This Paranormal Life - #145 5 of the Creepiest New Years Eve Stories

Episode Date: December 31, 2019

On todays episode we deep dive into the most terrifying paranormal stories that take place on New Years Eve! Thanks for all you support in 2019, we can't wait for another year of investigations! <3Support 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 CommunityResearch by Amy GrisdaleEdited by Louis BlatherwickIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to a This Paranormal Life New Year's Eve special! Woohoo! Hello everyone, my name is Roy Powers and I'm joined by Kit Greer, the two investigators on This Paranormal Life, the world's number one paranormal comedy podcast, where every week we investigate a brand new case, tale, claim, beast, rumor, legend, story, animal, man, alien, or wizard, and come to a conclusion as to whether or not the stories about them are real or false. Guys, it's New Year's Eve. I'm excited.

Are you excited, Kit? I'm incredibly excited. I probably should have looked into this. There's probably some sort of ancient belief about New Year's Eve that, I don't know, maybe some paranormal shit will kick off when we hit midnight. There is something inherently paranormal about the year changing. Right. You know, 365 days, whoosh, gone. And we got a whole set of new ones in front of us.

Guys, we are so excited today to be with you on new year's eve and bring in the new year what you may not know is that the new year is actually pretty paranormal hmm you know we don't we think of we think of halloween as paranormal yeah we think of easter a fucking bunny brings you chocolate that's pretty weird jesus rising from the dead that's paranormal as hell yeah i'm trying to think of any other holidays i think it's just two to be honest both of them pretty weird but we wouldn't think of new year's eve as paranormal that is until today i have gathered a collection of paranormal stories all revolving around new year's eve collection a collection this is going to be a little like cozy around the campfire ghost stories style podcast

that we have today okay wow so we're going to investigate a couple different stories all from reddit of people who have had extremely paranormal incidents on New Year's Eve. So let's dive right in, Kit. Our first story today was posted by Lazior only 11 months ago. Oh, wow. The story's titled New Year's Eve Ghost Slash Demon. When I was around 12, I spent New Year's Eve at my friend's house whilst our parents were out at a restaurant in a nearby town.

The house was old and pretty isolated, and to be honest, scared the crap out of me. You had to drive up a long overgrown track to reach it. A lot of my other friends at school would say the house was haunted, and it was actually featured in a ghost book if I remember rightly. Okay, so it is haunted. If it's in a book about ghosts... That's about as haunted as a house can get. It's actually the basis of the movie Paranormal Activity. What?

So it's haunted. Why spend time there? So anyways, we were sat downstairs in the lounge, watching some TV, and heard the loudest crashing sound. The crashing sounded like it came from upstairs, so we headed up to check it out. When we got to the top of the stairs, there was a breeze coming from somewhere. It was cold. Ice cold. Uh-oh.

Unless you were in the kitchen and the fridge door was open, you don't want ice cold. No. Ice cold is never good. It's come up a few times in the kitchen and the fridge door is open, you don't want ice cold. No. Ice cold is never good. It's come up a few times in the cast. Difference in temperature, drop in temperature. Poltergeist activity. That's a telltale sign. At the end of the corridor was his mom and dad's bedroom.

The door was moving back and forward slowly. We both stopped and just stood still, frozen, not saying a word to each other. After a moment, my friend walked towards the door. I was still frozen in fear and fell behind a little. As he pushed the door open and snuck into the room, the darkness consumed him. I could barely make out his silhouette. There was a perfect silence for a couple seconds. Before I heard him, let out the most terrifying scream. Ah! My adrenaline kicked in, and I ran towards the room to see what had happened.

I searched for the light and turned it on. He was stood, frozen stiff and pale, just staring into an empty corner of the room. Just to the side of him was a massive antique mirror that was smashed into pieces and scattered all over the floor oh i placed my arm on his shoulder and asked him if he was okay she she broke the mirror i asked him what are you talking about who broke it the woman in the corner she told me at that point i was like this and told her i took a shard of glass and i shanked my friend i knew he wasn't real i knew he was an apparition i told him we should leave and he turned to go with me but just before we did i wanted to check the mirror surely the wire had broken or something, I thought to myself.

I bent down to the mirror and turned it over. But the string that was holding it to the wall was intact. And I looked at the wall and the nail was still firmly fixed. At that point, I was so terrified. I told him to ring his parents and tell them to come home. I don't know if I ever called my parents to come home. That's a great point. Where did he?

Okay, backtrack. What age is this guy? He's 12 years old. Oh, that would explain a lot. Where were his parents? They were out having a nice dinner on New Year's Eve. All of these are on New Year's Eve, remember? Which, if they're still having dinner, it's not late.

This is sad as shit, actually. Did they leave their children at home while all the parents went out and had, like, a nice dinner? Kids, stay at home. Look after the haunted house. I mean, look after that dog. This shouldn't be how any child spends the new year. If they're still at dinner, it's 9 p.m. If there was a woman in that house that smashed the mirror and was trying to haunt these kids,

if she actually came out of the mirror, she'd be like, Whoa, I'm going to... Wait, where are your parents? Oh, they're actually out at dinner. They left you here on New Year's Eve? Let's play Nintendo or something. Like, I feel bad for you little guys. That's straight up sad.

You guys have a golden eye? Let's just do this. Slappers only, though. Slappers only, though. Slappers only, I'm odd job. That's the rule or I'll haunt your ass. Aren't you a 17th century ghost? How are you so good at golden eye? Here's the best part.

The post goes on to say, I'm 24 now, and I was having a general chat with my mom, and as New Year's coming up soon, that night came up. I told her about it and she said i believe you your friend's mom told me a few days after that night that she had seen a woman in her room telling her to leave the house whoa yeah that's insane so cross corroborating someone else saw the woman. Yeah.

The mom, the mom who lived in the haunted house saw the woman and apparently told her to leave the house. Creepy stuff. Why? These ghosts are never very welcoming. There's no, there's no ghosts. I'm making an account on couchsurfing.com.

They're never, they're never like, Oh, me casa es tu casa bro yeah i know what you mean it's always even corny who i mean he was just he wasn't very welcoming but he wasn't necessarily evil he was he was having a good time which was kind of welcoming in itself i guess so he was just roasting everyone he also wasn't a ghost it was a man in a barrel i'm pretty sure but yeah this is a tough one we got a borderline just paranormal ghost haunting the house freaking

out the kids it's a pretty standard level pretty textbook yeah pretty textbook haunting that we got here again because we're going through so many of these in so many different genres i don't think we necessarily have to come down on a conclusion f**k it no yeah double no i guess quick fire round no time for evidence baby all right let's move on to our second story of the night posted by yangi emperor five years ago yangi emperor sounds like he lived a lot longer than five years ago so i found an mp4 player behind a bin a great start my friend and i ended up finding this mp4 player behind a bin okay stop stop calling it an mp4 player i mean i guess that means it plays video not just mp3 I was trying to think this is five years ago. What in Christ's name would have been around?

It's still too recently for there to be mp4 players. Yeah, what would that be a Zune maybe? iPod video. Yeah, I have no idea. He's gonna continue to refer to it as an mp4 player me Okay, my friend being the typical guy. I know he picked it up and brought it home with him Yeah, I have no idea. He's gonna continue to refer to it as an mp4 player. Oh f*** me, okay. My friend being the typical guy I know, he picked it up and brought it home with him. What is that? You know so little about this man! This is written by an alien. The guy I know, being the typical guy who likes to pick things up that have value... Why were you guys behind a bin he he picked it up

and brought it home with him and checked on his computer to see if there was anything on it that's rolling the dice isn't it you don't know man this it could have secret government files it could have the address of a bitcoin wallet could have the mother load of computer stds it brings down the whole goddamn nation's cyber security that's true but also there could be some porn on it we don't know actually open that shit up you gotta roll the dice sometimes with life whilst again this is five years ago i don't know the state of internet porn five years ago so these kids are desperate whilst taking the mp4 out of the box, there was a receipt in there that he didn't see any interest in, so he just put

it back in the box. After getting the MP4 to work on the computer, we checked if there was anything on it, and there was nothing but a single, 18 second long file, which had nothing but a person talking on it. The audio file was named

FM 000001. Work this out for myself. I have to minimize my violence in my life. I was interested in the fact that he chose to slaughter himself. And I think that on one level that it's very abnormal that he is taking responsibility for what he's doing and for what he is

And is totally unrealistic all because we can't all do that Okay, bit of a weird clipping to get yeah for a first the audio file was actually created on the first of the first 2004 wait that wouldn't make this five years ago. No. Oh, no, it could be on the 1st of the 1st, 2004. Wait, that wouldn't make this 5 years ago. No, that would be 15 years ago. Oh, no, it could be, but then they just found it now.

Oh, so it could be 15 years old. Jesus. But only found 5 years ago. God, this gets so weird. This would be where the receipt would come in handy because on it, it says that the actual product was bought on the 31st of may what on the 31st of may 2007 that doesn't make any that doesn't make any sense but that would be three years after the recording was done which would mean the recording wasn't done on the device

uh that's possible uh sometimes though okay like occasionally the date system will get up with files like that it happens sometimes i don't know about windows for example but sometimes i've seen it on mac where a file will get like flagged as like first of may 1979 and it's like okay well probably not yeah yeah i remember i once had a file on my uh old white macbook that said it was something like 2 000 years old it was just called bible.txt i kept trying to delete it but it erased my bin it's quite a scary situation to be in i double clicked it and a eight bit gif of a burning bush appeared on my desktop i didn't know if i was the messiah or on drugs my keyboard turned into wine i was scared and i was pissed actually i got a little drunk

when they said jesus was coming back i didn't know it would be by evite i mean just to prove that this wasn't like a copy paste error they do go on to say this is one of the things we thought was odd it made no sense that the file was created in 2004 even though the product was purchased in 2007 another thing that should be brought up is the fact that the audio file was created just as the new year happened. Right. The date of the file dated from the start of the new year over into the new year. Got it. So the time and date day itself is probably fine, but I think the year can get

thrown out of whack. But I mean if if the machine was 2007 if that's what the receipt says i mean we're still talking a long time ago yeah who is doing this at at midnight on new year's eve starting an audio recording that scrambled so badly and that's how he wants to bring in the new year he meant they mentioned slaughter himself yeah which is pretty dark i've never even heard of that turn of phrase yeah i was interested in the fact that he chose to slaughter himself there's also something about minimizing my violence in my life he better be talking about like halo 3 or something hopefully yeah well this is what 2000 and i don't even know what the goddamn

year is because it's all over the thing. We're dealing with a time traveler here, folks, who just... I think he was maybe recording a voice message in his time machine as he traveled through the years. And maybe, I don't know, he hit like a f***ing woolly mammoth at one point and the voice recorder flew out the window

and into the time zone yeah and just popped out behind a bin and maybe these boys got a hold of it that's my logical explanation i don't know kid if you've got any better ones than that but uh i mean it's pretty lucky that it went through a wormhole and landed in the same 10 year span that mp4 players were on sale yeah good thing it didn't land in like a in an ancient roman gladiatorial arena or something yeah it'd be so great if you were a time traveler and you know you're just having a big mac as you went through the years threw it out the window and that object just turned out to be the ship that crashed at roswell waswell was actually a happy meal that descended at light speed into the Mexican desert.

Moving on. Our next case. Posted by J.E. New Year's Eve, 2011. My eerie start to 2012 is the name of this next story. Okay. I didn't have much planned on New Year's Eve. My friend Aaron was having a

party, so he invited me and two other friends to join in. Me, Aaron, Nat, and Anthony are chilling in his basement. Sounds like a pretty dope crew. It does, yeah. Chilling in the basement, you know. Nat? Nothing crazy going on. Anthony's there? That's actually pretty

cool. Yeah. At around 9.30, Aaron gets a text from a number he doesn't recognize. Anthony's there? That's actually pretty cool. a while after nat gets a text from the same number it says yo i'm outside and she replies uh where are you and she gets a text back saying turn around dude at that point i'm putting the the barrel of the gun in my mouth because i would rather die than turn around whatever's back there isn't going to be good. It ain't going to be good. I'm not turning around. You can't make me.

Imagine this is the pizza delivery guy. This most ominous, threatening guy. We were all in the basement together and clearly no one was behind her. So we figured that someone was trying to prank us. At around 1045, I get the text. Yo, I'm outside. Same number. So now I'm really curious, and I want to figure out who this person is. I text back, alright, I'm coming out, and I promptly get a text back saying, I'm already outside. Fast forward to around 1210. We're upstairs with everyone else watching the nbc new year's show

i decide to text this person happy new year love you xoxo you know they're probably having a couple yeah at this point the texans probably died down and they're like what the hell was that let's send him a little new year's text i bet it was gary gary's always horsing around you know he has to hang with his parents this year, but he's having a fun time. I did this just to get some sort of reaction, hoping they'd reveal themselves. But I get no reply.

Until around one, and I'm sitting on my friend's couch playing games on my phone. The text said, I'm waiting by your car. I didn't think too much of it. I just texted back, what's my license plate number? Trying to call his bluff. That's a good one.

It took a few minutes to get a reply, which said, You drive a Honda, right? This guy thinks, big deal. Lots of people drive Hondas. Lots of people drive Hondas. Very popular Japanese manufacturer of cars. Around 1.30, I'm putting on my shoes to leave and I get another text. I'm ready to leave now. Are you? This was a little creepy. of cars. I went out the door. I had to drop off Anthony and Nat so we walked to my car and before going in I checked the back seats and the surrounding area. Nothing in sight. We get in the car and here's where things get creepy. Now I could have made a 3 point turn and drive out the way I came in but I was too lazy to reverse so I drove straight thinking that

I knew the area well enough to make the proper turns to get out. I ended up making a right turn prematurely and quickly realized I made the wrong turn. My phone vibrated in my jacket pocket, and I got a text. Don't pull it on. Don't look at it. There's no need. You're going the wrong way. Oh, shit. I was shook. I wasn't lost or anything. I just made the wrong turn. Dude.

I stayed put until a couple cars passed me. I turned to the backseat and asked Nat or Anthony Are you playing around? I have no idea what's going on. I'm looking at you Nat So I try and put all of that behind me and continue driving. I asked if I could chill at Anthony's for a little bit But I ended up sleeping over Anthony's for a little bit. But I ended up sleeping over. You had every intention of sleeping over at Anthony's. You wanted to spoon Anthony.

What creeped me out was the timeliness of all these texts. But what sealed the deal was the punctuation and grammar. I know that sounds silly, but friends don't really text like that. Kind of true.

Yeah, I've definitely texted people before where I'm like, this person hates me or is really upset. Well, if someone uses full stops in 2019. They're a psychopath. They're angry. Yeah, that should be like. When I eventually leave this world and start my own world that's gonna be one of the secret tests where we'll be like hey before you come through to the screening process uh do you want to just like text your family and say you're gonna be a while

that sounds sinister i'm gonna word it differently than that uh and then they're gonna text their family when they go through i'm gonna gank their phone and be like zero emojis zero exclamation points you don't belong here right get back on your rocket ship and go back to earth gotcha because no one should text like that every single one of my sentences either has an emoji an exclamation point or a dot dot dot yeah i can't do it Or I'll just not end it at all. And I'll just send it open-ended. Dot, dot, dot is the boomer generation emoji. They didn't have emoji. They had to make do with what they had. Yeah, that's very true.

