Blurry Creatures

The ground vibrated, his brother yelled something he never said, and when Jared looked out the window, something was sprinting up the driveway at a speed no man could run. Hunched forward, impossibly long arms held up like a raptor, a thick mane of hair down its back. His only reference was a video game. It looked like Blanka from Street Fighter, and in seconds it vanished into the Florida tree line. Years later, his brother-in-law, who had never heard the story, described seeing the same thing at the top of the street, along with a feeling of spiritual dread.But the creature is only the doorway. Jared tells Luke and Nate about the years he spent living like a hermit in the mountains above Boulder, where his real encounters began. Blood-red quartz altars kept clean in the deep woods. A twenty-foot stone table with no dust on it, stones set to the compass points, that his dog refused to go near. A voice that told him a child of light was not welcome. It is a sprawling, firsthand account of cryptids, high places, and the sense that the ancient evil the prophets confronted never actually went away.This story lives in The Vault, and members are the reason we can give listener stories like Jared’s the room they deserve. Join us at blurrycreatures.com/members for the full episode, early and ad-free releases, exclusive community groups, access to event tickets, and so much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A prophet appears out of nowhere and starts stunning crowds, calling out strangers by name, naming their cities, their children, their illnesses. It looks undeniable. Then it comes out that he was mining Facebook the whole time and grooming his own staff behind the scenes. Michael Miller brings that story and several like it to this members-only conversation with Luke and Nate, and uses them to answer a question most Christians get wrong. What actually makes someone a false prophet. The answer, he argues from Scripture, is not a blown prediction. It is where they lead you, and who they lead you to.Pastor of Reclamation Church and co-host of Remnant Radio, Michael has spent years holding the charismatic pulpit to account alongside people like Mike Winger. Here he gets into the mechanics of the con, why abusers in power instinctively protect one another, how narcissists hunt for the wounded and loyal, and the strange research on what praise and unchecked power do to the human brain. He is honest about his own story too, the abuse he walked through and why he refuses to let it take his faith. This one goes places the main feed could not.The full episode lives in The Vault, where the show can name names and go deep. Become a member at blurrycreatures.com/members for early, ad-free episodes, the community, and discounts on live show tickets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nancy Storm is carrying her new seven-year-old son down the street, tickling him, when the giggling stops. Out of a tiny boy's vocal cords comes a booming chorus of grown men's voices, deep as a hundred-foot well, telling her to let him go. She does not need the gift of discernment to know what she is dealing with. Nancy and her husband Dan adopted twins out of a home of starvation, torture, and ritual abuse, children so hard to place that four families had already given them back. They expected broken minds. What came home with the kids was something far older.What follows is nearly two decades of war. A husband diagnosed with brain cancer three months after the adoption. A daughter who flips into a physically impossible backflip and slithers across the floor. Checks arriving from strangers to cover the rent as everything else falls apart. And a mother who keeps singing hymns over a raging child because she made a vow she will not break. This is one of the most harrowing and honest stories the show has ever aired, a story about what love actually costs when the enemy refuses to leave, and it does not resolve the way you want it to.This story lives in The Vault, and members make it possible to give accounts like Nancy's the time and care they demand. Join us at blurrycreatures.com/members for the full episode, early and ad-free releases, the community, and ticket discounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sky should not have been orange. Glen Smith is a small boy in 1982, awake while his father works nights, when he pulls himself onto the kitchen counter and sees the whole farm lit up through the window like he is looking through a tinted lens. His dad stands beside him, transfixed, and says it gets that way sometimes when it storms. It does not. What happens over the next few hours stays locked in Glen's mind for three decades, surfacing only when an inverted photo negative drops the first clue in his lap.What he remembers is almost too much to hold. Men who arrive as men and leave as something gray and tall. His mother pleading, not my daughter, take me. A beast that shakes the house hard enough to crack the ceiling, a detail his mother independently confirms years later. Glen brings it all to Luke and Nate for the first time outside his family, and he refuses to end on the horror. He ends on sovereignty, on the God he says never left that room, and on why he finally decided this story needed to be told. This is the kind of testimony that reminds people they are not alone in what they have seen.This one is for members, and members make episodes like this possible. Join The Vault at blurrycreatures.com/members to unlock the full conversation, hear episodes early and ad-free, join the community, and help keep these stories coming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Moffitt is a Reformed pastor, and in his world, you do not talk about this. Demons, principalities, the divine council, the unseen war Paul describes in Ephesians. It is not that the Reformed church calls it heresy. It is that the Reformed church is so afraid of looking charismatic that it simply goes quiet. Jon