RELOADED | 512: Desert Portal Death Cult

The Confessionals

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

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 228 minutes

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In Episode 512: we are joined by James, who moved to Hollywood recently to help his career in the film industry after previously working out of Atlanta. One night, James and his friend went out to a bar where they met a guy who wanted to take them to another place to drink. Once they arrived at the new location, James' friend was so weirded out by the people he saw that he bailed and left James alone with his new acquaintance, who talked James into going to yet another party out in the desert, in a place called Joshua Tree, outside of Los Angeles. James wound up spending over 24 hours at that location, and he witnessed so many out-of-this-world things. There were vampires, cloaked figures around pentagrams, flying people, and portals opening up - and it all seemed to be focused around the guest of honor, James himself. As the danger rose, James found himself running for his life through the desert to escape these people who seemed to be grooming him as a sacrifice that night. This is one of the wildest stories we have ever had on The Confessionals, and James tells a riveting story, which could be chalked up to a tall tale by many - but James comes with the receipts that point to this event being very real.

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0:00.0	I guess it's time to go back in time.
0:03.0	Are you telling me that you built a time machine?
0:05.0	Out of a Dolion?
0:08.0	Time is but a stubborn illusion.
0:12.0	I have a lot of memories of the past.
0:16.0	People are time traveling within themselves.
0:20.0	Time travel is possible.
0:24.1	Merkel.
0:26.4	Media.
0:27.9	I hear this ear piercing scream
0:31.7	like in unison,
0:34.0	a bunch of people like screaming at this high frequency
0:38.2	I turn around
0:41.2	I see the tent from the dance floor
0:44.6	fly up into the air
0:46.3	I see people flying
0:49.1	into the sky
0:50.4	and I see this
0:52.4	green portal this was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill
0:58.9	but no one was supposed to talk about it. I saw three long boning fingers reach up underneath the
1:06.6	door, curl up to grab it and then disappear.
1:14.0	When he came over to me,
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