This Paranormal Life - #092 The Hellfire Club: Satanism & Human Sacrifice In 1700s Ireland

Episode Date: December 18, 2018

1700s Ireland. Generally a pretty quiet and religious place, except for one building in the middle of nowhere in the Dublin mountains. This building is where the Hellfire Club met, and depending on who you listen to, they sacrificed humans and animals, drank, and played cards with the devil himself. But how many of the legends are actually true? Kit and Rory investigate!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 your Christmas tree spying on you and your family? How exactly does Santa know who's been naughty and who's been nice? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life! Hey! Welcome back to the podcast. You're listening to This Paranormal Life, the paranormal podcast where every week we dissect a different paranormal tale, case, or claim and get to the bottom of whether it is truly paranormal or not.

As always, you're joined by myself, professional paranormal investigator, Kit, and this guy across the table from me, professional paranormal investigator, Rory Powers. How's it going, everyone? This is the podcast where we ask the big questions. As stated in the intro, when you're putting that little angel up on the tree, take a closer look at his little face, all right? Are those two little beady eyes or those two little little camera lenses high definition lenses yeah glaring back at you and your family trying to find out all your secrets it just kind of dawned on me you know it's like what you know we all install these things in our houses every

year yeah we're talking every house in the western hemisphere for like a month seems pretty convenient and then you wrap it up with wires and plug it into a wall yeah yeah you're like juicing that thing up they're like oh you gotta make you gotta make it look nice oh yeah yeah just just plug it into the wall for sure plug it into the mains into the grid because i got secrets all right the secret is i've always been naughty but the big man in red doesn't know that shit i'm trying to keep that keep me off the list we're not saying that on air yeah of course i don't think he's a fan i don't think santa listens to this paranormal life never supported me in his goddamn life um as always we've got a fresh uh paranormal tale for

you um so let's just jump right in. This one comes courtesy of our listener, Louisa. Thank you so much for sending this in. It's 1725 in Ireland. We are deep in the Dublin mountains. It's dark. It's stormy. The wind and the rain are battering one Mr. William Connolly and the men walking with him. William Connolly was the Speaker of Irish Parliament at the time, a man of great power and wealth in Irish society. Connolly stops in his tracks. Here! Here is where we will build the lodge! But sir, we can't build here! There's a cairn here! They're pirates in the mountains? To hell with it! They're dead! No one remembers the people who were buried here anyway! You the site they were standing on the cairn they call it was an

ancient burial site in the dublin mountains the early inhabitants of ireland were buried there in stone tombs like this i'm going to show you a quick example so you get the idea of what what a cairn might look like okay all right this is just a big hole it's just a big hole surrounded by rocks i'm not trying to be disrespectful disrespecting listen you're going to want to see what happens to connelly in this story because it might be happening to you later on all right well i couldn't care less kit to be frankly bring on the curses thank you thank you you know what The curse is lifted for that. The ancient inhabitants of Ireland were first class comics. They appreciate that. Oh, I forgot about this picture.

Here's like some ancient cool runes that are inscribed on there. Lead with that. I mean, I wouldn't have said it was a shitty pile of rocks if you'd shown me these crazy fossils. Pretty cool though, right? Yeah, that's badass. So this is what Connolly was doing. I do care now. I care a lot.

The men yelled through the wind, But sir, why can't we build literally anywhere else? We're in the wilderness after all. You could build this lodge anywhere here. Silence!

Either help clear this site or f*** off back to Dublin. Who's with me? And so the men commenced building Connolly's stone hunting lodge and destroying the ancient Celtic burial site all at the same time. They even used stones from the cairn itself to build the new walls.

So bad. They even took a nearby standing stone, as they're called, which is a huge rock monolith with lost and ancient meaning, and they used it as a support in the fireplace in the lodge. Where the burning is? Yeah. Awful. When it was finished William Connolly called it Mount Pellier and as the storm beat down on the newly laid roof of the lodge they thought the bad weather would pass giving way to peaceful sunny days. But when you rip up an ancient burial ground, the rain doesn't stop.

