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Paranormal Punchers

Paranormal Punchers

Paranormal Punchers is a light-hearted podcast where the weird meets the hilarious. From Bigfoot to haunted houses, we crack open a new paranormal tale every episode and and give our wild opinions with plenty of laughs along the way.

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Ep. 138 - Spring-heeled Jack

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/05/10

Spring-Heeled Jack is a boogeyman entity in English folklore during the Victorian Era, where his name caused fear among those who lived in London during that time. Reports of this entity began in 1837 and most of his attacks were against women, where he would ring the doorbell and then cause severe damage to their clothing with sharp claws, or just simply ambush people while they are out walking. The descriptions of him were so varied of what he looked like that sometimes he was described as having

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Ep. 137 - The Beast of Gévaudan

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/04/26

The Beast of Gévaudan is the name associated with a man-eating animal or animals that terrorized the former province of Gévaudan in south-central France between 1764 and 1767. The Beast ravaged the rural region, where as many as 300 men, women, & children were attacked. While many believed it to be a wolf, there are some that suggest that the Beast may have been something else. There were a few occasions where the people of Gévaudan were able to shoot the Beast, with the belief that they had killed

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Ep. 136 - Live at Fan Expo Philadelphia 2022

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/04/12

We had a blast doing a live show at Fan Expo Philadelphia! We talked about Nic Cage and that time he bought a serial killer’s home. He purchased the LaLaurie mansion located at 1138 Royal St in New Orleans in 2007 for $3.4 million with the plans to use the house as the perfect inspiration to write the “great American horror novel”. He only stayed one night. He could hear all sorts of ghostly noises throughout the night, & these sounds & disturbances scared him so much, that he rented a place

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Ep. 135 - The Oklahoma Octopus

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/03/29

The Oklahoma Octopus is a cryptid that inhabits a few of the freshwater man-made lakes in Oklahoma, including Lake Thunderbird & Lake Tenkiller, where it attacks and kills unsuspecting swimmers. It is a cephalopod, about the size of a horse, with long tentacles and leathery, reddish-brown skin. There have been numerous reported sightings, which typically involve fairly-large tentacles just at the surface of the lake, but there is no physical evidence that the Oklahoma Octopus exists. Many point to

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Ep. 134 - Banshee Labyrinth

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/03/15

The Banshee Labyrinth, located at 29-35 Niddry Street in Edinburgh, Scotland, is considered to be Scotland's most haunted pub. The pub is made up of seven rooms and about half of the pub is built into Edinburgh’s underground vaults. When operational, the vaults were known for homeless, thieves, and the unsavory and it was here, that many people met a very gruesome end. When the pub was renovating one of the vaults, a worker saw a woman with long red hair, covering her face as she sobbed. She then

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Ep. 133 - Corny the Irish Poltergeist

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/03/01

Corney was a poltergeist that haunted the A- family in Dublin, Ireland during the mid-19thcentury. The address of the house, as well as, the families name is a mystery even though we have the story of Corney’s antics. He let his presence be known to the family and their staff, but only showed his spectral body to two people. The first who died from fright, and the 2nd, a 7-year old boy where he described him as a naked man, with a curl on his forehead, and pale skin. His misbehavior with the

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Ep. 132 - Wold Newton Triangle

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/02/15

Within East Yorkshire, England is a stretch of rolling hills and beautiful valleys that has the highest concentrations of legends, myths, monsters and the supernatural in the world called the Wold Newton Triangle. The area is full of stories of ghosts, fairies, witches, werewolves, legends of dragons and vampires as well as stories of magic and rituals which makes many question whether the Wold Newton Triangle is a thin spot between dimensions.There are several theories as to why the area has so

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Bonus Ep - Hunting Bigfoot with Writer/Director...

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/02/14

Did he really see it? Or was it just in his head?As he emerges from yet another long slog in the Northwest wilderness, John’s resolve remains undiminished. Long estranged from his family, John checks in to grab some provisions and touch base with some fellow sympathizers and true believers before resuming his all-consuming quest—to verify the existence of a Sasquatch he claims to have witnessed.In Hunting Bigfoot, Northwest filmmaker Taylor Guterson (Old Goats, Burkholder) skillfully melds the

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28:33

Special Episode - Funk Brewing and the Albatwitch...

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/02/08

On this episode we are joined by Head Brewer and Co-owner of Funk Brewing, Scott Adams. They named a beer after PA's very own little bigfoot, the Albatwitch.The Albatwitch is a small 4-5 foot tall Bigfoot-like creature which supposedly lives near Chickies Rock, Columbia, PA. The Susquehanna River runs along Chickies Rock, & they are also seen all along the river's shore. The Albatwitch is covered in a reddish-brown hair & have skinnier, more human-like proportions than a Bigfoot. We talk about the

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Ep. 131 - Falcon Lake Incident

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/02/01

The Falcon Lake Incident occurred on May 20, 1967 and is considered one of Canada's best documented UFO cases. Stefan Michalak, an amateur geologist, was prospecting near Falcon Lake when he was startled by some nearby geese that suddenly flew up. It was at that point he saw two cigar-shaped objects in the sky. One of them landed on a flat rock, while the other stayed in the air for a few minutes before flying off. He approached it, could feel warm air, smell Sulphur, as well as hear muffled voices

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Ep. 130 - The Horizon City Monster

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/01/18

Just outside El Paso, Texas, a Bigfoot-like creature with red eyes has been prowling the area since the 1970’s. He was first seen in 1975 by three teenagers near the Horizon City golf course, and when the Sheriff's Department investigated, only a footprint was found. They believed that the print had been manually dug, so felt that the whole encounter was a hoax or they had misidentified a long-haired hermit living in the mountains nearby. In 2001 and 2002, he was seen again by the same witness where

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Ep. 129 - The RMS Queen Mary

Paranormal Punchers ·

2022/01/04

The RMS Queen Mary was a large luxury British ocean liner that operated from 1936 to 1967, when she was retired and is now docked at Long Beach, California. Because of her size and speed, she served as a troop transport ship during World War II where she could transport an entire army division in one voyage. In 1942, she tragically sliced through an escort warship during an Atlantic crossing killing over 330 men, and was also responsible for prisoner of war transports. With the amount of

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Ep. 128 - Island of the Dolls

Paranormal Punchers ·

2021/12/21

Just south of Mexico City you will find a small island, Isla de las Muñecas (also known as the Island of Dolls), where a young girl met her fate in mysterious circumstances and it is now the home to hundreds of terrifying dolls hanging from trees, many decomposing and missing limbs or even heads. Don Julián Santana Barrera found a young girl who drowned on the shores of this island and hung up her doll as a sign of respect and to show her spirit support in the afterlife. He soon found that he was

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Ep. 127 - Red Onion Saloon

Paranormal Punchers ·

2021/12/07

The town of Skagway, Alaska served as the “Gateway to the Klondike” and located within this town was the Red Onion Saloon, an exclusive brothel established in 1898 that served the 30,000 prospectors that came through the area seeking their fortune during the Klondike Gold Rush. Uniquely, dolls representing each of the workers would be placed at the bar, and customers would then choose by selecting a doll. It was only a brothel for two years before the gold rush waned there and a new rush popped up

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Ep. 126 - Lincoln Park Zoo

Paranormal Punchers ·

2021/11/23

The Lincoln Park Zoo is a 35-acre zoo located in Chicago, IL that was founded in 1868 on the same spot as where a cemetery had been located. This cemetery once held the remains of 35,000 people and when the cemetery closed, they moved most of the bodies to another location, but experts believe that there could be around 12,000 bodies that remain there. Throughout the years, several bodies have been exhumed during different construction projects, with some getting put back in the ground where they

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Bonus Ep. - Beyond Stranger U.S. with John Olsen

Paranormal Punchers ·

2021/11/16

We talk with John Olsen about his new book Beyond Stranger US. Beyond Stranger U.S is book 5 in the Stranger Bridgerland book series. Beyond Stranger U.S continues the journey into the realm of the paranormal with true first-hand accounts of Ghosts, Cryptids, UFO.s, Bigfoot, Glitches in the Matrix and more. Author John Olsen has interviewed people from across the United States, Mexico, and Canada to bring you these tales of the unknown.The

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Ep. 125 - The Black Knight Satellite

Paranormal Punchers ·

2021/11/09

Followers of the Black Knight Theory believe that there is a spacecraft or satellite of extraterrestrial origin that has been in orbit near Earth for 13,000 years and that NASA and several governments are covering it up. The theory itself has been taken from several different unrelated events and compiled into one idea. In 1899, Nikola Tesla received electrical signals which he interpreted as a series of numeric codes that were sent from Mars, and in 1927, Norwegian engineer Jorgen Hals also

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Ep. 124 - The House of Death

Paranormal Punchers ·

2021/10/26

The House of Death has a very beautiful and charming exterior, but on the inside of this brownstone home in Greenwich Village, it is riddled with spirits that apparently will not leave. Since its construction in the 1850s, twenty-two people have reportedly died in this home. There have been several notable residents that have lived here, including Mark Twain who evidently is one of the spirits seen here in a white suit near the staircase. When Jan Bryant Bartell lived here in 1957, she witnessed and

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Ep. 123 - The Devil's Tramping Grounds

Paranormal Punchers ·

2021/09/28

The Devil’s Tramping Grounds, one of the most haunted spots in North Carolina, is a spot of barren land in a forty foot perfect circle located in a forest near Harper’s Crossroads. Local legend alleges that the Devil "tramps" and haunts this circle of ground in which nothing is supposed to grow. If someone places sticks or other obstacles in the path at dusk, it will be found outside the circle in the morning, regardless of the weight of the object. Animals won't cross this area, and people have

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Ep. 122 - Lake Shawnee Amusement Park

Paranormal Punchers ·

2021/09/14

Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, located near Princeton, West Virginia, is an old run-down amusement park that was plagued with violent deaths, freak accidents and happened to be built on an ancient Native American burial ground. In the late 1700s, the Clay family settled the area but had a turf war with a local tribe which resulted in the deaths of three of his children and many tribesmen. Over 100 years later the land was purchased and turned into an amusement park by Conley Snidow where he hoped the

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