This Paranormal Life - The Haunted Research Stations of Antarctica

Episode Date: July 21, 2026

If you explore the empty ice fields of Antarctica, you can discover over 80 research stations scattered across the continent. These bases are completely isolated, miles from civilisation, and because ...so many early expeditions to the arctic ended in tragedy, a lot of these stations are abandoned and quite literally frozen in time. But are these research bases REALLY empty? Are the ice sheets of Antarctica hiding a terrible paranormal secret? Let’s investigate… LONDON LIVE SHOW⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.tickettailor.com/events/cheerfulearful/2084541 Become a commune member to get access to bonus episodes: ⁠https://thisparanormallife.com⁠ Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Secret Society Facebook Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Official TPL Merch!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Edited by Philip Shacklady Researched by ⁠Ewen Friers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Scattered across the empty and frozen ice fields of Antarctica are over 80 research stations. These bases are completely isolated, miles from civilization. And because so many early expeditions to the Arctic ended in tragedy, a lot of these stations are abandoned, quite literally, frozen in time. However, it seems like they're not completely empty. People have reported strange figures in the dark, doors locking by themselves, and mysterious voices calling them out into the snow. Not the sort of thing you want to experience when there's nowhere to run. So what is happening in these research stations? Are the
Starting point is 00:00:39 ice sheets of Antarctica hiding a terrible paranormal secret? If I do a headstand on the South Pole, am I technically wearing the earth as a big hat? All of these questions you can find the answer to on this paranormal life. Hello everybody and Welcome back to this paranormal life, the comedy paranormal podcast, where every week we dissect a brand new paranormal tale and come to a conclusion as to whether or not it truly is paranormal. Kit, in London right now at the time of recording, we are in the midst of a heat wave. Yes. So what better way to cool down than head to the ice fields of Antarctica? Okay, no, you're saying you're intentionally taking us in the middle of a global heat wave to the coldest place on Earth, I think.
Starting point is 00:01:27 I don't know if it's the coldest place on Earth. I think so. I think it is the coldest place on Earth. Yes, yes I am. A place where you wouldn't think there'd be a lot of paranormal activity. But have you ever seen John Carpenter's The Thing? Oh gosh. No, actually.
Starting point is 00:01:42 Oh shit, really? Friar alert, dude. There's actually, yeah, it's mostly about the thing today. So it really helps. No, it's set in an Arctic research base where there's some paranormal stuff going on. So that's kind of what we're dealing. with today, that kind of isolation, those lone scientists in the middle of nowhere dealing with some sort of paranormal phenomenon.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Kim, we've all heard the phrase we know more about the surface of the moon than the bottom of the sea. Well, have you heard of the phrase we know more about the bottom of the sea than the surface of Antarctica? Now, if you've listened to episode 7 of this paranormal life, you will know that Antarctica is also the entrance to the hollow earth, guarded by anti-gravity guns to protect New Berlin, where Hitler lives right now, alongside the ancient aliens, who are over 800 years old. We don't know that as a fact to be true.
Starting point is 00:02:34 Well, listen to again to that episode. Yeah. But we're going to find out today if there's any more paranormal activity going on in Antarctica, and let me tell you, there is. Jeez. The Hulu original series Furious is coming to Disney Plus, starring Emmy Rossum. Furious follows FBI agent Alice Black on the...
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Starting point is 00:03:59 who are preyed on by the trawler, a serial killer targeting teenagers across the city. This fever dream of youth, beauty, sex, and mystery is a must see. FX's The Shards, streaming August 5th on Hulu on Disney Plus. Sign up now at Disneyplus.com. Kit, our story today begins in McMurdo Station, an American research station on the southern tip of Ross Island in Antarctica. It's late at night, and a cleaner at the station
Starting point is 00:04:28 is sweeping the floors of the base is gymnasium. Most of the residents are home, sleeping in the dormitories. Temperatures at night can reach negative 30. So there isn't much nightlife when the sun goes down. Can you imagine being a cleaner in Antarctica? I mean, being in Antarctica in any form is pretty unbelievable. Well, it's just because, like, I think we've all collectively, as a society wrapped our head around the fact that some scientists are loco enough
Starting point is 00:04:56 to be like, look, it's my life's work. to find out what this weird fish is doing underneath the ice. But you forget that they need other people to work there. There's just like a guy who's chopping vegetables. Yeah, they need a cook. There's just a chef. Yeah. There's lots of them, apparently. Yeah, this is just a cleaner who works at one of the stations.
Starting point is 00:05:15 He's not even a scientist. Can you imagine going in for the job interview at Taco Bell? And it's like, well, ah, Greg, you know, hey, great CV. And sadly, we don't need you in the Carl's Bad location. right now of Taco Bell. But an exciting new store is being opened. It's brand new. It's somewhere very cool that you'll find. We need you to head up the frozen foods department. It's like, oh, like in the in the facilities. A facility for sure. A facility for sure. And all your customers will be very, the brightest minds of all. Oh, is it on a university
Starting point is 00:05:52 campus? Kind of. Kind of. The pay is minimum wage. Isn't it nice when you're clog off from work and go enjoy a cold one? What if everything you own was cold? What if your life was cold? What if everyone was cold in your life? When the floors were finally finished being swept, the cleaner grabbed their broom and hit the lights, sending the gymnasium into total darkness. But as their eyes adjusted to the dark, they spotted something in the hall. Figures. Dozens of them. Standing at the end of the gymnasium.
Starting point is 00:06:28 Even in the low light, the cleaner could see their ghostly faces watching him. Ghostly Hoopers? This is a real testimony from a cleaner working at McMurdo Station. And it's just one of dozens of paranormal encounters that have taken place at this research station, and there's a good reason why. You see, in 1979, Flight 901, a sightseeing flight from New Zealand, crashed into the mountains of Antarctica. It was an absolute tragedy that killed all 257 on board.
Starting point is 00:07:02 Oh my God. While researching this case, I actually read a lot about this because I think I've said on the podcast before, whenever I was sick and I wasn't allowed to go to school, my parents said, you can stay home and you can watch TV, but it has to be educational television. Right. You can watch TV, but you can enjoy it. So you got to watch the History Channel, which is probably why I'm a paranormal investigator now. They confiscated his Hannah Montana DVDs.
Starting point is 00:07:34 Yep, they wouldn't let me watch the Lizzie McGuire movie. And I was forced to watch the History Channel. Weirdly at that time, I think it was the History Channel, was running a show called Air Crash Investigations. And I was watching back to back to back, airplanes, crash into mountains, sink into the ocean. Right, they were kind of hoping for like, you were watching number blocks. Right. Watch Fri-Sestimmy Street. Just learning something about English, maths.
