This Paranormal Life - #149 The Cannibal Werewolf of Bedburg Germany

Episode Date: January 28, 2020

We look back at the 1500s as a dark and superstitious time where witch trials spread like wildfire across Europe. But what if, hidden in the historical record, is real evidence of a werewolf that terrorised a small town in Germany? This week, Kit and Rory investigate the Werewolf of Bedburg.Support us on Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife to get access to weekly bonus episodes!Buy Official TPL Merch! - thisparanormallife.com/storeFollow us on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTubeJoin our Secret Society Facebook CommunityIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who would win in a fist fight? Bigfoot or God? Can I vape a ghost? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life! Yo! Welcome back to This Paranormal Life, the comedy paranormal podcast where every single week we dissect a different paranormal tale, case, claim, and get to the bottom of whether it really happened or not you're joined by myself mr kit greer this guy over here mr roy pars how you doing today rory i'm doing fantastic guys i'm bursting full of energy three coffees deep one

monster shallow and i'm ready to investigate a cryptid i'm ready to rip apart a case with my two goddamn hands a little too much energy find out because we've got to sit down for quite a sustained period and kind of just focus our attention on a lot of detail before we started as well my mic arm broke so uh we're actually yeah you snapped it i snapped it in a shirt so right now it's kind of i don't want to touch it too much because i feel like i'm gonna break it poking it but it's hanging it's hanging onto a bed fan with a tripod with the legs wrapped around the edge of it right it's the kind of tripod that might hold a phone is holding a very large microphone yeah and of course it's it's barely three feet off the ground. So I've had to lower my desk chair to the lowest setting, arch my back as far back as I can go.

Have you been doing yoga? It's a pretty impressive arch you got there. Thank you. Thank you, man. So I'm excited. I'm stretching and I'm full of energy. Glad to hear it. Well, no time to waste.

Let's dive right into today's investigation. Special thank you right off the bat to Christopher Putz for sending this in. Today we travel to Bedburg in West Germany. Despite this word mostly sounding like how a southern gentleman might say bed bug, it's also a very small historical German country town. The kind of place where life is slow, peaceful, and unchanging. You could say it's a sleepy little town.

You almost could. Not least in the 1500s, where our story is set. In this area lived a quiet, middle-aged farmer known as Peter Stump. The locals knew him as a quietly successful, definitely one of the richer local farmers kind of guy with plenty of land.

He claimed to have been born in the nearby village of Eprath. And for years, they would just see him coming and going from the house, from the farm, walking through town and back up again. Nothing weird. But as he wasn't much of a talker no one really knew a whole lot about his past this wasn't helped by the fact that his local church's records burned down a few years back all right meaning there was no official record of who he was where he came from or actually how old he was. All right, okay. I'm going to jump right to the finish line here and say Stumpy's not his real f***ing name.

What are you saying? I think he burned down the records. Interesting. They don't know how old he is? Well, I mean, they can guess. He's middle-aged-ish. Okay. But you don't know.

It's like Paul Rudd. He could be 25 or he could be 64 you just don't know it's a good point it's a good point but listen let's not jump to any scooby-doo style conclusions we gotta we gotta get chased by the monster through several doors before we can do that but as much as peter stump's life was a, the locals could work out one thing. He was mostly only seen alone, but on occasion he would be seen with his kids. One girl around 15 and a son who was a few years younger than that. However he was never seen with a wife, which led everyone to believe that he was sadly a widower. Just a

strong single dad doing the best for his kids. But Bedburg wasn't a safe place to raise a family anymore on account of all the recent disappearances. Okay this is kind of coming out of nowhere. And cattle mutilations. All right. Around the 1580s farmers in the Bedburg area were waking up to find their animals brutally slaughtered really awful stuff their throats torn out their insides also torn out oh my god the guts rory torn out of course okay so they started complaining that it must be wolves or foxes some kind of local animal they had to be the cause i'm sure for our longtime listeners they've heard us talk about cattle mutilations many times over but they are such a common weird phenomenon in the world of the paranormal yeah this is where in seemingly peaceful areas

overnight animals turn up just ripped to pieces this is what we call paranormal graffiti folks it's basically like tagging a subway station you show up you leave your mark on the fields and you get out of there it's also a bit like paranormal freestyle rap you know just instead of like crafting sure a hot verse to drop on a dank beat terror cause throw down sure and your homies give you props and everyone has a great time clink your 40s together and it's a party. And sure enough they were on to something because there were some witnesses of these cattle mutilation events. People who witnessed the attacks described seeing a wolf terrorizing the

village and they knew that it was the same one each time because everyone said the same thing. It was missing one paw, which it must have lost in a fight or a trap of some kind. And this continued day by day. More and more animals piled up in the fields and the farmers unable to do a damn thing about it because no one could catch the perp. But it all changed when one day a woman went missing. The community were distraught because given the circumstances, everything that was happening on the farms, they knew she hadn't gone on holiday.

Yeah. She hadn't gone on a goddamn spa retreat or a city break. No, hell no. It was the 1500s. It was the same creature that took her. This three-pawed wolf had developed, unfortunately, a taste for people. It's working its way up, isn't it? Starting with cows, maybe a chicken, maybe a goat in there.

All of a sudden, that little farm hand over there is looking pretty delicious. I'm going to go gank her with my three paws. But that's crossing a line. It's like anyone, you know, can you blame him after all? Whenever you're a kid, you know, you're on the kids' men. You get the chicken nuggets and the chips. Granted, you're happy with it for a long time. Yeah, then you blame him after all? Whenever you're a kid, you know, you're on the kids' men. You get the chicken nuggets and the chips. Granted, you're happy with it for a long time. Yeah, then you hit 15 and suddenly your stomach's a little bit bigger.

And those f***ing carrots and apple slices you get as a side just aren't cutting it anymore. Uh-uh. You see your older brother with a McFlurry and you say, what is that? Says none of your beeswax. Sure, you rip his throat out and you take the McFlurry and now every few days Another woman would go missing then a woman and her children then just some kids another day. How big is this wolf? This wolf creature whatever whatever it was was ravenous. I've watched a few nature documentaries But normally it's like the snake swoops in and granted it eats a whole antelope and then it's like but he's good for two years

Yeah, slinks off into the woods. He's fine. But this thing every day is cheat day He's got the munchies. What we really need to know is what this thing's huffing back in the woods God knows what he could do with four paws With three he's taken on a whole village. And let's be clear, there's already not a lot of people in this village to begin with. So the numbers are starting to show. And on the Sunday church service, it's starting to look a little thin, especially in the women and children's aisles.

Of course. Then one morning, a pile of random limbs were found bunched together in the town square. The locals said, enough is enough. To hell with this thing. We're going to put together a hunting party with dogs and hunt down this beast. Nice, nice. I like this. We've talked about it before.

It's a dad squad. It truly is. There's only single dad, widowed dads left in this village anyway oh yeah uh so they're putting a party together to hunt this thing down and so they did under the cover of night they staked out a local farm uh probably jurassic park style chained up a goat to a fence and then you know see what happens and they didn't have to wait long until a wolf crawls out of the dark why are they doing this they they said they've already seen the wolf killing cows and none of them could catch it or do anything about it so what good is it offering it food and then assuming this is the time we are going to be able to catch

it seems like the wolf kind of comes and goes as the wolf pleases hunting it is like finding it isn't the problem like enough is enough the wolf rips that guy's throat out oh the wolf's like anyone else got any bright ideas no didn't think it's just the boss ant from the movie ants he's just bullying everyone it's like i'm gonna be back in two days i want to see 50 women and children lined up here for my supper or else you're all gonna get it what was his name chopper chopper the what was he a cockroach or something grasshopper no uh locust locust yeah they're evil as hell right seems like yeah the wolf is running shit wolf is the new mayor of bedburg oh yeah 100 i think the idea is that they have more numbers this time you know so maybe they got a few people because before it was just like one or two eyewitnesses hey just like just like bugs life

you know they rallied up all the little ants they They got the fat little German caterpillar. Yeah. They got the ladybug. They got the stick man. F*** it. They brought in a circus. They brought in a whole circus. They're going to build a giant wolf in a tree and swoop it down to scare this bastard off.

You need to build a giant whatever eats wolves. Nothing. Oh, no. Oh, no. I guess a four-p a four pawed wolf yeah because it's gonna at least have the upper hand the upper paw at least that's not what their plan was i think they were just gonna ambush it uh maybe have a few more weapons um i was trying to actually figure out what kind of weapons they might have sometimes i get tripped up because i don't know when guns were invented we actually looked this up on a previous podcast we went onto the the website gun timeline.com and yet i still don't remember the ak-47 was invented in 1931 ag that's

right after guns jesus of course wielded the first semi-automatic. I can ask Siri. Hold on. Hey, Siri. When were guns invented? This one says it started in... Well, cannons appeared in Italy around the 1300s. Okay. So that's pretty early.

