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Cindy was on vacation with her husband in Japan when he asked to go hiking in the Aokigahara Forest. This forest has become a destination of sorts for people hoping to end their life, earning it the nickname "The Suicide Forest". Things take a turn for the worse when something, or somebody, seems to follow Cindy home from the forest.

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Original Score by Juice Jackal

Last week, Alex told the story of his encounter with what he believes to be Bigfoot.

In this episode, we talk to Alex's roommate, Julian, about what happened when Alex got back from his horrifying trip,

and what happened when they decided to go back into the woods where it all started.

Here is the thermal video taken very close to where the guys were camping.

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A man named Alex had a prolonged and terrifying encounter with what he believes to be Bigfoot. But this story is very different from what most of us are probably used to when we think of Bigfoot, and it raises questions about what Bigfoot could possibly be.

During the Covid-19 lockdown, Alex needed an escape and decided to go camping in the Uwharrie National Forest by himself. The park was closed and off-limits, but he found a very isolated spot and hiked in all by himself to set up camp. Upon entering the woods, he described an electric static feeling coming over his body—a sense of crossing over a veil—and started to experience what can only be described as telepathic impressions. Over the course of the day and night, Alex experienced a series of bizarre and terrifying events that left him confused and traumatized. Only later, after researching what happened to him, did he learn that these things are all connected to sightings of Bigfoot.

Everyone interviewed in this series signed a document stating that they are telling the truth, and not being deceptive in any way.

Stay tuned for Part 2 of this episode.

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Follow up to Episode 31, my favorite researcher Joshua Citarella joins me to dive into the scientific studies that exists around The Night Hag and the mysterious deaths connected to its' appearance. 

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During his childhood, Alec experienced a peculiar phenomenon where he would find himself outside of his own body at night. Upon awakening, he would observe his sleeping form before embarking on a journey to explore his own home. Initially, this activity was enjoyable, but he was apprehensive about entering a specific area of the downstairs, sensing an ominous presence beckoning him towards it. Eventually, he mustered the courage to venture into that area, only to be tormented by an entity for several hours, a haunting experience that persisted into his teenage years.

Alec now believes the entity that tormented him in his childhood was The Night Hag, or The Old Hag. This is a supernatural creature that shows up in almost every country and culture around the world, going back very far into history. In fact, the word nightmare even comes from folklore about this entity!

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In part 2, I am joined by Josh Citarella to dive into the research that exists on this phenomena and the deaths connected to it. We look at the many instances this thing appears around the world and through history. Its a really crazy thing to explore and I think you are really going to enjoy!

Terra sees a pyramid shaped UFO above her swing set in Tucson Arizona. It may have been a vision, dream or may have been real life. Afterwards, she begins to experience prophetic dreams and unusual abilities that she believes might be connected.

This episode is the first of a few interviews I have done over that feature strangely similar aspects. Things I wouldn't think too much about if I didn't notice them repeating between people that are completely unrelated. And of course, I wouldn't be pointing all this out if I didn't already have something it was leading towards.

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Eikeland experiences two unsettling incidents where he is awoken in the middle of the night by a strange and terrifying creature that appears to be a hybrid of human and beast. During the first encounter, Eikeland decides to confront the creature, but during the second encounter, he is overcome with fear.

On a non-scary note, I am getting married this weekend and for that reason will be taking the week off!! If you want to hear more Otherworld you can hear and watch lots of great bonus stuff at www.patreon.com/otherworld

Robert, a self described Atheist, was diagnosed with CIDP as a baby. CIPD is rare and incapacitating disorder, which confined him to a wheelchair and left him living in children's hospitals throughout his childhood. Despite medical professionals deeming it impossible for him to walk, Robert defied the odds and achieved a miraculous recovery. His family believes this recovery may be linked to a vision of the Virgin Mary that Robert experienced shortly before.

This episode delves into Robert's extraordinary journey growing up with significant challenges, and the paranormal events he encountered during this time and continues to experience to this day. Additionally, it explores how these phenomena affected the beliefs of his family members in various ways, and how despite witnessing what many people would consider miracles, Robert remains an Atheist to this day.

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We have 3 bonus episodes already up including an unreleased UFO story, an interview diving deeper into the Wendy series with her daughter Harmony, and a brand new one with the band Beach Fossils.

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Two friend's believe they may have accidentally summoned an entity while imitating something they saw on Gwenyth Paltrow's Netflix show "Goop Lab".

Possible Correction: The Goop Labs episode in question was "Episode 6: Are You Intuit?", not the episode specifically about Energy Healing.

