This Paranormal Life - #226 Are Fairies Real?

Episode Date: August 17, 2021

This week, Kit and Rory deep dive into the world of Faries. Are these cute little sprites just creatures of myth and legend? Or is their a darker side to the tales?TPL Summer Meetup 2021 Event Pagewww.facebook.com/events/4235146743207138BUY OFFICIAL TPL MERCHwww.thisparanormallife.com/storePatreonpatreon.com/ThisParanormalLifeYouTubeyoutube.com/thisparanormallifeTwittertwitter.com/ThisParaLifeInstagraminstagram.com/thisparanormallifeSecret Society Facebook Pagewww.facebook.com/groups/thisparanormallife/Research by Amy GrisdaleIntro music: www.purple-planet.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Could humans make a web that catches spiders? What happens if you toast toast? All of these questions you can find the answer to on this Paranormal Life! Welcome everyone to the podcast, the comedy paranormal podcast hosted by me, Rory Powers, and this guy across from me, Kit Greer. If you haven't listened to the show before, Kit and I are professional paranormal investigators. We've been in the industry for more years than I can count, frankly, at this point, partially because I can't count very high, but we have also been here for a long time. Some of that time I should have been in school,

as you could tell. Here we are, regardless with our years of expertise, coming at you to investigate a paranormal creature. Are you excited for today's case, Kit? I tried to toast toast once. Do you know how high your insurance premium goes after you burn your own house down? So that's what happened? Or is that a separate story? That was the real discovery of the day. Does everything get tastier when you burn it a little? You know, the first guy was like having a sandwich and he was like,

why am I f***ing toasted? What if I burn it a little? You know, I wonder how much, what if we haven't done that with? So I'm going to assume that grapes aren't good toasted, but I haven't done that with what if so i'm gonna assume that grapes aren't good toasted but i haven't done it so you ever toasted a grape my friend you could toast you know toast birthday cake i bet that would be delicious toast spaghetti if you put spaghetti in a toaster heated it up a little bit so it got a little crunchy i think that would be pretty delicious yeah that

was house number two that went down all right right. Well, just if you're going to do the experiments, do it cautiously. What if I toast water? I want to toast a fork. What if I toast me? Yummy little fork. My hand. Look, let's stop dilly-dallying at the start of the podcast and just jump right in because we've got a big case to investigate this week. It's a popular one that has been emailed in a couple times, but you know, I have danced around the idea of covering it before, but it's a complicated one, similar to when we cover

creatures like goblins or dragons. This is a paranormal entity that has its roots in folklore, a paranormal entity that has its roots in folklore, in ancient mythology. Our first story today comes from an internet poster called Gabrielle. Though living in Australia, she's from an Irish family and was raised as a believer in folklore. It was Boxing Day, the year 2000, on the central coast of New South Wales, Australia, not far from Sydney. Gabrielle had arranged to meet a friend for a picnic on the banks of the Wyong Creek. It was a hot Australian summer day. The gang had just finished eating and the children were starting to get a little restless. So they packed up the picnic and hopped in the canoes that they brought with them.

After an afternoon of playing out on the water, it was time to pack up and head home. Sorry, I'm just getting sidetracked just thinking about how different my childhood was to that. That sounds pretty idyllic. Pretty wholesome. Picnicking on the canoe? Yeah, yeah. Back in the streets of Northern Ireland, we were fighting rats with bay blades for entertainment. And food. Those little bastards took most of the cheese. They took most of the good stuff from the dumpsters, that's for sure. And food. Those little bastards took most of the cheese. They took most of the good stuff from the dumpsters, that's for sure. Yeah, I don't know if I ever had a day as idyllic as this. This sounds like an advert for camping equipment.

Or Budweiser, maybe, if the kids weren't there. Yeah, I'm pretty jealous. If you replace the kids with two frosty buds, you've got an alcohol industry advertisement. Which I did for most of my life as a parent. But maybe, just maybe, kid, this isn't a story you want to be associated with your childhood. After an afternoon of playing out on the water,

it was time to pack up and head home. But as they paddled back towards the spot where the cars had been parked, they passed a young woman walking a small dog. Suddenly, without warning, the little terrier started barking frantically and bolted towards the water's edge. It was making such a racket that it got the attention of the whole gang. What was going on? Did this dog just hate canoes? As Gabrielle glanced over to see what all the commotion was about, she couldn't believe what she saw.

Just a few feet away from the dog was a tiny little person running away at full pelt. Holy moly. The figure couldn't have been taller than 30 centimeters at the most. 30 centimeters? If you say little person, we're picturing Kevin Hart, three, four foot, sure, but 30 centimeters? 30 centimeters. The size of a school ruler, my friends. This thing is small.

With the dog hot on its heels, it sprinted down to the waterfront, joining its hands together and diving headfirst into the water, where it disappeared. The dog quickly followed with its owner running after it, screaming hysterically for it to come back. She managed to grab the dog by its collar and haul it back to the shore. The woman said, sorry about that. Sorry about the noise, guys. I'm sure you came here for a bit of peace. I don't know what's gotten into him. But Gabrielle knew. She looked around and every single member of their party was still staring open mouthed. Everyone but the tiniest kids had seen it.

And to this day, whenever Gabrielle goes anywhere near the region, she can't help say to herself, that's where the fairies live. Good lord, man. Welcome to the world of fairies. Wow. Yes. This is a momentous occasion in TPL history. Four years in, we're just discovering fairies now.

Pretty crazy, right? You would have thought they would have come up more often than once in three years. I guess, you know, fairies are kind of similar to leprechauns sure a little bit similar to little mischievous goblins they're little scamps they are little scamps and we have covered little scamps on the podcast before so this is kind of going to be a bit of new territory and a bit of old territory love it yeah i'm fascinated to hear more. Folklore surrounding fairies goes back so far that there isn't really a time or a story in particular that we can pinpoint as to the creation of the legends. They're found in a lot of European cultures, obviously. Celtic, German, English, French. But generally speaking, they take the form of small human-like beings and have a range of magical powers.

Imagine Dumbledore was zapped by the gun from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. I'm listening. And he has all his magical abilities, but he is an ant. Maybe not as small as an ant, because that's a little much, but as small as a house cat. That's pretty powerful i'll say it's kind of now that you've framed it this way because i kind of in my mind picture fairies is like pretty i don't know i guess i'm picturing tinkerbell from peter pan now that now that i think about it relatively dainty little thing harmless uh whereas cat-sized dumbumbledore is quite scary.

He is nimble and he knows spells. And he knows the bad ones too, the ones that kill. Yeah, oh yeah. Whereas Tinkerbell, if you had a cricket bat, you could obliterate her with one swing, I reckon. Cricket bat is a good shot too because it's quite wide, so

you ain't gonna miss. Yeah, you'd be totally fine. Or a tennis racket. captain hook should have thought about that yeah the hook was never gonna do it why was he using the hook the hook is too precise it's like it's like trying to catch it with chopsticks i don't remember the plot of peter pan though i mean they could have been friends for all i know i think he had guns why didn't he ever use those? Wow. That's really something. That's quite terrifying. But a cat is quite, a cat is quite big. Let's not hold on to the cat thing.

I literally just threw out a cat thing. No, no, no. Let's dial in on that. So they can jump? Well, yeah, they could jump in the same way like any human can jump. I think they can fly to be fair. Do they clean themselves with their tongue? They don't.

Well, I don't know that either to be fair. Interesting. Let's not hold on to the cat thing because the cat thing was just any animal does cat nip have the same effect they go nuts they do really they go they go crazy they go berserk one origin story of the fairies that i loved was one actually based in christianity that said when a group of angels revolted against the heavens, God ordered the gates of heaven shut. Those angels... That's bad.

That's like the worst thing he could do. He closed the borders. That's it. Party's over. I guess if it's getting a little out of control, you're like, I gotta shut this down. I gotta close the gates. But the idea is that those angels still in heaven remained angels those angels who were in hell became demons and those caught in between became fairies is that an actual christian story that seems pretty wild for the bible

also why were there angels in hell before the before the door shut why were there angels they better have been undercover yeah what were they doing their operation that's like when you find out the prime minister went to like a brothel it's like hold on a second yeah that kind of an official business right before he shuts down the borders to all brothels and it's like well you were just in one so that seems a little bit weird. I also would love it if there was just an angel out doing errands on earth, like oblivious to all of this going on. And he's like, just comes back and he's like, yo, knocking on the door.

He's like, hey, yo, guys, I got the milk and beer. Yo, guys, where'd my halo go? Did you guys lose your halo? It's getting cold. It's getting cold. Why are my cat's eyes? I used to be like a f***ing dude. I used to be like six foot five.

Is anyone else shrinking? Is anyone else shrinking before my very eyes? Oh, shit. Just give me a shout when you guys open up again. I'm going to go to Ireland. The one place that lets in demons and fairies we never close the gates and it turns out there's a lot of different types of fairies pisky trooping fairies sealy courts hobgoblins wow yeah i've only heard of that last one there's a whole whole range of them uh

they all have different abilities different capabilities and uh different motives let's say in general fairies have a heavy murder suspects they're they're all under scrutiny best believe we're gonna line them up and see who did it pisky was promised a huge inheritance in the will. Sealy courts was found with their fingerprints on the candlestick. And the hobgoblin, he was banging the other guy's wife. In general, fairies have a heavy association with Ireland. And I'm not going to lie, I was kind of looking forward to diving into the history of our homeland and telling the stories of all the cute little mischievous adventures that they've had over the years sure turns out we might want to distance

