This Paranormal Life - #019 Rasputin - The Telepathic Sex Criminal That Ran Russia In WW1

Episode Date: July 25, 2017

How many paranormal tales can be said to have rewritten history?Rasputin changed Russia and mystified the world, armed with nothing but telepathic healing abilities and a 12 inch you-know-what.But are the paranormal claims true? Rory Powers and Kit Grier are on the case.Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeFollow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunityIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is trick-or-treating at Halloween the only thing that stops the undead from walking the earth and terrorizing us? Whenever you go to sleep at night, do ghosts and ghouls manifest and touch all your stuff and move it around a little bit? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life! Welcome to the podcast. As always, I'm your host, Kit Greer. I join my professional paranormal host, pal, Rory Powers. Boo. How's it going, bro? It's going pretty good, man. We're back.

We're back on a Tuesday with a brand new paranormal tale. They told us that we couldn't come back. They insisted, but we did it anyway. A.K.A. my landlady. She said, please leave. Not only can you not come back, you cannot stay now. You're also scaring your flatmates with your constant rantings about paranormal beings. With your 24-hour news cycle.

I found a costume in your closet of a mothman. You need to leave. Do you think if we had the budget, would we run a 24-hour paranormal coverage service wow no moving on i think it's my personal dream we could do like a 24-hour paranormal marathon oh but that would be all i could do at that point off because you would go genuinely yeah at that point we would be the scariest thing alive or dead well i've got a crazy one for you this week rory as always i'm excited i got my paranormal glasses on you know sometimes we sometimes we we skirt you know the thin line between fact and fiction and sometimes we like

to dip our toes in fiction a little too much and kind of we actually just go swimming in fiction you're already like two minutes actually sometimes it's not real sometimes we just meditate under the waterfall that is pure science fiction and sometimes we're on different sides of that line that's right like a little desert island where we've drawn a line in the sand yeah scene between cool town my side and nerdsville and we're just one dirty look away from a knife bloodbath in the middle of the desert well this week we're not going to do that this week we're rooted purely in fact and history okay this is irrefutable shit people please don't imply that we weren't always rooted in fact in history yeah i'm just constructing a narrative okay it's fine because the goblins you bet your ass you bet your goddamn ass you you don't believe in them they'll get you that's how it works burn the shoes now so roy tell me how

much do you know about rasputin this is gonna be fun because I know literally nothing. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I think a lot of people know nothing. So to get it clear, people's heads, we are talking about the 20th century, 19th slash 20th century Russian mystic whose powers were so great that he changed the course of history itself. How many paranormal beasts or creatures or tales can say that? So let's take it back. As always, Rasputin was born in the freezing Siberian outback many paranormal beasts or creatures or tales can say that so let's take it back as always

rasputin was born in the freezing siberian outback in 1869 can you imagine a more harsh environment that's like a mythical beast i mean if you're a baby and you're popping out of a room you've lost me back put me back in shove me back in this is horrible send me back to the infinite beyond because this is cold and it sucks I was fed through a tube do you know how

carefree my life was it's cold as hell out here yeah that's true I know you have it pretty sweet in the womb huh yeah I wish I could

go back at times moving on womb sure his parents had eight children in total but all died except just like they didn't make it because every parent's child die eventually well that's true yeah i mean for talking statistics you egghead but no i mean like within the first year or two i would say oh yeah like just like

infant mortality isn't that what that is right's like when you're an infant, you die. Yeah. All died except for Rasputin. Who killed these brothers and sisters. Etc. Instantly. To make him stronger. There's like a litter of little spiders.

They say that that month he was born. It's up for grabs what month this was. People back then were not taking records maybe in paris maybe in london not in the outback of siberia right they say that around then a meteor tore across the sky above the village of saying that this caused an extraordinary birth look no sorry no keep going keep going sorry just know i have i have issues let my issues be raised but not her okay local legend goes that as a young child he exhibited extraordinary telepathic and psychic abilities okay for example when his father's horse was stolen, he was able to psychically identify a thief.

But like all psychics... With his eyes. He saw it happen. By witnessing the crime. And he psychically reprimanded... He psychically apprehended the thief with his fists. Dad, I saw this man and then I stopped him and now I've tied him to this post.

