Dogman, Missing Time, and the Light in the Woods | Slingshot Nation
The Confessionals
Merkel Media
4.6 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 182 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Slingshot Nation, Nick walks us through what happened on a piece of property bordering restricted TVA land — a night that began with a strange light in the sky and quickly turned into something far more unsettling. What he describes isn’t just a sighting. It’s an atmosphere shift. Missing time. A massive bipedal presence moving through the trees. Owl sounds that didn’t sound like owls. A scream in the woods that didn’t belong to anything natural. And a growing sense that he wasn’t just observing something — something may have been positioning him there.
But the story doesn’t stop at the property line. Nick talks about the synchronicities that followed, the feeling that the encounter didn’t fully end that night, and the questions that still linger. Was it coincidence? A cluster of unrelated events? Or was there intention behind it? We unpack the timeline, the environment, and the aftermath — and leave space for you to decide what really unfolded in those woods.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh boy! Is that a slingshot? |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:04.0 | Slingshot season. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey! Let's run it! |
| 0:09.0 | Hey! Hey! Hey! |
| 0:11.0 | Hey! |
| 0:12.0 | Can't miss. |
| 0:14.0 | God with me whole squad going. |
| 0:17.0 | Devil try to throw shit. |
| 0:20.0 | I grin, cause the light too bright where I've going. Devil try to throw shade. I grin because the light too bright where I've been. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to Slingshot Nation, everybody. |
| 0:27.6 | Thank you for being here. |
| 0:28.6 | We are live here in the studio. |
| 0:30.6 | Derek, how you doing, man? |
| 0:31.6 | Woo! |
| 0:32.6 | Good, man. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm excited to be here, yes. |
| 0:34.6 | Go. |
| 0:35.6 | Jack, how you doing? |
| 0:36.6 | I am good. I just showed her. I'm like dealing with all bunch to be here. Yes. Jack, how are you doing? I am good. |
| 0:37.9 | I just showed her. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm like dealing with all bunch of stuff here. Jack's frazzled. Well, since Jack already did it, we have a guest here in studio. Nick, Nick, how you doing, man? Living the dream, brother. Living the dream? Yeah. Yeah. So the way this all kind of came together, we've never had an in-studio |
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