ourselves from the fairy world oh because some of the shit that they do is pretty dark some of the scariest fairy stories involve a type of fairy called a changeling a creature known for zapping babies into another dimension. Okay. And then shapeshifting to take their place. Okay. So they were caught in purgatory, but I think they were on the way to hell. They were on the bus to hell when they closed the gates of heaven. They should have been in hell for sure. I don't know if there's any good reason to zap a baby. So let's just recap they send babies

to another dimension yeah they're like you're gone poof you're in you go to the fairy realm now and i am your baby whoa it's kind of like those uh those videos you see where there's like a a cat and it's just given birth and there's a bunch of kittens all drinking milk and just one weasel and the weasel has just snuck its way in weaseled its way in you could say and it's drinking the milk it's getting it's getting the lion's share of the kitten's milk these changelings are zapping away the kitten and going and and sucking on the teat it's a plot of uh jordan peele's us it is yeah yeah being replaced by by someone that isn't you but looks like you you know and sending the real you to some kind of hell realm a terrifying concept truly usually a

parent can tell if their child has been abducted by a changeling okay if the baby suddenly becomes sickly ill-tempered or just evil in one old legend a family had recently had a baby and the father had hired the local tailor to come around and make a suit for him as in for the dad for the baby this was a boss baby. So on that day, the tailor came around and began working on the new suit, while the mother and child sat peacefully. But on this occasion, the baby was acting strange. It was usually a pretty peaceful little bean,

but now it was crying, thrashing about. Very strange. The mother apologized. I'm so sorry sorry about him let me go get him another blanket sorry he hates pinstripes as soon as the mother left the room the baby stopped crying that's odd the tailor thought then the baby turned its head towards the man and said, Psst. Hey. No, he didn't. Not a baby.

A baby didn't do this. I guess a changeling could have. A changeling. Not the baby. I'll let you finish. The baby turned its head towards the man and said, Psst. Hey. I'm absolutely not buying this.

Has the old hag gone? That Taylor was drinking. The baby did not say that. Unsure of how to respond, the tailor simply nodded his head. That's when the baby pulled out a set of pan pipes from his blanket and started playing them. No, no. You started dancing a little jig. Not very discreet. I think even if she has left

the room, she'd probably hear the pan pipes. She's coming back. Did you have to pipe that badly that you couldn't have waited until nighttime? How badly is this baby addicted to pan pipes that the second the mother leaves, he's like, is she gone? I got a pipe, man. Also, like crying and thrashing isn't a good way to get your mother to go away. Yeah.

Usually that means like... More attention. The mother is going to be like, Jesus, what do I have to do here? Change your nappy? Are you hungry? He should have looked over to the mom and been like, I don't need you anymore, mother.

I'll take it from here. Immediately, the mother rushed in to see what the noise was and couldn't believe her eyes. She cried out, A changeling! Now I know what you are. I'll have my revenge she grabbed the baby and carried it down to the river ready to throw it downstream oh no but as she reached the water's edge the creature began laughing and in an instant overpowered the woman pushing her into the river. It laughed, scuttling away like a crab as the woman drowned.

And who do we have to thank for documenting this real story? The tailor, I guess, who just watched the whole thing go down. I saw it all, whiskey ball in hand. I saw it all go down. Look, it's an old story. I can appreciate the fact that it is an old story a legend sure and still quite detailed

very detailed the baby scuttled away like a crab I may have added the crab bars but the pipes were there the rest of it was there I'm surprised at how quickly you know mothers are supposed to have this you know undying biochemical bond to their baby.

Right. The mother seemed to jump to the conclusion of Changeling pretty damn fast. It was like she was expecting it. Yeah. It could have just been a talented child. I knew it. I knew it. I mean, who's to say that Michael Phelps as a baby wasn't zapped into another world and taken over by a changeling who can swim like a magical fish.

It would explain a lot, to be honest. He was probably in his crib playing pipes and eating stew and dancing a little jig. And they were like, he's pretty good at swimming though. So let's maybe just, let's just say that he is our baby

and we'll train him up to be an Olympic athlete. If you put 5% of the energy you put into pan pipes into competitive swimming, you'll be the greatest swimmer of all time. But you can see how devastating this would be if you were a mother and you'd been caring for this thing that you thought was your own child. But it was this horrible little creature that had stolen the place of your baby.

It's pretty brutal. It's terrifying. It's terrifying to think that that could happen to any of us and that any one of us might be a changeling. Yeah. Do I even know if I'm a changeling? I mean, that's a good point. I think all of the criteria were being ill, loud, and evil.

