This Paranormal Life

By This Paranormal Life

Society & Culture Comedy

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Every Tuesday, comedians Rory Powers and Kit Grier investigate a different paranormal case and find the truth inside the mystery. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#282 the Tobacco-Loving Sea...

09.27.2022

This week we dive into the not-so-deep lakes of Wisconsin, to investigate an evil, tobacco-loving monster that hasn't seen the light of day for almost 100 years... no we're not talking about Kit, we're talking about the SEA DEMON of ...

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09.27.2022 #282 the Tobacco-Loving Sea Demon of Lake Koshkonong This week we dive into the not-so-deep lakes of Wisconsin, to investigate an evil, tobacco-loving monster that hasn't seen the light of day for almost 100 years... no we're not talking about Kit, we're talking about the SEA DEMON of ...
09.20.2022 #281 New Orleans NIGHT BEAST - The Rougarou Wandering New Orleans at night there are many dangers; dark street corners, an infinite supply of whiskey, 24/7 nightclubs, but but the greatest danger of all is much less widely known - the Rougarou. To the uninitiated the Rougarou might ...
09.13.2022 #280 Anjikuni Lake: The Village that DISAPPEARED We've covered stories before where animals disappear, humans disappear, even trousers disappear... but what about an entire VILLAGE? What would cause all the residents of Anjikuni Lake to mysteriously abandon their homes, leaving everything behind? It's time to head to ...
09.06.2022 #279 Haunted DEATH SLIDE - The Waverly Hills Sanatorium What would it take for you to explore deep into a haunted and cursed abandoned hospital? £10? £10,000? The promise of eternal life? A packet of Hob Nobs? For the protagonist of this story, it was only an insatiable thirst ...
08.30.2022 #278 Lavender Town Syndrome - The Hidden Pokemon Music That Made Children Go Insane When the first Pokemon games were released in 1996, children across Japan couldn't WAIT to get their hands on a copy and begin their adventure... but the mood of the game shifted as soon as they reached a location called ...
08.23.2022 #277 Space Acorn of DEATH - The Kecksburg UFO Incident School, bullies, learning to tie your shoelaces - being a kid is hard enough without also accidentally witnessing one of the 20th century's most shocking and convincing UFO landings. Unfortunately for Nadine and Nevan Kalp, this life was forced on ...
08.16.2022 #276 The Gateshead Grey - That Time an Alien was Killed with a Shovel When we think about the many battles that have taken place between humans and aliens, we typically think about ray guns, laser beams and spaceships firing death canons... but back in the 1940's, a much more 'hands-on' battle took place. ...
08.09.2022 #275 Project Poltergeist - Scientists Study Possessed Boy In 1961 a haunting gripped a quiet housing project in Newark, New Jersey. The strange phenomenon would lead to scientists studying the boy in question for paranormal abilities - was he controlling the supernatural or was it controlling him? What ...
08.02.2022 #274 The Zanetti Train Mystery - The Train that DISAPPEARED When the luxurious new Zanetti Railway opened up in 1911, passengers couldn't WAIT to get on board the train for its maiden voyage to Milan. So imagine their surprise when they arrive in the 1840's, SEVENTY YEARS BEFORE they were ...
07.26.2022 #273 The Bridgewater Triangle - A Paranormal HOTBED All life's great mysteries involve triangles. The pyramids: how were they built? Pizza: why is it so delicious? And the Bridgewater Triangle is no exception. Rivalling even the infamous Bermuda Triangle, the Bridgewater Triangle contains a paranormal smörgåsbord - cryptids? ...
07.19.2022 #272 The Mantell Incident - Was a US Fighter Pilot SHOT DOWN by a UFO 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 ...
07.12.2022 #271 The Legend of Momo - The Monster that Terrorised Missouri Bigfoot. Sasquatch. The Dublin Gorilla Man. All famous cryptids who have terrorised innocent humans all over the world... but there's one more that doesn't get talked about, and he's more mysterious than all the rest COMBINED (except for the Dublin ...
07.05.2022 #270 Organism 46-B On this week's episode we journey to a continent rarely featured on This Paranormal Life: Antartica. One could be forgiven for thinking the snowy tundra couldn't possibly be home to any paranormal phenomena, but deep underneath the surface of the ...
06.28.2022 #269 The Paranormal CURSE that Haunted an Entire Baseball Team Baseball is often referred to as 'America's favourite pastime', so it may surprise you to know that the history of the sport is RIDDLED with paranormal curses that have HAUNTED teams for years. From sacrificing goats to digging up dead ...
06.21.2022 #268 The Berkshire UFO - When Aliens Abduct a Whole COUNTY One September night in 1969, the residents of Berkshire County, Massachusetts were rocked by one of the most INTENSE UFO encounters in American History. We're talking about abductions, giant crafts, beams of light disintegrating children... Move over Roswell, it's time ...
