This Paranormal Life - #163 Project Chronos

Episode Date: May 5, 2020

When a time travelling assassin named Leroy showed up at the front door of the FBI headquarters, they had a lot of questions. Who does he work for? How is time travel possible? What is Project Chronos...? TIME for Rory and Kit to find some answers.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 CommunityResearch by Amy GrisdaleEdited by Louis BlatherwickIntro music by www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Could a demon read the Bible? And if not, how would it ever get better? Can I time travel to a time where time travel doesn't exist? All of these questions you can find the answer to on This Paranormal Life! Hey, hello everyone! Welcome to This Paranormal Life, the comedy paranormal podcast hosted by myself, Rory Powers, and this guy over here. Ohayou gozaimasu. paranormal podcast hosted by myself, Rory Powers, and this guy over here. If you haven't listened to the show before, we are two professional paranormal investigators where every week we investigate a brand new paranormal tale, beast, story, and come to a conclusion within the hour, give or take of course, to decide whether or not it is truly paranormal. How are you doing today, kid?
Starting point is 00:00:46 I'm doing fantastic, Rory. I'm ready for it. I mean, there were some pretty spicy questions on the intro. Do you think demons are trying to better themselves? They're doing a little self-help? I mean, they shouldn't start with the Bible because they might Pac-Man in on themselves. You think so? I think so.
Starting point is 00:01:02 Yeah, it's like, I don't know, being an alcoholic. And if you try and drink some water, it burns you. Now that I think about it, I've never seen you read the Bible. Moving on. Demon little. All right, look, as much as I would love to dilly dally, I could talk about demons all goddamn day. But unfortunately, Kit, today, time is of the essence.
Starting point is 00:01:23 You did mention time travel in the beginning is that something to do with it possibly maybe you're about to find out our story begins in 2016 a 71 year old man named leroy timothy anderson went to fbi headquarters in virginia he walked through the front doors and approached the front desk reception asked if they could help him with anything assuming it was a guest or someone who had business in the building. Leroy said, I'm here to turn myself in. My name is Leroy Anderson,
Starting point is 00:01:54 and I've killed 33 people. By the way, that is also the day that the FBI locked their doors. You need a key card these days. Yeah, yeah. Things have changed a lot since 2016. Why the FBI headquarters? Why not the local police? You're gonna find out, Kit.
Starting point is 00:02:12 You're gonna find out. Maybe this case is a little spicy. Too spicy for the police. Above the jurisdiction perhaps. Now, Leroy Anderson was a 71-year-old man who had appeared out of nowhere. He's basically made of glass. Could he really be telling the truth?
Starting point is 00:02:28 Was he a murderer? The FBI weren't taking any chances and arrested him on the spot. Now Leroy is locked in a room while the agents investigate. Sir, the report just came back. He's got no criminal record. If he really has killed 33 people, he's done a damn good job of covering his tracks. So the agents enter the room and sit down with Leroy, ready for a little interrogation. Maybe a little good cop, bad cop.
Starting point is 00:02:57 You know, they're doing that thing where you spin the chair around and you sit the other way, you know? Oh yeah, like a cool teacher, of course. Yeah, that cop is like, he's turned his hat around, which is super painful and awkward, because those things are not meant to be turned around. No, it's not. That's against the law. It's not like Ash Ketchum.
Starting point is 00:03:13 Absolutely not. But to their surprise, they didn't have to interrogate him. Leroy was more than happy to talk. Leroy told them that he needed to come here for his own protection, because the agency he worked for was trying to terminate him. Terminate him? Terminate him. That's very corporate talk, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:03:32 For murder. The agency? What is this kind of John Wick-style establishment that deals in gold coins and bounty hunters? That's what it sounds like. If you have to come to the FBI for protection, you know you're dealing with some dangerous people. The men asked him,
Starting point is 00:03:50 Leroy, this is serious. Did you kill 33 people? Leroy replied, Technically, I've killed 45. But 12 of them haven't been born yet. All right, you lost a good cop at this point you lost a bad cop your cap's going back around the right way yeah all right what what are you talking about the agents are confused what do you mean haven't been born yet leroy went on to tell
Starting point is 00:04:18 them that he worked with the defense advanced research, DARPA, who supervised the United States Special Operations. But more importantly, he also worked for the CIA on a project called Kronos. And that's why he turned himself in. Leroy knew too much and the CIA were trying to terminate him. Okay. This is very confusing already. Very interesting, but very confusing now rory i'm not american like you might have to break this down for the listeners at home but
Starting point is 00:04:50 in britain yeah the queen runs everything she she controls uh what time what what time you go to bed at night she the weather controls the weather what time you eat breakfast in the morning whereas america there's more of a division of power so you got the police and then above that you got the fbi and then not really above that but side by side you got the cia and then somewhere besides that you got the federal government i guess yeah and so these all kind of this is like the system of checks and balances they all kind of uh interact with each other it's a very confusing uh kind of organization method i think this is why you have those overlapping crime scenes where the police are there and then cia step up and be like we'll
Starting point is 00:05:34 take it from here cia we're running the show now i don't think so says a voice from the shadows fbi and this is now ours another voice from the shadows is it, and this is now ours. Another voice from the shadows. Is it DARPA? Special Agent Carter. I run the show now. Little Dick Carter, it's me, the Hamburglar. They all get down on their hands and knees. Oh my God. Ronald McDonald's task force. It's very confusing. Who runs what? I did actually look up the difference between the CIA and the FBI for clarity on this case. Only one of them has the authority to arrest people. That might be a lie. I might have made that up.