Well, that comet did magical things to you, son. Then I at him like my brothers. Whoa, don't talk about that. Don't talk about the cannibal thing. But like all Siberian peasants, he was never educated. So his pars were untamed. He was a difficult youth. He was like one of the X-Men before they met Xavier. He was like one of the X-Men before they met Xavier.

He was like one of the Ninja Turtles before they met the rat. I think, weren't they babies? I'm pretty sure they were little tiny babies. They were like little shit-stirring psychic turtles. He was stealing, drinking, vandalizing. But back then, if you were born with supernatural abilities, it was a sign from god right not like today where you'd probably become a youtuber or some shit you would just like take

that shit online like fame glory 100 get a disney show exactly become youtuber exactly back then it was like the priests were the rock stars right so he was sent away to a monastery to become a monk you know tame that shit needless to say it didn't go very well he obviously failed monk school and returned home too powerful so if you could turn to page 33 of paul's gospel and he's just firing fireballs across him rasputin please stop burning every bible stop punching yourself with a burning fist stop punching yourself with a burning fist Rasputin, please stop burning every Bible.

Stop punching yourself with a burning fist. Stop punching yourself with a burning fist. He's already dead. He did become very religious, however. He claimed to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, and he became a religious wanderer. What age is this? This is around 18-ish.

Okay. Yeah. Actually, as a footnote, you just need to know that he did actually get married quite young um as reckless as he was he did actually get married and he started having kids that was what he did back then yeah yeah yeah i mean they're like they're 16 was like 50 my god yeah yeah 100 so despite being married and kids and everything at like age 18 he begins wandering the siberian countryside parenting yeah for sure but i mean he ate his own brothers and sisters and his kids will probably die like it's this this circle of sad life how can a man so wise and mystical just like have a wife

have a bunch of kids be like i know i gotta go wandering now. Isn't it crazy? Like, today, religiosity and spirituality is so, like, look after each other, man. Yeah. Like, love Mother Nature, man. Back then, it was like fireballs. Yeah. It was like fireballs, kids eating each other. I mean, like, when I abandoned my wife and kids, that was for a very specific reason. I wanted to pursue my life as an acrobat.

And that's what, I mean, these perfect sense. I thought you were going to say paranormal research. Oh, what? Something actually relevant. You think this is my main line? No, no, no, no, no. I swing from shit really high up.

And I get paid. I will get paid eventually. I'm very much doing it pro bono at the minute. But one day I will get good enough to be paid. Yeah, this is my passion project. The gymnastics just pays the bread. It's the bread money. I eat the peanuts off the floor.

Are you happy? When the elephants are done with their routine. Yeah, he started wandering the area, healing people, spiritual healing, physical healing. And he quickly gained quite a following, despite rumors that he was having sex with all of his female followers. Right. Okay. Bad husband again. It's believed around this time he moved to St. Petersburg.

It's a big city, big app. And discovered... Of all the ladies you have in St. Petersburg. A bizarre... I mean healing, sorry. They're famous. You know, they always say that. The ladies of St. Petersburg. The you have in St. Petersburg. I mean healing, sorry. The famous, you know, they always say that. The ladies of St. Petersburg.

The mamas of St. Petersburg. Spicy meatball. In St. Petersburg, he discovered a bizarre religious sect called the Clists, which literally means the whip. It's also known as the one who purges. Whoa, okay. They performed ecstatic rituals of sin, supposedly engaging in crazy orgies,

so they can repent. What? So they can repent afterwards and become closer to God. Wait. Wait. Wait. and become closer to God. Wait.

Wait. Wait. So, this religious group felt the need to sin in such extreme ways because then what? Then you could repent harder and then be closer to God? Because if you think about it, Catholics are just beating around the bush. They wait till they do shit wrong to confess. Right. These guys are just getting straight to the confession.

Just do it. So you can confess straight away. I mean are just getting straight to the confession. Just do it so you can confess straight away. I mean, I'm trying to find the flaw in this. I think I'm joining. I think I'm part of the whip now. Isn't that what they said? I am the one who purges,

I think. That's insane. One of Rasputin's many future kids claims that while her father did flirt with this religious sect he was never a real member that's what maria says maria rasputin right but despite her claims uh he really acted like a follower of the clist he so he just didn't do the apologizing confession

the confession he just did all the bad stuff he was reading the handbook and stopped the page too yeah this is sweet why so like a sex murder uh yeah yeah yeah you can do all that stuff as long as you come in the next day i'm out of here anyway no no no no no yeah i apologize for nothing he missed the whole point they're actually really reasonable people. He really acted like a follower of the clist. He lived in a constant cycle of drinking, having sex in public with random people, and then seeking salvation by praying and healing. So I hear what you're saying.

