This Paranormal Life - #040 The Apocalypse that Almost Happened in Tunguska

Episode Date: December 19, 2017

One early morning in 1908, the skies split in two and fire exploded across the forests. Glass was shattered, crops were destroyed, people dropped to their knees knowing this was the end of the world. And then it ended... So what caused this mysterious event in Tunguska? time for Rory and Kit to #INVESTIGATESupport 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.

Are skyscrapers built on the earth to make contact with extraterrestrials? Are game shows the ultimate distraction to prove to humans that life is a game? All these questions you can find the answer to right here on This Paranormal Life! Welcome to the podcast where every week we investigate a brand new paranormal tale. Whether it's emailed in, whether it's researched by us, or whether it pops up up our dicks, we will find it, we will investigate it, and we will let you guys know if it is in fact true or not. Kit, I got a banger for you this week. I got a certified 10 out of 10. Not only because it is mysterious and it is

paranormal but because it's true look i know i've made that claim in the past yeah i was gonna say so there's only let me be the one to hurt me under the bus of the rory who cried wolf anyway this is about the wolf of bladenborough um i also like that before that episode started i said speak as loudly as you're going to speak and you said i i quote um i'm not going to tell you how loud i'm going to be and then you borderline screamed the intro i've decided to be a dick today i've been drinking wine well you know what let's do what we do always in every episode of this podcast. Let's dive right in there. Let's dig-dug the shit out of this.

Okay, I'm going to wind back the clock. Of course. The year is 1908. It's June 30th in Siberia. Cold, cold Siberia. We're back in Siberia? Yeah. Goddamn.

A lot of weird shit happens in Siberia. Cold, cold Siberia. We're back in Siberia? Yeah. God damn. A lot of weird shit happens in Siberia. Okay. Mr. S. Semenov is eating breakfast by his house. It's a beautiful morning. Clear skies. It's going to be a great day. You know, you can just... How fresco eating.

Outside, looking at the mountains. Yeah. Looking at the day go by. Absolutely. You can just feel it in the air. At around 7.17 a.m. It feels like the sun's getting a little bit brighter.

This thing's getting a bit too beautiful, you know? No one's ever said that. The sun's brighter than usual. Many of the locals around the area look up and see what appears to be a bluish column slowly moving

across the sky. Oh, Christ. Did I mention the sun's getting a little brighter? It's borderline burning the skin off my flesh at this point. Are you frying food in there? No, that's just our skin. The object is so bright, it's hard to look at. So like many others around that area, Siminoff looks away. Around 10 minutes pass,

and Semenov decides to take another look at the blue column, see if there's been any changes in its movement. Okay. But as he looks up, he says the skies began to split in two. The skies? On the north side of the forest, there was a glowing horizon.

Semenov couldn't believe his eyes. The sky split open even further, and the entire north side of the forest, there was a glowing horizon. Semenov couldn't believe his eyes. The sky split open even further, and the entire north side of the forest was covered in flames. The flames blasted through the forest in seconds until the heat was unbearable. This is his reporting of the incident. Semenov said it was like his shirt was on fire. He wanted to tear it off his own body. That was just because he thought he was dying and he wanted to go out in glory. Semenov does have a 12-pack.

He is an Olympic deadlifter. And when he wanted his body to be found, like after he's dead and the search party comes through, he wants to be seen to be ripped. Yeah, I mean, they found the body oiled up tanned in a speedo flexing flexing somehow um but then in this blast of heat the sky suddenly shut closed semenov thought it was over until there was an earth shattering roar as if cannons were firing all around him. Jesus Christ. Semenov was thrown through the air, backwards onto the ground. His wife ran over to help him, as hot wind blasted its way past them. Allegedly, windows around them shattered and crops were destroyed instantaneously.