And I think we pretty much check all of those boxes. Yeah, so who knows? Maybe Rory and Kit were zapped out in the first episode podcasters definitely are more likely to be changelings we're definitely loud and evil yeah the disappointments to our parents like the only reason a son of mine would grow up to be a podcaster is if they were swapped at birth uh look i i know that was an story, but it's not the only story that we have. Kit, I have three more encounters that people have had with fairies over the years.

And while we don't have time to break them down entirely in this one episode, let's do bite-sized looks. We're talking... Fairy-sized looks. Little fairy-sized looks. This is a little segment that I'm going call power stories we have three stories cool you named it after yourself that's interesting three stories a brief synopsis of what happened and then you come to the conclusion at

the end as to whether or not you think they're real okay i like this. Stories within stories. Many episodes within the episode. Exactly. Okay, so first up, in 1909, a lady called Annie McIntyre from County Derry claimed that she'd been stolen away by fairies as a child. Do you think that this is true or untrue? Holy! He said this is bite-sized. This is molecule-sized. This is dust-sized. Well, to a fairy, a fairy it's a feast sir it's a huge feast did you not see honey i shrunk the kids the cookies of mountain to them the ant is a beast to them so this little story is like a two-parter to a fairy this is this is like i probably should

have added a little more information that that is very short. This is like a challenge for Sherlock Holmes himself. There is no wrong or right answer. Sounds like there is. It either happened or it didn't, surely. I'm going to say you didn't specify exactly where, but we know it's County Derry. Stolen away by fairies as a child. As in she's now an adult and not stolen

by fairies so what happened to her and now she's back so she would have had to have presumably fought her way out of some kind of fairy realm i believe her brother threw a bible at them and scared them away okay i'm i'm out okay this shouldn't have you don't understand why i kept it short you son of a bitch Her brother threw a Bible at them. He saw them on the streets. Yeah, the brother caught them as they were taking her away, I believe. All right. That was a dud.

But I guarantee we got two more stories to go. I thought it was a lot more supernatural. It sounds like her brother caught pedophiles stealing his little sister. Threw a Bible at them and scared them away. I don't think it was even consequential that it was a Bible i think he just hit them with a book yeah yeah i don't want to go on record to say that a bible works against pedos i think i'd use a gun wow they've already made their choices uh all right story number two in march 1895 a woman named bridget Cleary was killed by her family because according to them, the real Bridget had been abducted by fairies who had left a changeling behind in her place. Jesus, did that

really happen? That actually happened. Holy moly. I am worried about this. I'm worried about the concept of changelings being used to get rid of people yes i will say um the entire family were arrested and charged with murder because that's not a reason to kill anyone this one is probably just murder murder i reckon yeah i mean if the if the judge came to that decision that's probably all right i'm starting to lose faith in power stories as a concept. Because the first one was no, and the second one was murder. The first one was pedos. The second one was murders. But hey, we got one more story.

We can turn this thing around. I'm excited. Let's go. I have a feeling in my heart that this could be real already. I haven't heard it yet. Because if this goes well, then this could be like everyone's like. A recurring theme, yeah. Do power stories.

Do power stories. It could be everyone's favorite moment. Okay. All right. We got this. We got this. Let's go. All right.

In 1917, in Cottingley, West Yorkshire, 10-year-old Frances Griffiths and her cousin, Elise Wright, claimed to have met a group of fairies in the garden of their house. Okay. The girls managed to take a picture of the creatures, and when their father developed the film, this is what he saw. This is a crazy segue into physical evidence, by the way. Holy! This is...

What am I looking at? A little girl is straight up posing for a photo. You want to look good, don't you? This isn't even candid. And there is a Great Gatsby-style party of fairies happening directly in front of her. They're playing trumpets, dancing. Look, regarding the pose for a start, if you knew you were going to be involved in a photo that was going to shatter the concept of people's reality, you're going to want to look good.

It's true. It's like if I was out in the woods and I saw a unicorn and you were like, let me take a picture of you riding this. You're going to fix your hair first. I'm going to pop my shirt open a little bit. Just a couple of buttons. Get some oil on some body oils maybe thrown into photoshop if you get lucky it could be the number one tinder profile pick exactly so no disrespect for this uh lovely lady doing a bit of um doing a bit of modeling around the uh the fairy festival that

photo is allowed to take in what do you make of that well i feel like i should say right off the bat uh it's fake um are you sure it was i think it's pretty good i will say for the for the record for those people uh listening to the podcast when you think of what a fairy might be like captured on film maybe you imagine some sort of orb maybe like a uh legend of zelda style navi like a ball with wings coming out wings these are little women with butterfly wings one of them has a little trumpet yeah and they're just blasting away dancing having a great time yeah it's a fairy from any fantasy movie ever it's not very it's not very discreet no it. It's pretty in your face. I maybe should have waited a little longer to reveal that it was fake. I'm honestly glad that you did tell me that because I was about to double down pretty hard on those.