Starting point is 00:06:15 Well, the FBI, they're the guys in the movies and TV shows. They're always arresting people. They're sending them to SWAT teams and stuff. I don't think the CIA do anything like that. I think the CIA are just an intelligence agency, right? Yes, and actually, there you go. The CIA mostly operates actually outside of the United States to gather intelligence.
Starting point is 00:06:36 Gang in other people's democracy. Whereas the FBI predominantly operates within the US to gather intelligence. One's looking in, one's looking out. They're back-to-back, guns raised. All right? That's how it works. Very interesting.
Starting point is 00:06:52 So this guy is some kind of CIA cell that's gone rogue, and now he has to appeal to the FBI for almost protection. Yeah. So the agents asked him a little bit more about Project Kronos and what his role was. And he said, Project Kronos is a program created to eliminate anyone the CIA deems dangerous. And well, I was the hitman.
Starting point is 00:07:18 The agents ask, All right, Mr. Anderson, let's start at the beginning. Tell us about the first person you killed. Of time. Oh, the first person I killed. Oh, let's start at the beginning. Tell us about the first person you killed. Of time. Oh, the first person I killed. Oh, sure, that was last week. Maybe we have a file on the case. Mr. Anderson laughed.
Starting point is 00:07:32 You don't get it, do you? The first person I killed was in 1678. Oh, Jesus Christ. That would mean Mr. Anderson's first murder was over 300 years ago. Who the f*** was he killing? Leonardo da Vinci? Like, people talk about going back in time to kill Hitler. Who could you possibly be killing in 1638?
Starting point is 00:07:58 He's like, did you ever hear about the dinosaurs? You killed the dinosaurs? Mr. Meteorite, they that called me who caused the ice caps to melt so you're just god you're claiming to be god the agents sat back as leroy told them everything that project chronos was a program where the cia sent hitmen back in time to assassinate their enemies changing the course of history What possible enemy does the CIA have which was only established in I'm gonna guess like the 20s or something What possible enemy do they have in the 1600s first off kit time doesn't matter when you have a time machine
Starting point is 00:08:40 They could have been invented in the future and gone back to the past. You know, that's a point That's a point right there. I haven't been thinking about we're gonna need a lot of big brain. Yeah right here Okay, that's difficult to me because I got a little brain little little brain energy Leeroy told him that he had killed up to 45 people from 1678 to 2239 he's gone forward that's right some of the people he has killed haven't even been born yet is that possible of course it's possible of course this this whole episode guys is going to be opening up a can of worms but the worms are wormholes and we're going to be jumping through dimensions thinking about the future remembering the future it's going to question a lot of rules
Starting point is 00:09:33 that you've been taught shouldn't be questioned and listen this episode's going to be a lot like inception it's going to be incredibly complicated it's going to be a lot of people's favorite podcast yeah but it's not going to make a lot of sense no but it is going to win awards yeah at one point we're actually going to ask you to take a nap with your airpods in and we're going to do a section of the podcast while you're asleep to have it beamed into your brain that's right all right moving on with the story he said that in total project chronosronos was behind over 1,200 assassinations throughout history. Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and that he himself was the person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln. What?
Starting point is 00:10:18 That's right. That doesn't sound like he's exclusively investigating stuff in other countries. He killed Abraham Lincoln. He's one of the goddamn founding presidents of the United States and the enemy of the CIA. Look, because we're living in the timeline where he got assassinated, we don't know how bad shit got if he wasn't assassinated. You know?
Starting point is 00:10:44 Right. He was about to go like Robo-Mech Abe. Maybe. Or maybe the assassination, you know, cemented him as a legend in history, made him like a martyr, you know? Maybe in another timeline he went on to actually become pretty racist. Okay. And Honest Abe was honestly a bit of an asshole and had to be put down by the CIA the organization that wouldn't exist for several hundreds
Starting point is 00:11:10 of years later I'm starting to question the whole intelligence bit of the Central Intelligence Agency Leroy begged them to believe him he said that he fled the program and now they were hunting him. The FBI director said, His story was one of the most fascinating that I've ever heard. Mr. Anderson not only claims to have killed President Lincoln, but also 32 others, including at least 12 that aren't even born yet. I know that conspiracy theorists will accuse us of covering up Lincoln's murder, but the FBI isn't going to open up an investigation.
