Welcome to the Otherworld Patreon.
I'm your host, Jack Wagnerm.
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.
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