Why is the new media so obsessed with angels and demons? Christian paranormal podcasters explain sudden shift
We are living in a time of great change. The mainstream media is dying, but podcasts exploring angels and demons are exploding. Perhaps we are entering a new age of enlightenment, but this time, society is turning toward the supernatural, not away from it.
The Robertson brothers recently invited podcasters Luke Rodgers and Nate Henry to the show to discuss this shift in public interest.
Rodgers and Henry are the hosts of “Blurry Creatures” — a highly popular Christian paranormal podcast that uses scripture to explore concepts like Bigfoot, aliens and UFOs, giants, and really any mysterious creature that hasn’t been proven to exist yet.
Christians, Rodgers says, must have a way to evaluate “the weird stuff,” especially now that the weird stuff is moving out of the fringe and into the mainstream. The fact that Congress just had a hearing to discuss “alleged secret government investigations into UFOs” is proof of this.
And now that big names in the new media, like Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, who claims he was mauled by a demon, and Shawn Ryan, among others, are talking about strange phenomena, more and more people are beginning to reject a materialistic worldview. What once was “relegated to wearing tinfoil hats” is becoming a subject of widespread interest.
Al Robertson, who’s been “studying and teaching and preaching the Bible for most of [his] adult life,” says that Christians shouldn’t be shocked or even that skeptical when strange otherworldly events occur.
So much of scripture, he says, involves "another realm and people on this Earth who are interacting back and forth” with that realm.
To believers who scoff at things like UFOs/UAPs and other kinds of preternatural events, he says, “Well, the Bible is full of it. ... What’s so shocking about things we can’t really explain or describe?”
Henry, invoking Dr. Michael Heiser, Old Testament scholar and Christian author whose studies on the supernatural culminated in his oft-cited book “The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible,” adds that “the average seminarian graduate only gets two classes on angels and demons.”
And by “classes,” he doesn’t mean courses but rather “lectures,” meaning that the average seminary student spends only two to three hours learning about supernatural entities in the entire time it takes to earn their degree.
This lack of education doesn’t make sense when you consider that “our Bible has got a lot of weird stuff in it,” says Rodgers, noting that angels, beings that are “not earthborn ... by definition should be extraterrestrial.”
Henry and Rodgers then share what they’ve learned about God, humanity, and the supernatural from their years of dissecting strange phenomena. Jase also shares his one experience that made him “revisit [his] thoughts on modern-day demon possession.”
To hear these harrowing stories, watch the episode above.
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Female Bigfoot: A Navajo ranger’s chilling night vision encounter
Stanley Milford Jr., the Paranormal Ranger, is a Native American whose parents were of Navajo and Cherokee descent. He was raised in an environment that acknowledged the supernatural — an environment where shapeshifters were no figment of the imagination and witchcraft was feared.
However, when Milford joined a law enforcement branch of the Navajo Nation called the Navajo Rangers, the paranormal became more than just part of his culture; it became central to his job.
Now, he joins Pat Gray on “Pat Gray Unleashed” to recount an eerie memory of his encounter with what he alleges was a female Bigfoot.
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“Did you ever see the actual Bigfoot or just the footprint?” asks Pat.
“One of the investigations I did see this thing through the use of night vision equipment and thermal equipment,” says Milford, adding that the creature came within “approximately 100 yards” of where he was stationed.
On another occasion when he was driving home, Milford says he saw the looming creature cross a snowy road about 100 yards ahead of his vehicle.
“As I was driving, something crossed over in front of me, in front of my patrol unit, probably around 100 yards, maybe even less than that, and it wasn't a bear; it wasn't livestock; it wasn't a human being. It was much larger than that,” he tells Pat.
“Typically, you know, these things are described as being covered in hair and much taller than a human being, and that's what I seen ... it went up an incline that you or I would have had great difficulty in going up,” he explains, noting that the creature was “at least 8 foot, 9 foot [tall].”
Jeffy then asks Milford if he believes that the Bigfoot creatures are “going into a different realm.”
To hear Milford’s response, watch the clip above.
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