This Paranormal Life - #077 Ghost Mongoose Haunts Family

Episode Date: September 4, 2018

British press in the 1930s were blown away by strange reports of a haunting on the Isle of Man. There are a lot of hauntings that don't make the news, so what's the difference? - this was one ghost they could actually interview.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.

How do you know if your neighbor is a dark magician? What came first, chickens, eggs, or greys? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life. Welcome back to This Paranormal Life. This is the podcast where every Tuesday we dissect a different paranormal claim, tale, case, and get to the bottom of whether it is true or whether it is false. And as always, you are joined by myself, Kit Gre case, and get to the bottom of whether it is true or whether it is false. And as always, you are joined by myself, Kit Greer, professional paranormal investigator, and also joined by my co-host, amateur paranormal investigator, Mr. Rory Powers. Welcome, everyone, to the podcast. I'm extra excited about this one. I feel like it's going to be a lively one, so I've brought my collection of daggers whoa into the studio

just in case things start to pop off yeah well i mean things haven't really popped off in all 75 previous episodes you think today could be the day all i've learned from my years of being a professional power novel investigator is that you never know when you're gonna need a dagger right the last time you utilize a dagger got you put away for a pretty decent amount of time yeah and i was just making toast it ended up with three severely wounded yeah i'm really bad at using daggers somehow i was on the jury for that and honestly it was such a open shot case i had to send you down for that one fair enough i hope you respect that i absolutely do now as always we're not going to dilly dally around We're going to dive right into today's tale. Daggers at the ready, let's go.

You don't have to hold it to my throat, but... I said let's go. It's 1931 on the Isle of Man. On a hill, lay a farmhouse, home to the Irving family. Jim, Margaret, and their daughter, Voirie. Back in 1931 on the Isle of Man, it was not a given that you had electricity and telephones and so on. So you can imagine that one night, by the light of lamp, they heard scratching and knocking. It sounded like it was coming from behind the walls.

Blasted rats, Jim thought. And he banged on the wall, hoping to scare it away. F*** off, rats. Not tonight. It's f***ing bingo night. No f***ing scratching on bingo night. He's got his daggers out. He's just shanking the walls randomly,

trying to spear one of these little boys. He sits back down. But it's not long before the noise starts up again. Ignore it for tonight. I'll catch him tomorrow. Let's go to bed. I'm gonna, just to set the scene i'm gonna show you a uh picture of the irving family okay what the hell is that is that an

actual picture of them that is an actual picture i mean it looks like it's coming from a sega mega drive i mean it is that's sonic knuckles tails oh this is the wrong photo. What about this? Oh, f***, that's Castlevania. Hold on. Right. What about this? This is very creepy. They almost look like mannequins set in an old-timey setting. Yeah, so thank you for moving past the unbelievably pixelated nature of this picture.

But what we can see is three family members sitting around very solemnly almost as if they're conducting a seance yeah so the next day he sets traps but nothing whatever this was just wouldn't bite maybe like a cat or dog would scare them away right so jim leans up to the wall and starts growling like a dog to trick this thing there's a pause and then he hears growling right back at him whoa dogs in the walls i've been there brother it's an expensive pest control task that's the last thing you want is you know if you wake up and you're like do i have like bed bugs or something you look down at your legs and there's just full-on like gnawed limbs you call in the pest guy and he's like uh we're gonna have to tent the place up gas it come back in about

seven days that's not what you want to do uh by the looks of the scratch marks on the um uh plaster wall here it looks like you've got seven or eight wolves just really running about inside there uh wolves are incredibly expensive to feed you know if you want to keep their coats glossy you're talking a couple hundred bucks a month uh dog food so um i don't know if you guys want to gas them if you want to look after them it's all on you choice is yours but all i'm saying is the gas is running it's running right now so the choice isn't ours the gas is running if you don't put on this mask uh i don't know how much longer you're going to be alive to think about this so so i just say you know make sure you don't take too long to think about it a wolf comes out wearing a gas mask and rips his arm up

honestly i didn't see this coming this is the first time it's ever happened forgot to mention that uh nine out of ten times the gas will hyper evolve the beast and make them super intelligent but with those odds who could have seen this one happening you're like wait why did we trust this guy you go his yelp reviews like he got all he's got five stars you check all the reviews They're all written by wolves. He's trained the wolves to give him Yelp reviews. So Jim tries a different sign to try and scare it off. Meow.

