Episode 159: A Room on the Road
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Otherworld
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This episode follows two different working musicians as they go on tour and find themselves spending their nights in less than ideal circumstances. Colm, in Barcelona, is shocked to find objects moving on their own and a mysterious old woman barging into the apartment. Meanwhile, Shelby in New Orleans, must endure the night in a windowless, pitch-black room that harbors a dark and threatening presence.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Other World. I'm your host, Jack Wagner. In this episode, we have two shorter stories about being a touring musician and the horrors of the road from attempted robberies |
| 0:24.0 | to haunted houses and other uncomfortable places one has to crash while they're on tour |
| 0:31.2 | this first story comes from a guy named colum interestingly enough i met Colum while recording an episode of Otherworld. |
| 0:41.4 | He has been on the show before very briefly. |
| 0:45.4 | In fact, now that I think about it, this might be one of the strangest ways that I've ever met a person. |
| 0:51.7 | This was during the series of episodes titled Them. |
| 0:56.0 | In that series, there was a very surreal moment |
| 1:00.0 | where I suddenly needed somebody to translate Norwegian for me. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm sure many of you remember this. |
| 1:07.0 | I sent out a bunch of very frantic messages to my friends, and very quickly, my friend Lily put me on a Zoom call with a couple people on the other side of the world who are willing to help me, and one of those people was call him. I did not know him then. I have since met him in person and hung out several times. |
| 1:30.5 | He is a really nice guy who thankfully did not judge me for the incredibly strange first impression |
| 1:38.2 | I must have made on him. In fact, it turns out that Colum has had some strange experiences of his own. |
| 1:47.9 | The one you're about to hear takes place while he's on tour in Barcelona with his friend Louisa. |
| 1:56.2 | I'll let them take it from here. |
| 1:58.7 | This episode is called A Room on the Road, |
| 2:02.6 | and you're listening to Otherworld. |
| 2:08.7 | Hello? |
| 2:09.4 | Is this Bobby? |
| 2:10.2 | Yes, it is. |
| 2:10.8 | At its core, the science, you can't argue. |
| 2:13.1 | It's not only. |
| 2:13.5 | I'm worried about all the science. |
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