And four years later, in 1729, the roof of the lodge was ripped off by a storm. And that same year, Connolly died. The locals said it was no coincidence that Connolly and his men had cursed the lodge by allowing the cairn to be destroyed and that the devil himself ripped off that roof. But with Connolly gone, what would become of this lodge? Years passed, no one wanted to touch it for obvious curse-related reasons. Of course. But what if there was someone interested in the lodge's controversial history? Someone who wasn't scared away by this curse, but actually intrigued. In 1737, Mount Pelliae was taken over by one Richard Parsons, 1st Earl of Ross. An unusual man, not only because he was the Grand Master of the Freemasons' Grand Lodge of Ireland.

Now I assume this guy's got the best intentions here. He's gonna come in, he's to return it back to its former state so the spirits can rest maybe keep a part of the lodge up so they can go and chill and have ghost beers if they want but maybe even turn it into some kind of historical site where people can come and learn about the ancient cairns of ireland exactly respectful fashion this is nuts because even in the 1700s in, Richard Parsons had visited ancient... Well, he hadn't visited ancient Egypt. He actually traveled backwards in time.

Oh yeah, that's pretty impressive. He had visited Egypt where he claimed to have recovered lost Dionysian scrolls stolen from the library of Alexandria before it was burned on. He believed that the Freemasons go back in history even further than Christianity to an ancient cult called the Dionysian architects. As you can tell Parsons was far removed from the conservative Christian Society of Ireland at the time. He was known as a rebel, a libertine, a nihilist. A nihilist don't really believe in anything, so what interest did he have in Mount Pellier?

First order of business, he changed the name and called it the Hellfire Club. God damn it, you had one chance to turn this thing around. And their mascot was a black cat. That was the emblem you could see everywhere. There's more, I don't know, there's more intimidating things than that. That was the emblem you could see everywhere. There's more. There's more intimidating things than that. That's what you think. Then a little pussy cat.

Then a black kitten. Like hellfire club. Listen, you should know this is an expert in paranormal. Black cats are universally known as symbols of curses, bad luck, crossing a black cat. That's instant death in the world of the paranormal yeah but if i was walking down an alleyway and saw a black cat opposed to the creature on the powers family crest the body of a walrus with the head and legs of a spider yeah then i was disgusting it's horrific not only scary but disgusting it goes with our family motto which is cowardice prevails the power is away and here we stand i don't know what that means in relation

to the walrus spider but i think it's just like turn and run from anything that scares you yeah i guess you've got eight legs you can run pretty fast yeah we're all quite hefty gentlemen as well i wouldn't have got it tattooed on my chest like for sure well you're not part of the family so it makes sense i guess that makes sense in fact all of your tattoos are some reference to this that one just says run for cover yeah you're on your knuckles just says scared always yeah it didn't even fit i had to put a couple letters on each knuckle and the hellfire club basically became the home for evil of all kinds. From drinking, gambling, sex, and blasphemy, through to black masses, sacrifice, and even murder.

And playing pranks on the local priests. To give you an idea of what kind of mad bastards we're dealing with here, apparently the drink of choice wasn't beer nor wine, they drank sculthineene whiskey mixed with hot butter. Oh, that's not as sinister as I thought. Pretty gross though. Whiskey mixed with hot butter? What were you thinking it would be?

Literally skull dust and whiskey. What did you call it? Skullthene? Skullthene. Or like a whiskey drunk from a skull or something. Nah, whiskey and butter. That sounds pretty nice, actually. Sounds like bulletproof coffee, yeah. Sounds very modern.

It's said that at every Hellfire Club meeting, despite all the debauchery and chaos, they would always leave one seat free, just in case the devil himself ever decided to show up. It's said that one horrible night at the Hellfire Club, the members were all sitting around, swearing probably, gambling and drinking, when they heard a knock at the door. One of them answered, opening the door to find a man who hadn't been to a meeting before, but they invited him in.