Drunken. How did this die out? This religion? Absolutely. Can I sign up? Does it exist to this day? It sounds incredible, sir. Am I already a monk of this religion? Am I a up? Does it exist to this day? It sounds incredible, sir. Am I already a monk of this religion?

Am I a priest? Sure. I'll give up gymnastics. I swear to God. Athletics, please. I said. Apologies, sir. I don't even know my tits.

I don't think you did. I hear what you're saying. Drunken horny priests are definitely not paranormal. They're not even unusual. What made Rasputin remarkable? It was that his insane shit actually worked. Rasputin was healing people left, right, and center on the streets of St. Petersburg.

Word starts getting out about his mystical abilities and his party lifestyle. Right. Oh, man. Yeah, like I said, rock stars. These guys just healing people, party, healing people, party. It's like Jesus had it too low key. Yeah, he was humble.

He was like chill. These guys are rock stars. And like a rock star heals people with music. Yeah. He's healing people with his comet powers. And his dick. His love stick. So around the time that Rasputin moves to St. Petersburg,

the son of the Russian Tsar, for anyone who doesn't know, the Tsar is basically the emperor, the king, the leader of Russia. Right. The son of the Tsar has haemophilia. So, interesting side note here, haemophilia, you probably know, is where your blood doesn't clot. So you basically bleed to death if you so much as stub your toe. lead to death if you so much as stub your toe it was known as the royal disease because britain's queen victoria passed on her rare genetic predisposition to hemophilia down to her kids and because royalty marry royalty this introduced the deadly disease into the royal bloodlines of

germany spain and russia that's crazy i did i actually did not know that yeah so what if you just get pricked like a pin yep just bleed forever yep you know the way whenever you get a cut you bleed for a little bit and then it stops yeah this just never stops think if you bruise if you get a bruise you hit your leg and bruise it's like you don't even think about it it's like oh whatever they can die from that because the internal bleeding never stops so if you get like a bruise it's a it goes away because i've had like this oh i've had this for a couple weeks now your torso is purple yeah yeah it was really bad jesus it was like it was like a it was it was like a wild badger just nicked the side of me i was trying to milk him for london i was trying to

milk the badger i heard i heard an online rumor that badger milk grants immortality. And I just figured. Yeah, no way. No way at all. I mean. Where did you read that? Reddit. It was a Reddit post.

Reddit is my doctor. Reddit, yeah. I mean, and I can tell you that is bullshit. Because I've been rubbing glass after glass of badger milk on this cut and it's not getting any better i mean it's huge it's i think it's infected i think the milk has made things worse than man sir am i royalty am i am i a queen now am i a queen for this you're a badger queen you smell of badger milk i have rabies is it foaming in the mouth you're drinking badger milk from that mug of yours

i am truly a king king amongst badgers i'll sort that whole thing out later yeah this is important now this is the important shit let's get this out of the way yeah okay so recap the tsar's son had hemophilia so the tsar and his wife were trying to do everything to treat it they they got the best doctors in the land and they couldn't do a damn thing so one of the tsar's contacts hears about rasputin's incredible healing powers in the streets of saint petersburg and they're just clutching at straws at this point so they introduced the siberian dog that is Rasputin to the most powerful man in Russia and almost the world. Basically, Rasputin does his mysterious,

drunken, sexy healing rituals. And the son heals up like a goddamn miracle. Astonishing. Literally the best doctors in the land didn't have a clue. And this one guy, this dog, has a solution. When he would go away after healing the boy they would send him away like any doctor alexi the son would inevitably get sick again or like cut himself bruise himself and start bleeding and be on the verge of death and the tsar would have no choice