So, I mean, that's the end of power stories. Yeah. That didn't quite play out the way I wanted it to. We'll probably will cut it from the episode, but, you know. That's rude. out the way i wanted to we'll probably will cut it from the episode but uh you know that's rude but thanks for nothing but also uh i guess trying something new yeah i think maybe um all of those could have fit as full stories in the episode they didn't need to be powerized they didn't need to be condensed it might have been a bit depressing if if they were drawn out i actually

had heard of that photo or photos if there was more of them i should have referred to it by its name it's called the coddingly fairies there you go because that's the location yeah i was quite upset when i um read what it actually was because even our our researcher amy talked about them uh briefly was like hey the coddingly fair have you not heard of the coddingly fairies it's a famous moment in british paranormal history i was so excited i couldn't believe it um and i i researched it and it's nonsense it's i almost didn't want to include it because it's such an insult to even entertain in this story but it is fascinating because it convinced a lot of people i think yeah at the time there was like a writer who was involved in the sherlock holmes novels that he was

like this is complete evidence of paranormal entities yeah arthur conan doyle the the writer of sherlock holmes incredibly celebrated british author one of the most famous of all time and he wrote many different things he wrote treaties and political books and opinions and and some of the most famous novels of all time um it's a bit of a dark smudge on his history is the coddingly fairies uh he he went hard he believed in them he wrote essays about how real they were how everyone needs to wake the up because the fairies are here um and then yeah got a bit of egg on his face in the end it's a weird hill to die on especially if you didn't even see the fairies you just saw a picture of the fairies

and already you're praying to the fairy lords below you it's a kind of strange i think even if i saw a fairy i'd be like get the f**k out of here no get the f**k i i don't want anything to do with this like i got work on monday i got a lot of shit i've got a hit book series over here to take care of i i would not want one to get involved in my life in any capacity i feel like the modern version of uh conan doyle and the cuttingly fairies is tom delong from blink Blink-182 and UFOs. He's just like, f*** it, I quit everything. I quit being in one of the

most famous bands ever to research UFOs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's kind of crazy. That's almost a good argument that aliens are real because you gave up being in the raddest band of all time to search for the

the truth about the universe at least he dedicated himself to like a field of study not just a photo he saw one photo and went mother of god and cancelled his whole life he watched et and then cancelled the blink us tour. He's like, this has a glowing finger and I need to find him and touch it. Hiring dozens of ex NASA employees. Can you find them? You mean aliens? I mean,

ET, we're going to start with aliens. And if we find ET, we'll let you know. Okay, sir. Do you think, uh, cause I know there's a couple songs by blink 182

that like are kind of like alien related they were obviously specifically aliens exist yeah that one there are some subtle hints placed in the blink discography such as aliens exist and they out there um i like to think every song that tom wrote was about aliens and they just had to like tweak the lyrics right even the love songs even the yeah all of it it's just like where are you are you real you can't say that one tom you can work it into like i'm so sorry yeah or something like that you can change it to feeling this. That was originally about feeling a connection with the universe. Like, no, it has to be about, I don't know, boobs. What was it about in the end?

I don't think so. I think it's a pretty emotional song. Is that what you took from that song? That's fascinating. Maybe we need to go back and listen to their discography with this in mind. Yeah, find all the subtle hints. You can get anything you need with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything.

So no, you can't get snowballs on Uber Eats. But meatballs and mozzarella balls. Yes, we can deliver that. Uber Eats. Get almost, almost anything. Order now. Product availability may vary by region. See app for details. That was interesting, though, the stuff that you said about the Sherlock Holmes writer. That's crazy.

Do you want to host? Do you want to host the show? No, man, it was just a little one-off. I just heard of the photo before. No, you seem to have all the answers and all the information. No, man, it's just the one photo. It's normal because we're both one photo like it's normal that because we're both paranormal investigators pretty famous story why don't i'm kind of surprised you

hadn't heard of it to be honest it's just i don't remember which one of us which one of us stayed up all night writing power stories and researching that took you all night which one of us did that it was me actually it wasn't in the end of dialogue why Why don't you take the iPad and I'll sit on my ass and ridicule everything you say. You are sitting on your ass. How about that? I didn't ridicule anything you said. How about that, buddy?

You're getting real testy about the episode on fairies and it's been great. I want to hand it to you. I bring the evidence. I bring the stories. If you want to contribute and add in your own points,

just let me know beforehand. Just say, hey. Hey, bud. I've been adding in stories for four years. You never a problem it seems this one is really i think it's because i was i want to say it might have been because i was treading on power stories is that possible a little bit yeah okay as i said i've been up for days working on power stories and uh the rest of the episode has been great it didn't pan out why did power stories bullshit what was i thinking let's just let's this is gonna sound nuts all right let's do them again we'll just do them

again and we'll cut it from the first time we can't do it we can't do it i can't i can't pretend that i'm hearing this because i didn't i didn't tee it up right the first time so if we could get some like wow rock and roll music in here i don't think it's gonna help i know that's because the first one's about a pedo so i can't the rock and roll isn't it's gonna fall flat on its face we're gonna try it again avoid the pedo shit seriously because that was that that i think is put a bad taste in people's mouth and for the second one don't even i'll try but it's don't even say murder you said it was a murder case. Rawr! Welcome to Power Hour. A story's f***ed. I got the name wrong in the s***.

