This week on Para(normal), we’re tackling two very different kinds of paranormal mysteries: one of America’s most notoriously haunted houses and the bizarre theory that The Simpsons somehow knows what’s coming next.

First, Nicolina takes us inside San Diego’s Whaley House, a beautiful 1850s home built on the site of the old Old Town gallows. From unexplained footsteps and shadowy figures to the tragic stories of the Whaley family and generations of reported ghost sightings, we ask whether more than 170 years of history could have left something behind.

Then Marie investigates 20 times The Simpsons supposedly predicted the future. Smartwatches, video calls, Disney buying Fox, Donald Trump becoming president, the Nobel Prize, the OceanGate Titan disaster and more all make the list, but how many were genuinely eerie predictions, and how many were coincidence, satire or clever writers spotting where the world was already headed?

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The Whaley House:

Official Whaley House Museum

Whaley House History:

County of San Diego — Whaley House

Bengt Holmström’s 2016 Nobel Prize:

Nobel Prize — Bengt Holmström

Content Warning

This episode includes discussion of execution, suicide, the death of a child and grief.

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