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This Paranormal Life

J'Ba Fofi - The Giant Spiders of the Congo

This Paranormal Life

This Paranormal Life

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

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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2025 TOUR TICKETS ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.thisparanormallife.com⁠⁠⁠ In 1938, English explorers were driving through the Congo when something crawled onto the road in front of their car. They rushed for their cameras but it was already too late, the creature had scuttled off into the trees. They didn’t know it at the time, but they had just seen the legendary J’ba FoFi, the giant spider cryptid that’s both deadly and delicious… apparently Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Secret Society Facebook Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Support us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to get access to weekly bonus episodes! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Official TPL Merch!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thisparanormallife.com/store⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Intro music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.purple-planet.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Edited by Philip Shacklady Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Can other creatures get possessed, or is it just humans? If I die mid-podcast, is my ghost cursed to podcast forever?

0:08.1

All of these questions you can find the answer to on this paranormal life.

0:14.6

Hello everyone and welcome back to This Paranormal Life, the comedy, paranormal podcast where every week we investigate a brand new

0:22.2

paranormal tale and come to a conclusion at the end to decide whether or not it truly is

0:28.2

paranormal. My name is Rory Powers. Across from me, Sits Kit Greer Mulvena, and as always,

0:34.1

we are here today to bring you an exciting paranormal story brought to life using music and sound effects and then quickly shut down by inevitably saying that we don't think it's real.

0:45.6

Well, well, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

0:47.6

Well, you don't know what this episode is about.

0:49.3

All right, clearly. The audience do. They've seen the title.

0:52.0

They have seen the title. And let me tell you, if you read the title of this podcast and still decided to hit play, kudos, is what I'll say.

1:02.1

You're a braver man than I, because this episode is quite a terrifying one.

1:08.8

It is a listener submission by Danan Mikalir, who said,

1:14.5

Hey guys, Danan here, recent listener and instantaneous Patreon supporter.

1:19.9

That's my favorite kind of listener.

1:21.5

Mm, Danan.

1:22.9

Love the pod so much that I've already blitzed through all the episodes. Regular and bonus. It's given me so

1:29.2

much joy during lockdown. Uh-oh. Okay. Needless to say, I think we received this email a couple

1:36.5

of years ago. Slightly old email. So thank you. However, I'm amazed that you haven't gotten around

1:42.0

to doing an episode set in the Congo, a country with

1:47.0

possibly the most cryptids located within its borders. It's one of the few areas of the

1:53.1

earth where there are still unmapped regions and dense forests and lakes, untouched by perhaps

1:59.8

any human eye. So were true. He went on to list a number

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