Dot, dot, dot. I feel like dot, dot, dot is my dot. I can't do a dot. I have to do three dots. Because I'll be too scared that someone's going to think I'm mad at them. And even if I am, you're getting angry face emojis. People who I've told the story to have always tried to call the number, but they get a message saying the number doesn't exist.

And well, come on, that's far-fetched. I don't know. I don't know, man. What does that mean? Is that something that actually happens if you dial a number that doesn't exist? I mean, what is it in the uk if you call it'll say the number has not been recognized yeah please check and dial again that's why it sounds weird him saying that it says the number doesn't exist yeah i mean there's definitely different

ones depending on the country you're calling the the host country it is possible that it says it doesn't exist i mean a number can be disconnected as well maybe it was like a burner that's true because it's presumably the people that are trying to call it now it's much further down the line it wasn't like the next day or anything because they all seem genuinely pretty freaked out about getting these weird messages on new year's eve yeah i don't know what do you think about this one this isn't necessarily a ghost story it's not necessarily well i don't know maybe it is it's it has me shook yeah and that's what matters it's a spooky story we can at least agree with that yeah it doesn't it show you how like intrusive uh digital life can be that like on the face of it there's no reason why this should be terrifying

because you could just turn off your phone and the messages are gone i mean yeah by all accounts they look out the window and no one's there he doesn't really have anything to worry about in the face of it but like in the day and age that we live in like those digital messages are uh just as real as like what the stuff we normally talk about. Someone knocking on your door. This is how you haunt. Smashes in the night. This is how you haunt in the 21st century.

People, I mean, I'm an incredible culprit with this. I can't be apart from my phone for two goddamn seconds. So if you're going to haunt me, do it via the phone. You could be throwing blood over my walls crouching over me while i sleep in bed at night but i can't even see you because in between us is twitter.com facebook.com you're gonna have to somehow splash blood all over my instagram dms okay because that's the only shit i'm looking at 24 7 exactly and if you do that that's a successful haunting granted this case what did take place a while ago he said this was new year's

eve 2011 okay so i don't even know what are we talking motorola razer yeah i mean if you were a hot shot you had the iphone 3g oh back then but like i was rocking a blackberry in 2011 yeah yeah i think i was still thinking i was a little new york banker living in northern ireland on the bb chat my mom's like rory uh just get off your phone it's dinner at 5 30 5 30 yeah okay i'm just gonna pencil that into my e calendar at 4 30 i have a skate session with the boys yeah and then chilling from 6 to 10 so i suppose i could bump chill into 7 30 your mom's like give me the phone you're grounded oh god damn it let me at least text the boys let me put grounded in my e-calendar just another spooky story wow and we got no time to decide if it's real or not because we've got another one.

Okay. Right around the corner. Posted by Badumpadump. New Year's Eve Phenomenon this one's called. Are they the phenomenon? This phenomenon by Badumpadump is honestly going to shake your world. This happened on New Year's Eve 2016 in Mexico. My family and I go there every year to spend the holidays,

since we own an apartment there, and it allows my dad to escape his work environment for a little bit. Hmm, tell me about it. Blackberry life, huh, brother? On New Year's Eve, we were invited along with many other residents to spend New Year's Eve at one of the apartments in the block. Around 35 people showed up. The apartment's on the fourth floor, and we

arrived there around 10 p.m., since many of us had dinner before with family and joined to celebrate the new year for the rest of the night. At around 10.50 to 11, one of my mother's friends looked up to the sky and said she saw something strange. Many of the residents, me included, shrugged it off at first and kept talking. Within a couple of minutes, more and more people started looking up out at the balcony. Once we saw the commotion, we got up and went outside to the terrace to join them and see what the fuss was about. It was strange at first, but I can describe it as if the stars were twinkling. We could see the stars, but they were bunched up closer than usual, and they were twinkling. We could see the stars, but they were bunched up closer than usual,