And then it was all over. This incident is called the Tungka event ah of course and the most terrifying thing about it is that it actually happened and the sun thing that was pretty scary too that was pretty wild i liked all that imagery that the sky split open and then it went back together yeah so a lot of the times when we give retellings of these stories from people's perspectives people might think we're jazzing it up like goddamn miles davis trying to like juice up the stories to make them more juicy like some sort of body builder juicing up the goddamn oily beautiful 12 pack but these are this is semenov's actual

descriptions of the event this is his testimony he's a very verbose gentleman 1908 he was a poet if that was he was built and he was a poet and he knew it uh if that was me that that happened to yeah the the quote for like the paper has been like there was a blast in the sky me y'all seen independence day i have seen the long dick of god the earth let's let's look at the timeline of the events all right let's get our facts right okay okay okay 7 17 the blue light is seen tearing its way across the sky this is the morning this is the morning of the event okay so i would have actually been asleep at this point where most people probably were which would be freaking terrifying it's not funny to think people like think of all the natural

disasters that happen all over the world a good percentage of people were shitting at the time oh that's true yeah yeah because i was going to say they slept through it but actually some people were shitting mid-wipe that's terrifying and you have to make the choice you're like do i like clean myself up or do i just run for the door if i was having a poop and got thrown across the room and my arms were clearly shattered i think i would still try and wipe my ass before before anyone finds me just absolute shame you would though wouldn't you don't want to go that way like when the rescuers are like digging in the rubble of your building and they'll be like is anyone in there you're like nope move on is anyone in there just a cat if you smell shit it's just cat shit 717 a blue light is seen tearing its way across the sky 10 minutes later a flash and an explosion sounds like artillery fire

this was combined with a shock wave that knocked people off of their feet the blast caused by whatever it was allegedly knocked over i mean this sounds laughable but this is the genuine number 800 million trees that sounds like a number i've just whipped up the top of my dome but it's that sounds like some logging company is trying to like cover up some illegal logging yeah oh it knocked over all the trees that we were trying to preserve. This is them in court. They're like, 800 million. Mm-hmm. 800 million.

Can't help but notice, but you became $800 million richer in the last year. It's got grills. So how does this happen? It's 1908. There are no atomic weapons in existence. That's true, because these days, I think, like like everyone has that in the back of their mind if they heard a loud enough boom you think it's a bomb you're getting under a table but not only did these weapons not exist yet this was an explosion that people have estimated was the

force of a thousand atomic bombs were any people hurt by this apparently apparently two people were killed but it's it's never been proven verified i guess yeah um but this is the thing in this certain area of siberia it's so desolate it's the part of russia where you would almost die trying to get to this location okay you know it's in the middle of the wilderness as we covered in the day at love uh pass episode people did die exactly just trying to get through siberia so well after an event like this you think you know there's going to be a full-on investigation i mean you would hope that they wouldn't just brush that one under the carpet no nobody officially investigated the site until over a decade later which what which is strange because apparently the blast was so horrific people on the spot burst into tears because

they thought it was the apocalypse i mean for sure like how busy were siberians at the end of time to investigate a thousand atomic bombs exploding out of nowhere well so if you thought the apocalypse just happened and then it's like oh i guess we were wrong as we were the sky was on fire maybe it was that was it it was so ridiculous everyone couldn't like believe what had happened or something right the windows exploded on your goddamn house yeah whenever you call the window guy to come around. Yeah. And he's like, this is like the 1700th like call out this week.

Yeah. What the hell happened? What happened? I don't know. So in 1921, a Russian meteorologist called, I hate this name. I'm sorry. What do you have against me? Leonid Kulik.

It's not like Leonard, but it's not like Leon it's like leonide. Okay, leonide colic was around the area doing some boring research For the Academy of Soviet science. Oh, let's pick up a rock here. Oh, that's true. This tree. They're actively ignoring what happened Yeah, no one just cares, I guess. Also, again, I will stress that the epicenter, I guess, of the event is not easy to get to. Borderline, maybe people haven't even seen it yet. So he's in the area doing some research, yada, yada, yada. He starts talking to the locals.

