This Paranormal Life - #315 Ley Lines - The Secret Paranormal Map of Earth

Episode Date: May 15, 2023

The Bermuda Triangle… Bridgewater Triangle… the state of West Virginia… there are places on earth that paranormal phenomena simply pours out of, but why? What causes one place become overrun by ghouls and cryptids and not another? In the 1960s one theory came to prominence that described Ley lines - an invisible map covering the earth that connected paranormal hotspots, holy sites, and ancient ruins, and just like an earthquake fault line; the closer you are to one the crazier it gets. Time for Kit and Rory to investigate!Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunitySupport us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeIntro music by www.purple-planet.comResearch by Amy GrisdaleEdited by Philip Shacklady Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are there mutants living among us? Aren't all mountains rocky? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life! Hey! And welcome to This Paranormal Life. This is the weekly comedy podcast where two paranormal investigators dive into a different case each week and decide by the end of the episode

whether it's true or not. You're joined by me, Kit Greer-Molvena, and Rory Powers, who's sitting across from me. How are you doing today, Rory? I'm doing great. Welcome, everyone, to the podcast. We started a little late today because this morning I slept in and missed every single one of my alarms, of which there were nine. It's 4.30 p.m. today and I've been up since 7. Of which there were nine.

It's 4.30 p.m. Yeah. The day I've been up since seven. I was having some pretty strange dreams. So if anyone out there can kind of interpret dreams and figure out the secret meanings behind them that my brain is subconsciously trying to tell me, that would be fantastic. That's a good little paranormal conversation to have.

Well, why don't we let them know the content and then maybe by next week we can hear back on what people think. I was dressed as the red power ranger in a bar where no one behind the bar would take my order no that is a freudian conundrum yeah i'm not entirely sure what that is i feel like i'm being ignored i feel like maybe the child within me is being ignored maybe that was too easy of a one yeah but because definitely it definitely it's giving childhood. It's giving... Did I mention the bartender was my mother?

Okay. And she wasn't wearing a lot of clothes if you catch my drift. Jesus. They weren't serving beer. They were serving, you guessed it, milk. Milk. I think... Someone at home was just taking detailed notes of the dream

just scribbled them all out and wrote pervert that sums it up yeah Freud is now spinning in his grave at what he just heard on the podcast no it was a regular bar where yes it was a costume party so I was dressed as the red power ranger and I ordered drinks and then they

never turned up and I was trying to complain and then, uh, no one would listen to me. So it does feel like quite standard issue, uh, dream stuff, doesn't it? Like quite low level stress. Yeah. Like, I feel like I've had dreams recently where it'll be like, you know, the classics, let's say you're, you, you you're in a school exam you suddenly you're 16 again you're in an exam and you realize oh you forgot to study for the exam right and you just kind of endure a low level stress for eight to nine hours and then wake up again or like you're in the middle of exam and you realize like you're not wearing any trousers right and the teacher is your mother and it's like what the the f*** is going on here?

No, that's not. You haven't had that one before? I can't say I have, actually. Yeah, all right. Okay. This week brought to you by BetterHelp. Brought to you by BetterHelp. We are not here to discuss Rory's intimate, private, internal life.

Thank God. Thank God. We are here to talk about the paranormal. And we have a brand new case that we're going to dive into today. Are you ready to get into a brand spanking new investigation? I can't wait, Kit. I'm so excited to dive into a new paranormal story and I know that you spent

a long time working on this one so I'm excited to see what you've got in the bag. I did. I did. And we're going to get right into that after some quick words from today's sponsors and of course you can get new episodes of this paranormal life ad free over on patreon.com forward slash this paranormal life what a deal link in the description all right motherfuckers time to wake the fuck up whoa sorry i just i just felt like i wasn't

quite bringing the energy enough in the intro there. I'm into this. Let's do it. Don't just scream. We still have to host the podcast, but I am into the energy. My tea is very hot. My vocal cords have been fried. All right, listen up, f***ers. Let's dive into today's story. We begin on the remote road between the Yorkshire towns of Bridlington and Flickston. Those are the most English names for towns I've ever heard. Briglington and Flitsworth?

Yeah, two miles outside, Piddlesbottom and... Hogwarts. You know, people might think we're punching down or it's a low blow to make fun of English town names. I'm pretty sure y'all make fun of names in Ireland every chance you get. Yeah, Bally this, Bally that. Sure, we do have a town called Bally Bally. Bally Sally, Bally Castle. But that means something.

Bally means... By a river, right? This means place of. Oh, right. It's pretty generic. So we get to laugh at piddlings bottom, all right? That's the rules. It's 1960 and a truck is barreling down the road at high speed. The driver was ready to make his last delivery and go home to bed. We've all been there. Work's just finished. You know, you want to get home. Get back to your own life. So you do a hundred and twenty and a thirty. It's just faster. Just to

speed things up. That's when something ahead of him perked him up. He thought he'd been on the back roads alone, but now he could see a set of two piercingly bright red lights in the distance. Hmm. He took his foot off the pedal and squinted his eyes. Hang on. if those were

taillights, how were they getting closer? You said he was driving 100 miles per hour. So, physics, that's how I think. He slammed on the brakes. But the red lights were still approaching, smartass, at an alarming speed. Unnecessary. And they were lurching up and down. That's when he realized, cars don't have four legs. This was no car. This was a giant animal running full speed. This thing jumped and landed square on the bonnet.

It was an enormous wolf. The lorry driver couldn't believe his eyes. As if it wasn't bad enough, wolves had been extinct in England for hundreds of years. Wow, is that true? Even now, there's no wolves in England? When was the last time you saw a wolf in East London? I don't know.

I haven't seen a f***ing badger either. That doesn't mean they're extinct. I saw a badger on the way over here, flat as a f***ing pancake, dead. That doesn't mean they're extinct. I saw a badger on the way over here, flat as a f***ing pancake, dead as a donut. That is crazy. I mean, what year did you say this was? 60s.