Starting point is 00:11:43 I don't think this man killed anyone i think he just lost contact with reality well he would say that though wouldn't he because he's got a cia silenced pistol to the back of his head he knows the second he decides to open up an inquiry a wormhole is going to open up behind him with a nine millimeter coming out of the end of it and putting him down do you know why because the cia in the future time traveled to the past to stop the investigation the cia might even travel back in time and take him out in a year that's already happened and the fbi director inside of a a packed out press junket just starts Thanos snapping out of existence, just like pixelating into dust. You know, even myself and Kit hosting this podcast is a risk. We are in the studio right now expecting at any moment for a time portal to open up and to be assassinated mid-recording. That's why we both have crossbows fully loaded at any time to make sure that we are protected. Just imagining a wormhole opens up and
Starting point is 00:12:52 it's a feudal era ninja who somehow works for the CIA. He's like, nothing personal, Rory. Shurikens you to the wall. He shows up. We try and hit him with the crossbow we miss it goes through the time portal into the future kills the president we killed lincoln oh my god they are too good at this too good well look i'd never heard of project chronos before in my many many many years of paranormal investigation no nor, nor I think this would have come up, but I ain't heard of it either. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:13:28 So I did a little Googling, searched around a little bit, and unfortunately, Project Kronos is just also a cool name. So I found video games, movies, novels, all called Project Kronos.
Starting point is 00:13:40 Death Metal Band or something. I think there's actually like a video game source engine called Project Kronos. Wow. again you you call something a name that cool it's gonna be used for a lot of stuff yeah you gotta call it something like you gotta call it like butterfly baby project butterfly baby yeah and then it's you there's gonna be two things gonna be a kid's clothes shop and there's gonna be the fbi project exactly because i mean for a start butterfly babies don't exist those are caterpillars there's not gonna be the fbi project exactly because i mean for a start butterfly babies don't
Starting point is 00:14:05 exist those are caterpillars you're not gonna be a lot of hits for that by the time a butterfly is a is a butterfly it's a man it's not a man do you understand what i'm saying here you know what i mean because if when it's a baby it's a caterpillar sure and when it's done being a baby, it's a jacked dude. It's a six foot man. This got to the point where I was about to give up. Yeah. I was finding too much, too much shit on the internet. But then I saw it, kid. An article backed away in the shadows.
Starting point is 00:14:38 Information about Project Kronos. I'm sorry, in the shadows of Google? Yeah, the dark web, my friend. Project Kronos. I'm sorry, in the shadows of Google? Yeah, the dark web, my friend. And to my surprise, the information was about a project from the 1940s in Nazi Germany. Of course. That's right, guys.
Starting point is 00:14:56 We're going back in time. In 1997, a military journalist named Igor Witowski met with a Polish intelligence agent for research on a book that he was writing. My friend, I hear you used to work for the Polish intelligence agency. I'm writing a book about the Second World War, and I'm hoping you know something that I do not yet. My brother, I know things that are better left unknown. The information you want is in this file. But be careful. You can't unlearn things. If I could, I would have forgotten these images long ago.
Starting point is 00:15:36 But you put them in a fold. You printed them out, so... Right, I had to... Yes, sure, I had to make many copies. So even if I tried to forget them, I couldn't because I've seen them. I look at them every day. Okay. It seems strange that if you want to unlearn something, to have it saved, to have so many copies.
Starting point is 00:15:53 Right. Well, when you see this, bro, you're going to understand. It's like a car crash. You can't take your eyes off the thing, you know? But you said you have several copies. If you wanted to be unburdened with such a heavy weight, why not just give me the only copies? I might have printed a few of the images for decoration in my home.
Starting point is 00:16:12 You said there are some things that are better left unknown. They're pretty, they're beautiful. My wife likes them a lot. If you want to unlearn the images, do not use them as wallpaper, my friend. I have a photo in my wallet. Would you like to see? What? I have the images there also. I took out the I have a photo in my wallet. Would you like to see? What? I have the images there also.
