In August of 1944, residents of Matun, Illinois began waking up in the middle of the night to a strange sweet smell floating in the room.

When they tried to get out of bed to investigate, they realized they couldn't move their legs.

These strange attacks spread through the town house by house until eventually every resident went to sleep, fearing that

they would wake up to the sweet smell of the mad gasser of Mattoon.

But where was the gas coming from? Is there a chemical agent that can paralyze a human body?

Sometimes when I drink enough bud light, I can't move my legs. Does that count? All of these questions

you can find the answer to on This Paranormal Life. Hello everybody and welcome back to

This Paranormal Life, the comedy paranormal podcast where every week we investigate a brand new

paranormal tale and come to a conclusion to decide whether or not it really is

paranormal. My name is Roy Powers. I'm joined by Kit Greer Mulvenna and you are seeing us or

hearing us in our brand new paranormal investigations office. Wow, welcome, guys, welcome.

We're very, very honored to have you here.

This is so exciting, Roy. I don't know if you're watching this at home, guys. You may or may not be, but you can check this on on YouTube on Spotify and on Patreon. You can watch the video of this. But worry not if you're just listening. We can tell you all about it. But yeah, you will be able to see if you're watching this that we're in our beautiful new set. Yes, for the low price of $21,000.

Well, let's not put a number. But yeah, you will be able to see if you're watching this that we're on our beautiful new set. Yes, for the low price of $21,000.

We were able to...

Let's not put a number on it. We're not going to tell them how much of your cost. Our content makes us put a number on it at the end of the year. But every time they do, we go, I'm going to cover my ears. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it?

We, we, essentially, we've wanted to build a new set for the podcast for a long time.

Yeah.

And we, essentially, we've wanted to build a new set for the podcast for a long time.

Yeah.

And we, you know, as paranormal investigators, we're obviously inspired by the X-Files.

And we wanted to create our own X-Files office right here in the studio.

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