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In the 25 years of covering golf, the development of the game, courses and the camaraderie that’s core to the culture, it was time for Matt to share some of the best stories he has heard around fire pits all over the world. From PGA Tour players, caddies, architects, avid amateurs and buddies-trip planners, Matt has forged relationships with some of the most colorful and influential people in the game. So grab a drink, a seat and settle in. We’re getting to the essence of one story per podca ...
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Ed and Lorraine Warren are far and away the world’s most famous and iconic paranormal investigators (after Kit and Rory…) Made famous by their investigations into iconic cases such as the Enfield Poltergeist and Annabelle the Doll, they have since been immortalised in the popular Conjuring movie series, some of the most commercially successful horr…
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In 1965, a farmer in rural in France spotted what he believed was a helicopter landing in one of his fields. When he ran over to give them a piece of his mind, he was met by two small humanoid creatures and an oddly shaped oval craft... He tried to run, but before he knew it he was PARALYZED on the spot. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠…
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In 2025 we’re used to being surveilled, it’s just part of the modern world. But that doesn’t mean surveillance wasn’t happening in the past, too. And what if that historic surveillance was happening from beyond our world? Some believe that an ancient satellite known as the Black Knight has been floating high above earth studying us for hundreds or …
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In this limited series, Kit and Rory are podcasting recording right outside the gates of Area 51 and investigating it’s shocking history to figure out whether something paranormal is really happening here… In this episode, we investigate the 1994 Nellis airforce base UFO encounter, where military cameras recorded a strange object hovering above the…
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In 1975, musician Jim Sullivan was driving east, down the desert road towards Nashville. It's a trip that should’ve taken no more than two days… but Jim never arrived. To make matters even more strange, Jim had recently written a mysterious song called… UFO. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouT…
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Area 51 is synonymous with UFO and alien incidents, but that doesn’t mean other strange paranormal phenomena doesn’t take place. Legend has it that in the remote areas of Joshua Tree and the Mojave Desert there lives a kind of sub species of Bigfoot known as the Yucca Man. But what do we know about the beast, and can we find him in the desert ourse…
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They say ‘without footage, it is fiction’. Ok that wasn’t Socrates, I think it was actually Jason Lee’s coach character in the video game ‘Skate 3’. Even still, that means that this case isn’t PURE fiction, because it does contain photographic evidence. Evidence that for decades has been considered some of the best in British UFO history. But is it…
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In this limited series, Kit and Rory are podcasting recording right outside the gates of Area 51 and investigating it’s shocking history to figure out whether something paranormal is really happening here… In this episode, we investigate the mysterious Area 51 Black mailbox. Some say the mailbox is a secret meeting point to watch UFO’s take flight,…
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The CIA has done a LOT of crazy things over the years, they’ve performed coups, set up secret torture prisons and even drugged unknowing civilians just to see what happens… but today we’re talking about one of the craziest CIA missions to ever get declassified - The time they fake a vampire attack in the Philippines to scare off a rebellion. Follow…
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In this limited series Kit and Rory, the hosts of This Paranormal Life, are podcasting straight from the desert — recording right outside the gates of Area 51 and investigating it’s shocking history to figure out whether something paranormal is really happening here… Few locations on earth are shrouded with as much paranormal intrigue as the U.S Ai…
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We’ve all had bad experiences flying before - You get delayed on the runway, you get stuck in the middle seat, you’re ‘cut off’ from alcoholic beverages because you drank too many tiny wines… but in 1976, a young Pilot from Mexico City experienced his own mid-flight nightmare, when he suddenly became possessed by an alien. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twi…
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Australia — a land that has given us much to be scared of — spiders, shoeys, and the most powerful accent known to man. But perhaps no story from Australia is more believable or terrifying than that of the Humpty Doo Poltergeist. In 1998 a paranormal story from a small town in Australia’s Northern Territory hit local news. It started as a humour pi…
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In this episode, we investigate the new craze that's sweeping the world - Labubu's. Some people think this cute, innocent children's toy is linked to Pazuzu, an ancient mesopotamian demon. There's only one way to find out... we have to get one on the podcast... Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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If you find yourself in rural south Texas roaming the vast wilderness that borders Mexico — ESPECIALLY if you’re an 1800s cattle rancher — listen for the sound of hooves, because if you hear them you might be about to come face-to-face with the legendary spirit of EL MUERTO. El Muerto is the terrifying legend of a headless horseman in Texas. But un…
