#408 The Yeren - China’s Most Wanted Cryptid

This Paranormal Life

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

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

China is home to innumerable paranormal entities, from ghosts and ancient spirits to cryptids and UFO encounters, but one entity stands out in notoriety far beyond the others — The Yeren. The Yeren has been sighted and discussed in texts for thousands of years, but many people in modern times believe it to be mostly legend. But if that’s the case, why did the Chinese Communist Party spend millions of dollars in the 1970s trying to track down and then cover up the existence of the Yeren? This is the the rarely heard story of a cryptid finding itself at the centre of a political struggle — China’s most wanted cryptid.

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0:00.0	Are orbs ghosts or tiny UFOs? Is there such thing as a reverse centaur, a horse with the legs of a man?
0:08.6	Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life!
0:15.7	Hello! And welcome back to This Paranormal Life, the weekly comedy podcast where every Tuesday we investigate a different paranormal tale,
0:24.2	deciding by the end of that episode whether we think it's real or not.
0:27.1	As always, you were joined by me, Mr. Kit Grimovina, number one paranormal investigator in the world,
0:33.2	and then closely followed by my...
0:35.0	Tide only by your co-host, Mr. Rory Bowers!
0:41.1	How you doing, Rory, dude? How are you doing, my friend?
0:43.7	Number two, as in like the same way that two detectives working together, you have to have one detective and two detectives, both equally reputable detectives.
0:54.2	Like Sherlock and Watson.
0:55.8	Yeah, exactly, my dear Watson.
0:58.7	Yeah, got you there, you little bastard.
1:01.4	Whatever you're a bastard.
1:03.2	Where's that going from?
1:04.7	That's the little left field.
1:06.7	You know, Kit and I have been hosting this podcast for a long time.
1:10.1	Who hosted it first? Oh, shit. I guess it was me. So I was probably the number first of the number one paranormal investigator. And then Kit was brought on as kind of a number two just to mix things up every week. You want to be number one? Oh, it's no problem by me. Sometimes Sherlock lets Watson do a case. I'm going to... And that's what's happening today.
1:27.8	I'm going to pull a Steve Jobs.
1:29.0	If you're number one, I'm zero.
1:31.1	That's what I actually had to do.
1:32.6	I'm before you.
1:33.3	You know that I had to do that with my Halo 3 gaming clan.
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