He said, What about a game of cards, gentlemen? They obliged. door to find a man who hadn't been to a meeting before but they invited him in he said what about a game of cards gentlemen they obliged they sit down one member deals the cards across the table takes a sip of the skull theme as they look at their cards moving them around one of the members drops one on the floor you know butterfingers on account of all the butter and whiskey of course drunk from the whiskey slippery from the butter was mostly slipping and sliding around that place it's the ultimate car crash drink and while leaning down to pick up his car he looks up next to him to see that this visitor doesn't even have feet at all but who's oh my god the man raises his head in shock to say something. But before he can utter a word, the man disappears and a person flames.

So the secret's out. Like, even if he was going to say something. Or maybe it just, like, happened and they're like, what the hell was that? And the devil's like, oh my god. I don't know what that was. That was crazy. Oh, you mean, oh, no. So the devil disappeared.

Oh, the devil. Not the guy. The dude just disappeared. No, no, no the guy just disappeared no no i don't know what was that and they're like well all we know is that's never happened in the history of the club until you showed up hooves it's like we please just get on with the game gentlemen anyway i've got 21 aces lace them all on the table like ah i think you win because we're all afraid to say no also you've got horns now that i think about it yeah another legend goes that a local priest growing more and more frustrated with the satanic practices of the hellfire club had had enough i mean can you imagine you're you, like a quiet parish priest in 1700s Ireland. And then all of a sudden, a hellfire club opens.

Like, normally, you just have to deal with confessions. You know, Jimmy down the street has cheated on his wife or whatever. You've got to console him. Some little kid has stolen sweets from the local shop. You've got to, you know, listen to his confession. kid has stolen sweets from the local shop you've got to you know listen to his confession you've now got a hellfire club opened up where borderline the devil is going for whiskey yeah i wonder how bad it has to get before you know you're in confession and you're like uh forgive me father for i have sinned you're like i've opened up a hellfire club uh last night the devil was there

wow and we were drinking uh whiskey out of a human skull and then you're waiting for forgiveness but instead the priest's hand just comes through the wall and grabs you by the neck at what point is something you've done too much the priest just like initiates a jackie chan movie level fight right there in the church. Yeah, kicks open the door to the booth. He's got a super soaker full of holy water. And he's just like hosing you down at like an industrial level. You're blasted through the wall. You're slipping and sliding because you're drunk off your ass and you've got buttery feet.

The devil's got your back. So he just appears out of nowhere, throws you a demonic sword to fight him with jesus appears out of nowhere throws the priest a holy sword two of them in fact he's jewel wielding then he like does a cool flip of the swords and does the neo taunt uh-huh of course yeah the standard early 2000s action movie music. 100%. The priest is throwing the communion wafers like shuriken. They're running along the walls of the church like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon style.

Exactly. At each other. Yeah, that would be a good movie. That'd be a great movie. Yeah, so the priest is mad. That's as far as we got in reality. So he storms up the hill, up the Dublin mountains

to try and end this club once and for all. Try and maybe break through these guys. Just go, don't you see? Don't you see? You're on the path to hell. This can never end well. You're gonna burn for an eternity. Hoping he can reach these guys on a human level. And as he bursts open the front door, he sees a horrifying sight. These men are standing around sacrificing a black cat oh the priest runs over pushes them away yelling he grabs the cat and immediately pretty much like in our movie just now starts exercising this thing using like the holy cross using the power of god the cat and the legend goes that in that very moment a demon burst out of the cat's body and

fled i mean either way like even if there was no demon in the cat and if you're like leave the cat alone run over grab the cat you're like shaking the cat like waving a cross in its face you'd still be like he was possessed by a demon he was mad he was scratching my face he was like pissing everywhere yeah like you're scaring the cat cats are debatably always possessed yeah yeah what you should have done is slowly approach the cat then give him a little pet yeah and maybe like some snacks and then take him home in a little papoose there we won't get into it now but i guess there's also the possibility that with this story the priest was somewhat biased in what he witnessed the men doing to the cat maybe they were petting

the cat i don't know it's a good point yeah it was like their mascot and if that isn't bad enough for you there's at least one story of them sacrificing a human person with dwarfism that's right they sacrificed a human dwarf terrible but part of the problem with the story of the hellfire club is that fact and fiction are blended almost seamlessly in the written reports about it. I'll give you a good example of that. So we know that at one point, a portion of the club building went on fire. We just know that as historical record. But written records from the 1700s state that it was because of any of the following reasons.

