Welcome to Otherworld.
I'm your host, Jack Wagner.
In the previous episode, we met a software engineer and musician named David, who was camping in Ojai,
California as a teenager when he had a terrifying experience with a UFO above his tent.
He described not only seeing this craft,
but the craft making an incredibly loud humming sound that resonated throughout his entire body.
He told me that he had never heard anything like it before,
and he never heard anything like it after until years later when his girlfriend took him to a sound bath out in the desert near Joshua Tree at a place called the Integratron.
During the sound bath,
the frequencies of the glass bowls being rung in this acoustic dome resonated throughout his body.
and instantly gave David vivid flashbacks to this experience he had as a teenager.
He told me that it was the first time he had ever heard anything slightly similar to the sound that this UFO made.
And to make things weirder, when David left the sound bath,
he learned that the building it was in was no ordinary building.
It's called the Integratron, and it was built by an aerospace engineer named George Van Tassel who claimed...
to have been given the instructions on how to build it by an extraterrestrial named Salgonda.
After the interview with David,
I spent several months reaching out to the current owners of the Integratron in hopes of learning more about the history of the building.
They declined.
However, I eventually was introduced to Daniel Paul,