And obviously, they start to tell him about this event. The apocalypse. Seconds ago, yeah, the apocalypse. You know, skies tore open. I saw the face of God. Yeah. Forest burstades ago, yeah. The apocalypse. You know, skies tore open. I saw the face of God. Yeah. Forests burst into flames, etc. It would be interesting to know, did that, like, would that change your behavior?

I feel like a lot of people... Oh, they're all saints now. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. They know what had sex after that. Because it could have gone either way. They could just start banging and shooting up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're like, well, this is the end.

Yeah. I'm going to have sex with a cow just now, because why not? Just that guy hanging out with his wife. And then as soon as the apocalypse starts and the sky tears open, his wife turns to him to hug him. The door is just swinging open. And he's sprinting topless towards the nearest field. But I also love this guy is so unfaithful

that even if it's, like, a thunderstorm, he's left his wife, he's left his kids, he thinks it's the end, and he's outside banging the cow. Well, he's in the area. He's doing some research, whatever, for the Academy of Soviet Science. They start telling him about the event that took place. We know Kulik was a man of science.

So from their stories, he's deducted that it was a meteor crash or a comet or an asteroid hit the Earth. Boom. Big explosion. But that doesn't mean it's not fascinating as hell. So Kulik wants to go to the site and check out what happened okay okay but he needs funding by the soviet government to do it god this is god damn spongers this seems to be like a running theme in this podcast guys haven't these people heard of patreon exactly my god why weren't they mining bitcoin at this point yeah wasting time

being a meteorologist or some shit i know what he was after he was after some rare space minerals that like crashed on in that comet that's what i'm thinking you say that but so he goes to the soviet government okay they're not into it they don't they don't see the point in investigating an old crash site oh my god essentially so cullick puts a little spin on it and tells them there could be some valuable meteoric iron that could be salvaged i love the idea of him kind of going there and he's been he's been uh pitching for hours you're not going to send you to an old crash site to investigate a meteorite, okay? He's like, well, I guess you guys don't want a laser gun. Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What did you say about a laser gun? Oh, just like, you know, if it is from another planet, there could be a laser gun at the site. Jesus Christ. Second in command leans over to the lieutenant. We do need a laser gun. Fine, take your men. And they let him do it. Holy shit.

Kulik starts his expedition in 1927. 19 years later. As I said before, this is not an easy place to get to where this event took place. So Kulik goes to a nearby village where he meets a tribe called the Avenki. Of course. Who say they can help him get to the crash site yes dude they've got those little like tennis tennis racket shoes on their feet yeah other people didn't think that back then and they've got enough husky pups to feed them on the arduous

journey up the mountain enough sleighs to burn to keep a thousand fires the tribe were like we'll meet you at the crash site like they eventually meet up there two weeks later where are the dogs huh it's not an easy trip so they journey together through the wind and the snow battling the elements to get to the site can you imagine but when they reach an area just south of the crash location the avenki tribe members stopped and they said they would go no further because they were smart we need to go home there are no more dogs we suck it up chaps we'll find some more dogs well what if you lose your lives your names will go down in history don't you know god looks like looking at the children aren't you a good young puppy? You're not eating the kids.

They said they would go no further, fearing what they referred to as the Valley Men. Ooh. Yeah. I don't like that. It's a little creepy, isn't it? Very creepy. But we'll breeze past that. That's fine.

No one investigated for 19 years. That's just fine. Don't worry about that. Kulluk gets new guides to take him the rest of the way. After another journey, he made it to the ridge that overlooked the point where the event took place. Holy shit. Kulluk was floored. He was looking down upon miles and miles of leveled forests.

Jesus Christ. An aerial assessment showed that the area of leveled forests stretched for over, get this, 43 miles wide and 34 miles long. But one thing about it didn't sit right. If this was caused by a meteorite hitting the earth, where's the crater? Kulluk and the explorers searched, there was no crater holy shit so what we're just supposed to believe in the middle of goddamn nowhere in 819 08 an atomic bomb blasted off leaving no crater but destroyed 30 miles of forest bullshit i call. That's not a word we just throw around on this podcast. Over the next 10 years, Kullick would return to the site with his teams investigating quote-unquote

ground zero to try and crack the case. But lack of evidence made this difficult. The popular theory was that it was caused by an asteroid. But without a crater, this was increasingly hard to prove. However, much later in the 1950s, chemical analysis showed that the site contained high proportions of nickel relative to iron, which is also found in meteorites. Leading to the conclusion that they were of extraterrestrial origin. Which I know sounds exciting. Extraterrestrial. It sounds paranormal and alien. But by definition, it just means out of the Earth's atmosphere. Which I know sounds exciting. Extraterrestrial. It sounds paranormal and alien. It sounds like aliens.

But by definition, it just means out of the Earth's atmosphere. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, but if you're going to make something out of iron, everyone would prefer it was made of alien iron. I guess so. How badass would that be? Like, imagine you had a saucepan right that you made pancakes in and the saucepan was from spider space ironically uh alien iron is incredibly fragile delicate it crumbles super shitty pancakes it crumbles like ash on the slightest touch.

Thank Christ there's no wind in space because empires would fall. Everything it touches smells a little bit like piss. A very pissy sort of smell to it. Why the f*** do you think they want to come to Earth? Because we've got the best iron. Alien metal is terrible. All right. The chemical analysis shows nickel shows nickel iron it's a meteorite okay you know okay close case right here's the book i'm bringing it down here we go bringing it down but hold that thought how about instead of closing that book i chuck it out the goddamn window how about instead instead of me closing your mind,

I blow your brains over the walls with my goddamn paranormal facts. Kulik may have done his research, but another reputable researcher, trustworthy researcher, named Yuri Lavbin, please don't interrupt, has done his too. For for 16 years 16 goddamn years yuri and his team of other 15 researchers listen to those numbers studied the event you're very

came to their own conclusion he believed that in 1908 around 17 do you have to squeeze my arms? It's very painful 17 a.m Comet 17 a.m We're just supposed to breathe Just saying a bunch of numbers to confuse you 21 17 ace play ball He believed like all the others did yes that in 1908 around 7 17 a.m Everything's fine so far. Okay okay a comet was on track to collide with the earth that's fine that makes sense a collision that much like the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs would destroy all of humanity

so what happened well remember the blue light seen before the explosion oh yeah Yuri and his team believe that that is in fact a ufo or some sort of destruction beam shot down to destroy the comet before it can destroy earth how reputable was the scientist you're skeptical i get it can you see it in my eyes? I remember the first time I was told the truth It's scary I was but a babe You know The blinding truth is a lot like

The sun Sometimes it's uncomfortably bright Causing your shirt to burn Sometimes you're gonna want to look away But what you gotta do is You do what your father told me to do you stare right back at that son and say i will never blink you have a guide dog you have a cane sir i have no idea how you conduct a podcast are you still here i can't see shit if any podcast

was done by people who couldn't communicate with each other it would maybe be this podcast there's each each week it's one person ranting at the other one person is the sun each week blasting down on another person trying to shield themselves until it's their turn to be the sun now look i know you're going to be skeptical but just consider this what What if Yuri is telling the truth? So you're telling me after 16 years of research. Yes, and 15 other researchers. Their most plausible explanation for what happened. Yes. Was an interstellar destruction beam.

The obvious choice. There are other explanations, such as a black hole. This isn't Yuri's. These are other explanations such as a black hole there there this isn't uri's these are other theories there's an idea that a black hole went through the earth now there are some problems with this because um yes some scientists physics some eggheads at nasa claim that uh that would destroy the earth right entirely that's what we're all thinking but also if it didn't destroy the earth much like a bullet passing through a human it would also need to have an exit wound which there was none another one an alien spaceship crash uh-huh okay it wasn't a meteorite at all a third option nikola tesla testing a death ray

nikola tesla comes up in a lot of these old paranormal tales yeah there were theories that he was in the country um testing a death ray i have read on sites such as crystalinks.com and seen in movies such as the prestige that he was mental yeah that like there are all these reports floating about online i have no idea how true they are that he was genuinely developing there is like evidence that he was developing weapons really i don't know well in this one he was essentially in this tale he was creating oh man we should do tesla one time we gotta do tesla because he turned up in the philadelphia experiment supposedly he was on the deck of the eldridge and stuff like that it sounds ridiculous but so does the fact that this even happened in the first place yeah so going back to yuri's theory okay i know what

you're thinking where's the evidence rory why are you so you're actually right disappointment well yuri says two strange cubes with each side measuring five feet were recovered near the area of impact. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you telling me that there is an all spark? Two all sparks. Two all sparks. These strange looking cubes were created from a black material that apparently does not look natural in any way. He explained they look burned

and remind him of an alloy used to make quote-unquote rockets. You look me in the eyes and you tell me that those cubes aren't the core to a goddamn alien rocket that was used to destroy a meteorite

on a collision course with the earth creating a wave of destruction equal to that of which destroyed the dinosaurs show me one of the boxes i couldn't find them excuse i google searched and found nothing right i have dm'd yuri for further clarification yeah i think he's dead yeah granted shortly after this he ate his family of course died trying to bang the cubes he heard a lick of thunder outside and he started going down in the cubes but however the research team also found in the area an unusual white and large stone in the destroyed forest the locals call it the reindeer stone okay and this is a stone i think

that's found in three other places on earth it's made of crystalline substance very uncommon to this area specifically so to find one in this location is very strange unusual and i have a picture of that okay so it's cubes there are two cubes you are so blind so very blind sir so you're telling me just to clarify that we do not have pictures of the reported alien alloy all spark cubes how about you take yuri's goddamn word for it how about that when was the last time you went to siberia you don't trust him at this point is frankly rude i'm starting to think that's going to affect your judgment how am i supposed to trust your conclusion if you don't trust yuri yuri is a scam artist i'm telling you that right now yuri also

needed my social security number and my pin. He's in deep goddamn trouble with these cubes. He also needed my car keys. Said he's going to buy cigarettes. He's been three days. I'm really worried. But he said he's going to pick up the cubes and we will circle back on this episode. I'll be honest.

I think something's happened to Yuri. I'm getting really scared, man. He said he'd be back soon, but the look in his eyes said they're gonna get me. I don't know if it's Men in Black, I don't know if it's the CIA, but I think they got to him. That poor son of a bitch. He's got like one of those hobo sacks, but just two of them over his shoulders, obviously holding cubes. Clearly struggling with the weight of the bones can you just show me the cubes if those are the cubes nope I know those are cubes

I can see them they're glowing they're actually burning through the knapsack so here's a picture of the rainbow crystal reindeer crystals okay so why is it a reindeer crystal it's just the name of it it's got some

lore around it but i didn't write the lore down so it looks a bit like a fire stone from pokemon yeah like i feel like if you touched your dog with this your dog might get a flaming tail and evolve right just to just get up to speed the physical evidence so far for yuri's theory of a crystal it's a jpeg of a rock that is his evidence so far for an intergalactic destruction beam yeah yeah okay so before i go any further are you done kid i i brought a lot of evidence to the table today i told you the story um what are you thinking what's going on here so if i wasn't convinced at this point would you have any more evidence to show me or you just i may have one trick up my sleeve you beat me over the

head um it's a cube okay okay i've heard of the tonguska event so it is crazy you're right this is this is a true story yeah everything up to the the potential explanations right is pure truth that's crazy including the explanations no i said everything up to that and including no up into i think up to and excluding if anything no like when you're counting yeah you go count to 10 0 1 2 because you counted what you're on yeah yeah this is more like make sense make sense make sense got to the cubes no then cut it i know i'm just gonna cut it right cut it after the crystals i think what I said cause

it's my sentence cause you're saying it yeah I get that yeah I get that we just might not be on board for the next the next couple minutes

but you do your thing I'm gonna switch off I'm honestly just gonna put in music for the next couple minutes as you explain how you feel you do your shit actually I'm gonna