Wow, that's crazy. I guess the worst that we have is very large foxes. I believe foxes are the biggest mammal, I think, in the UK. Really? I think maybe... It's still around, aside from whatever

whales would be knocking about or whatever. And let me tell you why foxes are still around in England, folks. Because they are shagging machines. That's why. Maybe the wolves should have been having as much sex as these foxes are. I'm talking complete shit, by the way. There's of course deer. I think I'm thinking of predators. I think it's like the largest

predator we have. Predators here? In England? Mother of God! think i'm thinking of like predators i think it's like the largest like predators here we have in england mother of god not sex offenders animals no i meant the alien oh wait no the alien was alien predator was the predator yeah predator was the predator who the f**k is predator what do you mean i don't understand which which one because I have never seen the movies. I know what alien looks like. What does Predator look like? Who's Predator? He's the one with the big long dreadlocks and a mask,

and he's really tall. He looks like a bloke. He's like a human. Oh, that is who I'm thinking of. Yeah, yeah. He can turn invisible. He hides in the bushes. Yes, Predator.

Yeah. Yeah, you're one ugly motherfucker. For the record, he was also an alien. Yeah, he was, yeah. Alien was also a Predator, and Predator was also an alien yeah he was alien was also a predator and predator was also an alien who is writing these things for god's sake this this is you the president of warner brothers movies i don't follow what are you pitching predator predator had a so it's an alien we did that we did alien did alien. Predator had a bad PR guy.

If they were like, they were like, hey, this is a alien. He's from another planet. This is the craziest thing in the world. And then this is Predator, a nasty little piece of work. It's like, I'm also an alien. Can we just call me an alien as well? It's taken. The Instagram handle's taken. So we're going to need a new Instagram handle.

I think the aliens were called xenomorphs. That's true, yeah. Yeah, someone on Reddit was asking what the Predator's name is, and someone else replied, it's ugly mother f***er. Nice, very cool. Yeah, I think I've talked about it recently.

Go watch that. We're not sponsored or anything, but go watch that new Predator movie. Sick. Was that the one with the alien? Stop trying to distract me. We've got an incredibly important tale and I feel like you don't care.

I feel like you don't care. I do care. You just want to sit around here and talk about movies. You're telling me some sort of night beast jumped onto the front of this man's truck.

Yeah. In the story, in people's minds listening at home right now, the wolf has just been standing on the guy's bonnet for the last three minutes while we talked about Predator.

So, sorry guys. Sorry. Let's bonnet for the last three minutes while we talked about Predator. So sorry, guys. Sorry. All right, action. Its eyes were still glowing and it tried to smash through the windscreen. The lorry driver floored it. He could barely see the road, but he swerved around the first corner he could, throwing the beast off into the hedgerows. I really respect that move. I think in this situation, I would go Pac-Man mode. You know, just kind of fold in on myself.

Cease to exist. Fright. Right. Maybe eat some fruit real quick. But I respect this. I respect this. He responds. Sometimes the best form of defense is assault.

Is that what they say? Definitely not. He drives forwards. Sometimes the best mode of defense is striking first while your enemy's asleep. Isn't that what they say? No. The best form of defense is attack. No.

They say the best... Attack is the best form of defense. I'm sure they say that. I don't think so. Maybe in prison. I don't think that's how they say things in the real world yeah i might have it a hundred percent backwards and it was actually defense is the best form of attack god damn it uh what i'm trying to say is they say offense is the best

defense yeah am i thinking of a prison mike told me that once before he shanked me in the showers i think i'm thinking of uh yeah he could have said anything he didn't need to he shouldn't have given me that much time to get away because i was slippery by the way i think i might be on account of the soap using the best defense what do you say god damn it let's move on i think i'm getting conformed with... Conformed? I think I'm getting confused with... I insist we move on. Copying is the best flattery or something. Jesus Christ.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Is that what you're thinking of? Not copying is wicked. I better stay to the script. I think you're having a stroke. God damn it. God f***ing damn it. Someone replace my tea with decaf. What is going on

here this morning? I don't work so good today. I'm just so scared of the wolf in this story. I might need you to read the next bit. He pinned it up the road, but by the time he glanced back, the thing was gone. There was nothing but an empty road behind him. This encounter shook him to his very core, but unfortunately, he's not alone. It turns out that this particular bit of kind of northeast Yorkshire region has been a hotbed of bizarre happenings since records began.

Probably before too. Obviously, it's not all wolf stuff. But between you and me, it's not not all wolf stuff. A lot of wolf stuff. Well, as you said, the further you go back in time, the more wolves were kicking about. Right, statistically. And I didn't realise what a kind of paranormal creature wolves are. It wasn't just weird in this story that, granted they hadn't existed for hundreds of years, that's pretty weird.

But even when they did live and flourish in Britain, they were heavily associated with the paranormal. Very cool. Wolves were known to dig up bodies from their graves, transforming them into werewolves. These beasts would terrorise locals and livestock in the dead of night. And Rory, you mentioned it before, as a Londoner, you know how disturbing the sound of a fox having sex is. Can you imagine how scary wolves would be in the middle of the night? But wolves would probably be cooler because it would be like mighty howls.

For those of you who don't know what it sounds like when a fox has sex, it's a scream. It's a high-pitched scream. It's not a very cool or paranormal sound. I think it is quite paranormal. It's just terrifying. It sounds like a banshee having sex. It shakes me to my core,

imagining what it would have been like to live in Britain at that time. Because as we said, there's precisely f*** all in Britain today that can kill you as a human in terms of other animals. So the idea of you just walking through Camden, drinking a Diet Coke, and you just get your life ended by a pack of wolves, it's quite disturbing. I think it's pretty cool.

I want to say wolves digging up the bones of dead bodies. That's not on the wolves. That's just a dog digging up a bone. That's a normal dog activity. And the wolves performing incantations that turn those bones into a skeleton army of werewolves. That's not on them. It's just a doggy kind of woof woof instinct. It's a woof woof instinct.

This was, it's hard to paint such a picture here in the podcast, but this was such a regular occurrence that werewolves were actually known by name by the villagers of these kind of towns. All right, well, now you said werewolves.

