This Paranormal Life - #082 Ghost Jellyfish Haunt the Earth's Atmosphere

Episode Date: October 9, 2018

Paranormal investigators have long discussed a rare phenomenon - sightings of something mysterious living in our atmosphere. The first hand accounts seem too bizarre to be true, but when scientists like Carl Sagan say it's possible, who's to know? Kit and Rory 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.

95% of the universe is dark matter. Is that because all the lights are here on Earth? Who's the man in the moon and what does he want? All these questions you can find the answer to on this episode of This Paranormal Life. Whoa, I can feel the fire in you already. Whoa! Put me out! I thought I would try some pre-sup before this podcast.

That's right, welcome back to This Paranormal Life, the podcast where every Tuesday we investigate a different paranormal tale, claim, or case and get to the bottom of whether it is truly paranormal or falsely paranormal. As always, you're joined by myself, professional paranormal investigator, Mr. Kit Greer, and this guy, professional paranormal investigator, Mr. Rory Powers. Good evening and salutations. As always, I've got a brand new investigation here for us. Let's just dive right in.

I'm happy to do that. It's September 5th, 1891, Crawfordsville, Indiana. And two ice delivery men. Sorry, are you giggling at that? It's a noble f***ing profession, Malvena. I forgot that you're... So cool it. That you come from a long line of...

Chill out, as my dad would say. But you actually broke the mold on that one. Yeah, I didn't want to do that. It was a shitty job. Didn't pay him very much at all. I drove across country with our biggest delivery. It turns out, uh-oh, you need a fridge to keep it ice. Right.

Now I'm a water delivery boy. My father's disowned me. No son of ours is going to peddle water. That's right. Two ice delivery men are going about their business. When all of a sudden, they felt the sunlight around them dim and the temperature drop. It wasn't to do with the ice, though. Oh.

They looked up and saw what they could only describe as quote a strange phenomenon hovering above them they called it a horrible apparition that filled them with dread oh being the 19th century they weren't able to like snapchat it but they did tell local journalists and those journos might have thought these ice men were quacks if a local priest and his wife hadn't told them the exact same story on the exact same day see this is where you're getting into more believable territory because ice men you know they're not on a list of professions of people that you would trust priest yeah trust absolutely he sells redemption to the sinners that's something the sinners actually need.

Yeah. If he was selling sins to the sinners, that would make him the devil. We don't trust him. You think he's out there just preaching to the converted? Hell no. Absolutely not. He's preaching to the people who do not want to hear it. AKA the Icemen.

Those sinning bastards. Those little demonic ice peddlers. This is your dad and your granddad you're talking about granted yeah the crawfordsville journal ran the story along with many other papers such as the indianapolis journal and the brooklyn eagle describing a thing quote about 18 feet long and eight feet wide it moved rapidly through the air by means of several pairs of side fins. It was pure white, had no definite shape or form, resembling somewhat a great white shroud fitted with propelling fins.

There was no tail or head visible, but there was one great flaming eye and sort of a wheezing sound emitting from its mouth which was visible it flapped like a flag in the winds as it came on and frequently gave a grit squirm as though you're saying too many words unutterable agony you're saying too many words we've said it before in the podcast people 100 years ago were extremely verbose the average sentence today is like what's up uh send nudes things like that right back then they wrote goddamn essays i'm trying i'm just i'm trying to visualize this thing in my head yeah let's try and let's try and piece this thing together uh so 18 feet long eight feet wide so longer than it is wide uh moving rapidly pure white no definite shape or form so quite amorphous a bit of a white shroud no tail or head but a giant eye and a giant mouth one giant flaming eye yes okay wheezing as if in great agony

i mean it's painted quite the picture if i saw that i wouldn't know what to call it either if i saw that thing i am chomping down on the cyanide tooth in the back of my mouth i am gone i'm out you have a cyanide tooth in the back of my mouth. I am gone. I'm out. You have a cyanide tooth? Always, brother. You're speaking present tense there, really. Yeah. I have my molar. I have it back there.

Yeah, I see it. The cyanide one. Oh, yeah. It's like bright red. It's got like warning symbols on it. I don't know how I can see that from here. It's not discreet at all. It's actually like a wrapper.