And what does he get back later? A meow. Yeah. What? No matter what he tries, this thing mimics it right back. He's got dittos in the wall. It got to the point that whatever animal noise he tried, the thing behind the wall did the right back. He's got dittos in the wall. It got to the point that whatever animal noise he tried, the thing behind the wall did the same back. At this point he's doing goddamn parakeet

course. He tried a freaking bobcat. This thing right back at him. Jim must have felt like he was losing his mind at this point. But the craziest was yet to come, because if this thing could make any noise it wanted, what if it could talk? The youngest, Voirie, wanted to try something. What if I do a nursery rhyme? Could it do that back? Sure enough, the inhuman squeaky voice behind the wall was rhyming off the hits. Twinkle twinkle, Humpty Dumpty, the works. Oh my god. The Irvings looked at each other and summoned the courage to ask, who are you? The creature said its name was Jeff. That's not what I was expecting at all. So he's like, he's beyond just repeating stuff now. He's just having, it's just a man in the wall having a full-on conversation with him jeff said that he was a mongoose but not just a mongoose but quote an extra extra clever mongoose so many questions my god hi when did you get here

i was born in j. Jesus Christ. Sorry. I'm just going to have to get used to this voice, aren't I? I did a lot of research, and by all estimations, this is more or less how Jeff sounded. I studied his vocal cords. I know this is exactly how he sounded. I actually spent a lot of the last couple of weeks living with a flock of mongies.

Mongi, I believe, is the plural apologies i studied the way that they vocalized the way that they lived breeded defecated you actually used that that uh wolf gas on the herd to make them hyper evolve to the point where they could actually speak brother kit thank you for evolving our species what can we do to repay you just take me to prom you roll up to prom out of the limo with you in a tux and these it's like this absolute horde of mong guy mong guy just in a trench coat like the movie is a blob. Just like twitching and like writhing from all the movement of all the mongoose.

You walk out to like the quarterback on the football team and you're like, well, Chad, looks like I found a date after all. It's like, that's a flock of mongoose. We can all see it. She's brunette though. At least. Wait till you hear her angelic voice.'s right chad oh my god it's it's literally cutting through my ears i get my first kiss also my first rabies yeah so jeff speaks i was born in india in delhi in 1852 and whilst this did sound mental, there was a local farmer on the Isle of Man who had

kept mongoose around, so they did exist somewhere on the island. But why could he talk? Well, he wasn't just a mongoose it seemed like. He described himself as, He also said, I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet. If you saw me, you would faint. So he's human.

You'd be petrified, mummified, turned into a stone, a pillar of salt. So definitely don't try and get in here. Don't try and take me out. I look like a human. And if you take me out. I look like a human. And if you see me, I will look like a human. But don't look at me. Insane. Well, not only did Jeff start talking, but he kind of wouldn't shut up.

He would talk to Voirrey and Jim regularly, but less Margaret. He didn't like Margaret very much. And he would live in this little boxed off partition in the house that they called Jeff's Sanctum. But he mostly liked showing himself to Voirie. Jim and Margaret only caught glimpses from time to time. She said that he was like, quote, a small rat with a flat snout like a hedgehog

and yellow fur with a long tail. Oh wow, so they can actually see him? Yeah, so Jim and Margaret got glimpses here and there enough to know he was real but voyery was the one who really the child basically really hung out with um jeff from that description yellow fur long tail flat snout small rat sounds like a pikachu i'll say it right now yeah absolutely and not only would he not shut up but he became so much a part of the family, they couldn't escape him. Jim would complain that they literally couldn't even whisper in the house

without Jeff butting in. He would sing too. He knew the Manx National Anthem. Carolina Moon was his favorite song. And he knew hymns. He even knew a Spanish song. And a, quote, dirty parody of home on the range oh his own lyrics i have to know what that is i searched for dirty home on the range sex parody

and i'm being served a lot of porn so if anyone feel if any amateur paranormal investigator out there feels like reconstructing the uh parody home in the range lyrics that jeff might have used please feel free to do so jeff would basically head out first thing in the morning and run around town for a bit apparently he would hitch on the back of cars and trailers and then return home with stories of what he had been up to who he had been talking to and whatever the latest scandal was would he talk to other humans or other rats i think it's a good question i think he was more roaming around overhearing conversations and then talking shit about those people to jim margaret and voyrey wow yeah what a little asshole sometimes he would even bring back rabbits he had killed for the family to cook and he watched over the family too the irvings claimed that he would guard the house

from unknown visitors or unknown dogs. He would extinguish fires that people forgot to put out at night. And he would wake people up whenever they overslept. And even scare mice away. And in return, they would leave out, you know, bananas, biscuits, and chocolate for him.

Just having painted you the immediate picture of Jeff's arrival. Thoughts? So are they pretty, are they living, like, coexisting pretty peacefully? Yes. Okay. Up to this point. Okay.

Looking forward to the future of this story. Because it sounds like he'd be a bit of a pain in the ass. Benevolent, but kind of annoying member of the family. Yeah. You know, you'd just be, like, at family yeah you know you just be like at the dinner table and you'd be like yeah it's like it's weirdly cloud cloudy today i couldn't what was that yeah i was just talking to my wife just trying to wasn't really uh much to do with that just you know no one said shit about the rabbit i brought home today i was a big that was a big one

yeah and it was really three hard because it's roadkill. So thanks, I guess. Yeah, well, you didn't say thanks for me putting out the fire either last night. Yeah, I mean, it was a tiny fire. You lazy bastards fell asleep. Wow. My house. It was a tiny fire, yeah. It was a volcano down here.

To you because you're a tiny f***ing mongoose. I just think you would probably get on my nerves. Yeah. But it's so weird because it sounds a lot like uh like we talked about previously with corny the irish ghost yeah a voice a disembodied voice in the halls in the walls uh but they never saw corny and you're saying that they were seeing this little pikachu rat running around the place yeah i mean the parents are seeing him like as i say just enough

to know something's going on yeah they haven't like you know he's not like perched on their shoulder like polly the parrot but they have seen him running around and voyery uh seems to see him all the time fair play to this family for not just bashing him day one yeah because if i you know if i see any creature in this flat they'll be they'll be bashed immediately yeah that's how i deal with it that's my pest control whenever there's so much as a loose centipede in our flat you insist on calling pest control and i always go rory you're calling your second phone we know you're calling yourself and then you pick up the other phone and go hello yeah it's me

again and then you put on sunglasses and you start gassing we have to leave yeah because it's toxic yeah the uh the one time i actually did call a guy from pest control he showed up and i just said watch this and started bashing the bugs uh myself it was more of like a like a bragging thing yeah be like oh thanks for your service um thanks for bringing all your equipment and spending you know the time to get out here could you do me a quick favor and off while i handle it i started bashing the walls i do that a lot like i'll order like a pizza while i'm halfway done like cooking a pizza in the oven yeah so then they'll show up and they're like oh i got a pepper you put a lot of effort in as well

like they spent probably 15 minutes on your pizza you spent most of the day days i'm creating like a napoli style authentic pizza from i built the stone oven in the kitchen i noticed yeah you deconstructed the rest of the kitchen to do it so i definitely noticed oh i got a pepperoni pizza for roy powers and i'm like oh i think that's for me could you do me a quick favor and f**k off i got a pizza in the oven. Slam the door in their faces. It's weird because you still have to pay. Like the pest control guy, he's a call out fee.

