Otherworld

Gabi Abrão grew up with a Brazilian father who believes everything in the physical world is connected to the spiritual. When Gabi and her sister would lose a toy, he taught them to call upon a deity that commands "the souls of the spirit children" for help finding the item. In high school, she had a health teacher that secretly did psychic experiments with the students.

She has a lot of strange stories from her unusual childhood and eccentric father but the real reason I wanted to talk to her was about something that happened very recently involving Astral Projection. Gabi started experiencing this as an adult, and after having a very vivid and specific astral projection journey, she ended up meeting somebody who had been to the same place.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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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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.

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. 

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. 

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" 

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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

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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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. 

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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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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