but to call rasputin back so they basically just had to give him the keys to the palace and just let him just like wander in and out and that was his plan that you know that was his plan like rasputin could have totally healed him from day one yeah but he's just the whole time he's like i'm sorry guys you only have enough juice left to just take care of this yeah my retainers four thousand dollars uh an hour so sneaky rasputin i know you're a game so it's easy to be skeptical about the story so far you know everyone knows that religious healers aren't real but this is such good evidence for how real his abilities were or at least how real everyone perceived them to be the royal family of russia basically lived with a borderline sex offender drunken maniac because no one else could do what he did. He would literally, I'm not making this up, he would feel up women, noble women,

in front of the Tsar, the leader of the country, and other nobles on formal occasions. He would get drunk, yell, be disorderly, but everyone kind of laughed it off because he was this eccentric, like, weirdo. He's from, like, the back country of Siberia. You know, but he gets the job done, don't mind him sort of thing.

And if you've never seen him, anyone who don't mind him sort of thing and if you've never seen him anyone who's never seen a picture of respite look it up on google he is fairly terrifying i will show you roy oh i cannot wait i was worried there i wouldn't see him yeah feast your eyes on some of these photos okay oh wow okay he looks straight out of lord of the rings yeah he looks like gandalf the Oh, but it's not even like, it's not even kind of cool and manly. He's kind of like slicked his long hair down and parted it in the middle.

Yeah, I mean, he was like normal in physicality, but they said he was a kid who was quite scrawny. He was antisocial. Yeah, he wasn't like a fricking jock priest. No, no, no, he's not a jock priest at all. No, like he's a very long, wiry beard, long, wiry hair. He had the most bizarrely intense piercing eyes. And you can kind of see it in those black and white photos.

Dude, he looks evil. He is like the definition of someone who looks evil. He looks, he's a villain. Look at that. Good God. Yeah, he looks dead. He already looks dead it's insane but to be fair man if he really did party that hard like i mean think about it child yeah if you look at like uh

like when you see pictures of rock stars at the peak of their like drug-fueled rampages i mean they look like that they look look like Rasputin. Pretty much. Yeah, he just went straight to like, yeah, like Mick Jagger levels of party. Yeah. Just like a really young age. So, now he's running about the royal palace and this is when he really starts

messing with the system. Of course. He basically becomes the Tsar and Tsarina's right-hand man. To the point where during World War I, Rasputin prophesied that Russia would only be successful in the war if the Tsar led the army from the front lines himself. Oh, you sneaky little man.

And the Tsar actually went. He led the Russian army against Germany in the First World War, meaning the Tsarina and Rasputin were left to run the country. No. This wasn't the only prophecy he made. He also said, and this will become pertinent later on, if I am killed by common assassins... I'm sorry, where is your accent? If I am killed by common assassins...

That's good. You, the Tsar of Russia, will have nothing to fear for your children. That was really good. If it was your relations who have wrought my death, then none of your children will remain alive for more than two years. So he's just, wait, is this a premonition or he's just going to go himself and kill the babies?

It's legitimate. I know, he says you that's our Russian he's saying this to the leader of the country why didn't he it's like being like if you do not do what I say

a curse will rain down upon your family and all the windows of your shops will be smashed it's like that's not really a curse though is it

that's you just like saying you're gonna break the shop windows I'm gonna f*** you up I like the way he's just gone scottish i need to work on my i need to work on my russian accent so this is pertinent because as it happens he sent the leader of the country to the front line of the war to die he's basically controlling the the queen the Tsarina. To bang. Excuse you. He's controlling her like a freaking puppet.

He's literally creating policy for the country. He's starting to piss a lot of people off. It wasn't long before someone tried to kill him. I mean, that's nature. It's... Is it like one of his brothers that survived the eating? Rose up. Still an infant for some reason. Still a baby. It's 1914 1914 rasputin is visiting his

family in prokofskoi when he's suddenly attacked in the street by a woman named guseva she cuts him in the stomach with a knife causing apparently causing some of his guts to just spill out what at which point i guess like blood and like stuff, I mean, I guess his stomach didn't fall out. At which point she yelled, I have killed the Antichrist. Oh God. But Rasputin's mysterious powers

worked yet again and he survived the attempt in his life. He did, however, become arguably even more awful because he started drinking more and more.