Yeah, they charge me more as well because of the time wasted. Yeah. And I have to obviously get a new pizza place every single time. Yeah, because they keep learning. Yeah. I really hope you drop that. I mean, if you ever need surgery, God forbid, or something like that. So that's how i handle my problems right

what do you think what are your thoughts uh yeah this story definitely takes the horror movie paranormal activity style movie incidents of you know something unnatural happening in the house and everyone watching always goes oh just move out like there's obvious things you would do it's always kind of crazy when you hear about these stories these true stories like corny like this one that yeah the people actually do like in the movies they kind of stay put they try to live live with it live through it hopefully they just they're just kind of praying that any day it'll just end then go back to normal life yeah but it's funny that they're just kind of getting on with it yeah i guess best case scenario you have some sort of ratatouille situation where he just climbs up in your hat and teaches you how to cook that's very true um and he

did say he was extra extra clever like yeah you know in between very raunchy verses of home on the range you mentioned that yeah whenever you talk about like a dirty version of home on the range i just think of that like that one kid that everyone knows from school kind of needy and a bit nerdy and doesn't have that many friends so they learn rude versions of songs yeah sing to people because they think that'll like get them friends but everyone's like that dude that's just a weird thing to do yeah no one's to hear your weird sex version of home on the range you know jim and margaret are like 60 they're like this isn't really yeah there's a kid in the room yeah and he's like we don't appreciate it's really funny though you should hear the chorus sex sex on the

range not that clever not that clever doesn't rhyme feel like you just made it up yeah where the penises are all in vajays really really not clever we shouldn't be laughing at this because this is exactly what we said it's actually it's actually clever as shit it's actually awesome i feel more popular now that i said it as well which is dope better put some music out of that. 19th century Indian mongoose singing dirty version of Home on the Range. Yeah, this is immediately one of the most bizarre stories we've featured. Well, bit of an inconvenience, but things were otherwise pretty peachy. But it wasn't long until Jeff started exhibiting other behavior. It wasn't all just bringing home dead rabbits for everyone to eat and singing inappropriate songs.

Sometimes he made the Irvings question their own safety. After all, if he decided to stop protecting them, stop putting out those fires at night, keeping away unknowns from the door, how could they stop him? They've become too dependent on him. You need me more than I need you, me thinks. He's not Yoda.

One night, Voirie was getting scared of all the crazy noises Jeff was making and wanted to stay in her parents' room when Jeff threatened, quote, I'll follow her wherever you put her. Oh, like in the walls?

I guess. Jeez. And Jim's like, bad, fine. Where did this come from? Yeah. And Jim and Margaret literally went to the lengths of boarding up their bedroom door with heavy objects so that they could be sure nothing would get in. And they could hear Jeff smashing against the corners of the door

trying to get in. God. At other times he would yell worrying dark things like, I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world! Or, I am not evil. I could be if I wanted you don't know what damage or harm I could do if I were roused I could kill you all but I won't look when you back someone into a corner they always show their true colors and I feel like that's what they've done here they've well they haven't back they back themselves into a corner they always show their true colors and i feel like that's what they've done here they've well they haven't backed they've backed themselves into a corner but equally the message is there right he's exposed himself as a lunatic mongoose and it was always there dormant now they've activated it yeah when they asked him where he would go when he died he said to hell

to the land of mist i'm not evil where are you going you die definitely hell definitely hell okay you want to qualify that i don't want another rabbit they're like all nervously laughing. Where do you go when you die? I came here. So when I started investigating this case, and thank you to Lee for suggesting this all the way back in January and for David suggesting it more recently.

Thank you, guys. I thought this was going to be, this sounded so crazy. I thought this was going to be simple, quick case for us to investigate. Little did I know that's not the case. And that's why this is going to be a two parter people. Oh my God.

This is just part one of the story. And now is a great time for us to call it quits and come back to this next week. Exactly. We thought, because, you know, we thought we'll do one little episode about this family who saw a mongoose. That's it. Now the thing is saying it's going to hell when it dies. And that is a whole other episode where we need to find out why. We need to find the rest of those verses to the parody sex song.

There's a lot of stuff that we need to get in order. We've got to practice versions of this Home on the Range tune before next time for us to accurately play it on the podcast. I've got to order a pizza, for Christ's sake. Yeah. So I hope you guys are enjoying the story of Jeff so far, and you guys got to tune back in on Tuesday for part two of this tale. But before we go, we always have to do our Patreon shoutouts.

