Episode 182 - Close to Home
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Welcome to Otherworld. I'm your host, Jack Wagner. We've got a double feature for you this week, two stories from two different people. And we put these two together because they both involve encountering something unexplainable and possibly extraterrestrial right outside the place where people often feel the most protected, home. It's hard to imagine seeing something so extreme and to have it happen in a place as ordinary as your own house, the place you know better than anything else and you feel the most comfortable in. It brings up the question of why these things choose to manifest where they do if it's a choice at all. This first story comes from somebody named Charlotte who witnessed something unexplainable in the sky with her now ex.
During the early days of COVID, what caught my eye in Charlotte's original email to us is how much she downplayed this experience. She said, and I quote, I don't like the story because I find it dissatisfying to tell. I guess I still don't know what to make of it. I just don't have anything to grip onto in terms of understanding what it is, which is dissatisfying. And I also feel like I sound totally nuts when I tell it, which isn't very often, but I can also tell most people I've told it to don't fully believe me, which is fair. I don't think if I were them, I would believe me 100% either. Reading all of that while knowing exactly what she did see made me extra curious to talk to her because I assure you what Charlotte saw was not bland or dissatisfying at all.
I'll let her take it from here. This episode is called Close to Home and you're listening to Otherworld.
Hello?
Is this Bobby? Yes, it is. At its core, the science, you can't argue with. I'm worried about all the science.
Up in the sky. It's almost frustrating that it's happening. I'm going to die. His limbs
were just like, wrong. Everybody moves back into the light, even if it takes them a minute.
I'm Charlotte. I'm 25. I'm from coastal BC. I live in Montreal. I've been here for about five years now. I graduated my bachelor's degree last summer. So I've just been taking kind of a gap year, just working and figuring out what I'm going to do this fall. I work at a YMCA as a lifeguard and aqua fit instructor. And then I also, I'm a busser as well.
Aqua fit instructor?
Yeah, you know, like water aerobics.
Like for the old ladies?
Yeah.
Wow.
Mostly old ladies, but every once in a while, there's an old dude. And every once in a while, like every once, once in a while, there's a 30 something year old. I'm from a small town on the Sunshine Coast in BC. Now that I don't live there, I have much more of an appreciation for it, which is so classic, but it's really beautiful and really special growing up with so much forest around, so many mountains. The ocean, yeah, just so gorgeous. So much wildlife as well. Bears, deer, sea otters, eagles, ravens, whales, all the good stuff. So anyway, you grow up in a place like that and you think that the world is just like that. And then you leave and you're like, no, not everywhere is like that. And I really miss the ocean a lot because it's just so special and beautiful and I love swimming.
But I kind of resented it growing up because it's like, you know, small town vibe. Everyone knows each other. Everyone's in each other's business. You don't really have a sense of privacy. But yeah, small town, small town. Everyone knows each other. Everyone knows each other's business. There's all this like gossip and drama.
How small are we talking here?
I guess not that small for BC. When I was growing up there, the population was about 15,000 people in the whole like regional district, which is pretty much just like the town, but then also includes some people like a little bit like north of town and south of town, which is still town. But yeah, about 15,000 people is a little bit more now. So it's small, but not as small as like a lot of other places in BC. Yeah, I graduated in 2019. At the time, I was still with my high school partner. And then we broke up in the winter of 2019.
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