Blurry Creatures

Dr. Jeremiah Johnston does not just talk about evidence. He brings it. A first-century Roman crucifixion nail, six inches long, curved from being hammered into flesh again and again. The dice the soldiers cast for a dying man's clothes. Ancient coins. A cup pulled from the waters of Alexandria that calls Jesus a magician and predates the gospels. One by one, he sets them on the table, and one by one, the story of the cross stops feeling like a story. We examine how the Shroud of Turin is scientific proof of the resurrection. We stare at the face of the man of the shroud, 374 scourge marks, a side wound between the fifth and sixth rib, and an image science still cannot replicate. Jeremiah breaks down the 1898 negative photograph that started it all, the flawed carbon dating, the pollen grains that only bloom in springtime in Jerusalem, and the burst of energy it would take to scorch that image into the cloth.Jeremiah is a New Testament scholar, the number one New York Times bestselling author of The Jesus Discoveries, and a man who has carried this evidence to Tucker, Shawn Ryan, and the World Economic Forum at Davos. And he comes to Blurry Creatures because he embraces the same thing we do. The supernatural is real, and the modern church has a truncated view of it. We get into the cup that calls Jesus a magician, the graffiti that mocks the crucifixion, his own angel encounter on a New Jersey highway, and the one question that ends the skeptical argument. Where is the body? This episode is sponsored by: https://livemomentous.com — Get up to 35% off your first order with promo code BLURRY at checkout! https://preborn.com/blurry — Visit the PreBorn! website or dial #250 and use keyword BABY to donate today. https://rocketmoney.com/blurry — Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ethan drives Highway 160 home every night. He knows the deer, the elk, the long dark stretches near the San Juan Mountains. But on a January night under a two percent moon, every house light and every street light goes dark at once, like a switch flips on the whole valley. Then something steps onto the double yellow line and starts walking straight toward his truck. He is sure it is a buck. Then the white deer turns translucent, you can almost see its bones, and it rises onto two legs.This is one of the most chilling firsthand accounts of a skinwalker we have ever brought to the membership. Ethan leads a Navajo crew, lives on the edge of Ute and Navajo land, and he never wanted to say the word first. His wife said it for him. We walk through every second of it, the grotesque seizure-like movement, the cannon-shot charge at his windshield, and the moment the thing vanished into vapor just feet from his face. Worship music is still playing. Lock the doors for this one.  Want to listen to this episode and a catalog of more than 100+ other members-only episodes? How about all our main feed episodes AD FREE? Check out the vibrant community, extra episodes, and amazing perks of being a Blurry Creatures member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bizzie Gold is a neurobehavioral specialist, author of Your Brain Is a Filthy Liar, the creator of Break Method, and has spent more than a decade studying how the human brain gets hijacked. A kid from the East Coast who fought daily panic attacks for a decade, she once sat under a famous past-life hypnotherapist before being blindsided and ambushed by Jesus in a Boulder church in the middle of a blizzard. Now she is a neurobehavioral specialist, and her thesis is simple, and a little terrifying: most of what you call discernment is really your unhealed trauma talking, and the enemy is counting on it.What follows is a masterclass in how you actually think. Bizzie unpacks the neurocognitive funnel, the five brain patterns, and why your perception, not the facts, is what gets burned into memory. She and the guys tie it all together: spiritual warfare, the authority of Christ, the legal rights we hand the enemy through self-cursing, why getting triggered is like kicking off a scent that spirits can smell across the room, and the gap between instinct, intuition, and true discernment. They go from the Garden of Eden to the nature of time to why the hardest, holiest thing you can do is walk straight into the trigger instead of away from it. If you have ever wondered why one podcast episode can set your whole nervous system on fire, this is the conversation that finally explains it This episode is sponsored by: https://homechef.com/blurry — Get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box & free dessert for life! https://ruffgreens.com — Get a free Jumpstart Trial bag with discount code BLURRY at checkout. - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most Bigfoot encounters happen by accident. This one did not. A lifelong experiencer with Puerto Rican medium roots and Nez Perce blood, Larry (name chosen for anonymity) had spent decades navigating shadow figures, voice mimicry, and unexplained presences in every home he lived in. So when he stumbled across the idea of mentally summoning a Bigfoot, part of him didn't think it would work. Part of him did it anyway. What came back through that open channel stopped him cold: I'm in the area. It'll take me a little while to get there. But you're not going to like what you see. He didn't believe it. Until he did. What followed weeks later on a night drive through the Arizona desert is one of the most layered, terrifying, and spiritually loaded Bigfoot accounts we have ever put on record. A wind shaped like an arrow. A shadowy figure taller than the car, blacker than the darkness itself. An orb the size of a beach ball is dissolving in the rear view. And the slow, suffocating feeling that something was pacing them for miles. This one is members only. If you've been on the fence about joining, this is the episode. Want to listen to this episode and a catalog of more than 100+ other members-only episodes? How about all our main feed episodes AD FREE? Check out the vibrant community, extra episodes, and amazing perks of being a Blurry Creatures member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Milam Byers, guitarist for Christian rock legends Bleach, has spent twenty years trying to understand one moment. His older brother Josh, a decorated Army captain, was killed by a massive IED in Iraq in 2003. The explosion was so violent that it shook the ground two miles away. According to every medical report, Josh died instantly. But his driver heard him shout a command. Clear. Precise. By name. And every man in that vehicle obeyed it and lived. Milam sits down with Luke and Nate to share what the driver told him years later about a voice that couldn't have been there, but everyone heard.This is an episode about brothers, grief, and what happens when God shows up in the deepest darkness. Milam opens up about the vision he received alone in a closet the night Josh died, the satellite image nineteen years later that confirmed every detail, and why the theology of suffering isn't just academic to him. He's still putting the pieces back together. And his brother's last words keep pointing him forward. This episode is sponsored by: https://go.goodranchers.com/BLURRY — For a limited time, when you purchase any Father’s Day Gift Box from Good Ranchers, they’ll throw in FREE Wagyu Burgers for Dad to enjoy.https://livemomentous.com — Get up to 35% off your first order with promo code BLURRY at checkout! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices