The Confessionals - 574: Military Base Portals and Glitches

Episode Date: August 22, 2023

In Episode 574, we are thrilled to have Nick, the curator behind the renowned Instagram page "Tales From The Gridsquare," back on the show. As a soldier himself, Nick runs an account dedicated to collecting and sharing spine-chilling accounts from veterans about their eerie encounters on military bases and battlefields worldwide. You might be surprised to learn that enemy fire is just one facet of what our military personnel contend with.Nick and I get into a captivating discussion about the baffling occurrences in the vicinity of the notorious military base known as 29 Palms. Get ready to explore tales of unexplained phenomena, including portals, time warps, and unsettling glitches in the fabric of reality, all of which are intertwined with this military installation. It's worth noting that 29 Palms is in close proximity to Joshua Tree, a location once featured in one of our most amazing stories here on The Confessionals, episode 512: Desert Portal Death Cult. James recounted his surreal night, filled with encounters with cloaked figures, ritual circles, vampires, demons, and glowing green portals. As we explore the mysteries of this region, one can't help but wonder why it seems to be a magnet for such inexplicable phenomena. In the Overtime for today's show, we will be getting into reports that Nick has received regarding giants in Afghanistan. Many believe the giant of Kandahar was an isolated incident relegated to a myth or legend. Still, Nick presents stories that revive the notion of giants living and thriving in today's world, shedding light on how they coexist among those who reside in Afghanistan. Nick’s bookTales From The Grid Square: Volume One https://a.co/d/a04ZoLAThe Confessionals Members App:Apple Store: https://apple.co/3UxhPrhGoogle Play: https://bit.ly/43mk8kZBecome a member for AD FREE listening and EXTRA shows: theconfessionalspodcast.com/joinCome Meet Tony:LIVE SHOW in Gatlinburg, TN!Tickets: https://bit.ly/3IC4IkxWatch Expedition Dogman: https://bit.ly/3CE6Kg0SPONSORSThis episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give onlinetherapy a try at betterhelp.com/yup and get on your way to being your best self.GET Private Internet Access: piavpn.com/confessionalsGET EMP Shield: empshield.com Coupon Code: "tony" for $50 off every item you purchase! Listen to this episode for more information! Link: bit.ly/3YaMD1NGET SIMPLISAFE TODAY: simplisafe.com/confessionalsGET Hello Fresh: hellofresh.com/confessionals60 Promo Code: "confessionals50" for 50% off plus the first box ships for free!!!Get Emergency Food Supplies: www.preparewiththeconfessionals.comGET FIRSTLEAF: tryfirstleaf.com/confessionalsCONNECT WITH USWebsite: www.theconfessionalspodcast.comEmail: [e-mail] to the Newsletter: https://www.theconfessionalspodcast.com/the-newsletterMAILING ADDRESS: Merkel Media257 N. Calderwood St., #301Alcoa, TN 37701SOCIAL MEDIASubscribe to our YouTube: https://bit.ly/2TlREaIDiscord: https://discord.gg/KDn4D2uw7hShow Instagram: theconfessionalspodcastTony's Instagram: tonymerkelofficialFacebook: www.facebook.com/TheConfessionalsPodcasTwitter: @TConfessionalsTony's Twitter: @tony_merkelAre you a military veteran struggling with thoughts of suicide?Contact Watchman Readiness Corps for REAL help. A veteran-run organization that is designed to help through hands-on survival training.Website: wrc.vetEmail: [e-mail]: [phone]Instagram: wrc_survivalFacebook: colbywrcvetOUTRO MUSICJoel Thomas - Lights On The MesaYouTube | Apple Music | Spotify

Merkel Media This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill but no one was supposed to talk about it I saw three long, boning fingers reach up underneath the door curl up to grab it and then disappear

When he came over to me Dude he slithered over to me And this giant comes out of the cave And they're all frozen And he starts running and firing at this giant. With a giant move, he's got a spear in one hand, and he's running really fast. And spears, Dan, holds him up like this.

Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face. They basically decapitated. And I look over, and there are two small, pulled off the bed. His bush, and couldn't breathe, and it couldn't move, because I know I'm seeing a monster. Welcome to the show, everybody. You're listening to The Confessionals Podcast. I'm your host, Tony Merkel. Thanks for being here.

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and overtime episodes when they're available just like today. Also, Fred, I haven't mentioned them in a while, but EMP Shield is a sponsor of this show. They're a running sponsor. Just to remind you guys, we are affiliated with EMP Shield. Go ahead, check them out. EMPShield.com. Use coupon code Tony for $50 off of every device you get off that website. EMP Shield. It's in the name. It shields, you from EMPs. And I figured I'd throw that in there because of our guest today. We have Nick from Tales from the Grid Square. How are you, sir? How's it going, Tony? Hey, man. Thanks for having me back on. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you here. So, you sir, are in the military and you run a very interesting and popular Instagram account. Go ahead and tell the people if they don't know already.

You've been on the show. I think twice now, I believe. I remember the first. first time I broadcast an episode with you. I called a paranormal military encounters. Maybe I'll call this one paranormal military encounters again or something like that. But your Instagram account, tell the people about it and why you started it. Yeah. So, yeah, so I run the Instagram account, Tales from the Grid Square. Some of your followers may know. Some of them are new. So welcome. Thanks for tuning in. So yeah, Tales from the Grid Square. I started it basically, I am documenting and posting like the stories from military members of like all the weird strange encounters they have. So everything from, so everything's anonymous, right?

So I, to encourage people to come forward. And, you know, if your listeners are listening and they're in the military and have a story to share, please, you know, send them my way. But basically it's anything from, you know, if they saw something that was very mundane, like heard and weird noises to, you know, seeing fool-on UFOs and experiencing things that could be considered cryptids. I'm here for it. I tried to document them all. I post them in a little like slide shows that you can take a look at on Instagram. I'm very like as Tony knows, I'm pretty much open to everything. So I post everything from, you know, someone's like very mundane encounter,

which is, you know, still a story to tell to like, you know, full on stories about people like experiencing strange glitches and whatnot. Or, you know, I have pictures of UFOs from overseas on during the Afghan war that people have sent in, like very incredible things. I highly recommend if you guys are interested to come check it out. You can always message me. I also have two books. And I've taken those stories, categorize them,

chosen some of the best ones, and put them out in two volumes right now, Tales from the Grid Square, Volume 1, and Tales from the Grid Square, Volume 2, both of which you can find on Amazon. And, you know, highly recommend checking them out. I've put a lot, it's all me. Like, I'm the editor, the producer,

the, everything Amazon just publishes for me. So, you know, you buy the book, you support me, and I appreciate those that have. Absolutely. So check it out. The links are in the description of this episode. So it's easy for you guys to find the books. Nick, man, you approach your Instagram account very similar on how I approach my show, which is people have experiences and they deserve to voice their experiences. it's it's one thing to um i guess i cross this bridge a long time ago with my show where it's like i didn't know what direction to take but i decided that i wanted to just let people who've had experiences share what they've been through and that's how you approach

the instagram account and i think you do a great service and i hope you view it that way because there's a lot of guys in the military that have seen funky stuff, and they're already dealing with enough stuff, you know, like real life stuff. I mean, you're in the military, you're serving, you come back with a lot of baggage. There's a reason why, you know, I support the Till Valhalla Project. And, you know, it's one of those things where I'm very aware of the suicide rate. I've never been in the military myself, but I love supporting the troops, the soldiers. I don't necessarily support all the decisions and everything our government makes that is in charge of those soldiers,

but the men who are volunteering their lives to protect my freedom, I'm down with. And they have a lot of pride coming back. And a lot of them don't seek the help that they should be seeking. And so when they go through paranormal experiences on top of all the other crap they've been through, I imagine it can be a bit much. And so I think that you're doing a fantastic service for those guys because they're able to have a spot to just voice the weird crap that they've been through that they don't know where to turn to. Like, I don't know how many guys you've talked to on a personal level. But I imagine there's a lot of guys who probably are struggling with the real life PTSD type stuff.

And they have this baggage as well. And at least you're giving them that outlet. And I think you're doing a great job. And I just, on behalf of the citizens of America, thank you. You deserve a medal, my friend. I appreciate it, Tony. Thank you for everything you said is true. And thank you for your kind of words.

You know, I am just some guy that is a, I'm just some weirdo that loves the paranormal and had this drunken idea after a couple of beers. Like, why don't I start talking about all these stories I've heard in the service? And it is actually pretty crazy. it has changed my whole views on, like, religion and, you know, how this world is. You know, like, every base is haunted, I swear. Every base. Even the one that I live on, like, I just found out about a new ghost, a legend.

Like, these little urban legends that are, like, so synonymous and so local to these bases that, you know, people, like, I've never heard about, like, the haunting that apparently occurs just quite literally down a quarter mile down the road for me. That's wild. You, right. So let me ask you a question before we get into today's topics. I just want to let people know some of the direction we're going here. We're going to start off with 29 palms because you hooked me with the first two stories here, the glitch on the range patrol.

