El Muerto - The Grisly Murder That Created the Headless Horseman Legend

This Paranormal Life

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

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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0:30.3	Is there a black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy?
0:34.3	If I punch myself and it hurts, does that make me strong or weak?
0:39.3	Answers to these questions and more on this episode of This Paranormal Life!
0:46.4	Hey!
0:47.2	Hello and welcome back to This Paranormal Life, the weekly comedy podcast, where in every
0:52.9	Tuesday, Rory and I investigate a different
0:55.9	paranormal tale deciding by the end of that episode whether we think it's really paranormal or not.
1:02.4	As always, you're joined by myself, Kit Grimaldvenna and this guy, my co-investigator, Mr. Rory
1:06.9	Pars. How are you doing today, Rory? I'm doing great kit. You know, we just got back from about
1:10.9	three weeks of touring in America. So coming back into the studio we have here in London was kind of like
1:18.2	an explorer discovering an ancient tomb. I was like pushing aside cobwebs, dusting off Apple keyboards.
1:26.3	Shouldn't be. It was like three weeks, max.
1:28.3	Yeah, well, we don't pay for a cleaner, all right?
1:30.3	And this place has very bad ventilation.
1:32.3	Right.
1:33.3	I found a spider the size of a donkey living in this place, all right?
1:37.3	It can't be.
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