One, an accident. Two, the club members wanted to make the building look, quote, even more hellish. So they set fire to it. Or my personal favorite explanation was that someone, in all the drinking butter whiskey, one of the members spilled a drink over the coat of Thomas Whaley,

aka Thomas Burnchapel Whaleyy and so he allegedly poured brandy over this man and set him on fire okay which set fire to the building well he has burn in his name so i feel like you know what you're doing if you piss off this guy yeah for sure yeah i mean it's like if you spill a drink on like jimmy stabby smith yeah it's like for sure run run as fast he sets you on fire and then stabs you to death they all still love fire obviously any one of those is the real story and it's kind of up for interpretation that way but despite this blending of truth and fiction some of the story is plainly true for example one member henry the fourth baron barry of century murdered at least two of his servants that's down on record he set one of them on fire when they

were sick on their in like bed bound in the in the building probably in his own house or something like that oh so he's just a dickhead and then another one he just stabbed to death um and because he was rich as all hell he he didn't even do any time. Back in those days, you just took the boat to England and no one ever found you. That's all we got here. We never talk about why we left.

Isn't that right, Kit? Bernie Greer! So we do know that, for fact, at least one of the Hellfire Club members was a serial killer. And not just that, but down the road was the Steward's House. This is another

building built by William Connolly, the original guy who pissed off the ancient ancestors. He built this house as well, just down the road from the Hellfire Club. And so, after the Hellfire Club went on fire for a while, the club members needed to meet somewhere else. So, they chose the Steward's House. This is kind of where it gets pretty paranormal because since then there have been a ton of ghost sightings there the thing with the hellfire club is that it's more or less decommissioned it's totally like out of use it's a ruin these days yeah so there's not going to be so many ghost sightings because well no one's living there or staying there burn it down move on i. I hear you, brother. black cats wandering the corridors with like flaming red eyes and even the ghost of the dwarf

supposedly murdered by the club members what do they do do they freaking try and scream or are they running around like crazy i think they're just running around the place yeah i don't think they're like giving any specific instructions to anyone or nothing yeah uh especially the cats because they can't talk rub my belly what rub my belly mortal feed me mortal what ghost cafe any cat food why are you able to talk but you still want cat things it's really confusing silence i need to shit Get me some kitty litter Like a regular dog shows up Oh my god Get him out Get him out of here

You have flaming eyes And you're an omnipotent cat lord I'm friends with Satan I'll get Satan down here Satan comes down A bigger cat What's going on? Jesus is that a dog?

I told them to get rid of it F*** Why would you call me into this? That was why I had to leave heaven, you know, they got dogs. Jesus was a dog guy. Of course Jesus was a dog guy. And these sightings of ghosts were so frequent during the 60s and 70s that the RTE, for anyone outside of Ireland, this is the National Broadcasting Service of Ireland, they produced a documentary segment on the Steward's House.

And in 1971, a breakthrough occurred. A plumber working in the house uncovered a skeleton believed by some to be a sacrificed victim of the Hellfire Club. Wow. Wait, at the original house or the Steward's? Steward's House.

Wow. Because as I say, problem with the Hellfire, it's all burned down. It's all gone. I mean, there's just bricks, just stones. But the steward's house is still standing. Ghost sightings, skeleton in the closet, literally. And this takes us more or less up to the present day. It's still unknown just how much of the Hellfire Club's history is legend versus reality.

But one thing has been verified in very recent years. In 2016, archaeologists were excavating the site of the Hellfire Club, knowing the legend that there was a cairn underneath it. And they discovered this wasn't just the site of a regular cairn or burial site, but a full-blown passage tomb similar to that at Newgrange. They expect that under the ground is a long stone passageway leading to a massive burial chamber at least 5,000 years old. Jesus Christ. And I believe to this day they're still kind of working on it in the hopes that William Connolly didn't destroy the whole thing back in 1725 when he built the Hellfire Club. I bet that bastard knew about it.

