Welcome to Other World.

I'm your host, Jack Wagner.

This episode is genuinely unlike anything we've done on the show before.

The story comes from a guy named Danny. It turns out

he actually owns a little Cuban cafe down the street from where I record, but that is not how

the story came to me. The story got submitted, and I remember reading it and thinking, wow, this one is

really far out there.

Definitely not the type of story that I typically put on another world.

And I moved on, ignored it, basically.

Later on, one of my friends asked me about it because he knows this guy.

He asked me what I thought, and I told him the

exact same thing. It's interesting, but I don't know if it's right for other world. He said,

dude, I've heard this guy tell me the story before. I know it sounds really weird, but just

interview him, give it a shot. I think once you hear him tell it, you'll understand. Just trust me.

So, that's exactly what I did. And it turns out, I ended up really liking it.

I am not entirely sure how to categorize this one. You know, I say on the show that other world covers the

paranormal, supernatural, and unexplained. This one definitely leans more towards the unexplained

side of things. But honestly, the main reason that I love this story is that to me, it's

kind of like a modern American myth. The story partially

takes place in MacArthur Park. This is a park in Los Angeles that is basically an open-air

drug market. There is really no way I could exaggerate how bad it is. In 1990 alone, there were 30 murders at MacArthur Park,

and when they drained the lake in 1973 and again in 1978, they found hundreds of handguns and other

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