Special thanks to Melinda Lee Holmes for answering my questions. Melinda is an author, Tarot expert, and "witch about town". She also worked at a crystal shop in Los Angeles for many years, so if theres such thing as a "Goop Incident" expert, she is probably that too.

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A man named Jack was pursuing a PhD in Physics at Imperial College of Science when his foray into ceremonial magic led him down an unforeseen path. In recounting his journey, Jack reveals how he embarked on his initial forays into magic and the events that unfolded during his early attempts at practicing it.

A man named Tim talks about the activity happening in his house in Wisconsin where he lives with his wife and baby daughter. Tim never believed in any of this, but the things happening recently has made him reconsider. It all started when his wife started complaining about something "hissing" at her inside the house. 

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In this episode we dive into the declassified CIA document titled "The Gateway Process" and the many complicated theories laid out within it. Jack enlists the help of his much smarter friend Sidu to go through these papers, explain the ideas, and decide whether it makes sense. 

RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf">If you want to read the CIA's report on The Gateway Process you can find that here.

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Jack runs into Wendy at a grocery store and she ends up doing a startling reading on a complete stranger. Jack interviews Wendy about her views on the paranormal and afterlife. Later in the episode, Jack discovers a declassified CIA document that sounds very similar to the first hand experiences Wendy has described about her "awakening" 

If you would like to read the document in question,RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf"> you can do so here. Next time, in the final episode of this miniseries we will be diving into the document with a guest and seeing what there is to learn from the theories laid out within. 

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Jack sits down for an interview with "the clairvoyant" from The Black Widow episodes. It turns out her name is Wendy. She is a mom and artist living in the Los Angeles area. 10 years ago she experienced an awakening of sorts where she was suddenly bombarded by energy and information. She was going into a trance states for 8 hours at a time and predicting things about people. 

In this episode, we do our best to tell this complicated story about Wendy, her family and the awakening. Hopefully by the end of this series we will have some answers as to what could possibly be going on with Wendy and people like her. 

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Our storyteller leaves her clairvoyant reading and things start to happen very quickly. Jack catches up months later for an update, and then sets off to try to find this mysterious clairvoyant woman. 

This is a continuation of Episode 20, you should definitely listen to that first if you have not already. 

A woman tells the story of her successful father being taken advantage of by the sketchy people he surrounds himself with. Including the series of increasingly terrible women he dates. Eventually, he starts dating a woman who is far worse than the rest and earns her the nickname "The Black Widow". Things gradually go from bad to worse as the family does their best to adapt, until everything is interrupted by an unexpected visit to a mysterious clairvoyant woman.

Part 2 of this story will be available later this week.

A girl named Jadyn vividly remembers dying before she was born. Not only that, the sister that she remembers dying with has come around several times to help Jadyn in her new life.

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Meredith continues her story from Episode 17, this time she finally discusses the event she originally emailed me about. Her cell phone began making calls and sending typing messages on its' own, and eventually it began happening to the phones of people close to her. All leading up to a situation in a Best Buy parking lot where Meredith and Jordan spoke to something on her phone that seemed to specifically want to communicate with Jordan. 

In the beginning of this episode we are joined by Jacques Gonsoulin who tells us about his very extensive experience with the drug DXM. Jacques cohosts a podcast of his own called Seeking Derangements. Thank you Jacques for joining and making Meredith laugh it was very much needed. 

I am going to try to do a Q&A on Instagram live with Meredith this week so go follow @OtherworldPod and stay tuned for that!

Original Score in this episode by Juice Jackal.

The song in the outro is "Forgotten Names" by The Reds, Pinks and Purples

A woman named Meredith tells the story of her upbringing which intertwines a very tumultuous home life, addiction, a haunted house, shadow people, and the state of Florida. Meredith originally emailed me about a story that does not even appear in the first part of this episode! I don't think either of us expected this interview to go to some of the places it ended up going to, the full interview was 5 and half hours long. 

Part 2 will come out next week! Stay Tuned! 

When he was 14, Russell worked a summer job at his dad's construction company. The day in question was just like any other until a terrible storm rolled in. While racing back to base camp on an ATV, he hit a fallen log and was sent flying through the air towards his death, but instead of dying, he wakes up in what seems like a completely different timeline.

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When Holden and Hillary began dating, her religious family had very strict rules for the courtship. As a result, they didn't sleep in the same room until after they got married. When they did finally spend those very first nights together, strange things began to happen. Otherworld Merch is now for sale! Click here to check it out 

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In this episode we cover 3 different encounters that all take place in Chicago, Illinois. The first story involves a man seeing a UFO in Beverly. The second story comes from two brothers that saw a mothman like figure in the suburbs. 