Starting point is 00:16:25 I took out the picture of the kids in my wallet and I put in a copy of the images that are in this file that I'm trying to forget. But would you like to see them in my wallet? No, I would not like to see the pictures in your wallet. You've already given me the pictures in the file. You know, these are dangerous files. Any man caught transferring these to outside sources
Starting point is 00:16:43 could get in a lot of trouble. Yeah. You said there are things better left unknown i didn't know i would get in trouble i can see the files breaking out of the folder it says classified penalty of death my friend i thought that said classy find like this is like a cool find you know what give me back the file you know what this is your wallet now wallet now. I'm out of here. You didn't meet me. You don't know me. Igor had no idea what the Polish intelligent agent was about to show him. The agent had dozens of classified government documents detailing Nazi research projects that had never been shown to the public. Experimental rockets, anti-gravity plane prototypes, but most importantly, Kit, a project referred to as Die Grock,
Starting point is 00:17:30 the Nazi Bell. Whoa. I don't want to fire off here talking about Nazis, the paranormal, UFOs, satanic rituals, because those evil sons of bitches,
Starting point is 00:17:42 they did it all. Rory gets pretty animated. I get pretty fired up when we're talking about, oh, did the Nazis because those evil sons of bitches they did it all rory gets pretty animated i get a pretty fired up when we're talking about oh did the did the nazis do some evil paranormal shit i don't know does michael phelps like swimming we don't know he's good at it we don't know if he likes yeah he might hate it he might hate it spends a lot of time a lot of time doing it yeah that's true let me think of a different one does you can't think of any others no that was the first one that came to my head does michael phelps like wearing goggles well we he does it sure because he
Starting point is 00:18:12 has to but we don't know if he does well i'm sure well he doesn't like the alternative water in his eyes does he so i'm sure he's pretty glad he has the goggles at the very least it's sort of strong comparison right that was muddy that was muddy and i need one clear as water please do anything but michael phelps at this point does michael don't say phelps jordan okay love swimming how do we how would we know i should have said basketball because that's the one that he does i'd say he's even said on interview that he loves basketball you that's what he's known for my point point being, they do a lot of stuff. We don't have the time or the patience or the time machine to investigate. Listen, we're not getting into it, folks,
Starting point is 00:18:54 but if you didn't know that the Nazis started NASA, you're going to want to look into that, okay? You think the American people just whipped all that rocket technology out of their asses absolutely not folks it's called nasa as in nazis always sticking around i don't think it means that but close enough very close you see kit after world war ii a bunch of nazis were put on trial at war crime tribunals for doing all the horrible stuff that they did and one of them was a man named jacob sporenberg who was one of the highest commissioned nazi ss ranks he said yeah i have done some horrible things in my life so in my death may i find redemption there is a project
Starting point is 00:19:40 that you must know about scientists and engineers were murdered to prevent them from disclosing any details of the technology to the outside world. It goes by many names, but most commonly, die glock. The war may seem over, but with this weapon, nothing is truly over. The room couldn't believe what they were hearing sporenberg told them everything he said the bell was a piece of highly advanced technology that produced a hissing or buzzing sound when operational because of this his fellow germans also referred to it as der bienenstock or beehive in German. But what did it do? Well, Kit, the bell was said to be a hazardous anti-gravity experiment.
Starting point is 00:20:30 It ran on a red substance referred to only as Serum 525, which some people believe to have been red mercury. When this machine was activated, it was said to create a strange zone of effect around 500 feet around the craft. In this zone, unexplainable things would occur. Crystals would form on animal tissues, plants would decompose into jelly. It caused illnesses and death of many research subjects and researchers alike. So why am I talking about Dijklo die clock what does this have to do with our original story with leroy anderson the time traveling hitman well along with being rumored
Starting point is 00:21:12 to have anti-gravity capabilities the device was also known to distort the flow of time my friend you think it just forms crystals on on animals and doesn't distort the flow of time you're out of your mind exactly it turns an animal into a crystal and sends them back to the stone age how do you think we got diamonds it's that's very interesting because like he says they lose the war right they seems like the war's over yeah but do they, at that point, how can he say it ain't over? That's because he's going back in time. They're going to go back in time and fight the war over as many times as they need to.
Starting point is 00:21:53 Yeah. To goddamn win. Nothing ends when you have something that can redo everything. It's like the Prince of Persia Sands of Time. Exactly. You ain't worried until, well, actually, if you use the Sands of Time and then fall off the edge of the prince of persia sands of time exactly you ain't worried until well actually if you if you
Starting point is 00:22:05 use the sands of time then fall off the edge of the map yeah that is game over to be fair really is it you can't like i don't know wait i've never played the games you like shake the time you have a certain amount of sands and and then like if you if you want to rewind time you use the sand but then if you if you do run out of sand and you die sure it is game over of course that's kind of like you know the bell you can do anything with the bell if you run out of red mercury serum 525 you're pretty much boned you're boned yeah i do think this is interesting that they had a project very similar to something that was described many, many years later. The experiments in time manipulation went under two code names. The first was Latern Entrager, which translates to Lantern Bearer or
Starting point is 00:22:56 Illuminator. But in Latin, the bell was also known as Kronos. What? That's right, my friend. One of the many nicknames for the Nazi time machine was Cronos. You couldn't write this shit, mother******. The same game as the time-traveling project that sent the man back in time to assassinate President Lincoln. Listen, you think this is a game? You think it's a game, listeners at home? This isn't a game. I'm gonna crank my crossbow right now because that time
Starting point is 00:23:27 traveling son of a bitch is gonna pop up at any second and you best believe the safety's off this puppy because as soon as the pull Oh!
Starting point is 00:23:35 Oh Jesus! I'm so sorry! Oh my god are you alright? No I'm not alright you shot a god damn crossbow into my kneecap! I didn't even know
Starting point is 00:23:43 I didn't I just tapped the thing You said the safety wasbow into my kneecap. I didn't even know. I didn't. I just tapped the thing. You said the safety was off. I said. And you started swinging it. I didn't pull it. I tapped the trigger to illustrate that I was triggered. You tapped the.
