EP: 406 Black Eyed Kids and the Doors We Open *members only trailer

Blurry Creatures

Nature, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

What happens when a self-described atheist builds a career investigating the darkest corners of the paranormal, and something starts following him home? Barry is a writer who tried to launch his career as a paranormal journalist back in the early 2000s and wrote one of the original deep-dive articles on Black Eyed Children for UFO Digest. He was flooded with over 250 emails from people with their own encounters and shares the stories that stuck with him most, including a woman who pulled over to help a homeless person only to lock eyes with completely black eyes, and a Georgia prison guard who was lifted off the ground by an inmate speaking in an unknown language whose eyes turned black mid-sentence. But the deeper story is Barry's own — how researching the darkest corners of the paranormal opened doors he didn't know he was opening, and how something seemed to become aware of him during that season.Barry's journey takes a sharp turn when he gives his life to Christ, and the sleep paralysis that plagued him for years comes to a dead stop after his baptism. But the story doesn't end clean. A mission trip to Nicaragua, where his team entered brothels to share the gospel and walked into palpable spiritual darkness, brought the sleep paralysis roaring back, this time with physical hands pinning him to the bed. Barry walks through the practical tools that ultimately brought freedom: praying over his home, playing worship music through the night, the spoken name of Jesus, and the power of simply sharing his story. It's a raw, first-time-told testimony about the reality of spiritual warfare, the doors we open without realizing it, and the only name that shuts them. Want to listen to this episode and a whole backlog of members-only episodes? Check out the community and perks of being a Blurry Creatures member at https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There was a woman, she was an older lady, I think 50s or 60s, and she said that every morning driving to work, she would pass by this kind of exit ramp to get on the interstate. And there's a homeless person with the signs just, you know, however you can help, would be appreciated. And one of those things where you, you know, you pass someone like that and don't really think anything of it. You have like a two-second guilty feeling and then you go on with your day. But she said that one morning she felt really led to just a couple bucks,
0:26.2	maybe even some food or something. So she said that she stopped, she pulled over to give this
0:31.3	person some money. And she said the moment she stopped her car, this homeless person stood up and
0:36.5	came directly to the car and looked in when they locked eyes like the woman was going to say, you know, here's some money or whatever, said that this person's eyes were completely black.
0:57.0	Yeah. The The The history of our Earth is so different from what we can imagine.
1:25.6	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
1:38.3	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.
1:57.0	And this guy defects from the kingdom.
2:00.0	That's a big deal.
2:08.5	All right, welcome back to blurry creatures.
2:10.9	Today we're going to talk about the black-eyed children.
2:12.6	We got Barry coming on, and it's still a lot of investigation on this, and it's a weird phenomenon, Lou.
2:17.6	Yeah, it's a super weird one.
2:19.0	It kind of fits in, it hides in the corners of the paranormal spaces.
2:22.3	It's really kind of unexplainable.
2:24.5	We had one episode we've done where we had a guy that had an encounter.
2:27.3	That's right.
2:27.9	Barry wrote pieces and did some research on this.
2:30.5	He also has a fascinating testimony from sleep paralysis to being held down to hitchhiking
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