I like to flaunt it. Like they have the golden grills. When did you get that put in did you like does the dentist did he take out your wisdom teeth and then pop that bad boy didn't have any wasn't born with any wisdom teeth and he was like do you want do you want me to put them in i was like yeah cyanide ones please really yeah that's not on the nhs though you know i had to go very specialist for that i had to fly to thailand to get that one done right that would make sense actually yeah because i've never heard of it i've actually chomped down on a couple of them accidentally once really it was a bad time you were just going going hog wild and some beef jerky and chan it down and you're like this is a

bit this has got a real kick to it at the time i thought it was the teriyaki spices it was the cyanide the cyanide had been all four actually had gone on first bite i wasn't even into the jerky i had one piece the dentist offered you the antidote tooth but you said not gonna need it they come free with the cyanide teeth we don't have to install it and i said you can just keep in your pocket if you want. Four cyanide teeth. We usually recommend two of each, but nope. Because if I burst this bad boy,

it means I want to die and I don't want the antidote. I don't pay you to think genius. I pay you to put these bad boys in my mouth and now it's done. And now I'm gone. Peace. Slam the door.

You just hear like, Dr. James, Dr. James, there's a patient unconscious on the floor with a mouth full of cyanide. Oh, Christ. He walks outside and I'm like, help me! Dr. James! I bit the tooth! I bit all four of the teeth!

I didn't think it would go after one chomp! Maybe the craziest thing about this is that it wasn't a one-time thing. Hundreds of local residents reported the same story the next day, saying they could feel the monster's hot breath as it came overhead. All this hullabaloo did catch the attention of New York resident and famed paranormal investigator Charles Fort. He went on to write in his work, The Book of the Damned,

about the possible existence of living beings in the Earth's atmosphere. Wow. So not even like another dimension. Just right up upstairs. Right up there. Somewhere below God, above us. On this podcast, we've covered countless tales of UFOs, of strange apparitions in the sky, lights and ships that fly across the face of the sun itself, or abduct innocent victims for futuristic experimentation.

And that monkey, the ghost monkey that was masturbating. That was jacking off. We did that one as well. That was the best one. An important bit of research. And maybe some of the listeners at home have even seen some

with their own eyes need to clarify that yeah i know it's a ufo actually i was talking about they might have seen the monkey though they might but today we're talking about something slightly different potentially even more shocking than a ufo because a ufo could just be what the authorities say they are a military test balloon, something technologically unknown but possible. Right, its explanation exists within the confines of our reality. But what about something organic? A living thing that lives in our atmosphere? So in our first story, these things have a very vague, long shape. But do they always look like that? Fast forward to October 19th, 1998. In Qingshan, China, 90 miles northwest of Shanghai. One night, multiple military bases in

the area identified an unknown object in the radar. Could it be an enemy craft? Only one way to find out. They order a jet to intercept the UFO and determine its motive and destination. As the jet flew towards the object, it at first resembled a star and it grew larger the closer they got. Until it became clear it was no star. It was no moon. The pilot, along with hundreds of onlookers from the ground, described a mushroom jellyfish shaped object with bright dangling lights hanging from it but as the pilot did you confuse that for a moon but as the pilot got closer and closer it sped off upwards and before he knew it it was completely out of sight so in this case the beast is a is like a jellyfish and this is surprisingly the most common description of atmospheric beasts.

They are assumed to be very fragile and lightweight and more or less move like a gas or liquid. They can change their shape easily like an octopus or jellyfish. Right, right. Can they do that thing octopi can do where they go through tiny little holes? They probably can. Because aren't octopuses, octopi, sorry, like mad smart? Yeah. can do where they like go through like tiny little holes they probably can except because

aren't octopuses octopi sorry like mad smart yeah the thing is about them they're smart and they can squeeze into tight holes but that doesn't make them strong oh i want to go you know how you have those restaurants where you can like pick which fish you want from the tank or which lobster you want yeah and then they cook it and eat it yeah i want one where you can pick which one you want from the tank or which lobster you want yeah and then they cook it and eat it yeah i want one where you can pick which one you want to fight so it's like i want that little coward in the back um who's like squirming around and then they'll take so this isn't even you're not even showing off you just want that you want to fight the weakest one i don't even really want to eat it at this point yeah i just want it doesn't sound like it no no because i've there's never been a restaurant where you fight what you eat before eating it that's true

so where that's so that's an invention of your own mind yeah we'll take out the eating we'll just fight it there's a restaurant where i can not a restaurant i guess at this point just a just some sort of seafood fight club is what i'm looking for here right and then you start off if you but you build up the ranks you start off with shrimp uh maybe scampi even yeah deep pride sort of fish it's already dead i can one punch those suckers yeah are you in their domain are they in your domain uh the the level is sort of a 50 50 split you've got some you got a little rock pool in one corner uh and then a sandy kind of uh area in the other corner bare hands or weapons weapons are

optional oh yeah i've tried it all and trust me bro i've fallen in the rock pool before it's harder than you would think it will just be me the him ocean versus land you guys cranked him though hard beforehand he's like yeah yeah he can't even see cranked himself last time and he was still pretty bitey you said he was borderline unconscious uh last week and i still fell in the rock pool rory it doesn't matter how unconscious we make him it's you you lose your footing you slipped and you went into the rock pool i just want to make sure he's out so if i fall in the rock pool again he's not going to jump on and you insisted on wearing cuban heels which are so slippy and slidey i want to do it in style i want to win in style don't i like all right we'll see how it goes all right come here you little oh god straight into the rock pool now this might sound

bananas but there are numerous accounts of such sightings around the world in 2015 a dutch photographer got this on camera all right all right all right wow okay oh so i kind of i can kind of see how this could be um mistaken as a star now because if you think of a jellyfish uh it does kind of like that pulsating movement yeah when it's at like full pulse you know the the body of the jellyfish is quite coiled up almost circular that's right and then his what do you call those tentacles whatever they are little jellyfish legs are um almost like a trail behind it in that freeze frame moment it does kind of look like a shooting star yeah you know almost like an asteroid or a. In that freeze-frame moment, it does kind of look like a shooting star.

Yeah. You know, almost like an asteroid or a comet like coming to Earth. But upon closer inspection, I mean, it's green for a start. Yep, sure is. Stars aren't usually green. It looks kind of like a lens flare.

I didn't want to bring that up, but I feel like that might be kind of important moving forward. Really? It looks like a pretty complex lens flare to me. He's pointing the camera right at the sun in this picture i want people to know like there's a zoomed in version of this this is this you're you just handed me the same image give me that feedback but you punched in four times look it, it is weird. It's a strange picture. I'll admit that.

It's a very weird looking lens flare or space jellyfish. I just wanted to give you a feel for where we were at. Okay. I actually forgot to show you this. This is allegedly what the Chinese pilots were looking at. I wasn't fully able to verify this, but there was one source online that seemed to be claiming this was what they were chasing down down okay wow okay now see we're getting way more into i mean this is not

a lens flare right this kind of it does look like a white mushroom it looks like a little mario one up mushroom yeah white what does it want but arguably the most widely known sighting was Petrozavodsk, Russia in 1977 where a UFO slash celestial phenomenon was spotted. It was seen all the way from Russia to Helsinki and beyond. To this day we do not know if it was a weapons test or atmospheric jellyfish but we do know that the Soviet government and space institute investigated it. But their results were inconclusive. They just called it a, quote, anomalous phenomenon. And I can show you one photo

of that here. So bearing in mind, long ass time ago, Soviet Russia, a little bit of a small image. That's fine. A little bit of a shitty image, I should say. Ooh, okay. That is a very small image image i think i read that there maybe were original photos but those were somehow lost oh yeah this is some kind of copy um it's definitely keeping in theme with the jellyfish it certainly is it's sort of got uh yeah a little trail behind it with like a domey shaped head really weird looking granted it could just be a splotch of white ink again this was seen all over kind of um northern europe which means that it was truly colossal in size and like luminosity yeah but the question does still stand that we have to contend with is it could be a

weapon says maybe someone wasn't fessing up over that that's a weird weapon to test what a jellyfish a giant airborne jellyfish i mean that would have ended the war i think yeah absolutely 100 probably with minimal zero casualties i've heard that one box jellyfish can kill maybe a hundred men. What could one god-sized jellyfish do to an entire nation? One omnipotent jelly lord do to an entire country. Rule it. With a jelly fist. Which is surprisingly liberal. Like, it's actually really nice.