Starting point is 00:23:53 But not from the front. Not from the front. It was from the side. Do you at least know some first aid or something? Oh, God. I'm getting woozy. All right. Look, this is going to sound wild.
Starting point is 00:24:03 I'm listening. I'm listening. I'm listening. Just hear me out. What if I were to shoot another, a second arrow into that arrow and kind of like push it out. Don't do it. I'm just going to. Don't do it, please, for the love of God. It's going to be all right.
Starting point is 00:24:19 Don't do it. It's going to be all right. I'm going to knock it out Robin Hood style. Straight into my throat. Alright, hear me out. A third arrow. Why aren't you calling the ambulance? They don't even have a crossbow.
Starting point is 00:24:34 Why am I gonna call them? They're not gonna help the situation. I don't need a crossbow. A doctor comes back in time. Yeah, he would die if we didn't do this. So, yeah, we actually had to come back. He freaks me out. He's here. I shoot him in the neck immediately. Why are you such a crack shot with this thing?
Starting point is 00:24:53 That's right, kid. Could this be the same project Kronos that Leroy Anderson was talking about? Yes, they're 30 years apart, but time doesn't matter when you've got a machine that f***s with it. The problem is, sure, we've got stories, testimonies, modern day illustrations, all the totems on the pillar of truth, but we don't have any physical evidence. It's true. No concrete evidence to prove that this thing really existed. And without that, the investigation is over. But luckily, our investigation is only beginning. Because like Jacob Sporenberg said, and by said, I mean the fictional speech that I wrote earlier for him in the podcast. That was fictional?
Starting point is 00:25:39 Of course it was fictional. He didn't say any of that stuff. Jesus. Well, he mentioned the project. He didn't say, nothing is truly well he mentioned the project he didn't say nothing is truly over god damn it i had me hook line and sinker just like jacob said early in the podcast for the speech that i wrote for him nothing is truly over eventually i stumbled across a wordpress blog written yeah we're taking a weird twist here we're going back this is your
Starting point is 00:26:02 physical evidence this is the evidence that ties it all together. You can't even begin to understand what I'm about to tell you. You turn German. You ignorant fool. You cannot understand. I was there when the day was created. Is it still fictional? Yeah, sure.
Starting point is 00:26:23 It's fictional. The WordPress blog was written by a woman named Heather. The website was called projectchronos.wordpress.com. Check site. And it only had two tabs, introduction and shoebox. Whoa. So I read the introduction and I couldn't believe my eyes. She said, my name is Heather and I have a story to tell you. It's a story I've told a handful of my friends over the years,
Starting point is 00:26:51 but I've always been nervous about telling too many people. But I think now is the right time to share. My uncle Guy was always a hero to me. I used to spend a week each summer at his cottage in Scotland. We'd fish and cook together. He'd tell me stories about when he was young. His stories invariably involved heroics and women, so I always took them with a pinch of salt. The year before he died, something pretty odd happened. We were in town
Starting point is 00:27:17 picking up things for dinner, and a car backfired. An uncle guy panickedicked i'd never seen him like this he literally burst into tears and shook like a leaf wow that night he got very drunk and told me one of his stories but this one was different he pulled out an old shoe box and told me that an old university friend of his marcus had left him a letter and the shoe box in his will when he died in 1964. He said that Marcus was killed in a car crash, but he didn't think it was an accident. You see, Marcus was a journalist who was writing a book on the British government's Project Kronos, the Ministry of Defense's research into time manipulation. You say the British government's?
Starting point is 00:28:04 The British government's project Kronos. This is going international, guys. This is worldwide. The Germans had a bit of it. Now, Leroy at the start was talking about the CIA and the FBI having a project Kronos.
Starting point is 00:28:18 Now we're hearing about the British government's project Kronos? And that's not to mention all the countries who had the good sense to change the f***ing name of the project. Of course, yeah!
Starting point is 00:28:27 Project Butterbaby or whatever the f*** we called it earlier. Butterfly? Of course it's about time travel! You ever heard of the butterfly effect? The British government are like, Project Chronos dot com is taken. Someone's like, should we call it something else? No, no, no. Dot org will do it. F***, dot org's taken too. Uh, dot co dot uk too. Dot code UK.
Starting point is 00:28:46 Rats. I really thought we'd get that one. Let's try projectchronos.gov. No, no, you absolutely do not do that. Too obvious. That implies that it is a government project. Of course, I knew that. A guy in the back of the room.
Starting point is 00:28:57 What about a WordPress? Hmm. Good thinking, Heather. According to Marcus, the government had spent millions on research, and its work began in the pre-World War II work of two Cambridge-based scientists, plus the work of at least one German scientist who was brought to England just as the war was ending. This is what we're saying, folks. Guys, it's all linking together.
