34.05 - MU Podcast - Truth Lurks in Shadows

Mysterious Universe

8th Kind

Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Spirituality

4.5 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Despite the fierce efforts of skeptics to dismiss the supernatural, a persistent truth emerges: countless ordinary people continue to report chilling encounters with the unknown. In this episode, we explore unsettling tales of crisis apparitions, haunted landscapes, and bizarre energies that seem to seep through the fabric of our everyday world. From phantom hands that grope in the darkness to strange portals opening in suburban homes, the phenomena refuse to be ignored. We also delve into the enduring work of psychical researchers and examine the patterns behind these mysterious intrusions into normal life. Then, for our Plus+ Members, we uncover the strange histories of lightning strike survivors, individuals who not only lived through multiple bolts from the blue but were forever changed. Some report heightened sensitivities and psychic perceptions, while others bear physical anomalies, including one man who developed an inexplicable religious image etched into his back, a mark science has yet to explain. Strange: Paranormal Realities in the Everyday World Strange Portals Spontaneously Appearing in the Home Personal Experiences of Apparitions and Related Phenomena Crisis Apparitions, What Are They? About the Society for Psychical Research The Hairy Hands – Haunted Devon Ghosts: Haunted houses, caveman ghosts and confusing rules Ghostly Travel: New Walls And Otherworldly Passages Mysterious Disappearing Phantom Houses Strange Electromagnetic Dimensions: Science, Paranormal, and the Unexplainable Transformed by Lightning: Real‑Life Stories Isle of Weired The Shocking Tale of Abbott Parker Hubert’s Last Dime Museum in the Old Times Square Zapped by the Spirit – Betty Biggers & Galvano Commitment, Jail & ChatGPT Psychosis LinksPlus+ ExtensionThe extension of the show is EXCLUSIVE to Plus+ Members. To join, click HERE. 00:00 - Intro to Mysterious Universe Season 34, Episode 5 00:13 - Episode Preview and Hosts Introduction 00:24 - The Lightning Rod: Cleveland Sullivan's Seven Strikes 01:10 - Lightning's Lasting Impact: Life-Destroying Effects 02:42 - Debunking Myths: Lightning Survivors' Struggles 04:08 - Supernormal Abilities: Rare Lightning Miracles 05:25 - Predatory Phenomena: Clouds and Intelligent Orbs 07:28 - Strange Paranormal Realities: Book Overview 09:09 - Cynicism vs. Paranormal: The Skeptic's Dilemma 11:22 - Personal Stories: Everyday Paranormal Encounters 13:15 - Skeptics at Lectures: Confronting Paranormal Evidence 15:30 - X-Files Reboot Discussion 16:29 - Crop Circles: Transformative Paranormal Experiences 18:42 - Paranormal Top 10: Ghosts, UFOs, and Creatures 20:23 - Ghostly Children in Trailer Parks 23:12 - Sentient Ghosts: The Queen Mary Encounter 25:00 - Poltergeist Activity at Arthur Conan Doyle Centre 26:59 - Crisis Apparitions: Visits at the Moment of Death 28:31 - Awkward Relatives: Ghosts of Ex-Husbands 30:01 - Spectral Faces and Hands: Recurring Phenomena 46:24 - Haunted Beams: Victorian Ghosts in Modern Homes 47:36 - Ghostly Smoke: Addicted Spirits Lingering 48:40 - Astral Travel Dangers: Dark Souls and Attachments 49:10 - Haunted Chimneys: Ghostly Smoke Manifestations 51:37 - Sentient Wall Walkers: Ghosts Acknowledging Witnesses 55:50 - Roman Soldiers and Time Slips: Historical Hauntings 57:13 - Interactive Ghosts: Library Spirits Helping Patrons 01:02:11 - Hospital Hauntings: Ghostly Figures Comforting Patients 01:03:29 - Book Review: Five Smoking Chimneys for Strange Realities 01:04:15 - Malevolent Hands: Terrifying Hotel Encounters 01:10:02 - Portals in Homes: Hands from Other Dimensions 01:11:49 - UFO Obsession: Alien Arms Through Rifts 01:13:22 - Outro and Plus Extension Preview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.9	we've got the Sentient Wall Walkers, the hand to the rocks, the portal, and getting zapped by spirit. I'm your host Benjamin Grundy, joining me is Aaron Wright. What did you say getting zapped by spirit? Are you referring to this image that you have in the background here of what appears to be a sheriff with his hat blown apart? This is Cleveland Sullivan. We've spoken about him a bunch of times before. This guy was multiple times, wasn't he? Struck by lightning seven times to the point where it was coming down through the sky and then coming across through his open car window and into his hat and lighting his hair on fire. Wasn't it almost that it was sicking him out sometimes in the sense that he would try to hide from it if he saw a cloud or like he was actually terrified. Yeah and you can see in the image there that's the hat that he was wearing that got smoked by the lightning strike. It's rather astonishing that he managed to survive being struck by lightning. What is it seven times? Yeah, seven times here. Yeah, he's in the record books for the amount of lightning strikes. And it's interesting with these people, they become
1:49.4	like lightning rods as a bunch of them I'll be talking about in the plus extension. But it's not
1:53.4	only the times they've been struck by lightning, it's like their entire perimeter gets struck
1:59.8	by lightning. Like if you look into this guy and others, it's like their house gets struck by lightning
2:04.7	twice a year.
2:05.7	You know, their water tanks get struck by lightning.
2:07.9	Their car gets struck by lightning.
2:09.6	So even though he's been hit seven times, there was like a hundred shots at him.
2:14.3	Really?
2:15.2	How strange.
2:16.3	And there's another woman with a similar scenario.
2:18.5	She was struck four times, but everywhere around her was getting hit all the time.
2:23.7	What's suggesting that like the lightning is tagging them and everything there's associated with them?
2:28.4	Yeah, there's a question about the nature of these people and why this keeps happening to them.
2:32.5	So I went into Louis Proud's book Strange
2:34.8	Electromagnetic Dimensions, Science of the Unexplanable, which is from a couple of years ago.
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