And then further down here, I was scrolling and I saw 29 Palms Portal. And I was like, yep, I'm about that. So we're going to start off with that. And we're going to go into also for an overtime, we're going to be talking about. about giants of Afghanistan and other experiences and occurrences during the Afghan war. And then we're also going to record a member exclusive episode, which I'm really excited about, which is the Fort Campbell Dogman encounter. Fort Campbell is in Kentucky, not far from where I live, and there was a pretty gnarly dogman encounter. And those soldiers I've been talking to,

you've talked to, and it's very hard to get them to talk about this on the show. And so you're going to do it today. I'm very excited about all these different recordings. things we're doing. Before we get into this, though, I just remember when you brought up the the fact that your base is haunted, I think last time you and I talked, and I'm not sure if this was on a recording or if it was just on the phone, you were talking about, I believe this was you. Maybe it was somebody else, but it was you that was talking about finding something on the island, like some kind of like, there's like an old, they, they closed off something and, and you were thinking about going back and exploring it. Like, there's like, oh, yeah. What was

that? I can't remember. Yeah, that was me. We were talking like off the air on a phone call. Oh, I'm sorry. Never mind. Was that a no-go zone? Sorry. I'm still looking into it. I have my theory. This is a story for another time, but I will definitely say the islands of Hawaii have an incredible hidden history, both military and not military. You come out here, you learn very quickly from talking to people that legend and, you know, legend is a lot of fact here sometimes. Things, terms like the night marchers, the menahune,

to a lot of like the locals that have lived here, like the, you know, the real, the people, you know, they're real. That's stuff, right? And there's stuff that apparently, you know, once you get away from Honolulu and away from the food lands

and out into the jungles, into the mountains, things get very different very quickly. One, it's, it's a wild west out there with humans. And two, you know, there's some, there's some interesting things. I've, you know, I'm talking to, I'm trying to get in and talk to some of the pig hunters to tell me about what they've seen out here, let alone, you know, on Schofield Barracks and like the training bases out here, soldiers see all sorts of insane things in the jungles that are attributed attributed to these legends.

But it just goes to show like how much, like, history and how, how, how things, out here, like, the legend of the Menehune in Hawaii is like a joke almost. Like, you know, it's like, oh, it's like the little people. Well, if you go to Kauai, there's ruins. There's things that the ancient Hawaiians didn't build that are attributed to the Menehune. So it's like, were they a race of gnomes? Were they here? Like, you know, it's starting that, that fact and fiction starts to blur very quickly when you start looking into some of these legends. And especially in Hawaiian culture is so ancient. You know, there's places you've been that. that were ancient to the ancient Hawaiians out here.

It's insane. Yeah, I believe it. I'm friends with Alika who has done show art for years for this podcast, and he's in Hawaii. Obviously, you can tell by the name he's actually Hawaiian. And he's actually a descendant of the royal bloodline there. Oh, King Kamaya, mea. I don't know, maybe. Sure.

But if he's listening right now, he's probably like, you know, either yes or no, you know, but he's a historian. He's a historian. I should actually hook you two up because you guys might actually really be able to benefit from each other. But he's a historian of the area. He is, I think, highly sought after with, you know, I think he's got professor type vibes written all over him. I think he's just a few years. away from being, I believe, nationally recognized as a historian for the island. So he's passionate about his history. So, which if you know the history of Hawaii and how that all happened, he's not too thrilled either. So, but it is what it is. So we have 29 palms here in California. Now, you and I were talking about, I think it was Joshua. tree and how we had the Joshua tree episode. And I forget how you brought it up, but you're like, oh, by the way, I got tons of 29 palm stuff. It's pretty funky. And I was like, let's bring it. So I'm going to hand it over to you. And I don't know if this list you sent over to me is the order

you want to go in or what, but I know the first thing here is the glitch on range patrol. Let's just start there and see where we go. Sure. All right. So I got to give my fancy disclaimer. of, you know, everything I'm saying on the show is my opinion and in my opinion alone, not reflective of the DoD. You know, it's funny, I have to say that because people keep thinking I'm like, whoever the dude was that Stephen Greer guy, those two guys on that podcast or something like that, people keep thinking of like some whistleblower and I'm like, no, sorry guys, just some dude.

You wish, right? Just a guy. It would be quite interesting if you were an whistleblower, but, you know, you still wake up and you just kind of go to work every day and do your Instagram account. You know, I joke, and I joke with my wife, and I was like, you know, one of these days, I tell people, like, if you're posting something that is like breaking opsec or, you know, is like beyond T.S, top secret and beyond, like, please, for the love of God, do not tell me. Like, let's let's not embroil ourselves in that situation. Just not worth it right now. But I always joke with my wife, like, I'm going to post something that is like, like, I'm not unbeknownst to me, like, something that is.

is sensitive, and I'm either going to have somebody knocking on my door or have a ninja hellfire fly through my car. That's a joke, by the way. Yeah. But I have noticed that sometimes post disappear from my page and get deleted. Yeah, and I'm just like, hmm, I wonder if I was supposed to post that. That's interesting. That's very interesting because my question was going to be, is that something that you and your wife are legitimately worried about having information that was shared that wasn't supposed to be shared and you just didn't know it? So that is one of my concerns. My wife, I don't think knows too much on the subject.

But that is like one of my concerns. That's why I'm always telling people especially, and I'm always very careful, right? Because a lot of the people that come to my page are typically, you know, Bubba's and Joe's from the Army and the Marine Corps, just regular dudes like me. So when people come forward and say like, I was in special forces or I was in Ranger Regiment. I start like my my spidey sense starts clicking off like or people I had to do claim he was in Delta Force and I was like sure guy. If you're in Delta Force, you would never be talking to me because those guys don't even talk to like regular army guys. Um, you know, like so like when I start

hearing the special keywords, my spidey sense starts going off and I start poking and usually 90% of the time sometimes it's, you know, I was not 90, 80% of the time it's dudes just trying to troll me. Um, but you know, unbeknownst to them, I also have people that I'm like, hey, does this sound legit to you? it off and they'll be like, no, that's not the right language. No, that, that, that, that unit, like, that guy wasn't in that unit. I'm in the unit. But it's always something that, like, especially with the frigging numnut who leaked all of his, all the sensitive information on Discord to impress his Discord friends.

I didn't hear about that. Yeah, I don't know if, oh, that was that airman. He was, like, he was, they people, the media touted him as a whistleblower. Like, he was doing some service of, like, you know, yeah, stick it to the man. Like, no, he was literally like, he was a. private equivalent in the Air Force with access to sensitive information and to impress his friends on Discord, a Discord server he was on. He was taking these things like, oh, you don't think I'm, I have access to this. Check this out. And it would post it in the Discord server.

That's right. It was like, a guy, what are you doing? So I'm always afraid I'm going to get some numnets sending that to me. Because, you know, half the time I'm like, people don't know, I'm answering questions and interviewing people in between like work. Like, you know, when I have free time and like without maybe looking too much into it, I'll post something that maybe is sensitive. That's always my biggest fear because I just don't want that smoke right now. One, I also, you know, it's social media too. So I don't want to like put something out there that some Chinese agents going to see

or some what Russian agents going to see or something like that. Which I don't know, maybe they just think at this point the entire United States is haunted. Maybe I'm the sci-op, and I don't even know it. Oh, they suckered you. That's wild. Yeah, I mean, I guess I would be walking on my toes too. But, you know, I appreciate it. You know, if you, you know, I like it. So it is what it is. I mean, that the cards fall where they may, you know, it's not my life. I'm worried. It's your life. So, uh, do as you will. But yeah. So we'll, sorry about the sidebar, but we'll get into the 29 palms. Let's do it. So if you're listeners, they don't know. So 29 palms is in California. It's like out in the day. desert, like, I believe like Mahavi, basically. And I actually live there as a kid. Well, I lived in Yucca Valley. My dad worked in 29 Palms.

And for your listeners that don't know, and maybe they do, that is like weird territory. It is like known for being strange. Like the desert itself is a strange place. 29 Palms, it's a very strange place. And so it's a Marine Corps base. It's a massive Marine Corps base that they use to train at. that it's just wide, empty space, quote unquote, that they can go and, you know, putts around and do Marine Corps things and fly and shoot and, you know, not have to worry

about interfering with the civilians. But it's in the middle of nowhere, right? And I'll tell some quick stories from anecdotally, like, of the weird stuff like growing up. So like even as a kid, I was young, but I remember it was weird. And it's like the human factor out there is very strange. You would drive in the middle of the night, like, all by your lonesome. Like, on the highway, no car. know nothing. You would see out in the distance, like miles across flat desert. We'd just

see like one little shining light up there. And that was some dude living off the grid, away from everyone else, out on his homestead or whatever, hanging out. Like, I remember going on hikes. There was a mountain behind where we live. And I go on hikes with my dad when it wasn't too hot. And we'd see all sorts of weird characters poking around and walking around back there like not hikers like just dudes maybe look maybe dudes may be back there with more nefarious intentions in mind um obviously we would get away from the situation but like a lot of criminal enterprise out there very interesting very creepy people is it true that the that they'll warn people coming on to the base like maybe new soldiers or something about a be careful this place

has a lot of colts yeah so that's so that is a a rumor slash not rumor so there is a town called Amboy that's outside of 29 palms, I believe it's like to the north. Supposedly it sits in like a dormant volcano. It's like a weird town. Like all like the Marines out there will tell you like there's cults and stuff like that. I have to ask my dad more about it because I like bugged into it. And he, he did tell me that it was when he was there. And I this still persists to this day. If you're driving in 29 palms by yourself and you see someone on the side of the road, keep driving. Because I've had stories. and I've had actually Marines pretty recently send it in. Like they stop, they see a woman on the side of road.