Starting point is 00:08:04 You were just learning the names of early 19th century explorers. It's like, brother doesn't even know how to count yet. Yeah, and I already know about what a black box is. Yeah, so I hadn't heard of this crash before, but it was really horrible, you know, killing everybody on board. After the crash, much of the recovery operation was held near the McMurdo Research Station, and ever since, the base has been plagued with strange occurrences, including odd noises, footsteps, and voices with no obvious speaker. Doors open of their own accord, and researchers encounter strange, unexplainable shadows.
Starting point is 00:08:45 One commentator online, who claims to have worked at McMurdo, said, There are several different ghosts or spirits around McMurdo Station. I know the building 165 has some weird things happen where the lights turn on without anyone around. But the weirdest thing that has happened in the building has got to be the time when the men's upstairs bathroom locked someone inside and we had to call the locksmith. Okay. I mean, that sounds like really interesting firsthand witness stuff.
Starting point is 00:09:15 Getting locked in a bathroom literally happens all the time every day. Yeah, it's a bit disappointing that he said that's the weirdest thing that happened. I think seeing the shadow people. You said there was 12 hoopers in the gym. Yeah, yeah. Or at least there was in the gym and I infer that they were basketball players. Can you imagine being stationed in Antarctica and being in a situation where you have to call a locksmith? Right, the call out fee is going to be a little higher than normal.
Starting point is 00:09:42 It's like, yeah, you're stuck in the bathroom. Okay, well, I'll be there in three weeks. I need to start altitude training right now so that my body can withstand the pressures Is there opening under the door? You could probably slide a couple slices of cheese under there, keep them going.
Starting point is 00:09:58 Yeah, it'd be totally fine. Listen, as someone who has gotten stuck in a bathroom before, it is a very stressful experience. Right. So. What's your advice to anyone who might be going through that right now? Maybe as they're listening to this podcast. Kick the door down.
Starting point is 00:10:12 Oh, as they're going to say, stay calm. Well, I got stuck in. a porto potty. At essentially like a festival. The door jammed, the plastic door jammed. Those doors are the construction of like a kids push car. Yeah. It wasn't jammed.
Starting point is 00:10:33 You were drunk and you couldn't figure it. It's literally a latch that goes... I twisted the latch? Door didn't open. Twist the latch back. Door didn't open. And you have to be very... careful when you're...
Starting point is 00:10:47 I can't be careful when you're pounding on the door of a portable potty. Yeah. Which is an embarrassing name, by the way. Just call it like a, I don't know, pop-up toilet. That's what I would call it. Right. Um, is because if you push too hard and end up knocking over the beast, you're night's over. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:06 You're about to, you're in- You're in the soup. You're in the soup. So I would say, you know, we're laughing today, but it's a stressful situation to be in. Well, luckily, we're not here to just invest in. to investigate McMurdo Station. As I said, there are over 80 other research stations in Antarctica, many of which are home to paranormal activity,
Starting point is 00:11:25 when they really shouldn't be home to any activity, because a lot of these bases are relics from the early Arctic explorations. Our next station is known as Scott's Hut, a small research base that was abandoned in 1911. Now, this base was established by Robert Falcon Scott, who, along with a number of crew members, attempted to research the South Pole. The mission was a disaster. And like so many Arctic explorers at the time, Scott and his team, of four others, died in the cold.
Starting point is 00:11:59 You know, say what you will about rich British guys. They used to be doing shit. Yeah. Now it's kind of just being fiscally and morally corrupt. Yeah. Being very, like unethical business practice. Yeah, well, now it's like, It's like, what I'll do this weekend?
Starting point is 00:12:17 Buy a newspaper, rig the next election. Sure. You know, light work for a Saturday afternoon, really. Back in 2011, they just woke up and they were like, what's the coldest place on earth? Yeah. Has anyone been there? No?
Starting point is 00:12:32 Lads, let's go. Yeah. Let's go. Let's do it. But that being said, it's quite depressing if you read the Wikipedia pages of all of these early Arctic explorers. Because almost every time you read the page, you reached the section about where they died in the cold?
Starting point is 00:12:48 Well, that's it. I mean, it really was, you know, it's hard for us to wrap our heads around because the earth really did need to be explored back then. You know how you just send the new DJI drone and it'll do all the work for you. But back then, we actually needed to go check stuff out with our peepers. So incredibly ill-prepared peepers. So, you know, and all they were, you know, what was their sports nutrition, a cup of Earl Grey tea and a big.
Starting point is 00:13:14 Maybe. You know, they weren't, I don't know. So it seemed, looking back, it seems like a bit of a fool's errand and they died in terrible circumstances. But they were trying to do a pretty brave thing. True. Very true. And even though Scott is gone, Scott's hut is still standing, which is terrifying for a
Starting point is 00:13:31 lot of reasons, but maybe mostly because people who have visited the hut have reported strange noises coming from inside. The website, Polar Latitudes, talked about the hut and said, Some visitors have said that stepping foot in the hut brings a feeling of dread. Others have seen shadowy figures and heard misplaced noises. I don't know what it is about this that really freaks me the f*** out. It kind of feels like visiting this hut would be like visiting the moon landing. I think that's it.
Starting point is 00:14:05 I think it's an inherently godless space. Right, just cold and evil, especially if the guy died in 1911 and really the base isn't being used anymore, it is literally frozen in time. You could go in and like all the plates would still just be there at the table and all the maps on the wall, just all iced over. It's hard as well because if you know that you're about to freeze to death, you want to make sure you're hitting a good pose. You want to make sure that emote is at the right time.
Starting point is 00:14:40 Oh, ice in the veins is so good. Frozen forever. Oh my god. You want to be like looks maxing the next generation when they discover your body. Just dabbing on the haters
Starting point is 00:14:54 forever. Yeah. Your arms break off. Doing like a cool hero point. A flex or something. Right. Something cool like that. I think the malnourishment
Starting point is 00:15:02 will mean you won't have the energy to flex. You won't have any muscles left. And you just know that you're going to be holding the flex for three days waiting for the frost to take you. And then you're like,
Starting point is 00:15:12 okay, I'm just going to scratch my ass for one second. You feel it freezing over. It's so instant. I'm just going to take a pissed real quick. Oh, no, no, no. Your tiny little frozen dick out.
