Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

There is more going on than what you can see. Blurry Creatures is the podcast that takes the strange, the unexplained, and the flat-out weird seriously, and asks what the Bible actually has to say about it. Every week, hosts Luke Rodgers and Nate Henry dig into the topics most people are afraid to touch. UFOs and UAPs. Cryptids and creatures. The Nephilim, the Watchers, and the sons of God. The divine council, cosmic geography, and the spiritual war happening just past the edge of our vision. Rooted in a biblical framework, the show pulls ancient texts, real witness testimony, and honest questions into the same conversation. This is not fringe for the sake of fringe. It is graduate-level theology, academic discussion, and real-world testimony made for regular people, with room for wonder, a healthy dose of humor, and a refusal to pretend the supernatural stopped being real. Whether you are a lifelong believer, a curious skeptic, or someone who has seen something you cannot explain, there is a seat for you here. Come for the mystery. Stay for the truth that holds it all together. New episodes every week.

  1. hace 2 días

    EP: 480 Smuggling Bibles, Rescuing Kids, and the Dogman of the Witch Capital of Costa Rica with Ryan Skoog

    Ryan Skoog has lived the kind of life most people only read about. He started smuggling Bibles into China at eighteen, now helps rescue thousands of girls from trafficking, feeds war refugees in Myanmar with hundreds of millions of meals, and plants churches in the most dangerous corners of the earth. He has watched crippled kids stand up and walk, brothels empty out when the gospel hits a village, and a chained man set free after years of torment. He also once had a furry, dog-man-like creature press him into a bed in what turned out to be the witch capital of Costa Rica, until he forced out the name of Jesus and it fled.But the thread running through all of it is prayer. Skoog sits down with Luke and Nate to explain why the global church is exploding, now the fastest numerical growth in the history of the church, while the West stalls. He shares the $160,000 study on the prayer lives of Christian leaders so damning it was never published, the practices he gathered from leaders on every continent, and the two discoveries that rebuilt his own prayer life: friendship first, and crafting an entire day with God. It is an inspiring, adventure-packed conversation that will make you want to pray as your life depends on it, because for the people in Ryan’s stories, it does.Want more Blurry Creatures? Head to blurrycreatures.com/members to go deeper with us, with members-only bonus episodes, ad-free listening, exclusive members-only communities, and discounts on BC merch and our legendary live events. This Episode is Sponsored By: https://homechef.com/blurry - Get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box & free dessert for life! https://rocketmoney.com/blurry - Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster! Go to https://shopremi.com/BLURRY and use code BLURRY at checkout for 55% off this month with Remi Club. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to save up to 75% this month on select bundles while supplies last! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  2. hace 6 días

    EP: 479 He Investigated the Demonic and Then It Came for Him with Billy Hallowell

    Investigative journalist Billy Hallowell approaches the supernatural the way he approaches any story: as a skeptic who wants proof. For his film on angels and demons, he crossed the country collecting firsthand accounts and handing them to psychiatrists and skeptics to pick apart. Some of them could not be explained away. A man crushed under a semi who rose above his body and watched two angels press down on his stomach to keep him alive, backed up by the paramedic who walked in the back door. A second man, prompted by God, flew across the country to pray over him and watched his destroyed intestines regrow.But the most surprising story in this conversation with Luke and Nate is Billy’s own. While making the film, he fell into a months-long darkness he could not explain, and a chain of strange promptings led him to two deliverances that changed everything. He is candid about the risk of telling it, and about his bigger conviction: a church too embarrassed to talk about this is failing people with nowhere else to turn, while Hollywood and the biggest podcasts in the world run with the topic Christians abandoned. Honest, skeptical, and genuinely gripping, it is a reporter’s case for taking the unseen realm seriously, built on evidence and his own experience. You can watch Billy’s documentary, Investigating the Supernatural: Angels and Demons, at cbn.com/supernatural. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  3. 29 oct ·  Contenido extra