So listeners, if, unfortunately, you're in the middle of nowhere and you see a baby carriage, a child or a woman screaming on the side of the road, keep driving because there's a fair chance that that's bait. Yeah. So like, these dudes stopped. They're like, hey, are you okay? And they saw, like, hang guys come out of the bushes behind rocks with like machetes and stuff. And they just, they were armed and put their guns out the wind. know and sped off, but like, I remember that being told, you know, if, if someone knocked on the door, like, or we're driving down the road and you see someone, just like,

don't, don't even tell us. Just keep driving. There's just weirdos out there. There's, uh, there's an urban legend in 29 Palms that's, like, low key, it's, like in the 90s. Maybe like 90s, late 80s about the hell's angels. Uh, so in 29 palms, there's all these training bases. They call them slabs, these connexes, stuff like that, uh, that they've turned into, like, little towns and things. And some of them are very remote. Some of them are just hard to get to. And there's people that go out there and live there and live in these shelters,

these targets that the military is made. They go out there, people make meth labs, all sorts of stuff. So the rumor, one of the urban legends was there was a hell's angels gang out there that had set up a meth lab. Now, and this is all rumor. I don't know. It's an urban legend. But supposedly some Marines out there training came across this meth lab and got rolled up.

by the Hells Angels. They beat them up, savaged them, like, tore them up pretty good, and they like, basically is a warning, like, stay away from here. So supposedly, again, rumor, is they came back to their unit. This is like in the late 80s, maybe, early, early

90s. They came back to their unit, their battalion commander sergeant major saw what had happened, heard what happened, and apparently, you know, squad marines rolled out there with some firearms and apparently took care of business. out in the training area. That's like

one of the rumor, the urban legends out there. Because it was like, yeah, and it's just like people would go people would go out there and squat and do all sorts of weird stuff. And I just the human factor out there is weird enough. Like it's just, it's like 29 bombs is just a kind of like

a cesspool for just unsavory characters that get attracted out there because it's in the middle of nowhere. On the flip side, there's also all sorts of weird crap that happened out there as well. UFOs are like the biggest one. Like everyone, so like my dad was a pilot out there. We were very familiar with like what aircraft looked like at night. Everything from jets to helicopters. There were plenty of

times we saw things in the sky. We couldn't explain. And like my mother and father are very like kind of realistic people. They like, they find the topics interesting of UFOs, aliens, stuff like that. But they're like, you know, we'll believe it when we see it. But even my mom tells a story about how like she was driving down the side of the road and all of a sudden this light kind of pops up from behind her and it's following them on parallel paralleling the car and it's like kind of like up in the sky and she's like opening the windows she stops it it stops there's no noise no nothing it's like this bright light just sitting right there it's not a star she starts driving and it autumn it doesn't like it's not like if it was a star it would suddenly like it appear to be keeping pace she like floored it and

started driving and it paused and then start shooting forward to catch up to her. And it was following her the entire time she's freaked out. And like every time she would make a turn, it would just orientate itself into a different position to follow. And she was like, you know, I saw helicopters. I've seen aircraft. At the time, my father was like before drones were mainstream, like the military had drones post-Gulf War.

My father was working on like, you know, like, I'm not working, but like, you know, part of the crews that were training with those drones to, like, integrate them in the military before they kind of fell to the wayside and picked back up again. So, like, we were familiar with all the stuff that was out there. So, like, this wasn't an aircraft. And this thing was, like, zipping through trees, zipping around houses, like, up and down, like mountains. And, like, it freaked my mom out.

She was, like, convinced what she saw was not an aircraft, not a star, not in her head. And my grandma was with her, too, and invalidated everything she was feeling. and seeing at the same time. And she said this thing followed it straight up to our house. And she, like, ran inside. And the last thing she saw was this light, like, basically sitting over the mountain, like casting light on the mountain. And she just felt this, like, overwhelming sense of dread.

Like, she was looking at something she wasn't supposed to see. And she, like, just shut the door and just stayed up all night with my grandma, my grandpa. And they just kept looking out the windows. And that was the end of the story. But it was just, you know, just something weird. Yeah, it's got to be scary, you know, going through that. I mean, just hearing the story, what I'm trying to say is hearing that story, it must have been absolutely terrifying for them

to stay up all night because you hear people having UFO encounters and they don't stay, they don't talk, they haven't told me. Most people don't tell me that they stayed up all night out of fear. But staying up all night, checking out the windows and stuff. I mean, that's got to be, you know, it had to be a very dramatic experience for sure. Yeah, when I asked my mom about it, it still, she was like, it freaked me out. It still freaks me out. But, you know, you would just, people out there too, we're like, hey, you're going to see some weird lights out here. People saw all sorts of weird lights and stuff flashes in the distance.

There's another army base to the northwest called Fort Irwin. And there's another town that's like, kind of like Amboy and 29 Palms called Barstow. Everybody up in Barstow knows about the weird lights and UFOs you see in the desert. It's just to them, it's like second, it's just like, you know, watching birds. Do you have any, we're going to get to these stories, but do you have any, from your dad being stationed there and, you know, you doing what you do and even talking to all these different soldiers, do you have any thoughts or ideas as to why there's so many UFOs cited in that area? I mean, do you think that they're, it's just top secret technology that we have that they use out

there for testing or what? I mean, it could be. I mean, like, the obvious is, you know, Groom Lake and, uh, Dugway Proving grounds, all these like big, wide open spaces. Because, you know, like area 51, groom lake, you know, everybody knows about it, right? So it's like at the, everybody knew about it back then. So it's like, it would, it would make sense that they would move equipment and stuff around and fly stuff out in the desert because there's just not that many people out there. Um, it could be. I mean, like, honestly, and like now, like, with the stuff coming out, like in JJ Abrams, UFO, you know, the technology we had back then looked like science fiction.

Yeah. Like, I can only imagine what it looks like now. People out there, it was weird. Some people just accepted they were aliens out there, putting around in the desert for whatever reason. I think there's even, no, don't quote me on this, but I think there's a lot of even cultural references for the tribes that live down there to, you know, star people and stuff like that. And I believe, like, even some of the cave paintings that Joshua Tree depict like things that could look like a gray alien or something like that. Do you have any thoughts, opinions on the UFO video that was released from 29 Poms not long ago from Corbell? Yeah, so that one's interesting.

So like, there's, I've talked to people that have swore that that was a UFO and I've talked to people that also said that those were illumination flares. So a common thing that people, I don't think this was the case, but like, you know, the common explanation for the Phoenix lights was that it was flares. So if you ever seen like how illumination flares work, so usually the artillery will fire them into the sky,

and they'll fall into like a, like with a parachute and kind of float, while they burn very brightly with phosphorus. And if you don't know what you're looking at it first, it honestly does look like a UFO. there's telltale things. You could see kind of like the fire. You can watch it slowly fall to the ground.

I wasn't there, but there's guys that were that they swear it was a UFO. And there's guys that were there that swear it was illumination rounds. It's hard to tell. But, you know, it's funny, though. We speak about 29 Palms and aliens. There's all these like, you know, meme pages and stuff like that online on Instagram for every conceivable niche and unit in the military. And there's one page that was posting a bunch of memes about UFOs saying, you know, the boys from 1-27 weren't crazy. We saw this. Like, we saw aliens out here with all the

UFO stuff coming out. So there's guys out there that swear they see these things all the time. Yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if people are actually seeing what they think they're seeing out there. I just don't think that all of it can be flares. It just doesn't make sense to me. No, yeah. And especially people who actually know what they're looking at saying that, no, that was a UFO. I mean, there's one thing for me, the podcaster who's never been in the military and has very limited experience with this stuff saying, oh, it's a UFO. I'm like, no, idiot, it's a flare.

Okay, probably right. But when you have people who actually know what they're talking about saying, no, that was a UFO, that definitely wasn't a flare. At some point, it's not a flare. Yeah. And there's some things that just don't look normal. Like, have ever seen a, for your listeners, go look up a B-52, not sorry, a B-2 stealth bomber when it's on its approach, like with how it has its lights set up, the thing looks like a UFO. I'm like, that looks pretty freaky. I'm not going to lie.

Like, I saw that coming down the street at night and they turned on all their lights to mess with me. Like, I would be like, holy shit, that's a UFO. But, you know, it could just, it could be flares, maybe. Could it be technology that we have? Probably. Could it be also aliens? Also a bit definitely probably there. Like maybe, big maybe.

Very much so, maybe. That's funny. Yeah. So let's talk about the glitch on the range control. I mean, we're 30 minutes in and we've been teasing it long enough. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. So, like, this is a topic that I've heard about in the past.

I've got a lot of rumors on, but like I haven't really, I've gotten a few stories. So not only have they. told me about UFOs and unsavory characters in 29 Palms. I've just also heard that there's like weird things that occur on 29 POMs. People attribute them as like glitches because they don't know how to explain them. Time slips if you will. You know, reversals. I don't know. So I'll read this first one. So this is from a Marine that was stationed at

29 POMs. So the story goes, I read, I was an infantry infantry man at 29 Palms, California and it was quote unquote fapped out to the provost marshal, the PMO, which is the military police, and FAP meaning fleet assistance program, to fill in billets on base without enough of that specific MOS to fill it themselves. Most infantry guys not in their second deployment get fapped, quote unquote, out to the PMO, gym, school, or training. I stood on the gate before becoming part of what's called the RPO, the range patrol operations. It's the only one of its kind in the Marine Corps and its purpose is to patrol all 1,200 miles of the base to protect it against

trespassers, drug smugglers, and criminals. If anything suspicious happens on the training area, RPO is called out. One night around 2230, my sergeant knocks on my door frantically, telling my roommate and I that we have to call out. No details, just get your shit on and get to the PMO to load up. When we did, it was just us Marines, no civilians, as it would take them a while to get to base. We headed out and I had my junior Marine at the time driving so I could navigate along the along with the other two vehicles.

