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.
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July 14, 2025 • 50 mins
As our team grinds away on upcoming October episodes, we've decided to unlock an old Deep Research episode from our Patreon. We are currently on the search for stories that we can work on for October, so if you have experienced something unexplainable, please send us a short written summary of your story at stories@otherworldpod.com
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July 7, 2025 • 69 mins
A documentary filmmaker named Ryan travels to Ukraine to document humanitarian efforts on the front lines. During a civilian evacuation mission into the grey zone, his van is struck by mortar fire. Separated from his group and hiding in the woods, Ryan describes feeling overtaken by a presence that he believes may have been guiding him to safety.
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June 23, 2025 • 77 mins
In this episode, I sit down with Susannah Cahalan—American journalist and bestselling author of Brain on Fire, The Great Pretender, and most recently, The Acid Queen. We discuss her harrowing experience with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, a rare brain inflammation that led to seizures, vivid hallucinations and hospitalization during a month long psychotic episode. This ordeal that ultimately sparked her deep interest in psycholog...
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June 16, 2025 • 39 mins
After their work shifts at the local pizza parlor, Dylan and his friend Brandon would often hang out and drive around their small town of Pleasantville, Ohio. One seemingly ordinary afternoon, their routine took a bizarre turn when they passed a massive, otherworldly creature with apparent cloaking abilities. Driven by curiosity, they turned the car around to take a closer look.
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June 9, 2025 • 53 mins
On the morning of a road trip, Amy wakes from a vivid dream of being chased by a man in a red and black checkered shirt—only to encounter a real-life stranger eerily matching the description on a desolate forest road. Meanwhile, Chris lives though a terrifying and violent train crash only to come to as if nothing happened.
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June 2, 2025 • 43 mins
While on their usual weekend drive to the family home in Door County, Wisconsin, Susan and John suddenly find themselves engulfed by a mysterious and blinding light.
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May 29, 2025 • 5 mins
In the early 1990s at UC Berkeley, a woman is followed by a stranger who she believes may have somehow melted her engagement ring with his mind.
It all starts with a quiet evening of reading and waiting for her fiancé—but takes a bizarre turn when a nervous guy approaches her out of nowhere.
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May 26, 2025 • 69 mins
This episode features Sean in New Jersey and Delaney in Oklahoma, who each have chilling encounters during afternoon walks in the woods with their exes. Sean and his ex-girlfriend witness a glowing entity that may have been trying to deliver a message. Delaney and her ex-boyfriend are preyed upon by an inhuman creature —an experience made stranger by her father’s unsettling reaction when she tries to tell him about the experience.
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May 19, 2025 • 16 mins
Myself, Theo and Theo head into the desert to meet a man named Don McKinney who owns a massive archive of George Van Tassel's recordings, photos, writing and even the original blueprints and models of The Integratron.
In the last episode, Daniel Paul introduced us to Don, and we learned that he needed help digitizing his vast collection. I thought this was a great way for the show to use its resources to preserve paranormal hist...
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May 14, 2025 • 63 mins
After hearing Dave's story in the previous episode and the profound similarity between his UFO experience in Ojai and his meditation at the Integratron, we wanted to learn more about the strange history of this building. But what started out as an effort to learn more about this place ended up turning into a bit of an adventure.
In this episode, historian Daniel Paul joins to tell the story of The Integratron and the man who buil...
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May 12, 2025 • 47 mins
Dave and his high school friends take their first solo camping trip together out in rural Ojai. What begins as any normal night suddenly changes when the group is awoken by an unearthly sound. Years later, during his visit to the Integratron, Dave gains insight on what might have happened to him and his friends.
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May 5, 2025 • 61 mins
Reece, a freelance filmmaker, is hired as a gaffer for a documentary exploring psychics and energy vortexes in Sedona, Arizona — a topic he has little to no personal interest or experience in. During filming, Banah, a local vortex tour guide, leads the crew up a small hill for a brief meditation, where Reece is unexpectedly met by an otherworldy spirit.
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April 28, 2025 • 56 mins
After an extremely close call while driving home late at night, Alexis finds herself being visited by what can only be described as the personification of death. Lily shares a very similar experience that occurred just prior to hearing grave news about a dear family member.
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April 21, 2025 • 58 mins
After planning a late-night attempt to retrieve her stolen cat from her ex-neighbor, Lee finds herself suddenly overwhelmed by exhaustion and too drowsy to drive. She pulls over in her old neighborhood to take a quick nap. Believing she slept for only a few hours, she heads back to her mom’s house the following morning — only to discover that, according to her family, she had been missing for nearly three days.
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April 14, 2025 • 46 mins
Growing up in a tumultuous household, Lucy found solace in her childhood best friend, Lauren — their friendship became a refuge from her mother’s outbursts. But on what seemed like an ordinary day, Lauren unexpectedly and insistently asks Lucy for a seemingly trivial favor. Reluctantly agreeing, eager to return to their playtime, Lucy soon stumbles into a web of deep family wounds and hidden secrets.
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April 7, 2025 • 35 mins
This week, we are bringing you an episode from our friends over at the podcast Spooked.
There are some places, deep in the woods, far away from civilization, that are magical. Chuck is hiking in the Appalachian woods when he stumbles upon one of these places: Dismal Falls. But Dismal Falls isn’t all fairies and rainbows. It’s a place of dark magic. This story comes to us from the Spooked podcast. You can listen to more heart-pound...
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March 31, 2025 • 48 mins
While living with his parents in rural Washington, Zach takes his dog out one night. The dog immediately runs off into a dark forest clearing and when Zach attempts to follow he spots a strange, glowing canine figure in the distance. The mystery deepens when the creature suddenly changes form before his eyes.
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March 24, 2025 • 68 mins
After the birth of their first daughter, Francis, Grace and her husband find their dream home. The 300 year-old house sits on land that’s been inhabited for thousands of years and soon after moving in, things get weird. Shortly after moving in, strange occurrences began to occur and grow in intensity—ghostly visitations in the night, unsettling growling noises, and, most disturbingly, her daughter’s conversations with the spirit of...
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March 19, 2025 • 11 mins
A short preview of Part 4 in our ongoing Patreon series about Aleister Crowley. If you want to hear the full episode, and the rest of the series, sign up for The Otherworld Patreon
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March 17, 2025 • 48 mins
After getting lost in a quilting project that leaves her in a trance-like state, Alex reluctantly gets ready for a work event she’d rather skip. But when she arrives, she finds out it has mysteriously been canceled. Back home, she washes off her makeup, and as she studies her reflection in the mirror, she’s suddenly transported to another realm.
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