So I'm guessing almost 300 years later, I'm guessing they had Glocks, at least. Probably a Barrett.50 Cal while we're at it that's right camped out they saw the wolf crawl slowly out of the darkness towards the farm they had just enough time to see its glowing eyes and glowing fangs before they jumped out to chase the bastard through the woods they apparently chased this beast for days. What? I don't know how that works. Did they sleep? Did the wolf sleep? Apparently it took days. That's not... that can't be right. They eventually, days later, they cornered the beast in the woods and the dogs had it on the ropes. It was pressed up against a rock face, and as the men bravely ran up to deal the

fatal blow with their guns and axes, there was no wolf. There was no night beast, Rory. What? They looked down and saw Peter Stump. No! Cowering on the ground. The men couldn't believe their eyes. What? Peter, what are you doing here? Not only was it not a wolf, it was a middle-aged man with a walking stick. A man they all knew as the trustworthy local guy, the family man. You guys just missed him. The wolf went that way. He took a left by the acorn tree. Coughing up fur everywhere.

Coughing up children's bones you better go chase after him mike i i think he said he banged your sister he was he was talking shit about all you guys you better you better go get him peter have you always had one hand yeah you know me stumps why peter what large teeth you have we never noticed yeah all the better for farming with you know the clouds begin to clear and the full moon's coming out oh old peter's gotta run boys uh throws away the walking stick what takes off on all fours let me know if you catch him let me know if you catch him they watch him run into the distance straight into a school where they hear children screaming they see him animorph style immediately turn into a wolf there's like a beat and the leader

of the gang's like he's a good man shame about his wife so the the hunter's immediate thought was this is some kind of magical illusion that the wolf has cast making it appear to be peter oh okay which is kind of intelligent if it's like some sort of devilish wolf that it would maybe make itself appear like the most unlikely person imaginable. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Using the illusion techniques. So they apprehended Peter Stump, if that was his real name, and marched back to town, straight to Peter's house. But when they knocked on the door, only the kids were home.

Peter Stump was nowhere to be found. That meant there was no illusion, no apparition. Peter Stump must be the murderer. Oh boy. Immediately Peter was put on trial. Back then there wasn't much of a Jew legal process. You could pretty much just put anyone on the dock and go hog wild. Yeah. At least these days you have to own a wig to be the judge you have to at least buy one back then the judge was probably like 12 years old so once on the dock a list of suspected crimes was read out to peter every gruesome detail brutal murder after brutal murder cannibalism

everything you could possibly imagine it seems a little unnecessary because, I mean, back in those days, you steal an apple, the penalty is death. Right. You know, you look at someone the wrong way, ungentlemanly, that's death. So pretty much if the first one on the list is you're a wolf beast, that's already death. You probably don't need to read all the other ones. Yeah. It's like you, number two, you killed it's like you number two you killed a mother number three you ate a mother four we could just stop you're right you're right this is a little at all

they're like no you must listen this is part of the punishment you can imagine that the hunters have some hot shot prosecuting lawyer and he's like listen guys I don't think we can get him on the mother reading. But he did turn up 10 minutes late to church last month. And they're like, that's it. We got him. Case closed. Rip out his eyeballs. And their lawyer, Peter's lawyer, of course,

is like, ladies and gentlemen of the court, did my client disembowel a mother of four? Sure. But did he disembowel a mother of four? Sure. But did he disembowel a child? Yes, that was number three. Really? Peter, you didn't tell me.

Permission to convene with my client. Peter, you didn't say anything about the children. Peter's already in wolf form in the stand. Patenting covered in blood. This isn't a good look for you, Pete. You change back man but the problem was listen they could list as many crimes as they want as far as we're aware a wolf committed half those crimes yeah i mean it was the the people on the farms they saw a wolf run up and jack the animals jack the humans which means that some of these accusations don't really hold up when peter is clearly a man that is until someone connected the dots because peter stump isn't

peter's real name at all these of course not these were the days when you could be named just simply after your profession or maybe some characteristic peter was only called stump because he was missing his left arm there we go the same paw that the wolf was missing so loud they were one okay and the same i'm on i'm we're on the same team here but peter is some kind of man wolf some kind of man-wolf. Some kind of wolf-man hybrid. You led with man. If the paw fits, you mustn't acquit. Peter's like, you were my lawyer going into this. When did you flip-flop? Justice must be served.