I'm gonna go to the bathroom wow really in the middle of your own episode yeah I just um i got some stuff to figure out you want if i take this i'm gonna take you're gonna take you're gonna take everything with you okay wow you're crying right now no i just i thought you would be more on board if you're that emotionally invested pick stories that are true how about that don't pick such a difficult sell day one at a hardware store and i'm like first day on the job this is gonna be great someone walks in how would you like a car do you sell cars i could get you a car

rory stop yeah this is crazy crazy. This is a fantastic story. It's one of the most puzzling, crazy natural phenomenon in living memory here on Earth. Yeah. I didn't actually know that the explanations for it got this far-fetched. I didn't realize there was such a lack of kind of, I don't know how to say this rational scientific evidence right that people have to speculate and make such crazy like yeah conjectures paranormal events gonna have paranormal explanations you ever think about that that's a good phrase actually that's roy powers 2017 uh what do you think of this so my, my trick up my sleeve is not so much a trick as some shit I just didn't tell you. You purposefully omitted information?

I left out a little bit. Was there a crater? The crater was huge. Okay, it was the first thing. It was on in the earth. They actually figured it all out in 1908. Yuri's me. The trickster and fraud yuri it's me scientists have essentially come to the unanimous conclusion oh jesus christ this was a phenomenon uh called an airburst so essentially what happens is as you know when a

meteorite a comet asteroid is plummeting down towards the earth as it enters the earth's atmosphere it's a little science lesson i'm gonna throw some like boom like educational music over this yeah yeah let's not kids uh when a comet a meteorite or an asteroid is approaching the earth's atmospheric the earth's atmosphere when a pro so don't laugh at me so obvious i didn't go to school i'm gonna give you guys a lesson when it enters the earth's atmosphere it will burn up upon entry this is a process known as entry burning now did you make that up no that's science now what happened in this particular instance i had gone to school is that this was such a huge asteroid.

There was so much heat and power on entry. Air bursting happened. Did I say air bursting the first time? Yeah. Sounds fictional now. I'm saying it out loud. Where the comet essentially explodes. From the aerial scans, the blast created much more of like a butterfly pattern yeah rather than

a um towards the earth crater pattern as well as a lack of a crater so i think the idea is that the the force of the blast was spread outwards through the sky more than downwards towards the earth very interesting so just to be clear, no aliens. Well, you know, let's look at this comet as a balloon. Okay. Hurtling towards the Earth. Yeah. Did it airburst by its goddamn self like a miracle?

Or, I suggest the alternative, a pin shot precisely from an unidentified flying object to hit at the impact time right before it collided with the Earth. I'll play your game here. To explode over the surface. Why would an alien do that? Huh? They're looking out for us. They got our backs. Think about it.

Why do aliens have to be bad dudes? Think about maybe there's other stuff out there that they're saving us from. Like, it's so improbable that life has gotten to this point uh-huh what if it's gone to this point by divine intervention you know we're in a bubble people you think about that i'm getting real alex jonesy here we're in a goddamn bubble excuse me sorry yeah that's kind of interesting i always think um like in terms of like why wouldn't alien do it it's like if that alien race is so advanced it might not be like for us when we send something to outer space it is like this is like all the world governments working together to send this one thing this is humanity's vision yeah whereas if they're really advanced this could be like some little like

teenager just off his r plates uh alien just cruising around the galaxy and then he's like oh shit that meteorite's about to destroy earth yeah he's playing like asteroids yeah just like messing around it's nothing to him it might be so if you had to come to a conclusion at this point as to the cause of this paranormal event, Kate, what are you thinking? What are your thoughts here? Certainly. Can I just take a second to... Okay.

You didn't actually want me to answer. That's fine. I just want to say, God rest Yuri. God bless his soul. If he is dead, rest his name. He was a good man. His memory will live on forever. His research will live on indefinitely. Right. Forever and ever. Amen. Just his name. He was a good man. His memory will live on forever. His research will live on indefinitely.

