Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to the Otherworld Patreon. I'm your host, Jack Wagner. Last year, I remember we got an email from a girl named Soleil that was so wild that our producer Nikki walked over into the little studio where I do my editing and told me to come read it, which was kind of unusual. When I read it, I understood why. It really was a wild and magical story.
It was also a story that Soleil expressed hesitation in sharing because she said it's long and difficult to explain without feeling like she sounds crazy. However, it left a major impact on her and the friends she experienced it with, and it genuinely altered the course of her life. I ended up doing four long interviews with Soleil. I also spoke to her friends.
Part of what I do on the show and what takes up most of my time is listening to actually understand what happened to a person and then helping them explain it in a way that the audience can then understand it. And then, of course, editing all of that into what you finally hear on Otherworld.
Chapter 2: What inspired Soleil to share her wild story?
This one ended up being nine hours of interviews, which, as you can imagine, is a lot of editing. And after working at a puzzle of a story for so long, it's kind of easy to get lost in it and feel unsure if it's actually done or if I've done my job of making it make sense. you kind of start to question yourself after a certain point.
And sometimes I kind of start feeling a bit like Soleil described feeling in terms of her hesitation to share this story. But recently I've decided that with episodes like this, where I might never feel like I've actually finished it, it's best to just put it out on Patreon and let people actually listen to it.
If you think I'm exaggerating or playing up the weirdness of certain stories or getting lost in it or whatever, I have a bizarre little anecdote that I could share with you that occurred during the very first interview that I did with Soleil. I actually forgot about this completely. Until today. Like I said, this was the first conversation I had with her. We had barely said hello.
She didn't begin telling me the story or anything. We were just kind of getting set up. And I suddenly hear screeching tires and a huge crash right outside of my window. Somebody had crashed into a parked car outside of our studio. For some reason, I instinctively grabbed my phone and started taking pictures of the license plate of the car that caused the accident.
I don't know why I did, but I'm glad I did it because the car immediately started backing up and then sped off. I told Soleil, hang on. I think there was just a hit and run outside of my studio. I need to go see if these people are okay. And then I ran out and left her sitting there. Thankfully, she was very patient and understanding. And I actually have this part recorded.
It's a little hard to hear, but I do have it recorded. You could listen for yourself.
Oh my god. Is everybody okay?
Oh my god.
Okay, yeah, no, go do the good thing.
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Chapter 3: How did Soleil's experience at Folly Beach begin?
And I bring all of that up to say that most of the time, life is very mundane. But sometimes, strange things do happen out of nowhere. And what I've noticed is that oftentimes, when one strange thing occurs, it attracts even more strange things that then happen. Even with me, when I'm just listening to a strange story, sometimes bizarre stuff happens to me.
And when all of those things stack up on top of each other all at once, it makes you ask yourself, is all of this really happening? Or am I just losing my mind? Or am I in a dream and haven't quite realized it yet? This is a story with lots of unusual things happening all at the same time.
Chapter 4: What was the group's reaction to the Perseid meteor shower?
And I think Soleil would have definitely doubted herself if she didn't have friends there with her who experienced it at the same time. You're about to hear this from Soleil and her two friends, Scott and Callie, and I hope you enjoy. This episode is called Folly Beach Part One, and you're listening to The Otherworld Patreon.
I'm Soleil and I'm a surgery scheduler currently, but I think I'm going to go back to school next year for nursing. Um, cause I just, I love being in the medical community. I love working in the clinic.
Chapter 5: What unusual light did Soleil observe in the sky?
Uh, I was born in New Orleans. I didn't live there for very long.
Chapter 6: How did the light change as Soleil watched it?
The great Mississippi flood. ruined our home, and my mom had kind of had enough of it, so she moved us out to Washington State, lived there for a few years, and then we moved down to Cheyenne, Wyoming, lived there for a few years.
Chapter 7: What did Soleil think the light might be at first?
My mom remarried somebody in the military, and we ended up moving to Charleston. From there, I've since lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I'm now living in Columbia, South Carolina. My mom, she, so my mom was a deadhead. She was following them around whenever she met my biological father.
You know, so we kind of grew up with this like sort of hippie mom, but she was super hardworking to get us, you know, keep us safe, keep us in a house. And I didn't really see a lot of her when I was younger because she was sometimes working two or three jobs at a time. I was kind of a weird kid. I was really into reading. I was reading really scary stuff, and then I would give myself nightmares.
And I think at one point the school librarian called her and was like, you realize your daughter, who's in third grade, is checking out Stephen King and stuff. And my mom was like, you're not allowed to do that. Growing up, moving around so much, either I would find myself in places where I just didn't really have any peers or people who shared my interests.
Like, especially like Cheyenne, Wyoming, it's a really small community. I was like that weird girl at school who, you know, was, I mean, it's not that weird today, but back then it was, it was weird to, you know, sit by yourself and read. You know, that was kind of hard. Just kind of, it was a lonely childhood. It wasn't until I moved to South Carolina that I started to make some friends.
One of my first friends, her name is Vicky. She introduced me to a couple of the other, I guess we'll call them like alternative girls in the school. And we all loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And we would like, we all kind of lived in the same apartment complex or like close enough to each other. And so whenever we weren't at school, you could find us just sort of running around in the woods.
We would pretend that we were slayers or witches. One of my friends, Molly, her grandmother was a witch. She would lend us some of her books and stuff. So we just kind of went nuts with that. We just had a really good time. like, doing little spells we would find in this book.
At one point, my mom found a note that I had written to one of my friends, and I was talking about the witchcraft and stuff that we were doing, and she was like, what is this? And my stepdad, he'd never really been confronted with anything like that before, and he didn't understand that it was, like, kids kind of messing around, and he took it really seriously.
That same year, I was at a school dance, and there was a girl who had brought a gun to the school dance. It was a whole thing. Like, all the parents got called, and my mom had to come pick us up. And, like, everybody was, you know, like, we all got escorted out of the gymnasium. My mom was like, this is it. You're going to Christian school.
And so I ended up going to Christian school forāCultural Service Christian school for a year. And that was a really traumatizing experience because I kind of got ripped away from all of my friends and put in this school where I was just sort of automatically the odd one out. I remember one of my teachers... At one point, it was dress down day and I came in wearing like a Linkin Park t-shirt.
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