Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast
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Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast
I visit odd things, I tell their stories, and I tell you how to find them.
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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...
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...
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 h...
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...
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 favo...
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 ha...
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...
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 thre...
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 quarte...
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...
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 Infa...
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 al...
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 fam...
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...
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 od...
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...
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...
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 tha...
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!...
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 ima...
Episode 19: JAWS in a Chicken Wing Joint
We're headed to Staten Island. to a chicken wing joint. That has a 13-foot-long artificial great white shark hanging from its ceiling whose name is JA...
Episode 18: She's Also the "I" in OTIS, Part 2
In Part 2 of this interview with my wife about this thing called OTIS, we delve into her photography and how that intersects with the project, some of...
Episode 17: She's Also the "I" in OTIS, Part 1
For almost the entire 12 years of OTIS, there have actually been two I's in that acronym, my own and my wife's. Lindsey's never told her half of the O...
Episode 16: Physical Evidence of Hollow Earth Theory...Believers
In this episode, I take you to Hamilton, Ohio, to see the hollow-earth-inspired gravestone of one of the theory's biggest evangelists, and then we go...
Episode 15 (Special On-Location): A Monk Cave, a Vampire Grave, and a Witch Path
We recently trekked to the Springfield area of Massachusetts to see some seriously weird, creepy, and fascinating oddity, and recording the whole outi...
Episode 14: How to Do Sleepy Hollow
Gather 'round, and I'll elucidate, everything I've learned over a decade of visiting Sleepy Hollow, New York, during the Halloween season. The only th...
Episode 13: How to Do Salem
In this episode, I answer the four questions I'm always asked about Salem, Massachusetts: When to go there, what to do there, what are my favorite spo...
Episode 12: PS — New Hampshire is Swarming with UFOs
We're one month away from the 58th anniversary of the most famous alien abduction in the history of the lore: The Betty and Barney Hill Incident. On t...
Episode 11: The Unabashed Horrors of Zak Bagan's Haunted Museum
In a first for this podcast, I present a candid, unscripted story of my recent visit to The Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. The museum is owned b...
Episode 10 (Special On-Location): Maryland, Scaryland
In our second ever Special On-Location episode, I take you with me on a recent road trip we took to Baltimore, Maryland, to see some of the sights tha...
Episode 9: A Giant Squid and an Even Bigger Titan of Biology
In this episode, I take you behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum in London to witness the most mindboggling biological artifacts in the ent...
Episode 8: House of a Sinner, Arm of a Saint
In this episode, I take you to the house where infamous occultist Aleister Crowley enjoyed a magick retirement and then to the severed arm of Saint Ed...
Episode 7 (Special On-Location): A Jaunting in Connecticut
In this special episode of Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast, I take you on location with me on a road trip I took last Saturday to see five oddities...
Episode 6: The Fire that Froze Pompeii
We're going international in this episode, heading to Italy to see what it's like/how exhausting it is to visit both Pompeii and Vesuvius in a single...
Episode 5: A Garden Full of Cobra Lilies and Corpse Flowers
Plants are 80% of the planet's biomass. So it makes sense that there are some odd plants out there. I've seen a few in my day. Like a swamp full of co...
Episode 4: Lying in Bed, Just Like Lizzie Borden Did
The story of Lizzie Borden and the ax murder of her parents has been told...to death. But the oddest part of the story is that today...you can stay th...
Episode 3: Playing Chicken with Area 51
We head out to the Nevada desert to play chicken with Area 51. And see an Independence Day (the movie) time capsule. And eat at an alien-themed eatery...
Episode 2: Let's Picnic at a Flaming Ghost Town
Centralia, Pennsylvania, is a ghost town...on fire. Beneath its grass blades, a coal fire rages that has burned for half a century and will burn for c...
Episode 1: The Spookiest Statue in the Cemetery…and the Smithsonian
A suicide brought it into existence. A copy of it turned evil. You can find a version of it in a graveyard, at the Smithsonian, at an artist's studio...
Introducing Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast!
My name is J.W. Ocker. For more than a decade, in my spare time, I have sought out odd sites and artifacts. I'm terrible at maps and bad at driving, b...