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#405 The Watseka Wonder - America's First DEMONIC POSSESSION?

This Paranormal Life

This Paranormal Life

True Crime, Rory Powers, Improv, Society & Culture, Kit Grier Mulvenna, Paranormal, Comedy

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In July of 1887, 13 year old Lurancy Vennum started to complain about headaches and stomach pains... but before long she was complaining about a very different problem - she could hear the voices of dead people inside of her head. Today we're investigating the Watseka Wonder, a story that many people believe is the first documented case of possession in American history.


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0:00.0

What if the UFOs we see are just humans from the future? Why do the stars only turn on at night?

0:06.6

All of these questions you can find the answer to on this paranormal life.

0:13.5

Hello listeners and welcome back to This Paranormal Life, the Comedy Paranormal Podcast, where every week,, Rory Powers, and my co-investigator,

0:23.2

Kit Greer Mulvana, a loose cannon, a wild man, a psycho.

0:28.9

We sit down and we investigate a paranormal case and come to the conclusion as to whether or not

0:34.2

it really is paranormal.

0:37.6

They call me the cockerel.

0:39.6

You don't know what noise I'm going to make now.

0:41.8

I'm a loose cannon.

0:44.4

Why do they call you the cockerel

0:46.5

if they never know what noise you're going to make next?

0:48.8

Wouldn't it be a chicken?

0:51.8

Because I wake up at dawn and take everyone with me. They call me the wolf man. Bacoc!

1:01.0

Um, Kit, we are back again. It is a Tuesday and we are here to dive into a brand new paranormal

1:07.1

tale. How are you feeling today? Are you ready to experience what I have in store for you?

1:12.4

Absolutely, Rory. Yeah. We're kind of, I feel like we're well into 2025 now. I feel like limbered up.

1:19.7

I feel like I've, ooh, yeah, loose. You know what I'm saying? I feel, my neck is tight. My neck is

1:24.0

tight from kind of scrolling and being addicted to my phone. But otherwise,

1:28.1

every other way, I feel limbered up. I do feel sad. I do feel sad because I'm coming out of

1:32.3

winter. Shouldn't still feel sad because it's February. Shouldn't have felt sad in January,

1:36.9

to be fair. But, you know, you should at this point, things, the sun's getting a little.

1:41.4

Other than that, right? that righter loosey goosey

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