We had three trucks and four razors outfitted with police packages. We took all trucks out. The calls for mysterious lights on a specific range that pilot flying over reported. Now there was a unit training at that range earlier than the evening and nothing at the time had been reported. The fastest way to this place was to drive on the outside of the base on the asphalt, then cut up into the base on the east southeast side. There are abandoned homes and mine shafts out there because the boundaries to the base can be confusing. and there's not a fence that really goes around the entirety of the installation.

As we are driving up to the hills in my Marines and I saw a red house, a rustic barn style with one window to the right open and a literal pie sitting on the window like in the cartoons. We didn't think anything of it and kept going. We cleared the range and found no signs of intrusion. As we were heading back, we saw the same house in the same spot. We both commented on it, and as soon as we drove past it, we stopped because it disappeared. All that was left was a structure left there.

Metal framing. We both started freaking out, and my Marine was telling me how his family had dealt with things like this before and had weird dreams. He and I both saw the same house, the same features, the same pie with steam coming out from the top. And we both saw it suddenly vanished right before our eyes. There was no way we took a different route back. There was no way we had missed the house. It was like that. It was there. And then it suddenly wasn't. When we got back to the PMO, we told our story to everyone else, but no one believed us. This is also out by Amboy, California, where UFO sightings have been reported and weird, weird rituals at nights occur. That's just one of the few stories of the weird stuff I've witnessed out there.

One of the civilians that worked with us is a combat vet, and he said one night he was in the same area on Firewatch years ago and saw a weird light doing circles in the air and then shot off and bolted into space, leaving a trail of light behind it. 29 ponds is weird, man. that all right so they're out there on this uh i guess what was if i'm if i understand this right they're not totally on base when they see this house right or they were yeah so like it's it's kind of so it's weird like so like a lot of the training areas in the military are just like they take up this entire splotch of land like and sometimes like you have to leave those training areas to get to certain parts. So they had like went off the base to get back on, which is still out in the middle of nowhere. So I guess you can consider them practically in the training area,

even though it's not the official signed off training area. It's kind of like out here in Hawaii, there's all these jungles. There's no fence. It's just suddenly there's an imaginary line where there's this is military installation and there's like you're in the, to get to it, you're deep in the jungle. That's not, you know. Okay. So this glitch that happened, I mean, with your experiences with 29 palms and what you've read and all that stuff, do you think that the area is just, not the base, but the area is just so rich with weird history, things that we don't understand that that happened? Or do you think that there could be possibly some kind of angle where there was some kind of testing of technology that they both saw the same thing? and then it was gone. And I'm not sure by what was read here.

Did it disappear right in front of them? Or is it something that? It did. Okay. Wow. So I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. So like they saw the house. Like, oh, look at the house.

They went to where they had to go. They turned around. They came back. They're like, oh, look, there's that weird house again. And as they're driving, it was like suddenly a change of frame where the house just vanished. And there was just like, there was remnants of an old house still there though?

Yeah. So it was like a time slip. Like, yeah, like a time slip, exactly. Or, I don't know,

maybe they, maybe camouflage, hologram. Like, it's hard to tell. Like, like I said earlier, technology is like,

sometimes just looks like science fiction, when in reality it's nonfiction. Like, I know that whole area is, is known for weird stuff. that whole part of the desert is just known for just strange things that happened. Like what he, the little blurb,

like it's funny to keep in mind, they weren't even going to that house. They were driving to respond to strange lights seen from an aircraft. And they got out there, didn't find anything, came back, saw the glitch. And then when they told their story to the old guy out there,

you know, he was just like, oh yeah, I've seen weird stuff out here too. I saw UFOs in this guy. So it's like, I don't know. you know.

It's, yeah, it's way to another dimension. I mean, maybe. Definitely. Definitely. I'll take that as a definite for 500, Nick. But, yeah, it's interesting because they're going to investigate something that's already supposedly, quote unquote, weird, you know. And then that happens. It makes you wonder if it was, the two were related or separate.

I mean, if we're talking about technology wise, I mean, it's not that inconceivable for me to think that our military has technology that can can project images that people see. And so if there was, you know, the ability to project something in your, you're technically in an area where they're testing things anyways. Maybe they didn't even, maybe they were testing it didn't realize they were around or maybe they were testing it on them. Is that something that they went and had a report or they keep it to themselves? Yeah, it sounds like it's something they tried to report and they were just kind of like, oh, ha ha.

Okay. Like, you know, like, go away. It's like, so, like, it's funny you say like the, I very rarely see like evidence when it comes to these stories of like coverups. Sometimes like in the dog man stuff we'll look at there's like not necessarily a cover up, but there's an implication that, you know, there's a little bit more known than is what it's being lit on. um like and i don't know like something you know somebody somebody brought up to me is like maybe they just all know about this stuff and it's just like the best the best way to like not you know disclose too much is to just not acknowledge it at all like right yeah like you know if you're the base commander of some of these places and all the strange things are happening like you have to know

you got to know you at least hear some whispers in the bathroom about you know those strange things happening on your base. I don't know. You know, it's just, it's a strange topic. No, absolutely strange. And he's got to know. I mean, you're right. I mean, there's water cooler talk. There's, you know, there's, you know, just got new guys to show up that don't know the, the rules of engagement and just start talking and when they shouldn't be talking. There's all that kind of stuff. So, yeah, it's interesting. And it kind of goes with the weird mystique of the area and stuff. I mean, the, like, even when he was saying about how, oh, shoot, I forget where, but he was, he was talking about locally how there's weird rituals that happen out there and stuff. Yeah, Amboy.

Yeah, Amboy. Like, like, I don't know how far Amboy is from Joshua Tree, but I know we had a wild ritual that was retold on this show that happened in Joshua Tree. And it's like, I talked to another guy who was stationed at 29, bombs who I guess he was in charge of um I guess guys who were going to be who are getting like kicked out of the military and I guess there's like this holding period and uh you know where he he was in charge of those guys you know before they actually were officially kicked out and one of those guys was a one weird dude man and uh yeah he he was he was he had uh he had he was in he was he had he was in some kind of cold he had to be uh they they had to go pick him up from a house off base one day

and the people that he was living with were calling him father and he called them his children. And it's like, yeah, no wonder why you're getting kicked out. You're weird, bro. There are some strange people that join the military. I've met my fair share of people that claim to be Satanist and Wiccans and stuff like that. I'm like, okay, bro, all of them were not exactly the best soldiers. I'll put that out there. No kidding.

Yeah, I was like, oh, wow, I wonder why my barracks are such a dark and terrible place as I look at the Ouija board just literally sitting on the counter. I like, I was like, that's a true story, by the way. This is a true story. I've come into a, I've come into the barracks room doing a check and like, what is that? Look at the Ouija board and they're like, oh, it's a game like a bullshit. Get rid of that now. Like, no. Get rid of that shit.

Wow. Like you people wonder why the barracks are haunted. Wow. Yeah, no one. That's so judgy. I don't care. get it out yeah i met

i met one time small anecdote two two different soldiers that live on fort brag both are practicing wikins both live like literally next door to each other unbeknowns one had a dark presence in his room that like tried to kill him

or he felt like was trying to like kill him and the other one was having nightmares about a dark presence that literally was the same description of like what the dude was seeing and i was like did it ever occur to you with you with you looking into which craft and things you maybe don't understand, like, oh, like, I'm a devil worshipper. Like, hmm, it may ever occur to you that you're attracting things that maybe you don't want to attract.

And their response was? They're like, nothing. Like, they just like, oh, you know, uh, like, they just blew it out, blew it off. I'm like, bro, you guys, you guys are going to get possessed. You guys are like literally the white person in the movie that is the catalyst for everything. Oh, man. That's funny. Uh, yeah, I think, uh, one plus one equals two.

I know that's just the way I look at it. It's just like, okay, it's not that hard, you know. Occam's razor, right? Okay, time for our sponsor today, which is the OG sponsor of the Confessionals. Simply safe, simply the best. The average break-in lasts 8 to 10 minutes, so fast response is crucial. That's why Simply Safe's Home Security launched its breakthrough technology, 24-7 lifeguard protection to help stop crime in real time. Now Simply Says professional monitoring agents can actually see, speak, and deter intruders in your home

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My brother, who's also in the Marine Corps, knows a ton of Marines that were stationed there. And they all attest that Amboy is a very strange place with very strange people. And the rumor is it's a lot of satanic cults out there, which kind of checks out with most military bases being in the middle of nowhere. There's always a rumor of a cult out in the training area of people doing weird things. as an example, I may mention it on the last show, and I don't remember if I did. I was into training area at Fort Drum, and we found like a basement to like an old house that had used to been there. We walked in the basement and was literally covered walls with satanic symbols and what looked

like an altar to be down there. And we're like, up, time to leave. We're leaving now. Get out. Found more than we were looking for. Okay. All right. Well, we're going to throw all of our trash and piss bottles in here.

Add to the mess. How far is Amboy from 29 palms? So I would have to look that up. I'm not 100% sure. I can actually look it up right now. I believe it is on the outskirts. It's not far. So it is exactly from 29 Palms, Maine.

It is exactly 50 minutes. Okay. So not very far at all. That's about the usual distance for some of these towns, like right outside. And if I look up the Marine Corps exchange, it's 57 minutes from like the actual Marine Corps base. It's about north in between the lovely towns of Shamblis and Baghdad, California. You could also on the same road go to Siberia, if you would like. Wow, a trip around the world, not even leaving the state of California. Amazing.