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History is fun to read — it teaches us about our collective past and what life was like through human history. But occasionally the events threaten to re-write human history itself… The Airship of Clonmacnoise is small and strange story, practically a footnote in the global history of Christian texts, and yet it is repeated across several books and…
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When Allen and Deborah moved into their new home in Wisconsin, they had no idea they would barely make it 2 years before they had to move out. The entire family started experiencing horrible visions and poltergeist activity, that all started when they purchased a second hand… bunk bed Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and…
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The US civil war was a bloody and brutal conflict that inspired timeless tales of heroism and defeat. What is less known, is that many conflicts took place on some of the most haunted and paranormal locations in North America. It should be no surprise, then, that soldiers from the front lines described seeing a plethora of supernatural entities, ma…
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In November 1987, a Florida newspaper published a number of strange photos that were given to them by a man named Ed Walters. These photos captured a strange object floating through the night sky, an object that would soon become known as the Gulf Breeze UFO. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠…
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In ancient times, learned practitioners of the ancient art of palmistry could simply look to your hand to glean insights about your past, present, and future, your hearts deepest desires and perhaps your ultimate mortal fate… Nowadays they just look you up on LinkedIn, innit! But what has been lost in this rush towards modernisation and snooping on…
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In 1938, English explorers were driving through the Congo when something crawled onto the road in front of their car. They rushed for their cameras but it was already too late, the creature had scuttled off into the trees. They didn’t know it at the time, but they had just seen the legendary J’ba FoFi, the giant spider cryptid that’s both deadly an…
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The great fire of London, started on Pudding Lane in 1666 is known as one of the greatest tragedies in British history. But if it is known as an unavoidable accident, why was it predicted years earlier, and even drawn and depicted beforehand by soothsayers? That’s because there is a compelling argument that says the great fire was no ordinary fire,…
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We’ve all eaten pancakes that taste ‘out of this world’, but what about pancakes that are literally not from Earth? That is the terrifying and delicious reality that Joe Simonton from Wisconsin stepped into in 1961 when a UFO landed and delivered pancakes to him. It might sound ridiculous but what followed was anything but — government involvement,…
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Leicester is famous for many things; it’s football club… cheese… OK that’s pretty much it. But what about HUMAN SACRIFICE? It sounds far-fetched and yet like much of ancient Britain the land was once ruled by pagans, many of whom practiced a druidic religion which may have involved human sacrifice. Some say it’s because of that ancient history that…
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One November evening in 1974, a group of children spotted a mysterious light streaming across the sky. The kids watched as it jetted from the clouds and CRASHED into a nearby pond, sinking down below the water, where it continued to glow for 9 hours. It wasn’t long before the small town was flooded with press and Ufologists, as Carbondale had just …
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The Appalachian mountains might just be America’s paranormal heartland. After all it was on the settler wagon trail through Appalachia that so many myths and legends of American folklore were born — so were they really just stories or are they evidence of mysterious and terrifying paranormal cryptids that stalk the mountains to this day? On this ep…
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On This Paranormal Life, we spend a lot of time investigating the darkest and creepiest corners of the world, and today is no exception! We’re journeying to North Michigan, to tell the tale of the The Traverse City Asylum, a once booming psychiatric hospital that’s now home to satanists, strange dark figures and even a portal to HELL… Follow us on …
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Canada is big. So big in-fact that it’s easy to hide things there. Don’t believe me? Maple syrup wasn’t bottled and sold around the world until the 1950s — THAT’S how secret they can keep things. So as it turns out it’s a great place to be a UFO with wide, vast, open plains and mountain ranges to fly around without being spotted. Except in 1975 I g…
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When we usually dive into a UFO case, it’s a miracle if we have even 1 reliable witness. Well, back in 1977 on the Brazilian island of Colares, UFO’s began attacking locals, hitting them with laser beams that paralysed them on the spot. And we don’t just have 1 witness, we have over 300... Follow us on ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ ⁠⁠…
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Phantom of the Opera, The Curse of the Ninth, the play about a Scottish king that we mustn't mention by name — we’ve all heard the stories. Theaters are some of the most paranormal locations on earth, stalked by ghosts and curses. Is it the electric energy of the adoring crowds that seeps into the walls as an emotional memory? Or is it simply the m…
