EP: 379 Supernatural Miracles & Hollywood's Demons with Billy Hallowell

Blurry Creatures

Nature, Christianity, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Billy Hallowell noticed something that should bother Christians: every October, Hollywood releases films about demons, possessions, and the supernatural—and audiences pack theaters. Meanwhile, many churches won't touch these topics with a ten-foot pole. The CBN journalist, TV host, and documentary filmmaker joins Blurry Creatures to explore this disconnect and share what he discovered while making "Investigating the Supernatural: Miracles." Billy walks through verified cases of miraculous healings, including a man who was dead for 40 minutes—pronounced dead, shocked 12 times, being prepped for the morgue—before a praying doctor saw him come back to life with a perfect heartbeat. These aren't secondhand stories; Billy investigated them with the rigor of a journalist, seeking medical records, eyewitness accounts, and expert analysis. He issues an open challenge to skeptics and cessationists alike: watch the documentary and then explain what happened, because he couldn't find any naturalistic explanation.The conversation goes deeper into why Billy believes the church's silence on the supernatural is a massive failure. He argues that secular materialism has seeped into Christian thinking, leaving believers with a "truncated view" of spiritual reality that leaves them unable to understand the world around them—from geopolitics to personal struggles. Billy shares his conviction that UFO and alien phenomena are demonic in origin, meant to redirect attention away from God, and he sees the current mainstream interest in these topics as a door Christians should be walking through. The episode also addresses the dangerous theology that blames sick people for lacking faith, what near-death experiencers consistently report about God's love, and why humility—not dramatic encounters—is the real catalyst Billy has observed in countless conversion stories. Plus, in true Blurry Creatures fashion, we explore whether Bigfoot could be demonic, a "rental car" for spiritual entities, or something else entirely. This episode is sponsored by:https://livemomentous.com — Get up to 35% off your first order with promo code BLURRY at checkout!https://preborn.com/blurry — Dial #250 and say the keyword BABY or visit the link. Just $28 can help save a life!https://brooklynbedding.com — Get 30% off site wide when you use code BLURRY at checkout! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	He ended up actually getting to the hospital, wasn't feeling well, knew something was wrong,
0:04.3	he collapses in the hospital and he dies. And they spend 40 minutes trying to bring this guy back,
0:09.2	okay? Twelve times they've shocked him. He's dead. They pronounce him dead. They are literally
0:15.1	cleaning his body to take him to the morgue. And as I was reading through all of this information
0:20.4	in the story, I'm thinking, okay, okay, so they're trying to revive him. Now the doctor who was in the room during this whole thing, Chauncey Crandall, this particular doctor happened to be working there. He was a heart specialist and he said, there's nothing more we can do. They pronounce him dead. Crandall leaves the room because he's going to go carry on and see other patients. And as he's in the hallway, he was a Christian, he said he felt God tell him, go back and pray for that man. And he obviously ignores that prompting because it's insane. He's being cleaned up to go to the morgue. He's dead. He saw the whole thing happen. But he feels it again. Go back and pray for that man.
0:55.5	So Crandall turns around, walks back in the room. And I laugh every time I tell this story.
0:59.0	Because I'm thinking, like, you know the nurse and the other doctor are thinking,
1:02.5	what in the world is wrong with this guy, right? So he starts praying over this body,
1:07.7	over Jeff Markin, and they're watching him do it. And he essentially says, you know, okay, I'm going to pray over him.
1:14.6	They end up shocking him, and immediately he gets a perfect heartbeat back.
1:21.6	The history of our Earth is so different from what we can imagine.
1:26.6	The Smithsonian, if they found out about a large skeleton somewhere was to go get it.
1:34.3	I'm going to assume at least one person is right, because if one person's right, it's
1:39.3	right to bust the paradigm. It all goes back to the fallen chair.
1:42.3	And the problem with the modern-day church, they have a very truncated view of the supernatural.
1:47.0	This backdrop that's just pregnant with all kinds of meaning associated with this Mount Hermon event.
1:53.0	And this guy defects from the kingdom.
2:02.1	That's a big deal.
2:09.4	Welcome back to blurry creatures.
2:11.4	Welcome to the show, Billy Hallowell.
2:13.0	Thank you for coming on our podcast.
2:13.5	You're an author.
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