Hey everyone in the commune!!! Kit here from TPL coming at you with the first issue of our commune newsletter — every now and then I’ll drop you a line about what’s going on at TPL HQ, paranormal news, what movies/music/games the team are digging lately, and general behind the scenes. Drop a comment with anything you’d like to see!
TPL is NINE?!
Time flies when you’re investigating the paranormal! This Paranormal Life started this week nine years ago in 2017, with this glorious, and frankly unsurpassable podcast art
Jesus Christ. It really is a miracle we’re still hereMaybe the craziest bit is that so many of y’all are still listening and even supporting after all these years. Thank you so much to our day ones! But I think the biggest question is… how do we celebrate 10 years of TPL in 2027? We got to go big… even bigger world tour? Film a documentary? Finally shoot and kill Bigfoot?? Rory keeps suggesting we ‘end the podcast’ but I think he’s joking...right?...
UFO Fever 🛸
Jeeeeez I’m kind of burying the lede here but it’s been a crazy few weeks in the paranormal world. It all started back in February when Trump tweeted (I don’t know if they call it tweeting on Truth Social lol) calling on all federal agencies to ‘release the files!’. Then he probably said ‘WAIT, not those ones, the UFO files’.
And kind of unbelievably, that’s what’s happened — if you go to war.gov/UFO (good lord what a URL) you can literally click ‘download all’ on this first release of UFO evidence. And, in fact, at the time of writing they’ve just dropped the second buttload of videos!
Thankfully for you, your old buddy and pal Kit has now spent days rifling through the evidence and I’m preparing an episode that will get you up to speed on everything that has come out. You won’t want to miss this one so keep your eyes peeled! Here’s a peek of that website
What the heckParanormal Marketplace Item of the Week 🛒
I think this could work as a hinge profile ‘Haunted Woman - Alice (Positive Energy)’.And if this doll does sound intriguing to you, it’s currently for sale in the Merseyside area
What we’re watching this week 📺
Rory
Watching: Season 2 of BEEF. I need so much protein I’m even watching meat. This season is great BUT not as good as season 1.
Listening: I’m trying to manifest a UK summer by Jack-maxing as hard as I can. It’s nonstop Jack Johnson in this apartment.
Reading: The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Who doesn’t love some fun sci-fi stories by one of the best to ever do it?
Phil
Watching: Rewatching 30 Rock on Netflix. I was amazed to see the actual building on our first tour of America, I love that show!
Listening: The Lemon Twigs new album I’ve had on repeat recently. By the time this is out I’ll have seen their show in London.
Playing: Smash Bros with Rory (I’m better).
Kit:
Watching: White Lotus. I’m late to the party, it’s awesome but makes you want to go on holiday soooo bad.
Listening: OK Rory and I are in sync haha. Listening to Jack Johnson’s new SURFILMUSIC.
Playing: Banjo Kazooie with my 4 year old. She’s REALLY worried about Banjo’s sister!
Live Show 🎪
I have just booked in our afterparty for our spooky season live show this October 11th, and in a real bar this time! Not in the Commune’s dump in district 11 like last year — so exciting! So if you haven’t picked up your tickets you’re gonna wanna! Some, if not all, of team TPL will be white-girl wasted. Tickets here!
Stuff we’re proud of this month you might have missed!
We hope you guys loved our latest bonus episode celebrating 100 bonus episodes (what!) all about J. Allen Hynek (it really is crazy how his middle name is basically ‘alien’). Because we certainly loved making it, I think he would be doing backflips at all the newest UFO news if he was still around… Check out that episode here if you missed it!
Here’s a fun sketch we made about Xbox 360 gaming culture lol, that has almost hit two million views on Instagram and TikTok.
Phew! Thanks so much for reading and supporting This Paranormal Life, we absolutely love making this podcast for you. Hope y’all have a great weekend and we’ll see you on Tuesday!
-Kit
(Technically, commune districts 2-6 are wished a ‘great weekend’, districts 7-11 are not granted ‘great weekend wishing’ privileges yet.)