ring with Rosie Grant [Patreon Preview]
Returning guest Rosie Grant — who you may remember from the “Goop Demon” episode — is back, this time as a published (and hopefully soon-to-be best-selling) author. I have wanted to have Rosie back on for a long time because I know she has several more scary stories to tell. One of which I am sort of a side character in and involves a cursed family ring.
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Episode 137: The Devil's Errand
In 2001, a high school student named Danny skips class with two friends and meets a mysterious man on the train. Dressed in an expensive tailored suit and carrying a wallet stuffed with cash, the man claims that nobody else on the train can see him...and it seems to be true. Things take an even stranger turn when he makes the boys a very unusual offer.
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Interview with Marianne Williamson
Jack is joined by best selling author, spiritual teacher, and two time presidential candidate Marianne Williamson. She is widely recognized for her work with A Course in Miracles and her book A Return To Love which is considered a companion piece. Her career began working at the Philosophical Research Center and rose to fame after multiple appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2020 and 2024 Ma

Episode 136: The Spiritist Pt. 2
Years after her cousin’s life-threatening incident and her mother's miraculous abilities in that moment, Cecilia returns home to share the news of her recent engagement. But as the celebration unfolds, Cecilia’s mother begins to display unsettling signs that another presence may be taking hold of her spirit.
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