Right, well you gotta heal up somehow. With the sacred nectar. Yeah. It's like, you know, Tom Brady, it's like to heal up some injuries be ready for the next game he goes into like cryotherapy sort of gets the cold showers on eats right um he drinks vodka more gropes twice as many women apparently he was drinking multiple bottles of wine at breakfast really yeah and he's running the damn

country fair play man that's actually pretty cool now that i think about it it would be two years until the next and most famous assassination attempt a group of nobles led by prince felix usapov decided that rasputin had to go and we won't get into it but just as an interesting side note a lot of people believe that the british were actually behind this assassination attempt because it's the first world war yeah they want to end this shit they everyone can see that russia is just being led astray by this puppet master insane psychopath so prince felix's men invite rasputin to a get-together royal get-together and they kind of sit him down they, everyone's going to be here soon.

Have some wine, go get some food. Can I sit down on this seat right here? No, no, no. If you just move slightly to the right. Well, I cannot see the fire if I don't sit on this seat. Yeah, I know. It looks comfy, but we probably shouldn't put it. But just to the right, just that seat over there.

You want me on this one? No. No. What's this one with the X? No, no. Yeah, the big red X. Yes, yes, yes, exactly. That is the one.

That's the one. What does that signify in your culture? It signifies power, grace. In mine, it signifies assassination attempt. Rasputin. We're all friends here, Rasputin. Huh? Yeah. It signifies assassination attempt. Respute. We're all friends here. Respute. Sorry, I'm a little drunk from breakfast.

I hear you, brother. Me too. I invented a snack. Yeah? Wine Cheerios. That's how we do things in the Royal Family. Respute. Give me the next, bro.

Yeah, that's right. Found it. Yes. He's so drunk. He's got to be so drunk. So, yeah, they sit him down on the big X, and they serve him wine and cakes laced with massive amounts of cyanide.

Jesus. He doesn't even notice. The men are looking around expectantly, looking for Rasputin to drop dead. Rasputin sits happily, munching on cakes and sipping wine. In fact, at one point he becomes bored. And because he's drunk, he starts like clapping and being like, Oh, someone sing for me. And they're like, he was supposed to be dead two hours ago.

Impossible, they thought. He had eaten enough cyanide to kill five men so yusupov is upstairs like waiting on this to go down waiting for the signal he starts freaking out because if he doesn't die soon how could he hide the body and everyone's going to find out what's happening because the tsarina the queen is still resputin's best friend right right but he's waiting upstairs and he says, enough is enough. If it goes any later, we'll have no choice. Not the red wedding, that bad boy. He runs downstairs where Rasputin's waiting and he shoots him in the back with a gun.

He falls to the front heap. Yusupov reconvenes with his men and they talk about what to do next. But whenever they turn around to retrieve the body, Rasputin suddenly opens his eyes. He lunges at Yusupov, whispering in his ear as he strangles him, You bad boy! Yusupov's men run in and shoot Rasputin three more times in the back. And he falls to the ground.

They check his pulse. He's still breathing. What is happening? more times in the back and he falls to the ground. They check his pulse. He's still breathing. What is happening? He starts trying to get up. So they start beating him. At one point, one of the men takes out their knife and cuts off his dick.

Oh my God. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That's not okay, guys. Like if you are struggling to kill a man who's been shot and beaten, like, the penis holds no vital importance. Why? I guess if it's just like, well, shit, now I'll just, like, I'll just want to die now.

I like the idea of them all kind of teaming together to kind of beat him up and kill him and, like, put the final nail in the coffin. They're like, okay, okay guys that was tough but good one i mean larry i feel like you kind of lost your cool a little bit back there yeah no no no no it's fine i mean you you cut off his dick yeah yeah yeah i mean you're holding it yeah it's on my head now what for i've got his lucky charm yeah not cool not cool what are they gonna say when they find he doesn't have a dick i don't find it i'll give him mine jesus christ just a bad idea just a bad idea there's no need

for that i'm called for yeah 100 and it's not over he's still alive so they grab him and they tie him up and they roll him in a carpet like mafia style and they tie him up. And they roll him in a carpet, like mafia style. And they take him to a nearby river and throw him in. It's like, this is like the end. Like we talked about in a previous podcast, this is like Megatron or Osama Bin Laden getting dropped in the middle of the Mariana Trench. Right.