You can do whatever you want. It's a very tender touch but also upon first touch you kill yeah you sting to death yes you don't need to be ironed because you're f***ing poisonous because your heart is nails yes yeah and it goes on in norway 2010 a man was photographing the aurora borealis as he often does and he saw something he could not explain of course the tromso geophysical observatory immediately said that's a camera artifact that's why it looks the way it does but i'm going to show it to you as a paranormal investigator and photography expert you can see what you think right you know what i was building up and up and up and now i'm going back

down to lens flare oh in fact this is actually pretty damning evidence okay because in this photo we're seeing the same effect we're seeing the uh dome like top of the jellyfish yep we're seeing the trail behind it but in this photo we can actually see the rest of the circle of the lens flare around the creature, unless it is enforcing some sort of bubble-like force field around its body. Who says it's not? This does look like to be a lens flare. What do you know? It's a really petty response to showing me a piece of evidence that's the last

time i show you a piece of evidence that's all i'm saying well you asked me what i thought and i was just evidence privileges are revoked sir you'll have to make your decision without evidence but don't just say it's no i also didn't say it was no i offered a counterpoint which i think was actually pretty responsible i spent a lot of time on this and i just don't need you undermining it for no goddamn reason so okay let me do my thing it's a reason it's the point of the don't talk about me right so next up is a pick and scrap that uh i have a video here no that's gone it's actually a slideshow i had a 200 image slideshow coming up wait was that the roswell footage how did you how did you get that you know whatever you don't want to see it so i actually i i'm in roswell a lot and i have a lot of connections so they really

trust me with all that shit but whatever i hear where you're coming from you're not won over just yet not yet so before we get any deeper we should talk about evidence maybe something that we can really you know grab onto here many have wondered if there are beings up there in earth's atmosphere what happens when they die do they just float around up there one answer to this riddle is star jelly have you ever heard of it it's not an answer that's way more questions the answer to no question ever is star jelly i know i hadn't so star jelly has different names all over the world from Latin it was translated in the 1400s to Stir slime

I'm not joking. That's just you just said star slime in a weird way. How it's spelt S-T-E-R-R-E Slime S-L-Y-M-E Wow, that sounds really incorrect. Did you type that out? In Mexico, they call it Caca de Luna, or literally Moon Poop. Yeah, I thought caca was poop.

But this is basically a weird white slime that you can find out in nature, and all throughout history, people have noticed it appear around meteor showers or other astronomical events, leading them to believe that stardust is literally falling to Earth as slime. Granted, biologists don't actually think it's star jelly. They think it's probably connected to some kind of amphibian or bacteria.

But there is no agreement on where it comes from. So, paranormal investigators have suggested, could it be a residue excrement or dead remains of an atmospheric beast i had no idea this was a thing at all yeah how is that not just like a type of fungus yeah i know because presumably like isn't it very easy to determine if something came from a meteorite like it's it's incredibly easy because meteorites are are composed of like isn't it like an insanely high amount of very specific types of iron right but i feel like god damn iron in there well then it's not from a star is it there's no way to tell it's the thing is made of a hundred percent mushroom we don't know where it came from it's a

hundred percent slime what do you want me to do yes it's not entirely agreed upon where it came from but it's also a little bit of a broad term for any type of slime or gunk found out in nature like that's white and looks like that right there was one tv show in the bbc where they were like okay well we've got one sample of like some slime here where did this come from and i think it came from like some type of frog or something like that okay it probably could be done if to test every individual sample but as a phenomenon and large they don't know where it comes from right okay so it could be from jellyfish and just okay yeah i guess theoretically speaking it could be from these atmospheric jellyfish thanks you're coming around it's good to know.

One of the biggest reasons why people find it hard to believe the idea of atmospheric beasts is the small yet unavoidable fact that living things are mostly made out of solids. And solids usually weigh more than air, so they can't float. Good point. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule. Birds, for example, are heavier than air, but they figured out a neat way of staying up there. Hollow bones.

That too. Right. Flying. Yeah, that's really good. Yeah, actually, hollow bones, that's actually some science shit. That was like, I level up. Yeah. But just how would an atmospheric jellyfish work?

