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The Confessionals

Hunting The Howler | Slingshot Nation

The Confessionals

Merkel Media

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we investigate terrifying White Beast encounters in the Ozark Mountains — a faceless, towering creature covered in long shaggy hair that locals warn you never to follow into the woods. Witnesses describe it watching from the treeline, stalking properties, and crashing through the forest with unreal speed before vanishing behind metallic bangs many believe are tied to interdimensional gateways.

We break down Nathan’s two encounters with this massive white creature, his mother’s firsthand sighting, and the disturbing behavior that suggests this being may be new to our realm and still learning how to use its own body. We connect these stories to wider reports of White Beast entities, Dogman-type creatures, boundary spirits, and ancient legends like the Ozark Howler and the Slavic Leshy, revealing patterns stretching across cultures and continents.

This episode is loaded with cryptid sightings, giant humanoid reports, dimensional theories, forest entity encounters, and the rising wave of white, faceless creatures being seen across the Midwest and Appalachia. If you’re drawn to high-strangeness, mysterious creatures, unexplainable encounters, or the unseen conflict happening in the woods, this conversation will grip you from start to finish.

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Transcript

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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 been.

0:24.9

Yes.

0:26.4

Yes.

0:27.0

Yes.

0:28.1

Welcome to Slinghot Nation Live.

0:31.6

Thanks for being here, everybody.

0:33.3

I am very excited about today's show.

0:35.6

Before we get in today's show, though, I want to welcome my cohorts to the show.

0:39.6

Derek, what's going on, man?

0:40.4

Hey, man. Good morning.

0:41.4

Good morning.

0:41.9

We got Jack the jerk over here pushing the buttons. How you doing, man? Good morning. I'm good. I'm glad that everybody's here. Everybody's awake. You're awake. I'm awake. I'm awake. Jack, you're awake.

0:50.0

Oh, wake.

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