Starting point is 00:29:20 was ending. This is what we're saying, folks. Guys, it's all linking together. Heather went on to say, the next morning, Uncle Guy took the box and hid it away and refused to talk about it. He never mentioned it again. Uncle Guy died in 2002,
Starting point is 00:29:36 and in his will, he left me the shoebox. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to share what was inside that shoebox. What? And to find out what's inside you'll have to join us next week for part two of this paranormal life oh that's right folks another two-parter continuing on from our two-parter we had uh last week that's right i absolutely had zero intention of this being a two-parter the original story that was sent to me was simply the
Starting point is 00:30:06 story of leroy anderson the time traveling assassin but as soon as he mentioned project chronos and i was like hey i need a little bit more info about what project chronos is if i'm going to talk about it for a goddamn hour yeah i stumbled onto all of this i stumbled onto the nazi time travel project i stumbled onto heather's WordPress. Then the shoebox. The shoebox, guys. You don't even know what is about to happen when we open up the shoebox. That is Pandora's box. But already you can see how all these parts of the story are linking together.
Starting point is 00:30:38 You know, Heather's talking about a project called Kronos that involved a scientist who was taken from Germany right after the World War? Do I have to draw the links to you? You're looking at me like I'm crazy. Just take a couple steps back, bud, because you're getting a little closer comfort here. If the Nazis did, in fact, invent a time machine in the Second World world war when they lost maybe america came and ganked some of those scientists we already know they ganked the rockets exactly the v2 rockets other stuff too did you think they didn't gank die glock and this is the exciting thing guys when you're investigating a case about time travel you don't even need to you can't just investigate why things happened or how they
Starting point is 00:31:27 happened you have to investigate when they happened because time is the name of the game my friend i believe it was doc brown that said that as soon as he got into the delorean with uh with marty mcfly sure marty marty mcfly was like doc why why didn't you just make like a machine that could i don't know end world hunger and he turned to them and he said because marty time is the name of the motherfucking game i don't think he said that he didn't say he cranked it to 88 miles per hour i think you might be you're making him sound a bit like he sounds like rick from rick and morty i think you're getting your characters confused no No, I don't think so. Because what?
Starting point is 00:32:08 Back to the Future with Marty McFly? Sure. The little guy? A little cartoon boy? No. What? He's little because he's young, I guess. But no, the little boy,
Starting point is 00:32:18 I think you're thinking of Morty from Rick and Morty. Morty McFly? That doesn't sound right. No, no, no, no, no. He's not Morty McFly. He's just Morty. That's the name of the character. But again, you're getting confused because he's the little guy you're thinking of because doc brown would never say mother it was a pg movie i'm pretty sure so he would never say yeah it was pretty
Starting point is 00:32:33 good for sure but they didn't swear in it i'm do you think that's what pg stands for of course but the the you're not going to get this right i swear to god but let me just get this straight the third back to the Future movie. The third one. The third one. Yeah. Very famous. Great movie.
Starting point is 00:32:48 They go back to the cowboy time. They have to get the time machine going. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. You're right. Actually. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:54 Doc Brown. He says yippee-ki-yay, mother f***er. Because it's like cowboy times. What am I thinking of? Die hard at this point. Yippee-ki-yay. I already told you. He doesn't say mother just get that out
Starting point is 00:33:07 of your head at no point did he say it zero times does he say mother i'm just laughing about how funny it would be if in the original back to the future if it was like a totally you know kids say friendly movie the whole time and then as soon as the uh they are going back to the future and the delorean hits 88 miles per hour doc just goes yes that's the director's cut that would be too realistic that'd be incredible so as i said i hope you enjoyed part one of our investigation into project chronos uh i can assure you, I would have not split this into a two-parter if there wasn't some insane twists and very cool information and evidence coming up from inside the shoebox.
Starting point is 00:33:53 So I hope you had a good time and I hope you'll stick around for part two. If you can't get enough of this paranormal life and you don't have your own time machine to be able to go forward and binge episodes, it's fine. Because you can go back in time to patreon.com where we have recorded a beautiful backlog of bonus content guys we're talking we're pushing 30 episodes of additional this paranormal life episodes that when you subscribe to the this paranormal life patreon you will have instant access to this is a shoebox full
Starting point is 00:34:27 of paranormal cases that should have been burned up long ago well it's a little bigger than a shoebox because we're training on me in the shoebox next week it's a shoebox how much can be in it there's it's not going to be that much stuff in well you don't know what's in the shoebox yet so i would hold your tongue until you find out yeah but it's it's going to be the size of a pair of shoes which is pretty damn small it's the first object in the shoebox is actually die glock it is it has been transformed over the years into a very small bell it's shrunk like a little shrunken head they washed it on too high a setting and die glock is actually pretty small i hope you enjoyed the bonus content on patreon.com we don't run ads or anything or have sponsorships on this podcast
Starting point is 00:35:10 so that is the only way truly aside from listening to the show and telling your friends about it that you can support the podcast so thank you so much to everyone that does support us on patreon to thank you even further we'd like to give you a special shout out thank you to ellen caulfield ellen ellen i'm calling you from the field get out get out get out of bed get your lazy ass out of bed and come harvest some corn no i'm calling her i'm in the field come harvest the corn it's going bad ellen jesus it's going bad harvest the corn. It's going bad Ellen Jesus Going bad. Yeah, the corn goes bad pretty fast Get out here quickly. Thank you to Thomas Reed Thomas Reed paid the bait
Starting point is 00:36:03 This right Thomas peed the bed. So you're trying to slide if you paid the bait. Oh, oh god. Where are you from? Spine. Except my parents said I was a little bit of a slow learner. Okay. Starting to piece everything together now. Thomas, I think they make diapers for adults. Maybe that's something to invest in. Or investing.
