#401 The Mantis Man - Alien or Cryptid?
This Paranormal Life
This Paranormal Life
4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The world of the paranormal is a strange one. Just when you think you've heard about every cryptid under the sun, you find yourself by a river in New Jersey, looking into the cold dead eyes of a 7 foot praying mantis. How have we never heard of this cryptid before? Well, because maybe this creature isn't actually a cryptid after all...
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| 0:00.0 | What happens to all my iPhone charging cables? Does a goblin steal them in the night? Why do cryptids love swamps so much? All of these questions you can find the answer to on This Paranormal Life! Hello everyone and welcome back to This Paranormal Life, the comedy paranormal podcast where every week, myself R Rory Powers, and my co-host, Kit Greer Mulvena, investigate a brand new paranormal tale and come to a conclusion as to whether or not it truly is paranormal. |
| 0:32.5 | Wow. Even though we are on our second episode of the year so far, this is actually technically the first |
| 0:39.4 | episode recorded in 2025. |
| 0:41.8 | Right, using the power of magic and Hollywood and editing. |
| 0:45.3 | We were very different place psychologically on episode 400. |
| 0:50.7 | Which I think you can tell because our brains were pretty much spaghetti by that point. |
| 0:54.7 | Yeah, do you think? |
| 0:55.4 | It worked thematically then, didn't it? |
| 0:57.7 | It works to just... |
| 0:58.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.3 | I've always said that I shouldn't drink because my IQ is low enough as it is. |
| 1:06.2 | Right. |
| 1:06.6 | You can't afford to lose any points. |
| 1:08.5 | Absolutely not. |
| 1:09.4 | It's actually... |
| 1:10.0 | I think you can hear, it sounds like I'm slurring my words right now, |
| 1:13.3 | and I'm stone cold sober, it's two in the afternoon. |
| 1:16.1 | I shouldn't do it. |
| 1:17.1 | And yet I did. |
| 1:17.8 | I did for episode 400 just to kick back with my friend, Rory. |
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