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The Confessionals

Merkel Media

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

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 614:The Skinwalker Ranch of Joshua Tree, Dominic and Lionel share their childhood experiences on a California ranch near Joshua Tree, recounting a series of unsettling encounters with paranormal phenomena. The father-son duo details sightings of peculiar creatures, including a headless man and leprechaun-like beings, accompanied by chilling sounds like a screeching creature and a woman's scream. Both Dominic and Lionel have individual experiences on the ranch, and they share a particularly eerie moment when they discover their dog with drained fluids in the same location where a reptilian-type entity was spotted the day before. Adding another layer to the unsettling events, Dominic and Lionel describe instances of being physically lifted and thrown. These unnerving encounters have left them with a lingering unease, fostering a belief that supernatural forces are at play on the ranch. The duo explores the spiritual implications of these experiences, reflecting on the potential link between their wavering faith and the surge in paranormal activity. The conversation also prompts contemplation about the possible presence of cults, witchcraft, and experimental technology in regions like Joshua Tree, raising intriguing questions about the mysterious occurrences in their childhood home.

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0:00.0

It started with a rainy day. I wanted to get the kids off the sofa and stop watching TV.

0:07.0

So I searched rainy day activities on Tik-Tock.

0:10.0

There were loads of hacks on there, but the kids really liked making a bird feeder.

0:15.0

It's amazing what you can do with a milk carton and a handful of seeds.

0:19.0

We hung it outside the window and the birds loved it almost as much as the kids.

0:23.2

Who knew a bird box could be this entertaining? It starts on Tik-Tok.

0:28.8

Hey everybody this is a preview of today's members episode. If you want to hear the whole thing head on over to the

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0:40.6

Merkel

0:44.0

Media and I'm just at this point I am crying.

0:46.0

Like I can't like scream me up.

0:48.0

I just remember the tears are running down.

0:49.0

I'm just in fear and I can feel this thing now right here and it's growling at me and I can feel the breath and it's like

0:54.1

hot breath and it smelled like rotten eggs and sulfur like straight sulfur

1:00.5

rotten eggs was smelled like so this probably lasted for about a minute the whole thing from maybe a minute and a half of the me getting thrown off the bed to the door shaking this thing on me

1:09.5

Maybe two minutes max but it felt like it was a year this whole experience so in my

1:14.8

head I'm just had these random thoughts like man what's going on like please leave

1:18.0

me alone blah blah blah please go away and I just had a random thought to say

1:21.8

Jesus please help me.

1:23.0

And when I said that, the thing like made this ugly noise, like an ugly shriek and a scream,

1:29.0

and the front, the front door went, boom, boom, boom, boom, again.

1:32.0

So to me, the thing left.

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