0:01 Chris Bledsoe's experience, probably one of the most dramatic. If you hear him tell the story, it's just absolutely incredible. He met the entities themselves, and he also met the lady. Yeah, the lady. Not many people meet the lady. And I think the lady is an element in all of this that really hasn't been explored very much. I will tell you that in some circles it's taken very, very seriously, but it hasn't been explored. The Catholic Church looked at it because a lot of the sightings, Medjugorje, Fatima, Lourdes, they were all the lady appeared.
1:01 None of the children that saw any of this ever claimed it was the Virgin Mary. It was just the lady. It was just the lady who showed up. And I doubt the Virgin Mary had blonde hair and blue eyes. She was a mythic. And, of course, the lady. Would lie and the lady, you know, would scare the living hell out of them and, you know, fire and brimstone sometimes, sometimes lovely messages. A typical, a typical, you know, abduction scenario where where these beings, you know, come to people and they tell them stories. They have a line about the, you know, the environment and things along those lines. But they're generally, they generally, there's a trickster element to it. There is a physical, not very nice physical element to it.
1:56 There's a very strong sexual element to it. It's, it's not. I mean, sexual is homoerotic in some cases. It's not an item and what the hell you make of that? You know, I have no idea. But these are all strong light motifs that run through these these abduction scenarios. So I think we have. have to be very very careful when we talk about it so there's a lot of characteristics there guys that i think is interesting and the reason why i included the blood so because he uh in so early in this program is because we're going to come back to that later on but it included things in this clip that i thought was pertinent like the catholic church it talked about the lady and and this is from what i understand and what i think he's what is the most interesting about this is he's coming at this from not only a personal view but also he's saying that from what i understand inside the government we have looked into this but this lady thing is something we haven't really explored much but it has happened and he gives all these different scenarios that are going through that are typical and so that's that's kind of what he went through there there are a lot of different characteristics care to comment on any of those absolutely and matt can start this one yeah i have a bit of a background in this uh i was a practicing catholic so i know exactly what he's talking about he's talking about marion apparitions and marion apparitions are something that has to be approved by the vatican it's not just something that's like oh i think mary appeared to me in my garage and they're like oh marion apparition no it's it's a procedure it's the same way that when they canonize a saint it's not just like we think this guy was a decent guy let's make him a saint no you gotta go through a whole board of approval there's uh boxes to check so the lady and what he was talking about their lords um fatima magic or he's talking about different locations where the lady has appeared and has been confirmed by the catholic church as a marion apparition uh it seems like jim gets it though he gets that this is not mary he doesn't seem to understand that it's a demon but he he gets it i don't think it's like that but he just doesn't seem to get that gets that it's not mary he even mentions that the fatima children never said it was mary which is true that first they just described this as a short being with large eyes uh it frightened them i mean i think anyone would be frightened coming into contact with something like this that's the natural response so yeah the lady itself it's a it's a very weird thing very strange because he said that it's rare that doesn't appear to everybody and she always brings these messages like he said marion apparitions are famous for it they always talk about the end of the world talks about her cup her cup is overflowing she really assumes the role of god and jesus she's this figure that is reprimanding humanity and telling us we need to turn from our ways and she'll say things like my son holds heavy on my hand and i can't keep a grip on him any longer soon he will take his wrath on the world lest blah blah blah happens and yeah it's it's a messy thing but if you want to know what he's talking about look into marion apparitions this sounds like one in the same it sounds like gaia from captain planet or something or or he also mentioned it was blonde hair blue eyes and big eyes that sounds more like an anime character than it sounds like an alien. Not to put you on the spot, Matthew, but off the top of your head, what percentage of Catholics would you say accept the Vatican's interpretation of this event just because the Vatican says so? Well, there are different types of Catholics. There are cultural Catholics. There are people who just claim to be Catholic, and they really don't go to Mass all that often. Maybe they go for an Easter Mass or a Christmas Mass. Then there are those who take it
6:13 a little more seriously. Maybe they show up every Sunday for Mass. Then you have people where I was going to Mass multiple times a week because you believe that engaging with the ritual, this is what's bringing me closer to God. I'm doing God's will by coming to Mass, by participating in the communion. Jesus laid it out very clearly. Got to eat the bread. Got to drink the blood. This is how I inherit eternity. Eternal life. Within those factions, there are people who are total Marian worshipers. It gets weird. If you want to look into it, there's the Legion of Mary. Red flag there, the Legion of Mary. That's a whole brotherhood that's dedicated to saying rosary prayers and just adoring Mary. They see her as a mediatrix, which means a female mediator between the two. That's a whole brotherhood that's dedicated to saying rosary prayers and just God and man. She takes the place of Jesus. For a percentage, off the top of my head, I would say it's rough, but I can't give a definitive number, but I will say that there is a good number of people who are Catholic and take it very seriously. The Vatican, they are the authority on the matter. They're the ones who inherited the throne of Peter. That's what it all goes back to. It's Jesus's church. That's what they say.
7:41 It goes. Yes. Yes. They think they are the mother church. I guess the point I was getting at is that potentially millions, if not tens of millions of people, if there is some type of alien disclosure or something like that and the Vatican endorses it, they're going to go along with it just right there. Yes, definitely. Even the, like I said, the cultural Catholics or the people who are a little more lukewarm on it, they'll go along with. The diehard people, you know, they'll look to them and be like, oh, these are the church going Catholics. Like I better listen to them. They know what's going on because they've been sitting at mass while I've been at home. So yes, I would say easily tens of millions of people around the world because Catholicism, it has like 1.2 billion adherents right now, I believe, score number. And yeah, I would say millions, tens of millions of people within that number believe. And yeah, Mary is a very serious topic. Thanks for watching this segment. Subscribe to our channel and join us every Thursday night for more daily strange topics and more. Find us on Discord by accessing patreon.com slash strange normal.
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