Starting point is 00:36:19 Thank you, too, Jessica Swan. Or, or, it's Jessica Swan. That's a swan? Oh, yeah. Swans don't... that sounded like a seal. What the f*** is a seal? What is a seal? You mean like a, how you might seal something up with a little bit of tape or something? No, like the animal.
Starting point is 00:36:34 Oh, like the singer. Yeah, like he's like a human animal, I guess. But he sings that. Kiss from a rose. How do you know so much about seal the musician and not seal the animal? Well, he's a pretty special original guy. I think that song won a lot of awards. We're not gonna get we're not gonna get We're talking about why you talking my see what the fuck is the seal? We're talking about swans here bro. They're called the dogs of the sea.
Starting point is 00:36:55 A swan is a dog of the sea? Jesus we're gonna have to move on here. Thank you to Jason Blonigan Jason Blonigan Has the power of invisibility. Because every time they're like, where's Jason? Oh, Blonigan's gone again. He's gone again. He'll ask you a question,
Starting point is 00:37:14 turn invisible, and then you turn around. Use your powers for good, Jason. That's all I'll say. Stop pranking people. Yeah, and whenever you get that invisibility power, sure, there's a few things you want to do you may want to shoplift maybe you want to do a
Starting point is 00:37:28 couple that's what i want to do that's what i think about day and night to be honest with you but uh you don't have to be invisible to do that by the way what i mean you can shoplift invisible catch me being visible i can't go back to jail my friend thank Thank you to Jeremy S. Wallace. Jeremy S. Wallace? Jeremy swipes wallets, more like. What? This little thief isn't even invisible. And he is a little thief, because Wallace is the smallest.
Starting point is 00:38:00 He just goes around, four foot nothing, stealing wallets from anyone he can find. Sometimes, he doesn't even like the money, he just likes the kick of it. He will sneakily insert a wallet into someone's back pocket, and then take it right out again without getting caught. Insane. He just gets off on it. Super weird. Thank you also to Lawrence Carlos. We've all heard of Florence Nightingale, but this is Lawrence
Starting point is 00:38:17 Nightingale, the worst nurse to ever work in the industry before. We're talking filling up IV drips with Powerade, thinking it would rejuvenate them. That's not smart, though. Trying to slap people back to life. I could see how that would work.
Starting point is 00:38:33 He tried to defibrillate someone with a hammer. Not even an electric hammer. A little kickstart. If you run out of electricity, sure. Listen, you sound like a great innovator, a great inventor, you've got a lot of bright ideas. You just shouldn't be allowed to treat people yeah we need some of those innovative
Starting point is 00:38:49 ideas you know i recently had an idea for podcasts but for the eyes right yeah that's that exists i don't think so youtube videos anything like that no shit okay yeah no that's fair i wasn't thinking i thought like at least you're not hurting people that's the main thing that's the main thing because i was thinking like blasting sound into your eyes yeah and seeing if that would do something that would hurt that would well that's that's for uh that's for lawrence to find out isn't it buddy you're giving him the ideas thank you too uzzy uzzy's a little fuzzy with the details You know they say Hey did you see who stole my car
Starting point is 00:39:27 Maybe I did maybe I didn't Well that's not very helpful He's saying that from the driver's seat Of your car as well So he obviously knows he took it Speed's away Thank you to Rasmus Pedersen Rasmus is always asking to pet her son
Starting point is 00:39:43 Rasmus you can't do Rasmus is always asking to pet her son. Rasmus, you can't do that. Parents will rarely give you permission to pet their son. It's a bit weird if you don't know them. It's a weird question, yeah. It's a weird question. You might want to rephrase the question. May I tap your son's head? No, it still won't go.
Starting point is 00:39:59 These aren't babies either. These are, you know, 16, 17-year-old men. 21-year-old jocks, yeah. Of course, yeah yeah you can't just pat another human it's condescending thank you to chris o'shea chris o'shea loves christmas day he wishes it could be every single day of the year you know january 3rd he's he's leaving cookies and milk down at the chimney santa's not showing up everyone else is taking down their their tree and their cookies oh yeah but he's he's he's got more trees he's got a little forest in
Starting point is 00:40:30 the room he started leaving out caviar and champagne at the bottom of the chimney for santa to show up he's up golden bars bitcoin all ready to be taken bitcoin yeah oh that's right what the f**k is this this is like a RuneScape drop party. Just leave an expensive shit on the ground. He just wants Santa to turn up. Whatever it takes to make that happen, he's gonna do it. It's too old to believe in the guy. Thank you to Brie Garcia.