As the carpet hits the water, he breaks free from the ropes and starts swimming away, trying to escape. But the cold was too much and he did drown in the icy river his body was later recovered and when they did the autopsy he you know his lungs were filled with water so they know the cause of death uh it wasn't cyanide getting his dick cut off or getting shot four times but cold right it's like uh when the aliens in war of the worlds invade us yes and it turned out they just couldn't survive uh like human created diseases he had drunk so much alcohol he was allergic to water yeah at this point is what they literally tried to poison the man who drinks

poison at breakfast willingly the cause of death is important because flashback let's remember his prophecy he said if the tsar's men killed him the tsar's family would not live and they didn't when the february revolution happened in russia the romanov royal family were all executed wow in fact some say that several of his prophecies came true he made many and um some say he predicted the year of his own death he said i think at one point that he wouldn't he wouldn't live past a certain date um well he must have known that with the amount of drink he was doing one of people who's pissing off it wasn't even so much a prophecy as he's like this isn't going well i love that he's drinking like 20 bottles of wine a day like molesting anyone who

puts his eyes on one day he's just like i'm gonna die soon and everyone's like yeah thank another prophecy my god ridiculous um and so there's just one more lucerne to wrap up in the mystical story of respite remember we said his dick was cut off? Yeah. What happened to his dick? He was rumored to be constantly having sex with people around the streets of St. Petersburg. We've made dick jokes on the podcast before. Bigfoot, etc. Pretty much every episode. Dicks are funny. You can't blame us. But for real this time, people believed he had a big dick. This was part of the story, the legend of Rasputin and the legend goes that when he died the maid at his murder site kept his dick and then supposedly it fell into the hands of Russian women in Paris who kept it as a fertility charm and then Rasputin's daughter Marie heard

about this and she demanded it to be returned uh I guess she was managing she wrote books about him managed yeah in his entire estate She had it until her death in the 70s But whenever it was going to be auctioned off It turned out to be a sea cucumber That's ridiculous But the story doesn't end there In 2004 a lecturer at the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

And the collector of Rasputin's personal effects Unveiled that he owns Rasputin's true dick. He bought off a black market oddities collector in France. No. And he now exhibits it. You can go see it. And long story short, it's a foot long. Really?

Yeah. You can see it online. My God. Can we see it now? Yeah. Wait, so they've got, I mean, I'm going to go ahead and assume these people have done, if it's on show, they've presumably done like DNA tests on it.

I don't know. Because I mean, I don't think you can really go as far as to put something on display and have people pay to see it without having it certified. You would think, but I feel like this is so bizarre. I feel like whoever's going bizarre that like i feel like whoever's gonna be that interested in rasputin's dick isn't paying for it to go get like dna tested i completely beg to differ i think if you're very interested in his penis you want to know if it is legit the real thing i'm going on a list right now i mean i'm just typing into google right now

rasputin's dick yeah we're on a list i'm trying to get the best photo for you. Yeah, that one's pretty good. It's a pretty small image, but... Oh, my God! So... Oh, God! Why is she so... Why is she looking at it like that? She has a vaguely pleased expression on her face. I mean, I don't even really know what to say.

It's a dick in a jar, is what it is. Yeah, I'm looking at a dick in a jar. I didn't... This isn't what i want this podcast to be turn it off um you know what it's preserved really well yeah like surprisingly suspiciously well like because basically like you could imagine as soon as it happened and the dick was cut off and it's on the floor like whose immediate thought is it like this is going to be yeah throw it in like a jar that's that's part of the story is that this was part of the legend you're

right was his his dick was pretty important and he was you know he was said to be this like mystical um healer who was also like incredibly um had incredible sexual prowess right i suppose and you think the dick holds a lot of that power? That's supposedly. I mean, Jesus, people like buy rhino horns and grind up and eat it because they think it's like a fertility charm. So what about Rasputin's dick? Go straight to the source.

That's such a good cut out for this podcast. What do I do? Oh man, we need to take a step backwards from this one. Okay, so it went kind of left field there in the last sort of three minutes. I'm still on board. This is a great one. I really enjoyed this one. So, to recap.