We may be one step closer to an answer. This magic carpet that seems to be floating in thin air is... jellyfish work, we may be one step closer to an answer. This magic carpet that seems to be floating in thin air is actually air made thin by nitrogen gas. Nonetheless, it is the new record holder for the lightest solid ever made. It's called Seagel, S-E-A-G-E-L. The US Defense Department began work on it in 1983 for what some people called Star Wars. Exactly for what, they won't say. When we first started, the physicists asked us to produce something which we really felt could never be produced. But like anything else, you take it one step at a time, just like building a rocket that's going to go to the moon.

It comes in colors. It insulates against temperature, noise, and electric current, but you can lift it with static electricity. There's another property of this material that should make you happy if you have any kind of environmental concerns. Watch this. To say it's biodegradable is putting it mildly. It's edible. it mildly it's edible in 1931 aerogels were invented for the first time a type of gel solid where the liquid stay with me here is replaced with a gas to date the lightest thing like known to man i don't know how the physics work but you can just like set it down it doesn't just float in the air right but it is lighter wait so if it is seven times heavier lighter if it's seven

times lighter than air and it doesn't float i guess that means air doesn't float i'm not gonna lie to you i'm in a way over my depth here i think my nose is bleeding all i know is previously we didn't think such materials were even possible now they are used in products all over the world and in space is it possible that nature beat us to the punch and these atmospheric beasts are lighter than air itself maybe they're not made out of aerograffine or sea gel but maybe they're made out of some other yet to be discovered solid that's actually lighter than air this is what i don't understand when these type of materials exist in the world this incredibly light incredibly durable flame resistant cube yeah i if i got my hands on that i would build a full-on mechanical suit of armor and i would

cover myself into it head to toe so why because how i'm invincible i'm as light as a feather i can basically fly you live an incredibly safe life i could yeah but because you're inside because i am a flower right now i'm a little flower boy but if you case the flower and whatever this is magical what did you say it was tube gel or something aerographing aerograph yeah yeah shut up if i if i case myself in that i'd be like i'd be like a rose what i have thorns now i'm prickly i'm still a flower obviously because you're nice tender and pretty you're not nice because you told me to shut up just now but if i had that tender and pretty technology all right now. That's how you see yourself. That's fine.

With thorns as well. Don't forget the thorns. I'm a little prickly bitch as well at the best of times. But if I have this armor as well, I'd be unstoppable. Yeah. Why aren't they implementing that in our military? What do you want to do that you're currently being stopped by because of your mortality? What is it you're trying to do that you need a suit of armor? I want to start my own thrift shop.

What does that have to do with having a suit of armor? Why do you need that? You could start one tomorrow. You literally just buy a bunch of junk and you put it in a space. I didn't think about that. It's actually one of the safest, most boring jobs you could have. You actually need nothing for it because it's just old stuff. You're just selling old stuff.

But I hear what our listeners are saying at home. They're screaming into their phones right now. If they were up there, we would see them all the time. But what those foolish, naive, and straight up dumb listeners don't fully understand is the Earth's atmosphere is a very big place. Everyone knows the ocean is like 95% undiscovered. Well, the atmosphere is about 50 times bigger than the goddamn ocean. And 100% undiscovered. The atmosphere extends like 60 miles straight up and then multiply that all around the however like

what like a couple hundred miles around the earth or something it's true it's a truly unimaginably massive space why couldn't there be a few atmospheric beasts hiding in it it's true there's a lot of space to mess around with it's like when people look up at the stars and they're like oh who knows the the beauties of the universe out there and you have to tell them you are not even looking at the universe you are looking at our galaxy our tiny tiny little galaxy right and there's enough weird stuff going on in this place we gotta start fixing the stuff in our backyard before we start thinking about you know the rest of the universe. I literally mean our backyard there is dangerous insects We've got a tire fire thing going. It's really bad. We had like a whole raccoon infestation

