Welcome to Otherworld.
I'm your host, Jack Wagner.
This episode features two experiences from two different people and one of these people is actually one of the earliest interviews I ever did for Otherworld.
I've been sitting on this for way too long and I'm so glad that we could finally put it in an episode.
The first story you're about to hear comes from a woman named Amy and it takes place in 1997 when she was 21 and her sister was 26.
At this time they were living together in San Francisco,
but their parents lived all the way in the very northern part of California in a town called Crescent City.
Now it just so happened that I had been to Crescent City myself right before interviewing Amy,
and I was pretty excited to hear that this is where the story took place.
I'm pretty sure you'll hear me in the episode very shortly.
If you aren't familiar, Crescent City is a very unique place.
It is literally the furthest north you can go in the state of California,
and it really does feel like the edge of the world.
when you're out there.
On one side of Crescent City is the Pacific Ocean.
On the other side is one of the oldest forests in America, the Jedediah Smith Redwoods.
This is an incredible, huge,
and mysterious old growth forest that contains some of the biggest trees in the entire world.
In fact,
some of these trees are so large that their locations are kept secret in order to preserve them.