Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast
J.W. Ocker
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Episode 39: Return to the Lizzie Borden House
For the second time in my life, I stay the night at the Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast, a crime scene turned morbid historical attraction. Hear me and my girlfriend Dani October talk about our…
Episode 38: Happy Halloween 2024
I discuss the 2024 OTIS Halloween Season that I do every year on oddthingsiveseen.com and how it kinda went awry from my original intention, and I go deeper into this year's theme of "Is Halloween…
Episode 37: Chasing Zombies in Romero-Land and Savini-ville
In this episode, we travel to Pittsburgh to see horror movie sites connected to George Romero and Tom Savini, while waxing (and waning) nostalgic on how much has changed at both the sites and in my…
Episode 36: Giant Sky Clams! A Reading from THE UNITED STATES OF CRYPTIDS
In this episode, I read the introduction to my book, "The United States of Cryptids," as well as an entry on one of the weirdest cryptids in its pages: The giant sky clams of Nevada. Come for the…
Episode 35: Movie Monster Museums I Have Loved
I have visited probably a dozen movie monster museums across this country in my time searching out oddity. Three of these museums stand out as my favorites--one in Nevada, one in Connecticut, and one…
Episode 34: Digging Through Mulder's Office: The X-Files Preservation Collection
The X-Files is my favorite show of all time. I was on the couch for its debut on September 10, 1993. So when I found out a museum of original props had opened a mere three hours from me, I wasted…
Episode 33: Visiting the Sites of the Martha Stewart of Serial Killers
My fascination with serial killers comes with a heaping load of shame, except for in one instance: Ed Gein. That's because without Gein, we might not have Norman Bates. Or Leatherface. Or Buffalo…
Episode 32: The Place Where the Music Died
On February 3, 1959, a small plane carrying pop stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper crashed into an Iowa cornfield, killing all three instantly and inspiring Don McLean to write…
Episode 31 (Special On-Location): Cryptid Kaiju of the Dakotas
In this special on-location episode, I head to North and South Dakota to see a couple of gigantic cryptid statues. In Bismarck, North Dakota, a quartet of Thunderbirds glower above a lightning storm…
Episode 30: That Time I Bought a Cursed Object
In this episode, I read from my latest nonfiction book, Cursed Objects, to talk about what exactly is a cursed object, as well as to tell the story of the time I bought one to see what would…
Episode 29: The Man Who Built a Mechanical Messiah
We visit High Rock Tower Park, where nineteenth century spiritualist John Murray Spear built his New Motive Power, aka, the God Machine, aka, the Infant Motor, aka, the Mechanical Messiah, all based…
Episode 28: Booing Ghosts: My Personal Take on the Paranormal
I’m a guy who digs the ghostly. I love the macabre. I obsessively search out spooky sites and objects like my afterlife depends on it. That means I always find myself in paranormal circles, be they…
Episode 27: A Haunted Tower, An Abandoned Base
We head to Cape Cod in Massachusetts to find neighboring, but very different oddities: A nineteenth century tower in a forest that is haunted by a famous opera singer who fights the local witch and…
Episode 26: A Reading from "A Season with the Witch"
A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts is my account of living in the city of Salem, Massachusetts, during the entire month of October, getting to the…
Episode 25 (On Location): Yea, Though I Walk Through an Abandoned Bible Theme Park
For this episode, we're going on location to an abandoned Bible theme park (and murder scene) looming over the town of Waterbury, Connecticut. It's oddities like these that this site and that podcast…
Episode 24: Running [to] the Asylum
My obsession with Danvers State Hospital (aka Danvers Insane Asylum) started with the horror movie Session 9 back in 2001, which was filmed inside the then 120-year-old abandoned asylum. Over the…
Episode 23: I Have a Favorite Cemetery
I take you back to where my love for cemeteries first started...Highgate Cemetery in London. I met her in 1999, returned to her in 2017. We go to both West and East Cemeteries, finding the graves of…
Episode 22: The New York Town That Talks to Ghosts
Lily Dale is an quaint little town in western New York that you'd probably like a lot…if you can stomach all the ghosts. But the residents like it that way. After all, they’re all mediums. In this…
Episode 21: A Tale of Two Torture Museums
Torture museums: Are they ghastly tourist traps with acute deficiencies of taste or family-friendly opportunities for history lessons? I have no clue! But I've been to two of them, one in Wisconsin…
Episode 20: The Two Most Bonkers Museums in the Country
I don't use the term bonkers lightly, but in this episode, I'm going to tell you about two of the most bonkers museums I've ever been to. And that image you have in your head when I say "museum"?…
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Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast has published 40 episodes since March 2019, covering topics in History, Places & Travel.
Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast is currently sporadic with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 19m.
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