811: Portals Opening in Tennessee’s Mountains (Members)

The Confessionals

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

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🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

What if the camera didn’t just catch a creature, but the doorway it came through? In this episode, Tony sits down with Travis Carpenter to revisit the night his father, Scott Carpenter, filmed one of the clearest portal manifestations ever recorded. From that moment on, everything changes. They unravel Scott’s groundbreaking DNA research suggesting Bigfoot’s supernatural origins, the eerie connection between metallic “door” sounds and portals, and the possibility that East Tennessee’s ancient mountains are dotted with thin places, geographic points where spiritual war bleeds into the physical world. By the end, it’s not just about a portal in the Smokies, it’s about realizing we live on a battlefield where those doors are opening again.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is a preview of today's members episode. If you want to hear the whole thing,
0:04.4	head on over to the confessionalspodcast.com. Hit the join button and become a member today.
0:10.7	Merkel. Media.
0:17.0	This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill but no one was supposed to talk about it.
0:22.6	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.
0:40.3	And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen.
0:47.3	And he starts running and firing up this giant.
0:50.3	With a giant move, he's got a spear in one hand and he's running really fast and spears
0:57.0	Dan holds him up like this.
1:00.0	Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face.
1:02.0	They basically decapitated.
1:04.0	Got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, when he got about 15 yards away from me, I raised that 12 days
1:12.9	and I blow this head off.
1:14.8	I feel something pulling at my leg, and I look over and there are two small gray entities
1:22.4	pulling it, and they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed.
1:26.4	I reached my hand into this bush,
1:28.6	and I touch air. Couldn't breathe. And I couldn't move because I know I'm seeing a monster.
1:35.5	So I was, I had Brian Jeffrey here in studio. And you know him? I don't. I'm going to look him up.
1:43.3	Dude, uh, paranormal.
2:00.4	Black mass paranormal is his YouTube channel. He's got like 60, I think it's like 60,000. Mm-hmm. The black mass paranormal guy? Yeah, the black mass paranormal guy. Yeah. So he does investigations all over the Smoky Mountains, all over this region. East Tennessee. He's local. Okay. Yeah, I just gave him a follow.
2:01.2	Yeah, dude.
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