Kill the beast. It's the 1500s. There's no such thing as a lawyer. I'm just a guy. Here's the thing, Pete. When you transformed mid-session led me to believe i ain't getting paid i don't give a who goes to jail whenever you wolfishly ripped out of your clothes hulk style i saw that those pockets were empty your honor permission to

approach the bench because i'm scared to stay by my clients. And so Peter was immediately taken away to quote, make a confession, which in those days meant one thing. Torture. Oh, they tortured him to within an inch of his life before he said, okay, I'm ready to make my confession. It all started when I was 12 years old. As a young boy, I started to practice black magic, which is how the devil found me and spoke to me and gave me a belt, a magic and evil belt. Wow. And when I put it on, I transformed into a greedy, devouring wolf, strong and mighty,

with eyes great and large, which in the night sparkled like fire, a mouth great and wide, with most sharp and cruel teeth, a huge body and mighty paws. But as soon as I removed the belt, paws. But as soon as I removed the belt, I would transform back into my human form. They realized that Peter must have removed his belt right before the hunters killed him in the forest, transforming himself back into Peter. With his true identity now revealed, Peter admitted to everything. Murdering and eating 14 children, at least two pregnant women, all manner of animals, sexually abusing many people. Jesus! It was a really, really horrible...

That's not even wolf-like! That's just bad, Peter! That was definitely Peter, not the wolf. Yeah! It's a really gruesome long... You know, there's some people out there who like listening to gruesome tales. Sure. You should check it out. There's a long list. It's all quite documented. All the crazy, awful stuff he did. And as soon as the authorities got their

confession, they proceeded straight to execution. And on Halloween night, 1589,eter was strapped into a wooden wheel where quote flesh was torn from his body in 10 places with red hot pincers oh my god then they broke all of his limbs with the back of an axe to quote stop him from escaping from the grave and then they finally cut off his head and burned everything on a pyre. Okay, that'll do it. Then, sadly, they didn't want to take any chances, so they strangled and burned his kids and his girlfriend too. What? Yeah. He said it was the belt.

But were they wrong? Because after all this unpleasantness, the attack stopped. They probably would have stopped just with Peter, though. You probably didn't have to kill his children. Because after all this unpleasantness, the attack stopped. They probably would have stopped just with Peter, though. You probably didn't have to kill his children. You don't know if they're little wolf cubs, all right? They could have a magic bracelet or mood ring or something. The devil gives them a mood ring?

What does this turn me into? Nothing, it's just pretty cool. And Rory, I realize this story is pretty old so just in case you have any doubts about evidence for this case please check out this 1500s woodcut print of the day of execution all right all right you know what i say when it comes to evidence if it's wood it's good and here we here we go, guys. Okay. All right. Okay. So this is kind of like, it looks like it's three people getting killed, but I assume this is, it's like almost like chronological. It's like stations at the cross type stuff. Gotcha.

Gotcha. All right. So yeah, it's telling the whole story here, folks. He's, this is a guy being tied to a wheel, stabbed, beaten. And in the last kind of corner corner his head is being torn off in the background you can see the whole village there with their pitchforks kind of cheering on uh then at the end he's being dragged onto a fire this is pretty grisly yeah i think you can see somewhere if i remember correctly his head is on a stick and they put a wolf head above that head.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, there is a wolf. What are they doing? I don't know. This is a group of people who do not have a lot on. Yeah, it's weird, isn't it? I mean, if you torture me for long enough, I'll say whatever you want. I'll say, because I want it to stop. Yeah. That's how it works.

You know? You waterboard me for days, I'll say that the sky is made of marshmallows. Yeah. And that I drink electricity. I'll say anything. I don't care. It's a good point because whilst the execution is truly horrible, I mean

how long can the execution last? Like, I mean, well I don't know. I don't want to be in that situation. But, yeah. The torture could last forever. The execution will be over eventually. It will at least lead to death. So, he kind of does have an interest

in getting the whole thing over with. Although having all your limbs broken one by one doesn't sound very fun. No. This was the kind of time where you know when this village was done with it and the body was burned and the whole crowd is kind of sitting there as the fire dies down. They're like, well now. And someone's like, I saw a woman that looked a bit like a witch get her and they just get fired up over the next thing because there's just needs to be something going on before they realize that they're all living in their own filth in some shithole town in the 1500s it's like hurt locker