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When Anthropologists were exploring the rural villages of South Africa, they noticed something strange... In every home they visited, the beds were raised from the ground on sets of bricks. When they asked the locals why this was the case, their response sent chills down their spine. Today we're investigating South Africa's scariest cryptid - The T…
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Ever since the times of Ancient Greece, humanity has been captivated by Unicorns. Mythical creatures with healing magical properties. But if they are just religious symbols of purity as we are lead to believe in modern times, why are there so many written eyewitness accounts through history? And why are there Unicorn BONES buried deep in the German…
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Usually in a Poltergeist case, we're lucky if we have two witnesses to rub together. But when Bob Crawford was called out to investigate a domestic disturbance in 1970 in Ontario, he had no idea he was going to stumble into one of the best documented poltergeist cases in Canadian history. Soon, the entire town would be gathered at 237 Church Street…
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Most people would agree that 'being like Jesus' is a good thing - Looking after the poor, teaching forgiveness, turning boring stupid water into sweet delicious wine... But what if one day you woke up to discover you were a lot like Jesus PHYSICALLY. Holes in your hands, bleeding from your side, and head sore from a crown of THORNS. Welcome to the …
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Try Phasmophobia HERE Being a paranormal investigator is no easy job. It takes years of training and a blatant disregard for one's own soul. So what if you want to give it shot without the risk of becoming possessed? That's where Phasmophobia comes in. In this game, you play the role of a paranormal investigator, tracking down spirits and demons in…
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England is a very weird place — a place where they bake beans and then eat them for breakfast? A place where football has replaced religion? A place where they hold an annual competition where you chase a wheel of cheese down a hill? It’s borderline an alien planet when you think about it. But of course the weirdness doesn’t stop there, it bleeds i…
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Human beings are beautiful, complex creatures. But despite our differences we can all agree on one thing - trains are awesome. They’re fast, efficient and their roofs are home to some of the best fight scenes in action movies. That’s why back in the 1960’s, America had gone train-mad, building tunnels and tracks all across the country… but one of t…
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When disaster struck the town of Joplin, Missouri in 2011 in the form of an EF5 tornado, the last thing you would expect the townspeople to be thinking about was the paranormal. And yet, in the aftermath bizarre stories began to emerge of a strange humanoid seen amongst the carnage of this otherworldly natural disaster. But were they real? And if s…
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The Red Baron was a German pilot during WWI known as the ‘ace of aces’ for his incredible streak of over 80 confirmed kills in the sky. But one of those 80 successful targets was very different to the others… Described by Baron and his comrade as an ‘upside-down saucer with a row of orange lights’, it sparked a paranormal mystery in the midst of th…
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In August, 1993, Kelly Cahill and her partner encountered a strange row of orange lights floating in the night sky. After a BURST of white light, they found themselves further down the road, with an hour and a half of missing time. It was an encounter too frightening to remember - until it became too terrifying to forget. Follow us on Twitter, Inst…
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In 1967, strange occurrences started taking place in Sigmund Adam's law office in Bavaria. Workers tried to ignore it... but before long, lights were exploding in their sockets, strange electrical surges were bursting through the building and huge objects were coming to life and moving around the office. Was this the wrath of an angry poltergeist? …
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China is home to innumerable paranormal entities, from ghosts and ancient spirits to cryptids and UFO encounters, but one entity stands out in notoriety far beyond the others — The Yeren. The Yeren has been sighted and discussed in texts for thousands of years, but many people in modern times believe it to be mostly legend. But if that’s the case, …
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In 1973, a young Falkville Chief of Police, Jeff Greenhaw was called out to investigate a strange figure who'd been spotted standing alone in a field. Jeff didn't know it at the time, but he was about to encounter an otherworldly being that's appeared on earth for over 200 years... the Metal Man. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube Join ou…
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On today's episode, we're going off the beaten path to the remote swamps of Central Africa. Here, local legends talk about an enormous, long-necked creature that STALKS the murky waters of the Congo. This elusive beast is referred to only as 'Mokele Mbembe'... and whatever you do... don't eat it's meat. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube …
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In 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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Spain 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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In 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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The 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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The 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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To 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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