and they were twinkling intermittently in an unusual fashion. As we kept looking, more and more stars, quote, Okay. kept showing up and twinkling. Then what we thought were these stars in the sky began to move towards the other stars. That is the real name that were twinkling at this point we all started to freak out a little bit there were way too many to count but we all agreed that around 100 to 150 stars were in the sky then this entire cluster moved across the sky and

disappeared from sight we were all with our mouths wide open. Many of us tried to record or take pictures, but nothing shows up on the phone cameras, especially that far away. So true. The most interesting part is that the son of the apartment owner said that the year before, he talked to a guy that said he'd seen something similar on New Year's Eve the year before.

He said he listened to the story but shrugged it off as some guy ranting i wanted to throw this story in here because we're looking at maybe not a haunting maybe not something that's involving ghosts yeah or a weird phone number this could be otherworldly this could be an alien unexplainable phenomena of some kind yeah what are your thoughts on this story damn isn't that such a funny little problem to have that anything that happens on the scale of like stars in the sky i mean christ even a ufo you can't capture that with a phone camera no it doesn't show up i'm assuming every listener uh at one point has seen an amazing moon yeah on their walk home

one night and it's trying to take a picture of it on their iphone or android it looks like a thumbtack oh my god you can go full zoom into that thing and it weirdly doesn't get any bigger i don't understand how cameras work i don't understand how space works no but that thing does not get any but i should be able to gram it exactly and like the sad thing is that like dumb ass monkeys every two years we try it it's like i just got a new phone i'll try it with with the new iphone 11 pro yeah like you'll be able to do it yeah yeah no it doesn't it'll never work i don't know why the moon is like the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow you'll never get to it it

keeps moving i think that's science and the larger point here is much like the guy in the story i'm starting to get a little suspicious about whether this moon thing is really up there honestly that's a whole nother investigation uh what are your thoughts about this phenomenon i saw in the replies to this story a couple of explanations people were floating about sure one of them was that it could possibly be some sort of drone show true granted this is new year's eve you know there's going to be some sort of celebration it's 2016 it's not that long ago yeah i guess like full-on drone performances are pretty or a pretty recent thing yeah you know sometimes these kind of explanations come up and they are pertinent and they are valid

and people always say something along the lines of well what's more likely bro uh something paranormal or that there was an unexpected drone show uh checkmate yeah it's a drone show but that kind of thinking always kind of annoys me because i'm also like yes it is unlikely that it's paranormal but it's also goddamn unlikely that there's 200 drones located directly above this apartment on new year's eve in mexico in 2016 that's also pretty damn unlikely yeah it's very very true it's kind of like seeing a man with a briefcase floating across the sky yeah and you're like oh my god that was obviously something paranormal and someone's like uh or was more likely that a businessman was launched by a trebuchet? It's like, I mean, that's something that exists and it could happen.

It's within the realms of physics, yes. Yeah, but it's still incredibly unbelievable. The fact that someone mentioned seeing something similar the year before around the same area on New Year's Eve would lead me to believe that what they're seeing isn't paranormal could it be some sort of remnants or runoff from a firework display uh some sort of celebration that's kind of leaking into their skyline i don't know but i don't see any reason why any ufos or greys would exclusive unless they want to come to earth for some reason on new year's eve to rage that wouldn't make any sense because presumably depending on the size the orientation rotation of their planets their their their year could be a goddamn minute it's true i

mean i know like the parties in tijuana are legendary but are they interstellar legendary exactly i want to look up actually what the what the which planet has the shortest year because basically a year a year is the time it takes for a planet to complete a rotation in orbit to orbit the sun yeah yeah or its closest star wow okay so depending on how much you uh love or hate new year's eve this information is going to be very important to you okay if you hate it you're going to want to go to pluto because a year on pluto takes 248 earth years the planet with the shortest year mercury only takes 88 days 88 88 days? Yeah. There's definitely other planets out there that are probably even faster than that too.

Oh yeah, these are just the ones in our solar system. Quite a range, huh? Yeah, there's probably one that's spinning around like a bullet. There's definitely planets out there as well where the year is substantially shorter than the day. What? Because a day is how long it takes for the planet to spin yes 360 degrees and that can technically be shorter than the time it takes for it to orbit it's you're losing me you're losing me what wait so how so it has to it takes a day for a year but there's 24 hours in a day not always and 600 and sorry 365 i just don't know

because a year is bigger it doesn't have to be well it's a year is 365 days not always and in fact not most of the time silence Silence? A year is 600 and... I don't know where you're getting 600 from. A year is 300 and... That's not what it is on Earth. I gotta call my old science teacher. I don't think I'm nine anymore. I call up our old high school science teacher.

Richard, did you know that a year is actually... I told you to stop calling me. This is important, Richard. You're not allowed to call this number anymore. Calling him on New Year's Eve. Richard, put down the champagne. I'm having a lovely time with my family. Please leave me alone, Rory.

So there we go. We got another story there. A bit of a UFO-based one. I love it. I love this because this is like a little, uh, this is like a YouTube rewind of all of the best paranormal short stories of the year. Absolutely.

And finally, our last story of the night before we bring in the new year. Wow. We're almost there. Or should I call it the boo year? Oh, it's going to be as spooky as the last one. And speaking of spooky, we got a news report posted on the BBC.

On New Year's Eve, a photographer named Jules Anna was out at night taking pictures of the River Thames near Westminster Bridge here in London. A great photo op. You've got the lit houses of Parliament, you know, reflecting in the beautiful dark waters. Beautiful. Nice skyline. It's actually, you know, this hunk of drunk city actually looks pretty, scrubs up all right for New Year's. It does, for sure. But when he got home, he noticed something strange in one of his photos.

Looking out over the Thames River was a transparent, ghost-like figure. The photographer said, Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. I can't explain it. There was no one there when I took the photographs, and it's not a double exposure or a long exposure. I've shown it to five or six other people, and they can't explain it either. This is some goddamn Christmas Carol shit shit this is a ghost coming to teach him the error of his shitty photography ways yeah because you know the spirits come on christmas to grumpy people right to show them to be happy and nice around christmas whereas the

spirits of new year's eve i feel like come back to teach nerds how to rage it's kind of like all those new year's you spent indoors with a chinese takeaway let me show you the true spirit of new year's eve andrew wk the ghost just does a bump of coke it's like whoa whoa come with me we're gonna go visit keith richards but he's not dead you'd be so scared if you were like a ghost showed up to try and teach you how how to party and then like before you head out he just does like smokes a bowl of crack and then you're like oh my god is is this how to party on new year's eve nope this is how i died anyway let's go you're like i'm gonna i'm gonna stay in actually this is how i died take a deep breath now i have the picture kip i have the picture on that very night first hand

evidence the first of the night all right take a look at that spooky stuff bear in mind this this picture is posted on the BBC website. You're speechless. I can tell. The photographer was drunk. That's not true. It's a good photo. It's a good photo. Listen, I don't have the photographic vocabulary for this.

There is the transparent figure of a guy in a letterman jacket standing on the River Thames looking at Parliament. But it's... What part of that was a lie? None of it. It's all there. Right. That's the problem. Kit's dancing around the issues here.

It's a picture of a ghost. Because none of it's paranormal. What do you mean none of it's paranormal? The f***er's see-through. That's about as spooky as it gets. Okay. Yeah, but the thing was... If you put a party popper in

his mouth it's gonna drop to the floor okay i understand that he can't celebrate new year's i think what's just happened is i think he like i mean at night to get like a good shot with a lot of light i mean you need a long exposure right he said the photographer said in the quote right before i showed you this picture that it wasn't a long exposure shot i hear that he's also wrong because how dare you i mean if it is a ghost this ghost is straight chilling he has an incredibly relaxed pose he's he's just leaning on the wall looking over the river he's not haunting anyone he's minding his own business by all accounts paranormal investigator lee roberts said people always think ghosts have to be victorian women holding babies but if there are spirits out there they should include people

right up to the present day yeah and that's the this is almost up to the present day he's marty mcfly so let's let's face it that's the issue that you have with this ghost, is that he's dressed very fashionably. You were expecting a headless horseman, a woman in a white dress, you know, Jack the Ripper dancing on the streetlights. Okay, well, that is one of the problems. And what we have here is Teen Wolf. Does that make it not paranormal?

