Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast
My name is J.W. Ocker. For more than a decade, I have sought out odd sites and artifacts. I believe that within a tank or two of gas of any point in the country are oddities worth trekking to on a Saturday afternoon. And I have the stories as proof.
- Website
- https://oddthingsiveseen.podbean.com
- Description
- I visit odd things, I tell their stories, and I tell you how to find them.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2023-08-19 17:43
- last episode published
- 2021-08-22 10:05
- publication frequency
- 27.41 days
- Contributors
- J.W. Ocker
- Author
- J.W. Ocker
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 34
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Episodes
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| 2021-08-22 |
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 Bill. Or the Firefly family. So my shame load was only a... |
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| 2021-07-11 | 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 American Pie. We trudge into that cornfield, to see the ... |
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| 2021-05-20 |
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 on the banks of the Missouri. Then I drive five hours... |
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| 2021-05-01 | 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 happen. Buy Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the ... |
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| 2021-03-10 | 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 on plans that the ghosts of Benjamin Franklin and Soc... |
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| 2021-02-28 |
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 crop, spellcasting, or fairy. I’m constantly absorbing... |
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| 2020-12-20 | 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 an abandoned air force base with connections to a UFO ... |
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| 2020-09-29 | 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 heart of this weird city during its weirdest season. In t... |
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| 2020-09-17 |
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 and, well, I (me?) are made for. Photos from my vis... |
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| 2020-08-04 | 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 next two decades, I visited the site, found the asylum c... |
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