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Episode 148: Athena

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Otherworld

Society & Culture

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Athena had just moved into her first rental with four roommates from college and was excited to start off her sophomore year in what she believed to be was the perfect house in the neighborhood she always dreamed of. It was only a few weeks into living there when Athena and her roommates began noticing strange occurrences, from unexplainable noises to electronics going off. When they all decide to use an ouija board in an attempt to inquire more , things only takes a turn for the worse


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:42.9

I'm your host, Jack Wagner.

0:45.6

This episode takes place all the way back in 2010.

0:50.7

And even though that's quite far in the past at this point,

1:01.4

I'm pretty sure this experience still feels very fresh to the person you're about to hear from.

1:06.4

And it's something they're still trying to figure out how to process.

1:36.3

It happened to a woman named Athena, who is now 34, and has spent much of her career working in hospice care, which was really interesting to hear her talk about. You'll hear a little bit of that in the beginning. But the story itself takes place when she was in college and moved into a 120-year-old house that was built in 1890 with a bunch of roommates. I remember this time in my own life. You're out on your own for the first time, and often you end up living with either complete strangers

1:48.5

or at least people who you don't know very well in situations like that it's easy to not be

1:56.3

super comfortable in your own home everyone's trying to share the space, get along, not make waves,

2:04.4

and also kind of get to know each other for the first time. All of that becomes very difficult

2:10.5

for Athena at a certain point once strange things start happening in this house.

2:18.3

Specifically, they're happening in her room and around her.

2:23.3

To make matters worse, it becomes very hard to get some of these housemates to take any of it seriously.

2:31.3

I thought this was such a great story. I really enjoyed speaking to Athena.

2:36.8

I could tell this is something that she's still processing a bit. I also could tell that she was

2:43.3

a little self-conscious talking about this stuff. She would sometimes nervously apologize to me,

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