06.14.2022 #267 Globsters - 20,000 Cryptids Under The Sea Paranormal Survival Test: you are walking along a beautiful beach when you spot a hideous paranormal entity face-down washed up in the sand. What do you do? a) Take a photo to try and discover whether the creature is paranormal ...
06.07.2022 #266 The Legend of the Third Eye Man The University of South Carolina boasts about it's groundbreaking academics, world-changing research and a thriving student life… but there’s something else the university is known for… and it’s not found INSIDE their halls. It's UNDERGROUND, living inside the ancient catacombs ...
05.31.2022 #265 Indrid Cold - Is There An Alien Working In The White House Right Now? West Virginia is home to many bizarre and frightening paranormal creatures. One of the strangest and most shocking goes by the name of Indrid Cold. The story of Indrid Cold, if true, could rewrite the history books of modern America ...
05.24.2022 #264 The Gurdon Light: Ghost Lantern or Human Soul? There's something strange happening near the old railroad tracks in Gurdon, Arkansas. For years locals have claimed to see a strange orb of light floating along the rails, sometimes even passing right through them! Is it a ghost lantern? The ...
05.17.2022 #263 Aliens Abduct Man's Trousers - The West Lothian UFO How far would you go to get a new pair of cool jeans? Asos? Your local shops? What about another GALAXY? That is potentially exactly what one extraterrestrial did back in 1979 Scotland in what would, surprisingly, become one of ...
05.13.2022 Episode Preview - Live from Rory's Bedroom - The Afterparty On today's episode, things are getting extra cosy as we're out of the studio and back in Rory's bedroom. This week we're talking about Rory's weird obsession with iPads, Kit's personal experience in a haunted hotel and finally... what the ...
05.10.2022 #262 Dr. Baker and the Evil Crescent Hotel In this week's episode, we investigate The Crescent Hotel, an incredible resort built in 1886 for the rich and famous... but how did this beautiful building once called “America’s most luxurious hotel” turn into a hospital where many patients never ...
05.03.2022 #261 The BLOODsucking Vegetable Man of West Virginia As children we were all warned to 'eat our vegetables', but what if the tables were turned and the vegetables decided to eat us? This was the horrifying reality faced by one man from West Virginia in 1968. Time for ...
04.26.2022 #260 The Mythical Labyrinth of the Minotaur This week, we investigate an ancient Greek legend that tells the story of a half-man-half-bull, CURSED to wander a giant hidden maze, killing all those who enter. This mythical creature is known as the Minotaur and was a popular part ...
04.19.2022 #259 HAARP - Has the US Military Built a Death Star in Alaska? What do earthquakes, tsunamis, the Cuban US embassy attack, and mind control all have in common? They were all caused by a nefarious military machine called HAARP. Allegedly. There is no end to the list of global conspiracies supposedly caused ...
04.12.2022 #258 The GHOST STATIONS of the London Underground The London Underground is the oldest subterranean railway in the WORLD, so you can imagine since its creation it's been home many paranormal sightings. Tracks have been built on top of plague pits, 'ghost stations' lay abandoned underground and there's ...
04.05.2022 #257 The Superman CURSE For an actor in 2022, getting cast as a comic book superhero is a fast-track to international celebrity and a life of luxury, but throughout history that wasn't always the case. Getting cast as DC Comic's Superman could have deadly ...
03.29.2022 #256 The South Shields Poltergeist This week we cover one of the UK's most famous hauntings, the South Shields Poltergeist, where a young family in North East England were TORMENTED by an invisible intruder living inside their house. What does this paranormal pest want? Can ...
03.22.2022 #255 Ghost Radio - The Mysterious Number Stations In the mid-1970s Number Stations captured the imagination of thousands of radio enthusiasts around the world. Mysterious sounds and messages broadcast from seemingly untraceable locations around the world begged the question: who's sending these messages? And who are they for? ...
03.15.2022 #254 Did an Ancient Mummy’s Curse Sink the Titanic? When Thomas Murray discovered an ancient mummy casket at a market in Cairo, he purchased it immediately without thinking about the price. As a wealthy Oxford graduate, money was no object... But the cost of THIS object would be more ...
03.08.2022 #253 Ourang Medan - The Ghost Ship That Stumped The CIA 'Ghost Ships' are synonymous with the golden age of piracy - the words conjure images of huge galleons with tattered sails and skeleton crews, sailing through the mist hundreds of years ago, reassuringly far removed from modern life. The story ...
03.01.2022 #252 El Duende The Legendary Goblin What would you do if an eighteen inch tall man ran in front of your car while driving at night? How would that change your life? The paranormal witnesses at the heart of our story today don't have to wonder ...
