Members Preview | 868: The Nephilim Mind Virus Revisited
The Confessionals
Merkel Media
4.6 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Tony experiments with a new watch-along format as he revisits Episode 508, “Nephilim Mind Virus,” featuring Dr. Laura Sanger. What began as a spontaneous look back becomes a reflection on one of the most pivotal conversations in the history of The Confessionals. Tony explains how that episode helped shift his perspective from viewing encounters as isolated stories to recognizing the deeper spiritual war behind them. He revisits topics like Nephilim bloodlines, demonic oppression, spiritual mapping, deliverance, cryptids, parasites, and the blurred line between the physical and supernatural. Along the way, Tony reflects on his own growth, past mistakes, church hurt, renewed conviction, and the responsibility to walk with discernment. This watch-along is part commentary, part confession, and part spiritual recalibration for anyone who has followed the evolution of the show.
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| 0:17.0 | This was all circulating around the base that a giant had been killed but no one was supposed to talk about it. |
| 0:22.6 | I saw three long, boning fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear. |
| 0:33.6 | When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me. |
| 0:40.3 | And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen. |
| 0:47.3 | And he starts running and firing up this giant. |
| 0:50.3 | With a giant move, he's got a spear in one hand and he's running really fast and spears, |
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| 1:12.8 | and I blow this head off. I feel something pulling at my leg, and I look over and there are two |
| 1:19.7 | small gray entities pulling it, and they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed. I reached my hand into this bush, and I touch air. |
| 1:30.1 | Couldn't breathe, and I couldn't move, because I know I'm seeing a monster. |
| 2:18.1 | Yeah! Welcome to the show, everybody, you were listening to the Confessionals podcast. I'm your producer, Jack Merkel, and I'm glad to be here. If you have a story and encounter you'd like to share on the show, go ahead and shoot us an email. Our email address is contact at theconfessionalspodcast.com. That's contact at the confessionalspodcast.com. Or go to the website, hit the contact section, and you can reach us that way as well. Either way it works for us, just hold of us if you want some of that swag some of that drip as t-saint some of that merch merch |
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| 2:36.9 | Tony found himself in the studio a couple weeks ago watching an old episode with Dr. |
| 2:41.5 | Laura Sanger. |
| 2:42.4 | And he thought to himself, huh, I think a really good idea would be to watch this and react to it in real time for all of you to see his current thoughts, |
| 2:51.9 | what he's thinking about it now, some questions that he may have not asked |
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