Starting point is 00:40:55 Brie Garcia, I can barely see ya. That's right, she has the power of invisibility once again. A lot of invisible people watch this show. It's just a pair of floating headphones walking down the street. That's what we like to tell our sponsors. They say, who listens? The demographic. What's a demo? Who listens to it?
Starting point is 00:41:11 Yeah. Mostly invisible folks. What? So if you want to sell them, I don't know. What's that shit that the invisible girls' clothes were made of in The Incredibles? That can also turn invisible? I don't know. Whatever that is, if you want to
Starting point is 00:41:25 sell them that and the sponsors usually say they don't exist do they and we say absolutely not but brie exists we got the cash to prove it that's true but thank you so much for your support brie thank you to scl wow generous uh contribution here from the south carolina library wow um we have spent a lot of time there brushing up on information about local South Carolina cryptids in the library. Plot twist,
Starting point is 00:41:51 they don't have any books on it. They don't find it factual. They don't find it informative. So we did trash the place last time we were there. That's actually a bill. I'm seeing it on your thing. That's not a donation.
Starting point is 00:42:02 That's a bill. Oh, I thought that was a generous donation. That's actually, we're f***ed enough. Yeah, that's pretty much going to take a couple months off of us. Interesting. F*** all y'all.
Starting point is 00:42:13 You're not getting a penny out of us. Absolutely not. Thank you to Brandon Little. Brandon Little has been branded a little. When he was first born, I think the parents were a little worried about, like, a little hospital baby switch up. You know, getting confused with another baby. He's been branded like a cog? Yeah, but were a little worried about like a little hospital baby switch switch up, you know getting confused with another baby He's a branded like a car. Yeah, but just a little Right. He's been branded a baby. That's illegal like a tiny it wasn't even like go. That's your dick
Starting point is 00:42:34 It wasn't even a real thing They were basically like when the nurse left they were like quick click and they just like just tapped him with a lit with a lit Cigarette that was it. That's insane. He was so confused. He was like, where am I? What the fuck was didn't work either because they dropped a couple ashes on the other babies so all the babies got a little branding that day got a little branding they had to then do their initials with the cigarette which uh there was more than a little brand there's a little branding yeah but the typo meant that they had to redo the whole thing and scribble that out he's got a back piece this toddler has a back piece thank you to Olivia to co its Olivia cool your wits about you because you're going to Bolivia I hope you can speak
Starting point is 00:43:16 in Bolivian or whatever they speak because yeah we're dropping you down like a secret agent style you're not going to have a passport any money any phone or anything you're going to have to start a new life witness protection program this paranormal lifestyle i'm pretty sure that they give agents all of those things that's like part of the deal they give them like money and then drop them off so we're mugging people yeah we are dumping their bodies where they will never escape because she'll never survive we're not an agency are we we? We're a criminal agency. Thank you to Tom Goss. Tom Goss, inventor of Tom's Gloss.
Starting point is 00:43:51 Wow. That's right. The hottest lip gloss to ever hit the lips. He is the proud inventor of the lip-flavored lip gloss. Whoa, that doesn't sound good. You can gloss up your lips, but they taste like lips. So people don't even know you're wearing lip your lips but they taste like lips so people don't even
Starting point is 00:44:05 know you're wearing lip gloss but your lips stay freaky fresh that's it that's terrifying that's the company that's the company motto awful keep those lips freaky fresh that's i want to move on that's tom's uh company slogan i hope you go out of business tom thank you lastly but not to declan fernandez hecklin declan cannot keep his gob shut when he goes to a comedy show we've had to ban him from several this paranormal life live events because he has posted on the event pages just being like oh i'll be there don't you worry and everyone go everyone comments underneath please ruin the last couple of shows i swear you weren't you ruined my granddad's funeral because you wouldn't you just we didn't even invite you i don't know how you find out where we live it's
Starting point is 00:44:47 abuse it's not even heckling you're just heckling the dead yeah which isn't fair because they can't even talk they can't talk back the thing is he's really good at it so whenever we try to shut him down he like he has the craziest one-liners he's preparing all day long the audience were booing us by the end we got thrown off off stage. Someone gave him a mic. He got the next night. He got the headline act the next night. Yeah, I think he's at Fringe Festival this year. It's fucked.
Starting point is 00:45:11 But his whole show is that he doesn't take the stage and he waits for someone else to go up and be like, I'm sorry, there was a comedian that was supposed to be here tonight. And then from the crowd, he's like, you fucked up. And everyone's like, yeah. He starts heckling him. He's Declanan he's funny we should go see him we should actually we should i'd love to see i'd love to see him roast that guy who's playing this weekend that'll be great that'll be a really good show that guy's such a b***h thank you Declan and thank you
Starting point is 00:45:39 everyone that we've shouted out who supports us on patreon.com we couldn't do it without you guys you're the reason that this podcast is still going to this day and we're so grateful that it is because we love making it make sure to tune in next week when we open the shoebox and find out all about project chronos until then we will see you next week ciao

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