you know how they come back they come back from the werewolf hunt and they're back to civilian life and their their their wives are like hey sweetie what do you want for dinner so nice that you're back from the werewolf hunts i'm glad that's all over with he's like yeah it's sure i'm so exactly they're like you know you're at the store and your girlfriend's like hey how long you gonna be howl there's me knocking the mic over that i said was very precariously uh placed oh it's never gonna sit again is it hold on hold on oh it's so much guys i have biffed this hard i i have to go lower in the chair now okay it started as a joke and now it's real rory is bent at a 45 degree angle full of rage eager to go back on the

wolf hunt that looks unbelievably uncomfortable oh god my ass is asleep it's only been three seconds this is torture i'm fine i'm a wolf i'm a wolf i did it all i ate the children now this story might make you think that werewolf trials were happening all over europe at the time if this is the scale of simply one encounter with a werewolf they seem to have a whole method to how they execute werewolves yeah but after i looked into it there actually isn't much before peter stump the bad news is that after the trial of peter stump people got a lot more excited about werewolves all over europe this kind of little little fire so to speak right about the worry um around werewolves whenever i was researching it there's even a wikipedia page called like combination werewolf witch trials oh no they

were so hell-bent on superstition that they they were just every woman was a witch and every man was a werewolf right and they were just yeah, putting people on trial all over Europe. I was going to say, this does remind me a lot of the witch trials and just, you know, these secluded little towns whipping themselves up into frenzies and becoming obsessed with the dark arts and witchcraft. And unfortunately, people like Peter. Actually, I don't know about Peter. He might actually be a wolf. But a lot of unfortunate women got caught up in the witch trials which is a pretty grim it is grim and actually on that note it's it is kind of interesting this is one of the alternate theories for what was going on now this

doesn't necessarily prove or disprove what happened to peter stump but it's interesting that people suggest at this time germany was i think for the first time ever becoming a protestant country okay and little by little areas hamlets were being uh run by protestant leaders for the first time and so i think bedberg falls into the cologne jurisdiction and i think for the first time ever they had a protestant leader and he was bringing in protestantism instead of catholicism and it was causing tension needless to say and so they were saying in this case peter stump was almost certainly protestant they think the whole trial could have even been a way of just persecuting people of a different religious faith finding reasons to persecute them and for some reason there were already lots of laws against

werewolves you don't even need to make new ones against protestants it seems kind of contradictory to uh you know try and get people on board by claiming that you are the righteous religion and the one to be trusted by executing a man who has different religious beliefs for being a werewolf. It's definitely an interesting idea. It also leads in to another interesting aspect of this story. Something that surprised me about all the people trialed across Europe, including Peter Stump, is that these people supposedly weren't born as werewolves but rather they were turned into werewolves by the devil okay as in peter stump's story he messed around with black magic

as a kid the devil came came along said hey kid how you want to be a werewolf and he became one and the rest is history yeah um and i didn't know that that's how werewolves worked i mean all i've heard from pop culture is your cliche neck bite yeah you know almost similar to like a vampire you know you get bitten by the wolf you get the curse you transform at a full moon into a werewolf that's kind of the popular theories uh that it's have at least been portrayed in the media exactly i guess it's a lot sexier than a magic belt that's harder to work into your your your 300 million dollar uh 20th century fox movie production yeah because do you go like a little thin little shoelace belt or do you go like wwe championship belt glistening in the sunlight yeah

whenever peter's not a wolf he's holding it over his shoulder like the rock yeah it's not quite as sexy as like being bitten and then you know transforming in the full moon kind of against your will yeah whereas this is like peter could be a wolf anytime he wanted or not right uh it does make sense of why they were a lot more scared of werewolves though because they weren't some sort of natural aberration they were people who'd gone into pact with the devil against christians and they had to die i wonder if the devil was pretty keen on handing these out these magic belts out willy-nilly. Do you think anyone that got in contact was able to become a wolf?

Or if some weeby little guy was like, I'm not quite sure about this, but I'm pretty sure I want to transform into a beast. Can I have the magic belt? And the devil would be like, I'll tell you what. I'll start you off with a fedora that turns you into a f***ing mongoose.