But yeah, so it's like, there's these. rumors and stories of stuff. I can just read the story right here so your viewers can just kind of understand what we're talking about. So this is from a soldier who no soldier, I'm sorry. Forrest to have it, a Marine

who was stationed out of 29 palms talking about the town of Amboy. That's to the north of it. So when we enter the fleet, our seniors immediately told us about the satanic rituals that are held by the locals of Amboy, California. The town just outside 29 Palms. They were held or

so we speculated at a large, quote-unquote, volcano-looking mound. It was very large in pure black. It stuck out like a sore thumb in the desert and went against any baseline that the Mojave Desert had. Of course, Curiosity killed the... I'm sorry, let me rephrase. Of course, the Curiosity had killed us young Lance Corporals, metaphorically speaking. It was said that the Joshua trees there are biblical and that they only grow in two areas of the world. Jerusalem and the 29 palms slash Joshua Tree area.

Jerusalem being in the gates of heaven and 29 palms being the rumored gates of hell. So the curiosity of us, young lands corporals, decided that we need to go investigate this so-called gate of hell, and we made the trip one night to the large volcano-looking mound. Upon arrival, we discovered numerous satanic items and weird drawings in the black dirt and dust. But the people were definitely there. I can't confirm exactly what took place there, but it seemed like, if rituals were going on. Just down the road from the famous Roy's Motel,

and not even a mile from the volcano thing, there are these ginormic satanic lion statues in the middle of the desert facing the volcano. Anyway, we used to have to drive-thru Amboy every time to get to Vegas on our weekend trips. Every time we would pass these statues, I swear they would clearly be in different locations. But each time they moved,

they remained looking at the same direction of the volcano. I'm not kidding, though. No humans could have picked up and moved these statues, but there they were, moved around. and they were massive. We won't try to pick them up with the hoist, and they were just simply too heavy for any of our equipment. It's a pretty creepy place,

and an envoys a very odd area. A lot of spooky shit goes on over there. So these statutes, they would just move. Is this something that, like, everybody knows is there? I never heard of the statues until that point. I can, I've tried to look it up.

I'll see if I can bring up real quick. I have heard that they're either an art installation, or yeah, the guardian lions of Route 66. This is from Atlas Obscura. And so I don't know if they're necessarily real or not. So along Route 66, 4 miles east of the landmark Roy's Motel and Cafe, an attentive traveler may catch a sight of two large white statues set back about 500 feet from the eastbound roadside. Further investigation will reveal a pair of solid marble Chinese guardian lions,

Laced space a quarter mile apart Surrounded by nothing but desert Chaparral, hot sun, and unpeated winds. Most days you can clearly see the lines from Amboy Crater, the geological remains of an instinct cinder cone volcano 5 miles to the west,

making the presence of these marble creatures that much more otherworldly. Often called food dogs in the west, these guardians are most notably gendered by the tokens they hold. The male, symbolizing Yang, holds an embroidered ball representing and the female, symbolizing in, shelters a cub. It is unknown how the lions got there standing about five feet high and elevated on a cinder block pedestals.

They were first sighted in 2013 and whoever placed them there has never stepped forward to claim responsibility. Administrators of the lion's Facebook page emphasize that they are not the benefactors. The mystery serves only to amplify their allure, how and why the two carves of marble statues weighing thousands of pounds were transported there four miles from the west to the nearby town remains a mystery. Other mysteries circulate online. to the origin of the visitor logbooks of the sites pondering the significance of the surveyors, brass waymarks pounded into the earth before the female line. Is it a geocash hidden in a plain site? What are the significance of the real estate science placed on the roadside north of the mail line?

Whatever the origins, the pastur bias have attached their own meaning. People leave coins, trinkets, and the lion stand watch of the ever-changing landstake of the meaning of the desert. So interesting stuff. Yeah, very interesting. Seems like no one knows what they are. Yeah, and if they're moving around, that's, well, that's quite glitchy. It kind of reminded me of the Shisha dogs. You ever heard of the Shisha dogs?

No, I haven't. Yeah, they kind of look like, they're like these Japanese statues of these like crazy looking dogs, and they're supposed to be like, ward off evil spirits and protect the house. And so like they're kind of known for like putting them down. And I've always wondered.

Now I just wonder, not always wondered, but now I just kind of clued into me, you know, if this is a place that's known for like evil, like these guys went into this volcano. and saw like all this weird stuff, is there like some type of, with these Chinese lions, like a guardian type,

a protection type symbolism behind them? And maybe somebody put them there on purpose facing towards the volcano. Very interesting. To guard for, I don't know. It's kind of weird, man. Yeah,

it seems like there's just a lot of symbolism out there. A lot of, it seems like everywhere you're turning, there is something, that deserves further looking into and trying to understand. Now, the idea of, I think he said, Jerusalem being the gateway to heaven and 29, do you say 29 Palms was the gateway to hell? Yes, he did.

Yeah. And so, like, I mean, obviously that's his opinion, bro. But, you know, like, with all the stories coming out of that area, it does not surprise me. that people would come to those kind of conclusions. I have been talking about the possibility of a thinning of the veil, like a spiritual veil in some of these areas, 29 Palms, Joshua Tree, that area being one of them, where the veil is thinner and therefore, let's just call it a veil and portal

the same word almost. But I do think there might be something to it for sure. Yeah. I, uh, it's definitely like, it's a weird place. Like, and I just, uh, I have found many stories of just cults in the desert and it just seems to kind of like fit the mythos of that area, satanic panic or not, but I don't know, I've met plenty of strange characters that like to worship dark diaries. So who knows?

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the, uh, the term satanic panic. Uh, I understand the motivation behind it. but it's like a blanket statement anymore for any time you bring up anything it's like oh it's satanic panic it's like no i'm not panic about anything i'm talking about real things that are happening and are just hilarious like which is hilarious because my during my that time when my dad was in high school you would in californ san antonio there's limestone caves everywhere guess what everyone knew was happening in the limestone caves like there's satanists would held rituals in limestone caves and he would tell me like he never took part in this but he knew

of he knew of things happening of you know a bunch of good old boy southern rednecks god-fearing rednecks would go into these canyons and caves and chase out all the Satanists hey boy gonna chase you with my Bible now yeah came a wrong country uh yeah so i mean it's I think it's a real thing I think it's a real issue I think that the idea of thinning of veils portals deserve more explanation, not explanation, but exploration and further understanding. And I've been doing a lot of that recently with the show independently looking into certain things and trying to understand how it all works. It's very complicated, but it's something that I think is very real. And the more we understand it, I think, the more

it helps to explain and give us understanding of things that people are experiencing, which, you know, is kind of the goal here. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. So what's this U.S. Marine glitch story here? So I know you're course the glitch stories. So this is another one. Okay, so this one was in the first book.

So this was kind of the first, I started getting. like the glitch stories. This is the first one I got. So I'll just go ahead and read it. So this is U.S. Marine here. So unlike most stories that I've heard are read on the platform, this isn't exactly an alien or cryptid story. This is more of what I consider a glitch in the matrix type story or event that happened to me. This event took place in 29 Palms, California. It's a Marine Corps base in the Mojave Desert about three hours away from Las Vegas. It tends to get hottest during the day and cold during the night.

During this time, me and my battle buddy were undergoing our training to become commas Marines. We picked up in the same class, so we spent a lot of times together. One of those times was that night. We had gone off the class for the day and we were walking back to the evening chow. Our rooms were in the second barracks between the first and the third, also known as the B-Map barracks. When he had reached the bottom stairs, my battle buddy looked at me and initiated a race up to the second floor where the rooms were at. He had a head start, but he wasn't too far for me.

I looked down at the stairs because I was skipping, and I reached the top of the stairs and looked up, expecting to see my battle buddy standing there next to me, but he wasn't there. I searched around the corner expecting him to jump out of me, and he wasn't there either. I went across the hall and up to the third floor, calling his name without answering, without any answer. I even went back down. I know I was calling out loud because one of the rooms had curtains open, and the people inside were making rude gestures and motioning for me to be quiet as I yelled.

I gave up and thought that maybe my battle buddy had made it to the room somehow, beating me, like, with no explanation. him. On my way back, my name was called right behind me. I turned around and it was my battle buddy. We were both confused. After we talked, I found out that from his perspective, he had been standing at the top of the second floor stairs the entire time waiting for me. And this is where it gets weird. The staircase is not that wide. So even if I hadn't seen him, my battle buddy is a big guy, and I would have bumped into him, even if I ran up those stairs head on. But neither of us saw each other. I was calling out his name and I knew it was loud enough to hear because the people in the rooms, We're responding to it, but he said that he heard nothing. He also said that he had called out to me, but I heard nothing either. We were freaked out about it, and we told the rest of our classmates, but they didn't believe us, or just brush her stuff. However, the part of the story that makes me believe there's something more to it. A couple days later, our story had reached the ears of our instructor.

He asked us, he asked me about it, and I told him what happened. Expecting him to make light of it and brush it off his joke like everyone else. I wasn't serious. That wasn't until I saw his expression. He became serious and looked me dead and said, do not talk about this anymore. I don't know what he was trying to hide or if this was something government related.

