Welcome to other world. I'm your host Jack Wagner.

I think in the first few episodes of the show, I referred to other world as a kind of mini series,

which it was. I was not sure if people would listen to it or if there would be a reason to continue.

I really wasn't sure what to think, what was going to happen. But we're about 30 episodes in now,

and I'm sure most of you have probably figured out that this project is not mini, nor is it a series,

and it's not stopping anytime soon. I've had an overwhelming amount of submissions,

and the show has a lot more listeners than I ever expected, and we're just getting started.

So thank you for that. I originally thought this would be a fun little side project,

but at this point, I'm dedicating all of my time to it, because I believe in it,

and I'm so excited about the things that are coming in the future. Lots of the bigger,

more complicated, difficult stories and themes. I've had to kind of push into the future,

because I needed more time to carefully work on them. Also, I got married last week,

and some of these topics and themes are so strange that in some cases, I kind of had to be like,

all right, this is becoming a post-wedding investigation, because some of them start to become

all-consuming and take up a lot of space in your brain. I'll just put it that way.

Some of these stories aren't just one story. They're patterns, unexpected patterns.

Now look, I'm not a paranormal guy. I'm not up late at night reading the forums,

learning about the lore. I'm not a believer, and I'm not a skeptic. I don't need any of this to be real.

I'm here to tell stories about people, and do everything in my power to get to the bottom of things

if I can. So that's all to say that, as I go through these emails and interview people,

there have been a few patterns that have come up, and these patterns are things that I've noticed

completely in a vacuum, without outside influence, without a ton of knowledge about

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