Right. Forever and ever. Amen. Just bless him. Continue. Sorry, you were going to shit on him. Sir. 16 years.

What has he got to gain? 16 years of government-funded research, I guess. He spent very little. He was living high on the hog. I like to imagine that he is like reporting back to the Soviet government. We just got to keep on digging. We found some all sparks and reindeer cubes. But I mean, the cause is still yet unknown.

And then like one one other scientist is sent there to see what's going on. He's like, there's a giant crater. Jesus Christ. Like, how long has he been here? 16 years. Or he's calling from like a beach in the Bahamas. He's like, have's a giant f***ing critter. Jesus Christ. Like, how long has he been here? 16 years? Or he's calling from like a beach in the Bahamas. He's like, have you found anything yet? Yeah, we found some... Looks in his drink.

There's ice in it. Cubes. And some mysterious substance called pina colada. You weren't even trying with that one. No. I think you can tell I'm on holiday. They don't... There's like tropical drums the whole time in the background. You weren't even trying with that one. No. I think you can tell I'm on holiday. There's like tropical drums the whole time in the background.

Like, not only can we hear it, this is a FaceTime call. You're jet skiing right now. What? Huh? I don't know if you've heard of a little thing called the Younger Dry event no well i was reading about this recently so i'm all like topped up on um extraterrestrial like comet impacts is this going to be another episode i don't know it could be but basically there's like a lot of evidence basically some very discredited scientists right have been positing for a long time that in the last like 10 000 years humanity might have been almost wiped out by a comet impact just like this wow basically there was a mystery of like the earth was plunged into an ice age about 10 000 years ago a lot of the world's

mammals died off humans died off in massive numbers yeah and it all happened like instantly and then people started finding nano diamonds all around the all around the earth and these are like tiny diamonds that are only formed in like atomic blasts just like you're talking about and then the smoking gun was just like you're saying that there were no critters so it is very interesting it seems like this might not be as rare or as bizarre as you think it is yeah looks like this kind of thing might have happened in the past that's crazy so why why? Why? What do you mean? Why are they watching us now? Is this just a sick game to these creatures? Who are they?

Whoa. Tell me now. Where do you have a gun? What are you? Your own head. How do we get here? Within cells that are linked within cells that are linked. Holy shit.

So fast. Pull the trigger. I i mean i know he had nothing to live for and granted i didn't try to stop him hell i gave him the gun uh i feel like you're coming down on a hard end on a hard rational scientific point of view right i think this is not a paranormal event well to be fair it is a paranormal event in a sense it's not my words you son of a bitch but you don't think there's anything secret hidden fishy fishy a conspiracy about it no you think it's a phenomenon essentially yeah like intergalactic impacts and stuff like that is quite an overlooked because it doesn't happen that often it like if you think our society has only been around for like a thousand years and the fact that these

common impacts maybe happen every like couple thousand years is a massive one so i feel like every time it almost wipes out humanity they kind of forget about it over the next thousand years yeah and it happens all over again it's weird isn't it so i feel like maybe our next one's coming that's what i'm saying dude get in the bunker the goddamn bunker yeah so what are you thinking i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna wrap this one up i'm coming down with you i think it's uh i think it's weird i think it's weird. I think it's cool and weird. It's incredibly badass. And fascinating. But at the minute, I don't think

it was UFO intervention. I think it was probably the airburst scientific explanation. But goddamn, what a tale. And the only way we're gonna find out is if Yuri pulls his thumbs out and gets us those goddamn cubes. I was gonna say if our patreon funds an

all expenses paid research trip 16 years yeah no more no less yeah to the site at tonguska the top 15 contributors will join us on this excursion to the bahamas to siberia bring puppies we're gonna need them where we're going. So unfortunately, again, damn, that's a double no on this week's episode of This Paranormal Life. But hell, hey, that was a fun one. Thank you so much for joining us on this incredible adventure.

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