I know that this story doesn't seem like much, but it's a reoccurring topic my battle buddy and I still talk about. We still speculate about what happened that day. Maybe one of us slipped into a warm hole or another dimension. Whatever happened, I know there's something more to it. So do you think, first of all, all right, which one I wanted to do first? So do you think that this, I guess, instructor, whoever, that pulled him aside,

do you think that it could have been just him thinking, okay, boys, like, can keep talking like this, you're going to get kicked out. So why don't you just keep this to yourself? Or do you think that he would have said something like that if there was nothing to hide? I don't know. That's a tough one. I could also see it as like, I can literally see it as the instructor like, hey, stop talking about this because I don't want to.

to have to address it with the commander, right? Or if somebody asked, I don't want to have to be like, yeah, my two soldiers, my two Marines, sorry, are talking about how they had a glitch in the matrix. I could see it like that, like, literally like, I don't want to deal with this right now. I could see it as like an acknowledgement of something weird that was happening, but not to say something to jeopardize, like, you know, people to start thinking you're crazy or something like that or to question your mental state. I could also see it as, you know, maybe they know that there's something weird out there and they're just like, hey, we don't talk about this year. You know, I don't know. It's hard to tell. Like, that story wasn't a lot of information given in terms

from the other instructor side. But I would love to talk to that instructor to hear about, you know, the stuff that they experience. Yeah. I mean, especially if there was a reason why he said it that way, uh, he must know something. Uh, it's interesting. Now, from your perspective, uh, what do you, like, you said this was your first glitch. story that you got. I mean, what was your perspective receiving this story? Were you just like, come on, guy? Or were you kind of like

already geared towards it? So I'll, I wouldn't, I would call it more of like maybe a time slip or something like that or a dimensional shift. I don't really buy into the simulation mumbo jumbo. I think that's kind of a cringy, like I watched the Matrix

too many times like theory. You know, it's all a computer simulation. I feel like as a Nileas dog whistle. And for your listeners, I don't know anything about me, I can't stand, like, nihilism. And, you know, I feel like I won't get into it. But you get what I'm saying. Yeah. I never buy into it, because I always challenge people like, oh, okay, so if this is all a computer stimulation, why did the simulation deem that furry porn is something that needs to exist? Hmm. Like, an ever-conceivable infinite simulation that is trying to trick us that this is all

in existence. Why do we have things? Why do we have such an insane? weird topics that we talk about like fur or porn. You can't answer it. And none of them can ever answer that question. Like, none of it could ever justify why something like that would exist. Or like, why a simulation that is simulating evolution

would create the platypus? People can't answer that, you know? So, I'm like, I just don't buy into the computer simulation thing. I know a lot of people that do. That's just not me. I'm a firm believer in what we're living in the reality that we have been given. But I do believe that sometimes maybe there's like glitches in reality where people pass into other dimensions and come here and leave.

Like the famous, the case of the man from Tuare, I think it was called. There's that case of the man that he came. He had a passport with countries that never existed. Clothing of brands that never existed. And as mysteriously as he disappeared and people were trying to. I forgot where he was from, he vanished. Yeah. I think it was Tuare.

I could be wrong. I do believe that, you know, in a infinite universe, the possibility that there's different dimensions exists. And I'm sure the fabric reality has its own little slips, like you said, where the veil gets thin and, you know, things cross over and cross back without even realizing it. Yeah, I think that for me, that's the angle I go with a lot on this stuff. and things crossing over is something that I think is happening more than people are comfortable with. I've started just kind of wearing the term woo-woo as like a badge of honor. I'm just like, yeah, I know, but it's okay.

I mean, you get labeled certain things. And I think sometimes even maybe subconsciously the people doing the labeling do it to almost scare somebody into not. going down the weird route. And I just, I think that there's, there's too much here to ignore anymore. What, for instance, uh, Grush, David Grushed just had his, uh, hearing yesterday at the, at the time of this recording before Congress. And, uh, I'm not going to get you talking on it too much because I want you get into trouble. But, uh, but, um, you know, he's in there and he's talking about, again, he was very careful on how he answered questions. Very deliberate terminology

and biologics that are not human. He never said that they came from another star system. And you can go down so many different ways of thinking, like to the ridiculous of, you know, it could have been a piece of grass. on a craft that's a biologic that was not human. But I personally believe that there's a mix of a lot of things here, but I think what we're probably talking about is a lot more of interdimensional beings than we are talking about extraterrestrial beings. And when you're saying non-human intelligence, that fits the bill, things coming from other realms and through other dimensions.

And, you know, maybe that's what's going on with 29 palms. Maybe that area is a portal location where the veil is thin and things come through. And people who dabble in the occult and things like that know it. And that's why they choose to do their rituals out there. And maybe that's why there's a military base there to begin with. Maybe they understood that too. I mean, you know, some of the early founders of the U.S. space program were practicing occult members, what's his name?

I thought that was conspiracy. Yeah. Word of all. So, well, no, no, it was before that.

I think like Jim Parsons or something was his name. Oh, okay. It was like the first, I have to look, I have, I could be wrong,

but if I recall, I remember looking into this about the first, the before Vernavron Braun and NASA kicked off, like the first rocket launched the United States, like successfully part of our, a very, very early space program,

like those guys that, like we're part of that. We're also occultist. So they brought more occultists in from Germany then. Also, those original occultists on the day of this successful launch, all mysteriously died in a gas explosion at their house. Gas explosion. Is separate houses or one house?

Separate houses. Wow. No, no, in one house. They're in one house. They're all in one house. So it's kind of like pushed off as like a tragic accident. But the long-standing rumor and belief is they were conducting a ritual towards like some sunbeing or something for the launch of the craft. You know, something went awry and the whole, the whole ritual blew up.

When rituals go wrong or when rituals go wild, you know, you decide. It's gone crazy. Once again, I'm asking, it's not Jim Parsons. That's the guy from friggin' big Bain theory. it was another dude I have to look it up I listened to it on the unexplained podcast a long time ago and I found it fascinating

Oh we don't we don't mention other podcasts on this one No I'm kidding I don't care Actually I should probably reach out to those guys But yeah so I don't know I just At the time this recording it hasn't aired yet But I believe Yeah so next Tuesday

I have a guy on and we're talking to, we go all over the place, but we do hint on the idea of portals. And we talk more about the idea of mind portals, which is a whole different route to go. But I do think that I think things are coming through and I don't think it's just spookies. I don't think it's just, ooh, a thin veil and a ghost comes through or a spirit come through. I think these are very physical things that are coming through from other realms where they physically exist and operate in. and they know how to access more than we do. I think that there's a whole spiritual angle to that, to be honest with you,

through the curse of the, through the curse of the Garden of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Could it be that aliens are simply demons? Oh, that's a very real possibility. Like, I don't know. People's talking about how they invoke the name of Jesus Christ in front of beings that look like great. they suddenly want to leave.

Just saying, you know, we never know. Maybe Warhammer 40K was trying to tell us something. Well, Warhammer 40K, what's that? Yeah, oh, it's a tabletop game. But, like, some of the factions, there's, like, humans fighting against, like, literal demons trying to take over the universe and, like, aliens and stuff like that. And there's, you know, like, one of the factions is, uh, they're, like, these demons that all of like aliens and stuff like that.

And, you know, it's, you're some of your, some of your fans probably know what it Don't get it to the hobby, Tony. It's too expensive. Don't do it. Don't fall into the trap. Definitely won't. No, but I think aliens could definitely be demonic, but I don't know if all of them are demonic.

I think there definitely could be, along with a lot of this kind of stuff, I think there's imitations, there's replications. And so I leave a lot of wiggle room for this stuff. There's a lot of people who I respect from the Christian theological standpoint that do make very coherent arguments

for the real existence of alien life off planet. And so I just, I like hearing all the different ideas and theories and let the cards fall where they may. But I really, really, I can't stress how much I believe. I really believe. And again, I'm okay being wrong if somebody proves me wrong.

But at this point in time of this recording, I very much believe that there are physical entities. I don't even want to say entities. There are physical beings that are existing in other realms that do operate physically in other realms. And they know how to access us in this realm more than we know how to access that realm. And for a very long time, all that kind of talk was woo, woo, weird, impossible sci-fi stuff that nobody wanted to take series outside of occultists. and now I think people are starting to wake up to the realization that, hey, the only way to explain some of this stuff is the fact that there are other realms that things are operating in.

And I believe there are real wars happening in other realms. And sometimes those wars spill out over onto this side. I think that this side could be an escape for certain things that are happening in the other realms. But we'll go. I'm just going to let it go. So let's get into 29 Palms portal because I think that this is, well, I haven't read the story, but I think this is something that I kind of been wanting to hear because I've

been talking about portals and stuff. Oh, yeah. So this is, this one, I don't think I've posted it on the page at all. So for the listeners, you get an exclusive. So this is like another instance of like maybe one of those slips or, you know,

I don't know. I'll just go ahead and read it. So, all right. I was stationed at 29 Palms, but took a quick trip home, quick trip home to Santa Barbara for the weekend. On my way back, I stopped at Bakersfield to visit a friend, and then my way back to 29, kind of later than I had hoped. The only way from Bakersfield to 29 is some sketchy dirt roads that didn't have much traffic passing by. I was worried too much. I wasn't worried too much because I was already on the road called Old Women's Springs, so that meant that was close to Yucca Valley.

So for the listeners, I actually used to live near Yucca Valley, so I kind of remember what he's talking about. All that I could think in my head was, yes, finally I'll be off this sketchy, creepy, two-lane road. But darkness set in a lot quicker than I expected. Too quick, actually. I grew more concerned that darker it got. Pretty soon I was in complete darkness. I still had a good distance until I was off Old Woman Springs Road, which worried me a lot. While driving, I felt this sort of fuzzy, uncomfortable.

panic feeling. And I unlocked my phone to call my girlfriend only to find big words of my phone saying, no service. I thought to myself, I began growing more and more worried and uncomfortable, seeing that I had no service, and only because I couldn't call, but was using GPS off my phone, since that my service went out and had no clue what passed a follow or take the exit. Then I remember that it showed Old Woman Springs Road was a straight dirt road that takes you to Yucca and nowhere else. So I thought, okay, well, I don't have to worry about X's, just go straight. I continued going straight with the feeling of uncomfort, but I kept going straight, but the feeling of uncomfort and worry only grew. Anxious to get off this road, I began speeding up.

