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244: Psycho Snake-Handling Preacher Serves 99-Year Sentence

Lights Out

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True Crime, News, History

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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0:00.0

Light out, everybody.

0:13.3

What's up, everybody?

0:14.3

Welcome back to another episode of Lights Out.

0:17.9

I'm your host Josh.

0:19.1

And I'm your host Austin.

0:20.5

And Danny doesn't have a mic today.

0:22.6

Because, of course, we walk into the studio. We record on Monday mornings or Monday afternoons,

0:27.1

rather, got Marty losing track of time. But, you know, we've talked about this so many times.

0:32.9

Our studio has the weirdest things going on in here. Basically, Danny's mic is causing all sorts of crazy noises to pop up, and we're worried that

0:43.6

if we take a chance, there might be some weird types of sounds going on.

0:50.5

Yep.

0:51.4

So, yeah, it's just another day in a Kerr Studio.

0:56.0

I really truly believe that, too. Yeah. I yeah, it's just another day in a Kerr Studio. I really truly believe that too.

1:00.7

Yeah. I mean, we might, if we turn that mic back on, I wouldn't be surprised if we caught a few words in between all the crazy noises. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if we just look over and

1:06.2

Danny's gone. There's just a black figure sitting at the controls over there. Yeah, can you prove that you're human right now?

1:14.2

He is here, though. He is here. But, you know, it's just another day here on Lights Out. And today, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

1:23.9

Amen. We are going to be talking about one of the craziest preachers you've never heard of.

1:31.8

I'm guessing. Glenn Somerford. And he's a Pentecostal preacher from down in Appalachia, Alabama.

1:41.5

Yeah.

1:41.6

Be specific. And boy, does he have a wild, wild story.

1:46.8

And our man is serving a 99-year sentence right now for a crime that has a lot of,

1:54.7

there's definitely a reasonable doubt there.

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