About ECHOES OF ELSEWHERE | an urban exploration podcast
Echoes of Elsewhere explores the forgotten, the haunted, and the hidden.
Through immersive storytelling and in-depth interviews with fellow explorers and seekers of the strange.
Each episode uncovers the echoes left behind in abandoned places.
This season introduces Beyond the Abandoned—a segment where the forgotten meets the paranormal + beyond.
Follow on social media @urbexechoes and on the Echoes of Elsewhere FB page for more!
For nearly two years, I’ve been walking through places that most people have long since walked away from.
Abandoned homes. Forgotten schools. Empty hospitals. Farms, hotels, churches, factories.. places where something once existed, and now only traces of it remain.
But somewhere along the way, Echoes of Elsewhere became about more than exploring abandoned places.
It became about the people who are drawn to them. The stories we uncover. The beauty we find in decay. The things we leave behind. And the things these places somehow manage to leave behind in us.
The Shape of Absence is my first long-form film and the Season 4 finale of Echoes of Elsewhere. It’s a reflection on nearly two years of exploring, photographing, filming, and trying to understand why we’re so captivated by places that have been left behind.
With the help of some incredible explorers from the community who contributed their voices and experiences, this film brings together the ideas, moments, and questions that have shaped this journey so far.
This is more than a film about abandoned places.
It’s about what happens when we step through the threshold and allow those places to reflect something back at us.
And for the first time, you can experience Echoes of Elsewhere not only through your headphones, but on screen as well.
Welcome to The Shape of Absence.
Season 5 begins October 31st.
Explore the contributors, episode links, and everything Echoes of Elsewhere below.
KENNETH (https://www.instagram.com/liceagak)
MORGAN (https://www.instagram.com/_explore_mor)
BLAKE (https://www.instagram.com/allamericanruins/)
STEV (https://www.instagram.com/stev_hull_allen)
CHRIS (https://www.instagram.com/bloodrocutioner)
TY (https://www.instagram.com/exploring_with_ty)
NOLADEEJ (https://www.instagram.com/noladeej)
ECHOES SITES + SOCIALS (hopp.bio/urbexechoes)
31 Aug 2026
EP. 52 | TRESPASSING THROUGH TIME | Interview with @Dauntless_Obscura_
In this episode of "Echoes of Elsewhere" Courtney Autumn sits down with photographer, explorer and friend Eva, known in the urbex community as Dauntless Obscura, discussing how shared exploration can become real connection.
Eva shares how her fascination with abandoned places began in childhood, how she got serious about photographing bandos after buying her first digital camera in 2010, and how she began posting consistently on Instagram around 2019–2020 after discovering the online urbex community.
They talk about Buffalo’s evolving abandoned and renovated sites, including Buffalo Terminal and Silo City’s American Malting building conversion, plus favorite location types like industrial decay, theaters, temples, and prisons.
The conversation includes safety and police encounters, bucket-list international spots like a famed overseas power plant and Chernobyl, and ends with Courtney previewing the Season Four finale project, "The Shape of Absence."
DAUNTLESS OBSCURA IG (https://www.instagram.com/dauntless_obscura_/)
ECHOES OF ELSEWHERE SITE, SOCIALS + MORE (https://www.hopp.bio/urbexechoes)
18 Aug 2026
EP. 51 | THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS | Beyond The Abandoned (5)
On this episode of Echoes of Elsewhere we dive in to another segment of Beyond the Abandoned to tell the story of Cati Blauvelt, a 22-year-old from Simpsonville, South Carolina, who vanished on October 24, 2016. After midnight on October 26, her friends searched an abandoned farmhouse in the woods and found her body concealed in the basement; she had been stabbed. Suspicion quickly focused on her husband, Army recruiter John Blauvelt, amid a volatile marriage and allegations of domestic violence, he then fled the state with 17-year-old Hannah Thompson. A cross-country manhunt followed, with surveillance and vehicle evidence, Hannah’s later statements that John admitted killing Katie, and years of John living under an alias in Oregon until his 2022 arrest.
For more details and sources used for this episode visit the links below:
911 CALL | Audio Source (https://youtube.com/shorts/PvrE_pNPx54?si=-ZtxoI47QM-kQ2-E)
NEWS RELEASE | Hannah Thompson (https://youtu.be/QyIZT1d6yBk?si=Em0rlCRKvoAkuyU_)
48 HOURS | most extensive coverage on this case (https://youtu.be/gpqzhem5IWE?si=SJ6k8l-g8phRVZ-D)
Domestic Violence Support:
RESOURCES IN EACH STATE (https://nnedv.org/content/state-u-s-territory-coalitions/)
TALK TO SOMEONE (https://www.safeaustin.org/safeline-lets-chat/)
Contact Courtney:
urbexechoes@gmail.com
POD SITES + SOCIALS (https://www.hopp.bio/urbexechoes)
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