It's like one of those people who buys a house and then it's like, oh, there's a nuclear bunker in the garden? I didn't know that. Oh, this place is just teeming with oil. Yeah, exactly. I bought it off that old gullible lady for a button. And he's like, oh, thanks thanks little Miss Thatcher for the land. Oh, I'm just gonna, I think I might put some flowers

up here in the back garden. Shunk, boom, like oil just explodes out of the back. He's like, oh, fiddle-dee-dee, I'm a billionaire now. It seems definitely super coincidental that he would pick this underground burial site. It's not valuable in the way that oil or gold is. So why would he pick it other than for supernatural reasons? Yeah, I guess until we know what is down there or what was down there in those tombs, we'll never know.

Because it's quite an Egyptian thing to bury yourself surrounded by your riches. Yeah. With your servants yeah i don't think irish kings are really known for that they might have had a little bit of coin yeah a little bit of drip a little bit of ice but uh we're talking mainly just like a nice sword or something yeah i think in in the history around ireland whatever luxuries people had in life they squandered they squandered before they died usually that's how they died let's just be honest people are mostly cashing in their riches for whiskey and hot butter long before they ever died exactly they either died from drinking too much whiskey and hot butter or died trying to rock someone and take their whiskey butters.

There wasn't a lot of luxury going on. That was actually a lot of the time we spent in Ireland before coming to England for undisclosed murderous reasons. Exactly. What are these drinks called? Skull? Skullteens. Skullteens? Mm-hmm.

I don't sound like the sound of that. We should find a skullteen recipe and post it on our socials for everyone to enjoy this christmas that's not a bad idea that would be kind of cool we're gonna have them at the live shows february 8th oh that's right little skull glasses for everyone it turns everyone murderous they start cracking each other over the head in the front row there's like one dude watching the show at one point i dropped the mic i leaned down see his hooves i'm like oh you look down at the guest list l usufur but enough from me i've presented you with a wild ride of irish devilish and satanic shenanigans but now i put it to you from this burial ground curse to the devil visitation through to ghost sightings at

stewart house do they make the hellfire club a paranormal story these stories are always pretty interesting because of how strongly they're linked to historical events yeah when it comes to like a building that where an organization like the freemasons uh operated i mean that's not that's not necessarily paranormal but it is fact like all of these groups and organizations can be traced back to these buildings as you said there were skeletons found uh in the area there's records of all these horrible things happening what i need to happen is for this podcast to support us financially enough that we can make these trips these right wild wild grand trips

i'm talking first class flights to dublin i don't know if that exists we may have to do like a layover in like miami then go back to dublin first class right and then the layover might take a few days, let's say. Hang out in LA for a bit. Five-star hotels, five-star restaurants. You said Miami first time. We'll do another layover then in LA. I'm fine with that.

Paris, Berlin, all the way. Do a lap of the most paranormal cities on the globe and end up in Dublin. And then... Just across from where we started. And then ideally, yeah ideally yeah be driven chauffeur driven to the door of the hellfire club ruins yeah we briefly take off our sunglasses for a split second to verify whether it's paranormal or not then get back in the car because there

is champagne on ice in there yeah i don't want to touch anything either i'm gonna make that abundantly clear someone can touch it for me or i'll wear gloves but i'm not gonna touch anything or speak to anyone actually we get to the door of the hellfire club driver won't you get out and check if it's paranormal or not he's like i've heard the legends you guys are worse you're worse than everyone that ever lived here shut up get make me another butter whiskey he's like i really wish i didn't sign the contract that means they're allowed to hit me in hindsight it was a silly thing to do i thought why would they ever hit me and they've hit me every moment since then and we're tanking butter whiskeys like it's water just mouths just covered in butter yeah it seems like a shame to be so close to the source

of a paranormal story and yet so far away i hear you uh especially when you know we grew up in northern ireland well you know we lived near this sounds mad we live near castles yeah you know there were ghost tours and legends around where we grew up right hell down in dublin is where i had my first paranormal experience where i saw the creature down by the parks. I'm sure, like, we can get into it now if we have time. I know we're quite close to conclusions. No, no, no, we don't.