We'll work your way up from there you know then maybe you get a glove that makes you a badger yeah maybe you get a necklace that makes you a a seahorse sure although you know all the way up the chain to uh to werewolf and then months later you're putting on a onesie that turns you into a god destroyer of some kind of course if peter had made it up to the top steps that's what it eventually would have led to he was midway roy we've looked at a pretty in-depth historical story um which is pretty well documented and has some definitely some interesting unique takes on what it means to be a werewolf i know we've talked a little about them

in the past but what do you think of this so far i loved this story i i loved it so much and so much more than i thought i was going to you know last week on the podcast when we talked about the hexam heads sure we had a night beast wolf man in uh that episode and already i was worried that we were going to be trotting around some of the same material but this is so different i mean this magical belt uh the execution the story of the transformation this is something that we've never really investigated before and um i i loved it great case great case kit well done it's cool because it's got a fairy tale vibe yeah but at the same time you look back through the records and they're like, oh, it happened. We've got the woodcuts to prove it. We have the woodcuts unredacted as well.

Great to see. You know, I can't tell if it's the story or all the blood rushing to my head from the yoga pose that I'm doing to make sure I can talk clearly into the microphone. But this is not far from being a believable story yeah it there's nothing in it it's dancing along the lines of paranormal uh but still deeply based within reality just enough that uh it doesn't sound too ridiculous sure which is nice nice change of pace but as we are this paranormal life and every week we have to come down to a conclusion whether the story we're talking about is paranormal or not we got to focus on one thing you know who gives a shit about the children or the women who are

murdered or all the animals what we care about is this magic belt of course i'm really glad you brought it up i'm so glad you brought that up. Where is the belt now? That's what I want to know. Can we turn man into a werewolf using a magic belt? Right. Or at least, what I will settle for, what we would need for this to be a yes, was Peter a werewolf, at least in the traditional sense. Yeah. Was there ever any mention of what happened to the belt? I don't think so. I didn't come across of what happened to the belt i don't think so i didn't come across

a damn thing about the belt because it's weird that even on the woodblock it's so well documented every intricate way in which he was tortured and killed but no mention of the magic belt that turned him into a beast yeah i think like i didn't know need to know that they broke all the limbs in his dead body and burnt him i need to know where the magic belt is my take is that the magic belt is more peter's story than the people of bedberg's story okay i think post torture that's what peter said happened okay i don't think i don't think they were like hey in the court in the courtroom like we've got a glowing uh belt i think it's like humming some latin as we speak what should we do with it i think he that was his method for explaining how he did it i guess that's

a kind of smart excuse because that's kind of a way of being like sure i i transformed into a wolf yeah but it's not me yeah it's my demon belt yeah if you want to burn anything burn my belt yeah which he probably thought was like i got him now they're gonna burn the belt and uh old peter's off scot-free and then they start batting him to death. They start burning the belt. Everything's getting burnt and bashed. So that didn't quite work out probably the way he intended it to. No. Which does cast some amount of doubt on the story because if he were a traditional werewolf, if this was some innate ability to turn into a wolf, to transform,

why would he create a story about the magic belt and the devil why would he mention agreeing to go into a pact with the devil and have this magical artifact you would think he would make a plea to say this is just who i am i can't control it yeah yeah but then i guess even if you say that you're probably still getting killed yeah i don't think as investigators we're benefiting from the 1500s justice system it seems to have muddied the waters yeah if they just said peter listen you gotta go away for a while but we would love to know how it all went down yeah that would be very nice if they could have got like you know like these days if you're if you go to prison you still get a netflix documentary made about you

after the fact where they're like hey tell us how it all went down we'll make a hit podcast out of it i feel like the officials enforcing the laws in these days were just anyone that made it to the age 24 every if you made it that long and hadn't died of the plague congratulations i think you're the law here's a gun you've been you've been alive the longest you get to choose who lives and dies until you yourself get killed for being an immortal being but rory we could speculate all day long we truly could the time has come we have to make a decision what are you saying today yay or nay is this thing truly paranormal or not yes or no i love the story you know i love the imagery uh i love the woodblock painting but unfortunately that's the only physical evidence

that we have and we know that um you know art and paintings from those eras are riddled with folklore mythology yeah with fiction instead of fact if we had any pictures or any more details about the magical belt any more concrete evidence as to who peter was it's unfortunate obviously that uh the building burned down that had all his details so we can't really look into his family tree his history anything like that very sad it's a tough case but unfortunately i think this week for me it's going to be a no i think we're in agreement there roy i don't think we have enough to go on um once we start getting into pacts with the devil i need some receipts i think it's going to be a no today i hope you guys enjoyed the story of peter stump and the Bedberg werewolf. Thanks so much to Christopher again

for sending that one in. Thanks, Chris. If you were around in 1590, you were a witness. Maybe you were an attempted victim of Peter himself. Let us know,