Well, we brought it out the mung geese to take care of those and now we have a mung geese problem The raccoons look cute in the videos you see on YouTube. So we bought a whole box of them, right? Not cute No, we thought they were like Furbies very bitey very scratchy very lots of rabies yeah point is look up the stars people don't look in our back garden we actually started the tire fire to try and flush them out and now they just cook their meats on it and they're getting stronger it's a lot of protein yeah i saw a raccoon straight up curling barbells in the corner. Like, they are getting hyper smart, hyper jacked. They've built a small prison, and those raccoons are getting especially jacked,

because they got nothing else to do. It should be said, though, that famed zoologist, and actually the man who invented the term cryptid, Ivan T. Sanderson, wrote about these beasts at length. Which actually gives him a little bit more credence, that someone who's written a lot of books about the paranormal. But he did write books about Bigfoot too, so take from that

what you will. And maybe even more impressively, Carl Sagan himself talked about the possibility of balloon-like aliens that could live on gas planets like Jupiter or Saturn. It's possible they are from other planets. If you can float through the air and

live in the upper atmosphere of Earth, what does it stop you from just drifting on out of that sucker and just keep going and then just go to another planet and just live in space? It can be difficult to see how exactly they would get from one planet to another. They move like truly like a jellyfish or We're infamously slow. It would be difficult for them to actually, you know, close that gap from planet to planet. Listen, this case unexpectedly took a lot of different turns. There's stuff I don't even want to get into.

It seems like almost another thing. We've got flying rods. I'm sure people are interested in. We've got sky trumpets and other kind of atmospheric creatures. I'm really glad you didn't bring that into the podcast. I think it's for the best. Next week.

Sky trumpets. Part one of four. Margaret was walking down the street late at night when she heard a noise from behind her. A trumpet beast eats her alive. This thing takes a lot of different turns. But if we're focusing in on atmospheric beasts, particularly jellyfish-like atmospheric beasts, what do you think, given the evidence I've provided today? I have so many questions.

Right. We talked a little bit about how they could have arrived on Earth. Yep. What they are. Yep. But I still don't know what they want what would their origin be what's their purpose why are they created at the start of this podcast i started looking at them as more of ghostly apparitions but now it seems like it's being

developed into this idea that they're this whole sort of organic species that they're pretty much an animal exactly which i guess the only reason behind that thinking is the space jelly yep which they proved was from a frog or at least one sample of space jelly right or kaka lunar kaka yeah um so i'm not really sure what to believe i i don't like to trust anything that i can't punch physically punch so like uh like air gravity dinosaurs anything that i can't physically punch i find it hard to put a lot of faith in evolution you know they're all real though right well until i can punch until i can pin down evolution and sock them in the face yeah or her could be a woman still one of the most ignorant things i've ever heard i find it hard to i i don't know which one i'm more inclined to believe

i guess some sort of space jellyfish over some sort of ghostly floating blob there's almost something safer about just writing this off as a paranormal case and and saying that oh it just defies all explanation it's it harder to say, what are these? Is there any biological, physical explanation for how they could exist? That's a much deeper rabbit hole to go down. Yeah, I wonder which one actually has more implications. Which one would devastate humanity more

if it was like actual jellyfish aliens or ghosts were real which one would break down humanity that's a really good question i think maybe ghosts yeah i think so because i think everyone is pretty much in agreement that aliens exist now there's a few people who are stubborn and don't really believe in them yeah even if they're like tiny little microorganisms on a planet everyone knows there's life out there somewhere. And so, you know, it's not just a scale of time. How long is it going to take before we encounter them? Will they come to us?

Will we come to them? So if they're here already, great. You know, it's something we kind of expected. But ghosts and the paranormal, I think most people, unfortunately, do not believe in that. Could you imagine like waking up one morning and you go into work and everyone's crowded around a news station, blasting it out? So Brexit talks are still ongoing and the Prime Minister says they're going to be developing as the week progresses. In other news, it's been confirmed that ghosts are real and walk among us. We are going to the New York Stock Exchange. Well, we're going to the New York Stock Exchange.

