About Otherworld

Otherworld is an award winning weekly podcast that shares first-hand stories from real people who have experienced something paranormal, supernatural or unexplained. Hosted by Jack Wagner, the show has released more than 180 episodes since 2022 and has been featured in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and GQ.

Each episode features a deeply personal account, shaped through hours of interviews to explore not only what the storyteller experienced, but what it means to them. These are not tales from the fringe. They are stories from ordinary people who have lived through events that defy explanation, often keeping them secret for fear of being judged.

Our mission

Otherworld has become a platform to amplify these voices, as well as a space for experts to share their knowledge and work, which is often overlooked by traditional sciences. Our mission is to foster curiosity and empathy by taking an open-minded, journalistic approach to the mysteries of our world. We offer a place for skeptics, believers and everyone in between to challenge reality and confront the inexplicable.

The goal of Otherworld is to destigmatize these topics, encourage more people to come forward and make it normal to talk about the paranormal.

What Otherworld covers

 

Otherworld explores the full range of paranormal, supernatural and unexplained experiences, including ghosts, hauntings, apparitions, poltergeists, liminal spaces, shadow people, demonic encounters, possession, UFOs, UAPs, alien encounters, abductions, missing time, cryptids, Bigfoot, skinwalkers, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, astral projection, lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, hypnagogia, past lives, reincarnation, ESP, telepathy, telekinesis, premonitions, precognitive dreams, synchronicities, mediums, after-death communication, angels, spirit guides, fairies, folklore, curses, cursed objects, witchcraft, portals, time slips, glitches in the matrix, doppelgängers, high strangeness and countless other phenomena that defy explanation. 

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meet the TEAM

Jack Wagner

Host & Executive Producer

Theodore Schafer

Engineer/Producer

Theodore Schafer is a musician and audio engineer that lives in New York. He plays bass in a grindcore band and his favorite video game is Bloodborne.

Nicki Kate Delgado

Producer

Nicki was born and raised in East LA and graduated from Williams College in 2023. If you are emailing Otherworld to send in your story, it will most likely be read by Nicki. Nicki does outreach, coordinates and helps conduct our interviews. She is craft artist, a life-long mystic, and a lover to the universe. She likes: beading, dolphins, nuns, small figurines, flowers, bells, boulders, horses, churches, rainbows, old textiles, and bodies of water.

Haley Pehrson

Producer

Haley is a filmmaker and writer splitting her time between New York and Los Angeles. In her spare time, she makes prop weapons and artifacts in hopes that one day she might have to use them. 

Theo Krantz

Editor

Theo lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he writes and records experimental music, organizes a monthly concert series, and collects cassette tapes.