0:00 One time or place might find witches, demons, ghosts, and spirits. It's possible that 21st century Americans might find technologically advanced aliens as an explanation. Well, how do you account for that? I just, I'm baffled by a good, reductive explanation for that. All these are scare tactics, that's it. I don't know what to do, man. I've been reluctant to produce a video about this because it's personal. Or at least it's become personal. When I was younger, I was convinced that I need to tell people about this demonic agenda that I found in my research. I like to call it the strange connection between UFOs and Christians. It's the documentary I just made called Starfall on this channel.
1:16 As I was researching these strange events and reading about the future plans of demonic spirits, I became afraid to sleep at night. Not because I was afraid of the dark, or that some psychological, or that some psychological disorder was occurring due to my research. No, no. It was much more physical than that. From the moment that I started the research, back at the turn of the century, something strange started happening to me at night. Some say it was demonic oppressions. Others say it was alien visitors. But at the time, I didn't believe in any of these myths. But the fact that others had experienced what I had made it more real to me. Geez, OP, Kat, it's one in the morning. What are you doing up? Reading. What are you doing up? Don't get smart with me, Missy.
2:06 Ten more minutes. Fine. But mainly, I was afraid that when I laid in bed at night, I wasn't alone. I couldn't see it at first, but I could feel its presence. Like a low-frequency hum vibrating just under my skin. And then, one night, I saw it. The dark void in the night. In the shape of a human. I tried to get up, but I couldn't move. I tried to scream, but nothing came out. It crawled over me. Brought its face to mine. And then... Eventually, I would be released from this paralysis, but the fear would remain as if I woke up from a nightmare.
2:55 I was confident that it was not a dream. After some research, I discovered I was dealing with sleep paralysis. It affects about one out of four people, and about 8% regularly. But not only that, it has some interesting ties to some research I was doing at the time. Brian Sharpless, a clinical psychologist at Penn State, specializes in sleep paralysis research. Sleep paralysis is the experience of either falling asleep or waking up, and you find that you're paralyzed. But you have some degree of conscious awareness, and your eyes are still able to move, and you can look around. It's often a terrifying experience for people that are suffering from it. Not only from the paralysis, but because of the hallucinations that often accompany it. The hallucinations vary, but come in three general types.
3:48 First, the intruder, an evil presence approaching. Second, the incubus, something pressing on your chest, choking or assaulting you. Finally, levitation, the sensation of being lifted off the bed, and even transported elsewhere. Put them together, and you may have something strikingly familiar to a sleep researcher acquainted with UFO abduction stories. I think all three categories are consistent with what people who report being abducted by aliens experience. Having a presence in the room, feeling if someone's on top of you, sexually assaulting you, or potentially levitating you.
4:38 Sleep paralysis is thought to be responsible down through the ages for numerous terrifying nighttime visitations. Where one time or place might find witches, demons, ghosts, and spirits as an explanation for sleep paralysis, it's possible that 21st century Americans might find technologically advanced aliens as an explanation. Dr. Sharpless' analysis suggests that it is only a hallucination, but other professionals at Penn State have seen things they can't explain. So they are attacking this phenomenon through faith. In the West, sleep paralysis may be the principal medical explanation for entity attacks. But many sufferers find this diagnosis inadequate due to the intense reality of that experience. This conviction is even stronger for those whose encounters are apparently witnessed by other people as they occur. I've been hit by like an unseen force.
5:35 It hits my chest, it hits my, it penetrates right through my head, through my body, through my chest. It's yanking my legs. Every case is sort of remarkable and very highly strange. The ones though that really just amaze me are the ones where more than one person is involved. Where one person is having the sleep paralysis and hearing something or seeing something, and somebody else in the house hears or sees the same thing at the same time, even though they're not having sleep paralysis. Why, how do you counter that? I just, I'm, I'm bad. I'm baffled by a good reductive explanation for that. His girlfriend of five years also claims to have seen these entity encounters. We were just sitting on the couch watching TV and I guess facing the bathroom door.
6:27 And the door was open, the bathroom door was open and I saw some type of grayish silhouette walking out of the bathroom. You couldn't really like define the shape if it was male or female. It was just some type of silhouette, very tall. And it was just like cloudish, grayish. And it was walking towards Ted's bedroom. Then he said to me, did you see that? So I was like, what are you talking about? He's like, did you see that thing coming out of the bathroom? Demonology is the study of fallen angels. It's the study of things that are evil. Whether it be religion, whether it be demons, devils, things of that nature. I come across cases that are malevolent, evil, demonic, or evil. Evil, demonic, or diabolical on a monthly basis.
7:14 After two hours of questioning, Lou decides that Ted's case warrants further investigation. So what I'm going to do is, is I'm going to remotely be watching him. Ted said that something grabbed his leg, went on video. Let me see his leg go. I'm going to be going down there with him. And I'm going to sit in there and, you know, see what I get on tape. Because I'll be running EVPs also. EVPs, or electromagnetic voice phenomena, are recordings of inexplicable sounds which some people believe are supernatural. It is claimed that these recordings can capture spirit voices, which exist on a frequency beyond human hearing. Please release whatever has been performed on Ted. I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
8:16 End of recording. As expected, there is no audible sound in the room. But when the scene is played back from the point of view of the recorder, an apparently different picture emerges. Then Gentile mentions Jesus. The sound that you just heard, in some people's minds, could be portrayed as static discharge. Which to me is ridiculous, because I've heard the things scream blasphemies, okay, in people's houses. And include the client's name, people's names, people who aren't even a part of the case. What you heard is, it's as real as it gets.