    EP: 478 The Two Sams: The Demon Who Stole His Wife’s Identity *members only trailer

    Peter Jackel was a young church leader when he married Samantha out of duty, not love, after a pregnancy that turned out to be a lie. What followed was a year of blazing midnight fights, threats, and chaos so total he couldn’t remember what the arguments were even about. Then one day he pointed at her in the kitchen and rebuked her in the name of Jesus, and she spun around with a different set of eyes and a man’s voice. That was the cork out of the bottle. Over the next three days, Peter cast spirit after spirit out of his wife, until he hit one that would not leave, one that answered every time he called Samantha’s name. It had taken her identity. It was her.This is one of the most remarkable deliverance stories the show has aired, and it does not end where you think. Peter walks Luke and Nate through the childhood vow Samantha made as a desperate little girl, the way the spirit had formed her personality so completely that once it was gone she didn’t know what foods she liked or what made her laugh, and the slow rebuilding of a woman who would one day be named Mother of the Year. It is a raw account of oaths, chaos, the limits of counseling and medication, and the authority of Christ over powers the modern church would rather not name.This story lives in The Vault, and members are the reason we can give testimonies like Peter’s the room they deserve. 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

  4. 22 oct ·  Contenido extra

    EP: 476 The 40 MPH Creature and the Blood Altar in the Woods *members only trailer

    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

  5. 21 oct

    EP: 475 Ancient Portals, DMT and the Gates Being Opened in Silicon Valley with Darren Stott

    A portal is just a doorway, a point of spiritual access, and Darren Stott says far more of them are standing open than people realize. Pastor, podcaster, and author of Exposing Portals, Darren joins Luke and Nate to argue that the psychedelic boom sweeping through podcasts and Silicon Valley is not cutting-edge medicine at all. It is an ancient gate, the same one the serpent offered in Eden, repackaged as healing. DMT, ayahuasca, and the rest do not take you into a hallucination, he says. They take you out, through a door into a real realm, to meet real entities, and the people who go keep coming back with the same testimony. It opened me, and it left me open.From there the conversation runs wide, from the cosmic serpent that coils around ayahuasca users and feels like deliverance, to the comedian whose vision never fully closed, to the disruptors who credit their biggest breakthroughs to supernatural encounters. Darren is honest about why this is a hard conversation, especially for veterans and others who found real relief, and he keeps pointing to the catch underneath every counterfeit freedom. Something moves in, and it does not leave when you ask. It is a sobering, wide-open talk about portals, pharmakeia, the second heaven, and the only gate Darren says can be trusted. This Episode is Sponsored By: http://blurrygold.com/ - Get a FREE Gold & Silver Kit while supplies last! https://fondregenerative.com/ - Use the code BONEZONE for 15% off your order of real, nourishing bone broth and more! https://preborn.com/blurry - Visit the PreBorn! website or dial #250 and use keyword BABY to donate today. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  6. 15 oct ·  Contenido extra

    EP: 474 How False Prophets are Deceiving the Church with Michael Miller *members only trailer

    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

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There is more going on than what you can see. Blurry Creatures is the podcast that takes the strange, the unexplained, and the flat-out weird seriously, and asks what the Bible actually has to say about it. Every week, hosts Luke Rodgers and Nate Henry dig into the topics most people are afraid to touch. UFOs and UAPs. Cryptids and creatures. The Nephilim, the Watchers, and the sons of God. The divine council, cosmic geography, and the spiritual war happening just past the edge of our vision. Rooted in a biblical framework, the show pulls ancient texts, real witness testimony, and honest questions into the same conversation. This is not fringe for the sake of fringe. It is graduate-level theology, academic discussion, and real-world testimony made for regular people, with room for wonder, a healthy dose of humor, and a refusal to pretend the supernatural stopped being real. Whether you are a lifelong believer, a curious skeptic, or someone who has seen something you cannot explain, there is a seat for you here. Come for the mystery. Stay for the truth that holds it all together. New episodes every week.

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