You kept doing the voice. F***. Rawr! We're doing another take here. In 1909, a lady was ganked by fairies. What do you think? B-b-b-b-brother? I'm changing up the rest.

This isn't better. I'm'm telling you not it's not better forget it i said the episode was good it's going great you just need to forget forget i just need to what move past power stories was a fine bit of the case no it's just gonna poison it's just poison in a in a you're putting your way to invest it in power stories because i feel like it's just gonna poison it's just poison in a in a way to invest it in power stories because i feel like it's just because it's got your name attached to it why don't we just call how how would you feel if you made some bullshit and called it kit spaghetti what if you made a dish called kit spaghetti and it tasted like asshole would you be happy about that no you wouldn't would you you'd want to change the recipe i wouldn't i wouldn't keep calling it kit spaghetti i would revamp the recipe sure okay so you're

thinking if i changed the name of it all right so that was um that section in the middle was uh greer tails no that's kit greer tails so um unless y'all liked it if y'all liked it it's not it's not kit spaghetti or Greer Tales. That's definitely power. No one thought it was kid spaghetti. No one thought it was kid spaghetti. Look, the main takeaway from this episode isn't power stories. The main takeaway is don't be an Artemis Fowl.

Don't f*** with fairies. They're mischievous little pint sized bastards that will steal your babies or they will drown you. In some stories, they made people vanish for years into the fairy realm. That's bad. Where they thought they were dancing for merely minutes until they were brought back into the human world where they'd been gone for years. Jesus, that's terrifying. So how do you avoid fairies or their curses?

Let me tell you. The first thing to look out for is fairy rings. Now we have actually covered this on the podcast before. I think actually in one of your episodes towards the start, we talked a little bit about fairy rings years ago, specifically not to disturb them. Um, for those of you who don't know, fairy rings are basically a bunch of mushrooms or flowers or some form of vegetation growing in a circle where there should be no reason why anything would grow in such a perfect circle. For sure. When people have tried to clear them or step into them or mess with them in any way, there's been some pretty disastrous accidents that have taken place i think i seem to remember it runs

the gamut from uh if you step in a fairy circle you may experience bad luck or something all the way to that you go to the fairy realm yeah almost like a prison sentence depending on how hard you with the ring it could be nine years in the fairy realm. You're sentenced to. They do 25 to life in the fairy realm as well. If you piss in a fairy circle, you get lifetime in the fairy realm, which is deserved, frankly, because you're showing a huge amount of ignorance to some pretty magical little creatures. Number two to look out for. Don't cut a fairy thorn. i didn't know what that was but

apparently these are hawthorn trees that belong to the fairy and anyone that damages or cuts one down risks you guessed it lifetime in the fairy realm this is a very real one i know people right now they're thinking kit and rory tells such funny stories. It's just a little ha ha, a little fun time to talk about the fairies. I can vouch for this. I vouched for it years ago when we talked about fairy circles, my extended family, my uncles and stuff like that. A lot of farming background in our family. Yeah, because your family history is a lot closer linked to Ireland.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So on one side of my family, they're from like the glens of Antrim, which was, I seem to remember in the Leprechauns episode, a site of a leprechaun gold mine. So there's a lot of activity. And I have heard long before we started this paranormal life tales of my family members and them working with people in the countryside around Northern Ireland, grown men, old men that would refuse to touch one of these trees, fairy bushes, they called it, or fairy circle. And if you drive around the countryside you will occasionally see it you'll see a beautiful pristine field maybe filled with um animals or crops and you will see a bush just left alone nothing touching it because they don't want to risk the going to the fairy realm yeah and and it's not even something as dramatic as that or like a little imp slaps you about in your sleep. It's just bad luck. Yeah, exactly.