Starting point is 00:15:28 It's cold, too, sir. It's that penis is like, good lord, does his penis fall off? No, no, it's there. It's just very small. Thanks to the cold. Oh, dear, polar bear seemed to bit it off his nuts out. Oh, do you scratch your ass? Bro's back in the early 20th century, love nothing more than leaving their wife and kids behind forever.
Starting point is 00:15:53 They really looked at a family of like nine kids. I'm like, I'm going to go now. I'm going to go and maybe never come back. Good luck with that. You have a wife, seven children. You just inherited the manner. And generational wealth are like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. What's the biggest animal alive right now?
Starting point is 00:16:11 Can we find it and kill it? I want to go to the Congo with me. You know what I could really do with is just looking at 19 hairy men for about six years straight. Yeah, about six years should do it. Can you imagine getting married to one of these guys and you know, you get married, you spend your wedding night together the next morning you wake up in a big beautiful bed, roll over and he's already just like got a butler sizing him up for a jungle suit. Like one of those beige vests.
Starting point is 00:16:45 It's like, oh, yeah, yeah, no, I was just, I was going to head off on The Voyage. That's kind of my honeymoon for myself. Yes. I'm going to Brazil. Going to this place, I've been reading so much about called Akator. This guy was saying he's going to take me there. Tutunga says he's going to take me to Akitor. What is the modern day equivalent of this being like any kind of touring act, I guess?
Starting point is 00:17:11 You have a relationship, but then you're like, but the music calls me. And then you're just gone on the road traveling for it. Just being in Imagine Dragons on the road, 307 days a year. Yeah. It's like, bro, imagine being there for your child. How about that? Imagine school. How about that?
Starting point is 00:17:31 Imagine drop off. Imagine being a dependable father. What funny accusation to level. I know, because we want to say. things just like he's actually amazing dragon. Imagine raising your child. Imagine that, dude. Wild work for me to be sighted here
Starting point is 00:17:54 when my wife and kid are back home and Ireland is off. You imagine that. Anyway, I got to go record my paranormal podcast in London. I got to go FaceTime my daughter. Jeez. I also want it on record. I don't know anything about Imagine Dragons.
Starting point is 00:18:07 I don't know what their relationship status is. I'm sure they are great parents. Divorced, actually. Yeah. Maybe, maybe. Don't worry, Kit, this isn't the only abandoned hut in the Arctic that belongs to a deceased explorer that we're visiting today. Our next haunted research base belongs to one of the best to ever do it, Ernest Shackleton. Ah.
Starting point is 00:18:29 Now, we have talked about him on the podcast before. His Wikipedia page actually doesn't have a frozen-to-death section. Hooray! Because, as we know, when he got lost in the Arctic, a ghost guided him and his men back to safety. Ah, he got lucky. Maybe he said a couple extra Hail Mary as the others didn't. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:49 This was our investigation into Third Man Syndrome, a really cool episode I'd recommend checking out. It is episode 324 and talks all about Ernest Shackleton and those early Arctic explorations. But even though he survived, his research base still exists on Ross Island, Antarctica. And when it was visited in the late 1950s, the visitor realized it wasn't abandoned after all.
Starting point is 00:19:15 The man who traveled to visit the hut was legendary Kiwi explorer Edmund Hillary. Brilliant. Who was also the first person to conquer Mount Everest. Who was also the first person to witness the trail of the Bigfoot? Yes. I knew Kit was going to know that this... With his Sharpa, Tensing, nor gay, I think.
Starting point is 00:19:38 You remember in a way more that I think. thought you would. But yes, Edmund Hillary was on record as to say that the Yeti was real. Yeah. And living up in the Himalayas. My favorite fact from that expedition being that once they summited Mount Everest and completed the mission, they briefly went home and then just went back to find the Yeti afterwards. They're like, yeah. So a slightly unfinished business there, I would say, even though we've summited it. Yeah. I like to think they saw him on the way back down and they were like, we'll come back for that. Whatever the hell that is.
Starting point is 00:20:15 I'd say, I have two fingers left. I wouldn't even be able to catch him if he was slow. Let's go down, de-frost, come back up. We go to the top. We ran out of beans. We've got to go restock, and then we're coming back. Yes, Kiwi Explorer, Edmund Hillary, went all the way to visit this research base left over by Ernest Shackleton.
Starting point is 00:20:34 And after days of traveling through the biting frost, he finally reached it. A lonely research hut, battered, by the cold winds, frozen in time. With a forceful shove, he slowly pushed open the icy door and took shelter inside. Edmund kicked the snow off his boots, his eyes slowly adjusting to the dark. When he turned around, he realized he wasn't alone. There was a man standing in the corner of the hut.
Starting point is 00:21:03 Hello? Who's there? The figure stepped forward from the shadows. Welcome street. Do come in? Edmund was face to face with Ernest Shackleton, the explorer who at this point had been dead for over 30 years. I know this sounds crazy, but all the way to his deathbed,
Starting point is 00:21:26 Edmund claimed that he saw the famous explorer. He gave a statement that said, I am not a person who really sees things very much, but I went inside the door. When I opened the door, it's a rather short-perbent, rather short but bare hut inside, but I distinctly saw Shackleton walking towards me and welcoming me in.
Starting point is 00:21:47 Then it all sort of flashed away, and he was gone. Okay, well that's a relief, because you were making it sound like this was some kind of like you best start believing a ghost stories you're in one situation where he just, Shackleton was just like,
Starting point is 00:22:02 stop. But no, it was more of that he saw him and then, who's gone. I think it was like a flash. I do think he spoke. I think he said. said, yo,
Starting point is 00:22:10 yo, what's up? Come on in. Because the problem is you're really f***ing with the evidence
Starting point is 00:22:14 for my Yetty case because... Which was a double yes, by the way, the Yettie case was a stand-up guy.
Starting point is 00:22:21 Yeah. And as he says, doesn't see stuff much. Friks sake. I love that. I'm only the first person to see the Yeti. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:29 But yeah, go on. I love that. Edmund is like, listen, I am not this kind of person to tell crazy ghost stories.
Starting point is 00:22:35 I don't see this stuff a lot. Just the Yeti once. And then I actually went to track him for a couple years, and now a ghost. It's like, brother, that's already so much stuff. And, of course, next week we're off to find the rinky dink goblin of southern Argentina.
