The Goblin-Possessed Kitchen That Drove a City MAD

This Paranormal Life

Improv, True Crime, Comedy

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

From smart speakers to AI-powered TVs — in 2026 we are used to inanimate objects talking to us. But in the early 20th century if you told someone your stove cracked a joke? You’d be placed in a strait-jacket and booted into a jail cell. And yet that’s exactly what happened to the Palazón family in Zaragoza, Spain in 1934 when their stove started yapping uncontrollably! The subsequent chaos would consume the entire city causing full blown ‘goblin fever’. But was ANY of it really paranormal? Time for Kit and Rory to find out… 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!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Edited by Philip Shacklady Research by Ewen Friers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In an age of AI, interactive speakers and smart home technology, it isn't a shock to have random household objects speak to you.
0:07.9	It's as acceptable in the modern age as talking about your feelings or grooming your downstairs.
0:12.5	But in the 1930s, this was totally unheard of.
0:15.7	Yet, in 1934, a family in a Spanish city of Zaragoza was plagued by a mysterious voice emanating from their kitchen.
0:23.6	Who was behind the voices? How did the family and the authorities react?
0:29.6	And how did it pronounce Barcelona?
0:31.6	Answers to these questions and more on this episode of
0:34.6	This Paranormal Life!
0:38.4	Whoa!
0:40.3	Dude, loving the energy
0:42.2	you're bringing to the table today.
0:43.7	Hell yeah.
0:44.7	Why not?
0:45.4	It's Tuesday.
0:46.6	We're back recording the podcast
0:48.2	and I'm ready to dive into
0:50.0	a brand new paranormal tale,
0:51.9	one that sounds
0:52.7	like it's gonna scare me to the bone.
0:55.6	Yes. And you're a guy who isn't scared easily because you're wearing a Twilight shirt.
1:00.4	Yeah, I like horror movies. I've watched the Twilight franchise. Yeah, I like 824 movies. I've
1:06.9	seen Twilight. What's scarier than Twilight, where a man falls in love with a baby?
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