“Spirituality and energies and all that stuff is mainstream now,” said Evan Ramroth, 22, a college student in Rhode Island who listens to “Otherworld.” “It’s a big thing in my age demographic and the subject matter of the podcast goes hand and hand with it. I think young people are more prone to looking at things with an open mind. We’re caught in this world where if you look at things through a realistic lens, they look pretty bleak.
Unlike other paranormal podcasts, Wagner interviews people who have had paranormal experiences directly, and often goes to great lengths to investigate their validity. In one episode, where two brothers talk about seeing the same strange, dark figure wearing a hat, Wagner tracks down the founder of a “hat man” forum that catalogues these types of supernatural sightings. Wagner interviews the forum founder about the root of these visions and his background as a priest.
Wagner plays the role of a podcast world Fox Mulder, the FBI agent from “X-Files” who investigated unexplained phenomena — open-minded, curious, and able to pull a great story out of anyone. “The idea that maybe there’s more than what we all experience day-to-day, that excites me,” Wagner said. “More than anything I think these are incredible stories, no matter what you believe about the paranormal.
Sam Hunter, 22, an outdoor educator in Ohio and fan of the show, said the fact that people on the show aren’t inherent believers themselves or trying to oversell their experiences appeals to him. “It sounds like the people on the show feel like they’re forced to believe these things because of what happened to them,” he said. “That’s really a unique element compared to other paranormal podcasts.
Escapism is the core appeal of “Otherworld.” The stories in each episode offer the alluring possibility that there’s more to this world than what we’re experiencing., an independent internet culture researcher. “They no longer believe in rational scientific expert ways of organizing the world, and that’s manifesting in all these fringe belief systems, which includes religion, spirituality, paranormal and things that are largely unexplained.
The battpoltergeist and uncanny from the BBCSounds and danny_robins are excellent.
Til the paranormal becomes normal. Then the fascination will be with our conscious
A lot of Americans seem to be bailing out on real life lately. It’s sad, but I guess I understand it.
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