792: The Unified Phenomenon

The Confessionals

Merkel Media

Christianity, Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we dive into the mystery of the unified phenomenon; the unsettling idea that aliens, demons, cryptids, and countless other entities may all be masks worn by a single ancient intelligence. This force has always sought worship, weaving itself through history in different disguises, demanding recognition while deceiving humanity. From possession and rituals to modern encounters, the thread is disturbingly consistent: the phenomenon adapts, but the source remains the same.

The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk this past week is a sobering reminder that these ancient powers don’t just lurk in the shadows or forests; instead, they stretch into our cultural and political arenas as well. What looks like chaos on the surface may in fact be orchestrated by the same intelligence working through different faces, different systems, and different moments in time.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, before we get to this week's show, this is just your weekly reminder to please continue to pray for my wife, Lindsay.
0:05.0	She is battling breast cancer right now, and we're praying for complete healing in Jesus' name.
0:10.1	Thank you.
0:11.8	Merkel.
0:13.9	Media.
0:14.3	This was all circulating around the base that a giant had been killed but no one was supposed to talk about it.
0:24.6	I saw three long, bony fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear.
0:33.6	When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me.
0:45.4	And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen.
0:49.1	And he starts running and firing up this giant.
0:52.2	Well, the giant moves.
0:57.4	He's got a spear in one hand and he's running really fast at this giant. With a giant moves, he's got a spear in one hand, and he's running really fast.
1:00.7	And spears, Dan, holds him up like this.
1:05.3	Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face, they basically decapitated.
1:15.6	Got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, when he got about 15 yards away from me, I raised that 12 days and I blow this head off. I feel something pulling at my leg, and I look over and there are two small gray entities pulling it.
1:24.6	And they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed.
1:27.8	I reached my hand into this bush, and I touch air.
1:31.5	Couldn't breathe, and I couldn't move.
1:33.8	Because I know I'm seeing a monster.
2:21.9	Yeah! Yeah! Welcome to the show, everybody, listening to the Confessionals podcast. I'm your host, Tony Merkel. Thanks for being here. If you've a crazy, wild experience, you want to share with me on the show, go ahead and shoot me an email. My email address is Contact at theconfessionalspodcast.com. That's contact at the confessionalspodcast.com. Or go to the website, the confessionalspodcast.com. Hit the contact section, and you can reach me that way as well. Either it works for me, just get a hold of me. If you want more shows on a weekly basis,
2:27.3	we have you covered on our exclusive social media app. The Confessionals members have access to bonus shows every week, the entire archive of bonus shows in all eternity past, and also, it's all on a social media app specifically
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