Starting point is 00:22:53 But hey, I'll take a sighting and a hearing of some words from Shackleton. I mean, how dehydrated was Hillary at this point. Are you still dehydrated if all the water in you is ice? Do you just start, is that the one thing you can't run out of in the Antarctic? Do you just put some snow in your mouth and then you're good? I think you'll freeze to death if you start, if you start, don't start putting snow in your mouth. I'm just saying water wise, though, technically. I'm so tired, it's so cold.
Starting point is 00:23:27 I need a drink. Just shoveling snow into your mouth. Am I dumb? Why can't you just eat the snow? You don't die for dehydration in Antarctica. You freeze to death. Well, yeah. Well, because of the core.
Starting point is 00:23:40 But I'm just saying as long as you, let's say, had enough food to keep your core body, you know, to keep the system churning, the core body temperature up, you got the clothes. I know they melt down ice to get water. Yeah. I don't know what you're confused about right now. Can you run out of water in Antarctica? No. Because you eat the ice. No, because you, as you just said, you melt the ice to make water.
Starting point is 00:24:05 But are you saying that if you run out of stuff to make fires? Oh, fuck, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna run out of water because I don't have any fire. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, well, then you also are too cold if you don't have any fire. Do you understand? Is that true, then? There are 19 other things that would kill you in Antarctica before you got to the point where you're too dehydrated. Do you understand?
Starting point is 00:24:27 Why does this guy know? What is this? What is the internet saying? I can see Phil frantically. Can you be running out of water? Eating snow ice to rehydrate is highly discerate. It's just a rapidly low as your core body temple, Joe. Shut up, Roy.
Starting point is 00:24:45 But it's discouraged, but it works, though. Works in the short term. If you find yourself dehydrated in Antarctica for some reason and you don't have a Gatorade, I would say melt the snow first, but you can drink it. Or eat it. I actually have a picture here of Shackleton's research hut. Phil, can we see the hut?
Starting point is 00:25:07 How sick is that? That is Luke Skowler. worker's house on Tattoine. That's what it looks like, just desaturated, because it's just all white and grays. That is Ernest Shackleton's hut. It looks just like it's, it is like the moon landing, it's completely preserved. And it obviously not maintained, so people can just go in and if you're brave enough to go see it.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Wow. Isn't that wild? And there are more haunted research centers out there, not just abandoned ones, but places like McMurdo that are still being used today. I wish we had time to talk about all of them, honestly, but the truth is, research stations are just the tip of the iceberg, if you'll pardon the pun. We have to keep moving, because if we don't, we won't have time to talk about all the creepy and otherworldly parts of Antarctica, such as, you know what, I'm not even going to say what it is. Phil, can we get the next piece of evidence on the screen? Oh yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:04 I've definitely seen this image before, but I actually don't know quite. what I'm looking at. It's a river of blood to anyone who's listening. Blood waterfall. Blood waterfall. It looks like it's from the shining. It is, it is absolute blood red water seeping, like exploding out of the earth, creating a blood river that kind of cuts and jags through the icy landscape. Yeah. And like if you saw that in 1911, oh my God. It's like, God is like telling you you, you f*** up by coming here. Like you made a big mistake. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:42 You're getting closer to the Antichrist. Yeah. Honestly. That feels like a really bad omen. That looks like one of the... Isn't that one of the plagues in the Bible? Didn't they do that to the Nile? I think you're right.
Starting point is 00:26:58 They turn the Nile into blood. I'm pretty sure. I only know that from the animated film, The Prince of Egypt. Yeah. Look, full disclosure. We don't need to talk about this. one for long. The blood waterfall is real, but it's caused by iron-rich subglacial water being
Starting point is 00:27:16 exposed to oxygen, which apparently turns the water blood red. Ah, yeah. If you drink that, you'd be even healthier. I wouldn't drink that. I wouldn't drink the blood water. Okay. At all. In Toronto, every arrival is a statement, and nothing says it better than this. Cadillac Optic was the number one selling luxury EV in Canada for 2025. Find your rhythm across a seamless 33-inch display and an immersive 19 speaker AKG surround audio system. This city demands agility and optic delivers with precision to make every drive extraordinary. Let's take the Cadillac.
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Starting point is 00:28:35 goes far beyond strange noises and ghostly figures. In 1991, the year that Kit, the Antichrist, was born, scientists at General San Martin Base began detecting strange readings on their monitoring equipment. Look over here, sir. It's 4th of September. Our fucking legend detector is going off the charts. What the heck?
Starting point is 00:29:01 Wait, sorry, whoa. September 4th, something mad's happening. an absolute legend or coolness levels or going crazy I don't think
Starting point is 00:29:13 I think it was the birth of the devil it was the birth of kit that was actually when the blood waterfall
Starting point is 00:29:20 started flowing kit kind of came out of it you were rescued from a basket floating down the blood river I've been wearing contacts
Starting point is 00:29:30 all these years my eyes are black sir you're going to want to take a look at this What the? Am I reading this right? How can there be an energy source this big nearby? We're in the middle of the Arctic, for Christ's sake.
Starting point is 00:29:44 That's not the strangest part. Look where it's coming from. According to the readings, an incredibly large power source had been recorded hovering above the base. This real encounter was revealed in declassified documents in the early 2000s. After their release, a former Air Force official named Miguel Amaya came forward with his account of what happened. He said that an engineer at the site rushed outside to see if the energy source was visible through the clouds. And when he craned his neck upwards, he witnessed a huge, don't laugh, huge circle of light. The light moved slowly and silently towards the sea before disappearing in heavy fog. The engineer reported this to his senior via radio the next day.
Starting point is 00:30:35 And apparently his supervisor responded by saying, There are some things that can't be discussed over the radio. We obviously don't have a picture of this, but Phil, can you please bring up the artist's interpretation? This looks like God has a ring light, and he's pointing it down towards Earth. This is, check it out. You know, Valve, Corporate. The corporation's portal, a portal, has opened up above the research base.
Starting point is 00:31:07 And then they said that it moved away from the research base and out into the fog over the sea. I mean, yeah, it's pretty crazy. It stands to reason. It stands to reason that they would experience what we're alleging here, our UFO activity. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we're kind of on record as believers in UFO activity. Hundreds, thousands of kind of pretty legit cases reported all around the world over the last 80 years. Don't get me wrong. I wasn't expecting to hear about it, but I shouldn't be surprised.