lives in that silence for years, until he sits down to preach the Lord's Prayer and gets stuck on one line. Deliver us from the evil one. He realizes he has never heard a single sermon on it, and pulling that thread unravels everything he thought he was allowed to say. What follows is a conversation about the half of the Bible the modern church keeps skipping. Jon tells Luke and Nate what happens when he starts talking openly: the church members who finally admit the things they have seen, the eight-year-old with a possession story, and the businessman who hides a UFO encounter for twenty years because he is too ashamed to say it out loud. He also brings the discipline his tradition is known for, drawing a hard line between experience and Scripture and refusing the lazy answer that everything is a demon. This is the supernatural handled by a man who is not looking for a monster under every rock. Get Jon's book here: The Bible According to Jesus Want more Blurry? A Blurry Creatures membership unlocks a vault of 100+ members-only episodes you can't hear anywhere else, plus every single main feed episode completely ad-free. You also get access to a vibrant community of fellow seekers, exclusive drops, and perks built for people who can't stop digging. Come see what happens when we keep the mics rolling. Check it out at https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The stage where they hand out the Oscars sits on a plaza built to echo the Court of Babylon. Todd Coconato has been inside that world since he was eight years old, a child actor on studio sets who grew into the LA club scene and all the money and access that came with it. He says there is a reason so many of the people he ran with died young or lost their minds. Hollywood sells itself as the definition of success, and Todd got close enough to see what actually fills that void, and what never can.Then came the night that changed everything. Stabbed nine times, once in the heart, he heard the audible voice of God on the way to the hospital and walked out a different man. Today he pastors a church in Nashville and pulls back the curtain on the industry that raised him. Luke and Nate get into the studios and the gatekeepers, Operation Mockingbird and predictive programming, the cost of refusing to play along, and why a remnant armed with nothing but a small stone still terrifies the giant. It is one of the most candid Hollywood conversations the show has hosted and one of the more remarkable testimonies of God's redemption you will ever hear. This episode is sponsored by: Taking care of your health just got easier - start here with Zocdoc: https://zocdoc.com/BLURRY #sponsored http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://rocketmoney.com/blurry - Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For a century, scholars have searched for the Exodus and found nothing. Scott from Black Sheep Bible Talk says they are looking in the wrong century, at the wrong pharaoh, for the wrong catastrophe. Move the lens two hundred years earlier, to 1446 BC, and the evidence starts clicking into place like a key in a lock. A pharaoh named Amenhotep II whose mummy is scarred with boils. A successor who was never the rightful heir and had to carve a monument explaining why he sits on the throne. A missing generation of firstborn sons. The story the Bible tells was never absent from the record. We were standing in the wrong room.From there, Scott lays out a chain most people have never heard. A pharaoh who marches into Canaan and drags back the largest slave haul in Egyptian history, because he suddenly needs to refill cities that just emptied. A tomb painting at Beni Hassan of shepherds from the east that may put a face on Abraham himself. A governor named Salatis in Egypt's own king list who lines up name for name with Joseph. Nate and Luke go two hundred years deep with a guest who has spent years building the case, and by the end the Exodus looks less like myth and more like history hiding in plain sight. This Episode is Sponsored By: https://fondregenerative.com/ - Use the code BONEZONE for 15% off your order of real, nourishing bone broth and more! http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://livemomentous.com - Get up to 35% OFF your first order with code BLURRY - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For almost forty years, Jerry Marzinsky worked the front lines of severe mental illness. State hospitals. Maximum security prisons. Emergency rooms. He was trained to believe schizophrenia is nothing more than a chemical imbalance in the brain. Then he did the one thing his field told him never to do. He listened to the voices, and he started talking back. What he found across four decades and thousands of patients did not fit the textbook. The voices are always negative. They are always destructive. They despise anything to do with God. And they follow patterns so consistent that Jerry mapped twenty-five of them. In this members-only episode, Jerry takes us all the way in. The voices that hold rank like an army. The patient whose voice told him he had no right to interfere with their way of life. The reason schizophrenics take their own lives at several times the rate of everyone else. And the collision between clinical psychology and Ephesians 6 that cost him his standing in the medical world. This is the conversation the medical industrial complex does not want you to hear, and it only lives inside the Blurry community. Join us, unlock the full episode, and find out what is really doing the talking. This episode is just the beginning. Blurry Creatures members unlock a vault of 100+ members-only episodes you can't hear anywhere else, plus every main feed episode completely ad-free. You also get a vibrant community of fellow seekers, exclusive drops, and perks built for people who can't stop digging. Come see what happens when we keep the mics rolling. Join us at https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices