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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Weekly We Share Discussions featuring the uncensored conversations of two life long friends Josh and Seamus. They interview creative guests every week to discuss their creative process and influences. They want to know what makes their guests masters of their craft, how they started their careers, and want to get to know the person behind the art. Weekly guest include Comedians, Actors, Artists, Directors, and professionals from the entertainment industry. New episodes air every Wednesday 6p ...
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#405 The Watseka Wonder - America's First DEMONIC POSSESSION?
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51:00In July of 1887, 13 year old Lurancy Vennum started to complain about headaches and stomach pains... but before long she was complaining about a very different problem - she could hear the voices of dead people inside of her head. Today we're investigating the Watseka Wonder, a story that many people believe is the first documented case of possessi…
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#404 Spain’s Most Terrifying UFO Incident - The Manises UFO
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55:33Spain might not be synonymous with UFOs and the paranormal, but don’t be fooled, in 1979 it was host to one of the most believable and evidenced UFO cases ever told. For the first time in history a passenger plane was forced to emergency land because it was being pursued by a UFO. Kit and Rory also delve into some nearby UFO encounters that may shi…
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#403 The Day 200 Children Mysteriously Collapsed - The Hollinwell Incident
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51:39In the summer of 1980, thousands of people arrived at the Hollinwell Showground for their annual celebration. The day started like any other... but by the end, almost 300 attendees would end up in hospital. The cause? We have absolutely no idea. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Join our Secret Society Facebook Community Support us on Pa…
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#402 Yeti - The Abominable Snowman CAUGHT On Film
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1:04:01The Yeti is one of the most famous cryptids of all time. It is claimed to have been stalking the Himalayas for thousands of years, undetected by science due to the extreme conditions of it’s natural habitat. But while mainstream science doesn’t yet acknowledge the Yeti, the local Nepalese people are certain of its existence. Not only that, but the …
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#401 The Mantis Man - Alien or Cryptid?
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1:11:02The world of the paranormal is a strange one. Just when you think you've heard about every cryptid under the sun, you find yourself by a river in New Jersey, looking into the cold dead eyes of a 7 foot praying mantis. How have we never heard of this cryptid before? Well, because maybe this creature isn't actually a cryptid after all... Follow us on…
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#400 The Return to Atlantis - We Examine the New Evidence
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1:03:55To celebrate episode 400 Kit and Rory are reinvestigating Atlantis, one of the holy grails of the paranormal world, and crucially the first ever ‘yes’ on This Paranormal Life. Many years have passed since that recording and new evidence has come to light, begging the question: is it still a ‘yes? Episode four was also the first episode that they we…
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Hello Commune!! To celebrate the new year, we're going to to look back at some of the weirdest and WILDEST moments from 2024. Did your favourite moment make the cut? There's only one way to find out... sit back, relax, and enjoy some of the highlights of the podcast from the last year Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to we…
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#398 The Christmas Haunting of Raynham Hall
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1:00:05Christmas is the most magical time of the year and, as it happens, it’s also one of the most paranormal… Christmas marks the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year when the veil between the world of the living and the dead is most thin. This is why for hundreds of years people gathered around the yule log to share ghost stories on Christmas E…
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#397 Is This the Strangest Cryptid We've Ever Seen? - The Whintosser
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58:47Did you know that there's an entire book written about the strange and terrifying creatures seen by the early lumberjacks of North America? There are dozens of 'fearsome critters' that have terrorized locals over the years... but few are more bizarre than the Central American WHINTOSSER. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Join our Secret …
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#396 Led Zeppelin - The Most Cursed Rock Band Ever?
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59:49Led Zeppelin are one of the most beloved and influential bands of all time. They set the world alight in the 70s along with the British Invasion and songs like Whole Lotta Love, and Stairway to Heaven. It was a heady time of success and excess for the band, but from the very beginning rumours circulated about their involvement in the occult and par…
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#395 The Dark Truth Behind the Secret Room at Glamis Castle
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1:06:10When we think about castles, a few things usually spring to mind - knights, kings, a moat. But if you mention Castle GLAMIS to the people of Scotland, only one word some to mind... MONSTER. That's because Castle Glamis allegedly holds a dark secret, one passed down from Earl to Earl - That there's a secret room in the castle, containing a prisoner …
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#394 US Military Time Traveler from 2036 - John Titor
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1:01:59The US military is, historically, at the bleeding edge of technology. Every minor advance in technology used to further fine tune the American war machine. What if they discovered the ability to time travel, wouldn’t they do everything they can to exploit it? And begs the question — if the military did develop time travel, how would we know? Some o…
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#393 The Time an Alien Artifact Crashed to Earth
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1:00:04In 1985, Bob White and his 'lady friend' were driving to Las Vegas when they noticed a glowing light fall off of a strange object and crash down to earth. Bob should have kept driving... but something about this object made him want to investigate. When he arrive at the location of the crash there was no doubt that this thing... WAS EXTRATERRESTRIA…
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#392 Ghost Army of WWI - The Angels of Mons
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55:32They say war is hell — that’s why it’s the last place you would expect to find angels, and yet in 1914 that’s exactly what British forces on the battlefield of Mons reported to see. With their backs against the wall they claimed that ghostly apparitions appeared and pushed the German forces back. The sheer number of witnesses and gravity of the sit…
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#391 The Time a UFO Crashed Into Cop Car - The Val Johnson Incident
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1:17:57In 1979, Deputy Sheriff Val Johnson spotted a strange glowing object in the sky above Minnesota. He didn't know it at the time, but he was about to have a VERY close encounter with something extra-terrestrial. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Join our Secret Society Facebook Community Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get …
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Campfire - The BANDAGE MAN of Cannon Beach
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28:06Welcome to the campfire! For the last month, we've been dropping a mini-paranormal tale every Thursday to celebrate spooky season and now we've finally made it to Halloween! We knew we wanted today's story to be particularly terrifying, so settle in, as we tell you the story of the Cannon Beach BANDAGE MAN Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTu…
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#390 Psychic Spies of the Cold War - China and Russia’s Paranormal Agents
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1:02:10Kit and Rory have investigated a number of paranormal military programs over the years: MK Ultra and CIA experiments on Uri Geller and Ingo Swann, but America was only one superpower involved in the Cold War. What was Soviet Russia doing? And what about China, the most populous country on earth? As it happens they were also developing top secret pa…
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Welcome to the campfire! Every Thursday in October we're dropping a mini-paranormal tale, and this week we have a strange one - the story of a mysterious visitor from outer space who appeared out of, and then disappeared into, thin air! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Join our Secret Society Facebook Community Support us on Patreon.com…
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#389 The World's Most HAUNTED Island - Puerto Rico
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56:03When most people think about Puerto Rico, they probably think about lush tropical forests or beautiful sandy beaches, but this Island is overflowing with paranormal activity, from ghosts, to cryptids, to UFO’s... and yes... even a haunted Burger King Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Join our Secret Society Facebook Community Support us …
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Campfire - If You See This Ghost Ship... Run
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32:40Welcome to the campfire! Every Thursday in October we're dropping a mini-paranormal tale, and this week we're taking you to one of the most paranormal states in America - WYOMING. For hundreds of years, locals have spotted a mysterious ghost ship appearing out of thick fog, warning them about the death of a loved one. But is this ship predicting a …
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If you got drunk and wandered home from the bar in the early 20th century, there was no Uber, no Find My Friends, no Lime bike to help you — it was a strange and difficult time in which to get blasted. But if you found yourself trolleyed in Central America at this point in history, you may have had one card up your sleeve — the protection of the le…
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Campfire - David Bowie's HAUNTED Swimming Pool