Starting point is 00:31:37 Yeah. It's very interesting. Well, listen, I know that like myself, Kit, you are known to be a little bit of a skeptic when it comes to the ghost stories. So I knew I wasn't going to get today's case across the line by talking about frozen men in the middle of nowhere. I have to bring out some declassified government documents. I got to talk about the orbs. I couldn't find any probing. I know that's your favorite, but I did find a big hoop in the sky. Hmm. Hey, I said, hoopers, ghost hoopers, now you're telling me there's a giant basketball hoop in the sky? Let me tell you. Believe it or not, Antarctica is littered with UFO cases. And there's a lot of theories as to why. First off, vast areas of unpopulated land would in theory be a perfect place for aliens
Starting point is 00:32:22 to come down and conduct secretive research undetected. You know, everyone says, oh, you know, why do they always come down? and land on the front lawn of the White House in all of the movies, you know. Why do they start attacking New York City? They don't know what the hell New York City is. Of course they're going to go to, especially if they want to remain undetected, they're going to go to Antarctica, which is, fun fact, the largest desert in the world, where there is essentially nobody around for miles. And it seems like a good place to go because also if you know anything about the geological makeup of the earth.
Starting point is 00:33:03 You're going to get a lot in Antarctica. I mean, that's why it's a really great research station is because you have all this like ice, you have this untouched water, and you have kind of generations of history that have been preserved there. So it's a good place to run and do some alien experiments. And if you get thirsty,
Starting point is 00:33:20 loads of snow. Loads of snow. Yeah, exactly. Imagine aliens came down and all they wanted to see was like TikTok hidden gems. You say that they go to like New York City, they're like, there's so many like cool pizza places we've been seeing online. We want to get the like viral Dubai pistachio matcha. Come with me to check out this little river that's made of blood.
Starting point is 00:33:45 So I've been visiting Antarctica for about three years now and here's a little touristy jam that no one talks about. The other reason why there might be so much UFO activity in the Arctic is of course everybody knows that Antarctic. Antarctica hides the secret entrance to the hollow earth known as Agartha. I really hoped the beginning mention was all we were going to hear about this. This is a secret world inside of our planet. So no more evidence then? With a miniature sun, living dinosaurs. And guess what?
Starting point is 00:34:16 Did I mention Hitler's still alive in there? You did, actually. It's kind of offensive borderline. Yeah, Agartha, the hollow earth. The entrance is allegedly in Antarctica. As part of the research for this episode, I went back and listened to when we covered this on episode seven of the podcast. I'd like to think that a lot has changed. How are you still talking about this nine years later?
Starting point is 00:34:44 I like to think a lot has... With the same bigger as well. Because it's real, Kit. It's real, even though we gave it a double no seven years ago. And you just used the word allegedly. Yeah, I use that new word all the time. It just means lie I don't want to confess to. Pretty much.
Starting point is 00:34:59 It's kind of a legal thing. I was allegedly drinking the night where I drove my car into the back of that church. All right. Stop talk. Yeah, I'd like to think a lot has changed in seven years, but at the end of that episode involved me suggesting that all of this was real and nothing actually mattered, so we should buy a gun and kill ourselves. And I was like, we said that seven years ago on a podcast. I was like, damn.
Starting point is 00:35:24 And that's when we were like in the iTunes, like, talk. five comedy podcasts. It's like, Jesus Christ, that's pretty out there. There's, the world was a, was a more naive place. Yeah. It's a weirdly thing, you could say things that are just too dark now. Yeah, we've weirdly gotten a bit. I think it'll probably swing back both ways, but yeah, things have definitely changed a little bit since then. Listen, let's get back to Antarctica. All right. An American journalist named Linda Malton Howe claims to have been contacted by many U.S. military personnel who were stationed at Arctic research bases.
Starting point is 00:36:07 These individuals who requested to remain anonymous, that's why I don't know their names. Okay. Claimed to have experienced extraterrestrial activity ranging from strange lights in the sky to fleets of flying crafts hovering over the base. Fleet. One Air Force Lieutenant simply calling himself Brian, quote, quote unquote, described his experiences in 1983 when he and his crew witnessed a series of UFOs on a routine flight from, you guessed it, McMurdo Station.
Starting point is 00:36:41 Linda Moulton said, the men were approached by a small fleet of metallic disc-shaped objects which performed amazing maneuvers over the desolate mountain range. This was one of many unusual events that he, Brian, experienced and was told to never publicly reveal. So what changed? I guess he didn't publicly. I guess he did it anonymously. He's doing it under an alias. He is.
Starting point is 00:37:09 And I got to say, if I ever need an alias to disclose top secret government information, I'm for sure going to pick a name that's way cooler than Brian. Right. You know, go for something crazy. Like what? I actually wrote down a top five here. My top five. So here's...
Starting point is 00:37:30 So we were done like three points ago. No, there's still way more to go. I thought this would be fun. Just so you guys know in the future, if you see someone who's all shadowed out and blurred... You shouldn't do this. You shouldn't do this. Tell people my alias.
Starting point is 00:37:43 Because the whole point is that it wouldn't be identifiable. It wouldn't be noticeable in any way, that it would clearly be a pseudonym. Number one, Ricky Nightmare. Ricky Ricky Is Ricky cool enough I understand that the whole thing together
Starting point is 00:38:06 is like pretty wild Ricky nightmare is like Ricky nightmare is like kind of a really sad hometown DJ doesn't it has to be I don't know if it's going to help
Starting point is 00:38:24 anyone believe in what you're saying? You know, if you're like making pretty wild claims in your life and it's like, and these accounts came directly from an individual referring to himself as Ricky Nightmare. It's like, all right, well, I don't believe a word he says.
Starting point is 00:38:39 Lieutenant First Colonel Ricky Nightmare. That was only my first name. I have more. I have four more. So, I guess, Ricky Nyman is from maybe number one. Number two, Stephen Knife. just falling along the line of like cool, cool nicknames. Number three, Mr. X, X, X, X.
Starting point is 00:39:04 Number four. So just a male born star? Number four, Barack O Trump. And number five, the Raven. You're a fucking idiot, bro. Barak O Trump? Is that one of them? That's one of the name.
Starting point is 00:39:24 Just like an interesting, alias. I think it would be cool. No one knows your allegiance. You know, it keeps people, they don't know fucking anything about you. It's like, who said this? We need to hunt him down and figure out
Starting point is 00:39:40 where he's where he's licking the information from. It's like, okay, well, what's the guy's name? Ricky Nightmare. I don't even know where to start with that. It could be a 14 year old hacker from Berlin. No, just search every strip club
Starting point is 00:39:56 in Minnesota and he's gonna be somewhere it's my gamer tag on Xbox I will say we do need some more motherfuck called Barack because we had Obama
Starting point is 00:40:08 and then I've seen next to none since then yeah and I like that he's throwing a little bit of Irish in there as well do you can you think of something better then you piece of shit
Starting point is 00:40:17 because I have five I'm ready to go you know what's going to happen to you you're going to be like, you're going to be like, I have an own good authority that there is a base located underneath the White House where they're keeping aliens alive. And they'll be like, oh, thank you very much, Mr. You're like, Kit Greer.