Have we moved on to werewolves or are we still talking about wolves? We have moved on to werewolves. Have we moved on to werewolves or are we still talking about wolves? I will move on to werewolves. I suppose at this point in history, they are inextricable. People kind of believe that probably every wolf almost was a werewolf, that they would maybe transform into a human during the day. Right, right. Starting to see why there aren't many wolves around these days.

If people assumed every single one was a paranormal beast. Yeah. It just goes to show, even back then, you couldn't turn up to the pub with so much as a 5 p.m. shadow on your face. You skip shaving for one day,

you're looking a little bitey over there, Carl. Goodbye, you're done for. I will give you a real example. One werewolf in this area had such bad breath that they called it old stinker which is exactly what the kids called me at school whenever i went back to teach them about podcasting but it just goes to show how uh repeatedly they kind of saw these things and knew them as individuals yeah But it's understandable that they did think they were all werewolves because in this area,

reported sightings of zombies rising from the dead and wandering the land date back to as far as the year 1100. Oh my God. What I'm trying to say is between the modern sightings and these previous ones and the history of werewolves digging up skeletons for, and this is me extrapolating, for a skeleton army. In addition to these zombie sightings, there's something unusual going on in this part of the world.

We're talking about a paranormal hotspot here, where there's a few different paranormal creatures or events taking place. And we're posed with an interesting question, which is, which trumps which? If you only have time to deal with one, do you take on the werewolves or the zombies? That's right. You know?

As I say, if you're just trying to go about Camden and get a snack and you have to, the only way to get there is to take on one of these, a skeleton army or a wolf army which are you going to take on yeah maybe you could get them to take on each other start some rumors you know gossip to the wolves about the zombies talking shit about them and then hopefully they just destroy each other i think that was the plot of twilight something similar to that i think an old-fashioned prison break movie style approach might work here

to be honest just simply cover yourself in hair and pretend to be a wolf and you might be able to slip by unnoticed maybe if you can't beat them join them what prison break movie have you watched dress up like an officer like a prison officer all right over the head you take their uniform and then you go jerry good to see you you. How's the wife? I'm David. You're dripping in police officer blood. Sweating profusely. Tell me, where do we keep the escape key around here? Nobody calls it that.

That's such a weird thing to call it. We can leave anytime we want. Sure, sure. And God knows what was going on in this twisted place all this time ago god knows our american listeners won't understand because um as wonderful as their country is as we know it only goes back in the modern european settler sense a couple of hundred years people settled here 10 000 years ago this place was dripping in ancient druids and priests and various other characters from world of warcraft this is the kind of place where in the middle of the town there's a 25 foot tall monolith totem pole which people worshipped back in the day yeah um i mean we just recently had

the coronation of the new king which if you want to know how old and ridiculous this country is, part of that ceremony involved transporting something called the Stone of Destiny from one location to another for the ancient ceremony. It's a big f***ing rock, and it sits next to the king on his throne of gold. It's insane. What do they do with the stone, do you know? No, it's one of these stones where it's like, some people say it was present for this battle. Some people say it came from Jerusalem

and it was like, I don't know, part of Jesus's f***ing hut. It's just this big old stone that's been in the bottom of a chair for a very long time. No way, it's called the Stone of Scone? There's no way. That's another name for it. There's so many headlines. They're treating it as if it's a celebrity it's like stone of destiny travels to london for the coronation uh you know on a recent after party we were roasting the fact that

for the coronation they're asking people to swear their allegiance to the new king sure and it caused quite an internet kind of backlash but i did see it didn't even clock with me at the time but i did see people on twitter making fun of it being like americans being like yeah that's so crazy to like pledge allegiance to something okay they think that it's the stone of jacob detailed in the book of genesis in the bible apparently jacob sat on this rock and god sent him a vision there is no way in hell that's a stone from jerusalem investigate that next week it really is cool to know that even two thousand years ago when jesus was kicking about that the british museum were just there and waiting just as as soon as Jacob got up, the British Museum were like, yoink.

Just if you look in the background of every piece of biblical iconography, there's just an old British man with a moustache and a monocle rubbing his hands together. Yeah, I like to think that the British Museum, they're the like museum equivalent of you know those guys who like stand outside events with celebrities like desperately trying

to get them to like sign posters and shit so they can sell it on ebay yeah yeah they're like hey jesus hey jesus jesus hey bless this shit right here bless this he does it he's like haha suckers yeah yeah can you kiss this rock it's for it's for my son yeah if you could make it out to museum yeah that's what we call our kids back where i'm from yeah yeah for my son he's like oh cool what's his name um care of british museum artifact 37 thank you Museum. Artifact 37. Thank you. You absolutely nailed it. There is a litany of insane shit going on here. This is where we investigated Mother Shipton, that witch that lived in a cave a long time ago.

Yeah. And in 1795, a giant meteor fell here and apparently caused all kinds of paranormal goings-ons. Good lord. We've investigated many paranormal locations on the podcast before, so whether it's the Bermuda Triangle, the Bridgewater Triangle, or just the state of West Virginia, and usually it's some crazy event took place there, or there's a burial ground of some description,

but I promise you that today's reason is quite different. Rory, how much do you know about ley lines? Ooh, a topic that we've covered a lot in this podcast before, kind of by accident, because if you are looking for a location where a paranormal event has taken place, odds are a lot of the time they're where these ley lines are located. Now, you'll have to correct me here, but I believe that these are some sort of lines that run across the Earth

that is a split between the world of the supernatural and the normal world. Is that correct? Oh, f***, it's actually better than what I had written down. I was going to say they were noodles. world is that correct no it's actually better than what i had written down uh i was gonna say they were noodles noodles that kind of uh yeah link the spirit world and our world um you're absolutely bang on ley lines are for the uninitiated they are kind of invisible straight lines that crisscross all over the uk well the world but we're talking to begin with, at least, about the UK.

They're kind of rivers of energy that connect like an enormous network all over the world. Think of it like a paranormal internet, except instead of websites, there's werewolves. And instead of talking to your friends on Twitter,

you're talking to ancient wizards. And instead of browsing the Instagram Explorer page, I think we get the analogy. You're looking at 25 foot rocks all day. See, I knew that these lines existed, but I wasn't sure what the origin was before I got into this. What was the point of the lines? But here's how to think about it. There's all these important ancient paranormal places dotted all over the world. Places where, just like, let's say, volcanoes bubble up from a different layer of the Earth into where we live,

here the paranormal energy from another world spills over into ours, creating, let's say, Stonehenge, the Bermuda Triangle, Lourdes, or whatever holy site. Well, it turns out if you plot these locations on a map, they line up with each other. And those lines of energy in plot these locations on a map they line up with each other and those lines of energy in between these locations create paranormal phenomena just like how if you lived on an earthquake fault

line right right i see now some places are far from any lines but other places have a lot and even some that cross over places with multiple ley lines and crossovers have been long associated with unexplained phenomena and they can be known as nexus points. This is going to help the visual. Let me show you a map of the UK's ley lines. Wow, this is fascinating. So this is a map of the UK where essentially we have kind of almost like a red string board which is linking plot to plot and point to point and there are a lot of strings because these are scattered all the way across the map from down south to up north from right to left and the biggest points are all marked with different

locations that seems to be like central hubs of where the ley lines originate from exactly so i think on this map it's got as you say the major locations have names and uh and symbols here so we've got glastonbury and standing stone and anglesey long stones in Beckhampton. But as you can see, along the lines, in between all these major locations, we can see plotted are all the minor locations, which are seemingly and allegedly proving the existence of these sacred sites and these lines of paranormal phenomena.

This is very cool. Very, very cool. I will say there's not necessarily any kind of pattern or structure to this. It is essentially just a spider web of red lines jetting off in random directions, linking up to other paranormal sites. But my God, if that's how many ley lines there are in the UK, no wonder we see so much paranormal shit. Yeah, duck guys. You might get caught in the neck with one walking along.

And just before we move past this image, this is where we've been talking about so far, 0.3 here in the York's area. Got it. But people have made many, many variations of these kinds of maps. Research Ramey even found one map that connects Skellig Michael in Ireland, an island with a 6th century monastery and its own little Bermuda Triangle, to Stella Maris Monastery in Israel. And it goes through allegedly five other ancient monk hangouts in between on that line. And you're telling me

that's just a coincidence? I don't know what you're smoking if you think that's a coincidence. You think monks don't know where the other monks are hanging out? You're out of your mind. But it does raise the question, what are the chances that these ancient and significant sites would align perfectly like this? Pretty cool that we're getting to talk about this so soon afterwards. We just covered Hale Fanug, the haunted Welsh farmhouse. One aspect we didn't have time to get into because as I said, Danny Robbins had 12 episodes

and we only had one. Yeah. We only had one. So, you know, we got a lot of blowback from that episode saying the accents were shit uh the accents were underbaked yeah this was offensive Danny Robbins in 12 episodes how many times do I need to say that he had all the time in the world I didn't listen to it but he had all the time in the world to perfect his accent I assume he did all the accents yeah there was so much going

on in this case that we didn't even have time to talk about the fact that an ancient Egyptian god was apparently living in the house we had to like briefly mention it and that he was listening to darude sandstorm at night i think at the end i dropped in that the uh husband of the family in question was a witch and i said we didn't have time to talk about it uh that's when you know a paranormal case is simply stacked yeah but one thing we didn't have time to get into was that there was ley lines on that site no f***ing s*** um both the host danny robbins and the residents of that cursed property called in dowsers i think we know what these kind of dowsing

rods are right these are kind of these um rods that you hold you might have seen them in cartoons people trying to find water with them yeah i thought that's what they were only used for is finding water but they can be used uh in the paranormal sense to to to sense for energies for holy water for paranormal juice i had no idea so what you just hold them out and f***ing ask a question or how does it work i think the idea is is i mean we're going to hear about it here but you could for example if we're looking for a kind of geographical paranormal phenomena you could wander around a big field and if you come close to a ley line the rods might start to you know f***ing spin around or move it's kind of annoying

it does both of those things because it's like if you were a paranormal investigator taking them out and it's like all right i've got a signal follow me everyone and you're like running and you're like it's just over this corner i think it's it's a stream it's another stream all right well okay well we have to we'll have to move pretty far away from this stream because this thing mostly picks up water uh but now and again it is a ghost yeah and then you're like you know we walk somewhere else and you're like here buried in the soil they say it's an evian bottle it's a half drunk evian bottle all right can we go to a desert or something and speak to some sort of sand ghost yeah he's he's like i found some water here an interesting body of water, talking to his companions.

Does anyone know what we're looking at? That's Lake Michigan, sir. Really? F***. All right. It's got to be pretty hard to not pick up Lake Michigan. That's interesting.

I didn't know I could do both. Yeah. We actually did a giveaway of some dowsing rods on the Patreon raffle. Go check it out, patreon.com forward slash this paranormal life. But we haven't done a whole episode into that phenomena yet.

So that would be cool to do. Yeah, that would be good. So they called in these dowsers to look for ley lines on the property. And supposedly, Hale Fanag had two intertwining lines. But what's worse, the expert in question, Dickie Dodds, revealed back in the early... Great name. Revealed in the 90s that these ley lines had become corrupted. So much so that they were no longer ley lines, but black streams.

Whoa, you're throwing a lot of terms at me today. Allegedly, these are places that lays come into contact with water. Okay, so apparently it is a problem. Yeah, Jesus. The rods just explode in your hands. It's too much. Supposedly,

radiation from the earth passes through this flow and changes its energy. It's most prevalent in places with active underground streams. It turns out, just like the river running through the area we were talking about at the beginning of this episode. And supposedly there's a bunch of different ways

that a ley line can turn bad, you know, whether it intersects with a burial ground or a polluted body of water. They're already bad. Yeah, if we were having wolves rampaging the area, ravishing people for generations, I don't want to know what happens when it becomes a black stream.

Yeah, it's like a wolf popped out of the ground, sliced a man's throat, and then ate a baby. But that's enough about the good ley lines. Let's talk about the evil ones. There's no way it gets worse worse even just negativity and bad vibes can turn a ley line black wow um if that's the case i hope there were no ley lines near me during my 2007 halo 3 phase there was a lot of negativity being thrown around in those pre-game lobbies and i would hate to think that they would pollute a ley line.

Right. So ideally you want these ley lines to be underneath Disneyland. The happiest place on earth. I don't know. I think a kid got eaten by an alligator at Disneyland. It was a wolf. It was the big bad wolf. Yeah.

Yeah. The kids are walking around being like, oh my God, all the costumes look so realistic. Mickey, Minnie, the kids are walking around being like, oh my God, all the f***ing costumes look so realistic. Mickey, Minnie, the three little pigs, the big bad wolf. And a guy is just like, Security, we got another one. Kids, get in the straw house. He huffs and puffs and blows it all down.

F***, kids. Get in the house made of branches or whatever the f***. There's no way he'll be able to blow that down. I love the idea of just kids being like, look, mommy, like the big bad wolf. And just a Disney employee's eyes just widen as he overhears this. Goofy starts loading a tranq dart. Yuck, run for the hills, kids. I can only hold it off for so long. Yuck! Run for the hills, kids! I can only hold it off for so long!

Yuck! It's like riffing him to shreds. Mickey tears his eyes. Go for it! No! I f***ing wish I was joking. I wasn't even going to bring it up. Someone claims that there's ley lines that run through Disneyland.

Are you serious? I wasn't going to bring it up because claims that there's ley lines that run through disneyland are you serious i wasn't gonna bring it up because because amy was like i a guy said this a researcher is that she's like i haven't been able to find any proof for this any any documentation whatsoever but hey is it any coincidence it's the most magical place in the world yeah that's true uh that mansion wasn't supposed to be haunted they just built a house they kind of had to roll with it it was supposed to be a gift shop then then the floors just started right raising and lowering right ghosts popping out of the walls they're like can we just make this a ride sure yeah now you might all be sitting at home wondering how you spot a black stream you know

here on this part of my life we love to give out survival tips field guides and practical information generally we're not just this isn't just some academic circle jerk about ley lines and we're going to get into that right after a couple words from today's sponsors after a couple words from today's sponsors. We're trying to figure out how to spot these black streams. I mean, it's one thing to just be able to avoid the negativity attached to black streams, but also

cool if we are able to also spot ley lines, even if they have turned bad. Yeah, they all sound bad. So I think being aware of them, any of them, is a good idea. It's said that cats, owls, snakes, slugs and snails are all attracted to black streams. And that a cat's favorite sleeping place may mark the crossing of two black streams. Which makes me wonder, I don't have a cat.

But Rory, did your cat ash have any favorite sleeping spots that kind of defied logic uh no my cat ash was a chubby little cutie and would usually like to sleep wherever it was close to the radiator wherever it was coziest and which is a kind of a stream kind of hot water bubbling through the radiator but he might have been more interested in the heat yes yeah the second place would just be uh anywhere around my face in the in the morning while i'm sleeping in bed yeah he wasn't it kind of makes sense because i understand that the animals in question here these are the kinds of animals that people back in medieval times

would have been quite suspicious of. Yeah. You know, owls, snakes, slugs, cats. These are associated with witches and things. I don't think anyone really believed that Ash had a particular method of communication with the dark forces. I don't think so. Or the other paranormal realms.

He was mostly about snacking and radiators. Yeah, cuddling, chasing leaves in the garden. But if you have a cat that is a bit more of a little psycho and maybe a black cat and it's got a little glint in its eye and you don't know where it goes at night, maybe check out where it likes to sleep because that could be an intersection of ley lines. The next bit actually worries me quite a bit,

because apparently insects, parasites, bacteria and viruses thrive on black streams. And they say to beware of places with lots of ant and wasp nests. I'm pretty sure I've got a wasp nest at the bottom of the garden. Really? Yeah. And those are the bad ones, right? That's no honey yeah unfortunately although i did have a rumbly in my tumbly time for something sweet in this in

the vein of winnie the pooh i just got a trip to a and e i didn't get a delicious honey sweet snack right i tried to raid the hive and all i found was more wasps there are also uh cats that like to come and hang out in your garden as well so you really might be onto something oh yeah yeah they love uh and they and they do hang out at the bottom of the garden right by the shed yeah usually just to take a shit but also sometimes to nap yeah yeah yeah there's nothing in here about cat shit but that would if the lake if if cat shit is a sign of black, I might as well demolish my f***ing house because the cats are shitting everywhere.

But I think one of the important bits of the story of ley lines, at least in modern times, is how they have come to be known. You know, at some point, someone needed to figure this out, even if it was a really long time ago. But surprisingly, despite the lines obviously existing for, in theory, thousands of years since these holy sites and ancient rocks were formed. Sure. It is surprisingly recently that they have been, quote unquote, rediscovered. The modern theory was officially put forward by a businessman and inventor, Alfred Watkins.

And if you want to know what he also invented, apparently a new form of brown loaf. Bread? Yes. But also, and get this, light meters for photography. Wow, that's a really, that's... What a range. Yeah, that's quite a range in terms of inventing. You know, once you headed out of the park with light meters and presumably become a billionaire overnight,

you know, you're just, you're tired of technology and you want to do some baking, so... Fair play. It was June 1921. The idea had come to him in the form of an epiphany when he was engrossed in a local map. He was studying all the local features. Suddenly, it struck me that a number of these features appeared to form a straight line.

When I took a ruler over to my map, it was indeed true. In fact, all across the countryside, churches, standing stones, crossroads, and burial mounds, moats and beacon hills, holy wells and old stone crosses fell into perfect alignment. It was a fascinating hypothesis. Now, Alfred Watkins died in 1935 and his life's work was kind of quickly forgotten in light of the looming world war where it remained buried for nearly 30 years until an ex-raf pilot called tony wed wrote a publication in 1962 as a pilot he had been privy to enough ufo sightings at this point that he had started to notice a pattern. And imagine his surprise when he came across the theory of ley lines. He believed that the UFOs that were being sighted were traveling along the ley lines.

Wow. He put forward the idea. Was it possible the aliens were detecting the paranormal ancient energy of the lines and using it to navigate the Earth? This is some sort of supernatural flight path. Supernatural ways app. Damn, this is wild. Now I want to get a big map of the earth,

mark on where we've investigated our cases and see how many of them cross over on the same lines. Yeah, that would be an interesting map. We've actually talked before about doing kind of merch where we do like a world map or some kind of, even a map of the UK or US. Yeah. And marking on where all these things take place

because God knows we need to visit lots of these locations. That could be a cool feature as well. Totally. If there were ley lines. That was really provocative and got the people going. And there quickly came to be hundreds of thousands of ley line believers around the world. So they're associated with every kind of paranormal activity

you could think of, especially at the nexus points we talked about earlier, where the effects are heightened because the veil between the magical and real worlds is extremely thin. And, you know, we're focusing on the UK because that's where we're recording and that's where the idea of ley lines was first created.

But to be clear, they go all over the world and can be traced all over the world. People have gone to great lengths to connect paranormal locations across the globe. As we said earlier, you know, people have connected, you know, sites in Ireland to ones in Israel with lots of places in Europe between the two. Others connect Stonehenge to the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Yeah. There are so many insane and unbelievably mysterious constructs around the world. Does it make sense to you that these would be connected in some way? I mean, we already know that many of them are being constructed in accordance with astronomy and different beliefs. Is this so much of a stretch to say

that they were also constructed in alignment with other things on Earth? Yeah, I would need to see a map of these ley lines and the locations that are claimed to be directly along the line. Because it's one thing when we're looking at a map of the UK, essentially from space, a satellite view, and saying, look, all of these locations are on the exact same line.

And it's like, are they? Are they? Are these, is this geographically accurate? If I zoom in, is it all on a perfectly straight line in one direction? If I drop the little yellow man from Google Street View, he's like, no, don't drop him. Yeah, yeah.

Don't drop him. I wonder if some of these locations and things have been slightly tweaked on the map to to more accurately line up to kind of support this theory but i do like it i will say i do like it it is an explanation as to uh why there are so many of these famous sites across the world where paranormal events have taken place so it is an interesting theory uh you know ley lines it's a bit even tough to just sum it up as like one little subject to be covered in one episode of this paranormal life because you know if if it's true it kind of it's almost like the master theory of all paranormal explanations yeah yeah exactly it's

it's a bit of a catch-all where it's like if is there any unexplained activity here that we don't know what's going on it's ley lines that's why it's like okay sure maybe uh but this guy says he saw ufos and this one woman was attacked by a wolf it's like i know they're both technically paranormal but like these are very different things taking place unless a wolf was piloting that that ufo paranormal, but these are very different things taking place. Unless a wolf was piloting that UFO. This seems like these are unrelated. This is you talking to your landlord when your flat collapses.

Like, hey, mate, gonna need a new flat because I'm paying the rent and the flat collapsed. He's like, oh, let me just look it up on Google Maps. Oh, ley line. Oh, do you know what? Ley line. Oh, that's so unlucky mate sorry man sorry about that um but yeah nothing we could do can we um it's also a little weird that the rods they detect ley lines which often

are just black streams of water also just detect regular water well I don't want to get too hung up on the rods. Well, they were a big part of the story. But I think I would say that the guys who first put forward the thing of ley lines, the guys who talked about it, wrote about it, were massively into it. They didn't find out where ley lines were by rods. They plotted it on maps, traced where they were. They found out where the sites were and traced the lines. I think that was more of like a i think there's other paranormal practitioners uh who are doing that using rods um and as i say i think that is more of like a case for another day isn't

it because that's uh i think there's a lot to get into there yeah we all look forward to that kit special in uh three to four weeks um you know i think it's worth saying that when we look at the possible explanations for what's going on here that if on the one hand we've got these are paranormal portals to another world and the rock formations are kind of like stargates that's extremely badass and i really like that is there another idea on the slightly more down to earth spectrum of just human history for why this might be taking place and i thought it was fascinating that you look at this guy alfred our inventor friend who brought forward this idea to be honest he wasn't that interested

in the paranormal side this was an inventor a kind of engineer type archaeologist dude he was more interested in the existence of the lines for themselves he wasn't so interested in what was happening at these lines what were they creating he was just like this is crazy that all these amazing old historical places line up what's that about right i see one of his theories was that if we go back 2 000 years 3 000 years to these ancient civilizations even in britain we had the romans they were some of the earliest architects of britain today they were the ones who built roads built buildings they famously always built in a straight line because if they wanted to get from london to bristol the fastest way is a straight road. Right. No point in wiggling shit around.

Just go the straightest way. And so Roman roads, we used to live near Roman Road in East London. That's true. It's a big, it's called that because it's a big f***ing straight road right from the centre of London, right out to the east of England. Wow, I didn't know that. So he put forward the idea that back then, the most important buildings and artifacts in the country were these holy sites, were churches,

were, it was believed in many cultures around the world, including China, including places like the UK, that at certain times, that spirits could also only travel in a straight line. It was believed that if you, let's say, had a body in a church or in some kind of holy place, and then you were going to bury it, you had to bury it, you know, in a straight line away from the church so that the spirit would be able to find its way to God. Oh, you put two and

two together here and you suddenly have maybe a reason for why churches have a road that's a straight line to the next cool holy rock which is in a straight line to a town that has a church in it oh i see or a burial ground which is in another straight line is it as simple as that is it not that there's some kind of like paranormal map covering the world, but back in the day, it was very important to people to have things on this kind of mystical, spiritual straight line. I mean, knowing how dumb and lazy humans are and have been for all existence, I think probably an ancient spirit could come down and be like, you must build your roads in a wiggly pattern. And they'd be like, no. It takes a really long time to build the straight ones. So we're just going to do it that way.