Sometimes it takes the form of like just a curse. You'll curse your family for all times. So yeah, it's a very real thing, especially as I said, in places like Ireland where people take this thing very seriously. Experts also warn not to pick flowers from elder trees on Midsummer's eve i know you love doing that so i felt the need to put that one in there well it's midsummer's eve just like

the summer equinox is that it oh i have no idea well we better figure it out or else i'm gonna be in trouble but i don't really pick flowers from elder trees anyway i think that's something out of skyrim there's not a lot of those in in east london i'll tell you how much yeah the east london version of that is don't buy a bottle of buckfast from a corner shop on friday at 3 a.m if you that's a real curse that you'll inflict on yourself if you go uh if you go down a street corner in hackney and ask for uh where you can find the nearest elder tree you'll leave with about 50 quids worth of weed so those are the ways that you don't want to mess with them how do you actively repel them so they don't even come anywhere near you well apparently they don't like to be around bad energy so things like arguments and foul language wards them off well that's bullshit because it sounds

like they're very troublesome. So that's pretty rich of them. Yeah, it's a little rude to say you don't like bad energy, but you will zap a child into another dimension. It's judgy. It's judgy of them. For people who need to be judged. If you want to keep them away, you can salt around your your your house or being that's

classic or plant yellow flowers apparently they hate that on your own fairy circle it sounds like yeah pretty much yeah i don't see fairy circle they also don't like anything made out of iron because i think if they're hit by iron or cut by iron the wound never heals oh interesting it's like they're kryptonite damn that's really interesting yeah so if you were to wear like they're just gonna say if they get hit with an iron rod they die just like the rest of us an iron cricket bat will do the job just fine but be warned because there's going to be a couple people who listen to this episode and think hey why don't i try with fairies i'm going to get involved in this shit there's going to be a couple of people who listen to this episode and think, hey, why don't I try f***ing with fairies? I'm going to get involved in this shit.

I'm going to start kicking up circles and doing weird things. Once the fairy folk have noticed you, it can never be undone. You're on their radar forever. F*** off. Till the day you die. Wow. I'm starting to understand why uh you know whenever i said my family were too afraid to cut down that perry bush i did it well you cut it down yeah they were like

yeah we're too scared to i was like i ain't scared of dick granddad i uh took a chainsaw to it that afternoon and you're telling me that you're never getting off the radar. I'm on the radar. Did you never? I mean, after that, is there any years of bad luck or? Asking me if I've had any years of bad luck is like asking a pig if they've ever seen shit. I live in it. I exist in it. I live for it. In shit or in a curse?

Sometimes both. That's a bad curse. My life was as bad before the fact as after the fact. Well, that just about wraps up all the evidence that I have for today's case. You know, it is a strange one. Like I said, like the dragon's case, like the goblins, like the leprechauns. It's a creature that we do need to cover because it is paranormal. But maybe a lot of the stories and legends we hear are a little more fictitious than some of the ones we usually cover. The only contemporary story we had was the one at the start, which was an Internet post online.

So really not not even from a newspaper or an online article or anything like that. So it's a tough one. It's a tough one this week. But what do you think in kit fairies? You think there's any any truth to this? This is great. So it's a tough one. It's a tough one this week. But what are you thinking, Kit? Fairies. You think there's any truth to this? This is great. Thank you for bringing such excellent evidence, photographic evidence that fooled... Power stories. Fooled, sure.

How did you feel about power stories? Much like Kit Spaghetti, it tasted like asshole. Photographic evidence that even fooled Sir arthur conan doyle himself it fooled a knight no less and yet we are left with stories that are pretty much completely unbelievable um yeah people claiming to have been abducted as children their brothers rescued them from the fairy realm i don't really know what to do with that i don't know if that's provable a woman who was just murdered by her family. Because there was no proof of fairies there either. They just thought she was a fairy. Oh yeah. Yeah. That was a really grisly story. I had to shorten that one quite a bit. And yet Rory, my gut says that

there's something to it. My gut says that in the folk, ancient folklore of Ireland, that there's something to these fairy stories. like i say my own family believes that they know these places where the uh fairies reside and i'm not saying i haven't seen sure hell a fairy or two on a psychedelic voyage uh so f**k it uh i'm gonna go in yes i think there's fairies out there oh amazing uh i am a no this week new card uh wow it's never this way i feel like anytime it's a there's a yes no it's always me saying yes sometimes you gotta stir the pot it's true if you need to if you need to break a branch off a fairy tree and stir that pot and get cursed for a lifetime well hell brother that just shows that they're real i did just i did just tell you that i watched well re-watched uh princess

mononoke last night yep an amazing movie that if you haven't seen it i definitely recommend that whole movie is basically showing what happens when when humans with the forest spirits uh there's some repercussions there it turns out but unfortunately i think in today's case while i do love the idea of a fairy circles and the legends surrounding them yeah i just don't have the evidence today i mean at least in the leprechaun episode we had the leprechaun bones and a little hat and some gold i think left over um whereas fairies yeah a lot more just stories and legends a lot of story which ironically did make it pretty much a full house in terms of the pyramid of truth it had hearsay legend

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I get to an interesting bit anyway about God creating the world at the very dawn of time. In a snap of the fingers and a dab on the haters, God created the earth. And at first, there's nothing but bright light. Eventually it dims. Then it brightens again. Night and day now exist. God then creates the sea and the sky. His next move is the land. I like to imagine at this point, he looks like Goku trying to summon every fiber strength in his being, lifting the earth. Yeah! Tiring rocks burst forth from the blue depths. He crafts the sun and moon, then sprinkles the night with stars.