Starting point is 00:40:33 Oh, shit, no. Ricky nightmare. It's way too late. Never mind. You don't have one of these on hand to go. Okay, okay. Stay with me here. Linda Suzuki.
Starting point is 00:40:46 So they think I'm an Asian chick. Because that's where you f***ed up. You just picked a guy's name. So they're already narrowed it on. He's a guy. I would as far as a Mr. as front of one of them.
Starting point is 00:41:00 Linda Suzuki? Mrs. X, X, X, X, X, X, I should have said. They're like, what even country do we begin with? It's a Japanese last name? Linda? Is that like, what? Linda O. Suzuki. Oh, Linda O Suzuki.
Starting point is 00:41:15 Throw them a bunch of curb falls. That's smart. That's good. Okay, there's some good examples there. You got some options, guys. If you're looking for aliases or Usernames for social media. So if you see a podcast industry whistleblower going by the name of Linda O'Souki,
Starting point is 00:41:31 alleging bad behavior from roaring, an anonymous whistleblower. Who could it be? It's like, Linda O. Suzuki was complaining about being overcharged for a pint of Guinness in Hackney. It's like, all right, well, I think we know where they are. A lovely young couple, Ricky Nightmare, and Linda O'Sizki. We're all night out in East London. Speaking to the BBC, they say they were unfairly ejected from the pub after complaining.
Starting point is 00:42:05 Don't worry, everyone. If you don't believe in aliases, Agartha, or this mysterious ring of light, I have been saving our most insane UFO sighting for last. Because one guy out there at a research station saw even more than just a strange craft. You see, there was a wave of UFO sightings in 1958, and the most dramatic of them all was by a US serviceman named Roger D. Benson.
Starting point is 00:42:33 I was expecting an alias there because we've been talking about it for so long. According to Benson, he was traveling in a snow tractor not far from McMurdo Station, when he spotted something landing on the ice less than a kilometer away. Here's his testimony from a Canadian UFO magazine in the late 70s. I peered through binoculars. I was seeing what resembled a side view of an aeroplane fuselage, and the girders were a lattice of supporting structures which must have been the landing gear. This fuselage was a cigar-shaped cocoon of metal with a small indentation that might have
Starting point is 00:43:12 been a door. Pretty crazy stuff already, but Benson's account doesn't end there. Then I saw the creature. He was very thin, grayish in color. His arms dangled all the way to the ice. From the distance, I couldn't be sure, but he seemed to have manlike facial characteristics, except that his face consumed almost two-thirds of his entire height. I know!
Starting point is 00:43:43 Huh? Arms so low they are dragging on the ice, face so big, it's two-thirds of his entire body. Benson goes on to say, I'm ashamed to say now, I did exactly what I'd been trained not to do. I panicked. I leapt into my vehicle, started back towards the base and shouted into the radio. After a few seconds, I got control of myself, enough to look back. The fuselage cocoon, minus its girder-like landing gear, which might have been retracted, was now climbing into the air. I halted long enough to watch it fly away, presumably with that strange creature inside.
Starting point is 00:44:26 That's about as crazy as a testimony can get from Antarctica. From anywhere. Of course from anywhere. I find this one weird because I don't know if we've ever had an alien encounter where the entity is described like this before. Please pick up the phone and show me an artist's interpretation. You can't say it's two-thirds face. So this is like, this is like...
Starting point is 00:44:53 It does sound like a setup where it's like your mama's face is so big. Yeah. Takes up two thirds of her body. This is like decay mode in Gordon Eye for N64. Yes, big head mode. We do not have an artist's interpretation of this creature. You have to use your own imagination for that one. I mean, guys, what I'm trying to illustrate here is we're not just seeing crafts in the sky.
Starting point is 00:45:15 People who are working in and around McMurdo Station are seeing creatures walking about these fields. They're seeing ghosts. They're hanging out by the blood river. There's so much creepy stuff going on in and... Don't through the blood river in there. You told me that it's just a regular iron-rich water deposit. We're not lumping that in. Who knows?
Starting point is 00:45:33 I don't want you to keep calling it the blood river if there's not actually blood involved. I've got one last bit of evidence. One final piece that I do think really needs to be brought up. It does fit into this world of strange paranormal phenomenon. And I think you'll like it, Kit. This is the Anita's... Another Antarctic phenomenon is thought to be linked to, if not alien civilizations, a totally parallel universe.
Starting point is 00:46:00 This phenomenon is known as the Anita signal. And then Anita piece of evidence to wrap up this podcast. In 2006, the Antarctic impulse transient antenna, Anita, recorded strange things. signals coming from under the ice. As reported by science alert.com, researchers observed, quote, a short pulse of radio waves from below, an event that looked like an upside down shower of cosmic rays, not bouncing off the surface, but emanating from under the ice sheet. Don't try and bring this back to Agartha.
Starting point is 00:46:47 Don't you, because he foreshadowed her. earlier, he was like, there's a sun inside the earth. And dinosaurs, too, little dinosaurs that are still alive. Yeah, and do you know what the sun inside the earth is called? It's called the core of the earth, the molten core inside the earth. I'm not sure. I'm not sure about that. You have to listen to episode seven.
Starting point is 00:47:07 The signals were detected again in 2014, and while scientists have theorized a rational explanation, the signals remain something of a mystery. Do I get to know what the rational explanation is? No. I was trying to read what I'd included in my notes. All I have is a quote from astrophysicist Stephanie Weissel, a Pennsylvania State University, who said, it's an interesting problem because we still don't actually have an explanation for what those anomalies are. Right.
Starting point is 00:47:41 So there's no, there's no a proven explanation. There's maybe some hypothesis. Yes. And just because something is a scientific suggestion. We often see. There are unsatisfactory scientific suggestions made all the time. And Kit, I know that you are not excited by the concept of Agartha and the Hollow Earth. But I know one thing that you do love is the idea of USOs, unidentified submergeable objects.
Starting point is 00:48:10 Submerging objects. I don't know. Yeah. Essentially, UFOs that aren't flying, they instead go into the ocean, into the water and kind of exist. down there. UFOs under Dasey, no aerial. Okay. Right.
