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#272 The Mantell Incident - Was a US Fighter Pilot SHOT DOWN by a UFO

This Paranormal Life

This Paranormal Life

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

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We've all heard stories of UFOs, floating in the distance, drifting elusively in the night sky. But what happens when you try and chase one down? Well, in 1948, Captain Thomas F. Mantell uncovered the answer to that question... and it cost him his life.


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0:00.0

Are there lava monsters living on the surface of the sun?

0:04.0

If a wooden stake can destroy a vampire, what can destroy a wooden stake?

0:09.0

Answer to these questions and more on this episode of this Paranormal Life!

0:16.0

Hello everyone and welcome to this Paranormal Life, the Comedy Paranormal Podcast hosted by me, Rory Powers,

0:24.0

and the gentleman that sits across from me, Kit Greer, Malvena.

0:28.0

Thank you, thank you. I'm glad I'm getting their respect out of reserve. I am a gentleman, actually.

0:32.0

We both are. We've been investigating the Paranormal for more years than many of you have been alive.

0:39.0

We went straight out of high school into the exclusive and elusive, because it's hard to find, Harvard Paranormal,

0:48.0

a university that accepts only the highest promising students that show promise in the world of the Paranormal.

0:56.0

Yes, did turn out to be run by a con man who was stealing gullible children's student loans.

1:04.0

In retrospect, we shouldn't have believed that university admissions actually worked like the letters from Hogwarts.

1:11.0

Yeah. Not how UCAS works.

1:14.0

But today that's not what we're talking about. We're here, of course, to investigate a brand new Paranormal tale

1:20.0

and come to a conclusion as to whether or not it truly is Paranormal.

1:25.0

Today's story begins on January 7, 1948.

1:30.0

The location, Godman Army Field, just a stone's throw away from Fort Knox in Kentucky.

1:36.0

Hopefully, quite a good year to be in the army, given that the war, wait, I don't remember what month it was,

1:43.0

but it ended around this time.

1:45.0

It did. The second world war had just ended. I will say that there was still a ton of military action in full swing across the US,

1:53.0

but I think more in terms of just staying alert.

1:58.0

After that first world war, they thought I was over.

2:02.0

They came around. They got real laid back about the whole concept.

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