#412 The BUTTERFLY People of Joplin Missouri

This Paranormal Life

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

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

When disaster struck the town of Joplin, Missouri in 2011 in the form of an EF5 tornado, the last thing you would expect the townspeople to be thinking about was the paranormal. And yet, in the aftermath bizarre stories began to emerge of a strange humanoid seen amongst the carnage of this otherworldly natural disaster. But were they real? And if so, who are they and what did they want? Time for Kit and Rory to investigate!

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0:00.0	Kit here from TPL. Just a heads up that this episode discusses the 2011 Joplin tornado.
0:05.6	We recorded this about a month ago, so a few weeks before the recent tornado outbreak in Missouri
0:10.7	and the Midwest. It's a coincidence that this episode discusses some of those themes. And of course,
0:16.4	our thoughts go out to everyone affected. What did moths fly towards before the invention of the light bulb?
0:23.2	Where is the shadow realm?
0:24.8	Or was Yugi from Yu-Gi-O just straight up killing people?
0:27.8	Answers to these questions and more on this episode of
0:30.9	This Paranormal Life!
0:34.8	Hello and welcome back to this paranormal life.
0:38.5	The weekly comedy podcast for every Tuesday, me, Kit Grimovina and this guy, Mr. Rory Powers,
0:44.2	get to the bottom of a different paranormal case deciding by the end of the episode whether we think it's really paranormal or not.
0:50.8	How you doing today, Rory?
0:51.7	What an honor to be back for my favorite day of the week,
0:54.3	where we get to sit down and just talk about my favorite thing in the world. Monsters.
0:59.9	Ghosts, demons, weird stuff that inhabits the world that we live in. It's always a joy. It's
1:06.5	always fun. And I'm hopefully, I'm hopefully not wrong in assuming that this is going to be our
1:11.5	best episode yet. Yeah, probably. I think so. We've just kind of been peeking upwards. As soon as we
1:16.2	hit the metal man, I knew we were on, we were on the right path. Right. Well, it is award season
1:21.4	after all. I don't know. I never looked into whether podcasts are automatically entered into the
1:25.5	Oscars. I assume they are.
1:32.3	Yeah, right? He might be getting the call any second now. Hello. Okay. I, again, I don't know when the Oscars is, but I assume get your tucks ready, Rory. I want to meet Timothy
1:37.1	Salome. You think he'd be down to clown with the paranormal? I think he would. I think he'd be
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