Right. A child born with telepathic abilities, supposedly. We've got premonitions. We've got faith healing, healing people in the streets. So much so that he's brought to the attention of the leaders of his country, at which point he miraculously heals the prince over and over and over again when no one can. Whenever his assassination attempts are made in his life, he survives not once but twice. Survives slashing, four bullets, cyanide poisoning, everything. His prophecies about his own death

come true. There's a lot of stuff wrapped in here and obviously a man like that who's larger than life you're gonna get some falsehoods some myths some that's true some exaggerations thrown in there but not the dick that shit's real so where do you stand where do i stand it's a tough one it's a tough one because uh we've got a investigation this time where i do like these ones it's an investigation where a lot of the facts that you've brought me are real you know they're historic they're historical they are historical the man the events that took place in world war one the preservation of a penis whether or not it is his or not it It's a very impressive penis.

But then, as you said, it's the little details that are a little bit fishy. It's like when you hear about ancient Egypt and you hear about the aides to the pharaoh who were like the mystical men who would speak to the gods like Ra. who would speak to the gods like Ra. And a lot of the weird wizardry they would do, you know, throw different materials onto fire and make like green smoke puff out. But that was like witchcraft. Chemistry, I guess.

It's just chemistry. And I mean, it's a little harder to explain with, you know, healing this. What is the condition that the prince had? Hemophilia. Yeah, that's a little bit more confusing, unless that was a plan together to, like, rally up a nation behind a magical Christ-like figure. I will throw your bone here.

Haemophilia is where your blood doesn't clot. Basically, if you read Rasputin's advice for what to do, because oftentimes he would be called to help the boy and he maybe would be away maybe he's in his hometown or whatever and he would maybe come in his way but he would send a letter back and he would say something to the effect of um the boy's going to be fine don't bother him too much don't let the doctors like hassle him and he's gonna so he was fine then so the boy would always be fine well on occasion he would say this so what people but you have a point what people were hypothesizing

were they they were saying yes he had hemophilia maybe he would have lived and maybe the doctors were making it worse whatever they were doing maybe rasputin's miraculous intervention in this instance not saying about all the others maybe he was just kind of being like a little a little bit more hands-off right it's like when you hear about old medical treatments where it's like oh someone's feeling sick we should cover them in leeches yes so they can suck out the bad blood yeah yeah it's like that was a just a i assumed a terrible idea we're not doing it anymore much to that yeah but yeah old medicine you know was in some weird places maybe rasputin just showed up and the kid was like oh i'm so glad you're here mr rasputin what is it what you'd like me to do shut your little mouth i'm gonna yeah i'm gonna drink this

wine you're just gonna shut your little mouth i'm dying yeah yeah i know you're we're all dying bitch he just does nothing rasputin's hungover eating a bowl of wine cheerios in the corner maybe that's it maybe he just like told the kid tell them i'm healing you or i'll kill you i wouldn't put it past this man but you know personally there's definitely there's definitely something believable about that. Yeah. But personally, it's kind of convenient to write off this one miraculous healing of the prince and kind of discount all the reason that he was famous in the first place. Because he was famous across the city before.

That's true. He met the Tsar in Tsarina. I think this man did exist and i think it may have been popular popular opinion that he did have some healing capabilities but i am very skeptical as to the extent of these capabilities where where do you stand yeah i think i'm kind of on the same page here i feel like what it all kind of reads to me is that he was basically very intelligent yeah and very virile in that he was just like he was i mean what he did to his own body to still live as long as he did and party that hard and survive the assassination attempts i mean he was poisoned and all these things and he was just having sex constantly with random people. He was obviously just, like, full of life,

like, so much so that it's hard to kill him. Right. And, yeah, obviously intelligent, that he was able to heal people and was very religious and all those things. Yeah, I guess if we're asking, is this paranormal? I think probably not. Probably not.

I'm getting, like, the sense getting the sense of cult leader vibe. Yeah. So charismatic and hypnotizing and just energetic and full of life that if there's some normal person who's feeling sick or lost and you see this guy just full of life and love and alleged healing powers, you would just be so drawn to it and succumb by it. I think that's probably much more likely i think that's what we're looking at here but a crazy story nonetheless a great story that was a fantastic one what a ride what a damn ride but unfortunately in terms of a conclusion it's both looking like we're saying nope nope nope not this time Not this time. Not this time, folks. Unfortunately not. But if you have any of your own thoughts about the Tale of Rasputin, any ideas or inputs, do let us know.

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