Starting point is 00:48:25 Which if we know that there are going to be aliens allegedly flying around up top, could it be that some of those crafts are under the ice? Look, if you are going to hide a star destroyer on Earth, pretty good place, don't you think? Yeah. The rebels aren't going to search there. Let me tell you.
Starting point is 00:48:42 Wait, is that just Hoth? The ice planet Hoth, pretty much. That brings us to the end of our episode, guys. I appreciate that I threw a lot at us. today, from haunted research stations to blood rivers, to ghosts, to UFOs and aliens walking about on the ice. Our decision today, I almost don't know where to come down on. Is there paranormal activity in Antarctica?
Starting point is 00:49:09 Is that too broad? It's a bit tricky because it's our bloody continent guys. Yeah. We could come down on research stations. Do we believe the research stations in Antarctica are haunted or paranormal in any particular way? Throwing it to you, Linda Suzuki. How did you know that?
Starting point is 00:49:32 Yeah, you have thrown a lot at us and arguably, you know, just the UFO stuff, you know, might have been an investigation. There's even more I couldn't get to, by the way. There's so much. The ghost stuff might have been as well. Probably the most substantive. I mean, don't get me wrong. The UFO stuff is mental.
Starting point is 00:49:54 But then, so there's a lot of UFO cases that we cover here on the podcast. But maybe the most unique, let's say, to the actual region would be the research station stuff. Yeah. Something playing into the unique history of exploration and death at some of these places like Ross Island.
Starting point is 00:50:14 Yeah. And isolation. and that kind of that creepiness that you would experience being in such a desolate corner of the world. Maybe your brain does play tricks on you. So it's really hard to say, isn't it? And I mean, it feels somehow all interconnected
Starting point is 00:50:27 between, you know, Shackleton and Third Man syndrome. Yeah. And, you know, so I don't know, is there something here that, you know, the paranormal world, history, folklore has always told of like thin places on the earth, whether that be spiritual places or laylines,
Starting point is 00:50:46 places in which you can just easily access the world of the paranormal. Is this a kind of the place that if you go to somewhere as remote as this, if you quiet the mind, suddenly you tap into other weird stuff and you're able to see the ghost. Edmund Hillary is able to see the ghost of Shackleton or one of these explorers. Yeah. It's really hard to say. Where's your head at?
Starting point is 00:51:10 I like all of this a lot. And I think that's what a lot of people believe is that Antarctica is just an inherently paranormal place. As you said, there's just a lot going on there. But I think you just can't get away from the fact that it's like, well, one, especially a lot of the ghost stuff, is quite loose. It's very generic ghost stories, seeing faces, hearing, hearing voices. There's not a ton of concrete evidence. And you just have to take the conditions on board. If someone says they saw a ghost after, hiking, presumably miles alone through the icy tundra to get to a frozen shack.
Starting point is 00:51:50 I'm like, well, yeah, you're going to be all sorts of scrambled by the time you get there, you know? If anything, those are not the ideal conditions to get someone's testimony for witnessing a paranormal event. So it's kind of tough. I think if we were looking at some of the other aspects of Antarctica, if you're looking at the UFOs, the Anita signal, a few. A few of the other things that I had to cut from this podcast are, you know, all that kind of
Starting point is 00:52:17 more interesting but conspiracy theory fueled stuff where it's like, did you know that there's ancient alien pyramids buried under the ice? And that's why when there's ever storms of the ice melts, you can see like the triangular peaks kind of protruding from the snow. All stuff which if you listen to the Disparanormal Life After Party, I will have time to talk about all of that, which comes out on Patreon on This ParanormalLife.com every Friday. So check it out if you want to hear more about that. It's a no from me this week. Oh, geez. What a U-turn or a left turn?
Starting point is 00:52:56 It just is. I think like if all we have are the ghost stories from McMurdo Station and some of these like old shacks that are kind of creepy, yeah, of course they're creepy. The circumstances are creepy. But we don't, we just don't have any solid. evidence for today's case. Maybe, like, sometimes we'll say at the end of a podcast, like, we got to go. We don't got to go. Not to this one. But, like, maybe that's like an aspiration for us, though, is that we get to the level of, like, wealth and power that, that's all that's left.
Starting point is 00:53:33 We become, like, one of these old English guys. Oh, right. You know, old boy, I think this is the final frontier. I think you and me, we leave our children, families behind, and we go investigate, see if this ghost of Edmund Hillary is up to something. I assume by the point that we have required any amount of wealth to do this, that whole place is going to be a desert. The world is...
Starting point is 00:53:58 I'm going to say it's going to be a fucking Walmart or something? It probably will, yeah. A Tesco's Express. That'll be the last livable place on Earth. All the ice is melted. Right, we'll be making TikToks just being like, come with me. The Blood River. Is that a no from you, Linda Suzuki?
Starting point is 00:54:15 I think Linda Suzuki says it's a never- Okay. Well, hey, as I said, a great case. I wanted to do this one because I do think it is incredibly interesting. And, you know, as someone who loves John Carpenter's The Thing, this idea of, like, haunted Arctic research centers is so cool. So very interesting to get to go to a corner of the planet. We don't get to visit a lot.
Starting point is 00:54:36 I can't see us ever really going back, Given we've done such a deep dive, but maybe. On the after party. We're going back on the after party this week. I'm going to tell you about, I forget what it's got a crazy name. It's called like the Anunaka, which is like the alien pyramids buried under the snow. We're going episode seven mode, guys. And it would be great if you just forgot to talk about the Afterparty.
Starting point is 00:55:02 We just didn't do it. Tune in right now for the Anonaka, the special, all about the pyramids. Thank you so much, guys, for listening to this week's episode of the podcast. It was a double no, but I think we can all agree we had a great time, and we learned a little bit in the process. We also found out about how important it is to have an alias ready at all times. I'm going to have to come up with five more right now, but I'm glad that we're all thinking about it in our heads.
Starting point is 00:55:27 And if you want to see Ricky Nightmare and Linda Suzuki, MBE, in person, in the flesh, doing a live show, you're in luck, because those two critters are actually bringing the biggest live show ever to London this October 11th on a Sunday. Wow. Spoiler alert, this paranormal live show of 2026. Yes, and you're going to want to come because look, you've been to a comedy show before, you've been to a live show before, you've seen it, you've heard your little jokes, this one is different. Kit and I bought a functioning time machine. Bought, Bill, yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:04 Yeah, I'm not allowed to say what it is. a mix bag. You're just, you're going to want to check it out because we're bringing it to the show and we're probably going to use it on the night. Yeah, God willing, yeah. So we'll be tumbling through time, taking, well, kind of like, you know, like in a supermarket at Christmas time, you can sit in Santa's knee. You can, we will be just letting people queue up and go in the time machine.