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35:48Welcome to the campfire! Every Thursday in October we're dropping a mini-paranormal tale, and we're kicking off with a wild one - the story of David Bowie's terrifying encounters with the occult, paranormal, and mysterious. Happy spooky season! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Join our Secret Society Facebook Community Support us on Pat…
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#387 Spike Island - Ireland’s Alcatraz (w/ Real Life Ghost Stories)
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1:06:00This week Kit and Rory are joined by Emma Ozenbrook, the host of the hit paranormal podcast Real Life Ghost Stories. Emma helps them investigate Ireland’s most haunted location — Spike Island. Originally a monastery, Spike Island would later become a prison and military base, housing many of the most unfortunate souls to ever set foot on the Emeral…
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#386 The Town So CURSED That It's Illegal To Visit - Dudleytown
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1:05:20When Thomas Griffis founded Dudleytown back in the 1740’s, he had NO idea of the horrible events that would take place in the village. Mysterious deaths, strange disappearances and something the residents could only describe as... THE BEAST. Now, the town is completely abandoned and the public are banned from entering. They say it’s to protect the …
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When Bob Cranmer moved to Brownsville Road in 1988, he had no idea that he and his family would be sharing a home with a DEMONIC presence that would threaten the lives of his family. This demon would terrorize the children, throw objects across the house, attack Bob and his wife and worst of all... every week... it would wrap the closet string arou…
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#384 Thunderbird - America’s Mythical Sky Cryptid
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1:12:57When European colonists first landed in North America, they were anticipating the discovery of all manner of new animals of all shapes and sizes. What they weren’t expecting, however, was tales of a mythic bird, dozens of times bigger than anything they had seen before, with the power create storms and even shoot lightning from it’s eyes like the m…
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#383 The Hidden Vaults BURIED Underneath Edinburgh
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1:05:13Deep under the capital of Scotland lies a dark series of chambers and passageways known as the Edinburgh vaults. These vaults were originally created back in 1788 and designed as store rooms for the businesses above. However, by the 1800’s the vaults were abandoned by businesses and filled with criminals, murders, body-snatchers, WITCHES and very s…
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#382 The Satanic Panic - Do Satanists Run the World?
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1:11:09It started with The Exorcist and it ended with Pikachu - The Satanic Panic is a strange period of history that began in the 1970s off the back of McCarthyism and the Cold War and in many ways continues to this day. A time when people all over North America in particular became worried the USA, and maybe the world, was being overrun by satanists. Th…
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#381 Are There Giants Buried Inside the Grand Canyon?
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56:28In 1909, a story appeared in a local newspaper claiming that two men from the Smithsonian Museum in Washington had made an unbelievable discovery - They had uncovered a series of hidden tunnels that stretched deep into the earth, filled with ancient treasures, mummified bodies and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. So, what's the catch? They discovere…
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#380 The Patterson Footage - Bigfoot on Camera?
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1:04:47In the paranormal evidence Hall of Fame... well, there aren't many inductees... but there are a handful of incredible pieces of evidence that have changed or shaped the world. The most famous of all must be The Patterson-Gimlin Film. 59 seconds of earth-shattering footage taken in the Pacific Northwest in 1967, allegedly of Bigfoot. On this episode…
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#379 The GIANT SPACE AVOCADO That Landed Before ROSWELL - The Trinity UFO
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1:01:38Millenials love nothing more than avocados - in smoothies, in shakes, or just straight up in a salad AKA 'rawdogged'. But what about avocados that come from another galaxy, potentially in giant, metal form filled with strange alien creatures? Well for two young lads in the New Mexico desert in 1945 that was exactly what they were confronted with. T…
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#378 The Lost City of AKATOR - The Legend that Inspired Indiana Jones
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56:57We all owe Steven Spielberg an apology. Not only is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull not a bad movie, but it's packed full of paranormal easter eggs and references to REAL supernatural events. Among those, is the legend of AKATOR, an ancient civilization full of golden temples and ancient mummified aliens. In the 1980's, a number …
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Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, is the quintessential cryptid. It is known around the world, and yet little is actually known about the creature itself — it’s secretive and shy, with strong survival instincts. Which is all the more reason why Albert Ostman’s bigfoot encounter from the early 20th century is absolutely fascinating. Because, breaking with char…
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#376 Norse UFO's - What Are the Hessdalen Lights?
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1:06:28For almost 100 years, mysterious lights have appeared in the night sky above Norway's Hessdalen Valley. Are they visitors from another galaxy? Or maybe the spirits of the dead? Only one thing is for certain - they are NOT shy. Paranormal enthusiasts and ufologists have captured HUNDREDS of photos of these strange lights... is that enough to push to…
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#375 US Government Just Admitted EVERYTHING About UFOs
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1:02:19Breaking news —The US department of defence has released a report detailing everything it knows about UFOs from 1945 to the present day, and hoo-boy it’s a doozy. On this podcast we dive into these previously classified reports and pull out the wildest facts, like — the time the Canadian government stated alien UFOs are real and fly by ‘magnetism’,…
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#374 “You’re Being Impersonated by the Other Voice” - The Gary Sudbrink Calls
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1:07:34In February 1993, Air Force Captain Gary Sudbrink received a series of mysterious and disturbing phone calls from an unknown number. The strange voice asked question after question, repeating the same bizarre warning - "YOU'RE BEING IMPERSONATED BY THE OTHER VOICE". Was this just an innocent prank call? Or was this something much more PARANORMAL? F…
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#373 The Ghost Workers of Alabama’s Deadly Haunted Furnace
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54:26We've all had a horrible boss in our lives, normally you can just quit your job and escape them. But what if that boss followed you into DEATH? For the poor sods who worked in Alabama's notorious Sloss Furnace that's exactly what happened when the evil shift master James 'Scum' Wormwood mysteriously died and then continued to haunt the deadly facto…
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FLASHBACK: The Hat Man and the Shadow People
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46:01This is a FLASHBACK to episode #174, When we originally investigated the bizarre world of sleep paralysis! What happens when our body slips between the dream world and the real world? Who are the shadow people? And how is everyone across the world seeing the same man watching them? Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Join our Secret Societ…
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#372 German Sleep Paralysis Demon - The Alp
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1:00:13In today's episode we're investigating the scariest corner of the paranormal world - German Folklore. When it comes to sleep paralysis, we all know about the shadow people and the tall hat man, but few have heard about this weird demonic cousin - The ALP. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Join our Secret Society Facebook Community Suppor…
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#371 The Alaska Triangle - 20,000 People BLIPPED Into Thin Air
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1:05:02There are lots of things they don't teach you in schools: how to hot-wire a car, for example. But they really should teach children which shapes are paranormal. Because in the world of the paranormal, squares, circles, and rectangles are all safe, but triangles are apparently extremely deadly. The Bermuda Triangle, The Bridgewater Triangle, and now…
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Back in 1913, local residents STORMED a settlement house in the west-side of Chicago. This angry crowd, filled with priests, politicians and furious locals, were all yelling the same thing as they hammered on the buildings front door - "We want to see the devil baby!" Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Join our Secret Society Facebook Com…
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This is a FLASHBACK to episode #224, when we investigated a creature known as the Michigan Dogman. For years, this cryptid has stalked the residents of Wexford County, Michigan. Those who have seen it describe a creature with a striking resemblance to the Beast of Bray road. Could these two cryptids be linked together? Or maybe, they're one in the …
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Real Life WEREWOLF Caught on Camera (ft. Rhys Darby and Dan Schreiber)
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1:02:27For over 100 years, the people of Walworth County, Wisconsin have been stalked in the night by a demonic, wolf-like creature known as the BEAST of Bray Road. Rory and Kit are a little too afraid to investigate this one alone, so joining them this week is Rhys Darby and Dan Schreiber from The Cryptid Factor! Check out The Cryptid Factor Follow us on…
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#369 Was Beethoven Cursed? The Mystery of the Ninth Symphony
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1:02:31It’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 lin…
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#368 The 1990's Card Game that Predicted 9/11 - 'Illuminati'
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1:00:19In 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 act…
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#367 The Best Ghost Photo Ever Taken? - The Queen's House
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53:15In 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…
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#366 The Wanaque UFO - The 'Light Beam' Seen by HUNDREDS
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1:09:23In 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 aga…
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#365 Crop Circles - The Secret Symbols left by ALIENS
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58:48As 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 bu…
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#364 ROOM 217 - The REAL Hotel that Inspired the Shining
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1:01:43By the 1970's, the once beautiful 'Stanley Hotel' looked like it was headed towards total demolition... That was, until one fateful night when the hotel received an unusual guest - Stephen King. King and his wife were the final two guests of the season and after what they experienced that night... it was no surprise. This was the hotel that would g…
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#363 Batsquatch - Terrifying Bigfoot Hybrid Stalking America
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1:06:40In the world of the paranormal, cryptids are terrifying enough as they are. Sasquatch. Chupacabra. The Squonk. There are more than enough scary beasts roaming the earth to keep paranormal investigators up at night. Unfortunately for them, though, there are certain creatures to be even more fearful of… enter the Batsquatch. Deep in the Pacific North…
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