Thank you to everyone who's pledged so far. Special thanks to the guys we're going to shout out right here and now on the podcast. So special thank you to Robin Howe. How do you sleep at night? Are there Robin folks like that? Nice. But I like your style. Robbing from the rich, giving to the paranormal peasants.

So thanks for chucking a couple bucks in the buckets of the paranormal peasants. Really appreciate it. Thank you also. To Kevin Turner. Turner? I barely know her. There needs to be more than that. Turner the Burner.

The man who has the most phones in the shortest amount of time. That's right. Because he covers his track. There's no paper trail. There's no phone trail. He sent you a text. And when you text him back, deadline. That's right.

He's moved on to another phone. He's the most antisocial person of all time. Yeah, it's actually really hard to keep in touch with him. So this is good to hear from him again. I think it's been 25 years actually since the last message. Because he phoned me once and then snapped that phone and thought I was going to get back to him. Yeah. I didn't have his number.

I didn't know why he thought I would have his number. Sometimes it's just like, hey bro uh you know just wanted to extend the invite to my um wedding so if you could just rsvp that would be snap maybe see him again in a couple years you're not gonna get anything from that guy it's crazy anyway thanks yeah thanks kevin thank you also to rune bang Jacobson. Rune the Spoon on those spooky paranormal nights. He's always behind me, coddling me like the man baby I am, keeping me safe, and I appreciate it, brother or sister. No judgment here, brother or sister.

Thank you also to Raziel Blanco. I played Russian roulette against her one time. Thought we were firing Blancos. But we were actually firing bullets. Luckily, the man to my left of me died before I did. So we took his wallet. We took his money. And guess what?

I took his identity. That's right. That man was Rory Powers. Holy crap. And the other man that died that night? Blanco. What? That's right. That man was Rory Powers. Holy crap. And the other man that died that night, Blanco. What? That's right. We took two identities and we left for the hills.

Oh, that makes sense, actually. That's a crazy story. And actually, Raziel has itemized all of it in their email to us when they joined. He mentioned. Cool. I'm glad he remembers it. Yeah. He's actually blackmailing you now that I see it.

Yeah. He's actually threatening the authorities on you. the murder that makes a lot of sense moving on thank you also to james science james you don't need to be a science teacher to understand the paranormal all right you need a degree in the class of life and you get you don't get that by studying in a class you get that when bigfoot walks up and happy slaps you that's life experience i'll tell you what whenever bigfoot happy slaps you there's a good chance that shit will never work again absolutely not if it's not blown clean off no shame brother but i'm saying is get out of that laboratory and go find bigfoot thanks also to john gretzberg engadol ah john or as we know him you'll

remember this you know john the lawn oh yeah the guy that's out at our front lawn literally every day every single day it's insane shouting the names of various cryptids at our bedroom windows at midnight yeah he's a good guy i really love in common i can't believe that he even has an internet connection to be honest with you let alone money to be able to give it but we appreciate the support brother uh i hope the lawn is treating you well because the sprinklers aren't we'd let you in but shit shit, buddy, we don't want to. Thank you, John. Thank you also, lastly but not leastly, this week to Richard Morris. Ah, Richard, truly an expert in Morse code. Trying to code this, Richard.

Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot. It says thanks, Richard, for helping us on patreon kind of winky emoji accidentally said f**k off no i didn't i said thanks thank you very much richard for supporting us on patreon couldn't do without you thank you to everyone we shouted out this episode and everyone we are get to shout out there are some people we just haven't got around to just yet but we are getting there episode by episode thanks for being so patient everyone truly couldn't do it without you hope everyone's enjoying um their patreon hood and enjoying every episode join us next week for part two of this truly terrifying paranormal tale and until then remember to live fast die young oh

shit i got it wrong this time. I was going to do it anyway, so I'm glad you did it. What? Deliberately? What? No. Live fast, investigate, and die young. Thank you.