75 was what my miles per hour meter read. My mind went blank, and I felt a strange feeling. Then suddenly I was driving on this two-lane road. Dandelions began slowly sprouting from the dirt edges of the road as I stared at the, and I stared at these dandelions as they grew two, then five, then ten, then fifteen. I rub my eyes and open them wider, hoping to see the dandelions go away, but they didn't go away. I wasn't imagining this. I thought to myself, this is actually happening as much as I wanted them to go away. They didn't.

These dandelions slowly began to dance side by side. I felt as if they were taunting me because they weren't leaving. The more freaked out I got by this, the more I pressed on the accelerator. 80, 85, 95. At this point, I didn't give a fuck. I want to get off this road already. And then to get me off this road, just get me off. my phone lights up. Two minutes of passings I lost service, but I felt at the minimum 20 minutes.

I could have sworn that it was so much longer than two minutes. Text messages from my girlfriend come through, and I grab my phone to call her. She answers. The relief I felt to be able to have service again was nothing like I ever felt before. I tell her to stay on the phone, please do not hang up. And then she asks what's wrong, and I said, everything's okay. I just repeat myself, do not hang up. Most of the call was silenced because of how afraid I was. My GPS reconnects. but I follow the directions.

And I just follow the directions. Then I began to pull off from the road and make a few turns. I look at the area and it looks familiar. It didn't look like Yucca at all. This area looked to the south of 29 Palms. But how could that be possible? I need to go through Yucca Valley and Joshua Tree still to get to 29 palms. I checked my GPS and it shows Adobe Road.

I think to myself, wait, this isn't right. How am I here? It's another 30 to 45 minutes from Yucca to 29 Palms. I didn't pass through Yucca or Jock. retreat and I know I didn't pass through them. I began driving down Adobe Road and past studs cut. Sure enough, I was in 29 Palms and my GPS confirmed it for me. Every time I checked, it wasn't possible for me to have come from the south side of 29 palms because Old Woman Springs Road only leads to Yucca Valley. I want to get back to the barracks, I checked my GPS. I didn't

check during the drive because too focused on getting there and asking questions. After getting to the barracks, I checked my GPS and find that Old Woman Springs Road and I found the Old Woman Springs Road And sure enough, it's a one-way trip to Yucca Valley. But the trail I came off of, which I assume was Utah Trail, could only be reached by taking the exit off the freeway coming from Arizona. I was coming from the west and somehow ended up from the south. I'm not sure how this happened, but it took me about a year before I felt comfortable talking about this openly. And then so the Marine sends me a picture of the kind of like the layout and to like orientate like your listeners.

So Yucca Valley and Joshua Tree go. west to east, right, across, and then comes in from 29, and then ends up with 29 palms to the west, to the east, right? It's a straight line. So he was coming from the northwest down on this old woman Springs road. So he had to get through Yucca Valley. He had to hit Yucca Valley, and he had to hit Joshua Tree to end up at 29 palms. Somehow, in this event, when this darkness set in, he saw these dandelions, whatever. when he comes to, he's on a road going north into 29 palms, not southwest, if that makes sense.

Yeah. Or southeast is as I'll say. So he's essentially going south, out west, goes through this experience, and he is now, when he comes through it, heading north out east. So like if the road is the equator, line, you know, like, so you have Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree, 29 palms, all in one line, going through the middle of your line of sight, say on the page or the screen of a computer. He's going from the, on the left side of that screen, down south, has the experience.

And then on the right side of screen is then afterwards going north in the, in the east, up towards 29 palms. So he literally skipped an entire area, went to another area, turned around, and was going north instead of south. He never should have at one time during this entire commute be going north. That makes zero sense. And then on top of it, just judging by the image that he sent you, that you sent to me, if it was, so he said two minutes past, but it felt like it was 20, there's no way to get where, from where he left off to where he wound up in 20 minutes. let alone two minutes.

I mean, we're talking some serious mountain terrain road. This is a very long distance. I'm willing to bet from Yucca Valley to 29 palms.

You're probably looking at least at 35, 40 minute drive just on that straight line itself. It's wild. That's wild. Yep. That's like,

maybe it goes back to what you were saying, Tony. Portals and time slips and, you know, maybe there's just a, could it be,

or some experiments. Yeah, cool. I mean, like, it sounds cool, like, stranger things, but like, Occam's Razor works both ways. Maybe the simplest answer is that there's something going on. There's a, like, a thinning of the veil, like you said. Yeah. If I can, if I could read this next story, it kind of like even points more towards that. Please. So this next story is a little bit different from the portal ones we've been telling. But I think this kind of ease until like that time slip concept we're talking about. So this is called, this is a story that is being told, that was told secondhand. This guy, this guy swears that this master sergeant he heard it from was trustworthy. He believed them. And he believed him because of how, how he saw the look on his face

of how it affected him. So here's the story. Here's a creepy story that shook me as a boot. This story is being retold. I had a master sergeant tell it to me during his first ITX supporting the 1st Battalion 12th Marines. I'm an intel guy, by the way. It was near the end of the exercise, or white flags, late at night. All of them were huddling in the battalion talk when the crusty master sergeant told us a story that when he was in 29 palms conducting Mojave Viper. He was a Lance Corporal at the time and mentioned how one night after the battalion shoot, he was heading to his sleep site. He got lost under the low illumination caused by the almost non-existent moon. So he walked towards the sound of footsteps.

and he was thinking he was walking towards Marines. He was right. He was walking towards a group of Marines in the dark. When he got closer, however, he discovered a fire team of Marines on patrol. Strangely, under the minimal moonlight, he saw that the Marines were wearing the old style all of drab uniforms and rocking the Alice gear

from the 50s and 60s. The team leader halted the Marines, looked over at the young Lance Corporal, and back to his team, simply saying, we shot the wrong azmuth. They headed away in the opposite direction, fading into the darkness. The master sergeant was convinced he saw spirits from a lost patrol from the training exercise.

What's an azmuth? So an azmuth is like when you take the compass, you're shooting like a direction. So like he's looking at his compass and he's saying, we need to go this degree is north. That's his azmuth. So it was like, you know, I found it funny because they're just like, they're just lost. Yeah. And maybe they got lost because they ended up somewhere they weren't supposed to be in a different time. That's wild.

So these were Marines just from the 50s and 60s. Yeah. I want to know how long has this been going on in this area? You know, like could these Marines, the 50s and 60s Marines, could they have experienced some kind of time slip that put them into that location, they experienced that guy. This is wild because it's like, it's like two different perspectives. Like he experienced the 50s and 60s Marines. They experienced him.

Could they both have experienced each other at the same time in their own time slips together, but separately? Does that make sense? Like, it's weird, dude. Oh, it's crazy. And I don't know. There's just stories like that from a lot of other bases too where like you're walking through the training area and you see like a tank from the 60s rolling through and it's just

like what like is there a such thing as ghost tanks could it have just been like you just saw a sudden glimpse into the past or you know i don't know like it's just so strange like i just don't know i just don't not explain it. And so the, the 50s and 60s group of soldiers, they're the ones that said, we shot the wrong Asmuth or Asmuth? Yeah. So it's like they're like, uh, we overshot this one, boys. Go back. Yep. That's wild, man. That's, that's crazy, man. Shoot, dude. I got to get out there. I got to get out there. I just got to watch off for the Colts. Well, that's the whole point, right? I, I, uh, that's what we're supposed to be doing. We're supposed to go find them. Yeah, I got to talk to you about after we're done recording, though, about some things I'm working on, uh, in for, for different areas. But I think you might be interested in nonetheless. Um, yeah, I, that's all I'm going to say right now. Because I don't, I don't want to say too much and then not, you know, all that. I, I'm known for saying too much, apparently. So people are like, like, shut your mouth for,

love of God. Just one time. Just shut it. That's interesting. So, all right. So I see all these other stories here, but like, what's your take of this area and stuff? I mean, are we talking, wait, the tanker Marine. Is that what you were just talking about? Which one is that? Two stories down from the one you read, just read, Tanker Marine. Oh, yeah. So, I mean, I'll kind of get into it since there's a lot of stories.

So like, there's also these like, so again, like, so again, like, like, So this story and the one before it, there's like all these accounts of people seeing like, you know, ghosts or what have you, Marines in the wrong uniform. Like that's like this, you know, the 60s Marines, Marines in like the Desert Storm kind of pattern uniforms. Like Marines out of place wearing the wrong gear at the wrong time. There's several like legends, like kind of like the more recent mainstream one is there's this legend. of like the sergeant right quote unquote skinwalker slash ghost slash whatever could be just a creepy pasta could just be some some you know jackass pose in a fake story but there's these stories of like people seeing like these lone marines out in the desert wearing the wrong uniform watching

them that when they mysteriously go back to look for them or go try to find them they can never find them um you know there's some stories i included there that were like you know we saw this guy watching us through this tower. There's only one way in and out. We surrounded it and couldn't find them. Or like dudes getting dragged, accidents happening after they see these Marines. I don't know,

maybe they're ghosts. There's also, you know, I surprisingly have not gotten any stories on this, or one or two, very small, but there's this whole story of the Yucca Man, a bigfoot-like creature that lives out and is seen in 29 palms.

It's a legend out there of Marines that have seen the Yucca man at night. but like, you know, I have gotten almost no stories on that from Marines out there. That's wild. Maybe I just, maybe it's just haven't talked to the right people yet. Well, yeah, I mean, maybe they just haven't found your Instagram page yet. But that's wild because I had a guy on years ago. I think I called the episode, The Yucca Man.

I had never heard of the Yucca Man until he had come on the show to talk about it. I might even try. I might have even been on that show. Yeah, I know all about the Yucan. Researched it for years. I was like, no, I don't think I'd say that because I think I was calling it Yucaman. I was like, what's the Yucca Man? But yeah, I mean, that's a very popular Bigfoot type cryptid that is talked about being out there. I'm seeing this 29 Palm story, some things here we can get into. But I just got to say thank you for deciphering the code because like when I'm reading these stories and stuff, like I can tell.

Like the soldiers are writing these because they're like first BN 12 M-A-R. I'm like, what? Like I don't even know what that means. And you're like battalion. I'm like, oh, got it, got it. So it's the code that I can't read because I'm not a soldier. I don't get it. So thank you for deciphering that.

Yeah, the military loves their acronyms and abbreviations. And there's still acronyms that I just refer to them by the acronyms. And I don't know what they mean. Oh, really? I don't know what the acronym is. I just refer to it. You're like, I don't know what it means, but I know where it gets me. Yep, exactly.

That's funny, man. Oh, shoot. All right, well, let's get, let's get into, do you want to get into these stories? Yeah, we can read another one. So, like, these are kind of, like, within the same vein. So these next two are pretty short. So this one is another story. So I was back in 29 for 2018 for a combined arms breach exercise.

My platoon of engineers were assigned with building a shit ton of obstacles for the other companies to breach. I had an incidental license. I was driving back and forth about one and one-half hours each way from Wilson to our training area. For the most part, it was just myself at a seven-ton that would follow behind with the materials for the obstacles. On the last trip to Wilson, California, there was three additional seven-tons and we were going to follow me back to the training area full of Marines. It was about midnight on the last trip to the training area with the extra trucks behind me when I started seeing things off the side of the road. right out of view of my headlights. I thought it might be coyotes, so I kept going.

Ten minutes or later or so, I swear I saw two Marines, both with their hands up waving me down to stop. They had on the Desert Gortex warming layers on, and an M4 slung across each of them. They just kept waving. It scared the hell out of me, but I stopped after passing them maybe 10 yards because they came up so quick.

All the trucks stopped behind me, and I got out looking around with my white lights everywhere. I told the gunny that came out of one of the trucks while I stopped, and he, along before the Marines, started looking around and we found nothing. It was all flat desert with nowhere to go. For them to go, we couldn't find them at all. I told my platoon commander about it,

and he jokingly said, just must have been some guys that were forgotten on road guard and just never made it out, which if you don't know anything about, like some of the tragic history of 29 palms, that has happened of Marines get left in the desert and then die of thirst because, you know, idiots forget about them.

Like they're on training exercises and they forget about them? Yeah. Wow. There was an incident they left them. There's a famous incident where like they left a Marine out there in the training area. He died of thirst and exposure. They reported him as being accounted for it back in the, back at the end of the exercise. And it wasn't, I think, until they found his body and they were home.

Did it all come undone? And like, you know, the commander down to the platoon leaders, the sergeants, like all these people failed this Marine. It's a very sad story. Like, he legitimately was just left behind to die because somebody was just, just not doing the right thing, you know, and it's unfortunate, but, you know, that's what happens when, you know, you don't take people seriously and you, you know, you don't, you don't look, look out for people, unfortunately. And, you know, it's happened other times, like, do you just get left in the desert with not enough water? Um, you know, that place, that place is hot,

that place is like, in, that place, it's like, it's close to Death Valley. It's called Death Valley, and that, that Valley is called Death Valley for a reason. And 29 Palms is the high desert. And it's like, you know, like, I know for me, like, I would not do good in the desert because I drank a lot of water and I sweat a lot. Like, for me, like, I would get to hydrate it very quick. There's other people that don't understand that. You know, you can't leave someone with, like, an algae in of water and expect them to survive, you know, 150 degree heat for an entire day. Yeah. That's wild.

That's a shame. It's such a shame. So, yeah, I mean, it seems like there's, there's a. there's a dark history here and, I don't know. Have you, so this is not, I just got to ask,

like what happens when this happens, though? Like, do, do guys get kicked out of military for failing like that? Or did they just get demoted or what? Um, I mean,

in a perfect world, yes. A lot of dudes will, basically it's like a career under losing someone like that. And so like, there's different levels of like, you know, there is like, of tragedy that happens is like, you know, ultimately the, the big guy, the battalion commander, that colonel is responsible for anything that happens, right? But like, you know, he's so far removed from the soldiers,

he doesn't know what individuals are doing. So it's, it's kind of like a, it's a gray zone. Like, you know, that his, that's, that Marines, like, immediate supervisor, his team leader, his squad leader, his platoon leader that didn't ask the right questions. Like, it was, There's a failure of all these people. And I've seen like whole command chains get relieved and moved and shut down. I've seen individual people get relieved over stuff like that. It just really depends. I think in this day and age, that one kind of like was twice.

They tried to sweep it under the rug and then it blew up in their face and it got reported. Like in this day and age, like he can't get away with that. Accountability is a huge hot topic in the military. And especially when it comes to human lives. like people are going to get held accountable. Like it was like the tragedy with those Marines that happened. They were in, they're in these amphibious vehicles that probably shouldn't have been

operating, but people were like basically clearing them to operate. And, you know, it flooded and like all those guys drowned and, you know, all those, everyone in that chain of command got relieved. You know, because, you know, there's just failures up and down. Like everywhere people were just failing. And it's just, it goes back to, you know, if people, if you don't do the right things and anything, you know, people can get hurt. And I stress that to at least my people and in my career is like, you know, when it comes to like human lives and stuff like that, like we're not going to cut corners.

We're not going to take shortcuts. Probably best. So, yeah. Listen, let's start wrapping this first segment up here. Now, we're going to head into an overtime where we talk about the Afghan war and the wild. weird things that soldiers encountered over there. And we're going to get into Giant Talk. I'm excited about it.

Before we move into that, though, why don't you take a chance to let people know again about the book? Because these stories are in the books, and there's a lot more stories in the books, and there's a lot of people that are fascinated by these military experiences. These are all guys. These aren't like, you know, my grandmother had an experience in a house next to a base. This is like, I'm a soldier.

This is what I experience kind of stories that people get with these books. Oh, yeah. So, like, so Tales from the Grid Square for your listeners, if you're not already a follower. Tales from the Grid Squares is located on Instagram. It's literally Tales from the Grid Squares at Instagram. T-A-L-S-S-R-O-M-M-U-H-E-U-A-R. G-R-I-D-S-Q-U-A-R. So you can follow the page, reach out.

see the stories I post, the memes I like to throw up to be silly sometimes, articles that I find to the repost when it comes to like the military topic. Talk to me, send me a message. Like, I'm always answering a message. At least I try. You know, if you have a story, if you're a military member or know of a military member and you want to share a story, you can DM me on the page, reach out to me directly. Or send me an email, Tales from the Gridsquare at gmail.com.

All one word. Go out for Tales from the Gridsquare at gmail.com. So any, please reach out to me if you have something to share. As for the books, Tales from the Grids Square, Volume 1 and 2. Again, both be found on Amazon. The difference between that and the page is some of those stories are exclusive to the books. All those stories I've taken, I've categorized them by the branch, locations, categories. I've edited them, so, like, you know, there's, I've tried to make it as easy for you to read as possible.

in fact, to digest it down as much as you can. The second, I will say the second book has a couple of cool pictures in there that I highly recommend checking out. And yeah, like, you know, like I said, it's 100% done by me. So you support the, like you support the projects. You support me, much like you support Tony. Absolutely. I highly encourage people to check it out.

Nick, I remember you and I connecting a long time ago. And I remember seeing your Instagram account, the first time I ever looked at, at it. I remember 5,000 followers, and now you have 109,000 followers. So you've grown exponentially. It's amazing. I just, I'm very happy for you. I applaud all the hard work you put into this account. I mean, we have 1,730 posts as of right now of this recording. There's a lot of content in there for people that are going to go through. And the books have awesome stuff as well. So Nick, I appreciate you coming on and chatting with me about the portals and thinning of the veil with 29 palms and all the weird stuff there out in the Joshua Tree area that has been getting so popular with my show. Listen, man, I appreciate it for listeners listening right now.

If you're a member, just head on over to the overtime section because there's a whole other conversation waiting for you. And we're going to also record one for Thursday members. So the Thursday show will be there as well where we're talking about the dog man incident of Fort Campbell. Maybe that's the title of the episode. Maybe that's what I'll call it. The dog man incident of Fort Campbell. But if you're not a member, thanks for listening to this conversation. I hope you enjoyed it.

And please go ahead, check out Tales from the Grid Squared on Instagram. And until next week, friends, stay safe, take care. And remember, the truth will set you free. But first, it'll piss you off. Bye. little different when I look at the heavens. Slow from the brush strokes leave a different impression. Behind the holy water, all I'm seeing is doubles.

Who's the stop at the six is now I push to the sevens? This is my confession. Whoa, whoa, whoa. The lights around me beckon, yeah, yeah. Lost in my reflection. No, no, no. I ain't trying to go away at all. I don't know if I'm caught up in the lights on the mace.

They're so bright I'm just trying to be they look for something they can define I just never knew a box I couldn't decline I never thought of being one of a kind I just spent my time elevating my mind This is my confession Whoa, whoa, the lights around me beckin Yeah, yeah, yeah

Lost in my reflection No, no, no I ain't trying to go away at all I don't know if I'm caught up in the lights on them They're so bright Screen set up