He commands life to spring forth in the ocean and fills the skies with birds. The Almighty brings about mammals on the land, creating a ton of different species. Jesus, that's a busy week. Yeah. I mean, I get stressed when we have to do a podcast like four days from now. I can't. I'm stressed as all hell. I need a Mai Tai after five minutes of podcasting.

I once got an email and a text at the same time and had to take a nap. I was so overwhelmed. time and had to take a nap i was so overwhelmed so i don't know how this motherfucker is flicking his wrist from the three-point line and making man i i mean we talked the other day about how i got so stressed recently i deleted whatsapp in a panic removed myself from countless groups and family chats uh because i was getting too many text messages yeah i would be a bad god you'd be terrible gods i would get more than one prayer at one time and i would lose it i'm like stop talking at once that's it hurricane hurricane now you little f**kers need to chill out uh yeah i just told you the other day that my uh

my email app on my iphone just crossed over 1000 unread emails if those were prayers then i'm pretty sure humanity wouldn't be very happy with their deity i like i like as well that this is kind of like the relationship that uh we have in the paranormal commune where you know people are like writing in the complaint box sending us letters banging on the door being like where's the food where's the rations we haven't had clean water in days and we're like that's enough we can answer one prayer one prayer a week is what you guys get so you need to come together as a community and decide one thing. One community member gets randomly selected every week. This week, the guy's like, I want a sandwich.

Granted. Everyone's like, you f***. We don't have water. Like salami, my favorite. It's a wish. Like we're genies. Granted. The crowd has spoken!

You could have at least got sandwiches for everyone! Ah! Ha ha ha ha! Oh, man. Those sons of bitches. Those guys. What are they like? Those little changeling bastards.

I'd like to go for a drink with the guys who record that show. We should say that the regular episodes are recorded by kit and rory um the bonus episodes are are changeling doppelgangers who are just stirring up shit just being evil um half of the episode is us playing the pan flute randomly just in during intervals it's pretty annoying and we do have to live in the fairy realm because of that. They have taken our place in the human realm. Sure. But, you know, whatever. Half the work.

It's all right here. As I said, cookies are big. Ants are also big, which is terrifying. But, you know, pretzels, huge. Ask me about burgers. Ask me about, go on. What are the burgers like? Enormous, dude.

You won't even believe it you won't even need the double cheeseburger the single cheeseburger will suffice will feed your family for generations a single happy meal fry could build a civilization do you understand how small we are in this room chocolate chip is some kind of f***ed up chocolate Everest for you to climb. I saw a man crushed by a breadcrumb. He was impaled. He was obliterated by the crumb. So it's not all bad here in the fairy realm.

But the exciting news is that we are being freed from the fairy realm for a very short period of time and i know a lot of you guys out there are like hey we want to see you kit we want to see you rory if you are escaping the fairy realm and you can see us as we said on last week's episode of the podcast we are going to be doing a little paranormal picnic slash meet and greet for this paranormal life fans who are either in london or near london so come along it's saturday august 21st at the reformers tree in hyde park or nearby we should should be able to spot us from there you should be able to spot us we're going to be there from 4 p.m is that correct that's right from 4 p.m. There is an event page in the description of this podcast. But we've also just given you all the information that you need. Hopefully,

some of you guys can make it and hang out and have some food and some drinks. And for those of you who, you know, live a little bit too far to come or you live in a different country, don't worry about it. This is just a way for us to have a small meet and greet and do some form of live activity this year. We wanted to do live shows. We wanted to do, you know, bigger tours. But unfortunately, all of those things have been put on hold until probably next year. So fingers crossed, we will be doing a live show, a full This Paranormal Life show at a venue near your location at some point in the future. But in the meantime, as I said,

if you're nearby, come along on Saturday. It's going to be a blast. So hopefully we'll be seeing some of you this Saturday. If you can't find the event page, the best way to find it is to head on over to Facebook and join the This Paranormal Life life secret society i'm sure it'll be posted there and you can even chat with a ton of other members who will be coming uh to visit on the day so hopefully see some of you then and if you're listening to this in 2025 tell our families we love them we probably haven't lasted that long we probably died from the fairy curse yeah i'm assuming it's going to be you know start off as like a nice little picnic and some triangle sandwiches um a couple couple beers maybe a couple shots maybe some of that elder tree that you mentioned okay you're getting carried away

and then we march on parliament what that's right the revolution revolution begins. No. No. Thank you for listening to this week's episode. We will be back next Tuesday with a brand new Paranormal Tale.