Episodes
Sunday Apr 07, 2019
Episode 3: Playing Chicken with Area 51
Sunday Apr 07, 2019
Sunday Apr 07, 2019
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. And generally look for the truth that is out there.
- Pictures from The Extraterrestrial Highway.
- Pictures from Area 51.
- The video of the tour group accidentally crossing the line into Area 51.
- Address for the Little A'Le'Inn: 9631 Old Mill Rd, Alamo, NV
- GPS coordinates for the turnoff to Area 51: 37.457170, -115.483479
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Monday Mar 25, 2019
Episode 2: Let's Picnic at a Flaming Ghost Town
Monday Mar 25, 2019
Monday Mar 25, 2019
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 centuries longer. Smoke wafts over the sites where neighborhoods once stood. Roads choke on overgrowth. Pockets beneath the topsoil are waiting to cave in at the next footstep. The idea of the place is terrifying. But the reality of the place is...fascinating. Heck, I brought my family with me on one of my visits.
- Photos from my first visit to Centralia.
- Photos from my second visit to Centralia.
- GPS coordinates for the town: 40.804336, -76.342517 (but really, you just have to tell Google Maps to take you to Centralia)
- GPS Coordinates for the old damaged Route 61: 40.779370, -76.366882
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- I also write books. Spooky books.
Sunday Mar 10, 2019
Episode 1: The Spookiest Statue in the Cemetery…and the Smithsonian
Sunday Mar 10, 2019
Sunday Mar 10, 2019
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 in New England...and outside, just around the corner from the White House. Come with me, J.W. Ocker, as we visit the Adams Memorial and its Mr. Hyde, the Black Aggie, and learn the strange story that entwines them.
Photos on OddThingsIveSeen.com of the funerary sculptures.
Sites you can visit:
- Rock Creek Cemetery (Adams Memorial): 201 Allison St NW, Washington, DC
- Druid Ridge Cemetery (Black Aggie pedestal): 7900 Park Heights Ave, Pikesville, MD
- Howard T. Markey National Courts Building (Black Aggie): 717 Madison Pl NW, Washington, DC
- Hay-Adams Hotel (Site of Clover Adams' suicide): 800 16th St NW, Washington, DC
- Saint-Gauden's National Historic Site (Home of sculptor, with a casting of the statue): 139 St Gaudens Rd, Cornish, NH
- Smithsonian American Art Museum (Site of a casting of the statue): F St NW &, 8th St NW, Washington, DC
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Friday Mar 01, 2019
Introducing Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast!
Friday Mar 01, 2019
Friday Mar 01, 2019
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, but 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.