Welcome to Otherworld.
I'm your host, Jack Wagner.
This episode takes place all the way back in 2010.
And even though that's quite far in the past at this point,
I'm pretty sure this experience still feels very fresh to the person you're about to hear from.
And it's something they're still trying to figure out how to process.
It happened to a woman named Athena.
who is now 34 and has spent much of her career working in hospice care,
which was really interesting to hear her talk about.
You'll hear a little bit of that in the beginning.
But the story itself takes place when she was in college and moved into a 120 year old house that was built in 1890 with a bunch of roommates.
I remember this time in my own life You're out on your own for the first time and often you end up living with either complete strangers or at least people who you don't know very well.
In situations like that, it's easy to not be super comfortable in your own home.
Everyone's trying to share the space, get along, not make waves,
and also kind of get to know each other for the first time.
All of that becomes very difficult for Athena at a certain point,
once strange things start happening in this house.
Specifically, they're happening in her room and around her.
To make matters worse,
it becomes very hard to get some of these housemates to take any of it seriously.