02.22.2022 #251 Is the British Museum Haunted? Everyone knows that a stolen artefact is going to carry with it some bad paranormal juju, so what happens when you're the establishment with the most stolen artefacts in THE WORLD? This week, Rory and Kit seek an answer to ...
02.15.2022 #250 The Winsted WILD Man - Real Gorilla-man Or Just A Guy? Sure, Bigfoot is synonymous with the Pacific Northwest of the United States. But do you really think a beast that bodacious would be able to stay in one location? That he wouldn't want to travel east at least once to ...
02.08.2022 #249 The Tsarichina Hole - The Most Paranormal Event that May Never Have Happened In December 1990, the Bulgarian military stormed the small village of Tsarichina, in western Bulgaria. They began unloading equipment and rushing locals away from the site. For 2 years they stayed in the village digging and tunnelling their way into ...
02.01.2022 #248 Bob Lazar - Part 2 In the second and final instalment of our series on infamous UFO witness Bob Lazar we answer all the big questions - where did the UFOs come from and how do they work? What did the military do when they ...
01.25.2022 #247 Bob Lazar - The Area 51 Whistleblower The story of Roswell and Area 51 is the gold-standard for UFO researchers and enthusiasts all around the world. That's why Bob Lazar set the paranormal world ablaze in 1989 when he publicly revealed himself as an Area 51 engineer, ...
01.18.2022 #246 Is Australia Real? The Sydney Opera House, Bondi Beach, drinking beer from a shoe, these are just a few of the wonderful things that spring to mind when we think of Australia... But what if these things didn't exist? What if everything you ...
01.11.2022 #245 The Invisible Elves That RULE Over Iceland Iceland is home to an incredibly small population of only 320,000 people. The otherworldly landscape seemingly almost uninhabited. But looks can be deceiving. The huge majority of locals believe the country is full of a race of hidden, invisible elves ...
01.05.2022 #244 We Bought Paranormal Sunglasses That Show Auras This week we investigate the world of AURAS and John Kilner's 'Dicyanin Goggles', a set of paranormal glasses that allegedly allowed any human to see auras in the real world. There are only 2 problems... the glasses are extremely poisonous ...
12.21.2021 #243 The Best of 2021 This week we take a look back at some our favourite moments from the last year. From eating evidence live on the podcast to firing an ancient flintlock pistol in the studio, when you hit PLAY on This Paranormal Life ...
12.14.2021 #242 The Island of the Dolls South of Mexico City is an Island hidden among the canals that many locals are afraid to visit. Some believe the island is haunted by the spirit of a young girl who died on it's shore. Others are simply afraid ...
12.07.2021 #241 Ouija Boards Your parents warned you about using Ouija boards, and for good reason. These spirit boards can connect the user with an entire universe of disembodied entities. Unfortunately for the entities, the majority of users up until now were teenagers having ...
11.30.2021 #240 The Dark Watchers of California For years, hikers all across California have seen the same strange figure staring at them in the woods - THE DARK WATCHERS. Who are these top-hatted, cape-wearing, shadow perverts? What do they want? Time for Rory and Kit to #INVESTIGATESupport ...
11.23.2021 The Russian Sleep Experiment Unfortunately we weren't able to record a new episode of the show this week, so instead please enjoy one of our older bonus episodes made possible by our incredible Patreon supporters <3 We'll be back next week with a brand ...
11.16.2021 #239 Do SUPERHUMANS Walk Among Us? In 2003 scientists in Australia uncovered an ancient mystery - 20,000 year old footprints belonging to a human that was running faster than world record holder Usain Bolt. It turns out this discovery only scratched the surface of evidence throughout ...
11.09.2021 #238 Have You Ever Dreamed of This Man? In 2008, a website appeared online with a simple question - "Have you dreamed of this man?". The website included a black and white sketch of a strangers headshot, along with an elaborate backstory that claimed that this mysterious individual ...
11.02.2021 #237 Is The Hotel Cecil CURSED? In Downtown Los Angeles, the name 'Hotel Cecil' means one thing - bad news. The infamous site of the Black Dahlia Murder has had so many dark, terrible, and mysterious things happen that you begin to wonder; is the hotel ...
10.26.2021 #236 Halloween Special - We Bought a Cursed Voodoo Doll Welcome to another This Paranormal Life HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! On this weeks episode, Rory decides to step things up a notch and buy a cursed voodoo doll on eBay to unbox LIVE on the podcast... it goes just as badly as ...
10.19.2021 #235 Onibi - The Demonic Ghost Fire That STEALS SOULS In Japanese legend there exists a kind of mysterious atmospheric spirit known as Onibi. Ancient texts describe them as “resentful people who have become fire”. But are they friend or foe? And what do they have in common with pumpkins? ...

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