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RELOADED | 580: Disturbing The Upside Down

The Confessionals

Merkel Media

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

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 173 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 580: Disturbing The Upside Down we are joined by David who unravels an experience he went through that seems to have echoes of the popular show "Stranger Things." David had reached out to the show to tell of a disturbing incident from his high school years in Trinidad, Colorado. He shares that he and a group of friends had dared to enter the abandoned Catholic school, unwittingly unleashing an unknown malevolent force that would soon plague them and those connected to them.

The situation grew so dire that it ultimately required the intervention of a specialist recommended by the Catholic Church. This expert was brought in to reinstate the boundaries and restore a sense of control over the malevolent entity that had been unleashed. Today we talk about this situation and the aftermath of an exploration gone awry, where the line between reality and the supernatural blurs in "Disturbing The Upside Down."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Merkel

0:02.3

Media

0:04.4

I guess it's time

0:06.6

to go back in time

0:08.3

Are you telling me

0:09.2

you built a time machine

0:10.6

Out of a Dolorian?

0:14.1

Time is but a stubborn illusion

0:17.1

I have a lot of memories

0:19.8

Of the past.

0:21.6

People are time traveling within themselves.

0:25.6

Time travel is possible.

0:30.6

This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill, but no one was supposed to talk about it.

0:36.6

I saw three long, boning fingers. that a giant had to kill, but no one was supposed to talk about it.

0:44.5

I saw three long, boning fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear.

0:48.1

When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me.

0:58.0

And, Dude, he slithered over to make. And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen.

1:01.0

And he starts running and firing up this giant.

1:04.0

With a giant move, he's got a spear in one hand and he's running really fast.

1:10.0

And spears Dan holds him up like this.

1:14.1

Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face.

1:16.3

They basically decapitated.

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