Welcome to Otherworld.
I'm your host, Jack Wagner.
This episode takes place all the way back in 1981 in Madison, Wisconsin.
It comes from a woman named Christina, and it all starts when her 13-year-old half-brother Jay starts telling the family
that he knows he will die soon because he saw it in a dream.
He doesn't seem upset by it.
He just starts talking about it regularly in a very matter-of-fact way, as though he wants to be prepared.
This is something that the family wasn't quite taking seriously at first.
I mean, middle school boys do and say lots of strange things.
But as time went on, and he continued to talk about it, they started to grow concerned.
I'll let Christina take it from here.
This episode is called Fair Warning, and you're listening to Otherworld.
My name is Christina Amalong and I live in my hometown actually in Madison, Wisconsin.
I'm just about to have my 62nd birthday, and I had this very profound thing happen to me when I was 16,
17 years old, and I 've been probing its mystery ever since.
So I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, but also my parents were raised just like an hour and a half in the countryside
near Spring Green, Wisconsin, in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
So I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up,
but also our neighborhood was on the edge or is on the edge of a marsh.
And so there was a lot of the kids just.