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As of just now. If you want to join the Wolf Pack, put your paw in, then definitely check it out. From $20 a month, you can get a This Paranormal Life t-shirt and more. Now, if you're curious about what these bonus episodes sound like, keep listening. Here's a clip from this week's bonus episode. As the men dragged the net up they cried out loud as they discovered a giant sea monster in the net what the net was tiny as well don't know how this happened it was 20 feet long with an eight foot with it with an eight feet with an eight foot tall strange beaked head

the head is eight feet and and four tiny little scaled legs attached to its body okay 1934 the monster was spotted in whitsand bay by several witnesses. It was described as monstrous, glossy, black, with a long goose-like neck. Oh, f*** off. A humped back, and a tremendous tail.

Goose? Look. This is everything but a sea beast. We've had humped back, cow-uk head, beak. Look goose f***ing goose neck. Goose neck is just a descriptive way of saying slippery ass little snake neck. I just want it to be a Nessie, I want it to be a sea snake, a sea serpent. You could say that Nessie has a goose neck.

You could say, because, you know, think about a goose, right? Which one is that? I'm thinking about a swan, actually. What the f*** is a goose? They're all the same. They're all birds with big-ass necks. It's similar. You know, it's that little curve thing, the bit that pops out of the water.

Okay, fine. All right. i'm glad i got you on board i feel like there's tougher bits coming up it has the teeth of a man those silly bastards and at the end of every episode we like to take the time to shout out those who have supported us on patreon recently that's what we're going to do right now let's go special thank you to marta kumalka marta the sparta sent through time a medieval war an ancient warrior um in the 21st century wow um pretty amazing stuff scientists should really be studying marta because that's time travel right there fortunately not many jobs not a good job market for spartans right kind of outdated yeah i guess

you could join the navy seals or something i don't know we'll keep an ear out marda thanks for listening i guess enjoy podcasts they're new to you i don't know what kind of itch that's scratching but thanks thanks also to ant wow the ant from bugs life it is an honor sir we talked about you earlier in the show we loved it when you made that big bird yeah it was pretty great that was cool um and when you like use the water to make a telescope and a leaf i think at one point that was kind of cool and generally just the kind of you know the kind of adorable kind of bumbling whenever you're talking to your crush kind of woody allen hugh grant shit it's great that was great performance keep it up and thanks also to mike stevenson mike the pike that's right

similar to peter's fate uh mike just wants to put everything on a pike oh yeah so you give him a subway meatball marinara he rams it on a pike and he's gonna try and find a way to eat. It's like a kebab He wants to just eat everything on a pike. How long is the pike? It is 21 foot what? Boat it's way too big. It's way too large. Listen. He's very hungry But marinara is that most as we know a foot long. Oh, yeah. He's feeding birds. He ain't getting a bite out of that thing. Mike, I admire your ambition, bud.

Keep it up, I guess. Thanks also to Baron Von Sandwich Meat. Baron Von Sandwich Meat, keep an eye out for Mike. Because he's seen you, pike in hand. And if you turn your back, you are getting sent to the heavens, my friend. Hope you can reach the pantry when it's 21 feet vertical because Mike can't, so it's safe for a while at least. Yeah, you've got that.

Thanks also to Sarah Juno. Sarah's actually a huge wrestler in the WWE. What? Yeah, yeah. Her whole thing is that she, like, kicks down the doors, goes into the ring, and says, Do you know what time it is? You know, like her second name. I thought that was someone else's catchphrase.

No, I think it's hers. Really? I mean, the thing is, the phrase is there, but she can't really wrestle or fight. She hasn't got any of that stuff down. She came up with the catchphrase. She hasn't got any of that stuff down. She came up with the catchphrase. She's like, do you know what time it is? Gets the crowd riled up.

They're fired. And then she gets pile-drived straight into the ground. Wow. Annihilated. Because the crowd are like, yeah, Juno, that's a sick catchphrase. You're actually pretty small, so we don't know what you're going to do. Maybe you'll do some Rey Mysterio type shit. But no, just pile drive.

Exactly. And then she's like on the floor and being like, do you know how to pop a knee back into place? Do you know where the nearest hospital is? And it doesn't land. They all think it's part of the thing, but she's like, do you know if there's a doctor in the building?