The third story comes from a woman named Jessi who I have interviewed for several years. Jessi grew up with the spirit of a girl in her room that she became very familiar with. You will almost certainly be hearing from Jessi again because there is definitely more to this story, but I am hoping to get to the bottom of a few more things before doing a follow up. Otherworld Merch is now for sale! Click here to check it out 

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A couple experiences a strange phenomena during their freshmen year of college. These two college athletes were heading home early because they had a game the following day, but they decided to stop at a friend's dorm to look for a missing necklace that may have been left there. They were both crawling around on their hands and knees when something strange happened. 

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This week features two different stories from people who believe they had something otherworldly protecting them as children. 

The first story comes from twins Seth and Kendra. They emailed me insisting that until they were about 5 or 6 years old, they were able to float down the stairs instead of walk. They insist this is a power that they possessed and as soon as they moved to a new house, they were no longer able to do it. They also have a very specific theory as to what helped them do this. The second story comes from Rae who was woken up one night by the man she knew as her grandfather, and two strange men she did not recognize. 

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Jack flies to Chicago to interview Sean Johns and Gina in person and find out exactly what happened between these two and the gnomes.

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Sean Johns and his wife Gina are both Romani, an ethnic group many people know by term the derogatory term "Gypsy". The Romani people are a very misunderstood and persecuted group of people, and are also extremely spiritual. Sean and Gina are also 5th Generation psychics—something that is handed down from generation to generation and is deeply intertwined into their heritage, to the point that it is just how they see the world and could not imagine it any other way. 

They run a psychic shop in the Chicago/Indiana area and basically have to help anyone and everyone who comes through the door with a problem other experts can't solve.  When people are dealing with something they can't bring to the police or to a priest, they come to Gina and Sean. These two have seen a lot of wild stuff, but one day a woman walked in that gave them a bad enough feeling that they had to ask her to leave. That is where their story begins, and it takes many twists and turns from there. This conversation ended up going so long that I decided to turns this into a two part series. I think by the end of the episode you will understand why. 

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Chance was hiking with his dad and cousin while on vacation in Hawaii as a teenager. They had just hiked the Kilauea Iki Trail and were headed back up when he decided to try to run ahead. Chance had only ran ahead for a few minutes when suddenly he found himself transported to a completely different area, somewhere in the jungle, surrounded by a fence on all sides. 

Chance's Map of Possible Locations

When Jon was growing up, his older brother Andy was his best friend. He was known to go around town with him like a sidekick. One night they were driving to the movies when they were hit by a drunk driver. Jon joins us on this episode to talk about what happened after he woke up in the hospital. 

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Jon wrote this piece about his brother and I wanted to include it. If you want to read it, you can find it here.

A college freshmen arrives to school and discovers that his room is on the basement level of his dorm. An older student on the floor talks about strange experiences and shows him an underground tunnel that students use to go between dorms during the winter. Everything is relatively normal until the last week of school.

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Kareem emailed Otherworld months ago saying that he was sexually assault by a Djinn (a mysterious entity known in Islamic culture). Initially I thought this email was a joke... but by pure chance I met Kareem in person and realized that the story was very serious. 

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If you want to follow Kareem he can be found on instagram at @kareem

He also makes music and actually has a halloween song coming out soon. Follow him on spotify here.

Shane and his Aunt Anne tell us about strange things that have been happening to her and the family. Anne has been receiving strange messages out of nowhere, and if she doesn't share them with the person they are meant for, she feels physically ill.

In Part 2 of The Man in the Hat we speak to the guy that runs The Hatman Project in hopes getting some answers about what has been terrorizing Lucas and Austen. 

The man behind the project is named Tim, and it turns out he not only saw this thing himself, the experience affected him so much that he became a pastor. Ever since then he has been documenting stories from people all over the world who have seen the same thing. 

Lucas experienced something very strange when he slept in his brother's bed. Years later, he found out that his brothers experienced the same thing his whole life. Things only get stranger from there. This is Part 1 of a 2 part story. Stay tuned for the 2nd episode later this week.

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Singer and Songwriter Bonnie McKee just earned her first big paycheck in the music industry and decided to treat herself to a weekend at a luxury spa deep in the woods of Southern California. However, this high end resort was not as relaxing as she hoped after one of her massage treatments took a very unexpected turn. 

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If you have experienced something paranormal or unexplained, email us your full story at stories@otherworldpod.com

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Welcome to Otherworld. Each week you will be hearing interviews with real people who experienced something paranormal or unexplained. This week we talk to Xavier and his Aunt Lou who both experienced strange phenomena on their family farm in Australia. 

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