Episodes
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Episode 13: How to Do Salem
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Friday Sep 13, 2019
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 spots there, and how do I feel about partying on the corpses of the murdered?
- All of my OTIS articles on Salem.
- My book on Salem, which I wrote after living there for all of October: A Season With the Witch: The Madness and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem
- The 2019 OTIS Halloween Season is in full swing over at oddthingsiveseen.com.
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- I also write other books that you can buy. Spooky books.
Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
Episode 12: PS — New Hampshire is Swarming with UFOs
Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
Tuesday Aug 27, 2019
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 the 47th anniversary, my wife and I, newly arrived in New Hampshire, spent a night retracing their route through the White Mountains, and then we saw their graves, actual artifacts from the incident, and a bathroom gas station exhibit dedicated to them. The truth is in the Granite State.
- Photos from our reenactment and our visits to the two exhibits.
- Address for the roadside sign:664 US-3, Lincoln, NH
- Address for the gas station exhibit: 467 US-3, Lincoln, NH
- Address for their graves: 8-2 N Rd, Kingston, NH
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Sunday Aug 11, 2019
Episode 11: The Unabashed Horrors of Zak Bagan's Haunted Museum
Sunday Aug 11, 2019
Sunday Aug 11, 2019
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 by Zak Bagans (of "Ghost Adventures" fame) and features the earthly remains of Charles Manson, Jack Kevorkian's van, a dybbuk box, and a jaw-dropping array of other oddities, murderbilia, and paranormal artifacts.
- Address for the Haunted Museum: 600 E. Charleston Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89104
- Website for the Haunted Museum.
- No photos for this episode, as photos were not allowed.
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- I also write books that you can buy. Spooky books.
Monday Jul 22, 2019
Episode 10 (Special On-Location): Maryland, Scaryland
Monday Jul 22, 2019
Monday Jul 22, 2019
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 that make the state so spooky, including the unmarked grave of Herman Munster, the site where the Ouija board named itself, the Edgar Allan Poe House, and on a whim, we head up to the top of the Washington Monument...Baltimore's Washington Monument.
- Photos from the trip.
- Photos of Elijah Bond's Oujia board grave.
- Photos of the Edgar Allan Poe House.
- Address for Fred Gwynne's Grave: 2101 Old Westminster Pike, Finksburg, MD
- Address for the Oujia board plaque (the Baltimore Washington Monument is across the street): 529 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD
- Address for the George Peabody Library: 17 E Mt Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD
- Address for the Edgar Allan Poe House:203 N Amity St, Baltimore, MD
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Monday Jul 08, 2019
Episode 9: A Giant Squid and an Even Bigger Titan of Biology
Monday Jul 08, 2019
Monday Jul 08, 2019
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 entire collection: Archie the Giant Squid and actual specimens bottled by Charles Darwin himself on his world-changing HMS Beagle voyage. Oh, and I embark on a side quest for an infamous cursed jewel. Lotta stuff going on in this episode.
- Photos of Archie the Giant Squid and Darwin's specimens.
- The behind-the-scenes Spirit Collection tour page.
- Photos of my visit to the giant squid at the Smithsonian.
- Photos of my visit to Damien Hirst's bediamoned skull.
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Monday Jun 17, 2019
Episode 8: House of a Sinner, Arm of a Saint
Monday Jun 17, 2019
Monday Jun 17, 2019
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 Edmund. Surprisingly, neither of these two sites are in Europe. They're in New England. And they are mere hours from each other. The depth of oddity in any given state is astounding.
- Aleister Crowley House: 14 Church Lane, Hebron, NH
- Arm of Saint Edmund: 1 Enders Island, Mystic, CT
- Photos of the Arm of Saint Edmund.
- Photos of the Aleister Crowley House.
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- I also write books that you can buy. Spooky books.
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Episode 7 (Special On-Location): A Jaunting in Connecticut
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Monday Jun 03, 2019
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 in Connecticut: Two sites connected to a Great Awakening preacher who has haunted me since childhood, a minor witch memorial, the house of a serial killer who inspired a delightful comedy movie, and an abandoned amusement park. This is the episode I show you what I mean by "within a tank or two of gas of any point in this country is some seriously cool oddity."
Too see photos from this trip, visit the OTIS Patreon Page, and download Issue 157 of the weekly OTIS Club Newsletter. This particular issue is free to the public, and if you like it, please consider joining so that I can do more podcasts like this one and so that you can have the maximum dosage of oddity in your life as recommended by the surgeon general.
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Monday May 20, 2019
Episode 6: The Fire that Froze Pompeii
Monday May 20, 2019
Monday May 20, 2019
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 day. Volcanic ghost towns might be the most fascinating ghost towns.
- Pics from out stroll through Pompeii.
- Pics from our ascent up a foggy Vesuvius.
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Monday May 06, 2019
Episode 5: A Garden Full of Cobra Lilies and Corpse Flowers
Monday May 06, 2019
Monday May 06, 2019
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 cobra lilies in Oregon and a seven-foot-tall phallus-shaped corpse flower in New Hampshire. Let's get botanical.
- Pics from our time among the cobra lilies.
- Pics of our our meeting with a corpse flower.
- Address for Darlington State Park: 5400 Mercer Lake Rd, Florence, OR
- Address for the Dartmouth Life Sciences Center: 15 Dewey Field Road, Hanover, NH
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- I also write books that you can buy. Spooky books.
Sunday Apr 21, 2019
Episode 4: Lying in Bed, Just Like Lizzie Borden Did
Sunday Apr 21, 2019
Sunday Apr 21, 2019
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 the night at the crime scene. Which. We. Did.
- Pics from our night at Lizzie Borden's.
- More pics from our night at Lizzie Borden's.
- Address for Lizzie Borden's B&B: 230 Second St., Fall River MA
- Address for Maplecroft: 306 French St., Fall River, MA
- Address for the Borden family grave plot: 765 Prospect St., Fall River, MA
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- I also write books that you can buy. Spooky books.