Boom, boom, she's getting hit. The ref, nowhere to be seen. Do you know how to make this stop? They're all cheering. Juno, Juno, no. No. Thanks also to Nick Bailu. Come on down to Nick's Sticks. We sell all types of sticks, from tall sticks to short sticks to medium-sized sticks.

Anything but pikes. That's right, folks. We've tried pikes for a while. But one guy bought one and immediately turned it on us. So we're not selling pikes anymore. Too dangerous. Looking at you, Mike. If you want those, you gotta go down to

Mike's Pikes on 47. Uh-oh. No competition to Nick's Sticks, though, however. Very different uses. Thanks also to Haley and Jake Reinhardt. H and jake dine hard they'll hit up six or seven restaurants in one night what barely having time to sit at the table before they slam their faces into their food leave a tiny tip and then bounce to go to the next restaurant

why a tiny tip i guess we have to spread the tip across the night. Yeah, it's gotta be broken down. But I mean, it's gonna be a pricey evening. Well, they don't pay. So the tiny tip is the least they can do, really. That's not the least you can do. That's illegal. It's dining hard, alright? They don't dine and dash.

They dine and smash. I'm calling the police, of course. That's fair. Thanks also to abby davis crabby abby another wwe superstar in our midst you know she freaking runs down right up to the ring jumps on the ropes doing like the crab claws with her hands you know when you part your fingers a little bit the whole uh the whole audience have like foam instead of foam fingers they got foam claws of course and everyone's like crap crap crap crap she can't wrestle though she doesn't know how to do that it's hard as this commission letting all these people who can't wrestle in if you got the look you're in that's it but i've i've got her profile

photo she doesn't wrestlers are usually like seven foot tall yeah 300 pounds yeah this isn't happy no she's half a foot all red all crap she's a crab sounds like it all crustacean she's 3.5 pounds of solid crustacean thanks also to jared Garcia. If there's one thing you can say about Jared, he's married. Married? Yeah. You know how some people get married like, you know, like sometimes movie stars and stuff get married like four or five times. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it's like, wow, that's a bunch of marriages. This guy, world record holder, 75. 75? And counting. He's planning on getting out of this one how old is he uh i think 17 at last 17 yeah pretty nuts that's probably a lot of teenage sweethearts and a lot of primary school sweethearts and while we're at it because all he's been is a teenager and a child right so he's probably had a lot of sweet teen romances yeah he's also a pretty paid up

divorcee ah okay he's getting the money they were all rich nice he went he went to eaton jared as long as that money's coming through us in the form of patreon you do you do you brother thanks also to william ashmore you know if you go camping with william and it's late at night and you get a little snackish you always know that he's got a schmor. Which is great. He's a good guy to have around, you know? It's late at night. William, a schmor? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got a schmor.

And then you guys can just enjoy a snack, enjoy each other's company. Yeah, it's pretty mean though, because I notice people... Sometimes they don't even want his company. They kindly invite him for the schmores. Yeah, I think he's kind of caught on, but... sometimes they don't even want his company they can't invite him for the s'mores yeah i think he's kind of caught on but if he doesn't bring the s'mores he's the s'mores sorry he's uh he doesn't get it called so he's like this is me now this is i'm the i'm the i'm a s'more guy we appreciate you for more than just your food william we do need the s'more we need the s'mores

though 100 because the commune barbecue is this weekend, and we are bang out. So if you could bring a truckload. We're going to need a lot. We're going to need a lot because people are hungry. Thanks, lastly, but not leastly, to Jacob and Anharad. Jacob and Anharad. Two more WWE tag team superstars in our midst.

No, he's not. I don't believe it. These guys. Come on. And Harrod, that's a great wrestler's name. These guys must be able to wrestle. Oh, that's all they can do. They don't have a gimmick.

The crowd hates them. What? They're the best wrestlers you've ever seen. Front flips, pile drives, that thing where you throw someone against the ropes and then just clean them with your arm. Yeah. But they got no look yeah they're not a crab they've won every goddamn championship since since the last five years yeah they're the villains of the piece because everyone wants the under crab to win what so that one person we said was a crab yeah mostly them everyone wants uh them to take the take the belt but you know being the villain

in a piece is just as important as being the hero and we know that for being paranormal investigators our whole damn lives you're telling me so thank you for your support guys thanks to everyone we've just shouted out and everyone we are yet to shout out thanks to everyone for being patient we are getting through um our list of shout outs slowly but surely um so keep tuning in to hear yours we will be back next week with a brand new paranormal tale guys see you then bye