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S12 Ep192: A Season with the Witch & The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe

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4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

What is it like to live in America's Witch Capital for the entire month of October? JW Ocker immersed his family into the culture of Salem, MA for 31 days to explore it's Mysteries & Histories plus a look at the short bizarre life of Edgar Allan Poe.

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0:00.0

I was set on being a Mounted Police Officer from a young age, but I knew it had to move

0:05.1

to make it happen, and for me, the Met presented endless opportunities.

0:10.0

From joining as a PC at age 23, I went into a variety of roles, from emergency response

0:15.3

to public order policing. As a sergeant in the Mounted Branch, my dream job became reality.

0:21.1

Now I've been promoted to Inspector, I can't wait to see where my career takes me next.

0:25.9

Become a Met Police Officer, search Met Police Careers.

0:55.9

Hello and welcome. You're tuned into the best and paranormal talk radio. This is beyond

1:11.6

the darkness. I'm your host Dave Schrader. Listen, we are in the season. We are in the Halloween

1:16.8

season. Now we're deep in its grasp, and I know a lot of you are interested in all the

1:21.2

great little scary bits of Halloween. We're going to try to talk some werewolves sometime

1:25.6

this month and vampires, but we'd be remiss if we didn't at least touch on witches.

1:30.8

There was a book that was brought to my attention, a season with the witch, the magic and mayhem

1:36.0

of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts. We're joined tonight by an Edgar award-winning travel writer

1:42.3

who spent an autumn living in one of America's spookiest tourist destinations, Salem, Massachusetts.

1:48.6

J.W. Ocker is here with us this evening to talk to us about that. You've written a great book

1:56.0

about Poland, not Poland, but Poland, Edgar Allan Poland and the hollowed haunts of Edgar Allan

2:02.5

Poe, too, my favorite topic. I'm looking forward to chatting with you and dipping into both tonight

2:06.9

if you don't mind. Yeah, yeah, sounds like fun days. What a cool deal. Now you've got a website. Tell

2:12.4

us a little bit about the website that you've got. Sure, sure. So with OthensifeSeen.com

2:18.1

and I like, I, I acronym that as Otis for OthensifeSeen and it's real simple. I just go to

2:25.4

weird places, weird sites, anything with a physical president's presence and I visit it. I write

2:31.4

about it, I take photos and post it. It's really simple, but it's like, I don't know, it's a really

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