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
- 2024-10-30 19:56
- last episode published
- 2024-10-28 20:20
- publication frequency
- 54.42 days
- Contributors
- J.W. Ocker
- Author
- J.W. Ocker
- Owner
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- Number of Episodes
- 39
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Episodes
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| 2024-10-28 | 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 Getting Annoying?" Support this podcast and other of my... |
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| 2024-09-08 | 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 own life since my original 2006 visit to the place bac... |
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| 2024-07-23 |
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 bigfoot parties. Stay for the flying mollusks. Buy The ... |
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| 2024-06-30 | 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 in Massachusetts. Come with me and let's be old-fash... |
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| 2024-06-23 |
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 only two years to get there. See photos from my visit he... |
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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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