Something Is Happening in APPALACHIA... And It’s NOT Normal! | Slingshot Nation
The Confessionals
Merkel Media
4.6 • 6.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
What if the line between technology and the supernatural is thinner than we think?
In this Slingshot Nation, we’re sitting down with The Supernatural Sleuth to explore chilling encounters, Appalachian mysteries, and the growing concern that modern tech, like VR and AI, may be opening doors we don’t fully understand. We’ll dive into real-life experiences, strange creatures, and unexplained phenomena as we try to uncover what might really be out there, and how close we are to understanding it.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh boy! Is that a slingshot? |
| 0:02.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:04.0 | Slingshot season. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey! Let's run it! |
| 0:09.0 | Hey! Hey! Hey! |
| 0:11.0 | Grace hit me like, boom! |
| 0:13.0 | Can't miss. |
| 0:15.0 | 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. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome to Slingshot Nation Live. Thanks for being here, everybody. Derek, how you doing? |
| 0:30.5 | Feeling great today. Jack? I'm good. Good, man. Good. So this morning I had to run down and deal with some stuff in my house and it was early. So on my way to the house, I decided to stop by Jack's house and bang on the door and make sure that he's awake. |
| 0:52.8 | Is that why we're starting on time today? |
| 1:00.1 | It's funny because I didn't see the text later, but he had text me. |
| 1:04.0 | I don't know when, at what point he texted me, but he said he could hear my truck. |
| 1:07.7 | And so he knew I was there. |
| 1:09.1 | And I knock on the door. |
| 1:10.4 | And I just see like this shirtless guy peeking through the window like all crazy having me goofing around. I was like, I guess he's already awake. But I was going to just rouse him a bit. But yeah, Jack's here wide awake. Hi. Good to go. And we have another in studio guest today. Brandon, how you doing, man? I'm great, |
| 1:28.4 | man. Thanks for having me. I'm glad you're here. So this was one of those things where, |
| 1:32.5 | again, we work our schedule and we see things overlapping. And we're like, hmm, something's not |
| 1:41.8 | fitting. And so we might need to do a pivot. |
| 1:46.1 | And so here we are pivoting. |
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