One of the problems. I mean, yes. The problem is that if they were dressed in period costume from the victorian era that would at least make it unlikely that they wandered into frame of a shot of parliament point taken sure but it being the year you know 2019 or whatever that guy is definitely just on a walk. I'll be honest with you guys. Even though the photographer claimed the photo hasn't been edited or that it wasn't a long exposure footage,

it's too clean cut to not be fake or an accident. It's so hard for me to explain why it's so obviously not real yeah but when you see it it's like you just know you just know if you're a good paranormal investigator you got that instinct you got that gut feeling oh yeah that's what they teach you at paranormal harvard there's a lot of trying to snatch a fly out of midair and all that kind of karate kid shit it's just knowing who to arrest and when i've slapped handcuffs on a lot of people who i believe were cryptids and to this day claim that they are just normal humans a lot of innocent people gotta go down in the name of law and justice

exactly because for every 100 people that i arrest and interrogate everyone gets me closer to the real thing so there's none there were none in the first 100 there were none in the second but the third hundred also none got me closer to the real okay which i'm still to find so i'm just out there walking about new year's eve handcuffs in hand ready to find the beasts looking for anything with a college jacket. So there we have it, folks. Five paranormal stories all about New Year's Eve on New Year's Eve. Wow.

And that's burnt just about enough time to get us to midnight. Oh, snap. It's time to bring in the New Year, folks. Five, four, three, two, one. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. Hey, thank you so much, everyone, for joining us from 2019 all the way to 2020. Jesus. A year that is already infinitely cooler sounding than 2019. Yeah. 2020. 2020. This is the year where all your dreams are going to come true. Holy shit. This is the year that this podcast goes from a million listeners to a billion listeners. That's right. We're going to take over the continent of China. We we're gonna take the paranormal commune to the paranormal calm moon we're going straight up guys to start a new world on the lunar world

in all seriousness i guess we want to say thank you thank you so much for sticking with us for an entire year this has probably been the biggest year of the podcast 2019 for sure from you know the numbers growing to winning our award uh for best entertainment podcast of the british podcast awards from doing the live show at king's place there's been a lot of investigations uh and we've had an absolute blast doing every single one of them. It's one of those things that like, uh, day by day, it's felt very natural. But when we look back to like the community and the episodes we were doing at the start of the year compared to now, it's nuts.

And every time we log on to the, this paranormal life secret society or Patreon, um, it always blows our mind to see you guys just continue to enjoy the show and so many cool connections being made. People meeting each other and just, you enjoying the show yeah we couldn't have asked for a better community that's just randomly sprung around our our love out of all things weird and paranormal and it's been amazing to see this show in this community grow so thank you so much this is what the new year is all about it's about looking back

at what you've done i don't understand how a year works anymore what did you say it's like a second now like a year is like a second and a day is a year sometimes i need i need to call up professor richard as soon as we're done to bring in the new year because i'm gonna have a goddamn panic attack richard i'm outside i'm ready to go now i'm in the car a second is a year richard he's with his friend do you think i could stay over tonight richard i'm in the car i've been here for 37 years now you're going the wrong way by the way um so thank you for listening to the podcast, downloading the podcast, and supporting us all through 2019. We can't wait for 2020 and a whole other year of paranormal investigations. And if there's one thing that 2020 is going to have in common with 2019,

it's the fact that we're still going live fast investigate and die young baby