We've all heard stories of UFOs, floating in the distance, drifting elusively in the night sky. But what happens when you try and chase one down? Well, in 1948, Captain Thomas F. Mantell uncovered the answer to that question... and it cost him his life. VOTE FOR THIS PARANORMAL LIFE IN THE IRISH PODCAST AWARDShttps://www.theirishpodcastawards.ie/vote/Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes! Buy Official TPL Merch! -  thisparanormallife.com/store Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Join our Secret Society Facebook Community Advertise on This Paranormal Life via Gumball.fm Research by Amy Grisdale Edited by Louis Blatherwick Intro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#272 The Mantell Incident - Was a US Fighter Pilot SHOT DOWN by a UFO

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It’s said that Beethoven’s death was like a biblical scene — he shook his fist at the heavens and a clap of thunder roared across Vienna as he left this world. His contemporary, Mahler, would become obsessed with his death because of another strange coincidence surrounding it: he died composing his tenth symphony, making Beethoven one of a long line of composers to die after completing their ninth symphony. Mahler would call this the curse of the ninth. Is there some strange supernatural power that limits earthly musicians to nine symphonies like a cat has nine lives? Or have these composers made a deal with the devil? Time for Rory and Kit to put on their powdered wigs and investigate!
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#369 Was Beethoven Cursed? The Mystery of the Ninth Symphony

In 1994, game designed Steve Jackson released a card game titled "Illuminati: New World Order", a game where players would role play as puppet-master organizations fighting for world domination. Sounds fun, right? Well things took a paranormal turn when years later, players realised that those cards from the 90's were giving away information on actual real life events… from the future.
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#368 The 1990's Card Game that Predicted 9/11 - 'Illuminati'

In 1966 a Canadian tourist visiting London, Reverend Ralph Hardy, took a photo that would become notorious as one of the greatest pieces of paranormal evidence ever captured. Despite consulting photographic experts and even Kodak themselves, it has never been proven to be a hoax. On this episode of This Paranormal Life, Kit and Rory investigate the site of this event: the Tulip staircase within the Queen's House in London, try to understand whether the events of 1966 were really paranormal, and even attempt to recreate Ralph Hardy's fateful photograph!
Our on-location vlog from the Queen's House
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#367 The Best Ghost Photo Ever Taken? - The Queen's House

In 1966, the small town of Wanaque, New Jersey was visited by a strange light in the night sky. Locals watched in awe as it zipped around at impossible speeds and even shot a LIGHT BEAM down towards the icy ground. Witnesses were told it was simply a helicopter, but that explanation was hard to agree with when only 9 months later... it appeared again
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#366 The Wanaque UFO - The 'Light Beam' Seen by HUNDREDS

As paranormal investigators, we DREAM of the day that we finally make contact with extraterrestrials... but what if that day has already come? In 1966, banana farmer named George Pedley saw something truly bananas. A UFO emerged from underneath the water of a lagoon and disappeared into the sky above him. The encounter only lasted a brief moment but this strange craft had left something behind - the first ever 'crop circle'.
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#272 The Mantell Incident - Was a US Fighter Pilot SHOT DOWN by a UFO

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