Well, we're here on the New York Stock Exchange. Markets do not know what the f*** to do now that ghosts are confirmed as real. Things are more or less ticking along as usual. No one really knows what to buy or sell, so... Stocks over here are forecasted to plummet as more ghosts are discovered. But actually, if you put on these high-vis scientific goggles,

you can take a clear view at the ghost stock market, which is obviously the deceased members of Wall Street here still buying and trading ghostly stocks. And they have really skyrocketed since their existence has been acknowledged by the humans. Phantom Leo from Wolf of Wall Street is just snorting ghost coke off the table going absolutely wild haunting people you've heard of rock star coke but ghost ghost coke the ultimate high you have it's so powerful you have to be dead before you try it or it will

kill you i think in terms of my own investigation into this case it took me down a pretty deep rabbit hole there was lots of different topics of discussion and pretty long history of people talking about these things going back to ancient times which you didn't really talk about but through to kind of um middle ages um poetry about star jelly and reports of creatures in the sky right i also felt very frustrated at different points. So in the first case in Crawfordsville, Indiana, you had hundreds of people giving this testimony about this bizarre 18-foot apparition.

What I didn't say was that there was a couple of men who tried to chase down this apparition one day before it disappeared for good. And they claim that they chased it down they say that it was actually a flock of kill deer a type of bird very small and they said it was a group of about 200 of these things running about the place this is extremely frustrating as an investigator because a lot of people are going to read that and go great we can tick the box here and say that this is not paranormal right but i'm going are people

back then really that stupid that no one had seen a flock of birds before yeah everyone thought that it was an 18 foot long beast with a flaming eye and like screaming in agony yeah that that seems weird to think that's because i'll show you what a killdeer looks like i mean it's it's definitely not that's even smaller than i thought. That is a tiny little bird. It's an adorable little duckling thing. Not a one-eyed screaming air demon. These two men who claim that they found out it was just a flock of birds. Right.

I mean, were they wearing dark suits? Did they have sunglasses on? They were probably around in 1891 in Indiana. Absolutely. Probably. I don't know if sunglasses had been invented yet, but... They had very dark monocles. Two very dark monocles.

But what I think we're left with is a lot of pretty widely separated anecdotes and some photographic evidence, which I thought was decent. You've actually kind of ripped apart and I can kind of see why. But as always, at the end of every podcast, we have to decide definitively whether something is paranormal or not i think today from me it's gonna be a no

i think you know what you know i'm a big fan of the greys and the ufos and oh yeah interstellar who isn't experiences um but at the same time i'm i've done a lot of graphic design before i use a lot of after effects yep i'm a guy who can very clearly recognize a lens flare i've ridden a lot of hot air balloons i've eaten a lot of jellyfish um and unfortunately while a lot of those pictures did look very interesting very unique very suspicious very paranormal there were a couple of them that were lens flares yeah uh and that is at least enough to tell me that there is some sort of fabrication in this story i don't know how deep it goes but you know all it takes is one little drip of lie dye to taint a whole pint of water um so unfortunately this week for me it is also going

to be a no until i can get more information on the space jellyfish and what star jelly is it's going to be a no from this week more than fair unfortunately a double no we need a yes we really do it's been a couple weeks now since we a year are we just have we become assholes no us did you hear me i'm a goddamn flower but if you have any of your own experiences with atmospheric beasts and jellyfish please do send those into this paranormal life podcast at gmail.com some of you listening at home might have the perceptive listeners at home might have noticed a little change with the podcast that's right we have new artwork oh beautiful you're seeing that hopefully in your channel seeing that across our socials and stuff like that that's right stylish there's been it's

you know we're going we're coming into winter we're changing it up changing up the scheme this whole podcast is about is something real yeah it's something false yeah those that conclusion is black and white that's right and that's what our logo is black and white some will say that it is the color of the mibs i would say that's just a coincidence that i would say they have zero influence uh on this podcast at all almost zero did we have a meeting with them recently yeah right sure listen baby you don't get into showbiz without uh going for lunch with a few suits so exactly but yeah we thought we'd update the artwork because there is actually a few more changes with this paranormal life so excited trying to hype everyone up i'm excited so

this is the show's over folks it was good and now we're done we changed the artwork and we're out it's called dropping the mic going out on a high the patreon will continue indefinitely but the show is over folks this is normally the part of the podcast where we would shout out everyone who's supporting us on patreon and we still do that but we just have other stuff to talk about. So we said a couple episodes back that we were going to be discontinuing the Praise Ra t-shirt on the $20 tier of our Patreon. That's right. And that is for very good reason, because today we can officially announce our brand new t-shirts. That's right. If you log on to Patreon.com and see our $20 tier, you will see our new shirt going forward.

Can we just nip something in the bud here really quick? Look, if you go on the Patreon, you're going to go scroll down to the $20 tier where you'll see the new shirt. You're going to see something. Look, it says cult shirt. Yeah. All right, in the description.

Right. That was a typo. We didn't know how to change it. We tried the password and we got locked out um it's been this ongoing thing it's been a real pain in the ass and patreon are not being helpful no derrick at patreon.com we've been emailing back and forth we said can you please change this it's very misleading he says it's obviously you it is obviously a cult i'm like derrick yeah read the shirt it says

definitely not a cult look you'll understand it when you see it if you could just see the shirt just for the avoidance of diet it's not a cult the t-shirt is just there's just typo it's just it's just a weird typo uh so that means if you subscribe to our 20 tier when you are charged on november 1st that means you qualify for a t-shirt and your t-shirt will be sent out to you. Now, we do know that there are a lot of people who got Praise Rash shirts who are on the $20 tier or

have dropped down to the $2 or $5 tier. All you guys need to do if you want one of these shirts is bump up to the $20 tier for one month and then your t-shirts will all be sent out on November 1st. They're all going out November 1st, baby. All those commune shirts.

You know, we don't like to segregate people on this show. You know, we're all inclusive. We're all part of the paranormal nation. Obviously. But similar to, you know, Universal Studios, this is somewhat of a fast pass. Yeah. There are two lanes into the commune.

Yeah. And borderline the afterlife at this point. Yeah. It's like if you show up to a police station in a cop uniform. Yeah. You go straight to the front. If you show up as a goddamn street thug, you're going to have to wait in line. Right.

If you walk in there with a badge and a gun, they go, if you show up to the common doesn't even matter what badges it's crazy if you show up to the commune with the uniform on yeah you're getting in brother right no questions asked yep so check it out there are biometric um tags in the t-shirts as well so we will be scanning everyone on entry to the common that right. So new shirt on the Patreon. Very exciting. So we're also making one small change to the Patreon. So up to now, we've been doing show notes on the $2 tier. We are continuing to do those just up until November 1st, the end of this month. Basically, we've loved doing the show notes.

We've had a blast doing those. But we do see on our end that i think what everyone has been enjoying most uh and then what we get the most out of as well and what people are most interested in is the bonus audio it's more shows it's more investigations it's more content and i think uh you know taking the research notes out of the two dollar tier gives us more time uh and effort to up the frequency and the quality of those bonus episodes which as we more time uh and effort to up the frequency and the quality of those bonus episodes which as we said i think people are really enjoying the most we basically found that whilst the show notes were um fun to do that it was kind of time that we could

have researched an entire other episode absolutely so one other cool thing that um stopping the show notes gives us a bit more time for is video content. You might have seen recently we uploaded a video of an older clip of the podcast, but in Animoji form. And I know everyone was enjoying that. We're going to do more of those.

We are also commissioning video versions of older episodes and new ones to go up on our YouTube channel. That's right. We have a YouTube channel now. You can search it, This Paranormal Life,

and you'll find us. So yeah. We'll be throwing up video content there. More regularly. It is good to note that. If you are still on the $2 tier. Or you join the $2 tier. Along with supporting the show.

You will still always get your shout out. On the show. And have access to our Patreon feed. Where we may not necessarily post show notes. But if we talk about specific pieces of evidence or videos that we mentioned in a particular episode, we will be posting those on the Patreon feed. Thanks to everyone for listening this far in the episode

and to all our patrons for supporting us this far. We obviously couldn't do it without you. And we thought that bringing you some new changes, bringing in a new shirt, freshening things up and getting some new video content and different stuff would just um be better for everyone um we've run crazy long in this episode so we will pick up shout outs next week when we join you for yet another paranormal tale again sorry i know you were doing like an outro thing here just want to circle back okay thing that's fine that it says cult i'm gonna be honest with you it very boldly says cult if you read the shirt it says definitely not a

cult i know it's kind of confusing and contradictory but um just just go there and it's supposed it says it should be commune it should be fixed by then uh we're talking to derek right now he's being a little dick but we're gonna get it sorted so thank you thank you for for hanging in there with us. Bye. Bye. Outro Music