Starting point is 00:56:24 Oh, right. So you can go. So think in advance where you might like to go for, you know, 60 seconds. Brings people back most of the time. Right, tickets in the description. In the description, grab tickets for the live show, the London. live show, grab them now, only one this year. You're not going to want to miss it.
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Starting point is 00:57:00 And the weekly after party, which I just talked about, where essentially sometimes, Sometimes we're doing the show, we just don't have enough time to cover everything. Or maybe while we were researching it, something very funny happened. Or possibly you just want to hear about what it's like behind the scenes, making the show, working in the office, all the silly things we get to do, or maybe you're interested in hearing more about the sketches that we've been filming here in the office.
Starting point is 00:57:25 The best place to hear about all that is the after party. It's great. It's like a hangout, an extra hour of episode every week for the last. low prices over on this paranormal life.com. And of course, one of the other rewards you can get over there is a shout out at the end of the episode. And that's what we're going to do right now. We're going to shout out to some people that have supported the show.
Starting point is 00:57:49 So first off, thank you to Jessica Gibson. Ah, Jessica, of course. The founder and sole proprietor of Jessica's bibbed sons. So this is a business. For sons? Yes. So no matter what your son is, big, tall, small, off the wall,
Starting point is 00:58:12 Jessica has a bib to fit that sun. Now. So this is a bib for eating? Tiny, yes. Okay. Tiny baby obviously needs a bib for obvious reasons. That already exists as well. Things like that.
Starting point is 00:58:24 Yeah, forget about that. But one's for a son. So a very boyish one. But then, sorry, I've been drinking. You need a bib. And then you're knocking food over. I should go up the years. You think.
Starting point is 00:58:35 Don't eat a bib anymore, do you? Wrong. Eating soft shell crab. Lobster. Soft shabster. Things like that. There's crumbs coming out of your mouth as you speak. Shellfish, but I understand in some situations you want a bib.
Starting point is 00:58:52 It is true. It is true, yeah. So, Jessica's bibbed sons. Get your son a bibbed today. Anytime I've eaten a lobster, it is like, it feels like a humiliation ritual. Right. Because you think you're doing like a cool, thing because like, oh, it's delicious and it's usually pretty expensive.
Starting point is 00:59:09 Right. It's like, oh. It's like a high status thing. Lobster. Yeah, I'll get the lobster. And then they're like, okay, here's your little bibster. Yeah. Okay, well, if everyone's wearing him, sure, I'll put on the little bib from Jessica. Thank you. And then you're like, so what do I do? And it's like, well, here's your essentially walnut cracker in one hand. And then a toothpick in the other, like you're doing surgery on this thing. And then, And they don't explain anything. And they say, and enjoy. And you're like, what, what am I?
Starting point is 00:59:38 Should I have looked this up before hand? They might as well say, you've made your bed. Sleep in it. Yeah. Go on. Don't you want to be, you want to be a little Posho? Go ahead. You're lobster then, Posho.
Starting point is 00:59:46 I'm like, I don't know how to do. Am I supposed to use this little thing to, do I crack him? What's happening here? Oh, first date. Bold choice, but yeah, go on then. So thank you, Jessica. At least it's a little less embarrassing when I've got my own custom bib. Yeah, that says world's best son.
Starting point is 01:00:03 Yeah. It was your brother's bib if you had to borrow it. Thank you also to Mori Hall. Mori is our hall monitor. You know, I think that's a big thing in American schools is having the hall monitor. So it's like if the people aren't allowed to be out of class or they're misbehaving, the hall monitor sends them back. And we sort of have that. Mori Hall is kind of like a hall monitor, but for curfews at night. and you don't want to get caught if you're outside after Curve View. Because Mori... Sounds like they're just a security guard rather than...
Starting point is 01:00:43 You said they're a whole mother? Well, first of all, they're not human at all. Mori is like kind of the name of the entity. We don't actually know where it came from. Oh, right. But it's sort of like a shadow hand that comes and like grabs you from the earth and throws you back into your bed. Yeah. Yeah, Mori is actually an acronym for mechanized, automatic underground robot intelligence.
Starting point is 01:01:12 Yes. Maury. Mauri. So thank you. Thanks for keeping people indoors. You know, you're just looking out for them. That's what we say. Yeah, you get vaporized if you set for online.
Starting point is 01:01:23 Thank you also to Jimmy K2. Well, funny, we're talking about expeditioning. The only reason I could think as to why Jimmy goes by Jimmy K2 is if he has indeed summited K2. Oh. The world's famously most deadly mountain. You think we've got an Arctic explorer on our hands or some kind of explorer? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:42 It's the Himalayas, isn't it? Ooh. I think it's the Himalias. That's badass. I think it has the highest death rate of any mountain ever. It's either that or I think K2 is just a level of kindergarten that you reach. Oh. Why does America use the German phrase kindergarten?
Starting point is 01:02:02 I don't know. Why? What do we use? Nursery? Makes you wonder who really won the war, am I right? Are you running around using German phrases like that? What's next? What's next after nap time?
Starting point is 01:02:13 Schnitzel? Where does it stop? Jeez. Jimmy K2, keep on climbing. Thank you for the support. Thank you also to James Fuller, which I laughed because it looked like Fuhrer when I first saw it.
Starting point is 01:02:31 But no, Fuler. James Fuler. Fuehler. Fuehler. James Fuller. James Fuller is their name. Thank you so much, James, for supporting the podcast. James is named to James Fuller and once he got to America, of course.
Starting point is 01:02:45 Because of Operation Paperclip. Yes. After James was recruited from the war, he was brought on as a scientist to develop rockets. Yes. And that's why we knew we had to have him. You know? Every group needs it James, I feel like. Have you ever been in a part of your life where your friend group doesn't have a James in it?
Starting point is 01:03:05 Right. Just a solid flipping friend. If there's no James involved? Yeah. I feel like you're just going to be like, oh, is James coming? James, oh, yeah, James is going to be there. Yeah. Phil, do you have a James in your life?
Starting point is 01:03:18 Yeah, dude. Dude, I'm telling you. It's my middle name. It is. It took me this entire time to realize that, but yes. Linda James Suzuki. Dr. Linda James Suzuki, MBE.
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