9:15 After hearing the sounds in this recording, we decided to have the tape analyzed by forensic experts. They suggested that the only way similar sounds could be created would be from rubbing the microphone, or through a remote receiver. Neither of which were apparent during Lou's investigation. At the end of the night, Lou gives Ted his opinion. And all these are scare tactics, that's it. They're going to try and scare you. They're going to poke you, they're going to prod you, they're going to hit you, things like that. But they're not going to get completely violent, because somewhere in your heart, you do have faith. You just haven't brought it completely out yet. So if I lose a little faith, it's going to get more violent? Yes. I became convinced that something was determined to oppress me due to the research I was doing. Out of frustration, I quit the research and scraped the tape.
10:04 I scrapped the expose, and it immediately stopped. It's quarter to eight, I begin to wake. I realize I can't move. Is this a dream? I try to scream, cause something's weighing me down, down, down. My sleep paralysis, demon in me. We're as close as friends can be. My sleep paralysis, demon in me. We're as close as friends can be. My sleep paralysis, demon in me. We're as close as friends can be. My sleep paralysis, demon in me. We're as close as friends can be. About ten years later, the Nimitz UFO incident was declassified, and I started to realize what I had to do. I had since married, and I told my wife what had happened to me since I started research on this topic, so she would be ready if something strange happened at night.
10:59 But as we were looking in one direction for spiritual attacks, a causal nexus began to happen that joined coincidences which may as well be right out of the Twilight Zone. Previously, when I started my research on Starfall, Mikey, a friend of mine from the East Coast, had also already begun research on this as well. And together, we began to trade information on this demonic alien agenda. As we concluded our studies, Mikey was convicted that he should preach about this coming demonic insurgence. But on the morning of his sermon, he was delivered a message. His mother, who was in another state, had a sudden medical emergency. I just got off the phone with Mom, man. It's so bad, dude. She doesn't even know what's going on at all. I was saying, Mom, it's Mikey. It's your baby boy. I love you so much.
11:52 And she was just like, alright, I'll see you at four. It's worse than I thought, man. I didn't... It was like... Like a... A robot with a malfunction or something. At the same time, as I was finishing up my video, Manos, my lead VFX artist, which was working remotely, stopped responding to me. Remember this, because as I was debating what to do and how to finish the final render of Starfall, my real job changed. At work, changes in management suddenly caused new management to conclude that my position is changing, and I will need to start working seven days a week in engineering. After ten years of service and a grueling week-long struggle in prayer, I resigned.
12:48 So as Mikey and I's lives were burning to the ground through the jobs we loved and the family we held so dear, Manos finally responds with this. Hey, man. I hope everything worked out well. Sorry for the late reply, but I just lost my house and my business last week due to wildfires. We had no power or internet in the area, so I didn't have any way to contact you. Oh, you just lost your house and your business? Strange. Everyone working on this project just started a crisis. I'm out of work, Mikey is in the hospital with his mother, and... Hello? I haven't heard from Manos since.
13:37 Perhaps it was something I said that frightened him. Wait. Then it occurred to me. This is my sleep paralysis. Let me explain better using the story of Job. So Job begins with a strange story that takes place up in the heavens, which are described something like a heavenly command center. And God points out this guy Job, his servant, showing how righteous and good he is. And then one of these angelic creatures approaches. He is referred to in Hebrew as the Satan. The Satan? Who is this? Well, this word is actually a title, which literally means the one who is opposed. So out of this whole crew, he is the one questioning how God is running the world. And he proposes that Job might not actually love God, that he is only a good person because God rewards him. If God were to take away all of the good things he gave to Job, then we would see his true colors.
14:32 So he thinks Job is just working the system? That is exactly right. Maybe he is obeying just to get what he wants. So God agrees to this experiment and allows the Satan to inflict suffering on Job. And Job loses everyone and everything that he cares about. It is devastating. And remember, he deserves none of this. God himself said so. The remarkable thing is that in the midst of all this, Job still praises God. Some of Job's friends come to visit him to offer their help. And all of them are like, Job, you must have done something horribly wrong to deserve this. After all, we know God is just and we know the world is ordered by God's justice and fairness. So you must be getting what you deserve.
15:22 And for the next 34 chapters, the friends and Job go back and forth in very dense Hebrew poetry. His friends keep speculating. About why God might have sent such suffering. And they even start making up lists of hypothetical sins that Job must have committed. But after each accusation, Job defends his innocence. And Job is innocent. He is. He is also on an emotional roller coaster. But that is not where the book ends. Because after this, God restores to Job double everything he had lost. Right now, there is a celestial war raging in the realm we cannot see. And this war is a war for our minds, our allegiance. It is a war that involves everyone. And it is not for the faint of heart.
16:10 In fact, the Bible says that the fearful do not deserve the reward. And Jesus says in John 16, 33, This world will give you trouble, but take heart. I have overcome the world. And Paul says, We see through a glass darkly, which is a fancy way of saying we don't completely understand everything that is happening. Fortunately for us, there appears to be a happy ending. It appears that God is restoring everything that has been damaged in our lives in this time period. Manos will get a new house through insurance and his business will recover. Mikey's mother is still alive and she appears to be on the road to recovery. I have been given the opportunity to go to Tennessee and work with some like-minded people.
17:00 Which I am very excited about. In this cosmic litigation, there are things that you can do to battle-harden your Christian warrior walk. Number one, study. Read your Bible. This is the primary way God communicates back to you. Number two, pray. Jesus says we have not because we ask not. This is our communication directly to the commander of God. Number three, share. To much that is given, much is required. I tell you this true story not to frighten you, but to show you how important this present truth is for our generation.
17:45 Do your part to further the gospel message that Jesus Christ is Lord and that he is coming to find his bride, the church.