I don't know why you assumed that we would have time. If we just had one time, I could say that what I saw, and my brother saw it as well, and there was a number of us actually there. We've been recording for, like, two hours or something nuts, dude. So, honestly, any other time, I'd love to come right back to it. But I i just love to do it but we've just been recording for so long cool cool i get it cool yeah live show i don't even know if we uh what live show you let me do the live show look i know the live shows run pretty tight but you know if between getting everyone in the door

getting everyone to their seat getting you, you know, getting the investigation underway. Time for advertisements, refreshments. If in all of that we have enough time for this totally inconsequential story, then yeah, fine. You just know there's going to be enough time. And I'm like, oh, my God. OK, so I was down in Dublin. I look in the front row and El Usoifer is just putting his finger across his throat going, like, uh, I saw nothing.

Wow. Way to waste everyone's time, Rory. That was really worth it, I bet. Yeah, sorry for wasting everyone's time. He's just nodding approvingly. Burst into smoke. Yeah, it's so close by. It seems like such a shame that we can't go there ourselves right now,

but possibly in the future we can. Yeah, I agree. It's a pity we can't get there. I think the issue with this tale is that there's quite a lot going on. There's a bit of a mix up here of causation versus correlation. So we have an ancient burial site.

That's pretty paranormal. Yeah. And we have someone come across that and build a lodge on top of it. Lodges aren's pretty paranormal. Yeah. And we've someone come across that and build a lodge on top of it. Lodges aren't very paranormal. No. There's a correlation there that makes us feel like there's got to be some meaning why he built it there and that would somehow infer that the lodge has now become paranormal. We can't prove that to be the case. Now we look forward into the future of that society, the Hellfire Club that established there. They did lots of weird f***ed up things. Let's assume that they sacrificed cats, maybe even

a person. Very occult. We definitely know that two people were murdered by one of the members of the Hellfire Club. Very bad, very weird, very occult. Might have had paranormal things in mind, but those actual occurrences aren't paranormal. On the other hand, we've got mentions of the devil showing up, mentions of the ghosts of black cats wandering the halls of Stuart House. That's probably as close as we get to this thing being definitively paranormal. But when I researched this, part of the problem people had was, like I said, you're living in a very conservative time in Ireland, very Christian society. And there was so much invested in the local community in wanting to disgrace these people, wanting to turn the community against them, the priests not wanting them to be there. Yeah.

That any small thing they did, that if they did sacrifice a cat, if they did kill someone, I mean, can you imagine the rumors that would spread to inflate that into something even bigger and more satanic? People would kind of believe anything at that point. Which is mad because, I mean, murder should be enough to turn anyone off a group. But to think that that wasn't even enough and they had to be like, yeah, they were murdering a guy to turn him into a demon. That pissed everyone off whenever there's a murder in society you kind of want to know why they did it and these days it's kind of the cop-outs that we're comfortable with as a society to say that someone's sick in the head man that's why they did it yeah let's lock them up but there's something a lot creepier and more paranormal about the idea of someone who's very intelligent rich and successful who's just dark and twisted and maybe even in communication

with the devil and that's the reason why they did it but as always this is a lot of chatting at the end of every this paranormal life podcast we have to decide whether something definitively paranormal or not if you have to come down to a conclusion, what are you saying? Look, this is a story coming from a time where myth and fact coexisted. Those realms were blurred significantly. You know, we are one story away from the Hellfire Club summoning a dragon to burn down the town. And unfortunately, because this is edging so much towards myth rather than fact for me this week it's going to be a no on the case of whether this is paranormal or not i think it's a no until we get to go there ourselves i'm pretty interested in doing that hell i'm gonna try a butter whiskey tonight that's right call to our listeners everyone leave a seat free uh and then if someone shows up tonight let us know can you imagine if you like make your butter

whiskey you got your cat ready to go a whole deck of cards and some cigars leave the seat there and you're like here we go it's gonna be a wild night and like jesus shows up and you're like oh uh do you want a cigar he's like no i don, I don't smoke. Of course. Probably don't drink either, do ya? Who were you expecting? Oh, no one. No one, big guy. Why don't you just take a seat? Why don't you just take a seat?

Oh, really? I have to be going, actually. Tell me, why did you leave a seat for you at the table? I thought my mom would be coming by for dinner. I have a quote here that you said earlier, James. Oh? Can't wait to kill this cat and sesh with a demon. Yeah, I think that was a, that's a bit.

I'm trying to stand up. That's a bit I'm working on. Yeah. Not funny then? Well, actually, I've got the devil right here. And he says you were waiting for him. The devil walks in. I'm sorry, James.

The gig is up. Hey, what's more evil than turning a Satanist against himself? But what I will say about this case, this is one of the most genuinely violent and evil, which is kind of cool, even if it's not paranormal. These guys are truly dedicated to the cause of all things nefarious. Hope you enjoyed this investigation. If you have any of your own thoughts about the Hellfire Club,

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Thank you to Momochi. You know what they say, Momochi Momo problems. But that isn't the case because the more we get of chi, the better things get. Thanks for contributing to the This Paranormal Life Patreon. We are so grateful. Arigato, Momo-san. Thank you also to Adam Meener.

Adam's a little meaner than your usual guy. He's usually pretty nice. But the good thing about being friends with Adam is you can point him in the direction you want him to be meaner. Yeah, he's pretty reliable like that. Pretty reliably mean. Yeah, and he's like a chain chomp. You just hold on to his leash and he's just going at anyone that you even point him in the direction of. We should point him in the direction of a therapist, probably.

That's a really good idea because I hate therapists. Mine, at least. So thanks, Adam. Thank you also to Mike Ball. Turn up the mic and let's have a ball that's right i don't care if you're small or tall in this shopping mall we're gonna brawl and mike's first up me versus mike bare knuckles bare knuckles bare ass no no one said mike the way they did in the olden days turned up fully clothed i'll tell you that it's just me then that would have some shorts he punches you in the dick oh i appreciate that

low blow mike that's brave thank you also to lauren o'toole lauren o'toole more like lauren o'gool half human half ghost she was deitated, but only her head went to the afterlife. Jesus. Lauren's body remains, but O'Goole, her head, now floats around her orbiting like a small sun. It's pretty impressive. Wow, that's a bum deal. Yeah, we should really investigate her. But in the meantime, thank you, Lauren.

Yeah. I don't know how you're making money as a half ghoul, half woman, but damn fair play. We appreciate it. Thank you also to Richard Willis. Will, will, will.

It's Richard. Who decided to show his face once again. I had a fight scheduled for Richard, actually bare knuckle, bare ass. And this coward showed up fully clothed and ready to go. Don't you think there's a pattern being established here that no one's getting the mammal but the bare ass? I tell everyone bare knuckled implies everything else is bare.

No, it doesn't. It just doesn't. So Richard's done nothing wrong, basically. Well, he kicked my ass. So did I deserve that? Yeah, absolutely you did. Oh, unbelievable. So thanks, Richard kicked my ass. Did I deserve that? Yeah, absolutely you did. Oh, unbelievable. So thanks, Richard, for that.

And thanks lastly, but not leastly, to Lee Tudsbury. I knew a farmer once called Lee Spudsbury. Any relation? Yeah, well, this guy's profile pic on Patreon is just a straight up potato. So probably. Wow, that's really... And there's money in that well potatoes yeah i mean look i don't know a lot about farming so i mean i don't know if he grows them or if he

paints artisanal potatoes yeah but um yeah a lot of money in both those things actually fair enough well you know what good luck with the potatoes thank you for giving us a small slice of your potato fortune uh we appreciate it immensely and thanks to everyone who supported us on Patreon if you haven't heard your shout out just yet that's probably because it's coming up we're getting there

but it's worth saying that if you have been a patron for a long time and you haven't heard your name we try our best but we might have missed it do just let us know and we will get right to it but thank you for listening to this episode hope you enjoyed it we'll be back next week with another brand new christmas paranormal tale remember to live fast investigate and die young I'm gonna party when this is done

I might just rage in my bedroom You told me you wouldn't party Said I wouldn't not OD