It's the quickest way to do it and it gets it done really fast. So that's how we're going to do it. I thought you were going to say, you know, the angels come down to the body of the recently deceased and it's like, you must find your way to the holy father by following the waypoint set out by the ancestors i'm probably gonna take a straight line mate i can't be bothered with all that it's up heaven's up i'm just gonna go straight i'm gonna go straight no no you will find you will only find

the dark lord if you go straight yeah cheers for the mate. I think I'll be able to find it. Yeah, so if our two explanations are whether or not the roads were built straight because ancient wizards and aliens and wolves told humans to do it that way, or because humans are lazy and that was the fastest way to do it, I'm probably going to go with option B.

Oh, f***, I should have told you that. I probably should have told you that. Conclusions? Look, I think this is, it's a cool thing to be able to talk about ley lines. It's a really fun idea and it's a fun theory. And while maybe there is some truth to it or maybe there is some deep lore

that is understandable and relatable when we're talking about paranormal cases it also feels a little bit lazy to just uh say that hey look i can draw straight lines uh between some of these places and they link up and if you ever have a paranormal activity of any kind uh that's why it's a ley line that's why there's ghosts that's why there's demons that's why there's fairies and werewolves and leprechauns is because, oh, ley line, ley line. You know, we've investigated enough paranormal cases to know that they're all very different. And the explanations behind them, if any, are always very different and usually pretty

specific. So I don't know if I could go on record and say that uh ley lines are the reason and the explanation behind a lot of paranormal activity i think it's fair to say you know and as i said people like alfred other people who were serious researchers about ley lines who really got into it wrote about it thought about it quite a lot of them got pretty pissed off from the 60s and 70s onwards when ley lines became popular because they became synonymous with woo-woo and magic and taking acid and listening to Jimi Hendrix. Yeah. And they were like,

this has kind of got away from what it was supposed to be, which was like tracing our history and ancestry. Yeah, yeah. And it's gotten more into just like, are there ghosts there? Yeah. The inventor that you said originally came up with the idea he also invented bread and he's a pretty bread and butter

guy actually he invented the best thing since uh so you'd be pretty pissed if like on your deathbed they were like bro they're gonna make my tombstone look like a slice of fucking toast they're gonna remember me every time they eat breakfast yeah every time they take a photo and then all of a sudden like right before you die someone's like but crucially he also invented ley lines the the path in which the spirits of the world traverse the earth and he's like no no no that, no. That was a theory. Brothers, lift your Kool-Aid and we will go to the great beyond. Don't drink that.

Do not drink that. He was like, that was an idea I doodled on a napkin between making bread. Don't make that what I'm remembered for. I think it's going to be a no today. It's a double no. It's a double no. It really is. I will shout out, there's a double no it's a double no it really is i will shout out there's a there's

a brilliant guardian article on this if you want to read a bit more about the history and kind of people looking at it this was posted back in 2000 in may 2000 on the guardian the article's called the lay of the land l-e-y nice and that's where you know we got a couple quotes from that for this and uh it's a really nicely put together kind of summary of of what went on you know and they and they end it with um a nice quote from one of the guys who's like an expert in all of this and he basically says you can be sitting around thinking about all the shamanism or whatever and all the paranormal stuff. Quote, but for me, it's about getting people off the sofa and into the open air, being excited about our heritage and about climbing to the tops of hills and admiring the view with a sense of adventure and a mystery and imagination. That's pretty cool.

And as a paranormal investigator, I couldn't agree f***ing less with that because that's all good for you, bud. But that's why me and Rory stay at home on our f***ing podcaster seats on our fat little asses. And we investigate that because we can investigate more paranormal cases per hour than he can doing his nerd little hike through the countryside. Yeah, you know where the paranormal hides? In the shadows, in the darkness, in the late hours of the night. You want to go for a nice hike and have a sense of adventure? Play Pokemon Go.

You want to investigate the paranormal? Go down into your mother's basement. And log on to 4chan like a real man. All right, and a special thank you, of course, to Amy Grisdell for researching this, to Philip Shack shack lady for editing and i'll just check who has sent in the submission so special thank you to um wow wow no one asked for this wow yeah no one wanted to hear this that's crazy we've been doing this

for four years so it's almost it's's so statistically unlikely that no one would ask for Leylo. Wouldn't even ask, yeah. Okay, no, f***, I found a couple. Wow, I thought I did find one there, but that's actually... They were talking about something else. They said, could you investigate this UFO case and stop wasting time on stupid cases like Leyloins?

And you were like, Leyloins! Hold on, there there's that's a good one all right well one guy's written in here because i just searched ley lines and i just searched ley lines in our inbox and yeah i've got one here so actually eat it um oh actually he's talking about a guy called tim ley uh okay so that's another miss uh ah ah thank you l clark there you go we got one in years and years uh that was a submission from 2017 i hope uh l clark is still listening to the podcast so no special thank you to to you for asking for that. I had an absolute blast reading about that one and presenting it.

Wow. So nice to do a kind of paranormal location. Rory, we've had a good spread recently, a good spread of cases to investigate. I'm sure all of our listeners will be frantically going online right now and looking up whether or not their house falls above the ley lines i actually

did look i mean it seems obvious doesn't it that we would for the podcast try and find one i did look up surprisingly or not surprisingly i don't think there's much near london to be honest i think they might go through or around it but i don't think there's any i was kind of my lazy ass was kind of hoping there would be just a big rock down in London Bridge or something and that would be a nexus point

but that doesn't seem to be the case from what I can see otherwise we would have gone to see it my apartment is just above the laid lines because you know

your boy is seeing some action and while there may not be werewolves storming about there's a couple of cougars for sure yeah the weird thing to brag about that you that you sleep with older women in your flat that's not it's not great much older yeah okay well you said a lot of stuff about from i'm not gonna i don't want to put two and two together but you said a lot of stuff at the top of this

podcast about some weird freudian stuff so i just don't want to put two and two together, but you said a lot of stuff at the top of this podcast about some weird Freudian stuff. So I just don't want people to put two and two together here when you talk about being into much older women. So far be it from me, far be it from me to make that connection. I wish you hadn't said that. Laid lines. How long were you thinking of that this whole podcast? Since the start, since the beginning.

I was trying to find a way to say it like that. But ladies and gentlemen if you cannot wait until next week to get your fix of this paranormal life i think earlier we mentioned uh mother shipton that was i think an old bonus episode yeah i think that goes back quite a ways but if you want to hear more about one of these nexus points that we just talked about up in the kind of Yorkshire area, there is a pretty famous paranormal site, Mother Shipton's Cave, where this kind of creepy witch lived in a cave and lived a kind of very strange life. I call her Milf Shipton, if you catch my drift. She was a... Yeah, this is bad. She was a yeah this is bad she was a

she was a bad person really no I don't remember damn it she might have been fine as hell for all I remember it was so long ago so I mean

go for it but that is available on patreon.com forward slash this paranormal life along with like 60 other full length bonus investigations into some of our best cases.

And that's not even getting into the probably 50 odd, whatever number we're on now, after parties. Yeah. Weekly behind the scenes episodes. So there's like a f***ing like two years worth of bonus content just sitting there ready to be unearthed. That's crazy. And I mean, we could sit here and talk about it, Kit, but I think the best way for people to understand how great this content is,

is to just play a clip right here on the podcast. Let's do it. There's a reason why local sheriffs are often the heroes of some of our tales, because that's the thing. Local sheriffs, they don't tales because that's the thing. Local sheriffs, they don't play by all the rules. They know what rules are important

and what rules aren't. An FBI agent, you know, his whole life is in order. He's done the security clearance. They know the names of his dogs. He's never put a foot on a line in his life. He gets up and he clean shaves every morning.

A local sheriff, he'll do a bump out of line in his life. He gets up and he clean shaves every morning. A local sheriff? He'll do a bump of coke every now and again. Whoa, well, that's a bit much. No, no, no. He probably drives a stolen car. Definitely not. He probably went to a perpetrator's house one time, pistol whipped him,

and then took his car keys and was like, let's just say we're squared up for this time but if you put a foot out of line you're spending the night in the county jail and he takes his he takes his mustang and he drives off so two of the three things you mentioned were just stealing cars it sounds like it sounds like this isn't the sheriff who's just committing small crimes he's a car thief he smokes weed he obeys the local laws but not the federal ones you know what i mean and good luck tracking him down because he's got 19 cars on the on rotation oh yeah he doesn't have a social security number he is he for sure he's barely on the radar barely is a bad sheriff. This is an analog man in a digital age. This is a criminal in the police station.

That's what it is. This is a corrupt cop. And all his firearms, not registered. But I understand what you mean. We're talking about Hopper from Stranger Things, you know? He's the police chief, but he fucking, he doesn't speak to his ex-wife. He smokes cigarettes for breakfast.

He has a pot of cold coffee on his desk. And every day people are saying, no, chief, my cat stuck up a tree. And he's like, I'm too big for these silly problems. So he's someone that you can, he's one of the people. I don't care if a car turns up now and again and the owner gets a little pistol whipping, you know, it's just going to happen. That's the price to pay for local law enforcement. You know, we need to bring back that kind of...

We don't. Vigilante kind of chaotic. Ha ha ha! That's good stuff. Good times. That is good stuff. That's patreon.com forward slash this paranormal life. It's not the only home of this paranormal life. We've got our website. All the links

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Zari's never in a hurry. Oh. Zari's like too cool for school. Sometimes way too cool. Like, it's like Zari, the building's on fire.

The alarm is going. You're the last one in there. Hurry. And they're like Harry. Harry. Zari. They're like, Harry. Harry. Harry. They're like, eh.

I kind of do my own thing. Yeah. I kind of do my own thing. So, yeah, probably get around to it when I feel like it. And when they do get there three hours late, they're never sorry. Sorry. Give us some tips on being cool like you. Special thank you to Ivan Berkland.

Ivan Berkland, get ready to harvest in the burnt land because the soil in the paranormal commune is so inhospitable it's dust simply putting a bean or a plant into it it sets it on fire we're not entirely sure why tinderbox it's crazy so we're gonna need your help bud thanks to the loveland frogman whoa in one of our original cases we investigated maybe number three four or five as often as that i'm pretty sure this is just a screen name i'm just gonna check out their profile picture to be sure ah shit that is the loveland Frogman That's the frog Jesus Buddy You know, you didn't take that stuff seriously

Did you? That stuff where we said you weren't real I saw they didn't actually give any money But almonds, which is kind of cool So thank you for those We'll have them for lunch, I guess Thanks Loveland Frogman Thanks to Molly Coop You know how they say you don't want a fox in the chicken coop?

Well, you do want a Molly in the chicken coop. Because the commune is short on eggs. She lays eggs. Oh, she lays eggs? Why would you want her in the chicken coop? So she can get the eggs. She doesn't lay the eggs, you sick freak. I just didn't know why you would specifically want a person

to be crouched down hanging out in a chicken coop if we have a shortage of eggs. Sorry, you think the chickens can bring you the eggs themselves? I just got eggs on the mind. It just, we need them so badly

is the thing. Well, you've just lost... We haven't had an omelette in years. So Molly, hang out in the coop. Let us know when you've got some goodies you want to bring over to the commune.

Thanks to Natalie Van Omeren. Natalie Van Omeren, can you make me a Natalie Van van omelet oh no i haven't had a we haven't had one of friggin years at this point and um i don't know what molly's doing in there she's been in there for days i think she's just eating them as they come up molly what the hell are we hurry up come on i haven't had an omelette In real life In a really long time So I'm up for it So Natalie

I don't know if you're If you're nice With the pan Making a tortilla I'd love one Thank you Please Two please

Thanks to Kenny Cashman Kenny doesn't really Carry credit cards He's more of a cash man That's pretty cool Yeah He just like Even when he tries to Buy something online It doesn't f***ing work He's more of a cash man. That's pretty cool. Yeah. He just like, even when he tries to buy something online,

it doesn't work. He's like trying to slot $20 bills just into the laptop fan. Yeah, it doesn't. It's like, Kenny, come on. 21st century, bud. You need a card. You need a card.

And don't worry, if you join the commune, you'll just be a man. There'll be no cash involved when we're done with you. So thank you, Kenny. Thank you to everyone we've shouted out this week

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